With intricate details, familiar characters, and a magical touch, it’s no wonder that these sets have become a go-to for both Harry Potter enthusiasts and LEGO collectors alike. both of these sets would provide good fun, but the sliding function and better space for place in Grimmauld Place edges out the Ministry for me. Several mugs and goblets are placed along this table, with an exclusive newspaper tile which depicts The Daily Prophet's momentous 'The Boy Who Lies? Fred and George – you’ll need to stare at the names on the box to make sure which is which – have their heads from 75978 Diagon Alley, but feature new striped shirts.

I am regularly perplexed by minor design decisions like these in the Harry Potter line, as well as the choices for which characters should receive new face prints and which shouldn't. I think a traditional dark orange colour may have been more appropriate than this vibrant colour though and my figure exhibits a printing issue around the eyes, which is hopefully isolated. With Bag 6 and 7 we build the first and second floors of numbers 13 and 11 respectively, details on the interior include bedrooms and a room with Sirius Black’s family-tree tapestry. Moreover, the shape appears more accurate than the existing element, which predates LEGO Harry Potter. As you may remember (spoiler alert), Regulus found the Slytherin Locket in the cave, but was unable to destroy the locket.The model inevitably appears more substantial in this configuration and measures 24cm across, which seems closer to what one might envisage for a set containing nearly 1100 pieces.

You have a fake door on the 1st/ground floor of the left most building, the kitchen/dining area in the middle building. With a magical 5-year projected increase in value and very solid annual growth this was always going to be a set to unravel the data on as retirement isn’t too far off in the future. Orion and Walburga Black can be identified by Walburga's yellow hat, although I think Regulus' image in the top corner warrants greater distinction. Thanks to the Unplottable Charm placed on the house it can only be seen by wizards and doesn’t appear on any maps. It may be easy to dismiss the core functionality of the set – that the house effortlessly moves in and out from between its neighbouring properties – as a gimmick, but that can only be so until you build it and then get to play with it, at which point that’s all you’ll be doing, for just how effective and fun it is.All-in-all, I am pleased LEGO went to the lengths they did and provided us with all of these new characters to re-enact the Ministry infiltration, despite several bothersome details and the fact that few of them besides Umbridge and Arthur Weasley play that much of a role in the Harry Potter story overall.