Travel aboard a real-life Hogwarts Express at a new SoCal 'Harry Potter' experience

Don’t interest if your Hogwarts acceptance missive got mislaid successful the message — a caller “Harry Potter” acquisition volition soon fto you hop aboard the Hogwarts Express anyway.

Harry Potter: A Hogwarts Express Adventure volition unfastened astatine the Southern California Railway Museum this summertime for guests to acquisition the Wizarding World rite of transition aboard a existent moving bid successful the Inland Empire. The acquisition volition tally from July 24 done Sept. 27. Yes, that includes Back to Hogwarts Day connected Sept. 1.

A Hogwarts Express Adventure volition see a Platform 9¾-themed preboarding acquisition arsenic good arsenic House competitions and chants, spell-casting challenges and different interactive activities aboard the train. Guests volition besides beryllium capable to drawback immoderate themed treats from the trolley. The bid thrust volition extremity astatine a Hogsmeade-inspired colony wherever much food, beverages and merchandise volition beryllium available.

The Rail Events Inc. property merchandise besides teases a imaginable brushwood with “a acheronian and mysterious force.” The company, besides known for the Polar Express Train Ride, developed A Hogwarts Express Adventure on with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Experiences.

This is simply a large twelvemonth for “Harry Potter” fans. “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone,” a caller tv bid based connected writer J.K. Rowling’s fashionable publication series, is acceptable to debut connected HBO Max connected Christmas Day. The amusement volition present audiences to a caller Golden Trio, portrayed by Dominic McLaughlin (Harry Potter), Alastair Stout (Ron Weasley) and Arabella Stanton (Hermione Granger), arsenic they embark connected their Hogwarts journey. (Rowling remains arguable for her views connected trans women.)

Ticket income for A Hogwarts Express Adventure volition statesman April 28, with prices starting astatine $77 for adults and $67 for children ages 2 to 11, depending connected departure time.