Review : LEGO Harry Potter 76443 Hagrid & Harry's Motorcycle Ride

Today we take a very quick look at the contents of the LEGO Harry Potter set. 76443 Hagrid & Harry's Motorcycle Ride, a box of 617 pieces available from LEGO since January 1, 2025 at the public price of €49,99 and logically sold for a little less elsewhere.

I might as well tell you right away, I'm not very enthusiastic about this proposal, even if I welcome the risk-taking, the exercise being complicated. The scale of the whole is a priori determined by the wheels of the motorcycle and the designer tried to build the rest while respecting the proportions of the two characters staged here.

Why not, except that the faces of Hagrid and Harry Potter suffer precisely from the imposed scale and are reduced in one case to a pile of pieces which struggle to embody Hagrid's face and in the other to a simple pad-printed piece which should in principle embody Harry Potter's face.

In both cases, I think it's far too symbolic or confusing to convince. The bias in the construction of Hagrid's head could possibly pass for an exercise in artistic style that everyone would be free to appreciate, but Harry Potter's face is so minimalistic that it detracts from the overall appearance of the product.

On the pad printing side, LEGO could have taken the trouble to pad print the outline of Hagrid's glasses, just to limit the damage and to embellish a face that lacks a little personality and Harry has no mouth. It was almost enough for the young student's face to be more detailed to make the pill easier to swallow.

For the rest, the bike is convincing with its product look that could come from the LEGO Creator universe and the machine offers a few entertaining minutes during its construction. The most assiduous fans may find in this set an exhibition product that pays homage to the saga, but we feel the wringing of the Harry Potter universe until thirst is no longer there, even if it means taking risks by dealing with a franchise in which vehicles, one of the chestnuts of LEGO production, are not legion.

This product stands out at least for its originality, it is already almost an achievement for a range that is starting to go round in circles on the same subjects and we cannot blame LEGO for its desire to renew itself and to try to seduce with new and sometimes surprising proposals outside the classics that must be kept in the catalog like Hogwarts or Diagon Alley.

Was it really necessary to stage Hagrid and Harry in this way with an approach that was both a bit crude but also minimalist? Nothing is less certain. LEGO obviously knew that the product was likely to have trouble finding its audience, the manufacturer for example flooded the "Testers Club"Amazon free boxes to ensure a wave of positive comments and a convincing rating.

If you like this set, patience should allow you to get it at a very competitive price in the coming months. It will inevitably end up in clearance somewhere, that's the fate of these boxes with divisive content that only attract a fraction of the usual clientele, no matter how passionate they are about the universe in question.

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