If you haven’t been to a Hallmark recently, you’re missing some cool new stuff including a plush fluffy guarding a glowing red sorcerer’s stone under a trap door and a plush Ron with Scabbers in his open and closeable trunk. They’re not yet available on the Hallmark Web site but you can find it at …read more!

It seems an interesting if not possibly scandalous case of artistic license has been discovered within the world of Harry Potter products. A reader of The Leaky Cauldron from the alt.fan.harry-potter newsgroup, while looking at a picture we posted earlier, noticed a distinct similarity elsewhere. On January 25, 2001, we posted a picture from the …read more!

Speaking of Toy Fair, here’s a great picture from Reuters of Tiger Electronics showing-off their “Harry Potter Book of Spells”. Nice Fluffy: Toy presenter Valerie Accetta shows the “Harry Potter Book of Spells,” a personalized electronic encyclopedia of facts and characters from the “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone” book, under a life-sized replica of …read more!

If you haven’t guessed by now, the International Toy Fair starts Sunday 2/11 and runs to Thursday 2/15. Throughout the week, The Leaky Cauldron will be posting pictures, pricing and availability of new Harry Potter merchandise as we get it in. At last year’s show, Warner Bros. announced most of the companies that received licenses …read more!

An interesting article from the Luddite Reader about “The Harry Potter Divide” in reading. It’s almost a year old, but it still applies and we haven’t posted it before.

Flight Zone has 4 Harry Potter kites on display – a 3-foot giant hex kite, a 52″ wingspan Poly Delta with spinner, a 30″ wingspan applique nylon diamond and a 3-D Pop-Kite. (Thanks to the Sylvan Lane Shoppe for the lead)

PopcornUK has an interview with Julie Walters, playing Mrs. Weasley, where she confirms her role for the next few films.

Tiger Electronics has put up more details about the games they’re showing at Toy Fair: Harry Potter Quidditch Game: The game is sculpted like a Nimbus Two Thousand Quidditch broom, that extends to 48 inches in length so that kids can actually “fly” around the field with Harry Potter! Motion sensors inside the game allow …read more!

Mattel has announced a few of the items they will have on display at their showroom during Toy Fair. How’s this for an interesting and somewhat silly toy: Mattel is bringing Harry Potter’s magical world to life with a new friend for kids, Roarin’ Snorin’ Norbert, from the creator of Furby. Norbert, a newly hatched …read more!

The new Xpres Corp. Catalog lists really nifty sculpted Hogwarts House mugs and bowls.