The LEGO Harry Potter: Hogwarts Castle and Grounds Is Discounted for the First Time This Year

This peculiar acceptable was released backmost successful September of 2023 and it's inactive the biggest Hogwarts Castle acceptable extracurricular of the garganutan 2018 6,020-piece predecessor. As its sanction implies, this acceptable encompasses much than conscionable the castle's cardinal structures (main tower, astronomy tower, and large hall). Instead, you besides get a "zoomed-out" position that showcases the galore courtyards, bridges, and greenhouses that dot the grounds, arsenic good arsenic a glimpse of the Black Lake and the rocky embankment (including the underground Chamber of Secrets) connected which the castle is situated.

Key acceptable pieces are besides included, specified arsenic Durmstrang Ship, Beauxbatons Carriage, and the Ford Anglia caught successful the Whomping Willow. As acold arsenic minfigs go, there's lone one: a Golden Architect of Hogwarts, but it is exclusive to this set.

The standard is modestly sized, measuring successful astatine 8.5" high, 13.5" wide, and 10" deep, akin to a LEGO Architecture set. Given the precocious ceramic count, you tin correctly presume that the pieces are mostly connected the smaller side. On the affirmative side, that makes this acceptable look highly detailed. On the different hand, this besides makes the physique a spot much challenging.

Kevin Wong of IGN built this acceptable and points retired that the finished merchandise is meant to beryllium much for show than interactivity. That makes sense, since this is simply a acceptable catered towards builders 18+. We adults are little prone to playing with our LEGOs than collecting and admiring them. Kevin is besides presently engaging successful a customized years-long physique that involves combining each of the Harry Potter castle sets into 1 "mega-set", with Hogwarts Castle and Grounds arsenic the base.

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