More images of Harry Potter Hogwarts Crests Art set
Posted by Huw,
LEGO has provided more information and pictures of 31201 Harry Potter Hogwarts Crests that will be released on 1st January:
Are you ready to celebrate your favourite Hogwarts house? Spend focused time building 1 of 4 different crests or collect all 4 sets to make the ultimate Hogwarts crest. The included Soundtrack enhances your experience and immerses you deeper into the project as you create the art piece. Once the build is complete, add the exclusive Harry Potter logo tile and proudly display your allegiance!
You'll find a picture of the combined crest made using four copies of the set and costing $480 after the break.
Our review will be posted in the next few days and stay tuned for more information on the other new Art set later today.
An immersive soundtrack can also give fans a behind the scenes peek into the Wizarding World as experts talk more about Hogwarts and the different houses, helping them to switch off and explore their love of Harry Potter as they build. The soundtrack includes stories of those close to the Wizarding World including:
- Eduardo Lima, Graphic Designer for the Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts films
- Alan Gilmore, Creative Director for the Harry Potter films
- Pierre Bohanna, Head Prop Maker for the Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts films
- Kitt Kossmann, LEGO Designer
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It's honestly cool, but again, I'm not really that interested.
The combined one looks so much better than the individual ones.
Looking forward to the review
The 4 combined looks a lot better and more colourful than the single sets! Especially the yellow looks like yellow there not like pearl gold in the Hufflepuff one :S
The large one looks cool. Depends on the kind of discount whether I am going to get four or not.
Not so fussed on the individual pictures, but the combo looks amazing!
Am I the only one who thinks the grey and white checkerboard pattern looks like the transparent background pattern in Photoshop?
It makes them feel unfinished to me - especially the combined crest where that's what draws my eye.
The combined crest is a lot more colourful, although I would change the Ravenclaw eagle to gold.
For the individual houses, I am not sure which will be the most maddening round black studs on black, large grey or single coloured areas, followed by repeated checker pattern or strips.
Just not sure if anyone will be spending $120 to $480 on this when there are so many Harry Potter sets to buy first with this money.
I have no interest in Harry Potter, but these look really cool.
^^ You mean the Ravenclaw Raven...
That seems to be a major bugbear with this set, that Warner have insisted that a raven be used rather than an eagle: "The animal used in the crest is an eagle which represents intelligence and wisdom; it 'soars where others cannot climb'" according to the books.
It has nothing to do with the house name: presumably Warner thought moviegoers would question why it was an eagle and not a raven, so they changed it.
@mscott71 They kind of remind me of old Windows 95 icons.
This inspires me to do a custom art series of classic Castle crests, kind of like the Game of Bricks T-shirt (https://images.brickset.com/news/Game%20of%20Bricks.png). Of course, I would use Light Bley 48x48 baseplates instead of the 16x16 technic bricks that LEGO has made for the Art series to keep costs down, but I think it would look just as cool.
Easy pass. That looks way too crude to be appealing.
I think the fact that they've tried to combine all four crests into one set has meant each individual crest has far too much grey, presumably to avoid providing loads of coloured spares you won't use. Unfortunately I think that makes them look dull, as they don't pop enough.
While the inclusion of the raven is not entirely surprising because that is common across Warner Bros. merchandise, even though I think it should be an eagle, this Hogwarts crest appears to be unique. That has always displayed an eagle beside the other animals, to my knowledge, even when matching merchandise features the raven.
Even though the combined version looks like a proper Hogwarts crest, unlike the separate versions, it's still an easy pass for me. It just doesn't give that wow effect like the Sith and Iron Man mosaics do. Plus it would be way too expensive to buy 4 sets for this.
But glad they put an eagle and not a raven in the large crest like it's supposed to be.
The combo one, as everyone is saying, definitely looks excellent. Not excellent enough to purchase 4, but nice nonetheless
Some HP fan is spending big money on this!
@R0Sch said:
"But glad they put an eagle and not a raven in the large crest like it's supposed to be."
Huh? Looks like a raven in both to me.
"Hogwarts (house) crest," to me, means one or more animals emblazoned on a colorful shield. The individual "crests" look pitiful and underwhelming, but I love the combined one. I wish the individual ones had been done in that style as well... and that it didn't take buying four disappointing products in order to combine into a satisfactory one. I'm going to have to think seriously about whether the large one is personally worth it - and I look forward to Brickset's reviews that will undoubtedly help!
Since all four colors are provided in a single set, is it possible to create a full crest 1/4 of the size (and price) of buying four sets?
The quad mosaic set looks very good. But not for 500 euros.
Maybe a weird question, but I was just wondering: would there be perfectionists wanting to get all the Lego logos on the round plates horizontally aligned?
@Wrecknbuild said:
"Maybe a weird question, but I was just wondering: would there be perfectionists wanting to get all the Lego logos on the round plates horizontally aligned?"
One reason I won't be getting any Lego art with plates. Tiles only for me.
@HandPositions said:
"Since all four colors are provided in a single set, is it possible to create a full crest 1/4 of the size (and price) of buying four sets?"
I really wish that was possible, too, because I like the design of the combined crest a lot. I've been studying the picture for the last half hour, and there's a lot of empty space around the edges... I think it would be possible to buy two of the set and make a 4x4 panel version.
