hello everyone here's a goblet of fire
set from the Lego Harry Potter line it's
the beauxbaton carriage arrival at
Hogwarts set or as the actor for
Dumbledore pronounced it bow bat'n I'm gonna start things off with a
look at the four minifigures here which
are of four different sizes I can't
quite put a finger on why but I really
like this finest threads version of
Hagrid with the tie and the furry coat I
don't I just feel like it has a little
bit more personality to look at the
figure on the whole than the standard
getup for him and this uses the most
recent version of his body and also the
wide arms there and he has a couple of
paddles there for directing air traffic
coming in to land taking a look
underneath here his face without all the
facial hair is interesting and also lets
you see the rest of the print for his
torso there's no additional printer in
the back Madame Maxime is appropriately
a bit taller than Hagrid and has a
really good print going down the front
and back of the torso as well as the
exclusive printed tall sloped piece
there so that's actually pretty pretty
continuous all the way through lines up
pretty well and it's just yes
produced pretty well she also has an
alternate face and then here are the
sisters Fleur Delacour actually Jang
it's Fleur du lak coo and Gabrielle
these have the same new hair pieces hair
and hat pieces together dual moulded and
also the same torsos which is
appropriate because they are supposed to
be in uniform got the nice dual molded
legs there on the left short child-style
legs on the right I know that nowadays a
lot of people prefer to always see the
mid sized legs being used just because
you can articulate them you can move
them around but I personally still see
the value of having the smallest
possible legs to really accentuate the
difference in size between different
characters and these have the same
prints around the backs of the torsos of
course
and they have different alternate faces
so singing for one and sleeping for the
other and I really like the printed
sealed letter there which is against tan
you know something a little bit more
classy a little bit older than the male
piece one of the mail pieces that
they've been using for quite a long time
that's on a white tile the carriage
build is really nice
and uses some interesting techniques
nothing too too fancy but just I don't
know I feel like a lot of the stuff was
unexpected how different parts are
connected together you want to see a
real surprise that is a wall an
impenetrable wall it has a little bit of
upside-down building there has some of
the interesting techniques with recent
pieces but yeah there's no
ingress/egress
right there interesting lots of stickers
are used for the decorative elements and
I think that's perfectly appropriate
because like for instance this has to be
different than this that's different
than that it just wasn't worth them
investing into that many new part
numbers for all the different parts that
need to be decorated here and if you if
you absolutely detest stickers just
leave those off there's still plenty of
small detail different texture different
shaping in here that I think it'll still
look very good I like what they did with
the suspension as well it looks
semi-realistic almost as if there's
almost as if these these axles are
actually suspended out the back it's
just some unnecessary stuff that adds to
the believability of this I think you've
got a trunk back here which has pervy
tea set
so some tea cups in there for minifigs
those are nice to see we don't have
enough of those in circulation just yet
they're just in plain white but I think
they're very good and there's another
one inside as well I like how these
angle out I don't even know the proper
term for these these elements in in real
life but you know they're just angled
out a little bit which adds a little bit
more life to this makes it feel even
less rectangular notice that there are
two different colors of pearl gold right
there that's
the old pro gold on the left new pro
gold on the right Lego is still in the
process of switching over from one to
the other and that will just continue on
for a while until all of the old gold is
gone I think a newer gold is much better
nice lanterns around the sides a little
bit a little bit fussy anytime that you
touch this if you touch those they're
going to get miss Alliant either front
to back or side to side and then they
just don't look right and if you notice
details it'll bug you until you get it
just right where they're they're
vertical so they look like they're
actually hanging like they're supposed
to now on the side this is where you can
actually open the thing up so that's
that's some proper space for a figure to
go in and out you can pose a figure in a
doorway but it's too bad that they don't
give you any steps or like a ladder or
something to be able to read tracked and
put down here so that you could actually
have the arrival properly I have figures
coming down from the carriage I think
that's a little bit of a Miss that it
wouldn't have taken too many pieces to
correct and coming around the other side
there's space for another trunk there if
you have an extra part you can also
stand a figure there kind of I think it
has to be one of the shorter figures
actually this wall this will fit an
adult size figure will just fit there
depending upon what they have for
headgear I don't think that's even
necessary or anything the animals know
how to pile this just fine but you can
rotate the front axle side to side and
also this whole harness goes up and down
so it gives you a little bit of
flexibility when I saw the first reveal
pictures of this set I didn't like this
right here and I still don't like that
right there it just looks very
