LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Great Hall 75954 Building Kit and Magic Castle Toy, Fantasy Creatures, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy and Hagrid (878 Pieces)

My grandson loves this product.

Very complex but worth it when completed

Mi hija siguió el manual paso a paso y no se detuvo hasta completarlo. Le encantó.

awesome final product! Takes time but it was fun to do!

Granddaughter loved it. 1st present for Birthday that dhe stayes up to 2 oclock in the morning to put it together. Loves the books and now has castle. Saw ut inTrump Tower in Vancover.

Took me and my oldest son 3 hrs to build, well worth the price and time!!

Daughter absolutely loves the set and comes with ever character a Harry Potter fan would want including some of the pets. Plus its Legos, was a great present for your kids to keep there mind busy.

It was just ok

Birthday gift for a very happy boy.

This is one of two Hogwarts Castles for 2018. The other is a much more expensive and smaller scale set that attempts to capture more of Hogwarts Castle and do so more accurately. This set, 75954, is mini-figure size and captures only the Great Hall and a Tower with various rooms, including Dumbledores office. This set is really optimized for play. Lego also produced a Hogwarts Castle set from 2010 to 2012 (set #4842) which had more buildings, and so was more extensive, but the sizing was a tad diminutive compared to this current set. We are a big Lego family and big Harry Potter fans, so we were probably going to like this set anyway. But this really is a very good set and a great gift for any young aspiring Hogwarts student. What is clear with the most recent Harry Potter sets is that Lego is designing them to be really good for play, while including a decent amount of design details that give the sets nice authenticity. While Hogwarts is a set piece for all of the books and films, Lego has focused on the first two for this set. It has a boat for the first year students to cross the lake from Hogsmeade Station. The Dumbledore mini-figure is in the likeness of actor Richard Harris, not Michael Gambon. There is a Quirrel and the Mirror of Erised from the first book, the Basilisk and Fawkes from the second. The Quirrel figure has a Voldemort face hidden on the back of his head, under the turban. Though this set sports a fairly simplified layout, one can easily reenact a large number of the scenes. We very much liked the inclusion of the Nearly Headless Nick mini figure. And it is good to see Hagrid sporting his pink umbrella. It is not clear why Susan Bones is included; her major contribution in the first film is to be sorted into Hufflepuff. I would have preferred Gilderoy Lockhart. My daughter is not happy about the use of short mini-figures for the students. While it is appropriate for their age (they are 11 and 12 in the first two books), the legs on these figures do not move, and given that their other proportions are largely unchanged, they end up looking strange. The structure economizes by combining and simplifying a number of different castle locations. The dock, castle entrance hall, and Great Hall are all mixed together. This is an acceptable compromise that probably wont bother kids. The windows, structural columns, roof and spires, and selective placement of detail bricks, makes for a tasteful and creative interpretation of Hogwarts exterior. The windows work exceptionally well from the interior of the Great Hall. The tables and settings of the Great Hall are a bit truncated, but sufficiently large for play purposes. The banners at the top of the Hall may be turned to represent different Houses. This castle is designed to connect to set #75953. Yes, Lego is milking this for all its worth, but I would recommend biting the bullet. The extension set adds a dormitory room, Snapes office and classroom, as well as the Whomping Willow and Ford Anglia from the second book. It rounds out the castle nicely and provides a full set of play options.