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You might not be able to attend Hogwarts in real life, but you can still leave your muggleness behind when you build Lego's new Hogwarts Castle, a mind-bending 6,020-piece model of the iconic wizarding school from the Harry Potter series.
The massive castle set covers everything from the Great Hall (complete with stained glass windows) to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom, Dumbledore's office and the Chamber of Secrets. You could easily spend days exploring all the nooks and crannies of the completed build.
[...] Start polishing your wand now. It's going to take some time to put all 6,020 pieces together and you might need an assist from a magic spell like "Reparo," the mending charm.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by looorg on Monday July 30 2018, @02:09PM
I initially thought that LEGO had really changed its core concept and gone for more pre-fabriacted parts and segments (they call them Panels). But it seems that at least for the Castles series that hasn't been the case from what I can tell. I have memories from the early 80's of getting a LEGO castle from my parents. It was yellow bricks mostly. It was all the little standard blocks that you normally had so after you had built the box castle you could just reuse all the parts for your other building projects or modify your castle etc. But now, from what I have seen of the boxes they come with complete wall segments and roofs etc. You are just clicking large segments together. No longer do you have to actually build the walls and such.
OK I had to look up the classic Yellow Castle. Apparently it did come with some pre-fabricated parts to in the form of the arches. I thought there would actually be a lot more difference between the two, that the newer once would have more pre-fabricated walls (or Panels) compared to the old "classic yellow castle". But it seems that isn't the case, yes there are a lot more "Panels" but it's not like it has become all panels. There are a lot more pieces that have rounded corners and angles and such but not as bad as I had imagined it to be. Still if one compares the 2013 Kings Castle to the 1978 Classic yellow castle it's a lot more panels since the newer once contain 20+ panels while the previous old version had none.
Classic Yellow Castle from 1978 / 1981 (I'm not really sure which one I had, but it was probably the 1981 version)
https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/castle/classic-castle/lego-375-2-castle/ [toysperiod.com]
https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/castle/classic-castle/lego-6075-2-castle/ [toysperiod.com]
Hogwarts (2007, they didn't have the pieces listed yet for the new one -- but lets assume they'll be somewhat similar)
https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/harry-potter/order-of-the-phoenix/lego-5378-hogwarts-castle-3rd-edition/ [toysperiod.com]
Kings Castle (2013)
https://www.toysperiod.com/lego-set-reference/castle/lego-70404-kings-castle/ [toysperiod.com]