LEGO Harry Potter Build Your Own Adventure

Bought as a Christmas present last year, Grandson number three absolutely loved it, and kept him amused for ages. The book is the usual excellent quality that you'd expect from Dorling Kindersley, which slots nicely into a presentation box with the Lego pieces. There's two different small models to build with the Lego included, a Magical Fireplace and a Sorting Hat Spinner, with only enough pieces to build one at a time, so it encourages children to strip down a model and rebuild it into something else. There's also plenty of ideas in the book, with pictures included, to inspire children to build their own Harry Potter models (but be aware that the additional Lego pieces will have to be purchased separately).

Great value, good figures included!

This book was purchased for my 6 year old Lego and Harry Potter mad daughter. The book is really well executed and has given my daughter some great ideas for her own Lego builds. She also loved the sorting hat build included with the book. The book really is good, the main issue is that although the book is great and has some awesome builds, we don't have the right bricks to build the ideas. If we want to recreate them we'll have to buy more bricks from Lego and spend more money. Hence 4 stars, but for the price this is a great gift idea for Lego and Harry Potter fans.

I have not yet seen this product out of the box as I is a Christmas present for my great-granddaughter. It looks exactly the type of this she would like being a fan of Lego and Harry Potter.

Bought as a present my daughter spent hours with it, the Harry Potter theme made it extra special

EXCELLENT VALUE FOR THE MONEY

Not used yet but comes with lots of bits and ideas to get you started.

This sounds like I can not make up my mind whether to like or dislike the book. But, it is simple. The designs in the book (i.e. ideas) are very nice, and will help the creative juices flowing to make a Harry Potter MOC (My Own Creation). However, if you give this to a child, the odds are they don't readily have the pieces needed to build these creations lying around. The colours and kind of bricks are often quite specialised. It is OK to go with the advice "just use what you have got", but 9 out of 10 times that will look rather lame. So children can often only watch what they could do, but not actually do. OK, a grown-up can help and perhaps order some pieces in. If you are not that into LEGO you will scratch your head as to what the pieces are called, what unique (order) numbers they have got etc. And that is the weird thing. I would have expected a parts list at the back of the book, like you get when you buy a LEGO set. But no. I managed in the end to source quite a few bricks for the little one through LEGO GB and Brick Owl, but it took a while to puzzle it all out. We greatly enjoy the creations, but the book could have provide a bit info and practical help.....like a said, for the average child, who enjoys building every now and then, it will end up on the shelf with pictures of things they perhaps could make.

Cogimos una oferta y aunque es en inglés es muy fácil de entender para los niños de ahora. El montaje de lego mola mucho, es como un altillo del sombrero seleccionador y en la parte de abajo tiene las 4 casas para jugar a ver cuál toca. Nos ha gustado mucho!

Should have bought 2. I will have to get one for my niece - she's a big Potter fan.

厚表紙の冊子1冊、101パーツ、ミニフィグ1体(Harry Potter)。 ハリーポッターの世界観を再現するレゴ付のファンブック的な一冊。レゴから製品として発売されているさまざまなセットとはまた別の、世界観をレゴで再現して楽しむためのアイディアが多数収録されています。非常に巧みで情景を見事に表した設計のデザインが50以上用意されており、絵本として楽しむのはもちろん、建物の造形を自分で考えて作る人には、またとないヒントブックになるはずです。 付録として用意されているレゴのセットは全部で101パーツ。このタイプでは珍しく、クリエイターシリーズのように2種類の造形のうち1つを選んで作る事ができます。組分け帽子の回転盤の情景と仕掛け壁のある暖炉、少ないパーツで造形を選択可能できるようにしたのは驚きです。 回転盤に使われる紋章や本の内部ページのパーツはすべてプリントタイル。シール貼りではありません。これだけでも魅力的な本に違いありません。

