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​Harry Potter Harry & Ron's Flying Car Adventure, with Ford Anglia Car, Harry Potter & Ron Weasley Dolls, Collectible Toy for 6 Year Olds & Up, HHX03

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With the boathouse we'll get a Hogwarts modular set based on location we haven't yet seen made as a LEGO set (besides in the microscale Hogwarts Castle). It was first seen in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, the second movie of the series, after Harry and Ron missed the Hogwarts Express and they stole Arthur Weasley's flying car to get to their school. The car has been stolen by his son Ron on a number of occasions. Once to rescue his friend Harry Potter from the Dursley’s house and once with Harry to return to Hogwarts after the gate to Platform 9¾ is sealed by Dobby. Considering they crash landed the car in the Whomping Willow when returning to Hogwarts, the car is in amazingly good condition.

The Anglia may be long gone, but more than 2,000 examples of all shapes survive on the roads today and, thanks in part to Harry Potter, it will never be forgotten. The turquoise car itself is famous around the world so it seems surrealist that it was even in Cornwall in the first place. Rowling said: “That turquoise and white car meant freedom and no more having to ask my father to give me lifts, which is the worst thing about living in the countryside when you are a teenager. Upon their return to the Burrow, Mrs Weasley was furious with her sons for taking the car but placed no blame on Harry. The next morning, at breakfast, Mrs Weasley told Mr Weasley what the boys had done, and, startled, he began to ask how it went before hastily switching to a reprimand at a look from his wife. He tried to excuse the car by referring to a loophole in the law regarding ownership of charmed objects, but Molly noted that he wrote that law intentionally making sure that there was a loophole which legally allows him to charm Muggle objects. [2]

Flying Ford Anglia (76424)

The light blue car (license number 7990 TD) that appears in the second film was an authentic 1962 Ford Anglia 105E, built in Ford’s factory in the United Kingdom. Special effects supervisor John Richardson took out the engine and gutted the vehicle to make it lighter, and then fitted it onto a rotating crane with a special joint called a gimbal head. With development work on the all-new Ford Escort well under way, the ageing Anglia headed into its twilight years at the height of the Swinging Sixties. The Harry Potter crew had to use 16 different Ford Anglias for this scene alone. It is reported that 14 of them were destroyed. Arthur Weasley faced an inquiry at work following this incident. [4] By Christmas, the Daily Prophet reported that he was fined fifty Galleons for bewitching the Muggle car. [5]

Inside, the interior “gives a splendidly light and airy impression, all-round visibility being very good, though again, for that most unfortunate of motorists the ‘tall driver’, there is a tiresome unwiped area of windscreen high at the outside right”. In summary, the magazine was full of praise for the upgraded Anglia: “Economical, robust, safe, easy to drive and extremely ‘biddable’, the Anglia Super 1200 offers everything to be expected of a strictly four-seater family car – plus more lively performance, a degree of attention to detail and superior finish that raise it above the run of small, cheap saloons.” Inside, leather was an option for the new moulded pvc seats, while carpets replaced moulded rubber, a cigarette lighter, screen washers and twin horns were standard along with an upgraded heater. The sprint, if such a term is even appropriate, to 70mph was cut dramatically from 51.5 seconds to 33.4 seconds, with Autocar reporting in December 1962 that “for motorway cruising 75mph is maintained happily with very little engine noise”, returning 28mpg at such speeds, touching 40mpg at slower cruising speeds. Facelifted in 1957, with a refreshed face, larger rear window, larger tail lights, and chrome bumpers, the car sold well throughout its life.In a deleted scene from the film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Ron says that the Forbidden Forest has turned the car wild. He made a similar statement in the book. Motor Life concluded that the American looking for a small car could do worse than plump for the Anglia, which it says “handles better, performs better and has better economy” than its predecessor.

After the Harry Potter movies finished filming, a range of fates awaited the cars featured. Singer Liam Payne paid a six-figure price for one of the movie cars, now on display in his garden. Another car is on display at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. Actors Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint drove a different, operational version of the Ford Anglia to the 2010 opening of the same theme park. Rowling provided a deleted draft to the Harry Potter: A History of Magic exhibition for Harry and Ron's original crashing of the Ford Anglia in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. They were originally going to crash into the Great Lake instead of the Whomping Willow and encounter Merpeople for the first time. [12] It is believed that the vehicle could not have been driven therefore it is suspected that it would have to have been towed or lifted from the scene."And while Ron’s car didn’t exactly rescue the Anglia from obscurity, it did bring it to a whole new audience.

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