Customer Reviews

Lego Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone #4723 Diagon Alley Shops

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If you like tiny, detailed accessories, you'll love this set -- it's practically nothing but accessories with just enough building blocks to hold it all together.

This Lego set impressed both my 10-year-old daughter and me, her discerning mom. She thinks the animals (a whopping five of them here!) are the cutest things ever. I think the best toys are those that "do" more than one thing, and most of these pieces provide multiple possibilities for creative play. Examples: the translucent cylinders can be wands, glow sticks, or test tubes full of colorful potions; the colorful gem-shaped pieces can be decorative stoppers for the bottles or jewels in the treasure chest; the feathery orange-red plume works equally well as a quill pen and as a flame. In addition to being versatile, these pieces are sturdy for many hours of handling. The only flimsy items, the thin vinyl capes, came packaged in their own little cardboard box that prevented crumpling. This little box is actually sized right for small fingers to be able to put the capes back in - for continued storage and protection. Thank you Lego, for thinking ahead!

If you have a Lego fan who also loves Harry Potter, you won't go wrong with this fantastic set. We can't wait to try out the rest in the Harry Potter series.

For me, this set was mainly used as a sort of "super-detailing" set for the other Harry Potter sets I own. It is crammed with all kinds of small details, items, animals, and furniture. Lots of potions, bottles, stands, and hats. You can configure minifigs with this set, add bottles to scenes, and all kinds of very, very fun ideas. On it's own, as the set is intended, it completes two very detailed shops, with a cardboard backdrop that provides two solid walls for each shop (complete with good detail on the cardboard itself).

The set also comes with one Hermionie minifig. (Note: She's in casual, non-Hogwarts attire. I found that she looked quite decent in a spare Harry Potter body, legs, and cloak, with her head and hair substituted. Since each set comes with one Harry figure, most people are sure to have such a spare.)

One solid point off for the background being nothing more than a piece of cardboard - kids can easily destroy such a thing in a flat minute. The rest of the kit is solid Lego quality.

Wow! I bought this at Toys R Us and was so happy! Comes with a cool trunk, drawers, broomstick and wands! You have these little bottles with diamond stoppers! I liked it and am gonna try to get the whole set!

I got this set for my daughter about two days ago.She loves it.
She did not stop playing with it yet.She loves the animals.Her favorit is the owl.She was begging me to get her more HP lego.

This set is perfect for all the small details needed to perfect your lego world. I wasn't thrilled by the colors since they are supposed to be part of the Harry Potter series. The only bright colors I really like are the potions bottles as described when Harry's walking through Diagon Alley with Hagrid in book 1. If you're into details, details, details, and lots of accessories, this set is for you. It has cabinets, drawers, coins, potions, books, 5 animals (toad,scorpion,owl,rat,cat),wands,and lots more. The Hermione mini figure in muggle clothes is also a nice touch. I like the cloak stand and the hats also. I am going to use the red cloak for Gryffindor quidditch robes. This set is simply to fine tune your rooms with accessories.

I got this toy for Christmas a year ago, but I never got around to writing a review for it, so here goes. You get two shops and one backdrop. The only character it comes with is Hermione. She's dressed in Muggle clothes, a blue top and blue jeans(or some kind of blue pants). The details on the backdrop are quite good. One of the shops comes with potions(or something of the sort), a cloak stand, two cloaks(I think they're red and purple), two spell books, a cupboard with two drawers in it, two connecting cupboards with just one big space in each of them, a jug of someting, a tan broomstick( sort of weird, because all of the other broomsticks in the other sets were dark brown), two hats, and a weird shelf that holds half of the previously listed stuff. All of the furniture in this shop is orange, light green, and white. The second shop comes with four wands(their colours are blue, purple, green, and red. They're sort of see-through. All of the other wands in the other sets are brown, grey, or black. Weird.), a frog or toad, a grey owl, a rat or mouse, a crystal ball or a gazing ball, a cash register type thing, a cupboard that comes with coins with 10, 20, 30, and 40 on them(I guess they're supposed to be sickles, but they don't look like them at all.), a pink see-through trunk, a lobster or scorpion that's supposed to go in the trunk, another weird shelf for half of the stuff to go on, and a bird perch(for the owl, I guess.). The colours for this shop are orange, turquoise, light green, purple, and white. The colours don't match the other sets(the sorting hat, snape's class, forbidden corridor, room of the winged keys, etc.) The only sets the colour scheme matches are the classrooms, and the gryffindor house. Those of which are the same colour. It's not really that durable as the set has all of those bottles, animals, wands, etc, that fall off a lot. It's a pretty cool set, but it should come with Harry, Hagrid, and maybe Ollivander from the wand shop and Madame Maulkins. Then it would be following the story. And the most stupid thing about this is, Hermione can't wear the hats. She has to take off her hair to put one on, and then she looks bald. She also has this little grin, and reminds me of a fish. I guess they included her in this set, so it would appear "feminine". That probably explains the colour scheme too. But it's not that bad. My cousins who are boys both loved the set and I did too. It's suitable for just about everybody. But I would watch out with little kids and pets that might eat the pieces. It should be bigger with five or ten shops. Get this Lego set!