unfinished and just incorrect to me it
just doesn't feel right maybe if it was
tiled over a little bit or if there's
just a little bit of angle here in the
corners that would help but the spacing
is correct
I think the spacing is as it needs to be
for these you know to have enough room
you just still see that the wings are
overlapping but
this way you can pose them in good ways
with them alternating in the the wing
stroke up and down or have one up have
one can even be completely all the way
out I'm just accidentally dislodging it
a bit there but you know and this can be
all the way out like that this is the
the old hair here the old horse mold or
a set of molds which doesn't look as bad
or as out-of-date as I would expect it's
a good prints that they have for the
harnesses on these and these wings are
just so beautiful it's it's an
absolutely magnificent design it's
useful for realistic and also fanciful
flying things and these are just in
plain white I love just how flowing they
are lots of compound curves they're just
a really great piece and of course you
can remove these and they actually do
include in this set and extra a pair of
1 by 2 white plates to take up the space
used here so you know you can fill up
that gap so you don't have a little bit
of gap so you can have these just flying
freely if you want and they are able to
rear up as well
now the Harry Potter series is written
by a British storyteller so naturally
you have a small enclosed object it's
going to be much larger on the inside
than it is on out and to accommodate
that in Lego form they let you open all
of this up and it's basically a one-step
transformation process which is actually
pretty nice it would be lovely to have
some some walls to bring down on the
sides here but I think this is pretty
classy and pretty well done so you've
got the beds upstairs which don't even
open up you know that's that's literally
the roof of the place you're just seeing
the pillows appear you've got some studs
out here so you can attach figure adult
size to figure regular legs to the back
of that if if you want basically one of
the figures in this set will fit there
any others will just you know lay down
and yeah I've got even got some
furniture I mean this is the nicest
thing how this is done leaving enough
space for the
in there there's there's upside-down
building so that when this is flipped
over the drawers are actually right-side
up you can put the letter in there if if
you want it's just pretty nicely
detailed I can also let these now angle
down somewhat I don't know I think I'll
just leave them up I think it looks fine
like that but yeah this is I think it's
nice I think there's a nice amount of of
magic to this and it doesn't need too
much more to be realistic I think that
this this strikes the right balance
between trying to debate depict things
as they're supposed to be in universe
and having just a reasonable build
that's again easy to transform and also
looks pretty good
and has space on the inside still that's
preserved you can see that this wall
here is basically just a single brick
thick it's the same as on the other side
there's actually a little bit more room
afforded on this side then the other
side's build because this side has the
arches to give it a little extra
strength there so you can put figures in
there and it it all works out pretty
well you can also stand figures here no
studs though which is good and bad the
bad is that you can't get figures to
stay to stay exactly where you want them
to be the good is that you can put
figures wherever you want them to be and
then here's the additional teacup and
also a kettle that is dark as you're
right there and the rest of this lighter
blue color is the light royal blue and
that's pretty much it for this set here
are the other pieces of the set I
already mentioned the two 1 by 2's to
finish up the animals if you separate
them away from the carriage this is just
a bottle for Hagrid and my set actually
did include an extra one of these
wonderful teacups I don't know if that
was supposed to be there if every set is
going to come with an extra I certainly
hope so and you only have one extra wand
by far the most redeeming feature of
this set is the design and build of the
carriage which is good because that's
the main thing that you're paying for
here this is $50 u.s. at a suggested
retail price I personally feel like it
should be more like 40 based on the
amount of stuff yeah
40 that's about as far as I'll go with
it I think I think 40 is about about
reasonable it's definitely possible and
not even that difficult to defend the
price of this if you just want to take
that stance if you really like
everything that you see here I mean we
do have a couple of larger than normal
figures or specialized and then also a
couple of animals plus the wings and
everything so you know those always add
two to value relative to what you would
expect from a price to part ratio
perspective but just just to me you know
I'm just I'm always going to tell you
what what I think based on what I see
purely subjectively and of course
separate that out from any objective
analysis but I I don't I don't quite see
50 dollars worth of value here myself
but if you want if you really want this
and you end up paying 50 you're not
getting ripped off it is a good set and
it has good figures good features and
good display value with the exception of
just this thing here which I think needs
a little bit of work if you want to see
the entire build process including the
interesting ways that some of the parts
of the carriage are put together you can
see my real-time pure build or the sped
up speed build
I'll link it to both of those right now
and talk to you in soon thanks for
watching
bon jour sit well do like cool actually
