Jacob Shymanski

The new Harry Potter full cast audiobooks are pretty cool.

Firstly, because, well, it's Harry Potter, that's a pretty good start.

But secondly, this project has a massive budget.

I'm talking Bezos money, and it shows.

Let me back up a bit.

If you haven't heard, Audible has been releasing a new edition of the Harry Potter books as full-cast immersive audiobooks.

The first one came out in November, and each book after has been getting released a month apart.

As I'm recording this, Book 4, The Goblet of Fire, is the latest to have come out.

Book five comes out March, six in April, and the last one is due to be released in May.

That's 2026.

Audible is saying they've got 200 plus actors involved.

I believe them.

And big names too.

And we'll talk about that in a minute.

It's got an original score and atmospheric sound design throughout the entire thing.

And we're talking about runtimes of 20 plus hours starting from the fourth book.

These are beefy books.

It's also important to mention that these are fully unabridged, which was really important when they first announced this.

People were quite unsure what they were going to do.

Fully unabridged.