hello everyone this is the Lego Harry
Potter Hogwarts clock tower set it is
very heavily biased towards the events
of Goblet of Fire especially with the
minifigure selection but it is designed
to be used throughout the entire series
and it can even be connected directly to
other structures that they have made
previously and others that they will
make in the future because there are so
many minifigures let's go through those
first this is Madame Maxime and
appropriately she is much taller than a
regular minifigure she has the exclusive
print for the lower portion of the body
there with the tall sloped piece she has
the wand in a dark orange color and all
of the figures you're going to see here
actually in Yule Ball outfits there's
actually a little bit of metallic
plating behind the paint the kind of
lavender lilac color so you see that
when the light hits it in certain ways
it shines pretty nicely and most of the
figures are in this entire line are
going to have alternate faces so she has
a sad face and a relatively normal face
here's a normal-sized Dumbledore with
his wizardly high fashion there it's a
pretty fancy looking figure with the
relatively recent mold that was added to
Legos inventory I think it was about a
year ago for the lower half of the body
for the lower part of the robes there
that's printed on the front and the back
now the prints don't match up perfectly
to the torso for a couple of reasons
first there is a gap there that's pretty
obvious and also the white is not bright
enough but the level of detail on there
is pretty nice the headgear is dual
moulded so the light gray for the hair
is plastic and also the dark tan for the
cab itself is plastic and only the brown
color for the tassel is actually printed
on with a paint application the rest of
the print on the torso looks very very
nice the faces awkward when you don't
have the beard on there but it's really
nicely done definitely nicer than it
needs to be with more detail than it
needs with all the facial hair little
detailing that they added in and he does
have to differ
expressions the expressions themselves
aren't that different from one to the
next but you see here he has half
spectacles on moon style spectacles and
then here he doesn't looking at the more
senior students here Cedric Diggory
looks pretty good as a figure the
hairpiece to me looks very appropriate
the wand is in dark brown I think that
the the face the facial expression looks
pretty appropriate but doesn't quite
match the look of the actor all these
things are based off the film
adaptations of the story but still still
a good looking figure I think that is
recognizable enough and this one does
get to facial expressions both very
appropriate and useful here's Fleur
Delacour with a very nice torso print
with a little bit of metallic printing
actually quite a bit of metallic
printing in there in the silver color
too bad the skin tone for her neck is
not opaque enough yeah it's a little bit
too grey also there's no printing
whatsoever on the lower part of the
dress once again using that specialized
part but this brings her up to the
normal size of a regular adult style
minifigure and the hairpiece is done in
light yellow she also has two different
facial expressions and this one looks
like it's printed a little bit better
than this one this just has some extra
little micro sized splotches of
overprint the last full-size or adult
sized figure is viktor krum here and he
has a dark orange colored wand
I think the torso for him is absolutely
perfect with really nice detail for the
belt buckle especially I think that the
hair is pretty appropriate I think that
the face is not serious enough even when
that actor was smiling still he didn't
look quite this quick this kind and now
just jovial like that and it's not too
far off though and there's that printing
from the back of the torso you also get
an alternate face for him which is a
little bit more appropriate for for some
scenes and I think just fits the the
character a little bit better
oh and facial hair that's what's missing
facial hair
figure needed facial hair Harry Potter
has the medium-sized leg so he's a
little bit shorter than an adult figure
but not as short as a child style figure
and those medium-sized legs which were
introduced last year are also able to
articulate unlike the child sized legs
so you can actually put this into a
walking pose and have them lean forward
and back this figure looks pretty
perfect to me for a and early-to-mid
teen Harry Potter from from the movies
from all angles I think the level of
detail is appropriate I think that the
hair looks really good I like how it
frames the face shows the mark and
everything and once again we do get two
faces yeah that is done very well and
that is good as well Yule Ball Hermione
is done differently so they actually
made her the exact same height as Harry
Potter or any of the regular figures but
with medium sized legs and that shows
you what the height of medium sized legs
is it's a brick plus a plate that brick
that's used for most of the front of the
dress is printed
so it's an exclusive print for that it's
printed only on the front though which
looks a little bit awkward when you turn
it around I mean that's that's a lot of
detail there but you know it provides
the correct height and just does not
provide any articulation just like the
skirt pieces generally don't there's a
lot of hair there it's a pretty nice
sculpt pretty expressive you know
there's a lot of movement to it I think
it's done well and it looks good from
many different angles there's also a
mini peg hole on the top of that and I
break her feet off but you can put a bow
or something in that from the LEGO
Friends line and once again we'll get an
alternate face and it's mad I think
maybe a sad face would have been more
appropriate a little bit more memorable
more iconic for this movie and and for
this outfit and last but not least but
Connolly's Ron Weasley poor run with the
hand-me-down outfit
a lot of the print on there is actually
on the torso is actually subtle because
of the closeness between the two tones
that they use there but there you can
see a little bit better it's actually a
gray that's printed against brown so
it's difficult to see but I think the
troughs will print there is done well
and it's also very well detailed around
the back again very subtle but just look
at all of that look at all that
detailing in there so it's a complex
pattern doesn't repeat except for just
