Another thing you can do to upgrade your Captain Rex figure, if you have the original phase 2 armor, you can replace the new Rex torso with the old Rex torso. Because the old one has more detail and doesn’t feel as clutter and less detail as the old armor.
Most detailed my as.... How is it possible that there is a kitchen inside the Barad Dur tower, that was never desribed, yet in the "MOST DETAILED HOGWARTS" there is no elfs kitchen under the Great hall, the one that was actually written about, and not only, it is widly discussed and expected. Also were is the Haffelpufs common room? Also no table for all the proffesorts? No 4 tables for the students? No transclear roof? I hope someday all this features will be included, so the name of the series will correspond to the real thing. The prices of lego are so high now, the ammount of stickers also. So no excuses for this noncense lego.
To be entirely fair, Barad-Dur is a 460 dollar flagship set, while this 200 dollars. Even for it's price, I think it is a much more complete and better designed set, apart from the weird modular feature making it too big for display and leaving you with excess rooms. I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, nor an expert, but judging from how it looks, how well it is furnished and the whole design style, I would still prefer this over Barad-Dur any day. That is not saying those missing features that you know are supposed to be in here shouldn't be, but at some point they cannot fit all inside the building, or it would be gigantic and unaffordable.
@@pinobluevogel6458 it is gigantic enough to be complete the way they Pretend on the the title. This is what boders me, the title didnt correspond with the context, and lego knows better. T Its just not fair, it is a lie, thats it.
@@henribg1 Okay, I understand. Maybe because I'm not as invested in the source material or the theme, I don't see many faults with it, or care too much about them. I'm sorry the set is not what you had hoped. There are a couple of older ones that look quite interesting too. Or if you like doing so, you could try and remodeling or designing your own Hogwarts in the way you would want it. That is the beauty of Lego.
I'd love to see some videos combining the various sets that go together, like the diagonal alley sets together, the forest sets, and the castle sets to start getting an idea of where they're headed in future
LOL Holly. Me thinks that may be bird droppings not snow on the owlery lol. Hope you’re happy in the US. I am a fellow Aussie who is sad there’s no great HP stores or theme parks here.
I’m looking forward to how the 2024 Advent Calendar works with the Great Hall. I’m also putting together the Forbidden Forest, Aragon, and poly bag Draco set for a nice forest scene behind Hagrid’s Hut. I love that the sets are focusing on earlier films/books, which are my personal favorite.
The 2018-2020 castle is still the best so far. Fairly priced, not excesive, and looked a lot like Hogwarts. The 2021 was ugly and this one is waaay too big...
Actually, the Hufflepuff common room is in the right position underneath the Great Hall. I'm going purely based on the Hogwarts Legacy map, but we haven't seen the Hufflepuff common room entrance anywhere else in the films. So it kind of makes sense and based on the positioning of where it is in the Great Hall set, it's reason to believe that yes, the Hufflepuff Common Room belongs right under there. Now, could they have done a more detailed version of the Common Room? Absolutely. Though I can understand they had a price budget, they didn't want to exceed. So, hopefully, they'll make another common room set that can be slotted in and is more detailed. But as it stands, I'm glad to have it, and I'm going to took out the bathroom because it's supposed to be on the first floor if I'm not mistaken.
I'm surprised I haven't seen people mention it - but I'm pretty sure this new system is turning out to mimic the Hogwarts grounds microscale set that's out right now. Including the durmstang ship and all. I'm hopeful we are finally going to get greenhouses set based on this idea. It seems they are breaking up that microscale model into playscale sets.
I’m hoping they are! I already had the idea in mind that I would replicate the format and details of the microscale, including the trans lake, the wave stand of the Durmstrang, etc.
@@artasticcrafts337 the only other system of castle sets that has tried to replicate the actual look of the in universe castle is the last system - and that one involved a lot of rearranging and taking apart and wasn't a perfect fit
"Disjointed" is indeed the word to describe this castle system, Holly. I feel Harry Potter property right now is hard carried by Atticus and George Gilliat's desire and ability to sit together in a room and create wonderful sets that complement and piggyback off one another. This is exactly what made me get a bunch of Forbidden Forest and Aragog sets and build a most detailed Aragog's Lair yet (c)(tm) out of them. The owlery and the boathouse were made by someone else and you can tell just by looking at them. Small and boring, without fun play features or elaborate clockwork toy-esque contraptions like we saw in George's amazing Grimmauld Place set. And yes, the way the Potions Class was implemented is problematic as well. You end up with a classroom that is way more detailed and elaborate than "side builds" that come with the Great Hall set, so those look bad in comparison. You end up with 3 builds but can only display 2 of them at a time. I feel Lego has been making a lot of this weird decisions that are dictated by number of sets and set prices allocation. Like the Triwizard Arrival set should have been two separate sets and merging them into one resulted in both the ship and the carriage done dirty.
This is probably one of the biggest and most real problems with the Lego hobby. Not just that it is expensive, or the massive amount of sets that come out which is really hard to keep up with. Not even finding a neat and effective way to store lego bricks .. the hardest task is finding enough display space for completed builds. Even if sets have a shape that is not too big and standard (like a 32x32 baseplate), you still need some kind of shelve, table or windowsill to put them. Not everyone has a spare room to use for hobbies like Lego.
Ngl, I can’t wait to get purchase this set. However, I do agree about the part where you said that the set is incomplete. It doesn’t make sense since the Hufflepuff common room gets swapped with the potions class and the common room is left out with no other place to go in the set. They should’ve planned this more and shouldn’t have rushed a tiny bit. I’m thinking about doing an extension to this set to make it complete as well.
I recently got the Astronomy Tower for £22 off. Probably could have waited as it's now on sale on the Lego shop and I have a £20 insiders voucher to use. Fortunately there are other sets I can use it for. Possibly on the boat house or owl house.
This is probably one of the best Hogwarts systems we've gotten in a while. Picturing this as a first for newcomers is also heartwarming because this style of builds serves as a good middle ground for youngsters and adults (play and display, somewhat aligned). If they keep on expanding in a similar way, combined price or random leftover builds might be massive detractors Edit: really happy your new house is coming along! Best of luck with other changes and decorations
I hate that they say being female greatly increases your chances of getting gallstones when in fact it's the contraceptive pills that are what increase your chances. Such a way for the medical industry to cover for big pharma and not take responsibility. This world is so crooked.
I started playing Hogwarts: Legacy about a week and a half ago and I've fallen in love with Harry Potter all over again. It's awesome seeing the LEGO sets and then exploring that area of the castle in-game.
