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LEGO Harry Potter: The Final Challenge (4702) When you’re a young sorcerer-in-training, homework takes on a whole new significance. So when characters out of the imagination of bestselling author J.K. Rowling decide to stage the ultimate Spell-ing Bee in LEGOland, no doubt the floo powder leads them to LEGO kit number 4702, The Final Challenge. Designed for Harry Potter fans, this 60-piece book/movie tie-in is heavier on the classic LEGO interlocking construction than other sets in the Harry Potter series, but still features such novelties as a spider web catapult and orange plastic torch “flames.” Complete with a 16-page full-color instruction booklet, LEGO makes this Challenge a snap. –Tony Mason
Customer Review: Best Harry Potter Set worth 10 bucks
This is the best Small Harry Potter set. It comes with Professer Quirell/voldemort and Harry Potter. It also has the sorcerers stone and the Mirror of Erised.
Customer Review: If You’ve Got Ten Bucks Handy, Drop it on This Harry Potter
A few years ago, when LEGO got the Star Wars license, I was in hog heaven. LEGO purists may tell you that this has resulted in a “dumbing down” of LEGO toys, but me, I like it. I thought it couldn’t get any better than that. And then came Harry Potter LEGO. Starting in September, the boy wizard and his friends and enemies have been appearing in plastic in various toys, ranging from stuffed owls, dogs, and dragons to action figures from Mattel, to Harry Potter LEGO.

If you’re going to buy some Harry Potter merchandise for your pups, make it the LEGO. They’re going to get a lot more play value out of it than the other toys that are part of a magical onslaught just in time for Christmas.

WARNING: If you haven’t read the first Harry Potter book, this review will give away a crucial plot point…don’t ruin it for yourself!

This is one of the smaller sets, but it gives you some very important and very fun pieces. The set costs ten dollars, has 60 pieces, and is the only way to get Harry’s Arch Enemy, Lord Voldemort. If you haven’t read the books or seen the movie yet, this little set is key to not only THIS book and THIS movie, but all successive Harry Potter adventures. And it’s ONLY ten bucks!

This set represents a little chunk of Hogwart’s, a castle which is a school for Harry and his friends. In this room is a magical mirror, called the Mirror of Erised. It’s enchanted, so that when you look in it, you see your fondest dream. For Harry, this dream is to see his parents alive and well again–he was orphaned by Lord Voldemort when he was just an infant. The mirror is also a sort of secret chamber/revolving wall (I’m not sure WHAT to call it!) That hides The Sorceror’s Stone. I haven’t seen these secret panels before, but I understand the Hogwart’s LEGO set is full of them. I like them a lot.

The minifigs that come with the set are Harry Potter and Professor Quirrell. Harry is decked out in his Gryffindor house robes, has a magic wand, and a black cloak with white stars printed on the inside. Very spiffy. His face also varies a bit from the classic LEGO smiley face… he’s got his trademark round spectacles and a tiny lightning-bolt shaped scar over his eye. His hair is also a new kind of piece that I haven’t seen before, that looks just like it does in the movie.

Professor Quirrell is wearing a purple turban and his teaching robes (he’s a Professor of Dark Arts at Hogwart’s), and he’s got a somewhat disturbed/constipated look on his face. The reason for this disturbed face is revealed when you remove the turban to find…..Lord Voldemort’s serpentine visage on the BACK of Quirrell’s head!!!!

So this really IS the final challenge…where Harry confronts Voldemort. Your children (and you, for that matter) will want this set to complete Harry’s adventures and challenges. Besides the remarkable swinging panel I mentioned, this set also includes some nifty pieces like a castle turret, a black owl, a bat, a spider web, a spider, and some torches. It fits in very nicely with the other castle sets from Harry Potter’s world, or stands alone very well.

This was the first Harry Potter LEGO set I bought, and I loved it so much that…I bought a lot more. I wouldn’t recommend just ANYTHING with Harry Potter stamped on it…but these LEGO sets are must-haves.