Harry Potter

Harry Potter & Hermione Granger

Two giant minifigs, real posing tricks, and a second build that tests you.

Brick Rated Score

3.7/5

Set 76393 · 2021

Pieces1,673

Minifigsn/a

Year2021

Set number76393

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The verdict

This one is a genuine oddity, and I mean that fondly.

You're building two supersized minifigures, roughly 26cm tall, that move and pose exactly like the little ones you know. The engineering that makes the arms hold their own weight won me over. Just know that after you finish Harry, doing the whole thing again for Hermione takes some willpower, and at the original $119.99 you're paying a premium for the novelty.

Best for: Harry Potter fans who love a display piece with a clever mechanism

The full review

What it is

Every so often LEGO makes something that stops you and makes you tilt your head, and this LEGO® set is one of them. The idea is simple and a little bit cheeky. Take the classic minifigure, the tiny yellow icon everyone recognizes, and blow it up to about six times the size. So you get Harry and Hermione standing around 26cm tall, and here's the part that got me: they move like real minifigures. The legs swing, the head turns, the arms rotate and hold a pose. It sounds like it should feel like a gimmick, but in the hand it reads as a proper display piece, and the printed faces are so crisp they carry a surprising amount of character.

The catch

Now for the honest bits, because there are a few. The first is price. At $119.99 for 1,673 pieces you're right around the average cost per piece, which sounds fine until you remember a lot of those pieces are doing structural work you'll never see. You're paying for the concept and the mechanism more than for a dense, detailed model. The second, and this is the one nearly every reviewer flagged, is the repetition. Harry and Hermione are built almost identically, so once you've done the clever torso and the fiddly hair on the first figure, you have to summon the enthusiasm to do it all over again. Plenty of people set the box aside for a day or two between the two builds, and honestly that's not bad advice. Add in a couple of small niggles, the blocky sharp hands and a Harry head that likes to detach, and you've got a set that's brilliant in idea and a touch uneven in execution.

Who it's for

So who does this one actually suit? If you love Harry Potter and you want a bold, conversation-starting pair on the shelf that isn't yet another castle diorama, this delivers something you can't really get elsewhere. Fans of build engineering will enjoy taking apart how the posing works even if the rest is repetitive. If you mainly build for dense detail and clever section-to-section variety, though, the second identical figure will wear you down, and the price won't feel justified. It's retired now, so you're shopping the secondary market, where sealed copies have crept above retail. My take: a warm recommendation for the right person, with eyes open about the tedium and the cost. It won me over on charm and cleverness, not on value.

The parts story

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

The build splits neatly into two booklets, one per figure, and it moves through legs, torso, arms, then head and hair. The standout stretch is the torso, which has those signature angled sides. LEGO holds them at the right slant with an internal frame, and the arms sit on gears and friction pins so they can be rotated and posed without flopping down. It's a genuinely novel bit of construction you won't have done in a normal set. The legs lean on standard 1x2x3 slope bricks, and the hands rotate on pin connections just like the real minifigure wrist. The catch is that the magic fades on the second go. By the time you're packing Hermione's hair in a single color, block by block, the wonder has turned into a chore.

On parts, the headline is a brand new mold: the Brick Curved 4x6 with a 2x4 cutout, made to be the smooth canvas for those printed faces. It's all print here, no stickers anywhere, which includes the lightning-scar slope and the printed panels for the Hogwarts sweaters with their red and yellow trim. 2021 was a strong year for Light Nougat, and this set piles on the recolors, something like 13 elements across 11 molds in that skin tone, most of them appearing in that color for the first time. There are handy extras too, a Light Nougat round brick with an axle hole and a dark tan lantern piece used for Hermione's wand. For a set that's really a sculpture, the parts list is more useful to a collector than you'd guess.

Fun facts

01These aren't minifigures in the usual sense, they're supersized brick-built figures at roughly six times minifigure scale, standing about 26cm tall.
02The set was designed by LEGO's Nick Vas and launched as a Target exclusive in the US on June 1, 2021.
03There isn't a single sticker in the whole box, everything including the two detailed faces is printed.
04It introduced a brand new element, the Brick Curved 4x6 with 2x4 cutout, created specifically to hold the large printed face designs.