Thinking About Hogwarts Castle

Mystery solved

I will also say that this is plastic and not ceramic or glass.  At 6 bucks its good but its probably worth only 10 bucks max. 

Sean007 posted:

Went to Wal-Mart today for the Christmas clearance and I figured that I might as well check out the toy dept.

Found the Harry Potter nano metalfigs 5 pack with: Harry Potter, Luna Lovegood, Sirius Black, Prof Trelawney and Moaning Myrtle for $ 4.68.

 

I also found the Walking Dead 5 pack at clearance for $ 3.50. Comes with Rick Grimes, Michonne, Carl Grimes, Walker 1 and Walker 2. Last pack at my Wal-Mart.

 

Went to a different Wal-Mart today (Cinnaminson, NJ) and found the Walking Dead Pack B which has Daryl Dixon, Glenn Rhee, Negan, and Walkers 3 and 4 for $ 3.50.

They only had a few Harry Potter sets, and they were all of the early ones. No new Potter figures.

Attached please find a link to the new 2019 Dept 56 Harry Potter items

https://www.enescobusiness.com...ry+potter+village.do

Action Jaxon posted:

Attached please find a link to the new 2019 Dept 56 Harry Potter items

https://www.enescobusiness.com...ry+potter+village.do

 

Interesting that there are items at that link that aren't yet available.  I'm glad to see they will likely be expanding the collection as time goes forward.

Edit, I see upon clicking on the items that they were introduced just this month as new additions.  Cool!

So they did split hogwarts into two!  Nice.  Kind of sucks that they are still so small.

I saw this on sale at target for 6 bucks

Dang, that's a fantastic deal.  I paid retail for mine. 

I was at two Targets this week and neither have any Harry Potter any more.

I just saw this at GameStop and it’s about same scale as the metal figs. Maybe a little smaller.   Looked it up on amazon and it’s 20 bucks.  Pretty tempting

HARRY POTTER Quidditch Pitch Arena Mini Playset, Featuring HP and Draco Malfoy! Chase The Golden Snitch! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07H..._api_i_Ap31CbPWEMNN2

After watching this video on the various mini play sets, I’m less than enthused about em. But they might interest someone else.  Might be better with some paint and some mods. 

 https://www.litlgeeks.com/magi...-from-jakks-pacific/

Bed bath and beyond has the dept 56 hogwarts line on sale. 20 % off but it looks like you can’t use any other coupons.  

https://www.bedbathandbeyond.c...ne-collection/807606

I made this several years ago from plaster molds and other supplies. 

This thread was just pointed out to me after I purchased a Nano Metalfigs set of 20 die-cast Harry Potter figures. Couldn't resist them at only $30. I have no idea what I'm gonna do with them, but here is a pic:

No room on Warrenville for an appropriate castle.

Lionelski posted:

This thread was just pointed out to me after I purchased a Nano Metalfigs set of 20 die-cast Harry Potter figures. Couldn't resist them at only $30. I have no idea what I'm gonna do with them, but here is a pic:

No room on Warrenville for an appropriate castle.

Don't need the castle, just use your imagination for a scene or two and swap the figures out. 

Though I recall the bookstore having small Hogwarts buildings you assembled. 

For realism, hallmark is now selling the buildings and some of the town stores. Dept 56 is also selling the castle. Both are a bit small and very very pricey.

 Wrebbit 3D puzzle hogwarts castle is pretty big and seems to be good enough.  We’ve posted photos of them already.  I’m going to combine the wrebbit castle in the background with the hallmark stores in the foreground. Off Christmas sales make them ok cheap. Happy hunting.  Post what you manage to put together! 

 I bought the Wrebbit 3D puzzle hogwarts castle puzzle but never built it.  Too many other things to do.  I may do it someday and set it up at Halloween time.

Since the last photos I posted, I figure I would post a picture of some of my latest.  Ever since hallmark started selling the stores from diagon alley (6 to 11 bucks after christmas sale) I’ve started to build a foreground of the town with hogwarts in the back.  The detail is impressive especially for the cost.  And it scales nicely.  The Gringotts bank is actually a coin bank - super detailed and very nice.  It was only 20 bucks on amazon and it’s fits really well with the hallmark ornament buildings.  I was able to get my hands on other buildings but just wanted to show you guys here. 

Hello friends, wizards and muggles alike,

I have continued to follow this topic, although I haven't posted anything for quite some time.  I haven’t really accomplished anything layout-wise due to family health and family business issues in recent years.  In looking back over the posts, it’s amazing how much Potter stuff that might be usable in a toy train scene has come along since I posted finding some plastic potter figures intended to fit inside plastic bubbles in a “gumball machine on eBay from a guy in Italy.

Since I last posted, I have acquired most of the Nano Metalfigs except for the elusive Snape that came with the Griffidor House playset.  One of our sons and his wife gave me Wave 2 of the Metalfigs for Christmas couple of years ago and gave me the Gringott’s Bank for my birthday last year.  

Somewhere my wife found an Olivander’s Wand Shop play set which, while small looks pretty good with the Bank.  Like the other playsets, it opens, has a couple of figures and some movable parts, but looks more “real” than either the House or their Hogwarts Great Hall and Quiddich playsets.

