According to Reuters, Mattel has two new Harry Potter board games coming out this year: This year Mattel will release two brand-new Harry Potter-related board games. One, the “Casting Stones Starter Game,” will include casting stones with computer chips that enable them to be used in other Potter products Mattel will launch this year. The …read more!

Empire Online is reporting that actor John Hurt has a cameo role as “Morgana”, one of the animated wizards on a chocolate frog trading card – which is interesting because all the famous witches and wizards depicted on the cards are based on those well-known in the literary world. The only Morgana I know of …read more!

The company that made the Internet-enabled Terminator skull is also in negociations to develop a similar Harry Potter figure.

Action-Figure.com has come through with the first Harry Potter pictures from Toy Fair! They visited Mattel’s booth and got pictures of what appears to be the 3D Diorama scenes talked about in the January 2001 edition of Playthings Magazine. It’s hard to identify a few of them without description but it looks like one of …read more!

Clockmaker Urban Station has come out with small Harry Potter-themed alarm clocks and wall clocks. As it turns out, an image both we and Action-Figure.com had thought to be a Mattel figurine is also included in these pictures as a clock.

It seems that Warner Bros. has arrived in the medieval village of Lacock, North Chippenham, Wiltshire where residents are begging “Potter Watchers” to stay away while scenes for the Harry Potter movie are filmed at a cottage in the Parish and at the Lacock Abbey. No news as to what scenes they were filming but …read more!

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!