Designer insight: George Gilliatt
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George Gilliatt wrote this about their work on 76408 12 Grimmauld Place:
My first LEGO Harry Potter set that I worked on as designer! Nico Vas was supposed to design this set, and I was supposed to design 11022 Space Mission for Classic, but we decided to swap products to experience new design challenges :)
FUN FACTS:
- Near the end of the development of this model, I had the opportunity to visit the real filming location for Grimmauld Place in London! No images of the street online showed the chimneys or TV antennas of the building, so I was super pleased that seeing them in real-life allowed me to accurately represent them on this model.
- The minifigures and graphics were designed beautifully by Peter Kjaergaard, who had lots of fun drawing all the tiny faces of the Black family tree, and creating the first ever minifigure version of Kreacher the House Elf!
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Such a cool design.
A good set but without discounts it is expensive. It's a shame that it couldn't be easily obtained outside of the Lego Shop...
Over the past few years Harry Potter has been one of Lego's strongest themes due to the excellent designs and sets like this (and 75968) really do capture England very well in Lego form.
I really enjoyed this build. The mechanism to merge houses is brilliant, and although it's in sticker form - the Black family tree is excellent and adds great detail.
I just bought my 2nd copy, plan to use them as some sort of backdrop for my city.
A great build and fun set. Very distinctive when compared with the dollhouse versions of Hogwarts Castle. Creature is fantastic!
First Kreacher the House Elf... don't recall him wearing dark gray socks in the movie. Aren't unfreed house elves not supposed to have socks?
The above is disappointed sarcasm that he didn't have dual molded legs like the Dobby minifigs. LEGO definitely could have and should have.