Day 9: Bag 9 today! I was rather surprised that today’s build actually completed this second building (I thought bag 10 would complete it!), but what a great way to finish it off! The roof area is completed and includes a small second floor attic, with room for some newspapers, a mouse and some cheese. […]
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Day 8: Bag 8 today! Today, work begins on floor one of both The Daily Prophet and Quality Quidditch Supplies. The Daily Prophet’s angled overhang, complete with sign looks fantastic, and next to the Quidditch shopfront this actually looks like something you’d find on a high street near you (sans the magic). I was pleased […]
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Day 7: Bag 7 today! Progress on the ground level of Quality Quidditch Supplies as we focus practically all of today’s build on the elaborate shopfront. It really is stunning with all that detailing; grills, window panes, signs and angled accents. The green roof is quite an odd choice of colour, but I guess it […]
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Day 6: Bag 6 today, and we begin the build for Quality Quidditch Supplies and The Daily Prophet shops. As with the start of bag 1, we start with the cobbled effect street and floor tiles for the shop areas. Already I’m loving the shop front as we have a clothing rack and the Nimbus […]
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Day 5: Bag 5 today, and with it the roof is completed, which includes chimneys, owls and an ornate hanging sign. Also worth noting that this building (the first of four) is now complete, as is instruction booklet 1 – we’re also a quarter way through this challenge! Looking at the finished build, it is […]
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Day 4: Bag 4 today, and we have the fascias of floor 1 of Ollivander’s and Scribbulus now complete. A little more attention was given to Scribbulus in particular with the completion of an upstairs seating area and a cosy fireplace. Towards the front we have two shop signs, a poster and the bowed windows […]
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Day 3: Bag 3 today and work continues on Ollivanders, with the completion of the ground and first floor bowed windows. We also get a minifigure of Hermione Granger! It was particularly satisfying putting the shop signs together for Ollivander’s – complete with the stickers (which you have to take some time over to get […]
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Day 2: Bag 2 today and Ollivanders has really progressed with the build up of the shop interior – complete with a wand wall, desk and slide-out stairs. As stairs go, it was surprisingly complex to put together, and there’s a neat storage area underneath for more wands. Also taking shape are the window units […]
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As December is officially here, ToysWorld‘s very own Seb will be kicking off this magical month with a series of posts, every day from now until 20th December featuring an epic advent build of the new LEGO Harry Potter: Diagon Alley set. That’s right; each day we he will be opening up one bag from […]
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1st September 2020: Launching today, the spectacular new LEGO Harry Potter set allows fans to be transported to the most magical shopping street in the world, now in brick form! Diagon Alley [75978] is one of the most iconic locations in the Wizarding World. It’s where Harry Potter gets his first glimpse of the exciting […]
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