LEGO Harry Potter Sorting Hat (REVIEW)
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2024
- The LEGO Harry Potter Sorting Hat TALKS?!!!!!
Here's my LEGO review of a very surprising LEGO model!
LEGO sets in this video:
Talking Sorting Hat ❯ bit.ly/3SWZR25
New Harry Potter Sets ❯ bit.ly/3SDfD0J
Hogwarts Icons ❯ bit.ly/3QduuPf
Thank you LEGO for sending this set for review.
Views and opinions are my own.
#lego #rlfm #harrypotter #review #76429 - Zábava
adding $50 for a speaker is insane.
For a terrible sounding one at that.
He's glorifying a piece of tech Chinese companies can knock out for $1. Other companies who follow good labor laws, maybe $5-$10.
tbf i dont get why people are going crazy for it. Mario Luigi and Peach already them, sounds good and are somewhat cheap
also bluetooh conection
and a screen
He saying this one brick with all the tech (lol) is 50$ and it is justified is thumbs down on this video, sorry.
$50 for brown pieces just seems wrong.
Honestly Tiago i mostly agree with you on your takes, however adding $40-50 dollars for a small sound instrument is absolutely insane, I could understand about $10 but this is just completely unjustified
They've had talking toys for decades. You can buy cheap greeting cards with sound chips. It's not a big deal and no way worth an extra $40.
Even $10 for that cheap low quality speaker is too much. If only customers showed how unreasonable this is by not buying this product, Lego would understand people aren't dumb enough to pay for them and would sell a bit more reasonably.
Too bad though that there are some poor souls that would buy it at this price. They are what keeps allowing Lego to continue to overprice their products. These toys are only as fun as the price you paid for them. The more you spend the more you expect. The less you spend, the lower the expectations and it improves the chance for more fun and appreciation for what you bought.
That's the problem: you have people who won't put their money where their mouth is. For those who think Lego is overpriced, don't buy Lego, or don't buy the sets you think are unfairly priced. Better yet, support Lego's competitors, who are doing some amazing work these days and releasing sets as good as anything from Lego for, quite often, a lot less money. Also, Lego-sponsored channels like this always hyping Lego products and practices don't help the situation.@@one4all885
@@one4all885 yeah I’m not too sure how much it costs to make a soundbrick like that which is why I put $10 but $40-50 is just clearly way too much
I think the sound brick is neat but should be used sparingly only for sets that need it like this one. If sets like Modulars or dioramas start using them prices will skyrocket
It's actually the other way around, the more a LEGO piece is used, the more the cost of production can be diluted amongst a wider range of products!
@@TiagoCatarino You are right in that it will be cheaper but it’ll definitely add to the price of the sets a significant amount as LEGO loves profit. It’ll also take away from its uniqueness.
It is to be expected though, right? Technic sets with motors and battery boxes are pricier than the ones without it.
If a sound brick is justified and greatly improves the play experience of a LEGO set, I see no reason not to do it.
Easier to manage in larger sets above like $200/$300 where the price spike isn't as noticeable as is the case with this particular product unfortunately. I still love it
Can we have a sound brick for a man has fallen into the river in lego city?
@@TiagoCatarino I fully agree with what you’re saying. I just don’t want it to be overused, is all I’m saying.
I honestly can’t believe you think the sound brick justifies an extra $50 to the cost of the set
He's sponsored by Lego to talk nice things about Lego. What did you expect. You can buy pretty decent Bluetooth speaker for that price.
@@Inflator82he critiques LEGO all the time, this is surprising from him.
@Brodyk923 there's licensed toy action figures that have built in phrases that cost like $10, there's no way it should increase the cost of the set $40-50
Any time a channel is sponsored by Lego, it automatically calls into question the objectivity of what they're saying since they're getting paid to promote Lego products with video coverage. Lego gives LAN members free sets and early previews, which in turn drive video views, which in turn generate income for the channel owner. You can never know to what extent they're being swayed by their relationship with the "hand that feeds them," so to speak. @@idiodic7prouductons
Without sound brick I would expect this set to cost $60. The extra mark up of $40 is crazy. I wonder how much it will be on bricks and pieces.
The sound brick is preprogrammed so it will not be on bricks and pieces
I thought it was a 💩 at first glance 😂
Lol 😂
Correct.
Me too, glad I'm not the only one.
i didn't see hp movies so even at a second glance it does that to me
Me too!
