I brought you a detailed guide to the stores in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, Orlando (sans Epic Universe, haven’t been yet!) and now it’s time for the Universal Studios Hollywood store guide! Much like the Orlando park, you cannot find every piece of Harry Potter merchandise in one single store. However, it’s a lot easier to find all of the merchandise than in the Orlando parks.
Here’s a guide to the stores in Universal Hollywood.
Ollivander’s
If you’re wand shopping, there’s no finer store than Ollivander’s. This store is much bigger than the Orlando Hogsmeade Ollivander’s and maybe even bigger than the Orlando Diagon Alley Ollivander’s. Unlike the Orlando wand shops, you can usually take up space and move around much easier.
Best For: Store Ambience, Wand Lovers
Honeydukes
The best place to buy candy and treats! It’s brightly colored in the best way and crammed full of candy options. They’ve added on a Florean Fortescue’s ice cream area, but don’t expect fancy options like you’d get in the Florean Fortescue’s in Orlando. Options are limited for ice cream but still fun. You can make your own custom mix of candy, and buy cupcakes and other snacks here. This is where you’ll find a lot of official candy merchandise, as well as Honeydukes branded items.
Best For: Store Ambience, Candy Lovers, Sweet’s Lovers, Kitchenware
Zonkos
I’m sure Hollywood Zonko’s probably once used to look like the Zonko’s in the Orlando park, with joke themed merchandise and gag gifts, but much like the Orlando Park, they realized the real money was in Honeydukes, the store it shares a space with, and now it’s been overtaken by Honeydukes candy, ice cream, and cakes.
Best for: Honeydukes stuff and outside shots of Zonko’s for your enjoyment.
Filch’s Emporium of Confiscated Goods
A good collection of clothing, replicas, collectibles, and more are all here, at Filch’s. A small downside is the surge of people leaving the Forbidden Journey ride that funnel in, but this store has a wide range collection of items, making it a good overall store to shop in. Most of the items here are repeated in other stores. I would recommend this as one of the best shops overall in Universal Hollywood, if not the best for the wide variety of items.
Best For: A variety of collectibles
Universal Studio Store
Located right near the entrance/exit of Universal Hollywood, this store has a lot of Harry Potter merchandise. This is a great place to get replicas from, as well as keychains and pins, as they seem to have all of them here. There’s also wands if you missed out earlier, clothing, and almost any type of merchandise you can think of. A drawback is that this store is not in the Harry Potter land and is not Harry Potter themed. It contains items for sale from a number of rides in the park. So if you’re really into that magical feeling, this store is not the one for you. I do think it’s worth a stop, as they have a wide variety of merchandise and the store is often less crowded. This is the best store if you collect keychains and/or pins. This is also the only place I saw merchandise from Minalima. One of the best overall shops to browse from, along with Filch’s Emporium, for the sheer volume of merchandise.
Best For: Less Crowds, Wide Variety of Merchandise, Pin and Keychain collectors, Minalima collectors
Citywalk Store
This store is good if you can’t get into the park but you’re in Citywalk, or you would like to get your merchandise at the spot closest to the parking lot. A word of warning though: unlike the Orlando Citywalk store, this one is lacking in merchandise. There is a lot of merchandise at the park that is not in this store.
Best For: Last minute purchases, when you can’t get into the park
Dervish and Banges
A cute store that is full of Quidditch and house merchandise, particularly clothes. Also has brooms and the Monster Book of Monsters cage and memorabilia.
Best For: Quidditch gear, pins, Monster book of monsters
The Owl Post
This store has lots of owls, stationary, journals, and quills. It’s a very small store so when it’s busy it gets crowded. It directly connects to Dervish and Banges and and Gladrags Wizardwear.
Best For: Stationary, journals, pens, owls
Wiseacre’s Wizarding Equipment
A very cute shop located right off of Ollivander’s. It focuses on house themed clothing and also Marauder’s Map merchandise. A small and narrow shop so it’s not a long stop.
Best For: Marauder’s Map gear, house gear
Train Kiosk
A tiny cute shop located right next to the Hogwarts Express, the items for sale are of course, mainly Hogwarts Express themed! There is a small Honeydukes cart in here as well, with sweets for sale.
Best For: Hogwarts Express Enthusiasts
Gladrags Wizardwear
This cute shop connects with Dervish and Banges and the Owl Post. It has fun Hogwarts house merchandise and unique jewelry, some of which I only saw in this store. Get your robes and scarves here!
Best For: Hogwarts House Pride, Jewelry, Clothes
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