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(More customer reviews)This is probably one of the most tightly designed Lego sets I've come across. It manages to convey the essence of Hogwarts well within one set, so if you can only buy one Harry Potter Lego product, this would be the one.
It has classroom areas that seem to represent Potions, Divination and Transfiguration, has an owlery, and most importantly, does justice to Gryffindor tower.
It also has a very cool feature: the carefully designed mechanical clock tower. After winding up the wind-up motor, a pendulum swings back and forth in the entry area while simultaneously a portcullis-like gate rises to allow entry into the castle. The one hitch is that once the gate is raised as far as it can, the pendulum can no longer swing until you've dropped the gate to allow it to continue. Also the question comes to mind as how Hogwarts can run efficiently with the poor students having to dodge around the pendulum every time they want to leave or exit.
Another cool feature are the moving staircases, which come much closer to the stairs in the movie that the previous set.
There is also a nice little trap door that can be activated if Draco Malfoy gets a bit too obnoxious.
Finally, the Gryffindor tower area is very well done, with beds for Harry and Ron and a desk below. The one difficulty here is that the Fat Lady portrait is set up to only represent the period after the attack by Sirius Black, so it's a little awkward if you want to play with parts of the plot that happened before that event.
The dementors are really well done--wonderfully creepy.
My main dismay is that Lego has decided to change the skin color of the minifigures to an attempt at flesh tone, rather than the previous yellow. This makes it difficult for those of us who have previous sets and wish to use figures such as Professor McGonagall (yellow) with Professor Lupin (pale peach).
Still, if your imagination can get around all the cylindrical bumps on every surface, I suppose you should be able to rise above this as well. :-)
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