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crabby castle
this set is neato mosquito! i love it. It come with 2 skeletons with hoods & capes,some old guy,a nerd with glasses{Harry},Hermione,Ron,& Prof. McGonagoL.it took me three & a half hours to build it.its defenently worth the price.i like the classrooms & moving staircase's.it even has a moving clock.if you have the old castle{4709)you can combine it with this one(4757).I have to go now buh-bye.

cool castle
the castle is kewl. it has harry potter,ron weezly,hermione granger,basicly the whole school. i like Profesor Mcgonagal's class room the best. i like how the figures are white instead of yellow.it is definent ly worth (...).
P.S.(...) bye bye

FANTASTIC
It's Great. It took 3 days for me to build it but it's worth it.

Comparing the Harry Potter Hogwart sets
I own the very first Hogwarts Castle. This came out in 2001. The first one took me no more than an hour to build, and the instructions were all very clear.Now the first Hogwarts Castle doesn't have as good as looks, but is very fun to play with. Unfortunately the steps are hard to work and there arent as much areas to go exploring to.
The second set is much better. The steps are not like the ones on the first hogwarts set. They are very easy to control. This set also has many more locations than the first set had. It has some of the classrooms. Plus, this set you get a pair of dementors to go alng with it. This Hogwarts Castle looks a lot nicer and has many more pieces, and for what? The same azact price?
Now if i had to chose one of the two i would chose the second, and newest version, but dont take this review as saying that the other castle is not at all what you are looking for. Thank you!

The Best Lego Set Ever Made
I think this is the best harry potter lego set yet.
This set covers the entire hogwarts castle.
It also includes two dementors,Harry,Ron,Hermione,Professor Mcgonagall,Professor Dumbledore,2 owls,and Scabbers.
There is also a cool wind-up motor that makes the clock move,but you have to be very careful when you get to the where you put in the motor.I bought this set a week ago and finished it in 2 days, but it broke so I built it again.Overall,I think this set is definitley worth the price.
SO GET THIS SET!!!!! ... Read more

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Shrieking shack
this lego set is really cool! I give it 3 stars for durability since it is a lego. If you loved the scene in the movie, you will love this set! I dont like how the shack spins though. Honeydukes comes with it too! the person to animal thing actually worrks! If you have a lego collection this is a must! ... Read more

Editorial Review

Perhaps nowhere on the campus of Hogwarts Academy is more packed with mystery and magic than the office of Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. In this446-piece LEGO re-creation, the details are impressive: a spire with parapets, potion books, letters (delivered by owl, no doubt), and golden keys. Of course, since it is LEGO, the individual items, architecture, and figures of Harry and Dumbledore are somewhat simplified. But the set is also completely compatible with other Harry Potter LEGO toys, as well as any other LEGOs. Also included is a graphic manual with step-by-step instructions on building everything.--John Moe ... Read more

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Fabulous toy
As a Harry Potter fan, I started buying Legos for the first time in years; I still remember when they didn't have specific kits. I was so impressed by my first Harry Potter Legos that I've collected quite a magical landscape by now. I loved this kit--it has a lot of interesting elements, like the swinging back door and revolving bookshelf, and I have found that its parts can be well-used to make up good alternative buildings for those of us who like to create models rather than build them exactly as instructed. This set and the Hogwarts Castle are my favorite Lego sets thus far.

Know what you are buying
Whenever I buy a Lego set for my son I consider three things. First of all, the build: How fun will it be to build the first time? Second, I consider the playability: What's fun about this set? Then I consider the pieces of the set: Will it still be fun when half of the pieces are lost in the sofa and he's building his own castles from what's left (this kind of versitility is why I buy my son Legos)?
This set is really fun on the first day. While it only took us a few minutes to build (there are lots of large pieces), my son really enjoyed acing out scenes from the movie. The following weeks however, were not quite as good. The srength of the Harry Potter Legos is that they really resemble the places in the films. However, the consequense of this is a lot of peices that are specific to Harry's world. The prblem with this is that my son's original castles become less his, and more Harry Potter's-- the pieces really do not work well in other environments. Since we bought a few Harry Potter sets my son has asked that we not get any more, he says they are "too much like the movie". So I guess it's fun for a while, but don't expect the fun to move much past the directions.