That sound brick really isn't going to cost that much to produce, heck there's happy meal toys that have had speaker functionality like this, it definitely does not justify the huge markup
I've seen greeting cards with little sound chips. It's not cutting edge tech by any stretch. It's old and simple and cheap.
@@SO-ym3zsyup, just lego pushing their prices way too high to see if consumers will bite, I'm hoping that this ends up on sale cause then it means that people didn't fall for that ridiculous markup!
I understand that licensing bumps up Lego's costs, but this is just crazy. And then I see competitors like Pantasy and Cada putting out sets that are every bit as good as anything Lego makes, for half the price per brick, and then it really makes you wonder.@@nathonso_edits
It would be great if LEGO would think in terms of a system and make the sound brick compatible and programmable with Powered Up. Unfortunately, I don't see that happening...
Then the set would be like $150 😂
Sorry but there's absolutely no way I can accept that the sound brick is "worth" that much money. Toy makers have been putting sounds into products for longer than most Lego fans have been alive. You can buy novelty birthday cards with sound cards.
Sure but this one has to be designed to lego's quality standards. 99% of the sound modules in other toys are built cheaply and designed to be thrown in the garbage after a few years
@@cowboyduplego quality standards lol. Like the Orient Express?
@@cowboyduplego quality standards? The ENTIRE model is coloured in a brick KNOWN to be inherently faulty… Reddish brown is particularly likely to snap and crack… and you think the concern is in the 2€ gift card sound element? Yeah sure
Lego's once-exceptional quality standards have notoriously dropped in recent years. Lots of problems with brick color inconsistency, and then there's the Orient Express embarrassment. @@cowboydup
3:26 - $40-50 dollars for a little plastic thing that makes noise? Honestly that makes no sense to me in the context of other toys that are much larger and have much more complexity for that cost.
I understand the studs part needs to be as high quality as a regular brick but those electronics really cannot be blowing up the price that much,
I'm so happy LEGO made a 💩emoji into a set!
😂
And it talks too
Maybe we can get Mr Hankey the Christmas poo!
Introducing the Smell Brick- a 4x4x3 brick that emits 22 different smells, including beef, pork, turkey, and so much more.
A key element used in the "LEGO Ideas Buildable Nose", set to be released on April 1st.
500 pieces / Retails for 250 Dollars or 230 Euros.
With how they are screwing europe with most prices, if the set costs 250 dollar we will have to pay 250 euro
sounds like a pretty fair deal
I really hope one of the smells is raw sewage
...but that technology WOULD actually border rocket-science !! ...a 8-bit soundmodule...not so much ....can´t wait for april 😂😂
Did not even one person think, hey this looks like a big poop💩 emoji ???
Can't wait to see the first MOCs using this hacked sound brick for those talking fish decorations lmao
Jeremiah was a bullfrog!
also it’s not 31 different sounds. it’s 31 different combinations. there’s four houses and four different sentence starters that he sometimes combined to make his speach longer. that’s it
This. Exactly. And it sounds terrible. The splice is obvious and makes it sound like an automated phone tree.
"For Gryffindor, Press 1"
i was thinking the same thing. my head hurts after listening to it. and they sad it woud sing sometimes .. i still whait for that :)
Wow, thank you so much for sharing this! I really wanted this set but after reading the comments about the poop emoji, hearing the crappy quality of the sound and now your explenation of the “31 different sounds”… I might skip it.
IMO, the box art looks a ton better than the actual model - based on this video. It's way overpriced and doesn't look sharp at all. The soundbrick seems to be fun, but just like with lightbricks, its quite gimmicky and will, over time, not be used a whole lot, so it doesn't justify the inflated price for me.
Thanks for your effort in making your reviews. However, saying that the price for this set is justified when you got it for free just seems a bit weird to be honest. I appreciate your insights (as a former employee of the company) into what the process is to create a new piece, but you also know that not all production cost of a new part has to be earned back with the first set in which it appears.
If it's the ONLY set it appears, the production cost must be earned back from the single set. Cost of production can only be diluted with other sets, IF they share the element as far as I'm aware.
What do you mean bro? If you get popsicle for free, can you not say if its price is justified or not? Depending on the taste, size etc. 😂
It's a lot easier to talk about pricing being justified or not when you don't have to spend your own hard-earned money on it. And if a manufacturer is giving you the item in question for free in exchange for media coverage, that muddies the waters even more.@@Infakection
This is actually an example where a generic bluetooth button for 2 USD is a much better solution as it could be inserted into many models and the rest is done by an app on the phone that you can train to play one sound or random sounds, or even your own sounds.
