I completely agree with you; the set definitely has exciting scope to be an 18+ set in the future, with proper, full sized rooms. Also, I believe that logo under the table is the Dark Mark used by Death Eaters!
Hey Tiago! I have been watching your channel for a while, and I continue to be impressed by the consistent production quality and informative reviews. You are far and away the best lego reviewer on RUclips and lego should honestly be paying you a ton for every review. I have purchased multiple sets on your recommendation.
Personally, if it was bigger (and more expensive), I wouldn’t be here for it. As it is now, it’s definitely big enough in my opinion, and though the interior does look really thin, it still seems like a fairly good playspace for the figures it comes with. Not quite as exciting as Grimmauld place, but I’m definitely excited for this one! Much more so than for any of the other HP January sets.
The price of 150 bucks is quite expensive for kinds and the build is too basic for adults. I am not sure who LEGO is targeting, but this set will definitely go on clearance.
it gives me old lego sets - 2008-2012 vibe and this set is made to play with it not to put on the shelf with milions of details and thousands of euros, really nice :D
I discovered this channel a couple of months and youve very quickly become one of the only channels on youtube where I watch your videos as soon as they come out
I'm a fan of the set. As an adult with an adult income, even I'm starting to get priced out of all these ultra premium sets Lego keeps churning out. It's nice to see a decent on that many more people can afford, that still looks nice enough to display.
I'm sure Lego has done a ton of market research to maximize their profit and I am sure that their business model makes sense, but some times I find myself thinking: Who can afford these? When I was a kid I got small to medium sized sets some times as gifts from my parents. I couldn't even imagine my own parents at the time spending $200-250 on a Lego set for THEMSELVES (adjusted for inflation, 300-400 today). I think the prices are alright for what you get, It's more about how the large sets are locked into that price range. God forbid they make $50-150 sets that prioritize detail over size.
The best thing to do at this point is to try the competing brands. A number of them now have quality as good as or better then Lego but are often much cheaper. You can get a set from Funwhole, for example, with integrated lights and all prints for 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of Lego. Bricks are the same quality.
@@SO-ym3zs Don't you think it's criminal that Funwholes molds are a 1:1 of Legos designs? It's theft. There is clearly some legal loophole, so it technically isn't theft, I know, but it's not moral. Lego as a company also has an outward face, but with Funwhole you have no idea what their policies are. The stuff they make is priced like Temu Lego, so it's only fair to assume that its sweatshop labor. They are based in China. They also ship worldwide within 48 h, which means a cut to someone's paycheck. I'd rather rest easy that my hobby didn't contribute to Chinese workers breathing in plastic fumes and slaving away just so I can have my toy. I know this sounds harsh, but truth often is.
@@SO-ym3zs I agree, as a lifetime Lego-er, I long ago discovered Cobi and have expanded into Funwhole and Pantasy. All beginning to challenge Lego quality and Cobi has always better display pieces.
@an8790 Lego produces in China and is certainly no saint in any regard. We also have little if any idea how they pay or treat their workers or partners. We don't know that anyone is using sweatshop labor. For all we know, Lego is vastly overcharging for their products. The profits they declare in their financial statements tend to give that credence. And recall that Lego lifted their whole concept from another company without permission and that the bricks have long been public domain. Funwhole, Cobi, Mega, etc also have their own unique pieces.I feel better, if anything, buying from these smaller companies than Lego, who often comes across as a greedy and manipulative bully.
I like this set. Easy to display when there is not that much room. On the other hand if one wants to have a bigger one, thus set provides a great starting point for a wonderful MOC (which I'm planning to do when i get mine 😊)
I agree that the house looks disappointing, however I can see where the problem is. This is a set that has a certain price tag. However, to get a nice build, it would have to be bigger, which would result possibly in a couple hundred dollar set. But I agree that when this version tries to bring a big exterior (that ends up being a facade) also with some interior (that ends up being a big bunch of nothing, because there is not enough space), the end result is a disaster.
