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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: 2) by DutchUncle on Tuesday July 31 2018, @01:30PM
A social commentary on the degree of effort and sophistication put into making "instant collectibles" tied into licensed intellectual properties, in particular items appearing to be toys yet produced at a price-point clearly intended for the adult collector, with a sidebar on the corruption of a famous generic building toy (inspiring imagination) to more and more specific imagery (constraining imagination).
Or, you know, geek fandom. Some of us became Hogwarts aspirants from reading the books to our kids.