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

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With the aid of the free LEGO Building Instructions app, children can witness the model come to life as they build, providing an unparalleled sense of immersion and engagement throughout the construction process. For parts fans, this set includes a new broom mold that appears in several of the Summer 2022 Harry Potter sets, which is much more accurate to the on-screen brooms the characters use; it’s also arguably simply better scaled for a minifigure. On ground level we have one of the many magic fireplaces, and a decorative section with stacks of printed Undesirable No.

It’s remarkable that we are more than two decades into LEGO Harry Potter as a theme (give or take a seven-year hiatus) and large chunks of the later books and films remain almost entirely unexplored in LEGO sets.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. Being a Metamorphmagus, Tonks could change her appearance at will, and often changed her hair colour depending on her mood. Slytherin's serpentine symbol looks good and a spare is provided, so you can recreate scenes with both the replica locket and the genuine article, stolen from Grimmauld Place by Mundungus Fletcher. Tonks comes with an alternate piggy face and red hairpiece to demonstrate her magical abilities, and her regular face looks much more Tonks-like than her previous one. Grimmauld Place by contrast has a much more varied build, though it too has some repetitive features.

Also included is a very orange version of Hermione’s cat Crookshanks, which is an interesting addition, given Hermione is absent from this set. However, the bedroom does contain a pivotal accessory because a decorated 1x1 round tile forms Salazar Slytherin's locket, hidden above a window. I’m happy to get another color of a cat figure, but the inclusion is odd in that it further emphasizes that Hermione herself is missing. Grimmauld Place has the massive, set-wide play feature of being able to hide Number 12 away via a smooth and simple-feeling sliding mechanism. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.Each module of the Ministry of Magic set is pretty much made to be played with separately, and the modules don't amount to much when viewed all together from the back, like this. Using Fred and George’s Extendable Ear the young wizards can listen into the secret discussion going on downstairs but they don’t take into account Crookshanks cat-like curiosity for a new plaything!