I’m looking forward to how the 2024 Advent Calendar works with the Great Hall. I’m also putting together the Forbidden Forest, Aragon, and poly bag Draco set for a nice forest scene behind Hagrid’s Hut. I love that the sets are focusing on earlier films/books, which are my personal favorite.
They need to be on the shelves for quite some time, but yea ... it would be awesome. Technically, if they release a massive death star for an insane price, we can also save up that money over time and buy that huge set, but this sounds much more fun. You can even skip sets that you feel are not great and make your own instead.
This is probably one of the biggest and most real problems with the Lego hobby. Not just that it is expensive, or the massive amount of sets that come out which is really hard to keep up with. Not even finding a neat and effective way to store lego bricks .. the hardest task is finding enough display space for completed builds. Even if sets have a shape that is not too big and standard (like a 32x32 baseplate), you still need some kind of shelve, table or windowsill to put them. Not everyone has a spare room to use for hobbies like Lego.
I'm surprised I haven't seen people mention it - but I'm pretty sure this new system is turning out to mimic the Hogwarts grounds microscale set that's out right now. Including the durmstang ship and all. I'm hopeful we are finally going to get greenhouses set based on this idea. It seems they are breaking up that microscale model into playscale sets.
I’m hoping they are! I already had the idea in mind that I would replicate the format and details of the microscale, including the trans lake, the wave stand of the Durmstrang, etc.
@@artasticcrafts337 the only other system of castle sets that has tried to replicate the actual look of the in universe castle is the last system - and that one involved a lot of rearranging and taking apart and wasn't a perfect fit
So…I don’t think the owlery is covered in snow….but owl droppings 😅 but we TOTALLY need snow covered castle sets!! Do you think we’ll get a new wimping willow or the whole of the castle and grounds?
Ngl, I can’t wait to get purchase this set. However, I do agree about the part where you said that the set is incomplete. It doesn’t make sense since the Hufflepuff common room gets swapped with the potions class and the common room is left out with no other place to go in the set. They should’ve planned this more and shouldn’t have rushed a tiny bit. I’m thinking about doing an extension to this set to make it complete as well.
I really love it. I'm building the Hogwarts Castle right now and I've already got the for the boathouse. I'm thinking I'm going to get the potions classroom next
Oh I wonder if right now we can only switch between the two classrooms? Because when the back that has those four attachment pieces get built, you'll be able to put both classrooms together?
Hello, i am really thinking of getting of combinated set, do sou thing is better get 2021-23 or 2024 +. I hope that would be more parts to add to 2024 set, so it would be complete castle
I recently got the Astronomy Tower for £22 off. Probably could have waited as it's now on sale on the Lego shop and I have a £20 insiders voucher to use. Fortunately there are other sets I can use it for. Possibly on the boat house or owl house.
I started playing Hogwarts: Legacy about a week and a half ago and I've fallen in love with Harry Potter all over again. It's awesome seeing the LEGO sets and then exploring that area of the castle in-game.
LOL Holly. Me thinks that may be bird droppings not snow on the owlery lol. Hope you’re happy in the US. I am a fellow Aussie who is sad there’s no great HP stores or theme parks here.
Her and Ryan have kept it super private so far. They have to have been a thing for a while if she moved across the world to be together. But it is funny how they're both acting like nothing happened.
I hope she has some kind of shared living space with whoever as it would very expensive and a bit lonely after such a big move. It is really not our concern until she shares
Cute. Only REAL OG Lego Harry Potter fans remember the 2001 Hagrid’s Hut with the roof made of card and held together by an elastic band. I was 10 years old and that thing was the bane of my life.
i know im late to the party but i think that this new line of Hogwarts builds wont be taking insperation strictly from the movies. The outsides of the great hall along with the pathing to the connecting boathouse aswell as the Hufflepuff Common Room being beneth the great hall looks to be inspired by Hogwarts Legacy. The owlry being separated from the castle like in the game as opposed to being connected to it like it appeared to be in the movies. While i'm not sold on this new line just yet im eagerly looking forward to future sets to see if im right in the mixture of insperation.
Nah, you can only display one side so this way you get the choice of what you want on show, plus the price of the sets would skyrocket with all the extra pieces.
