This may be the best hogwarts castle I've seen. Also nice that it comes with a minifigure, unlike captain America's shield.

Edit:the shield does have one,nevermind

A lot of really small pieces. Looks good and doesn't take up that much space, $170 still.

More affordable, great for displaying (never could do that with mine) and it looks great.
And sadly I won't buy it because I allready have a display version and chamber of secrets

Ouch, that's a painful price. I'm going to have to get this one, but I'll be wincing...

It looks fantastic at that scale and there are so many details for the fans ! I love it.

I love this set. 71043 is one of my favorite LEGO models but it's only half the castle. I'm very impressed with the details on this new micro-scale version! I never expected interior areas or an awesome exclusive minifigure with a new mold to boot. Can't wait to pick this up!

You don't have to be Professor Trelawney to see many stickers in our collective future. This set basically is the poster child for the dreaded sticker menace!

@dimc said:
"Very nice. Now please make these for LOTR locations, or choose that Ideas map of Middle Earth!
I would totally buy Hobbiton/Bag End, Edoras, Lothlorien, Rivendell (in small form), Minas Tirith, and the Black Gate. Even better if you make them all into bookends. "

Lego is willing to make more LOTR sets,it saw a leak for the tower with the eye of sauron

I wonder what it is on the right side of the underground chamber of secrets..?

Would be nice to have Hagrids hut, quidditch field and a little bit of the for bidden forest too

It’s nice, but seems lacking. Something about it I don’t like. Trying to put my finger on what’s bothering me.

Spinach-flavored ice cream, and moldy fries…

I'd probably get this if I collected micro scale. Maybe if it shows up for a good discount at Costco.

@Potters said:
"I wonder what it is on the right side of the underground chamber of secrets "

I think it could be the Devil’s Snare and flying key rooms from the route to the Philosopher’s Stone.

Taking ideas from Mould King set 22004 to add Hagri's Hut, Quidditch field, Clock Tower and courtyard , Owlery and the forbidden forest

@PurpleDave said:
"Spinach-flavored ice cream, and moldy fries…"

I understood that joke!

The thumbnail had me fooled, I expected it to be quite a bit larger. But still, for the size it seems done extremely well, with many nice details. I do have a hard time seeing €170 of value here, despite the parts count and resulting ppp.

Looks cool, thanks for the reveal.

This looks to be exactly what we needed. I already have the larger micro version and while it looks awesome, it is too gigantic to really put on display. This is more manageable and the price looks decent too. So I'll likely have to try to grab it at some point.

I really wish we'd standardize price to weight ratio. $0.06 per piece sounds great, but that's a lot of really small pieces..

Blimey, an almost universal positive reaction to a set. And a Harry Potter one, at that.

Is that a new tile we can see in the top down view as the grey path between two 1/4 round 1x1 tiles? Diagonal 2x2 with fillets for the 1/4 1x1s

Edit Ah, I see they appeared in HP Banner sets in March.

@PastaDish said:
"I really love it when Lego sets come with bases, makes them feel much more complete than they'd feel otherwise. "

Shhh, quiet, or you’ll rile up the “price-per-stuff” crowd!

Who's the minifig? I can't say I recognise him.

I'm not surprised they did this. There are a lot of similar builds on the MOC sites and I'm assuming that 30435 did well for them.

@eth6113 said:
"I really wish we'd standardize price to weight ratio. $0.06 per piece sounds great, but that's a lot of really small pieces.. "

Price per weight is a great idea, but generally the weight is unknown, isn't it?

I really like this idea. I just wish it wasn't Harry Potter.

@TheOriginalSimonB said:
" @Potters said:
"I wonder what it is on the right side of the underground chamber of secrets "

I think it could be the Devil’s Snare and flying key rooms from the route to the Philosopher’s Stone."

From the Chamber of Secrets, moving right, I see the vertical shaft with the Devil’s Snare, leading to the columns in the flying key room, then the Wizard’s Chess, and ending at the Mirror of Erised. On the other side of the next wall, I’m thinking that’s the Slytherin Common Room.

