Brickheadz

Professors of Hogwarts

Four Hogwarts teachers rendered in blocky charm, and every single piece is printed.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 40560 · 2022

Pieces601

Minifigsn/a

Year2022

Set number40560

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The verdict

This is the BrickHeadz set that finally won me over on the whole squashed-cube format.

Snape, McGonagall, Moody and Trelawney all read instantly as themselves, and the fact that LEGO printed every tile instead of reaching for stickers is the detail I keep coming back to. It is a display piece first and a building challenge a distant second, so temper your expectations there. If you love Harry Potter and want a shelf of characters rather than another castle, this is an easy yes.

Best for: Harry Potter fans who want a printed, sticker-free character shelf

The full review

What it is

Professors of Hogwarts gathers four of the teaching staff, Severus Snape, Minerva McGonagall, Alastor Moody and Sybill Trelawney, into that chunky big-headed BrickHeadz style, and I went in a little skeptical and came out charmed. Snape gets his flat black cape and permanent scowl, McGonagall has the green dress and a witch's hat topped with little golden feathers, Moody has that weird lopsided magic eye, and Trelawney arrived with her enormous glasses and a sand green dress that made me grin. What got me was how quickly each one clicks into being recognizable. You do not need a name tag to know who is who, and that is harder to pull off in cube form than it looks.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the caveats, because there are a few. BrickHeadz are, by design, a lot of the same small plates and tiles stacked up into boxy heads and bodies, so if you are the kind of builder who lives for clever mechanisms or surprising techniques, this will not scratch that itch. The whole set takes maybe an hour or two, and because it splits into four separate bags and four booklets, each individual figure is a fairly short sit. At the 39.99 dollar retail price you are paying a little over six cents a piece, which is fair rather than generous, and the value here is really in the printing and the license, not the raw part count.

Who it's for

So who thrives with this one. If you are a Harry Potter fan who wants characters to display, a row of professors on a shelf or desk, this is genuinely lovely and the all-printed approach means it will still look sharp years from now with no peeling stickers. It is also a comfortable build for a younger fan aged ten and up, or anyone who wants a low-stress evening project. The people I would steer away are hardcore technique builders and anyone who already has a wall of BrickHeadz, because from a distance they do start to blend together. This set retired in December 2023, so it is now a secondary-market hunt, and prices have crept above retail to around the mid-forties for a sealed box.

The parts story

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

Building these is a calm, tidy experience. You work one professor at a time from their own numbered bag and booklet, stacking small plates and jumpers into the signature cube silhouette, then finishing with the face and accessories that give each one their identity. It is methodical rather than tricky, the sort of build where the payoff is the printed piece you place near the end rather than a satisfying click of engineering. Doing all four back to back, you notice how much the personality lives in tiny choices: the tilt of a hat, the exact eye print, the color of a collar.

The parts themselves are where this set earns its keep. Everything is printed, no stickers at all, which on a set this size is a treat, and that includes the robe tiles, the accessories and every eye. Trelawney's glasses are the clever bit, with the nose bridge built right into the face as a brick element, and Moody's false eye is deliberately a touch oversized so it reads correctly. McGonagall's golden feathers and a small gold ring used as Trelawney's necklace add pops of metallic, and thoughtfully LEGO tossed in a spare gold ring in case one goes flying. For parts collectors, the printed robe and face tiles are the real draw here.

Fun facts

01Every piece in the set is printed rather than stickered, including the tiles that stand in for robes and the professors' eyes, which is unusual generosity for a 40-dollar BrickHeadz set.
02The set ships as four numbered bags with four separate instruction booklets, so you can build whichever professor you like first instead of following one fixed order.
03LEGO included a spare gold ring piece for Trelawney's necklace, a small safety net for the one part most likely to disappear into the carpet.
04Professors of Hogwarts retired in December 2023 after about eighteen months on shelves, and sealed copies have since risen above the original 39.99 dollar price.