Brickheadz

Prisoner of Azkaban Figures

The Patronus is the one that actually surprised me here.

Brick Rated Score

3.6/5

Set 40677 · 2024

Pieces697

Minifigsn/a

Year2024

Set number40677

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The verdict

This is a five-figure BrickHeadz box built to mark twenty years of the third Harry Potter film, and it is a lovely little shelf group for anyone who holds Azkaban as their favourite chapter.

Harry, Hermione, Sirius, a Dementor, and a glowing Stag Patronus all land as instantly recognisable, and the Patronus is genuinely more inventive than I expected. I will be honest that four of the five are quite standard BrickHeadz cubes, so the excitement lives mostly in that one translucent stag. If you love the story or you collect these blocky heads, it is an easy yes. If you want a build that challenges you, this is not it.

Best for: Harry Potter fans who count Azkaban as their favourite film

The full review

What it is

Every so often a set arrives that is less about the build and more about the little crowd it leaves on your shelf, and that is exactly what this one is. LEGO put this box out in early 2024 to mark twenty years since the third film, and inside you get five BrickHeadz: Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Sirius Black, a Dementor, and a Stag Patronus. The first four are the familiar cube-headed shapes you already know from the range, but the Patronus is where I actually leaned in. It uses light blue and translucent blue pieces to suggest that glowing, half-there quality of the charm, and it is not the usual boxy silhouette at all. That one figure carries a lot of the personality in this set.

The catch

I want to be straight with you about the value, because it is the thing most people will weigh. At 49.99 dollars for 697 pieces the price per brick reads perfectly fair on paper. In your hands, though, the parts are all quite small, so opening the finished group does not feel like fifty dollars of LEGO the way a chunkier set would. Harry, Hermione, and Sirius are also pleasant but plain. You have built figures like them before, and nothing about the three of them will make you slow down and admire the technique. There is also a small practical grumble: the Patronus does not balance well off its baseplate because the head sits forward, so it really wants to stay on its stand.

Who it's for

So who is this actually for. If Prisoner of Azkaban is the film you reach for, or if you are the kind of collector who lines these blocky heads up in a row, this is a warm and easy pick, especially now that it has retired and is still floating right around its old shelf price. The Dementor and the Patronus in particular are characters you do not get to build often, and having them together tells a little story. If you came looking for a meaty, clever construction to lose an afternoon to, though, I would gently steer you elsewhere. This is a display piece and a fan hug, not an engineering workout, and it is happiest being judged on those terms.

The parts story

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

Building this is a calm, quick sit-down rather than anything that will test you, and if you have put together a BrickHeadz before you already know the rhythm. Each of the five figures builds on its own baseplate and stands a little over three inches tall, so you are really assembling five short models in one evening rather than one big one. The three human figures come together fast and cleanly. The Dementor and the Patronus are the two that hold your attention, partly because their shapes break away from the standard cube and partly because they lean on colour to sell the effect.

The pieces worth noting are mostly about print and translucency rather than new molds. Harry carries a printed lightning scar, his round glasses, black hair with a mud smudge, and striped sleeves, and his wand has a translucent element clipped on so it reads as an active Patronus charm. Hermione and Sirius each get a wand of their own, with Sirius shown in his grey Azkaban prison garb. The real parts treat is the pool of light blue and translucent blue used for the Stag Patronus, colours you rarely get in this quantity, which makes those elements handy for anyone who tinkers with their own glowing or icy builds later.

Fun facts

01LEGO released this set in early 2024 to mark the twentieth anniversary of the Prisoner of Azkaban film.
02It retired in December 2024 after a shelf life of only about eleven months, and now sits right around its original 49.99 dollar price on the secondary market.
03The Dementor is one of the very few times that character has appeared in the BrickHeadz range, making this box the easy way to get one.