Good vid, glad to see my curiosity of if the Potions Class fit in that space answered. That said, a little disappointed to hear criticism on the size. LEGO is finally going all out and giving fans what we’ve been asking for for years, there’s no sense in scaring them into downsizing and cutting corners on the next planned sets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Go BIG! :)
The 2018-2020 castle is still the best so far. Fairly priced, not excesive, and looked a lot like Hogwarts. The 2021 was ugly and this one is waaay too big...
Actually, the Hufflepuff common room is in the right position underneath the Great Hall. I'm going purely based on the Hogwarts Legacy map, but we haven't seen the Hufflepuff common room entrance anywhere else in the films. So it kind of makes sense and based on the positioning of where it is in the Great Hall set, it's reason to believe that yes, the Hufflepuff Common Room belongs right under there. Now, could they have done a more detailed version of the Common Room? Absolutely. Though I can understand they had a price budget, they didn't want to exceed. So, hopefully, they'll make another common room set that can be slotted in and is more detailed. But as it stands, I'm glad to have it, and I'm going to took out the bathroom because it's supposed to be on the first floor if I'm not mistaken.
This is probably one of the best Hogwarts systems we've gotten in a while. Picturing this as a first for newcomers is also heartwarming because this style of builds serves as a good middle ground for youngsters and adults (play and display, somewhat aligned). If they keep on expanding in a similar way, combined price or random leftover builds might be massive detractors Edit: really happy your new house is coming along! Best of luck with other changes and decorations
Most detailed my as.... How is it possible that there is a kitchen inside the Barad Dur tower, that was never desribed, yet in the "MOST DETAILED HOGWARTS" there is no elfs kitchen under the Great hall, the one that was actually written about, and not only, it is widly discussed and expected. Also were is the Haffelpufs common room? Also no table for all the proffesorts? No 4 tables for the students? No transclear roof? I hope someday all this features will be included, so the name of the series will correspond to the real thing. The prices of lego are so high now, the ammount of stickers also. So no excuses for this noncense lego.
To be entirely fair, Barad-Dur is a 460 dollar flagship set, while this 200 dollars. Even for it's price, I think it is a much more complete and better designed set, apart from the weird modular feature making it too big for display and leaving you with excess rooms. I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, nor an expert, but judging from how it looks, how well it is furnished and the whole design style, I would still prefer this over Barad-Dur any day. That is not saying those missing features that you know are supposed to be in here shouldn't be, but at some point they cannot fit all inside the building, or it would be gigantic and unaffordable.
@@pinobluevogel6458 it is gigantic enough to be complete the way they Pretend on the the title. This is what boders me, the title didnt correspond with the context, and lego knows better. T Its just not fair, it is a lie, thats it.
@@henribg1 Okay, I understand. Maybe because I'm not as invested in the source material or the theme, I don't see many faults with it, or care too much about them. I'm sorry the set is not what you had hoped. There are a couple of older ones that look quite interesting too. Or if you like doing so, you could try and remodeling or designing your own Hogwarts in the way you would want it. That is the beauty of Lego.
Seeing the Boat House attached to the Great Hall makes me a bit icky. The clear discrepancy in scale is a bit too much for me. The Great Hall is far too small to match with that size of a Boat House (or the Boat House is far too big to fit with that Great Hall). Which makes me wonder how they're going to main the Main Tower for the Castle...I would hate it is it was another small squished version like in that horrendous 2018 Great Hall set where everything looked like it was passed through a hydraulic press 😅 We'll see. I decided to only get this new wave once Amazon discounts it. It all seems way overpriced for what it's actually offering...and June had better sets releasing like Notre Dame and Barad-Dûr.
People have made MOCs of 1:1 minifig-scale Hogwarts Castle. It's HUGE. LEGO's stated objective with this new system is "build the most detailed Hogwarts Castle". From the initial wave of sets, its clear that the way they're planning to achieve that goal is by creating a movie-accurate Hogwarts layout like the two diorama sets, but scaled up to match the previous playscale systems. I agree that, in pursuit of that objective, there are visible compromises between scale, affordability, and playability. The boathouse is already scaled down from how it appears in the movies and is about as small as it can be while still being minifig compatible. Conversely, the Great Hall is about as big as it can be as a play set. It's already twice the price of the 2018 set and is even a fair bump from the Chamber of Secrets set. If it were any larger, it would be more expensive and would be pushed firmly into the 18+ collectors price range. If you want a Hogwarts display piece with proper scale, there are already two sets on the market. This new wave is a middle ground, being more detailed and movie accurate than the two previous systems, but maintaining playability over the diorama sets.