One of my favorite locations in the world of Harry Potter is Diagon Alley. This small set represents two shops and has a Hermione minifig to browse through the various items. There are hats, a broom, potions with jeweled stoppers, a till, cloaks, a cat, books and more! This set is very fun because it gives you all sorts of extras. All the various wares for the shops sit loosely around in some cases so you have to be careful not to misplace them. The different colour cloaks and hats are my favorite, they really let you create a variety of characters just by changing one aspect of them. A great set.

This set is excellent! It's just what I needed for Harry, Ron and Hermoine to buy their school suplies in! It is a good idea to make the lid into a tray because of all the loose parts. I love all the tiny details in this set! Like the kitten, books, potion bottles and crystal ball! This is NOT the only set with Hermoine in muggle clothes as the Hogwarts express has her on it! I don't like the way all the shops are put together, there are wands in a shop selling animals! I don't like the colours either but it's a great set anyway! I give this one 3/5 for durability because it isn't very strong and there are loads of loose parts. This set is great when added to House of Gryffindor and Hogwarts classrooms! I am getting the Hogwarts Express next! I can't wait!

This is one very unique and interesting Lego Harry Potter set! First of all, it has been a bit hard to find, cause only one store in my city was selling it: Toysrus! Anyways, this set has 80 small pieces, not recommended for young kids. Now, the price is great, and it is a bit small, but don't be fooled: just cause it only has 80 pieces doesn't mean it can be put together fast! It takes a good 20 minutes with the detailed picture instuctions. The set has lots of interesting pieces in different colors. The colors, in my opinion, are not good. There are pinks, oranges, and turquioses! This is very unHarry Potterish! The House of Gryffindor and Hogwarts Classrooms have the same odd color scheme. I think these sets are a bit feminine. The all have Hermione's picture on the box, and not Harrys' like the other sets. I think this set was made for females mainly, but it still is a great set for both genders!

The set includes a Hermione figure with muggle clothes(only set that has Hermione wearing normal clothes and not a school uniform) It has a white lego cat(useful if you want to play the part where Mcgonagall is a tabby cat), trevor the toad, bottles of potions(possibly), a tan broomstick(not brown like the ones from other sets), it has drawers that open and can be used to store stuff, it has coins with the numbers 10, 20, 30, and 40 on them(they don't look like Galleons, Knuts, or Sickles), a gray owl is perched on a stick, a coat hanger with two different capes displayed, and it also includes a very awesome Diagon Alley backdrop, which is a nice touch. I was very intrigued by the transparent lego pieces like a chest that contains a lobster(or is it a scorpion). This set even comes with two hats. Still, it's too bad the shops don't have a name. Where's Ollivanders, Eyelops Emporium, Flourish and Blotts... It is like all the shops are mixed in together! There is even colorful transparent sticks that I think are supposed to be wands. Well, it looks like Hermione is going to Hogwarts in style...yeah right!

Charming set of legos that include some open-ended pieces with recognizable characters such as magical creatures, a broom, wizard hats and more. This set comes with a cardboard backdrop that allows the child to imagine the scene in different Diagon Alley shops. Though pricey, this set is special -- and any young Harry Potter fan would thrill to have it. The vendor expedited my shipping unprompted, which was also appreciated.