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LEGO Harry Potter 12 Grimmauld Place 76408 Building Toy Set for Kids, Girls, and Boys Ages 8+ (1,083 Pieces)

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Finally, LEGO Harry Potter is venturing to places that the theme has never been to before and, with that, comes sets like 76408 12 Grimmauld Place – new, interesting and wholly unique. There’s nothing to fairly compare the fluid, fantastic motion that this set offers, for how effectively it works, for how accurately it actually looks and, for how strongly it plays all the right notes to Harry Potter fans. As such, LEGO 12 Grimmauld Place is an excellent option to consider but maybe one not to get carried away with particularly if you are looking for short term profits. The back of the box shows 12 Grimmauld Place from the back, with insets that illustrate the appearing/disappearing feature and highlight some of the locations around the interior.

Umbridge's smiling face is so remarkably similar to her previous incarnation, I wonder why they didn't simply use the old head and give Yaxley a new one instead. Seats for four minifigures are provided around this long table, although the space in front of the stove and china cabinet is limited. All-in-all, I am pleased LEGO went to the lengths they did and provided us with all of these new characters to re-enact the Ministry infiltration, despite several bothersome details and the fact that few of them besides Umbridge and Arthur Weasley play that much of a role in the Harry Potter story overall.

Sirius' refined depiction looks great and is among my favourite minifigures from this set, although I wish the printing continued on the sides of his legs. Moving swiftly onto Bag 5 we create the first and second floor of Number 12, the exterior is nicely detailed and the interior has a rather grand piano on the first floor and a rather spooky second floor which has two heads on display!

The prophecy shelving has a decent play feature to simulate knocking it over, but again it's forcing you to play outside of the included room, rather than actually having enough space for minifigures to interact with the room properly. There are numerous details in this room including a fully laden kitchen table, cupboards, and cooker making for a great central point of the house. Grimmauld Place by contrast has a much more varied build, though it too has some repetitive features. Both sets include very details minifigures with heaps of new prints, but Grimmauld Place contains the more important characters of the two, and has fewer flaws in its minifigures' details than the Ministry, even if the flaws I pointed out are minor nitpicks.

Inside, kids can share adventures with Harry Potter, Ron Weasley™, Sirius Black™, Nymphadora Tonks™, Kreacher™, Molly Weasley, Fred Weasley, George Weasley and Kingsley Shacklebolt™.

Inside are bags numbered one through seven (somewhat unusually in a set of this size, there are two bag fives), the instructions, a modest sticker sheet, and a loose long flexible piece that will represent an Extendable Ear. The free LEGO Building Instructions app lets kids view, zoom and rotate the model as they build, providing an amazing sense of immersion and interaction during the construction process. This also originates from The Deathly Hallows, as the heroes listen for news about Death Eater attacks.

Fred and George maintain their unique sets of face prints from their previous appearances in Diagon Alley and the second HP CMF series, and I applaud the detail put into their and Ron's movie-accurate yet basic clothing, along with everyone else's.

The bottoms of all of the moving pieces are also well covered with smooth inverted circle tiles (boat studs), ensuring the building will slide easily on almost any surface.One room contains a basic armchair, while the small piano is inspired by The Deathly Hallows, when Harry, Ron and Hermione take refuge in Grimmauld Place. This elevation also creates space underneath the buildings, accommodating the sliding mechanism that will reveal 12 Grimmauld Place.

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