LEGO Harry Potter 76405 HOGWARTS EXPRESS Review! (2022) 

The “We can’t have figures from different movies in a set” people been real quiet since this dropped

I love how even in a Lego Harry Potter set review, he mentions the UCS Gunship! 😂 Love the review Ryan! Great work!

I like how Universal managed to replicate Hogwarts Express by turning a people mover system into one and having it be a park-hopper service to connect Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure between USF's Diagon Alley and IOA's Hogsmeade. And they put screens on the windows to make you believe you're on your own new journey rather than see the backstage facilities. They did it so brilliantly. The Universal Creative team is truly phenomenal. That aside, for an expensive set, wish it was motorized

The viaduct the Hogwarts Express goes over in the movies is the Glenfinnan Viaduct on the West Highland Line. While you can't ride it on the Hogwarts Express, you CAN ride it on The Jacobite which is a train that looks similar to it. The service runs between Fort William and Mallaig.

I know it’s all about the train but I do wish the station was bigger There’s only one reason why they added them random 2 characters

When they include two random students but not adult Ron and Hermione…

$500 collector's item still has stickers instead of the designs being printed on. Well done, Lego

we know exactly why they chose those last two characters.

I really wish they had made this more minifig scale, like in the range of the Disney train, and made an actual full train with 2-3 more cars.

I'm just amazed that the train is guage 1 and could basically be on the same par with the Thomas The Tank Engine prop models

Loving how your uploading more often again 🔥🔥🔥

Great review. Thank you!

Love this review man

The passenger car build is amazing! Reminds me of the Lionel State Set from the 1920s and 30s. (which is roughly the same size as this build and runs on a similar gauge of track) I wish the cab of the engine had more of an interior, but the crank-powered drive wheels is a nice touch. If you really wanted to run this on track, you could get some G gauge track from Bachmann or LGB

The locomotive actually fits on proper model train gauge one track, and the scale is also pretty close to proper gauge one trains which is a nice touch.

They needed muh diversity instead of the, you know, the actual characters on the movie

Just noticed that on the display plaque there’s a type. Should be King’s Cross, not King Cross

I don't get why people hate the random Hogwart students so much. With LEGO's logic, they can just double as old Ron and Hermione.

I actually was curious as to the highest numbered bag you found, so thank you

I don’t watch Harry Potter but god do I love trains so I’m vibing with it

I bought this yesterday and haven't opened it yet. But I hope they have changed the sticker for the plaque with the right spelling of King's Cross Station. I don't mind another couple of student's robes for Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, but an adult Hermione and Ron would be much better.

„Its a lego star wars kind of decision right there“ got me chuckling 😂

askmandr: what is your opinion on the exclusive purple/gold lego millennium falcon

When MandNproductions said, "And he does have a normal looking face on his backside." My mind went scary places.

I can’t get past how he put PoA Hermione with PS Ron and Harry lol

Suprising how 2 times there is controversy over 2 minifigures for collector’s sets.

Nice Lego train!

You can easily replace the batteries in the light bricks that’s why there’s a screw to take off to separate the brick it even shows how to do it in every manual of sets that come with them.

I just thought of so many locomotive designs I thought wasn’t going to be possible to build but with this new set I’ve got ideas 1 the French l’aigle 9ft driving wheel locomotive 2 the hurricane 10ft driving wheel locomotive 3 persons 9 ft driving wheel locomotive 4 thuile 8 ft driving wheel locomotive 5 the camden and anboy crampton locomotive with 8 ft driving wheels 6 the Ajax locomotive

Another thing: good point about the front and back wheel not turning. I douct you have done something wrong. I think it has to do with the way Lego works. see it as a large baseplate, which curls up when you start building on it. Since the size is long and relatively small, it seem to me, the same happens in here: the front and back bend upwards a bit, so the wheels dont touch the floor.