This is one of those sets that I’m glad exists as an entry in the series. Like there needed to be at least one attempt at this set, but the execution just fell flat. I love the idea of an 18+ collectors level set for this location, I imagine that could’ve mimicked the size & aesthetic of the old haunted house set
One of my least favorite things to hear RUclips-ers say has gotta be “I wish it was more expensive so it could be bigger.” $150 is plenty expensive already.
I wish these Harry Potter sets were more than just a skinny flat wall with not much behind, it lacks depth - still happy they made it tho, great review❗️
Would be nice if they made an enhancement to make it more like a modular building, with more depth and a fold open build. Could easibly be a generic add on, aimed to enhace other buildings as well.
I think this is the best scale and price to do this set at. Most people can’t handle all these $250+ sets. This way it looks nice and features the key rooms. We don’t see enough of Malfoy manner for a bigger set as we only really see the dungeon and the dining hall. Any smaller and it would look sad, any bigger and it would be too much for the content of the set. Would I like a deeper build: sure. But for this locations, $150 feels like a good price.
You say this is a kids' product, but it's rated 10+ so actually fairly high for LEGO; and it doesn't seem to have that many play features either. So I'd say it's a bit lacking even from that angle, especially for this price.
Get well soon Tiago. Thanks for sharing this video with us, this thing is wild. Too expensive to be a kids set, to much a playset to cater for the adult Potterheads that want it for years. Too much parts for being a thin play facade. Too much moldpoints on the one by one tiles on the corners. This build should have been budgeted between €100 and €110, coming in around 1500 pieces with sidewalls and a roof to at least have half the house.., so less details and griebling and more usefull bricks for kids to experiment with MOC-ing of their own. I know inflation, jadajadajada, i also know the competition doing those kind of deals as standard.(Even on IP) Maybe €120 because of the lot of minifigures.
The painting on the right I believe was one of the many paintings on the wall in Hogwarts by the grand staircase in the films. But it is included in this set because a lot of the background paintings in the films are just wizard parodies of real paintings putting the people in wizard clothes, and I believe the woman in the painting on the right is Bess of Hardwick who was the owner of the building they used to film the Malfoy manor scenes: Hardwick hall. edit: also the I believe the real Hardwick hall also doesn't have doors onto that balcony because the windows are that big, so you would just go through the windows to get to it. Also a lot of the real house was just made big and extravagant to brag about her wealth, so the balcony most likely wasn't built for use but to show off the fact that she could have a balcony.
Statue gargoyle pieces are new with the Wednesday set, and glad to see in another set, hoping for dark bluish gray and black someday though. It does meet my expectations set for it when I saw it wasn't going to be deep. However I do wish we got more and a deeper set with a few more rooms, But even a Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets was under $1000 pieces and seemed to have a bit more going for it in terms of rooms. Like the outside look, Almost think Lego would do well with Multiple sets for things. You have your base sets, each with play features, maybe a few Smaller sets here with various scenes. And then if you buy all 4 sets, and some 200-300 extra pieces on PAB, they supply instructions to make it into a UCS set. Thus allowing it to serve both markets.
I think this looks great for a $150 kids’ playset of a location that we only see a couple of times in the saga. Kids (and adults with small budgets) need their HP sets too; not everything has to be a giant detailed D2C set, and there’s nothing that says that they can’t make one later down the line like they did with the burrow.
Agreed. This set is more geared towards kids with the way it is. Even says 10+ on the box. There are plenty of 18+ harry potter sets so I don't know why everyone is complaining. Not everything has to be an adult Lego set with thousands and thousands of pieces
Yes, it could be more impressive, but also, unfortunately, for twice the price. In terms of Lego, smaller means better seem to be emerging theme lately. Happy holidays and New Year to you!😊
In the end, all that matters is that the kids love it, as you are right, it'sa kids product with a kids price. Adults can pay hundreds more for a better build if they want it.
