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Thursday, October 3, 2024

Back to Hogwarts: LEGO Set No. 76413 Room of Requirements Pt 3 The Grey Lady's Room

I'm no LEGO expert and my collection is quite small, but it even to me it was odd that LEGO billed this set as having a separate room for Helena Ravenclaw - the Grey Lady. When looking at the box art, it appears as if there's enough parts for two separate rooms, the larger Room of Requirements as well as this smaller room. But that's not the case. Instead, once the main structure is complete, if you want to have a separate Grey Lady room, you must partially disresemble the main structure and rebuild the pieces into her cozy little nook!


The completed build


The first step in assembling the Grey Lady's room is to take off the balcony assembly to the far left, and removing the witches cap cupola.

The room to the left, and that assembly immediately to the right of it are the basis of the Grey Lady's room and need to be taken off.

Once those two are removed, the assembly with the arch is placed atop the room and there you have it - the Grey Lady's own little hideaway.












NFIC 3" Army Mini-Trucks HP Pt 7 Turret Gun

This is rather an oddball design - a turret gun mounted on the back of a utility vehicle. Normally one would expect any turret to be large enough to hold a gunner, but this thing looks a remote control turret. It measures: 3" (7.62cm) L x 1.375" (3.49cm) W x 1.25" (3.17cm) H. Enjoy! Opa Fritz















Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Back to Hogwarts: LEGO Set No. 76413 Room of Requirements Pt 2 Built-Up

As I didn't take any in-progress photos of the build, I'll post these shots taken when it was all finished. I took a series of photos without the figures and then with the figures. When closed up it measures overall 6.5" (16.51cm) W x 15.125" (38.41cm) H x 2.875" (7.30cm) D   Enjoy! Opa Fritz

The Room of Requirements is hidden from view within the castle by a plain wall...

...until you need to gain entry, when the wall opens up to reveal hidden doors

In some of these shots, you'll see figures lurking in the room











The Lost Diadem on a stack of balancing books and boxes


One Cornish Pixie is provided in the set

The Fiendfyre can be posed anywhere but he really can't fit within the confined space of The Room when it's all closed up










Best shot of the diadem

Using extra pieces supplied in the set, the Fiendfyre can be taken apart and posed whizzing around the room catching everything on fire.