oday, 7th of July is 'World Chocolate Day'. Let's celebrate it by looking into where chocolate plays a role in the Harry Potter universe, how this is reflected in various LEGO sets, and learn what J. K. Rowling herself has said about chocolate herself. Enjoy eating, umm sorry, reading...
he 20th Anniversary of LEGO Harry Potter sets gave us a new collectable item - the Chocolate Frog Wizard Card tiles, with each set from the theme giving us a number of random tiles. With 16 to collect, you will generally have to resort to swapping or buying extras to get a full set. All 16 tiles are now finally listed on Bricklink, helping you to find potential sellers of the tiles you may be missing. Here are the links...
Back in March I posted about how you can build a book to use for displaying the three small micro-scale models that came with the 2020 Advent Calendar. Back then I did not have time to provide instructions for the build. But this weekend I finally got around to do it, for those interested in building their own copy...
The 2021 mid-year wave of LEGO Harry Potter sets introduced a new collectable item - 2x2 tiles with famous wizards and witches printed on them, representing the wizard cards you get when buying the magical chocolate frogs for example from the trolley lady in the Hogwarts Express. I posted about the display stand I designed for them a few weeks ago, and have since had multiple requests for instructions. So here they are...
As previously announced, the 20th Anniversary of LEGO Harry Potter themed sets in the coming mid 2021 wave each includes a number of random wizard tiles. Having been provided by some of these sets by LEGO in advance for review, I can now give more information about these...
Blockwarts - A LEGO Harry Potter fan site 