The colour choice for the front is way too bright. Not sure if swapping out the green accents for grey pieces would work but I am willing to give it a try. Definitely need an 18+ set for this. We’ve waited a long time for this and it’s fallen way short. Thanks for a great review❤
The problem with making this bigger is it would easily turn out in the 3K+ pieces, so going in the 300 to 400 euro range. Would anyone other than hardcore fans spend that amount of money on a location which hardly appears in the movie in its entirety? I guess they could make some detailed models of the more significant rooms seen in the movie (dungeon and corridor, and the dining room) like done for Hogwarts, but a bigger and more expensive full build of the house would hardly sell
Not a fan of Harry Potter, but loving the tiny daemon statues (the pedant in me feels the need to point out that they are not gargoyles, which are part of drainage system, but grotesques, which are creepy statues).
Hi Thiago, I was thinking about buying a new harry potter lego set but I'm unsure what to take, the great hall or this one. Which one would reccomend ? Thanks
I dont think this delivers value for money when you consider how much play this is likely to get when compared to how much play a similarly priced set will get. Im peraonally just disappointed because i live within 20 minutes of the real life location where this was filmed and had planned to mod it to appear like that location (Hardwick Hall)
It absolutely would be nice if this product was bigger and more expensive and one of three sets that combined to make a massive display piece. Hell, I'd pre-order an official expansion kit for the Viking Village set tomorrow if Lego ever made one. I need a boat, and I need a field and some regular houses with a lavatory or two for the entire thing to feel properly immersive. But that's the kind of cuts to the scope of the project that Lego designers have to make in order to make their products widely accessible.
1:35 Damn the molding points are really thick and unpleasant to look at The set is overpriced and disappointing, not even the figs are good. Glad Im not into Harry Potter that much.
I do like the set but it does have limitations- many that you discussed. Glad that you mentioned the front as being a little too colourful- just too many of those green pieces. I could not figure out at first what it was that I didn’t like - might have preferred grey 🤷♀️ or just less green. Trying to decide if we should wait for a deal on this one or at least a good gwp however it does appear to be one of the most popular sets in this wave so there may s that. Regardless will modify it, especially making it wider etc
@sheriffbuzz8654 well, as many of the expensive sets that's a given... It all depends on how cool it is and how well it's done. But that's not what I was saying either, I just thought a big set would be awesome.
Lego is only getting more expensive and keeps leaning into the big luxury adult collectible sets. Supposedly they have a $1000 Death Star coming out this year. I've been buying way more sets from competing brands now because you get so much more bang for your buck, and the quality is just as good or better these days.
In 2024/25, Lego products have crossed the line into corporate profit mechanisms that toilet references are no longer appropriate. There’s nothing funny or joyous about what Lego offer for the amount they’re asking, so no more toilet humor either please.
I really don't understand the complaints. This is a Malof Manor playset, and it's extremely complete and detailed for that. I am truly impressed and think fans are really acting entitled here.
Also, anyone isn't realizing this set has 1600 pieces. Imagine what many more pieces would be required to build a more deep manor with the same level of detail, and thus, the price it would turn.
@@azarishiba2559if Lego keeps fiddling headlight bricks and one by one tiles together to build the same (often unnecessary/not pretty) cornerdetail everywhere, piececount becomes inflated very fast. I am oldstyle ‘90’s Lego fan, I like bricks and buildings and about half the detail Lego puts in every nook and cranny today. Minimum average brickweight for the entire set should be comparable to two by one brick at the very least and maximum price per piece about 7 cents (euro). (I have build competition brands with quality in bricks and design for less then that).
With all the adult HP fans, sets like this get oftentimes reviewed in the wrong way. As you said it is for kids. Not adults. For them it probably is a nice play set that is also pretty big, and therefor pretty cool. Never cared for the theme myself, but people need to stop treating kid sets as if they are made for adults
The set has a problem: yes it has play features and looks to be a playset but it is priced out of kids range. So how can’t you not look at it like an adult, since they do have the money to buy it and also are the ones asking Lego to bring this set for years. Maybe grandparents will splurge and gift it to kids, or maybe once a year kids have savings to get something this big, all other sets will be bought by adult Potterheads.