Dumb.
Look at the name."Dumb"ledore's Office.It's dumb this set including Harry Potter. He doesn't teach much for kids and this set makes no difference.You can always buy it I suppose for a medieval legos collection but Harry is a minifig thats mindless.

A welcome addition to the Lego lineup
This was a joy to construct! The Harry Potter motif pieces are a great addition to the Lego line, and this represents a compromise of recent models having large pieces that 'construct' themselves. I really liked the innovative spiral staircase, and look forward to adding these pieces to my existing castle collections to bring out some really creative buildings.

whoopeeeee! this is an awsome set!
I got this set for christmas and is it awesome!! it has
dumbledore
harry
and professer mgonagle!
the sets features are awesome!
spiral stairs
mail containers
a pensieve
a hidden potion shelf
and a locking door!
this set is a must have for any harry potter collection! ... Read more

Editorial Review

This is an extraordinarily detailed LEGO set, with almost 600 pieces that form four related Harry Potter scenes. Though the finished product makes for a fun play world--with intricate castle chambers and a whole host of Potter characters--this is really more like a 3-D puzzle than a toy. For younger kids who don't have the patience to wade through the novella-length instruction booklet, the set may end up in a big, hopeless muddle. For those with the ambition and focus, or for parents who want some together time with their kids, the task is certainly doable thanks to the handy way pieces are divided into numbered bags and clearly keyed to the instruction book. --David Stoesz ... Read more

Reviews (15)

Cool
This set has all you need to complete the collection! I love how it features the faucet for the bathroom the snake and all.

Great!
This set is the best! (...) its great to play with and if you'd like film it! I am just starting my second movie. There's a bunch of new characters that you can't get in any other set. I just need three more to complete my whole collection.(I'm still getting the 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th ones!) Go for this one. It's just the best! I have to go play with it right now, bye!

Pretty good!
I liked this set - it's one of the bigger Lego sets I've gotten (alas, no one has gotten the Hogwarts set for me yet ... ), and I enjoyed putting it together over the span of several days. (Only because I kept getting distracted.) There's several play areas, which you can arrange in several ways. There's also instructions on how to build different portions of the Chamber, so you're not bound to one set-up.

I think my main complaint, however, is the design for Salazar Slytherin's mouth. It opens like a set of doors, whereas in the movie (and in my imagination when reading the books) the mouth drops open. So I changed the design a bit to fit. I had plenty of pieces to do it with, too - so this set is even good as a builder for your own ideas.

Plus, the purple get-up for Gilderoy Lockhart is just too good to pass up.

Very peculiar....
This is a very curious Lego Harry Potter set. it isn't very much like the other ones (altough it may seem so in the box picture). While the other ones have really cool stuff, the only problem is that it's to little space. In this set, you also get all the cool stuff, just in a much wider space. Plus, if you have the lego studios kit, it is much easier to film in this set that on the other ones, since it can easily be taken apart and put back toghether. Plus, it's the very set that looks a lot like it's movie counterpart (unlike the other Harry Potter sets). Definetly a must.

wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this set rules!
this set is awesome! it includes figures for...
harry,
fawkes (the pheonix)
tom riddle,
ginny,
ron,
lockhart,
and the bascilisk!
this set is so awesome! it goes with all the other harry potter sets! especially the dueling chamber and snapes office bucause you can make a tower!. snapes office dueling chamber and then the moaning myrtles bathroom section of this set all one on top of the other! then you put the chamber of sectes under the castle and the tower nearby! they when you open the trap door harry ron and lochhart fall right into th middle of the chamber!
this is an awsome but is better with more harry potter sets!
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