Jaunted

The stores which you are free to enter and browse—Honeyduke's Sweet Shop, The Owl Post/Ollivander's Wand Shop, Zonko's Joke Shop, Dervish & Banges and Filch's Emporium of Confiscated Goods—are also backed up by just as many fake storefronts, that tempt the hardcore Harry Potter fan with window displays of Quidditch sets and books by Gilderoy Lockhart. Most visitors these last couple days seemed to have drowned their desire for such impossible items by buying wand after wand or tucking into a glass of Butterbeer.

Still, that's five shops you've got to make time (and wallet allotment) for, and because each is so unique, they do take time like going on a ride. It can be aggravating especially when the lines to pay snake around the stores, and when you're paying $14.95 for a sheet of ten 44-cent stamps, but it'll be difficult to leave in a sour mood when you've been entertained in that line by animated owls or those stamps come with a fresh Hogsmeade-special postmark.

All we're saying is that when you come to The Wizarding World, pack a lot of patience and just as much money if not more. You can try to resist the $7.95 pumpkin juices, but Potter will have the last laugh in the end anyway.

Disclosure: We're at The Wizarding World as a guest of Universal Studios, but all views expressed here are completely our own.

[All photos & video: Jaunted]