@bertbergers9171 i disagree. Look at what a city train costs. Look at what tjhe big friends buildings cost. This price point has been there for kids sets for many years.
I wish Lego would take a stance on the author and drop this line. Failing that, I wish the Lego community would stop giving it attention. You can argue the separation of author and work for dead authors, but alive ones? There will be kids who will find her ongoing public musings as a result of both HP in general and Lego specifically. You support HP, you end up supporting her, whether you want to or not.
What about people who doesn't give a duck about authors stance and just enjoy the franchise. Seeing as all the HP stuff sells well I would say we are majority... so democracy wins. 😅
Another of my fav creators who seems to be ill with a cold.
Yeah, not the best of times!
Tis the season. 🙁
I can’t help but think this set is “what the fans THOUGHT they wanted” … until it came out.
I kinda like that
It’s not that people didn’t want this, they just wanted more of it. Because some people are just never satisfied.
@@OkayYaraman you’re right, but for a certain price, you should be allowed to expect more.
@ What do you mean? This already has a pretty good price to piece ratio for a licensed set as pointed out in the review.
@@OkayYaraman sure. But it’s not a great price to piece ratio in my personal opinion.
3:43 The Snake flooring is actually the “dark mark” symbol to show that people are death eaters and affiliated with Voldermort.
You know it’s a good day when you get to watch a review from Tiago
I should be in bed though... But thanks! :P
@@TiagoCatarinoget well soon
I completely agree with you; the set definitely has exciting scope to be an 18+ set in the future, with proper, full sized rooms. Also, I believe that logo under the table is the Dark Mark used by Death Eaters!
It is!
Love your reviews, just wanted to say I appreciate your thorough captions! Much more helpful than the autogenerated ones.
Hey Tiago! I have been watching your channel for a while, and I continue to be impressed by the consistent production quality and informative reviews. You are far and away the best lego reviewer on RUclips and lego should honestly be paying you a ton for every review. I have purchased multiple sets on your recommendation.
Personally, if it was bigger (and more expensive), I wouldn’t be here for it. As it is now, it’s definitely big enough in my opinion, and though the interior does look really thin, it still seems like a fairly good playspace for the figures it comes with. Not quite as exciting as Grimmauld place, but I’m definitely excited for this one! Much more so than for any of the other HP January sets.
The price of 150 bucks is quite expensive for kinds and the build is too basic for adults. I am not sure who LEGO is targeting, but this set will definitely go on clearance.
it gives me old lego sets - 2008-2012 vibe and this set is made to play with it not to put on the shelf with milions of details and thousands of euros, really nice :D
I discovered this channel a couple of months and youve very quickly become one of the only channels on youtube where I watch your videos as soon as they come out
I dont understand how unfinished set can cost that much.
HOW there is no PLAYSPACE in HOUSE SET?????
I'm a fan of the set. As an adult with an adult income, even I'm starting to get priced out of all these ultra premium sets Lego keeps churning out. It's nice to see a decent on that many more people can afford, that still looks nice enough to display.
I'm sure Lego has done a ton of market research to maximize their profit and I am sure that their business model makes sense, but some times I find myself thinking: Who can afford these? When I was a kid I got small to medium sized sets some times as gifts from my parents. I couldn't even imagine my own parents at the time spending $200-250 on a Lego set for THEMSELVES (adjusted for inflation, 300-400 today). I think the prices are alright for what you get, It's more about how the large sets are locked into that price range. God forbid they make $50-150 sets that prioritize detail over size.
The best thing to do at this point is to try the competing brands. A number of them now have quality as good as or better then Lego but are often much cheaper. You can get a set from Funwhole, for example, with integrated lights and all prints for 1/2 to 1/3 the cost of Lego. Bricks are the same quality.