@@experimentsininsanity4478 I fear the end result might be inability to please anyone in particular. As in, it won't look as grand as a UCS display piece on the shelf, and it won't have interesting play features or elaborate design like pure playsets would. That said, I'm still gonna see it through, because my #1 reason for not going for any of the diorama sets is I don't want to have to deal with a million tiny bricks and those weird microfigures. I also love Chamber of Secrets, and since it's not bundled together with the Great Hall this time round, it stands to reason it will be getting more love as a separate set, which I'm excited for.
@@АндрейСапонов-р1л This is a common thing Lego does now, trying to walk the middleground. As with some of the upcoming star wars set, they try to make a playset that could also pass on for a cheaper display set. (cheap is a relative term here :) ) I'm not against this idea if this means they are good enough or great for display, or if they are just good sets in general, but it is much harder to do with a more stringent parts budget.
@@experimentsininsanity4478 hey which 2 sets are you referring as being on the market ? The 71043 and the new micro scale one or the 2 modular versions that came before this wave ? Because if you are referring to 71043 isn't it more movie accurate then this new wave with scaling and details ?
"Disjointed" is indeed the word to describe this castle system, Holly. I feel Harry Potter property right now is hard carried by Atticus and George Gilliat's desire and ability to sit together in a room and create wonderful sets that complement and piggyback off one another. This is exactly what made me get a bunch of Forbidden Forest and Aragog sets and build a most detailed Aragog's Lair yet (c)(tm) out of them. The owlery and the boathouse were made by someone else and you can tell just by looking at them. Small and boring, without fun play features or elaborate clockwork toy-esque contraptions like we saw in George's amazing Grimmauld Place set. And yes, the way the Potions Class was implemented is problematic as well. You end up with a classroom that is way more detailed and elaborate than "side builds" that come with the Great Hall set, so those look bad in comparison. You end up with 3 builds but can only display 2 of them at a time. I feel Lego has been making a lot of this weird decisions that are dictated by number of sets and set prices allocation. Like the Triwizard Arrival set should have been two separate sets and merging them into one resulted in both the ship and the carriage done dirty.
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Here's to hoping they finally include ALL the common rooms.
i hope bruh, they better add more than just hufflepuff, big hopes for this series though
I’m looking forward to how the 2024 Advent Calendar works with the Great Hall. I’m also putting together the Forbidden Forest, Aragon, and poly bag Draco set for a nice forest scene behind Hagrid’s Hut. I love that the sets are focusing on earlier films/books, which are my personal favorite.
the new background and lighting setup looks great 👍
I think it would be cool if you made a video of combining the new great hall with the other sets of the 2020-23 castle.
Now all we need is a Death Star that u can buy room by room, set by set until u have the whole thing
😂
I love this idea
The problem is it's a giant sphere. So would you just get a slice of the sphere for each set?
@@gbrow1604 not if it was 20 feet wide and 20 ft tall😂
They need to be on the shelves for quite some time, but yea ... it would be awesome. Technically, if they release a massive death star for an insane price, we can also save up that money over time and buy that huge set, but this sounds much more fun. You can even skip sets that you feel are not great and make your own instead.
I'm going to need to add another room to my house just to fit this system when it is all combined and finished😂
This is probably one of the biggest and most real problems with the Lego hobby. Not just that it is expensive, or the massive amount of sets that come out which is really hard to keep up with. Not even finding a neat and effective way to store lego bricks .. the hardest task is finding enough display space for completed builds.
Even if sets have a shape that is not too big and standard (like a 32x32 baseplate), you still need some kind of shelve, table or windowsill to put them. Not everyone has a spare room to use for hobbies like Lego.
@@pinobluevogel6458 Very true.
I'm surprised I haven't seen people mention it - but I'm pretty sure this new system is turning out to mimic the Hogwarts grounds microscale set that's out right now. Including the durmstang ship and all. I'm hopeful we are finally going to get greenhouses set based on this idea. It seems they are breaking up that microscale model into playscale sets.
I’m hoping they are! I already had the idea in mind that I would replicate the format and details of the microscale, including the trans lake, the wave stand of the Durmstrang, etc.
they r both based on the same source material though
@@artasticcrafts337 the only other system of castle sets that has tried to replicate the actual look of the in universe castle is the last system - and that one involved a lot of rearranging and taking apart and wasn't a perfect fit
So…I don’t think the owlery is covered in snow….but owl droppings 😅 but we TOTALLY need snow covered castle sets!! Do you think we’ll get a new wimping willow or the whole of the castle and grounds?
