You can tell I’ve been on a trend lately as here is another one from the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. This one is #75950-1 - Aragog’s Lair. It was released in the US on 24 August 2018. It has 157 pieces and 2 minifigures. This puts it at $0.095 per piece. I picked it up on Amazon.com for 14% off or $12.92. Not a huge savings, but I’ll take it. If you can be patient, I’ll bet the savings will be better closer to the end of its shelf life.

This set depicts a scene from “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.” Hagrid tells Harry and Ron that they should follow the spiders to get answers (there’s more to it, but that’s the shortened version). They follow the spiders and end up meeting Aragog and a myriad of Aragog’s offspring. If you’ve never seen the movie before and you don’t like spiders, I would advance through that scene. If you have seen it, you know what I’m talking about.

Onto the set… The box is pretty standard. The front shows what you get and the back shows some play features.

This set contains 3 parts bags that are not numbered and an instruction booklet. Best of all, there are no stickers. Yay!

Due to the low piece count, it’s a pretty quick set to build. You start with minifigures of Harry and Ron. Both figures have 2 faces. I took the picture with the content faces and you can see the distressed faces on the box. The build starts with the tree and then finishes with Aragog. Nothing too special about the tree, but Aragog was an interesting build. I’m impressed with how realistic the builders got it to look in such a small set. Also, you can adjust the legs and abdomen to move Aragog around. The set includes 5 smaller spiders (2 black, 3 tan) and while it’s not completely accurate compared to the number of spiders from the scene in the movie, you can get the idea that there were a lot of spiders.

For play purposes, you can add this to #75953-1 - Whomping Willow as they are from the same movie. The Weasley family car plays a big part in the scene in the Enchanted forest with Aragog.

Overall, it is not a bad set. Considering the piece count, you get a bunch of details and 2 minifigures. It’s under $0.10 a piece which is good considering it is a licensed set and if you pick it up on sale, even better. Definitely shop around to see where it is cheapest. If you’re a Harry Potter fan, I would look to add this one to your collection.

What are your thoughts?