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We have photos of the 2025 GWP (gift with purchase), and it's genuinely better than I was expecting! Lego Harry Potter 40770 Hogwarts Castle: Room of Requirement.
Let's not oversell it. Overall it's a mixed bag, to be sure, as it's in the format of the foldable classrooms which have issues based on their constraints / parameters. There's little way around that with the current 2024+ Hogwarts castle scheme, and folded, it's a bit of a mess. That acknowledged, this little GWP nicely captures the scene where Neville greets the trio in the RoR in Deathly Hallows (DH2), and DH (or HBP) sets are always welcome, and I haven't got a lot of room left to display things anyway. Plus it makes sense in combination with the Hogsmeade D2C set with the Hog's Head (it was that or an RoR with Dumbledore's Army (DA) practice). As a side note, it's largely something people can get in the ballpark of, building it on their own, if they miss this set. It's always nice when lego do that to reduce the FOMO. There are a few stickered pieces (the portrait, for one) that make it hard to directly replace, the adult Mimbulus Mimbletonia (the recolour of the potions bubbles presently only available in the 2025 76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class set, and then there are the hammocks... Still. An acceptable MOC is within reach.
Also, this year is now officially the year of Neville, just saying. At this point, we may be seeing more of him than Harry. To be clear, I don't actually mind that, but I do feel Hermione and the girls haven't been as fairly represented this year. If they were going to push Neville, they needed to tone down the Ron. And where's Ginny been hiding?
As I said, folded together, it's a bit of a mess. And to be fair, those stickered panels are doing some heavy lifting. Bygones.
The portrait is cute, the ladder is appropriate, the hammocks work. The miniature 2 x 3 stud cots are bizarre (again with those pesky size constraints), and they should at least have gone for 2 x 4 format. Not that that would accommodate a minifig, but the Firsties through third years would sort of fit. Sort of. It's a little bit odd that a hammock extends above the set. I assume it still slides into all the slots in the Great Hall and Grand Tower, though.
There's not actually all that much stuff inside the room. A bench doubles as a fireplace, doubles as a step, but it suggests what you'd expect to find well enough. I think rotating the orientation of the chessboard and adding another 'box' (with a jumper on top) to the piles of junk would have permitted one of the cots to be raised and expanded to the 2 x 4 format for virtually no cost. And if it had been moved to the right, a 2 x 5 would have been possible. (Particularly as they show the chessboard relocated to the window frame box thing, and the 2 x 2 plate doesn't allow for easy relocation.) As the other cot rests on the trunk when folded, there doesn't appear to be a good argument against expanding them both to at least a 2 x 4 beyond a sense of scale, and even that seems correct enough. That's a small quibble and easily remedied if desired, though.
We have photos of the 2025 GWP (gift with purchase), and it's genuinely better than I was expecting! Lego Harry Potter 40770 Hogwarts Castle: Room of Requirement.
Let's not oversell it. Overall it's a mixed bag, to be sure, as it's in the format of the foldable classrooms which have issues based on their constraints / parameters. There's little way around that with the current 2024+ Hogwarts castle scheme, and folded, it's a bit of a mess. That acknowledged, this little GWP nicely captures the scene where Neville greets the trio in the RoR in Deathly Hallows (DH2), and DH (or HBP) sets are always welcome, and I haven't got a lot of room left to display things anyway. Plus it makes sense in combination with the Hogsmeade D2C set with the Hog's Head (it was that or an RoR with Dumbledore's Army (DA) practice). As a side note, it's largely something people can get in the ballpark of, building it on their own, if they miss this set. It's always nice when lego do that to reduce the FOMO. There are a few stickered pieces (the portrait, for one) that make it hard to directly replace, the adult Mimbulus Mimbletonia (the recolour of the potions bubbles presently only available in the 2025 76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class set, and then there are the hammocks... Still. An acceptable MOC is within reach.
Also, this year is now officially the year of Neville, just saying. At this point, we may be seeing more of him than Harry. To be clear, I don't actually mind that, but I do feel Hermione and the girls haven't been as fairly represented this year. If they were going to push Neville, they needed to tone down the Ron. And where's Ginny been hiding?
As I said, folded together, it's a bit of a mess. And to be fair, those stickered panels are doing some heavy lifting. Bygones.
The portrait is cute, the ladder is appropriate, the hammocks work. The miniature 2 x 3 stud cots are bizarre (again with those pesky size constraints), and they should at least have gone for 2 x 4 format. Not that that would accommodate a minifig, but the Firsties through third years would sort of fit. Sort of. It's a little bit odd that a hammock extends above the set. I assume it still slides into all the slots in the Great Hall and Grand Tower, though.
There's not actually all that much stuff inside the room. A bench doubles as a fireplace, doubles as a step, but it suggests what you'd expect to find well enough. I think rotating the orientation of the chessboard and adding another 'box' (with a jumper on top) to the piles of junk would have permitted one of the cots to be raised and expanded to the 2 x 4 format for virtually no cost. And if it had been moved to the right, a 2 x 5 would have been possible. (Particularly as they show the chessboard relocated to the window frame box thing, and the 2 x 2 plate doesn't allow for easy relocation.) As the other cot rests on the trunk when folded, there doesn't appear to be a good argument against expanding them both to at least a 2 x 4 beyond a sense of scale, and even that seems correct enough. That's a small quibble and easily remedied if desired, though.
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