As someone who dosen't watch harry potter, I would only buy this because it's a cool train

i might be buying this ser when they holidays arrive, great review

Hey MandRproductions, I really like this new of the Hogwarts Express from Lego. By the way, the vehicle in the front is called a locomotive not a train. A train is actually the coaches or freight wagons behind the coal bunker or tender of the locomotive. The class of the locomotive from Lego is called a Hall class. The Hall class used to work on the Great Western Railway and they were designed by Charles Collett. This particular locomotive is called Olton Hall and it was the exact locomotive used in all of the Harry Potter movies. Olton Hall is currently on static display at Warner Brothers studio tour in London although, there are rumors about Olton Hall going to be removed from the studio tour when lease on Olton Hall is expired.

13:02 I could watch this forever

I would love to see a MOC of this being extended

So how long does it take you to record something like this?

So are you going to drop test this set?

I'm surprised that they went for the older Harry with his kids for the set in the first place. There are a lot of important things that happen on the train during the first 6 years. The scene with Harry's kids at the end is such a small and unimportant scene to the overall story (unless you're a fan of The Cursed Child...which I am not). They could have depicted a lot of other things that happened on the train and skipped Harry's kids at the very end of the last book after the story is over. For sure they should have included Ron and Hermione and their kids if they were going to go that route though.

$500 is far too much, mainly because there's so much unnecessary fluff added to it to pad it. The platform like you mentioned, which you didn't point out has errors, namely the wrong type of train (GWR 5900 doesn't exist) and the typo on the station. It's called "King's Cross", not "King Cross", which is poor on a set that costs this much. Then that train track base which takes up 10% of the total piece count and could've knocked like another 100 off the price. If it was just the train for £200/$250, then yeah maybe; but as it is, it's needlessly overbudgeted.

I’d like to get a variant of with the engine in a Great Western Railway livery heck we could even get a Pannier tank as well

Yeah, I want it, but WHERE DO I PUT IT

I wonder if it was a diversity thing with the two random minifigs 🤔

Hey Ryan what is your odds the new Mandalorian trailer

Hey Ryan, you know the brickworld Chicago Lego contest that you put on?Just wondered if you’re still planning to post the video!

Why would they include some random noname characters instead of, idk, maybe grown up Hermione, Ron, Malfoy at least? Especially in such an expensive set. In some other sets they included some characters who didn't say a single word in the movie and weren't present in the book, but at least they have their names and were seen in the movie.

Why was there no promotional free gift with purchase (GWP) set for the most expensive Harry Potter set so far? This is where Lego dropped the ball. It was the perfect situation to include a free limited mini set with adult Ron & Heroine, maybe also their kids, which would add to the station platform scene. I went to buy this set on release day and even the Lego store staff were surprised there was no GWP. I didn't buy as there was no GWP to justify the large cost, $800 here in Australia. I'll have to wait and see if the price drops anywhere first or use up all my VIP points and get it at half price.

Unless they changed the design of the light bricks you can change the batteries

not too much into harry potter but i saw that model built in my store in hamburg. I think it´s awesome, can do with a rabate of 100 euro

That's a lot of money. Nice T-Shirt BTW

I got this and the star destroyer in box. My mil falcon is half done and there is no place for them in the my display shelve 😢

"You can't really replace the batteries in light bricks" - Really? I have been replacing them for years and have never had issues with doing so.

I'm a big Harry Potter Fan but Idk If I should buy this set 😅.

Bro give us 4K HDR colour graded video 🔥🔥

This looks really good I can’t wait to get it, though not for a bit yet.

Will you be at Disney springs on the 24th of September

They could’ve just removed the 3rd film Ron and Hermonie and replaced them with the student figures then gave us the adult versions that we will never get a better chance of getting again (unless the do a series 3 CMF)

I just want the engine!!!