@@SO-ym3zs Don't you think it's criminal that Funwholes molds are a 1:1 of Legos designs? It's theft. There is clearly some legal loophole, so it technically isn't theft, I know, but it's not moral. Lego as a company also has an outward face, but with Funwhole you have no idea what their policies are. The stuff they make is priced like Temu Lego, so it's only fair to assume that its sweatshop labor. They are based in China. They also ship worldwide within 48 h, which means a cut to someone's paycheck. I'd rather rest easy that my hobby didn't contribute to Chinese workers breathing in plastic fumes and slaving away just so I can have my toy. I know this sounds harsh, but truth often is.
@@SO-ym3zs I agree, as a lifetime Lego-er, I long ago discovered Cobi and have expanded into Funwhole and Pantasy. All beginning to challenge Lego quality and Cobi has always better display pieces.
@an8790 Lego produces in China and is certainly no saint in any regard. We also have little if any idea how they pay or treat their workers or partners. We don't know that anyone is using sweatshop labor. For all we know, Lego is vastly overcharging for their products. The profits they declare in their financial statements tend to give that credence. And recall that Lego lifted their whole concept from another company without permission and that the bricks have long been public domain. Funwhole, Cobi, Mega, etc also have their own unique pieces.I feel better, if anything, buying from these smaller companies than Lego, who often comes across as a greedy and manipulative bully.
I like this set. Easy to display when there is not that much room. On the other hand if one wants to have a bigger one, thus set provides a great starting point for a wonderful MOC (which I'm planning to do when i get mine 😊)
when you do a review of the Diagon Alley micro scale please put side by side with Hogwarts Castle 71043🙏
That's the plan!
Thanks for the honest review and get welk soon!
Hope you're not sick, Tiago! Thanks for the video!
I am!
@TiagoCatarino too bad! Get some rest away from blue screens :)
I hope it will end up being done again as an 18+ set cause I think it’s really disappointing in look & size! Thanks for the review 👍🏼
You and me both!
I agree that the house looks disappointing, however I can see where the problem is. This is a set that has a certain price tag. However, to get a nice build, it would have to be bigger, which would result possibly in a couple hundred dollar set. But I agree that when this version tries to bring a big exterior (that ends up being a facade) also with some interior (that ends up being a big bunch of nothing, because there is not enough space), the end result is a disaster.
This is one of those sets that I’m glad exists as an entry in the series. Like there needed to be at least one attempt at this set, but the execution just fell flat. I love the idea of an 18+ collectors level set for this location, I imagine that could’ve mimicked the size & aesthetic of the old haunted house set
One of my least favorite things to hear RUclips-ers say has gotta be “I wish it was more expensive so it could be bigger.” $150 is plenty expensive already.
I wish these Harry Potter sets were more than just a skinny flat wall with not much behind, it lacks depth - still happy they made it tho, great review❗️
Would be nice if they made an enhancement to make it more like a modular building, with more depth and a fold open build. Could easibly be a generic add on, aimed to enhace other buildings as well.
I think this is the best scale and price to do this set at. Most people can’t handle all these $250+ sets. This way it looks nice and features the key rooms. We don’t see enough of Malfoy manner for a bigger set as we only really see the dungeon and the dining hall. Any smaller and it would look sad, any bigger and it would be too much for the content of the set. Would I like a deeper build: sure. But for this locations, $150 feels like a good price.
Lego is very generous with harry potter mini figs. If this was star wars, you would get 3 minifigs 🤣
It's fascinating what Lego gets away with.
Fun fact in the film this is based off of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire UK. Although slightly changed in CGI
I did not know that! That is a fun fact!
I imagine Lego bumped up the play feature because they were afraid the set wouldn't sell enough units on name and look alone.
You say this is a kids' product, but it's rated 10+ so actually fairly high for LEGO; and it doesn't seem to have that many play features either. So I'd say it's a bit lacking even from that angle, especially for this price.
