Official Pix of the Summer Sets! Part One.

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WooHoo! Just like it says in the title, we now have the official pics of this summer's lego Harry Potter sets. You can see the following here beneath the fold in part one of the series:

76448 Fawkes: Dumbledore’s Phoenix
76449 Chomping Monster Book of Monsters
76458 Thestral Family


From the 2025 summer wave of Harry Potter lego sets:

76448 Fawkes: Dumbledore’s Phoenix | no minfigs | 299 pieces | 20€


Expanding the range of cheaper creatures, like last year's Hedwig, we now have a Fawkes. It's frankly meeting with a fair amount of derision in online commentary, but not everyone is minted, and this gets you an affordable Phoenix, and it's something you can gift or spend your allowance on without breaking the bank. In a series where the castle itself has quite simply been priced out of so many people's budgets, that matters. I wonder if they'll continue to mirror the Hedwig / Fawkes / Beaky etc trend next year, but then this year's Thestrals feel like a compromise between the two lines (if not quite price-wise), so perhaps not.

It comes with a buildable Sword of Gryffindor and Sorting Hat so the scene from CoS (Chamber of Secrets) can be re-enacted (can we expect a large scale buildable Basilisk sometime soon?) and also a buildable baby Phoenix for when Fawkes regenerates.



76449 Chomping Monster Book of Monsters | 1 minifig | 518 pieces | 60€


The set includes third year budding (PoA - Prisoner of Azkaban) Herbologist Neville Longbottom and the Monster Book of Monsters lego piece (I always liked that one). There's an automated action feature where if the MBoM is pulled back, it moves and, well, as the name suggests, chomps. Unclear if it is willing to eat your homework, however. Perhaps in the next edition?



Harry Potter: 76458 Thestral Family | no minifigs | 548 pieces | 70€


I've passed on Buckbeak and Harry's Patronus, both of which I thought were better done, and I'll be passing on this as well. That's not a condemnation per se, as I haven't the shelf space or budget for everything. Some picking and choosing must take place, and at 70 EUR for this set, it feels overpriced. But where I really liked the crow and stacked stone wall in Beaky's set (clearly not the focus 😆) and found Buckbeak himself inoffensive enough, in contrast I don't feel drawn to the Thestrals. It's unexpected, as I quite like the baby Thestral piece, and feel they haven't captured the same aesthetic / vibe here. Nothing is all things to all people, but I'd be surprised if this set did as well as Buckbeak.

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