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LEGO Harry Potter 12 Grimmauld Place 76408 Building Toy Set for Kids, Girls, and Boys Ages 8+ (1,083 Pieces)

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Unlike some of the other sets in the mid-year wave, the instructions and stickers were packed in plastic rather than the new paper enveloped. The bag finishes by connecting 11 and 13, adding the final layers of tile that will let the upper stories sit on them, and attaching a second set of bent technic links to ensure that the top of the model doesn’t buckle in and obstruct the function. The aforementioned lampposts are missing from the onscreen location, but serve an important purpose. Kreacher's den hardly appears onscreen and details on the opposite side are most prominent in the books as well.

In the films, the Fountain of Magical Brethren is split into two sections: one of just the wizard, and the other containing the centaur, witch, goblin and house elf. Many parts of this build were completed with my youngest daughter (aged 7) who was very impressed with the detail that each room has to offer. The bottoms of all of the moving pieces are also well covered with smooth inverted circle tiles (boat studs), ensuring the building will slide easily on almost any surface. In the room above the kitchen the main feature is the piano, where Hermione was teaching Ron playing Für Elise in the Deathly Hallows. I often post separate photos of some of the small mini-models because they look amazing by themselves.Medium nougat dominates the upper levels and the brick texture changes between the ground floor and those above.

And we cannot overstate just how perfectly this single feature to the set elevates it above any number of other LEGO sets, in the Harry Potter theme and indeed across the wider product range, and from what’s currently available and from what has come before. Brickset, the Brickset logo and all content not covered by The LEGO Group's copyright is, unless otherwise stated, ©1997-2024 Brickset ltd.

The addition of sand green highlights on number twelve conveys the desired dilapidation too, but were probably unnecessary. From the back, you can see what the play side of the build will look like now – a larger central area, with the smaller angled areas on the side.

She has a pigs nose from the time she was joking around with Hermione and Ginny at Grimmauld Place, and changed her nose into a pig nose resembling Dudley’s. With bag 4, we continue with the ground floor, adding it for the houses numbered 11 and 13, while the interior behind still belongs to number 12. These rooms contain enough space for figures, and I love the attention to detail with the relatives blotted out from the family tree. It may be easy to dismiss the core functionality of the set – that the house effortlessly moves in and out from between its neighbouring properties – as a gimmick, but that can only be so until you build it and then get to play with it, at which point that’s all you’ll be doing, for just how effective and fun it is. Both of these scenes take place in their own massive rooms in the basement level of the Ministry, and there's no room to put minifigures with them anyway, so they feel quite shoehorned in.Several mugs and goblets are placed along this table, with an exclusive newspaper tile which depicts The Daily Prophet's momentous 'The Boy Who Lies?

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