Get well soon Tiago. Thanks for sharing this video with us, this thing is wild. Too expensive to be a kids set, to much a playset to cater for the adult Potterheads that want it for years. Too much parts for being a thin play facade. Too much moldpoints on the one by one tiles on the corners.
This build should have been budgeted between €100 and €110, coming in around 1500 pieces with sidewalls and a roof to at least have half the house.., so less details and griebling and more usefull bricks for kids to experiment with MOC-ing of their own.
I know inflation, jadajadajada, i also know the competition doing those kind of deals as standard.(Even on IP)
Maybe €120 because of the lot of minifigures.
The painting on the right I believe was one of the many paintings on the wall in Hogwarts by the grand staircase in the films. But it is included in this set because a lot of the background paintings in the films are just wizard parodies of real paintings putting the people in wizard clothes, and I believe the woman in the painting on the right is Bess of Hardwick who was the owner of the building they used to film the Malfoy manor scenes: Hardwick hall.
edit: also the I believe the real Hardwick hall also doesn't have doors onto that balcony because the windows are that big, so you would just go through the windows to get to it. Also a lot of the real house was just made big and extravagant to brag about her wealth, so the balcony most likely wasn't built for use but to show off the fact that she could have a balcony.
As a 90s kid, I wouldn’t have even looked at this set “for kids”. Creating something like that is disrespecting them.
Not a Harry Potter person, but will definitely get this for our Halloween display!
Luv ur vids ❤
I love your videos and still awaiting your review on the x-mansion!
He who must not be named mini figure! Nice!
Hey man, are you okay? Your voice sounds more raspy then usual. Keep your health up, and i hope you have a speedy recovery.
I am not! Thanks for asking though! :)
@@TiagoCatarino Get well soon!
Statue gargoyle pieces are new with the Wednesday set, and glad to see in another set, hoping for dark bluish gray and black someday though.
It does meet my expectations set for it when I saw it wasn't going to be deep. However I do wish we got more and a deeper set with a few more rooms, But even a Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets was under $1000 pieces and seemed to have a bit more going for it in terms of rooms.
Like the outside look, Almost think Lego would do well with Multiple sets for things. You have your base sets, each with play features, maybe a few Smaller sets here with various scenes. And then if you buy all 4 sets, and some 200-300 extra pieces on PAB, they supply instructions to make it into a UCS set. Thus allowing it to serve both markets.
cracking review. i wish they gave voldemort his cape back
I think the 'snake' at 3:39 is the death eater logo :-)
Hope you get better soon!
I think this looks great for a $150 kids’ playset of a location that we only see a couple of times in the saga. Kids (and adults with small budgets) need their HP sets too; not everything has to be a giant detailed D2C set, and there’s nothing that says that they can’t make one later down the line like they did with the burrow.
Agreed. This set is more geared towards kids with the way it is. Even says 10+ on the box. There are plenty of 18+ harry potter sets so I don't know why everyone is complaining. Not everything has to be an adult Lego set with thousands and thousands of pieces
Why does Lego don’t think that we the adults that grow up with the movies need a whole build and not just the front of the building!!!!
Looks like new batman Wayne manor could put on top of the bat shadow box awseome review 👍
Cool idea!
Yes, it could be more impressive, but also, unfortunately, for twice the price. In terms of Lego, smaller means better seem to be emerging theme lately. Happy holidays and New Year to you!😊
It feels like unless you're looking specifically for the minifigures, that money would be better spent expanding out the Hogwarts Castle set instead.
In the end, all that matters is that the kids love it, as you are right, it'sa kids product with a kids price. Adults can pay hundreds more for a better build if they want it.
The colour choice for the front is way too bright. Not sure if swapping out the green accents for grey pieces would work but I am willing to give it a try. Definitely need an 18+ set for this. We’ve waited a long time for this and it’s fallen way short. Thanks for a great review❤
Never understood those lose gates in some sets.
