Hagrid's Hut Review
Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:12 am
I bought Hagrid's Hut and Syrius Black's Escape earlier today.
I just finished building the hut, and it is a very nice set. It comes with 2 of those brown door parts and two of those latticed windows you can click into the doors. The house also has a standard 4x3 window with two latticed window panes. Lots of plates and corners in dark grey, and lots of bricks and corner castle walls in light grey. Seems like a good way to start a collection of the new greys for those who wish to do so.
The new Hagrid figure is noticeable better than the old one. The mouth lines up better with the hole in the beard. Also, the old Hagrid's arms and hands were one brown part. The new Hagrid's hands can articulate at the wrists. Hagrid's hands also have fingers and a thumb which is pretty cool.
The building itself is a nice four walled hut that opens on a hinge, allowing access to the inside. The roof is made of several space wing plates slanted together. They make a fairly decent roof, with a square gap right at the top where the plates come together being the only part that looks bad. It could be easily plugged with a 4x4 plate and a 2x2 brick or something like that.
Outside, there is a small pumpkin patch by one corner of the building, and another corner has a barrel containing a shovel and a pickaxe. Other accessories inside the hut include a hand axe, a crossbow, a yellow goblet, a white and a red mug, a yellow plate, a cauldron, a ladle, and a pair of chrome gold keys. The set also includes a Hermione figure.
Aside from the four castle corner wall parts, the building is pretty much all bricks. They even mix light grey, dark grey, and light grey textured bricks to give it a nice mottled appearance, and it is a pretty good build. It comes with 302 pieces for it's $30 price tag which is a decent price per part ratio.
If you take out the harry potter figures and just stick in a couple peasants, this set would be a great addition to any medieval village.
I'll give this set an A-. The hole in the roof looks bad from above and the Hogwart's uniform is useless to me, but it's otherwise a very good set.
If you take out the harry potter figures and just stick in a couple peasants, this set would be a great addition to any medieval village. I plan to get a couple more.
I just finished building the hut, and it is a very nice set. It comes with 2 of those brown door parts and two of those latticed windows you can click into the doors. The house also has a standard 4x3 window with two latticed window panes. Lots of plates and corners in dark grey, and lots of bricks and corner castle walls in light grey. Seems like a good way to start a collection of the new greys for those who wish to do so.
The new Hagrid figure is noticeable better than the old one. The mouth lines up better with the hole in the beard. Also, the old Hagrid's arms and hands were one brown part. The new Hagrid's hands can articulate at the wrists. Hagrid's hands also have fingers and a thumb which is pretty cool.
The building itself is a nice four walled hut that opens on a hinge, allowing access to the inside. The roof is made of several space wing plates slanted together. They make a fairly decent roof, with a square gap right at the top where the plates come together being the only part that looks bad. It could be easily plugged with a 4x4 plate and a 2x2 brick or something like that.
Outside, there is a small pumpkin patch by one corner of the building, and another corner has a barrel containing a shovel and a pickaxe. Other accessories inside the hut include a hand axe, a crossbow, a yellow goblet, a white and a red mug, a yellow plate, a cauldron, a ladle, and a pair of chrome gold keys. The set also includes a Hermione figure.
Aside from the four castle corner wall parts, the building is pretty much all bricks. They even mix light grey, dark grey, and light grey textured bricks to give it a nice mottled appearance, and it is a pretty good build. It comes with 302 pieces for it's $30 price tag which is a decent price per part ratio.
If you take out the harry potter figures and just stick in a couple peasants, this set would be a great addition to any medieval village.
I'll give this set an A-. The hole in the roof looks bad from above and the Hogwart's uniform is useless to me, but it's otherwise a very good set.
If you take out the harry potter figures and just stick in a couple peasants, this set would be a great addition to any medieval village. I plan to get a couple more.