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The Top Ten Best Harry Potter Lego Sets

I love Harry Potter (duh), so there’s a very special place in my heart for Harry Potter Lego sets. I decided to do a little sleuthing and found that there are a ton of really awesome Harry Potter Lego sets out there, but here are my picks for the absolute top ten.

10) The Graveyard Duel

The Harry Potter Graveyard Duel is kind of creepy and in somewhat bad taste, since this is the duel from the Triwizard Tournament where Cedric Diggory got killed by Voldemort. So, uh, neat, but a bit awkward. Let’s move on.

9)Snape’s Class

Yay! It’s Snape’s Class! Even though I grudgingly like Snape by the end of the books, I still wouldn’t be averse to pinching his Lego head a few times – how about you?

8) The Sorting Hat

Okay, so how tempting would it be to put The Sorting Hat on Harry here and send him to some college fraternity at UCLA or something? Or maybe that’s just me.

7) Aragog

Oh, yes -let’s create an Aragog Lego set so we can continue the madcap adventures of a GIANT FREAKING SPIDER. Like we weren’t already all squigged out in the first place by this thing, NOW we’re going to build it out of Lego blocks. Most likely, this will be used to scare the daylights out of various little sisters.

6) Dumbledore’s Office

Now, here we go with Dumbledore’s Office, a super set that looks to be fairly complicated yet way worth the effort. You could even think of your own passwords in order to get in the thing, although you’d have to hide them from yourself so you wouldn’t figure them out…..yeah, that didn’t make any sense to me either. Hmmm. Cool set!

5) The Shrieking Shack

I always thought that the The Shrieking Shack sounded kind of like a 50’s doo-wop song. You know, like “let’s go down to the Shrieking Shack, we don’t know when we’ll ever be back, doo doo wop”.

4) Chamber of Secrets

So guess how many pieces the Chamber of Secrets set has? 600. Yep, just in this one set, there are 600 teensy little pieces. I think that’s probably the biggest appeal for me, even though I know within 20 minutes of breaking it open I’ll have lost at least 1/3 of those pieces.

3) Hagrid’s Hut

Hagrid’s Hut is cool for one reason and one reason only: it includes a mini-Hagrid figure AND (I realize this is two reasons, go with me) what looks to be a giant bear trap in the front of the hut. Awesome.

2) Quidditch

Show of hands, and let’s be honest here: how many of you would take the mini Draco Malfoy figure that is included in this Quidditch set and totally whack him over the head with a few Bludgers?

drumroll please AND THE BEST HARRY POTTER LEGO SET IS…..

1) Hogwarts Castle

Seriously, LOOK AT THIS THING. It’s Hogwarts, for pete’s sake. It’s got secret rooms and all sorts of kickass Lego stuff. I want to build it and put it on my coffee table and make everyone jealous of how awesome it is.

What’s your favorite Harry Potter Lego set? Let’s hear in the comments.

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  1. Bri

    Oh man.

    If I had heaps of money to just spend on frivolous thing, this would be it. I adore legos. So this is uber awesome!!!

    I want the Graveyard one.

  2. Harry Potter Legos

    I just started collecting these LEGO sets. They’re great!

  3. tommy

    i like harry potter castle from the fith movie.

  4. Joe Emler

    My top 10 lego sets are

    4701: the sorting hat
    4711: flying lesson
    4727: Aragon in the dark forest
    4730: the chamber of secrets
    4733: the dueling club
    4735: Slytherine
    4751: Harry and the maraudes map
    4752: professor Lupins classroom
    4762: rescue from the merpoeple
    5378: Hogwarts castle

  5. stewart

    ummmm……. your an idiot malfoy,snape and slytherin how could u want to throw bludgers at malfoy, though i still think harry potter iz kool but malfoy iz better why dont we get a lego voltemort and wak him upside the head with bludgers gawd why go against malfoy in-stead of voltemort even though malfoys dad is a daeth eater malfoys still kool

  6. Nathaniel

    top 10:

    1. Hogwarts Castle 5378
    2. The Chamber of Secrets
    3. Hogwarts Castle 4757
    4. Hogwarts Express
    5. The Forbidden Corridor
    6. Escape from Privet Drive
    7. Aragog in the Dark Forest
    8. Knight Bus
    9. Hagrids Hut
    10. Dumbledores Office

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