Ngl, I can’t wait to get purchase this set. However, I do agree about the part where you said that the set is incomplete. It doesn’t make sense since the Hufflepuff common room gets swapped with the potions class and the common room is left out with no other place to go in the set. They should’ve planned this more and shouldn’t have rushed a tiny bit. I’m thinking about doing an extension to this set to make it complete as well.
I've loved all the sets and builds so far, really excited to see them start to add towers to the whole new layout!
Definitely a cool castle! I don't think I'll be picking this up this year, but I can't wait to see what Lego does with it!
It looks even better with the new forbidden forest connected the Hagrid’s hut, and Ford Anglia right next to new Aragog
Love the videos keep up the good work
i really want a house tour holly!!! hope one day you do one🥳🤞❤
Are some of these sets replacing the ones from previous years? I wonder how many sets we can expect to build out the whole castle
How are you using the Harry Potter background music without copyright strikes? Love the content! Great to meet you in Orlando!
I hope they include a nice grand staircase this time.
I really love it. I'm building the Hogwarts Castle right now and I've already got the for the boathouse. I'm thinking I'm going to get the potions classroom next
was waiting for this one! thanks!
Oh I wonder if right now we can only switch between the two classrooms? Because when the back that has those four attachment pieces get built, you'll be able to put both classrooms together?
Hello, i am really thinking of getting of combinated set, do sou thing is better get 2021-23 or 2024 +. I hope that would be more parts to add to 2024 set, so it would be complete castle
Glad to see you’re getting settled into the States well!
Do you have measurements for the combined Great Hall and Boathouse?
Maybe that's not snow on the owl room set. I mean... that's a lot of owls coming and going.. 🤪
Holly looks like luna lovegood
I recently got the Astronomy Tower for £22 off. Probably could have waited as it's now on sale on the Lego shop and I have a £20 insiders voucher to use. Fortunately there are other sets I can use it for. Possibly on the boat house or owl house.
Great video! Hope you are enjoying Florida.
Great video holly the great hall is a very cool set and I think you would be a great gryffindor student at hogwarts and I would love to fly a broom
I started playing Hogwarts: Legacy about a week and a half ago and I've fallen in love with Harry Potter all over again. It's awesome seeing the LEGO sets and then exploring that area of the castle in-game.
LOL Holly. Me thinks that may be bird droppings not snow on the owlery lol. Hope you’re happy in the US. I am a fellow Aussie who is sad there’s no great HP stores or theme parks here.
Well my HP lego journey begins
Awesomeness videos youbare great
Can imagine the combination of all these new HP sets coming together on a HP LEGO city-ish landscape 😌
Lego Harry Potter is such an amazing series
Wish i could have got your thoughts on my BW hogwarts. With all my added mocs
When do we think Holly is going to acknowledge that she's moved into MandR's house? 😅
GAG! 😂😂😂😂
Her and Ryan have kept it super private so far. They have to have been a thing for a while if she moved across the world to be together. But it is funny how they're both acting like nothing happened.
@@TheFirstCurse1there’s no way that’s legit lol 😂
I hope she has some kind of shared living space with whoever as it would very expensive and a bit lonely after such a big move. It is really not our concern until she shares
@@TheFirstCurse1 For real?
Awesome mega build!
I was thinking about this or the Hogwarts Castle but seeing how big it already is in the video this is impossible for me to fit in my house☹️
Hmmm....Im getting Ryan's house vibes from the background....hmmm
Seeing that they are going off the mini model from 2023 there will be no dada tower
Only OG Lego Harry Potter fans remember the 2010 Hagrid's hut with the light up fireplace
Cute. Only REAL OG Lego Harry Potter fans remember the 2001 Hagrid’s Hut with the roof made of card and held together by an elastic band.
I was 10 years old and that thing was the bane of my life.
@@CorporalFriendlyShark okay you got me there 🤣
i know im late to the party but i think that this new line of Hogwarts builds wont be taking insperation strictly from the movies. The outsides of the great hall along with the pathing to the connecting boathouse aswell as the Hufflepuff Common Room being beneth the great hall looks to be inspired by Hogwarts Legacy. The owlry being separated from the castle like in the game as opposed to being connected to it like it appeared to be in the movies. While i'm not sold on this new line just yet im eagerly looking forward to future sets to see if im right in the mixture of insperation.