whatever you call them the red part
there and this is another figure that
has two phases I like that face it's a
face unlike most things that we get from
Lego you know there's their subtlety to
it it's it's not just a straightforward
happy or mad kind of face you know that
you can see some some thinking in there
okay the main structure is a much more
interesting build than I expected the
actual assembly process has less
repetition than I thought by far and a
lot more variance than I feel it
absolutely needs so the designer
definitely went above and beyond to keep
this from being too boring you know it's
very easy to make something like this
just all tan you know with some
occasional changes over to the dark tan
but there if you look closely you can
see that you know there isn't any or
there's very little mirroring from one
section to another as you look left to
right right to left II you know there's
not a lot that is done the same they
they just change out little pieces in
subtle ways from place to place and even
some of the shapes occasionally change
as you go through the process of
building this up so there's the clock
itself there is a mechanism to to turn
that I'll actually just rotate it from
the back so you can see doesn't do much
you know it just rotates the entire
thing around and you can change the
individual
individual arms there you know by
themselves but it's just a manual
process
nice prints for for both of these but
you know it would have been much nicer
if they could have gotten some mechanism
in there to separate out the two hands I
guess but I don't know how they would
have done it without taking up a whole
lot of space yeah I really enjoyed
putting this together the roof goes
together pretty nicely without too much
gapping in there and there are stickers
there are definitely stickers used
you'll see more of them around the back
there's just a subtle small one there
believe there's a matching one on the
other side yeah back there in the corner
move off here to the side you know
scaling is definitely not ideal but the
look is pretty good the assembly process
like I said is definitely not boring
everything feels like it makes sense and
has a good place and keeps you
interested as you put it together so
here's the the real you'll ball specific
portion of it here with with the dance
floor and they built this with the the
newer style gears that have the large
lobes that will just fit together so the
idea is that you know you put a figure
on there but when I put them on kind of
kind of close not too much overlap and
you put another figure on there yeah
this is actually just barely gonna work
you got to get them close enough and
then they'll they'll span that's a
little bit awkward but yeah they'll spin
around like that and you just have to do
it manually so there's no crank to make
this work you know you can just put four
different pairs on these different
platforms and they just spin around I'm
just going to rescue dumbledore there
who's probably feeling a little bit
awkward right now but that's just that
it's a it's a nice little build I think
that the gimmick doesn't work all that
well if it had a separate crank to make
that work or if you just had an axle
coming straight through here or you
could just turn the knob from the top it
would have been much better than having
to get your hand way in there and turn
this around I really like these table
builds there
they're fairly complex you know for
their their size and they're very nice
so this one just has some crystal
decoration in the center this one has a
lot of crystal decoration I believe
that's a new color just the plain trans
clear for the one by one pure amid peace
with only an anti stud on the underside
it's just it's just kind of a beautiful
thing I can just imagine people making a
whole Micropolis with architecture like
that you know just nano-sized fantasy
places and the last thing that is you'll
ball specific early season specific is
the tree Christmas tree here I think
it's safe to call it as some repetition
in its build but still looks fine I just
have the star up on top looking around
the back of the clock tower there's
nothing inside of the spires though I
guess you could put something there
something very small but the first main
interior space looking from the top is
the hospital wing and this is where the
crank is to operate the clock face on
the front so yeah it's just very very
simple
I think the inclusion of the hospital
wing here is very appropriate in
universe the hospital hospital wing is
either in this structure or in one
that's that's attached to it and it's
very nearby I don't know exactly but
it's definitely in this area so I think
that it totally makes sense
to put this here and for the amount of
space I think they have a good amount of
detail you can actually put figures
either with the full length legs or the
medium length legs on the beds and they
will attach to the the two studs that
are right there and there is enough
space to put figures actually in here so
you know sometimes Lego Lego structure
builds oh no with her with her feet
again I'm always breaking off her feet
sometimes like house structure builds
don't give you enough space to put
figures in there you know facing either
direction and this does have enough room
it has enough depth you know doesn't
have just two studs there you have at
least a 3x3 space on either side and you
know you can make some different things
work just be careful about breaking off
Haney's feed I'll have to retrieve those
with a brick separator later on next
down here is one version of the Defense
Against the Dark Arts classroom or shall
we just call it da da this is very small
for a classroom you know you cannot put
a lot of students in here but I'm glad
that there was only one sticker used for
detail typically a place like this would
have a lot of stickers for a lot of its
details but you know there's there's a
lot of proper building with just regular
pieces like the inkwell there and this
book can be opened up and there is a
single printed tile inside of it I'm
assuming that that's showing Wingardium
Leviosa
down here at the ground level they have
placed an entrance hall with just a
goblet of fire over there on the right
which I guess is appropriate in size and
construction for something from Lego I
wish that they had done something
fancier looking but I think I understand
its its design and on the left is just a
chest and it's just empty there's
nothing in there this adjacent spire