A bluetooth speaker ( add 10 USD ) inside the head, only activated for a short time by the integrated button, could even play the sound, instead of the sound coming out of the your phone.
Than you have one device that can be used in trains, cars, space ships without any need to change the device itself.
LoL, LEGO out here literally passing on all the R&D costs to make the brick straight onto the consumer, no shame at all. Helluva greedy family business this is!
the talking brick makes this set feel like something lego would have made in the early 2000s
yet, it is now. i wonder why. and nonore mindstorm or other tech..
:( so sad
More than 10 euro for a soundbrick is a total scam.
Unless you slap your brand name on it: See Märklin, all the other model train manufacturers or Apple.
@@friedrichweitzer3071 Or luxury brands, from fashion to cars.
The sound apparatus appears to be a variation on what's being used in the Super Mario sets, but with a different brick casing. Not being familiar with the costs of developing the bricks themselves, it does appear they could already be sharing the costs of the electronics with other themes, making it harder to justify the bump in price just for a brick sandwich and squishy button, but that's just my take.
Can you reprogram the sound brick to play different samples? Or is it made in a way that it stays with the same sounds no matter what?
It would seem many go full fan boy over sound bricks. They do not add more than $6 of value for me.
Hearing the $50 justification for the sound brick is just ludicrous. No person in their right mind would pay $50 for the sound brick by itself, so why we pay $50 for it in a set?
Been waiting for this one
I don't know about regular lego, but duplo has some sound bricks, the animals one is pretty cool, my son loves it
Hat looks fantastic clever how it talks its like magic great review 👍
This was a great review and seeing the hat in action definitely made me appreciate the build a lot more! Not sure if I feel like the sound brick justifies an extra $40-$50, but I certainly am excited to see what they do with it in the future… hopefully it will be used more than the last one which only had a few different noises for it
Maybe $50 is a bit of a stretch. But I would bet an inside tour set 👀 that the sound brick added at least $25/$30 to the final cost of the set.
I don't like how they splice together disconnected sound parts, instead of having each line would be unique. I heard the splice on the first one and it only got more obvious over time. It wouldn't have cost them much more to do individual voice lines, so it feels lazy and ruins the core functionality of the set.
This set is awesome. The easter eggs and house details are great. The mouth and eyebrows moving is perfect.
The sound brick is amazing. However it doesn't justify the set being $50 more. That's insane! If it was $60 or maybe $70 then it would make sense
Rationalising a $50 sound brick is crazy
A Creator Expert scaled Adam West Lincoln Futura Batmobile that played the iconic Batman theme with a sound brick would probably become my new favorite LEGO set.
How about a Shakespeare bust that plays the theme when you press the button.
A 4x4 brick does need to have the space in the model. I don’t see it fitting into a tie fighter, but maybe the annual icons car set or a modular set as long as having sound would make sense (thrive already fine fire station, police station , car mechanic and a music club though… perhaps a modular hospital?)
Oh wow, the Ravenclaw crest is actually book acurate! It's a bronze eagle instead of a silver raven from the movies
This would be cool in diorama sets, where the sound bricks says the quote on the front
I hope that sound brick can be reprogrammed to make it emit any sounds you want
Keep going Tiago! Your content is very entertaining!
There is a more realistic sorting hat you can wear, looks more real, sounds better and is only $50. Lego needs to stop offloading development costs on us along with a markup.
I think the build is great especially eyebrows and sound brick is a nice addition. I wonder the lifecycle of soundbrick tho
me too.
and also i was thinking are they going to leak eventually?
Cool set. With that face you could make a great Fraggle Rock Trash Heap MOC! :-D
Oh please, every kid's toy talks and makes noise. That sound brick is not worth $50
You're probably right, but $40? Probably.
$25/$30? almost guaranteed.
@@TiagoCatarino You are absolutely delusional if you think some plastic brick with a speaker is worth that much.
@@ichhabdochkeeahnungNo need to be rude about it. I too am also wondering about the price, however it seems like someone who worked at Lego would be just a tad informed on cost of producing certain elements and not every sound element is the same accross all toys brands. I wonder what the lifespan is for it. I am hoping forever since I plan on over using it myself.