Amazing

I'm both an AFOL (Adult Fan of Lego) and a big fan of all things Harry Potter. The book and the included set absolutely tickled me. All the builds featured in the book are based on the first Harry Potter book/movie: (Philosopher's)Sorcerer's Stone Table of Contents: The beginning of the book includes some background on Harry Potter, Hogwarts and basic info on Lego bricks. The back of the book includes step-by-step instructions for the included 2-in-1 lego set. Chapter 1 - The Muggle World Privet Drive (Dursley house facade, lamp post, planter & bird bath/fountain) At the Zoo (python display w/ removable glass, small animal enclosures) Harry's Bedroom (cupboard under the stairs) Mail delivery (fireplace that spills envelope tiles) Island Hideout (shack with breakout door) Chapter 2 - The Wizarding World Diagon Alley (secret entrance & ice cream parlor) Gringotts Bank (bank cart & tunnel) In the vaults (ornate vault door) Ollivander's shop (wand shelves & storefront) Chapter 3 - Welcome to Hogwarts Hogwarts Castle (castle door & moving staircase) Sorting Ceremony (House Points hourglasses & House crest flags) Teachers' table (long table, Dumbledore's chair & lectern) Common room (Fat Lady portrait, sofa, wizard chess table, minifig Gryffindor bust) Dormitory (four-poster beds & storage cabinet) Chapter 4 - Life at Hogwarts Potions class (tables & shelves of bottles, etc) Flying Lessons (simple gazebo w/ minifig statue, small stone bridge, small watchtower turret) Library Visit (ornate window frame, interesting bookshelves) Halloween Feast (simple tables, windowed wall facade with 'floating' pumpkins) Chapter 5 - Magical Adventures Forbidden Forest (brick-built trees and paths) Troll Attack (brick-built troll, bathroom sink & toilet stall) Facing Fluffy (brick-built 3 headed dog) Devil's Snare (snare plant w/ trap door & mini plants) Wizard Chess (Chessboard, rocking Knight piece, Queen piece, articulated pawn w/ swords) Pros: The printed house crest tiles are gorgeous. Currently, apart from this set, the tiles can only be found in the Lego Harry Potter 2019 Advent Calendar (75964). Similarly, the Sorting Hat element is only found in the Hogwarts Great Hall Set (75954). Though there's always the option to buy them second-hand/from a third-party on sites like Bricklink, eBay or similar. The 101 pc 2-in-1 design Lego set included allows fans to create a Sorting Hat spinner to sort Minifigures into their houses, OR a fireplace with a turning center to make Minifigures "disappear" - great for Floo travel! Many wonderful ideas presented in the book: I want to build them all! It also gave me ideas to design MOCs (my own creations). Exploded sections of some builds and notes about techniques or bricks used are frequently presented. An intermediate to advanced Lego fan should be comfortable attempting them. Cons: There are only enough pieces in the set to create one design or the other; you cannot create both designs at once. Some might find this to be a con. No step by step instructions for builds beyond the 2-in1 set that comes with the book. The builds are inspiring but the minimal instruction presented is likely to disappoint or frustrate younger or inexperienced Lego fans. Many builds presented use parts outside the current HP line or even beyond what's available in Lego Classic brick sets. It can be very frustrating or limiting for young and burgeoning Lego fans who don't have access to or haven't discovered the resources to obtain such parts. Pro tip: the Bricklink, Brickset, and Rebrickable websites are fantastic resources for Lego fans to expand their sets and knowledge. Thoughts: It would be extremely helpful if the book included an appendix with an inventory of part numbers for the various Lego bricks and elements appearing throughout the book. I found a number of parts I'd never encountered before and had a difficult time trying to figure out what they were. I've been using a free Lego design program by Bricklink called Studio 2.0 to recreate the builds in the book. This has helped me identify parts I don't recognize, price and locate parts to build the models, and create step-by-step instructions for them. Occasionally, the program didn't have a specific part represented (which goes to show how rare those pieces really are because Studio's catalog of Lego parts is vast). However, I've been able to substitute or work around those pieces so far. The program even allows you to render a realistic image of your build (see photo) In my opinion, the Studio program is user-friendly enough that kids 6-8+ could learn to use it with the assistance of an adult or older kid. It allows one to create virtual lego builds, render 3D images of them, create step-by-step build instructions, parts lists, and provides part prices and build costs. I highly recommend it for any Lego fan looking to design their own creations. It's become indispensable to me in recreating all the builds in this book. All in all, I love this book and the included Lego set. As an intermediate AFOL (at best), the book taught me some new techniques and challenged me to learn more, plus inspired me to expand my inventory and create custom designs of my own.