12 Grimmauld Place Advent Calendar Day 13

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What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 13 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent Calendar( Read more... )

Pictures of the New 2023 Harry Potter Lego Sets!

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Lego has posted pictures of 2023's 1st half year's sets on the S@H due March 1st, 2023, and they're... interesting.

The 76420 Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake (the Second Task) is more successful than I could have hoped and feels like a design triumph at the price point. Well done! The 76413 Hogwarts™: Room of Requirement (the Room of Hidden Things) is again in the 2021+ modular style, but continues to improve on 2022's trend towards bettering the exteriors of the (logically compromised) modular style. It's fairly satisfying as a castle addition on its own, which for the modular style is high praise, and as in Dumbledore's Office, it also folds open, making much better use of its footprint than the original 2021 modular editions did. And finally the four House Banner sets representing each of the House Common Rooms are something of the messy collage I'd feared. This time they've done a more satisfying job with the minifigs, however, (Hufflepuffs represent!) giving us a robe, cardigan and Quidditch jumper for each of the Houses and a better variety of figs than usual, and I love the little Grindylow. ❤️

Pic spam of the Banner sets follows. I'll be posting the other two sets later in the day... ( Read more... )

And that's it for now. The other two will follow later.

Second Task and Room of Hidden Things 2023 Sets!

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As already mentioned, lego has published pictures of the six Harry Potter lego sets from the 1st half year of 2023. I've presented the first four House Banner sets here. The remaining two are slightly larger, more standard, non-gimmick sets of the Triwizard Tournament's Second Task and the Room of Hidden Things version of the Room of Requirement from the Battle of Hogwarts. ( Read more... )