Is the new sound brick programmable, and if so how??
I can see the talking box brick used in Mario more than any other theme
I would live a revist of the bowser and t-rex models with sound bricks
So its like 30-40€ set with 20€ licence fees, and 40€ speaker. L O L 😂
I kind of wonder how much of the cost is for the licensing of the sound itself. Of course LEGO has a license for the Harry Potter franchise, but that might not necessarily include the use of clips, sounds, or other media from the franchise to use in a commercial product.
Honestly I’d like the sound brick to be used in sets like Lego boost or mindstorms where you can customize the sounds
well, for my amusement they retared Mimdstorm.
@@henribg1 dang really that’s disappointing
I want to see the sound brick used In UCS star wars sets to give ships, but more importantly droids their sounds. How cool would it be if a LEGO R2D2 made his boops and beeps
Has to be 32 sounds. With four houses, the total combinations has to be a multiple of four.
I like the idea. And the soundbrick is cool as well. The only problem I see… too many reddish brown pieces. In some years the hat will deter and gets brittle as frozen paper. Don’t touch the hat. I said: don’t touch. But I want to know to which house I belong. I said, don’t touch it. It’s brittle.
Did you get march wave of the Ninjago sets?
Missing the soundchip for R2D2. But only if the module costs half this price and sounds double more pleasing.
0:23 it actually is exclusive. That hat hasn’t come in Reddish Brown before.
I like the 4 hogwarts tiles and how it displays next to the hogwarts icons set but imma need to find it on discount...
i wish we'd get a customizable sound brick!
There's also harry Potter's owl that can move thats pretty cool
0:24 It actually is at least in this color, as it was previously only in dark brown.
give me that sound brick in lego technic cars and imagine it in nijago!
I'm not a Harry Potter fan in the slightest, but this is a pretty cool idea and a really solid execution. Too bad it bumps the price up an insane amount, otherwise it'd be something I'd love to see in future lego sets.
I wish it didn’t have the sound, will wait and hope for a discount because otherwise it’s fantastic
When Ravenclaw is actually represented as an eagle 🦅🦅
It looks very good 👍
Can you program the talking brick?🤔
I don’t think so unfortunately
Don't think so
It you could record or download audio on to it that would be a must for many MOC builders.
I’m sure it wouldn’t be cheap, but if Lego sold programmable speakers like they do extra motors I’m sure they’d sell like hotcakes
One of the most unique sets ever made, and at the same price as The Hoopty, is actually the better overpriced set given its groundbreaking new piece.
I wonder if they have one in their upcoming C-3PO set.
It looks really nice for collectors!
to stay on the shelf. the sound is terrible. and is the only set i displayed with the box, for simetry of sort :)
Come on Tiago, bring on the good stuff like Ayrton Senna, the StarWars Ships and the Snow White Cottage.
Soon... 👀
Love that the outfit on Harry is without a house as he’s not yet been sorted!
Good catch! Completely missed that!
I believe it was in the Harry Potter calendar a couple years ago too!
If the sound brick would not have such an atrocious sound quality, like from toys from the 1980s, maybe one could charge such luxury prices. But as it is, this is just embarrassing.
One thing to consider is that there are Harry Potter fans that aren't familiar with Lego, and see $100 as an affordable set. Overall, the casual market will see the $50-$100 range and buy it if it looks cool, regardless of PPR. That's how sets like the Bonsai Tree got so popular in the first place.
Is it fun to build? Is it cool to display? Are there play features? Is it within my budget? That's what matters to most buyers, not PPR.
Exactly! That’s why I said the set will probably be frowned upon by LEGO fans who are aware of average pricing of products whereas Harry Potter fans not knowing better will look past that
i love the idea but overall im not a fan, i wouldnt be interested in this set but the price point for the lighthouse still irks me. i get it, it's motorised and has a newly developed lens but since i got it i turned it on maybe 5 times and only for a bit. I would much prefer it be a reasonable price and without the motorised part
I will just say: LOL, LMAO even.
I didn’t know it could move or even talk 👀 Cool, but I’ll wait for discounts. 80usd makes more sense to me
Is the sound brick the first lego piece with screws?
No the new Technic battery boc also uses screws for safety.
Bah humbug. Set 6780 already got the perfect soundbrick.
