Harry Potter 'hogwarts Castle' Collection: Best Harry Potter Lego Set So Far

It seems like it's not possible to be a popular film persona nowadays and not have your very own Lego doppelganger. Harry Potter is regarded as the best-selling book series of all time and it is the most profitable movie franchise of them all, and consequently it was purely a matter of time before Lego wanted a slice of the cake. This, needless to say, manifested, and they've up to this point come up with a large assortment of Harry Potter Lego products.

The most up-to-date, and moreover best, Harry Potter Lego set is known as 'Hogwarts Castle'. It comes about around the tumultuous days of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, when Voldemort assaults the wizarding school, and Harry, Ron, Hermione and the rest of the kids are required to safeguard it while fighting He Who Must Not Be Named and his stooges. Hogwarts Castle Lego collection is sold with Harry himself (it wouldn't constitute much of a package without him, would it?), Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Draco Malfoy, Professor Dumbledore, Professor Trelawney and a couple of dementors. Lego have really stepped up in making Hogwarts Castle their best collection so far: for starters the package contains a gigantic 1290 pieces and includes 11 figures among them for the very first time He Who Must Not Be Named. And the attention to detail accuracy is absolutely amazing. Lego seem to have labored to ensure everything in this great new package is precisely like the Castle in the books and movies. Therefore even the greatest Harry Potter fans won't be unhappy.

Moreover if you want, you may add in extra characters to the mix such as Professor Snape, Professor McGonagall, Professor Flitwick, Mrs. Norris, Argus Filch and additional Dementors for more breathtaking chases requiring the very difficult 'Patronus Charm' to correctly fight them away.

It's surprising how similar the Lego Castle is in comparison with the Hogwarts Castle we have long known both in the books in addition to the motion pictures. The Lego version even has the clock tower and the swinging pendulum, the Gryffindor Tower, and also secret rooms that even Harry has never ventured in. It is so tremendously finely detailed that both dedicated fans and non-fans can enjoy it. You'll even get access to Professor Dumbledore's office including its sliding staircase.

With the eighth and last chapter of the Harry Potter film series out now and destroying box office records everywhere, the series is more popular than ever before. Considering the seismic status of the Potter series - a series displaying no evidence of losing steam - the Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle set will turn out to be enormously successful - it's been superbly crafted, and despite there being 1290 pieces overall, 8-14 year old kids will have no problem in assembling it. Then again you should free up significant space for building the castle, and with lots of tiny pieces you'll also have to look out for little children and animals or you could end up losing some bits!

So there it is - the Hogwarts Castle collection. The largest and finest set ever.