Review : LEGO Harry Potter 75946 Hungarian Horntail Triwizard Challenge

Today we are quickly interested in the LEGO Harry Potter set 75946 Hungarian Horntail Triwizard Challenge (265 pieces - 34.99 €), a small box which in theory allows us to reproduce some scenes from the first trial of the Triwizard Tournament seen in the film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

With 265 pieces in the box, it's obviously minimum service with a mini-tent, a somewhat rickety Pointed Magyar and four characters delivered in their tournament outfits: Harry Potter, Fleur Delacour, Cedric Diggory and Viktor Krum.

In terms of spikes, the LEGO version dragon does not have many and not really in the places needed to come up with a convincing minifigure. The Magyar offered here by LEGO is also more of the robotic creature with an eagle's head and bat wings than anything else. The choice of colors for the Spiked Magyar also seems questionable to me: the dragon is in my opinion more beige than dark brown in the film. In the Legends of Chima range, it goes, here in a derivative that claims to reproduce a scene from a movie, it is much less convincing.

If we try to see the bright side of things, this little dragon is pretty well articulated and can take a lot of poses. Unfortunately, a few horns and the tip of the tail regularly detach from the construction, which will quickly annoy those who try to have fun with the contents of this box.

The land on which the scene in question takes place boils down here to a mini-rock with the golden egg placed on the construction. A few sparks to brighten up the whole thing and that's it.

Although it is not specified on the box, you can clip the accessory of the racing broom used by Harry on the mini-boulder for a slightly more dynamic setting. The effect is nice on the corner of a shelf.

If you were looking for a golden egg to put it in the Prefect's Bathroom in the set 75948 Hogwarts Clocktower, so there is one in this set. I am a little disappointed by the finish of this accessory, some patterns on the shell, without necessarily trying to reproduce in detail the accessory from the film, would have helped to put it a little more in value.

The tent delivered in this box is also a very symbolic representation of the plush barnum seen on the screen. It will be difficult to reproduce the many scenes taking place inside, LEGO having filled the entire available space with a bed and some furniture. The emblems of the three competing schools are obviously stickers, which I also find very successful.

I'm not sure this garden shed-like tent is essential in this box. The few coins saved here could have been used to flesh out the rickety dragon a bit and create a much larger rocky outcrop that Harry could have hidden behind.

No joke, this set is first and foremost a box with four pretty minifigs and a few pieces around it and we therefore find the participants of the Triwizard Tournament in their competition outfits.

Overall, these four figures are quite successful. On closer inspection, as usual, the few details are missing that would make these minifigs perfect interpretations of the characters seen in the film.

LEGO obviously still does not know how to pad print elements on the entire spine of the arms, the designers therefore skipped the yellow bands present on the sleeves and hood of Harry Potter.

The name of the character appears well on the back of the minifigure, but in a much darker tone than on Cédric Diggory's minifigure. The designer will undoubtedly have wanted to coordinate the color of the name and the star, which has nothing to do there if the minifigure does not yet wear the black cape, with that of the arms.

The star on Harry's back is in fact only present on the cape worn by the character when he comes out in the arena and in the film, the word POTTER is a much brighter red than that of the sleeves of the hoodie worn by the character in the tent scenes. The torso of the minifigure is therefore here a priori a mixture of the two outfits seen on the screen.

Fleur Delacour's outfit almost matches that of the film. The design of the torso is very faithful with a magnificent emblem of the school of Beauxbatons on the back, but the jacket and the bib seems to me to be more white / gray on the screen than beige. That being said, the blue pad-printed color on the beige chest is perfectly matched with the arms and legs tinted in the mass.

Cedric Diggory is the only one here to have a "tunic" effect via General Hux's legs but he also lacks the yellow bands on the sleeves. The connection between the pattern of the torso and that of the legs is correct but there is still a little something that bothers me in the visual continuity between the two elements.

Viktor Krum is on his side almost perfect with his beautiful torso even if he still has his hair too trimmed to be convincing. In the film, the tunic he wears goes down much lower at the level of the legs but we will do with it.

With minifigs being the major draw of the set for many fans, the rough finish of some of them is still a bit of a letdown in my opinion. To attract collectors, LEGO declines many outfits seen more or less briefly in the various films of the saga but does not always do so completely.

I'm not fooled, the vast majority of minifig collectors will be content with what LEGO offers, the important thing for these collectors is to accumulate as many different versions of each character as possible.

In summary, this small set, whose role is above all to occupy an intermediate slot in a series of boxes at staggered prices to make them accessible to all budgets, will undoubtedly not pass to posterity.

It's a bit like the LEGO Star Wars range: by dint of trying to wring out every scene from each film to make it a derivative product, commercial policy requires, some scenes end up in boxes whose content is really too approximate and symbolic. to make them indispensable. In my opinion, it is advisable to wait until the price of it drops to around € 25 before investing.

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