takes some creative liberties with the
placement of things like with the
defense against the dark arts classroom
across from it and the Lego has to do
things like this so this is Dumbledore's
office clearly not where it belongs but
they have to do this because they have
I'm sure a full plan for all of the
structures that they're going to make in
this new Harry Potter series that
they're working on presently and they've
had to layout where important things
will go and there's just not enough
space in these small sets to place
everything where it absolutely belongs
so you know you have to give them some
forgiveness for for not putting
everything exactly where canonically
it's supposed to go I think they've done
a pretty decent job though so
Dumbledore's office here has space for
him to sit at the at the seat although
you know
Dumbledore figures aren't able to
sit so the idea is that you would just
have him stand let's see if I can move
his arm out of the way enough to just
have him stand back there you know
that's that it it works okay it's too
bad that he's not able to actually sit
though but at least the the seat of the
chair is all the way down on the ground
or close enough that it's not make him
look too tall we've got the sorting hat
back there and on the other side with
these large stickers that used inside
the curved panels they also got Foxx
depicted back there just a sticker I
think that could have been done as a
small build off off to the side and then
there are small stickers for the shelves
and also some some paintings on the side
and I think that his table looks pretty
good I think the sticker used on the
front of that is awesome at the Pensieve
over here and that's just that for his
office finally on the ground floor of
this space is a little bit of the
prefect bathroom again to go with the
events of Goblet of Fire I think that
the space is built up pretty nicely
I like the suggestion of the water flow
coming from two of the spigots there and
the best thing here by far is the
stained glass window which depicts the
mermaid who has been switched over to a
lego style so a lego minifigure style
with the proportions and the styling of
the face now that is a single sticker
that you have to apply yourself to a
large window piece so if you get it
wrong it's going to look potentially
really really bad you have to be very
very careful when applying that but if
you get it right or even close to right
it looks really nice especially when you
look at it from the inside with light
coming through it I only wish they had
done that as a printed piece which it
was in in the budget because it is
difficult and there is high risk it's
not like they have a spare sticker for
that included in the set at least they
could have included a spare sticker that
would have cost too much because you
know if you just mess up one small thing
I'm telling you it
just messes up everything here's a
situation where things can really start
to get interesting so this is the
Clocktower set that's covered in this
video and I've attached to it the main
Hogwarts structure from the whomping
willow set from last season and also the
Great Hall over there so all these
things can be connected together like I
said there will be more in the future
and there are also different ways that
you can connect these together leaving
different sections out or connecting
them with with different angles or to
different sides this is a bigger topic
so I will cover in its own video where
I'll show you more of the options but I
wanted to be sure to to give you a
little hint here little tease to make
sure that even if you're not going to
watch that video you understand that
this is part of a whole system and not
just a series of standalone sets now
check out the spare or leftover parts
from this set there are a lot of them
and a lot of them are pretty special
pieces was nice to see you know this is
all essentially just bonus material that
you get overall I am definitely happy
with this set especially having gone
through the process of building it I
think this is definitely a case where if
you assemble the thing you will
appreciate it much more than just
looking at photos of it or seeing it on
video or even seeing it in person it
just felt satisfying to me to go through
the process of adding bricks on top of
bricks on top of bricks and having them
change you know not having a lot of
repetition not having a whole lot of
mirroring from side to side and just
being able to appreciate the amount of
effort that went into creating small
differences and making sure that like I
said the whole main structure didn't end
up looking or feeling boring obviously
the figures are a major draw especially
with the number of them here and I think
that most of the figures are done well a
couple of them have some shortcomings
but what I personally like least about
the figures is that they are all based
on the Yule Ball and that just not well
I may be a bit biased there I think
goblin fire was probably my least
favorite of the Potter movie
and the Yule Ball portion of it in
particular was probably my least
favorite part of that movie I mean face
it it just wasn't designed for folks of
my age just in general though I would
have appreciated more general use
figures who would have made sense to be
seen outside of the context of that
particular event value wise I think the
value is there I mean the price depart
ratio is really good for a set that does
have a fair number of fairly large
pieces and it does have also such a
large selection of figures and those
attributes are not completely offset by
the inclusion of a whole lot of 1 by 1
bricks or 1 by 1 plates and tiles and
things you know there aren't that many
tiny details here that really inflate
the park count as always if you want to
see the full build process you can see
it in real time on my pure build channel
that is already uploaded and available I
do show every single step of the process
and there's also no music in the
background so it's just the pure sounds
of putting the pieces together if you're
looking for something a little bit
quicker I also have more of a
traditional speed build version which
has music and is sped up quite a bit
thank you very much for watching and
also stay tuned for more of my reviews
to come as well as that special video
covering just the connections of the
clock tower to the other two major
structure sets that have been made
available so far I'll talk to you soon
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