@ozbrickcreator:
It’s the architect of Hogwarts Castle. We already got a gold minifig of him in the first HPAC, so it would have been nice to see a normal version like they did for the House founders. On the other hand, this version is printed and has a new beard element.

A few years ago I would have bought this on day one. :sigh:

I know price/piece isn't an exact measure, but 2600 pieces in a nicely detailed full landscaped, easter-egg laden HP model for $170usd is a nice fair price.
Def. on the list for me. Not day one, but eventually.

I already have the big one and a ton of modular builds to make another. Why more castle I wonder? So much more in the Harry world that would be awesome.

This rendition of the 'Executor' I can affor... Oh, frak!

Good first impression and great minifigure.

Second thoughts:
- I think it does miss some tower.
- Being reasonable and comparing to other architecture sets: it should cost 150€.
- They could make box one side HP and one side Architecture theme it would raise sales.
- Are these stickers or not?

Water tiles always look nice. If the decorations are prints it’s tempting…

I like this version of the castle, I will not buy it but it is a great show piece. Well done TLG.

I was about to complain "didn't we just get a microscale D2C Hogwarts" but the previous one was in 2018!? Man the time flies...

BRB just crying myself to sleep over the lack of any Architecture sets thus far this year.

Cuz it looks great! Wouldn't ever buy it as I don't care about HP, but oh boy it'd be cool if they gave the same treatment to some real-world castles.

@Graupensuppe said:
"It's still not the whole castle... The entire clock tower and clock tower courtyard are missing."

Isn't that it on the left side of the build?

@PurpleDave said:
"..., I’m thinking that’s the Slytherin Common Room."

I was thinking Potions classroom, but you could be right; hard to see in the pictures.

@Dare_Wreck said:
" @Graupensuppe said:
"It's still not the whole castle... The entire clock tower and clock tower courtyard are missing."

Isn't that it on the left side of the build?"

Nope, OP is right; there should be another section containing the clock tower and courtyard connected to the hospital wing, leading to the wooden bridge that goes to Hagrids hut (at least from film 3 onwards); also missing: the owlery, quiddich pitch and Hh, plus a bit of Forbidden Forest would have been nice.

Just saying there's mostly 'castle' and not a lot of 'grounds' to this set...
But what's in a name, right?

Pity, but I don't dare to think what the price might have been with those included!
May have to make an expansion to this... someday.

I also like how references to many of the films are included, even though this makes for a bit of mix and match and I haven't found a reference for all of them (yet?)

Pretty sure those are all prints and no stickers in this set whatsoever,
but don't quote me on that.

Also wondering what's the purpose of the four studs on the frame of the base...

@YanVanLan:
I was only looking at it from the wide shot, but looking at the closeup I'm not so sure about that being Slytherin Common Room. While the architecture, placement, and "furnishings" seem like they'd work, the walls were not covered in racks of bottles and jars. The floor layout and placement of the room don't seem to match the potions classroom either. The problem is, I'm struggling to think of any other room we saw that was located in the basement. Hufflepuff Common Room was never shown on screen, so that's doubtful.

As for the overall layout, I know the artist who produced the matte painting used to show the overall castle for the first movie was not happy with his work, and did an entirely new painting for the second film. The Whomping Willow placement seems to match Year 4 (as do the ship and carriage), but the presence of the car is Year 2. The standing stones and the covered bridge were added in Year 3 as needed for plot, but the standing stones were missing in the final film. The physical exteriors in the first film are varied in every aspect, because they didn't have the budget to actually build any of them, so used several different real castles to film those scenes. After eight films, four directors, and all the known changes, I don't think it's possible to point to any definitive layout, though there are certainly key features that one would expect to find.

This is super cool!!! I’m not even a Harry Potter fan and I think this looks epic.

The printed 1x1 bricks in the potions room seem to be among the most detailed/small printed parts in recent memory, especially for multiple colors