Love the castle and its attention to detail. A+ for design, simplicity, and appeal. Horrible instruction manual. Multiple steps did not accurately list which pieces were needed. I oftentimes found myself confused because a new piece would be shown later on, but no where in the manual did it say to place it there. Missing pieces (window for astronomy tower was #1 issue whereas all other missing pieces could be replaced with extras). Quality control for this set is all over the place. Regardless, still a wonderful build and would love to see more sets like this for other franchises.

I'm not really a big Harry Potter fan so I was skeptical at first when I saw this set but it has been my favorite build thus far! It has so many tiny little details and it's just so stinking cute. The beginning was sort of tedious but so worth it in the end. The price is great as well. No complaints here…LEGO should design more smaller scaled builds like this.

I absolutely love Harry Potter, and I feel like this would be amazing and worth seeing when finished. BUT, I bought this Lego sometime last year and I have yet to finish it because I don't have the motivation for it anymore. Reasoning? This will now be the second time noticing that I'm missing a few pieces for this set, and now having to order more. I've never had this many issues with any other Lego set. I even took 8 bags worth of building apart and redid it to see if it was an error on my end. But nope..hours later with the same results. :( maybe I'd really love and enjoy this set, had I not got a set that was missing so many important pieces..

I was working my Lego set and now that I'm at the last pages I see that page 166 has step 600 and page 167 takes me back to STEP 183….page 167-183 are for steps 183-197. On page 183; it then shows me step 615. Missing a lot of small details because of this error

I've built quite a bit of Lego and this has to be one of my absolute favorite builds. The amount of detail is wonderful. From the very beginning of the build you uncover the secrets of Hogwarts. The use of brick is excellent with a few pieces I've never seen in a build before.

I loved the build up to bag 18, which is completely missing from my box. I am working on figuring out what pieces I need so that I can finish my build. It was quite easy with the well-written instructions. I'm looking forward to finishing this project.

This was my very first lego set (aside from the ones I had as a child) and it is gorgeous. We put it together over several date nights and it was so fun seeing everything come together. The water/landscaping truly makes it a beautiful decorative piece. My only complaint is that no other set has the landscaping/environmental setting that this one does

Bought this as a Christmas gift for my daughter from my local Walmart. She started to put it together today and was missing pieces, had to order them. That's a shame for that much money.

I bought this for myself and am happy I did. I did notice a mistake with the instructions that drove me insane for a few minutes before I realized it, but other than that it's been a good experience. Would recommend!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] [Employee of lego-global] I finished my hogwarts castle and ground I love it so much it was very fun to build.