Here are pix of these last two gifts.  Hope to integrate them into a layout scene eventually.

Cheers,

Alan

Alan.  Just saw that wand shop set on sale for 8 bucks on amazon and bought it. Thanks for pointing it out!  I never was able to find that gumball thing on sale but we did get pretty close in finding It. 

This topic has slowed down quite a bit.  But I just found this on clearance at target for 6 bucks.  Scales well with the train.  I think it might be hard to locate him as I couldn't find the product on targets website - but amazon has it for 9.50.   

Those are pretty slick looking!  I was just at Target, but haven't looked for Potter stuff for months.  

Corgi reissued the Anglia last year in its 1:43 line, as well. The Jada one appears to be 1:64. 

It's actually even smaller than that.  The Anglia is pretty close to HO scale.  Would scale well with the HO or OO Hogwarts Express.  Grabbed it a couple months ago for my HO layout.  

Looks like my post got deleted (mabye for having links in it) but suffice it to say I also picked up the wave 3 figure set recently.

Going to get Wave 4 set soon. Looks like there's some good figs in there.

Costco sells a simplified hogwarts castle!!  For 25 bucks!!

Also someone modified the Gringott’s coin bank, put a diffuser inside it!!!! The diffuser also changes light colors. 

oh this is a winner.  

More photos of the Costco castle. It looks more detailed then the more expensive wrebbit puzzles from a few years ago.  With the cliff on the bottom. 

That puzzle at Costco is very impressive looking!!  I bought the wrebbit castle back when we first started this discussion, but it is still in the box in the closet.  Too much too do, too little time! 

the other hogwarts puzzles we bought were 850 pieces each side for about 1700 pieces.  This one is 428 pieces altogether so this will be significantly easier.  I say get this one, give the others as gifts

;p

The Wrebbit Hogwarts 3D puzzle both kits; the Great Hall and Astronomy Tower together is 19" high 17" wide and 3 feet long.  I posted photos of the ones I built and glued to a display board on page 1 and 2 of this thread. It looks pretty good and with some other Howarts buildings and 3D puzzles that look good inside a loop of track running the Lionel Hogwarts Express train.

But the one shown above from Costco by 4D Cityscape is;  size: 24" (L) x 15.6" (W) x 30.5" (H) a little smaller in width and length. It looks fairly well detailed. I have the Frozen II Arendelle Castle from the same company shown in bottom left of the photo from Costco. It was very well designed went together better and more secure then the Wrebbit puzzles. It is pretty well detailed though you do see the tabs that stick up through the roof as in the photos. I think it and other buildings shown would be interesting to get and build to see which Hogwarts I like the best! There is a good video close up of the built puzzles on the company's website just down the page; https://www.4dcityscape.com/collections/3d-puzzles-1

I built this model of the Holyoke MA City Hall for a HO layout at the Holyoke Senior Center. Just the front of the building was constructed but it gives the impression of an entire structure. You could place the partial building near a rear wall and construct smaller buildings around it. The model is made with Precision Board and is 36" tall in 1/100 scale.

I saw the Harry Potter studio exhibition and was amazed at the sheer size and detail of the model! Good luck trying to convey the sense of something like that in O Scale...

The costco around me did not have the model but looke like they do sell it online.

https://www.costco.com/harry-p...oduct.100685564.html

Bringing this thread back after a couple of years of silence on the subject.  I posted a video a couple pages/years back that showed the initial offerings of the Department 56 Harry Potter village.  Since then I've been slowly adding pieces as they're introduced into the line each year.  As of now I have everything they've offered except for the Hogwarts Express locomotive (figured I don't need it AND the Lionel set) as well as the Hogwarts Gate that I put in an order for today.  Here's an update video.  Things are a bit crammed in under my Christmas tree, but it's been a fun village to have out for the season as something different.

  Those buildings look amazing.  I went the much cheaper route with hallmark's buildings (post christmas sale too). Hope to display it this year. (Last year was the wife's snoopy town) 

The buildings look great. Looks like they would scale pretty well with the Nano Metalfigs HP figures.

@Eilif posted:

The buildings look great. Looks like they would scale pretty well with the Nano Metalfigs HP figures.

They very likely would scale better with the figures you mentioned.  The Department 56 figures are the typical oversize Christmas village type.  Nicely detailed but obviously oversized for the buildings.

Figured I'd finally post this. Several years ago l made a Harry Potter themed Christmas tree and picked up the Hogwarts Express to run under it. Well do to the sets size l can't run her on my main layout so she has become a shelf queen for now. Picked up a free shelf found on the side of the road cut down sanded and stained the plywood. Finally got time from work to put it up. Since l can't fit all the passenger cars only have the Dementor passenger car and the Ravenclaw boxcar my Mom won on a contest on the official Lionel Facebook page a few years ago. She was asked which of the Hogwarts Houses boxcars she wanted she get me the Ravenclaw car since that's my Hogwarts House. The buildings are 3d puzzles my sister and l got on clearance and put together. The figures are Harry Potter Nano Metalfigs that l might repaint at some point.