The problem with making this bigger is it would easily turn out in the 3K+ pieces, so going in the 300 to 400 euro range. Would anyone other than hardcore fans spend that amount of money on a location which hardly appears in the movie in its entirety? I guess they could make some detailed models of the more significant rooms seen in the movie (dungeon and corridor, and the dining room) like done for Hogwarts, but a bigger and more expensive full build of the house would hardly sell
If they made a more full interior there wouldn’t be anyone willing to buy the collectors edition in a few years though! 😂
Only thing we need is DH Ron that’s not a polyjuice
Not a fan of Harry Potter, but loving the tiny daemon statues (the pedant in me feels the need to point out that they are not gargoyles, which are part of drainage system, but grotesques, which are creepy statues).
hope you get better soon!
Hi Thiago, I was thinking about buying a new harry potter lego set but I'm unsure what to take, the great hall or this one. Which one would reccomend ? Thanks
I dont think this delivers value for money when you consider how much play this is likely to get when compared to how much play a similarly priced set will get.
Im peraonally just disappointed because i live within 20 minutes of the real life location where this was filmed and had planned to mod it to appear like that location (Hardwick Hall)
With all its sprue marks, Lego now looks like a unpainted Revell set from the 90s. Creepy.
Quality keeps dropping while prices keep rising 😞 At this point most of my sets are from other brands that have better prices and quality control.
I am not a big fan of the facades when it comes to Lego buildings, but I do understand
I just showed my little harry potter fan this set, and it was a big thumbs down! Ouch.
Is diagon ally coming next?🤞🏽🤞🏽🤞🏽
It absolutely would be nice if this product was bigger and more expensive and one of three sets that combined to make a massive display piece. Hell, I'd pre-order an official expansion kit for the Viking Village set tomorrow if Lego ever made one. I need a boat, and I need a field and some regular houses with a lavatory or two for the entire thing to feel properly immersive.
But that's the kind of cuts to the scope of the project that Lego designers have to make in order to make their products widely accessible.
1:35 Damn the molding points are really thick and unpleasant to look at
The set is overpriced and disappointing, not even the figs are good. Glad Im not into Harry Potter that much.
I do like the set but it does have limitations- many that you discussed. Glad that you mentioned the front as being a little too colourful- just too many of those green pieces. I could not figure out at first what it was that I didn’t like - might have preferred grey 🤷♀️ or just less green.
Trying to decide if we should wait for a deal on this one or at least a good gwp however it does appear to be one of the most popular sets in this wave so there may s that.
Regardless will modify it, especially making it wider etc
4500-4800 pieces for a proper house would be awesome!
Nobody would pay 400-450 for it then....Not many at least
@sheriffbuzz8654 well, as many of the expensive sets that's a given... It all depends on how cool it is and how well it's done. But that's not what I was saying either, I just thought a big set would be awesome.
nagini not having dark eyes is weird
The set is so "meh" that it made Tiago sick :(
(I'm sorry, I can't help snickering at the image of angry Draco climbing into bed or onto the toilet)
oh damn i thought it looked boring untill you turned the set arround now its just insulting (unless its cheap)
It’s seems to be a great set for kids. Nothing wrong with that, I guess.
The best thing about this set is just the mini figures. Not going to spend this much on just mini figures.
to be fair, malfoy manor was always kinda "not there" for me and this sounds a bit like scraping down of the barrel on the IP.
Get well soon!
I think we reeeeallly don’t need anymore gigantic “adult” sets. This is what lego is about, playsets in my opinion. This should’ve been even cheaper
Lego is only getting more expensive and keeps leaning into the big luxury adult collectible sets. Supposedly they have a $1000 Death Star coming out this year. I've been buying way more sets from competing brands now because you get so much more bang for your buck, and the quality is just as good or better these days.
The outside is great……from the front, but tilt it slightly and well then things fall…………flat.
Malfoy manor is nowhere near as important as the Burrow hehe
Yet another great review though :)
I think the stairs can rotate to make it easier for kids to play in the lower sections.
