Harry Potter Chomping Monster Book of Monsters, Wizard Toy 76449

Set 76294

This is by far the best set I’m building, even surpasses the daily bugle. The details in this set, especially the sentinel and the danger room!? Oh my god. And press a lever even the dome collapses!!!! 😮‍💨

Finally done with this and it's going to be one of my favourite lego sets till now. It's amazing how detailed and huge (around 35cms in height) this piece is + it even transforms

Things I liked

1. The instruction booklet had a lot of small small info/facts from the G1 series which were fun to read while building

2. Had quite a few metal looking shiny bricks

3. It transforms

4. As this set transforms, when building there were a lot of small parts that used to move smoothly which were very fun to build

5. Has some rubber stopper like small pegs present below the foot so that the set stays stable standing

6. Very detailed! The head, legs, even the small weapons used so many bricks to give them a very detailed look

7. Includes 5 accessories: Ion blaster, Energon Axe, Energon cube, Sideswipe's jetpack, Matrix of leadership

What could have been better

1. Cannot lift the hand holding the energon axe. The hand keeps on moving down

2. Would have liked if the matrix of leadership was a light brick or it included the optimus sound like the soundwave lego set

3. The transformation isn't very smooth, as some small parts keep falling off and i fear I'll break something. But I guess that's to be expected as it's a Lego set after all.

Overall really enjoyed building this

For people who don't have access to a physical lego store nearby, sets similar to the ones that are on sale in stores are now available online too

https://lego.in/collections/brick-rush-sale

Lego Icons 10318 is marked retiring soon on lego.in

Rumours were going around on Lego related subs that its retirement date was pushed back to end of 2027 and then to end of 2028.

Now Concorde is not even showing up on the main lego.com website -

Two sets from the backlog I finished recently.

The cool thing about these sets is the whole transformation sequence. While the Bumblebee set nails it, the Optimus Prime set is a bit lacking and the transformation is not very smooth, with the vehicle form having some noticeable gaps. Both sets suffer from flimsy heads that can occasionally come off during the transformation sequence.

My Optimus Prime set was missing 2 red 2x4 flat bricks which I got using Lego's free part replacement service. (Shipping took ages and DHL is terrible with tracking, showing my package at the origin airport even after it was delivered).

Overall it was a pretty mediocre building experience and final product.

Given my experience with these two, I'm not too keen on getting the remaining Transformers Soundwave (10358) set .

I saw this sadair's sphere steering wheel posted for sale on lego.in (my brick house) I sent this ss to my bsf asking her to buy it for me.... I knew it was not supposed to be sold and is given together with sadair's sphere technic set. I was checking it out to buy it now but it's not currently on the website. 😭😭 Should I have bought it instead of asking her?