Review : LEGO Harry Potter 76447 Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lessons

Today we quickly take a look at the contents of the LEGO Harry Potter set 76447 Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lessons, a box of 651 pieces available since January 1, 2025 at the public price of €79,99.

As you already know, this product is a new extension of the umpteenth reboot of Hogwarts in a LEGO playset version and the manufacturer even promises us that the construction composed of modules already marketed and to come will be "the most detailed produced to date". It will of course be necessary to go back to the checkout multiple times to be able to afford all the walls and scenes to integrate into the promised diorama.

For this time, we therefore obtain a section of Hogwarts Castle which contains the Quidditch equipment room, the Transfiguration classroom, Professor McGonagall's office and the trophy room. The compact tower which makes you wonder where our €80 is can be deployed to have fun with it, but even spread out in its entirety, the construction with its basic finish struggles a little to justify its price.

We will especially remember the "modular" side of the thing with the possibility of removing two interior sections to replace them with something else like for example the classroom of the spells course of the set 76442 Hogwarts Castle: Charms Class (€19,99). It's a good idea, even if you have to choose between the modules, and this feature allows LEGO to multiply the small boxes at €20 while still having the alibi of being able to really integrate them into the overall diorama.

For the rest, the set is still very basic and only the most assiduous fans will see it as a playset that allows you to replay a Quidditch lesson. Many fans have the ambition to collect the entirety of this new version of the playset inaugurated by the reference 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall (€199,99) with the aim of obtaining an imposing exhibition model on a minifig scale, we don't know how many will still be motivated at the end of the project knowing that LEGO will not fail to reboot the concept once again. At this stage, you must already acquire the products below to start obtaining the complete diorama:

We will console ourselves for this time with McGonagall's micro-office, the "room" grouping together the equipment necessary for learning Quidditch, the class of the Transfiguration course with its really very basic benches as well as a "room" of particularly symbolic trophies. For those who are interested, the collection of 14 portraits in the form of Tiles Collectible pad printed continues in 2025 with two copies delivered in this box.

Everything is here summarized in its simplest expression, it had to fit in the tower. Those who will exhibit the product without ever touching it again will have on hand some transparent rods to put the students in flight position, it's always something. At this stage we cannot speak of real playability, the proposal will not exceed two minutes to make the students fly on next to their respective brooms.

In short, nothing to get up at night if you take this product out of context. As part of the overall project to obtain "the most detailed version to date" of Hogwarts, the tower is not essential, it is not designed to be connected to the rest. Unless LEGO one day comes up with a Quidditch pitch to place between the buildings.

On the minifig side, the set is a bit shy here even if we get a nice version of Madam Hooch (Bibine) with a very successful double face. McGonagall lacks pad printing on the skirt, Oliver Wood (Dubois) is frankly generic despite an unpublished torso but so banal that we will probably find him elsewhere until we are thirsty.

The three students logically in first year version with short and fixed legs, (Harry Potter, Neville Longbottom and Draco Malfoy) are equipped with pieces already seen many times in the Harry Potter range. We feel once again the desire to limit costs with neutral legs for everyone.

It is obvious here that LEGO is once again capitalizing on the collection effect linked to the possibility of one day obtaining a big luxury playset for spoiled children, there is little effort on some of the dissociated elements of the range and whatever the level of the proposal, it will be necessary with it if we really want to complete the diorama. This relative trapping of fans will be perceived differently depending on the degree of affinity with the license, the most assiduous will be as always the most indulgent.

LEGO has also flooded the Amazon Testers Club with free products to ensure a positive rating and boost sales of this box that is too expensive for what it really has to offer, so we need to keep the pressure on everyone who is on their way to the full diorama, even with the least charismatic products. In any case, we will at least wait to be able to buy this box for much less than its retail price elsewhere than at LEGO.

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LEGO Harry Potter 76447 Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lessons

79.99 € 67.99 €

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