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LEGO 75948 Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle Clock Tower Building Toy & 76402 Harry Potter Hogwarts: Dumbledore’s Office Castle Toy, Set with Sorting Hat, Sword of Gryffindor and 6 Minifigures

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The next module is a short two-floor affair, with the Prefects’ bathroom on the bottom and the Headmaster’s office above. The bathroom is where Harry Potter opens the golden egg with Moaning Myrtle’s help during the first challenge of the Triwizard Tournament. The bathroom looks nice, but the tub isn’t big enough for a minifigure, and sadly the set doesn’t include the golden egg. The tables and tree are beautiful designs, with the tree, in particular, being among the best LEGO Christmas trees yet. The unicorn horns for the icicles on the tables is a great design we’ve seen in fan models, while the shaping for the ice sculpture is simple but effective. With 922 pieces, the set sits about where we’d expect for its price point, though none of the non-printed pieces are unique to this set. Ultimately, this is a good set, but except for the figures it doesn’t stand out among the recent Harry Potter sets in the way the Great Hall did. I’ll enjoy having it my collection, but it’s not one to elicit oohs and aahs. As I’ve reviewed sets over the last several years, I’ve noticed LEGO furniture improving at a remarkable pace. I was very impressed with the furniture in Stranger Things: The Upside Down, and the furniture here, though simple, is similarly lovely.

With 8 minifigures and iconic locations from Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban™ and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™, kids will be immersed in a world of imaginative play. Ignite the magic within your child with LEGO® Harry Potter building toys and model kits. This enchanting collection invites young witches, wizards and even muggles, to go on countless Wizarding World adventures, inspired by the beloved series. Includes 8 new-for-June-2019 Harry Potter™ minifigures: Harry Potter, Ron Weasley™, Hermione Granger™, Fleur Delacour, Cedric Diggory, Viktor Krum, Albus Dumbledore™ and Madame Maxime. Dumbledore’s Office includes a chair and desk with inkpot and quill, the Pensieve and the sword of Gryffindor.The dance floor looks far better in practice than it does in static pictures, with the figures delightfully whirling about. The one thing it’s missing is a better way to activate the motion; it’s sorely missing a geared in crank with which to spin the dancers.

It’s best to think of the set as an exterior architectural model paired with a series of internal vignettes, just as the recent Jurassic Park gate is. And the exterior does look nice. Even with its exterior scale being slightly smaller than minifigure scale, it’s still a bit small. But let’s not judge it too harshly for that; it’s easily the best minifigure-ish scale LEGO Hogwarts exterior yet, with lots of detailing. The Yule Ball scene includes 2 icy tables with 2 glasses, buildable icy sculpture and a Christmas Tree. The set includes eight minifigures, all of which are exclusive designs for this set. As we’d expect, they’re excellent designs with intricate printing for their Yule Ball finest and will make this set an easy buy for any hardcore LEGO Harry Potter fan. Ultimately, this is an excellent set for two camps: The first is those who are interested in collecting all of the sets of the modular Hogwarts. If this is the only such set you buy, you’ll likely be disappointed, because it’s an awkward set by itself. But when combined with the rest it’s pretty cool and will hopefully only get better as the line continues. The second camp is made of minifigure collectors, and with all eight figures being exclusive, and one being a totally unique character, it’s hard to say this isn’t a great set for minifigures.I kinda wish they’d come up with a way to do lamps like that without using the tap piece (and it took me a while to find a picture that proved I was right about how it’s constructed because _somebody_ apparently felt it was necessary to carefully pose the loose furniture so you couldn’t see the spigot on the tap). The problem is, the only two other solutions I can think of (telescope, or nipple tile + candle) would make the lamp considerably taller. Ah, well, I don’t really do much in the way of furniture, so I’m not sure I’d ever be able to put a smaller lamp to use anyways. Once all three are connected, they form a sizable length of Hogwarts. Hopefully, as LEGO continues to release the sets, they’ll produce pieces that allow for a more accurate layout of Hogwarts. LEGO has told us that they can only advertise sets as being compatible with each other if the sets are currently in production, but while LEGO won’t speak of future plans for the line, it seems they intend to keep producing these modular Hogwarts sets for a while even after the older ones like the Great Hall are no longer offered.

The Yule Ball is the primary theme for the set, with each of the minifigures sporting their dance finery. The ballroom isn’t particularly impressive as an architectural design, since its primary purpose is as a play feature, but with the addition of the tables and Christmas tree the setting looks appropriately festive. Still, not every room included here is interesting. Especially compared to the Great Hall set from last year, the bit of the Great Hall here is downright boring. Perhaps it’s intended to be another room, but the presence of the Goblet of Fire with its blue flames hints that it’s depicting the scene where Harry’s name was pulled from the cup. Whatever it is, there’s not much to it. Fortunately, the other rooms mostly make up for it.

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