The Wizarding World of Harry Potter, the newest attraction at Universal Studios Orlando, opened this week and among the many fantastic shops that line this street, made popular in the books is one that has gotten fans all worked up.
The Magical Menagerie shop in Wizarding World's Diagon Alley is filled with "strange looking animals," according to USA Today. Diagon Alley art director Alan Gilmore has said that these might be the first time audiences can glimpse the magical creatures that will come to life on the big screen adaptation of Fantastic Beast and Where To Find Them.
Fans know that author J.K. Rowling has written this spin-off book based on the reference textbook that Harry uses during his time at Hogwarts. The spin-off book revolves around author Newt Scamandander, and his travels all around the world chronicling the different kinds of magical creatures he encounters. The events in Fantastic Beasts take place seventy years before Harry Potter's time.
Rowling will also pen the screenplay for the movie, and recent reports have confirmed that the movie will be filming in the U.K.
Now fans can satisfy their curiosity about this new movie, which will not be released until November 2016, by taking a sneak peek at some of the beasts on display in Diagon Alley.
Gilmore has said that "[The Magical Menagerie] will give visitors at the next wave of Harry Potter."
The article on USA Today featured three pictures of magical creatures that are found on the second level of the Magical Menagerie. Sighted among them was a Crumple-Horned Snorkack, which in the book was an elusive creature that Luna Lovegood and her father had tried tracking down.
The other creatures in the article's photos are so far unidentified, so it's up to book readers to figure out if they are hippogriffs, demiguise, chizpurfle, fwooper, jobberknoll, or any other magical creature described in the book.