Harry Potter

Thestral Family

The first brick-built Thestral, and the fabric wings are what got me.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 76458 · 2025

Pieces548

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number76458

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The verdict

I did not expect a skeletal horse to have this much presence on a shelf, but the adult Thestral stands over nine inches tall with real cloth wings that fan out, and it genuinely stops people.

It leans hard into sculpture over play, so if you want minifigures or action features you will feel a bit short-changed at seventy dollars. What you are really paying for is a striking, poseable creature and its baby, and for the right person that is exactly enough. Best enjoyed by someone who loves the darker, stranger corners of the wizarding world.

Best for: Harry Potter fans who want a display creature with real presence, not another minifigure diorama

The full review

What it is

This is the first time LEGO has ever given us a proper brick-built Thestral, and I will be honest, I went in skeptical about a skeletal winged horse made of plastic and came out a little bit smitten. The finished adult stands over nine and a half inches tall, all sharp ribs and long neck and hollow flanks, and then you unfold those black fabric wings and it turns into something genuinely dramatic. There is a baby Thestral beside it and a small buildable tree that nods to the Forbidden Forest, so it reads as a little family scene rather than a single lonely figure. For a creature that half the wizarding world cannot even see, it has an enormous amount of presence on a shelf.

The catch

Now for the part I cannot skip over. At 69.99 for 548 pieces this is not offering much on paper, and the thing that really lands is the total absence of minifigures. Every other Harry Potter set at this price throws in a handful of characters, and here you get none, which is a fair thing for people to grumble about. The build itself is sculptural rather than clever, so if you live for engineering and surprising techniques you may find the bony frame sections a touch repetitive and fiddly to align. And once it is finished, the play value is slim. This is a model you pose and display, not one you act out big scenes with.

Who it's for

So who should actually bring this home. If you love the odd, melancholy corners of the wizarding world, the Thestrals, Luna Lovegood, the sense of grief woven through the later books, this will mean something to you that no price-per-piece chart can measure. It is also a lovely pick for anyone building a creature shelf, since it sits beautifully next to a Buckbeak or a dragon. If you are chasing minifigures, dense playability, or maximum bricks for your money, though, I would be honest with you and say look elsewhere. This one is bought with the heart, not the spreadsheet, and it knows exactly what it is.

The parts story

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

Building this is a slower, more organic experience than most licensed sets, closer to shaping a sculpture than snapping together walls. You spend your time on the ribcage and the long spindly legs, working curves and angles to get that gaunt, undernourished Thestral silhouette right, and there is real satisfaction when the head and neck finally come together and the whole thing reads as alive. It runs about one to two hours, and the baby makes a sweet, quick coda after the taller adult.

The headline element is the pair of soft fabric wings on the adult, which fold flat or fan out into full flight poses and do far more for the drama than any printed piece could. Beyond that the palette is heavy on curved and angled black elements chosen for organic shapes rather than rare printed parts, so this is not a set you strip for a big collectible haul. At roughly thirteen cents a piece it is fairly priced for what it is, and the value here is really the finished creature rather than the parts bin underneath it.

Fun facts

01Thestrals can only be seen by those who have witnessed death, which is why Harry first spots them pulling the Hogwarts carriages in Order of the Phoenix after seeing Cedric die.
02This 76458 set is the first time LEGO has ever produced a full brick-built Thestral, adult and baby together.
03The adult figure stands over 9.5 inches (24 cm) tall and uses real cloth wing elements rather than molded plastic ones.
04The set is due to retire around December 2026, so its shelf life as a current product is short.