Why is the hair yellow and does Voldy have legs? :(
Yay Dobby!!
Wormtail and his silver Hand are missing. 😢
In 2024/25, Lego products have crossed the line into corporate profit mechanisms that toilet references are no longer appropriate. There’s nothing funny or joyous about what Lego offer for the amount they’re asking, so no more toilet humor either please.
The gargoyles are from one of the Wednesday sets. The facade is disappointing. I miss 4-sided castles etc
150€ is a good price for a facade?
I really don't understand the complaints. This is a Malof Manor playset, and it's extremely complete and detailed for that. I am truly impressed and think fans are really acting entitled here.
Also, anyone isn't realizing this set has 1600 pieces. Imagine what many more pieces would be required to build a more deep manor with the same level of detail, and thus, the price it would turn.
@@azarishiba2559if Lego keeps fiddling headlight bricks and one by one tiles together to build the same (often unnecessary/not pretty) cornerdetail everywhere, piececount becomes inflated very fast.
I am oldstyle ‘90’s Lego fan, I like bricks and buildings and about half the detail Lego puts in every nook and cranny today.
Minimum average brickweight for the entire set should be comparable to two by one brick at the very least and maximum price per piece about 7 cents (euro). (I have build competition brands with quality in bricks and design for less then that).
We are acting €150 entitled.
Agreed.
This deserved to be a modular compatible set like what Lego does for Marvel buildings like the Sanctum Sanctorum
I really don't understand why LEGO keep making half of the house rather than a complete one.
This one is not even "half" of a house though.
Should be made like the Home Alone house
Get well soon! 🤒
Manor? It is just a facade of a manor for a lot of money, sorry that is not it.😢
Man has lego declined. Never seen such a pitiful set. Should have made it into a multi set connection into one big set
sloopy design, missed opportunity to have a good set, easy pass
Pass
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Is everything ok? Your voice sounds soar
I’m sick!
@ very sorry to hear that, hope you get better soon
With all the adult HP fans, sets like this get oftentimes reviewed in the wrong way. As you said it is for kids. Not adults. For them it probably is a nice play set that is also pretty big, and therefor pretty cool. Never cared for the theme myself, but people need to stop treating kid sets as if they are made for adults
The set has a problem: yes it has play features and looks to be a playset but it is priced out of kids range.
So how can’t you not look at it like an adult, since they do have the money to buy it and also are the ones asking Lego to bring this set for years.
Maybe grandparents will splurge and gift it to kids, or maybe once a year kids have savings to get something this big, all other sets will be bought by adult Potterheads.
@bertbergers9171 i disagree. Look at what a city train costs. Look at what tjhe big friends buildings cost. This price point has been there for kids sets for many years.
I wouldn’t have touched this set as a kid. We love Lego because it used to be great. Not anymore.
@@BrickTemplar so you arebjust watching videos online instead?
Are you ok? Your voice sound.. different
I’m sick!
Have you got a cold or something???
What gave it away?! 🤒
I wish Lego would take a stance on the author and drop this line. Failing that, I wish the Lego community would stop giving it attention. You can argue the separation of author and work for dead authors, but alive ones? There will be kids who will find her ongoing public musings as a result of both HP in general and Lego specifically. You support HP, you end up supporting her, whether you want to or not.
What about people who doesn't give a duck about authors stance and just enjoy the franchise. Seeing as all the HP stuff sells well I would say we are majority... so democracy wins. 😅
I don't agree.
lol.
What exactly did she say that upset you?
@@randomnickify yeah
Oooh xx
what is this weird auto sync lol
I noticed that you used “🙏” in your sentence. Keep going, your hopes will be answered, you’re very strong, you can get through this.
This is sickening. What the hell is this? A facade???
It’s a kids toy
…yes? Were you expecting something like a modular?
It looks like a scam tbh. And what about all the small parts and details on the front? It does not match with “kids toy”
Barely
@@borgusio If you want it bigger, build it bigger. It's Lego, you know. ;)
Weak!