So the rest of the castle won’t be until next year?
Ya.. that's not "Snow" on the Owlery ;)
It looks a little like they took the mini fig scale castle and enlarged it
Lego Harry Potter and Lego Marvel are quite possibly the best Lego movies toy lines
I need to get these sets falling behind
“That’s no ‘snow’”….😆
Yes! I was thinking the same thing. Owls...lots of owls, probably lots of owl sh.....
@@justinjones5491 haha 😆
But what about the Hogwarts Express Train?!
... are u sure that's snow?
I think it's supposed to be owl poo, not white snow on the Owlery!
Will we get a new room tour soon?
Hopefully in a month or two once I’ve got more set up. I’ve had to build a tonne of furniture so the whole place let alone the room is a mess
I don't think that's snow but owl poop 😂
"Snow" wink wink 😉🙃
Great sets, I just wish they'd build the other side of the buildings, like the new Hagrid's hut set, fully enclosed. Just tired of the half buildings
Nah, you can only display one side so this way you get the choice of what you want on show, plus the price of the sets would skyrocket with all the extra pieces.
What happened to you’re USA vlogs they were really good
Brickworld episode is currently in the works
It's Hogwarts best of all time ❤
I'm going to need to take an another loan just to my wallet can afford this system when its all combined and finished
As I understand it, they started releasing a new Hogwarts again?
Good vid, glad to see my curiosity of if the Potions Class fit in that space answered.
That said, a little disappointed to hear criticism on the size. LEGO is finally going all out and giving fans what we’ve been asking for for years, there’s no sense in scaring them into downsizing and cutting corners on the next planned sets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Go BIG! :)
The 2018-2020 castle is still the best so far. Fairly priced, not excesive, and looked a lot like Hogwarts. The 2021 was ugly and this one is waaay too big...
@hollyonfilm is it snow or bird 💩?😹😹
Maybe its Not Snow……. Maybe its Owl poop lmao 😅
Looks ok not bad
Actually, the Hufflepuff common room is in the right position underneath the Great Hall. I'm going purely based on the Hogwarts Legacy map, but we haven't seen the Hufflepuff common room entrance anywhere else in the films. So it kind of makes sense and based on the positioning of where it is in the Great Hall set, it's reason to believe that yes, the Hufflepuff Common Room belongs right under there. Now, could they have done a more detailed version of the Common Room? Absolutely. Though I can understand they had a price budget, they didn't want to exceed. So, hopefully, they'll make another common room set that can be slotted in and is more detailed. But as it stands, I'm glad to have it, and I'm going to took out the bathroom because it's supposed to be on the first floor if I'm not mistaken.
This is probably one of the best Hogwarts systems we've gotten in a while.
Picturing this as a first for newcomers is also heartwarming because this style of builds serves as a good middle ground for youngsters and adults (play and display, somewhat aligned).
If they keep on expanding in a similar way, combined price or random leftover builds might be massive detractors
Edit: really happy your new house is coming along! Best of luck with other changes and decorations
I think she has mistaken the Owlery's white cosmetics for snow.... 💩🤡
Most detailed my as....
How is it possible that there is a kitchen inside the Barad Dur tower, that was never desribed, yet in the "MOST DETAILED HOGWARTS" there is no elfs kitchen under the Great hall, the one that was actually written about, and not only, it is widly discussed and expected.
Also were is the Haffelpufs common room?
Also no table for all the proffesorts? No 4 tables for the students?
No transclear roof?
I hope someday all this features will be included, so the name of the series will correspond to the real thing. The prices of lego are so high now, the ammount of stickers also. So no excuses for this noncense lego.
To be entirely fair, Barad-Dur is a 460 dollar flagship set, while this 200 dollars. Even for it's price, I think it is a much more complete and better designed set, apart from the weird modular feature making it too big for display and leaving you with excess rooms. I'm not a fan of Harry Potter, nor an expert, but judging from how it looks, how well it is furnished and the whole design style, I would still prefer this over Barad-Dur any day.
That is not saying those missing features that you know are supposed to be in here shouldn't be, but at some point they cannot fit all inside the building, or it would be gigantic and unaffordable.
@@pinobluevogel6458 it is gigantic enough to be complete the way they Pretend on the the title. This is what boders me, the title didnt correspond with the context, and lego knows better. T
Its just not fair, it is a lie, thats it.
