You can see Universal Studios Hollywood's Hogwarts Castle rising above the construction walls on the Upper Lot of the park. But head over to the park's Studio Tour for the best views.
From the bridge over to the tour entrance, you can get a great view of the site of the former Gibson Amphitheater, where the village of Hogsmeade is now under construction.
The view's even better from the exit path next to the tram tour station, where you're just a few yards from what will be the back of the Hogwarts Castle show building.
Finally, here's a closeup of the Hogwarts Castle construction.
Universal has not announced an opening date for The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, but construction on the Orlando and Japanese Potter lands took between two and three years each. We're just speculating now, but with construction starting last fall in Hollywood, that timeframe would put the west coast Wizarding World on track for completion sometime in 2016.
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Do you think you could possibly share a few things about what the Universal version of Hogsmeade and Hogwarts will be like? For a while, there was a rumor there would be a restaurant in Hollywood that would look like the dining hall at Hogwards, like in the movies, with the floating candles and everything.
Are they building that? I wonder what other things they learned from the original Hogsmeade that they are incorporating into the Hollywood version.
I have to tell you that when my family goes to California we never bother to do Universal. We do Disneyland for a day, then DCA for a day, and then we do other things around LA when my husband is at a convention he goes to every year. Now that Harry Potter will be at Universal in California, we will be spending at least part of a day in this park. So, building Potter got us to start buying tickets to go to a place we never visited before. I am very excited to see what they do here.
Any scoop from your magical owl post on what differences we can expect?
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Very cool stuff!