He arrived in New York in 1926 with a magically expanded case, a handful of Muggle money, and no particular plan to stay. The creatures, as usual, had other ideas.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them took the wizarding world somewhere it had never been before: out of the British school system and into the wider world, through 1920s New York and eventually across a Europe on the brink of a darkness that history would come to know very well. Newt Scamander — shy, precise, infinitely more comfortable with magical creatures than with people, and quietly one of the most principled characters J.K. Rowling ever created — became an unlikely hero for a story that was never really about saving the world, but about understanding it.
The Niffler alone justified the entire enterprise. The Bowtruckle sealed it.
Our Fantastic Beasts collection brings together officially licensed figures, apparel, accessories and gifts inspired by Newt's world — from creature collectibles and magizoologist gifts to 1920s wizarding world homeware and keepsakes for fans of the wider magical universe.
My philosophy is that worrying means you suffer twice.