Tiago, my dear. The final price is INSANE and Lego should have been called out on that by you. I get that you have a somewhat special insight into the additional costs of designing the sound brick, having formerly worked for Lego. But in the presumed +50 dollars for the sound brick, Lego surely built in a heavy heavy cut for itself, and the overall price makes this a very expensice one-trick pony, which begs its own from of criticism, I think. I am sorry to say but your reporting on this set is similar to the bunch of unciritical CZcamsrs who are paid by Lego to advertise their material, and I for one like to steer clear of these people when there is so many more independent voices available. I get that your relationship with Lego is complex, but I would have liked a bit more critical thought on this.
Leaving aside the question of pricing and the fact that the set looks like the poopmoji, there's a question about the direction in which the sound chip sends Lego. Obviously electronics aren't new to Lego, but if Lego were to continue to mainstream the use of sound, light, etc., in their products, at what point would you lose the purity of Lego as an imaginative building-block toy and start to turn it into something else? One of the nice things about Lego is that in our digital world, it's fundamentally not electronic or battery powered: it's plastic bricks you apply imagination and skill to in order to create new wholes from parts. If you fill sets with ready-made electronics, they'll start to lose their charm and purpose and identity. I guess we can turn to Lincoln Logs and Erector Sets, then :)
This isn't the first sound brick if I'm not mistaken, I have a brick which I don't know where it comes from but it plays an alarm sound when pressed.
From a creator house!
Where does the sorting come into play? I don't get it.
The choosy hat! It escaped!!! 😱
Ok sure it may have cost a little more but a 3 dollar plastic dinosaur does the same thing, its although cool a ridiculously overpriced feature
It looks like a Scarecrow hat ... the batman villain
Very unique!
Completely justified price. I work at LEGO so I’ll get mine for half off anyway😌
Nice deal!
That's definitely a nice to hat set. BadUm tSs, I will let myself out :D
That soundbrick sounds like it comes out of a toy from twenty years ago.
yes, quality is bad. and the song? wow :)
For 50 dol. I can buy a full set off lights with a far better speaker module for the Falcon Millenium - no wait I buyed it. The price is insane hi for such a set.
It’s the eagle for ravenclaw! In true to book colors blue and bronze! Instant buy!
Really odd as the Lego ravenclaw House banner is the stupid late movie Raven logo and blue and silver..
yep :)
I hope *Lego* can provide an update to have the hat _speaking _*_different languages...._*
I want a „hackable“ sound brick
😈😈😈
This wouldn't be too hard to make
I think you don't just pay extra for the speaker, but also for the whole inventioning of it. Not just the mold, but also the technique in it (which is quite simple but still) and of course the voice. And I can be wrong, but isn't it the same of that used in the movies?
i think so, yes. but the quality of sound :(
"Talking snorting shit"
Nah bro. That sound module costs nothing to make. If it was that expensive, McDonalds Happy meals with similar plastic toys that make sounds would cost 50 bucks too. A mold is not THAT expensive to make and those circuits are probably standard stuff with just different sound files stored. Production probably costs somewhere around 1-2 dollars, and development... I could develop that in a weekend by myself with a bit of (e)CAD and about 10 lines of code lol.
the sound brick is cool, but holy shit does it make the set overpriced. a cheap sound machine like that shouldn’t make the set double the price (in terms of price per piece). Lego’s greed in terms of specialised and cheap electronic pieces is just horrible.
Love the minifigure anyone know what set it was previously in?
Harry Potter - Hogwarts Robe, Black Tie and Short Legs, Reddish Brown Sorting Hat
Item No: hp466
it says it appears only here
Wouldn’t it be funny if the Black Panther (greatly missed Chadwick) bust had this feature ? Yelling violent stuff like. : « Answer me murderer ! Where did you got this weapon? »
A cheap mp3 player usb stick is like 5 bucks. Sorry 50€ extra for a thing even greeting cards have is a bit much. That module is worth maybe 5€ .
50 is probably a stretch. That module for sure increased the value of this LEGO set by at least $25/$30. But the piece itself doesn’t cost 50 of course
@@TiagoCatarino But even that is quite too much. A small soundchip is like 1-2€. Add some molding etc. I would say 10€ MAX for that. if it would have bloototh or so to add more sounds sure. But playing just 4 clips ? Motorized face would bring up the "value" up in my eyes ... but yeah I would agree on 10-15€ added value for sound.
I wonder what it looks like on the big Harry and Hermione figures?
Will buy few, what else I can do 😅