Interested in starting a LEGO Harry Potter collection, but don’t know where to look first? Here’s the ultimate primer on where to begin your magical journey in 2025.
LEGO Harry Potter returned to shelves in 2018 after a seven-year hiatus, and since then we’ve seen dozens of sets tackling almost every facet of the boy wizard’s story. But don’t worry if you’ve only just discovered the joy of piecing together LEGO Harry Potter sets: you’re coming into the theme at a great time, with some of its biggest, best and most interesting sets still available to buy right now.
Whatever you’re looking for in a LEGO Harry Potter collection, here’s where to start…
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
If you like the look of LEGO Harry Potter minifigures and the idea of building a replica Hogwarts for them to wander around in, you’ve picked a great time to start. The LEGO Group has just launched a brand new series of modular Hogwarts sets that can connect together, allowing you to build up the school one section at a time – and it’s promising to be the most detailed version of the castle to date.
The biggest set so far is also the one that anchors all the others. 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall can accommodate a couple of the smaller classrooms already, while it connects directly to 76426 Hogwarts Castle: Boathouse. It’s a must-have for anyone starting their own minifigure-scale Hogwarts in 2025 – but you don’t need to stop there.
Also included in this new series of Hogwarts Castle sections are 76426 Hogwarts Castle Boathouse, 76430 Hogwarts Castle Owlery, 76431 Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class, 76441 Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club, 76442 Hogwarts Castle: Charms Class and 76447 Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lessons. More sets will likely follow over the next year or two to properly flesh out the rest of the school, too.
A dazzling display
If you’re not really into minifigures, another direction you could take a new LEGO Harry Potter collection in 2025 is brick-built objects and characters. The Wizarding World theme has conjured up some pretty experimental sets over the past few years, from 76427 Buckbeak and 76429 Talking Sorting Hat to 76433 Mandrake and 76414 Expecto Patronum.
The latest addition to the collection is 76443 Hagrid & Harry’s Motorcycle Ride, which recreates the perilous (and, for Hedwig, fatal) journey from the beginning of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part I on a scale much larger than minifigures.
Microscale magic
Because LEGO Harry Potter is one of the most varied LEGO themes around right now, there’s yet another wholly different path you could explore with a new collection: the world of microscale. Older sets like 71043 Hogwarts Castle tested the waters for this sort of building, and the LEGO Group has since followed up with the likes of 76419 Hogwarts Castle and Grounds and – this year – 76444 Diagon Alley Wizarding Shops.
These sets capture iconic locations from across the Wizarding World at a scale smaller than minifigures, which means they generally manage to cover much more ground than their minifigure-scale contemporaries while taking up much less space (and not costing quite as much money). Some of them even come with tiny nano-figures, so you can still populate your brick-built world with all your favourite characters.
All of the above
This isn’t to say you need to curtail your collection to one particular avenue, though. You could just as easily dabble in bits and pieces of everything LEGO Harry Potter is doing right now – build up a little bit of Hogwarts here, add on a bigger brick-built Buckbeak there, and so on. That’s really the best thing about this theme in 2025: you’ve got so much to choose from that you can’t really go wrong.
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