Harry Potter

Quidditch Match

The pitch you always wanted from the films, finally the size it deserves.

Brick Rated Score

4.3/5

Set 75956 · 2018

Pieces500

Minifigs6

Year2018

Set number75956

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The verdict

This is the third crack LEGO has taken at a Quidditch pitch, and it is easily the one that made me grin the widest.

For forty dollars you get all four house towers, a working keeper on the goal hoops, a bludger shooter, and six figures with real fabric capes. The build itself is light on engineering, so if you want a puzzle this will not scratch that itch. But as a playset or a shelf piece for anyone who loves the wizarding world, it earns its keep.

Best for: Harry Potter fans who want a proper pitch scene and figures, not a technical build

The full review

What it is

I have watched LEGO try to bottle a Quidditch match twice before, back in 2010, and both times it felt like a corner of a pitch rather than the real thing. This 2018 version is the first one that actually reads as a stadium. You build all four house towers, each in its colours with little viewing stands, then a central base with three goal hoops, a spinning keeper to guard them, and a stud shooter loaded with a bludger. Set it all out on a table and the footprint genuinely surprised me for a five-hundred-piece box. The first time I clipped Harry onto a broom and hovered him over the hoops, I was ten years old again.

The catch

There is a catch, and I will not pretend otherwise. The building experience is about as gentle as Harry Potter sets get. The four towers are near enough identical, so once you have made one you are essentially repeating it three more times in different colours, and there is nothing here that will teach an experienced builder a new technique. The play features are sweet but slight. The keeper spins, the bludger fires, and that is roughly the extent of the interactivity. This was always a set carried by its figures and its silhouette rather than its guts, and at full price a few reviewers rightly said to wait for a sale. That ship has sailed, though, because it retired at the end of 2020 and now trades well north of its old forty-dollar tag.

Who it's for

So who ends up happy here. If you love the wizarding world, or you are buying for a child who does, this is close to ideal. The figure selection is generous and characterful, the pitch displays beautifully, and it plays the way an eight-year-old actually wants a Quidditch set to play. If you are a hardcore builder chasing clever engineering or dense parts usage, this one will feel thin in your hands and you will be happier elsewhere in the theme. I land firmly on the fan side of that line, which is why despite the repetitive towers I still think it is one of the more joyful Harry Potter sets of its era.

The parts story

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

Building this is a relaxed afternoon rather than a challenge. You work through four colour-coded towers, a central goal structure, and the little accessory extras, and none of it will slow you down or ask much of you. That is by design, since this leans toward younger builders and playability, but it does mean the towers start to feel samey by the third one. The joy is really in dressing the scene afterwards, arranging the stands, the scoreboard, the trophy, and the tiny megaphone.

The accessories are where this box quietly shines. The Golden Snitch is a lovely new element, its wings ridged and its body scored with fine lines, and it is one of my favourite small pieces from the whole 2018 relaunch. The brooms use the black and brown broom mould, and the Quidditch robes are proper fabric capes with printed house crests and gold-lined hoods, a real step up from flat stickered cloth. Add a chest, two wands, the Quaffle, two bludgers, a bat, and the printed scoreboard, and the parts value stacks up nicely, especially since four of the six figures never appeared anywhere else.

Fun facts

01This is the third LEGO Quidditch pitch, following two smaller 2010 versions, and the first to include all four house towers rather than just a slice of the stands.
02The set retired in December 2020 and has climbed well above its original 39.99 dollar price, with new-condition copies now regularly trading around 60 to 75 dollars.
03Four of the six minifigures (including Slytherin chasers Marcus Flint and Lucian Bole) were exclusive to this set at launch.
04Hermione appears as a first-year with a uniquely sculpted wavy hair piece, a detail collectors singled out as one of the nicest figures in the 2018 wave.