Reviews

Since initiating this blog, I’ve reviewed a large number of the LEGO Harry Potter sets. These reviews are listed below.

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Harry Potter 2022 sets:

• 40577: Hogwarts Grand Staircase
• 76396: Hogwarts Moments – Divination Class
• 76397: Hogwarts Moments – Defence Against the Dark Arts Class
• 76398: Hogwarts Hospital Wing
• 76399: Hogwarts Magical Trunk
• 76400: Hogwarts Carriage and Thestrals
• 76401: Hogwarts Courtyard: Sirius’s Rescue
• 76402: Hogwarts Dumbledore’s Office
• 76403: The Ministry of Magic
• 76406: Hungarian Horntail Dragon
• 76407: The Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow
• 76408: 12 Grimmauld Place

Harry Potter 2021 sets:

• 31201: Harry Potter Hogwarts Crests
  • See three official alternative builds in this post
• 40452: Hogwarts Gryffindor Dorms
• 76382: Hogwarts Moments – Transfiguration Class
• 76383: Hogwarts Moments – Potions Class
• 76384: Hogwarts Moments – Herbology Class
• 76385: Hogwarts Moments – Charms Class
• 76386: Hogwarts Polyjuice Potion Mistake
• 76387: Hogwarts Fluffy Encounter
• 76388: Hogsmeade Village Visit
• 76389: Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets
• 76391: Hogwarts Icons – Collectors’ edition
  • See this post for Easter eggs in the Hogwarts Icons set
• 76392: Hogwarts Wizard’s Chess
  • See this post for how to build a more accurate horse chess piece for this set
• 76393: Harry Potter and Hermione Granger
• 76394: Fawkes, Dumbledore’s Phoenix
• 76395: Hogwarts First Flying Lesson

Harry Potter 2020 sets:

• 30628: Monster Book of Monsters
• 75966: Hogwarts Room of Requirement
• 75967: Forbidden Forest – Umbridge’s encounter
• 75968: 4 Privet Drive.
  • See this post about how to add a garage to the building (and other minor upgrades)
• 75969: Hogwarts Astronomy Tower
• 75978: Diagon Alley. This set was reviewed in four parts:
  • Part 1 – Ollivanders and Scribbulus
  • Part 2 – Quality Quidditch Supplies and Daily Prophet
  • Part 3 – Ice Cream Parlour and Flourish & Blotts
  • Part 4 – Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes
• 75979: Hedwig
• 75980: Attack on the Burrow

Harry Potter 2019 sets:

• 75945: Expecto Patronum
• 75946: Hungarian Horntail Triwizard Challenge
• 75947: Hagrid’s Hut – Buckbeak’s Rescue
  • See this post about how to add a removable back wall to Hagrid’s Hut
  • See this post about how to build a landscape for Hagrid’s Hut
• 75948: Hogwarts Clock Tower
• 75957: The Knight Bus
• 75958: Beauxbatons’ Carriage: Arrival at Hogwarts
  • See this post for a supersized version of this set
• 75965: The Rise of Voldemort

Harry Potter 2018 sets:

• 75950: Aragog’s Lair
• 75956: Quidditch Match
• 75953: Hogwarts Whomping Willow – Part 1
• 75953: Hogwarts Whomping Willow – Part 2
• 75954: Hogwarts Great Hall
• 75955: Hogwarts Express
  • See also this post about minor modifications you may want to make to Hogwarts Express.
  • See this post for instructions on how to motorise Hogwarts Express.
• 71043 Hogwarts Castle
  • Part 1 (Instruction book 1)
  • Part 2 (Instruction book 2)
  • Part 3 (Instruction book 3)
  • Part 4 (Instruction book 4)

Advent calendars:

• 75964: Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2019
• 75981: Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2020
• 76390: Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2021
• 76404: Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2022

Brickheadz:

• 41615: Harry Potter and Hedwig
• 41616: Hermione Granger
• 41621: Ron Weasley and Albus Dumbledore
• 40412: Hagrid and Buckbeak
• 40495: Harry, Hermione, Ron & Hagrid
• 40496: Voldemort, Nagini and Bellatrix
• 40560: Professors of Hogwarts

Minifigures/minifigure packs:

• Harry Potter CMF Series 1 – Part 1
• Harry Potter CMF Series 1 – Part 2
• Harry Potter CMF Series 1 – Part 3
• Bricktober pack – 2018
• 40419: Hogwarts Students
• 40500: Wizarding World Minifigure Accessory Pack