Harry Potter

Attack on The Burrow

The Weasley home as a proper doll's house, fire and all.

Brick Rated Score

4.3/5

Set 75980 · 2020

Pieces1,052

Minifigs8

Year2020

Set number75980

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The verdict

This is one of those Harry Potter sets that quietly outclasses its price tag, and the more you build it the more you notice.

You get the whole crooked Burrow that opens up like a doll's house, eight minifigures including Bellatrix and Fenrir Greyback, and a genuinely clever fireplace that spins from orange flames to green Floo fire. It's now retired, so it costs more than it used to, and the stickers can be fiddly, but if the Weasleys are your favourite corner of the wizarding world you'll adore this one.

Best for: Harry Potter fans who love a house that opens up and plays back

The full review

There's something about the Burrow that just works as a LEGO® set, and this one captures the wonky charm of it better than you'd expect from 1,052 pieces. The real house in the films is a tower of mismatched rooms that looks like it should have fallen over years ago, and the set leans right into that. The upper floor is deliberately offset at an angle, which honestly looks like a mistake until you realise it's the whole point. The exterior is all warm dark tans and browns with a patchwork slate roof in mixed slope colours, and the back of the house is completely open so you can reach every room. It's a proper doll's house build, the kind you display with the family inside going about their day.

Inside is where it won me over. You get a ground floor with a breakfast table and sink, Ginny's bedroom with a little mirror and hairbrush, Arthur and Molly's room with the famous self-knitting chair, and Ron's room up top. The showpiece is the fireplace, which sits on a Technic axle so you can spin it from ordinary orange flames round to translucent green Floo fire, exactly the way witches and wizards travel in the books. It's a simple mechanism but it's the kind of thing that makes you grin the first time it clicks round. Little touches are everywhere, from the Weasley owls to Hedwig to a chubby pig wandering the grounds.

Where it stumbles is the price and the stickers. This is a set that almost never turned up in the sales when it was on shelves, and it retired at the end of 2022, so today you're paying a premium over the old $99.99 for something you can no longer just grab new from LEGO. The stickers are the other niggle. A few of them, Ginny's bed especially, sit against sloped bricks and leave a visible gap that bugs you once you've noticed it. And because so much of the structure is dark tan and brown, a couple of the bags feel repetitive while you're placing them.

None of that stops it being one of the best value Harry Potter sets of its era, though. Eight minifigures is generous, the roster is brilliant with Bellatrix and Fenrir Greyback bringing the menace and the whole Weasley clan plus Harry on the good side, and the play features are the sort that actually get used rather than just admired. If you love the Weasleys and you want a house that opens up and tells a story, this is an easy yes. If you're purely after complex engineering or you can't stand chasing a retired set on the secondary market, you might feel the pinch. For everyone else, it's a lovely thing to own.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build runs across seven numbered bags and it's a friendly one, nothing that'll trip up a teenager or a patient younger builder. You start with the base and the hinged framework that lets the house open, then work up through the ground floor living space, the bedrooms, and finally the roof and that intentionally lopsided upper level. There are some genuinely nice techniques tucked in, especially the way the offset angle is engineered and the Technic axle that drives the spinning fireplace, but most of the pleasure here is in dressing the rooms rather than solving hard structural puzzles. The pacing stays gentle throughout, which suits a cosy house build like this.

For parts, the roof is the quiet highlight, built from 45 degree slopes in a mix of greys and browns that gives the slate that weathered patchwork look instead of a flat single colour. Fans of small animals get a proper haul with the owls, Hedwig, and a pig, and the translucent green flame elements for the Floo fireplace are the sort of pieces you'll be glad to have in the bin later. The eight minifigures are the real value story though. Getting Bellatrix Lestrange, Fenrir Greyback, Nymphadora Tonks, and the four Weasleys plus Harry inside a set at this piece count is a strong showing, and a couple of those figures were tricky to find elsewhere at the time.

Fun facts

01The upper floor is offset at a deliberate angle to match the crooked, held-together-by-magic look of the Burrow in the films, so what looks like a building error is actually the design working as intended.
02The fireplace sits on a Technic axle and rotates between orange flames and translucent green fire to recreate the Floo Network, the fireplace-to-fireplace travel from the books.
03The set retired at the end of 2022 after a June 2020 release, and new sealed copies now trade above the original $99.99 retail price.
04Despite being a Weasley-focused build, the set arms you for the attack with Bellatrix Lestrange and Fenrir Greyback, two of the nastier Death Eaters, alongside special fire elements to torch the house.