Didn't mention that there is a mis-print on the plaque. It says King Cross not King's Cross

13:10 has me dying

what i don't understand is how the bonus ticket pieces is printed but the same piece can't be printed on more expensive star wars sets

I'm not a big Harry Potter fan (did like the movies though) but I am a train fan, and for most part I do very much like what I see. But obvious problem is, I don't care one bit for that platform and all of the minifigs, which represent a big chuck of the price tag. A price tag that to me already seems pretty steep, especially considering so many essential decorations were done with stickers. And as you've proven here in this video, even for experienced builders those are still quite easy to mess up. If I'm being generous I see a €250 train, €150 stuff for HP fans and a €100 markup for the next Ferrari of the CEO. I wouldn't mind Lego making more trains in this scale though. Pure display models, not meant for play. I still feel that was the big problem with the Crocodile, it tried to be both and ultimately had some pretty major flaws for either purpose. But a set based on an actual train, in this bigger scale with all of the detail? And obviously prints instead of stickers? I wouldn't mind spending quite a bit of money on that....

cool train

they included them because they needed to have some black caracthers in the set... as easy as that

What sets are the plain clone trooper phase 1 and 2 in?

I hate how Lego decides to put the extra long rods for the drive pistons so they still poke out of the steam chambers they really could’ve given us a smaller rod and covered up the front at least

Uuh, actually Ryan, that 'frog' is a toad. his name is Trevor and he undergoes a deep and transformative character arc.

Since the train can’t even move on the tracks, I would have just not included the tracks. That’s probably another $100-$150 of cost. And then the $100-$150 for the station. $500-($300 or $200)=$200 or $300 for just a big detailed train and I think that would sell much better.

Can't wait for the madlads that'll use this set to recreate the entirety of Platform 9¾™ in minifig-scale

When we getting the Pirates of the Caribbean Review Series?

Looks really good, but don't have enough space for it! :(

The new hogwarts express looks like a moc

11:48 blue lights?

I wish they included a better variety of characters instead of doing different year versions of the main cast. Having 4 Harrys seems absurd when most Lego Harry Potter fans already have each year's version. I think I may actually have more Harrys than clone troopers.

for how long is the set availeble ? ( sorry for my bad spelling i'm from belgium )

Wow

Cool

Epic

Ryan: old Harry, Ron and Hermione Meanwhile: *they’re 37 years old.

I don't like how it's not in scale with normal Lego trains, should've been smaller with more station and more train cars.

So we don’t want the black characters?

When he mentioned one thing ruining a set for people, I got flashbacks to Diagon Alley...

Lego prices are absolutely ridicuolous right now. Honestly, I don't know if they've risen in price or not, but to me it's depressingly expensive for even small sets. $70 for Mando's naboo starfighter? Come on man.

i just hope noone makes the random figs a race thing

Coool

Wait wait wait, did you say ”blue lights” at 11:48? I only see yellow lights

For me it’s the best size for lego trains

MandR, where did you get your shelves cause I’ve been struggling to find some to hold all mine, what are the dimensions of them?

Honestly with the minifig issue I kinda understand why they did that because if you included Ron and hermione you should include their kid/s it’s been awhile see I’ve read that part

I think the 2 random throw in figs were just to have added diversity and that they were obligated to have it in the set. Either way they could have given us the older Ron & Hermione. Inexcusable imo. Hard pass.

No deathly hallows Ron and Hermoine due to D I V E R S I T Y

I think that they add the two random minifigs because they need to add different colors of people and they are trying to include other people like how they have girl minifigs in almost every set now. But great set and amazing review.

Lego added those characters for black representation.

I can't get my wheels to move for the life of me!! I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Anyone know?

the random charakters are the two set designers as far as I know, that makes it lessrandom but even more upsetting to me. also there is a misspelling on the plate: it says king cross. and I think they should have inclueded a function to show the way one entres 9 3/4 through the wall…. for me all that makes the set quite disappointing

Old Ron and Old Hermione will appear in another cheaper set along with reprints of Harry Ginny and their children

amezing

11:47 Blue?

Wish lego would make more of this stuff for star wars we need more mbs

I think 24 figs would also be no problem with 500$

I don't care how big it is, I Need this. The only issue is I don't $500 to spare....