@@henribg1 Okay, I understand. Maybe because I'm not as invested in the source material or the theme, I don't see many faults with it, or care too much about them. I'm sorry the set is not what you had hoped.
There are a couple of older ones that look quite interesting too. Or if you like doing so, you could try and remodeling or designing your own Hogwarts in the way you would want it. That is the beauty of Lego.
New sub hi👋
Is the Owlery covered in snow, or something else.
YAWN
Seeing the Boat House attached to the Great Hall makes me a bit icky. The clear discrepancy in scale is a bit too much for me. The Great Hall is far too small to match with that size of a Boat House (or the Boat House is far too big to fit with that Great Hall).
Which makes me wonder how they're going to main the Main Tower for the Castle...I would hate it is it was another small squished version like in that horrendous 2018 Great Hall set where everything looked like it was passed through a hydraulic press 😅 We'll see.
I decided to only get this new wave once Amazon discounts it. It all seems way overpriced for what it's actually offering...and June had better sets releasing like Notre Dame and Barad-Dûr.
People have made MOCs of 1:1 minifig-scale Hogwarts Castle. It's HUGE.
LEGO's stated objective with this new system is "build the most detailed Hogwarts Castle". From the initial wave of sets, its clear that the way they're planning to achieve that goal is by creating a movie-accurate Hogwarts layout like the two diorama sets, but scaled up to match the previous playscale systems.
I agree that, in pursuit of that objective, there are visible compromises between scale, affordability, and playability. The boathouse is already scaled down from how it appears in the movies and is about as small as it can be while still being minifig compatible. Conversely, the Great Hall is about as big as it can be as a play set. It's already twice the price of the 2018 set and is even a fair bump from the Chamber of Secrets set. If it were any larger, it would be more expensive and would be pushed firmly into the 18+ collectors price range.
If you want a Hogwarts display piece with proper scale, there are already two sets on the market. This new wave is a middle ground, being more detailed and movie accurate than the two previous systems, but maintaining playability over the diorama sets.
@@experimentsininsanity4478 I fear the end result might be inability to please anyone in particular. As in, it won't look as grand as a UCS display piece on the shelf, and it won't have interesting play features or elaborate design like pure playsets would. That said, I'm still gonna see it through, because my #1 reason for not going for any of the diorama sets is I don't want to have to deal with a million tiny bricks and those weird microfigures. I also love Chamber of Secrets, and since it's not bundled together with the Great Hall this time round, it stands to reason it will be getting more love as a separate set, which I'm excited for.
@@АндрейСапонов-р1л This is a common thing Lego does now, trying to walk the middleground. As with some of the upcoming star wars set, they try to make a playset that could also pass on for a cheaper display set. (cheap is a relative term here :) )
I'm not against this idea if this means they are good enough or great for display, or if they are just good sets in general, but it is much harder to do with a more stringent parts budget.
@@experimentsininsanity4478 hey which 2 sets are you referring as being on the market ? The 71043 and the new micro scale one or the 2 modular versions that came before this wave ? Because if you are referring to 71043 isn't it more movie accurate then this new wave with scaling and details ?
As for the Owlery...I don't think that's snow
Hay yo holly xx❤..owe Australian girl ..😊 hope you settling in well. Their.
"Disjointed" is indeed the word to describe this castle system, Holly. I feel Harry Potter property right now is hard carried by Atticus and George Gilliat's desire and ability to sit together in a room and create wonderful sets that complement and piggyback off one another. This is exactly what made me get a bunch of Forbidden Forest and Aragog sets and build a most detailed Aragog's Lair yet (c)(tm) out of them. The owlery and the boathouse were made by someone else and you can tell just by looking at them. Small and boring, without fun play features or elaborate clockwork toy-esque contraptions like we saw in George's amazing Grimmauld Place set.
And yes, the way the Potions Class was implemented is problematic as well. You end up with a classroom that is way more detailed and elaborate than "side builds" that come with the Great Hall set, so those look bad in comparison. You end up with 3 builds but can only display 2 of them at a time. I feel Lego has been making a lot of this weird decisions that are dictated by number of sets and set prices allocation. Like the Triwizard Arrival set should have been two separate sets and merging them into one resulted in both the ship and the carriage done dirty.
Hi, do you have photos of aragog's place? I was also planning to buy multiple forests for aragog playset