- I don't think the 3x3 (48x48) canvas of a single set would be enough
- I wouldn't want to reduce the scale of the animals too much because (a) pixilation and (b) I like their designs as-is; I would, however, be okay with cropping them more
- The full-size 6x6 has at least one panel of free space around the edges on each side - the animals only take up the center ~4x4 (yes, I counted the studs)
I'm not 100% sure it's possible, but I think it'd be a fun project to try to shrink the shape of the crest around the edges and make a 4x4 version from two sets - whether or not it's possible, I certainly intend to try!
@HandPositions said:
"Since all four colors are provided in a single set, is it possible to create a full crest 1/4 of the size (and price) of buying four sets?"
I'd imagine the resolution would be rough, making such a detailed image into a mosaic wouldn't be a piece of cake
I also like the four combined, though I'm waiting to see someone's MOC that has an eagle for Ravenclaw, which is as it should be.
Aren't the Hufflepuff colors supposed to be yellow and black? Where's the black?
OK, now we're talking. I hate it that I'll have to buy 4 of these to get the decent version but, alas, that's how it'll have to be.
I will be changing it, though. Specially the bottom part of the background that just looks like a .png file that didn't completely render.
I absolutely love these mosaics, but I was also expecting something a little more elaborate for the individual crests. I definitely want to buy four since the combination one is gorgeous, but I don’t love the white and gray negative space, and $480 is quite expensive. Maybe I need to look for these on sale.
They've designed all the art pieces to steer people to buy more to get the better rendered one.
They can't make one just really great, just ok or good enough to tempt you to buy all four.
@yuffie
Totally right. This Harry Potter one really exposes that.
I was examining the others, the Sith one, Maul looks awful/goofy, Ren is just meh and even Vader, compared to the artwork it was based on, simplified and looks purposefully not shaped right to the illustration.
Iron Man too, looking at it again, not bad I admit.
The Beatles, that one goes without saying, if you're a Beatles fan, you'd want all 4 anyways.
Although Paul and maybe John look a little 'off'. Not terrible but something.
The only one that seems to capture the spirit is actually the Warhol one. The bright pop colors.
They're all best at a distance. Tightens them up.
Ooft, Im really torn. Have the Sith and iron man sets, think they're really good. When a harry potter crests one was announced was really excited, but was truly let down upon their reveals. Very disappointing, pretty much monochromatic, silhouette of the animal, block of colour in the corner and a horcrux that shouldn't be on the house crest. And now they reveal the combined model which is beautiful and was exactly what I was hoping for in the first place, but having to get 4 and spend $480 dollars, yeowch I'm not sure I can justify that. Especially now that I've just thought and checked that for comparison you can get 71043 for $400.
Bottom part of the combined one be like: *transparent png*
Actually the raven is considered the most intelligent bird.
So I don't mind it being used for the Ravenclaw's symbol. Looking forward to getting at least of one set.
$800 for the combined crest?
Tell him he’s dreamin’.
cross stitch! that's what it looks like. can we have "bless this house" next?
@mscott71:
This already has the highest piece count of any of the LEGO Art sets as it is, and they burned through a ton of the yellow parts doing the upper background, the Gryffindor lion, the Hufflepuff background, and the background for the "H" (interesting that they chose to use Gryffindor house colors for the Hogwarts "H", when the "H" is usually black on yellow). But crests are like the face cards in a card deck. They all have standardized forms, but every artist is going to put a unique spin on them. If the bottom background bugs you that much, see what leftover parts you've got and come up with something unique. The background outside of the shield is not part of the actual crest anyways.
@Huw:
Honestly, a raven just makes more sense. They are widely recognized as being the smartest bird, capable of working out multiple step puzzles, including the use of tools, to get a piece of food. Nature on PBS did an entire episode dedicated to how clever they are. They also did an episode on eagles, but there was no mention of any above-average intelligence. They're usually regarded for their power and courage. Then again, while Slytherin obvious pairs well with a snake, a griffon is only part lion, and I don't know what would pair well with Hufflepuff. The Big Bad Wolf, maybe?
@CapnRex101:
I just looked through a ton of Hogwarts Crest images. They do get pretty weird. Usually, the Ravenclaw crest could be best identified as a "bird", but the beak is wrong for an eagle while the color is wrong for a raven. Most of them have a yellow bird, but some have yellow with black shading, or black with yellow shading, where it's hard to tell exactly what you're looking at. I did find one instance of a group of house crests with a Hogwarts crest that did switch between raven and eagle, like you said, and I even found one that used a bald eagle, which makes no sense. Hogwarts was founded in the 9th or 10th century, and continuous European awareness of the Americas only dates back to the late 15th century. So, unless Rowena Ravenclaw was prone to magically traveling the world, I'm not sure how she'd even know about bald eagles.
@Wrecknbuild:
I think the last time they announced LEGO Art sets, we were discussing whether there would be any slackers who would just stick them on in random orientations.
@elisewong18:
I guess you're not aware that there's a visible fan-shaped mark on the top surface starting near the pip on the side?
I think it's pretty cool, but I don't buy any Harry Potter stuff any more.