Harry Potter

Malfoy Manor

Nine gorgeous minifigs and a grand facade, sitting on a slightly too-shallow house.

Brick Rated Score

3.9/5

Set 76453 · 2025

Pieces1,602

Minifigs9

Year2025

Set number76453

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The verdict

This one's a proper puzzle for me, because the good bits are so good and the missing bits are so obvious.

You get nine minifigures, a genuinely handsome gothic facade, and a falling chandelier that never stops being fun. But at 1,602 pieces the house is only about 13cm deep, so the rooms feel thin once you look inside. If you buy it for the characters and the display shape, you'll be happy. If you want deep, furnished rooms to play in, go in with your eyes open.

Best for: Harry Potter collectors who care most about the minifigure lineup and a display-worthy facade

The full review

What it is

Malfoy Manor was always going to be a hard building for LEGO to crack, and this 76453 LEGO® set gets a lot more right than the internet grumbling might suggest. The front of the house is the star. It's tall and narrow and properly gothic, with that cold, grand, slightly menacing look the films leaned into, and from the front it displays wonderfully. Open it up and you get the drawing room with its long dining table, Draco's bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom, and the cellar down below where Harry gets held. Add nine minifigures and Nagini coiled on the table, and you can basically stage the whole Deathly Hallows Part 1 sequence right there on the shelf.

The catch

Here's where I'll be straight with you. The house is shallow. Really shallow. It stands about 32cm tall and 30cm wide but only around 13cm deep, and once you notice it you can't unnotice it. The rooms end up feeling more like sets on a stage than places a minifig could actually live in, and posing scenes inside gets fiddly. Brick Fanatics made the point that arguably wanted 2,500 to 3,500 pieces to really land, and at 1,602 it comes out a touch flat in both senses of the word. Hoth Bricks went further and called the manor a luxury backdrop for the minifigures rather than a building in its own right. It sits at 149.99 dollars, and whether that stings depends entirely on how much you value that minifigure lineup.

Who it's for

So who ends up loving this. If you're a Harry Potter collector and the characters are what you're chasing, this is one of the strongest single-set figure hauls the theme has done, and the facade gives them a home worth displaying. Bellatrix alone, with her printed corset and manic dual-sided face, is close to worth the shelf space. If you want a deep, richly furnished playhouse to actually stage adventures inside, this isn't quite that, and you might feel short-changed by the depth. For me it lands as a very good set with one loud caveat: buy it for the front and the figures, not for the rooms behind them, and you'll be glad you did.

The parts story

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

The build is a calm, pleasant couple of hours, and honestly it's a lovely one to do with a film on in the background. You work up from the cellar and ground floor into the upper rooms, and because the manor is symmetrical you do hit some repetition in the walls and windows. It never gets dull though, because each new floor hands you a different room to furnish, so the repeated bits are broken up by the drawing room, the kitchen, Draco's bedroom and so on. The star technique is the falling chandelier rig over the dining table, a simple little function that pays off every single time you flick it.

On pieces, the headline is really the minifigures. Nine of them, six unique to this set, with new or updated versions of Voldemort (pale printed skin and the Elder Wand), Bellatrix (pad-printed legs, the only figure here to get them), Harry, Hermione, Luna and Dobby, plus Nagini as a separate snake element. The dual-sided heads are excellent, especially Draco's sneer-to-fear flip. Beyond the figures the parts haul is solid rather than showy: lots of dark tan and dark bluish grey for the masonry, arched window pieces, and useful printed tiles. Reviewers rated the parts value well for a licensed set at this price, but it's the character printing, not exotic new molds, that carries the value here.

Fun facts

01The set packs nine minifigures for 149.99 dollars, one of the biggest single-set figure counts the Harry Potter theme has offered, and six of them are exclusive to this box.
02Bellatrix Lestrange is the only figure in the set to get fully pad-printed legs, a detail LEGO usually reserves for its most premium minifigures.
03For all its height and width, the finished manor is only about 13cm deep, which is the single complaint nearly every reviewer landed on.
04The drawing room recreates the film's dinner scene right down to Nagini on the table and a chandelier you can drop on command.