The best LEGO Harry Potter set of all time is on the brink of retirement – and has already sold out in some regions.
76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors’ Edition is one of seven LEGO Harry Potter sets scheduled to retire at the end of July 2026. It’s also – in my estimations – the best Wizarding World set ever to emerge from Billund.
If you still haven’t added this towering set to your collection and have even a passing interest in the boy wizard, enchanting build experiences or commanding display pieces, all I can do is recommend you seek it out as soon as possible before you miss out altogether. Want a little more convincing? Fair enough, let’s crack on…
Journey > destination?
If you’re relatively new to the world of LEGO Harry Potter, you probably won’t remember what life was like in the pre-Gringotts era. It was a different time: Harry Potter fans clutched their copies of 75978 Diagon Alley and wept, bank managers the world over remained dull and lifeless without a magical outlet to channel their interests, and some other very real stuff definitely also happened.
Through it all, though, the pervading call from the community genuinely was for a Gringotts set that could go toe-to-toe with the giant 5,544-piece Diagon Alley. It seemed like the obvious next step after that 2020 release, but years came and went before the LEGO Harry Potter team finally delivered the goods. And in that post-DA wilderness, the question on everyone’s lips was… how?
How could the design team effectively realise Gringotts in line with the rest of the street when so much of its activity happens underground? Few likely predicted what the LEGO Group finally cooked up in September 2023.
A build in three parts
Alongside an open-backed Gringotts Bank situated across a 32x32-stud baseplate, in line with the open-backed shops of 75978 Diagon Alley that sit on 16x32 baseplates, 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors’ Edition includes a towering slice of the underground caverns complete with a spiralling cart track, three vaults and supports for the overground structure.
Up top is the Ukrainian Ironbelly dragon that guards the vaults and helped Harry, Ron and Hermione escape in the Deathly Hallows.
That split structure cleverly sidesteps a couple of problems that cropped up when the community tried to envisage such a set (how would the baseplate connect to the below-ground structure? Where would the dragon fit into the caverns?), while also maintaining a consistently varied and engaging build experience. It feels very much like three sets in one.
It’s bolstered too by the addition of the Magical Menagerie, which adds a splash of colour and variety to not only the build but also the wider Diagon Alley line-up when placed in situ.
Play still matters
It’s easy for 18+ LEGO sets to fall into the trap of prioritising display above all else (see the laundry list of buildable characters for one example). But 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors’ Edition doesn’t forget about play opportunities, either: it’s the sort of set you’ll endlessly tinker with on your desk or shelf, thanks largely to the vaults and track below ground.
Sending the cart zooming down the track is as fun as you’d expect of any LEGO roller coaster, and there are also nifty stoppers built in to allow it to park up next to one of the first two vaults. The real magic lies in Bellatrix’s vault at the bottom of the track, though, where you can recreate the effects of the Geminio spell (and its endlessly-duplicating goblets) by simply pulling on the main goblet.
I called this out as the theme’s greatest-ever play feature when I originally reviewed Gringotts back in 2023, and I’m standing by it today. (The Deathly Hallows projection in 76467 Luna Lovegood’s House is a close second.) Sure, it’s still slightly irksome resetting the trap, but you’re not going to be doing it every minute of every day. Probably.
Maximum shelf presence
So it builds well, it plays well, but does it display well? Er… look at these pictures. Absolutely it does, thanks partly to that three-tiered approach. It has such shelf presence compared to almost anything else in your Potter collection, save maybe for the microscale Hogwarts and the complete 2024 to 2026 modular line-up, but both those are way more space- and budget-hungry.
The carefully considered composition here genuinely did defy expectations back in 2023 and hasn’t aged a day since. There’s so much to draw your eye that you might not know where to look first – it’s not wanting for detail inside or out – but in spite of that it doesn’t feel busy or chaotic. Instead it hangs in a sort of ramshackle magical harmony, which is exactly what you’d expect for a bank located in Diagon Alley.
For what it’s worth, I’ve currently got 44 LEGO Harry Potter sets in my collection (according to Brick Search), and this is the only one I’ve still got built up and on permanent display. I can’t see a time I’ll ever take it apart, either.
Speaking of Brick Search: as well as tracking your collection and wishlist in the app, you can also keep an eye on when all the sets in your wishlist are due to retire. So you’ll never get caught out by any last-minute retirements…
Minifigure magic
It’s worth mentioning the minifigures while we’re here, because while they’re by no means enough to sell 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors’ Edition on its own (and they really don’t need to), they’re still a comprehensive and accomplished line-up. There are 13 in the box in total, including five goblins, Harry Potter in his Philosopher’s Stone and Deathly Hallows garb, Hagrid, two guards, a Death Eater, Bellatrix Lestrange and Dragomir Despard.
The latter two remain stand-outs here for their alternate face prints that reveal Ron and Hermione’s true identities, but every minifigure aside from young Harry and Hagrid is still exclusive to this set.
And some may stay that way forever – even when Gringotts eventually joins the smaller Diagon Alley playset assortment, it’s hard to imagine the vaults making the cut there, so it may opt to focus on the first movie at the expense of Dragomir, Bellatrix, the dragon and so on.
Got the Galleons?
At £369.99 in the UK, $429.99 in the US and €429.99 in Europe, 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors’ Edition is no small investment. But for 4,803 pieces, 13 minifigures and what I’m still arguing is the best LEGO Harry Potter set of all time, it’s the kind of purchase you can hang your Sorting Hat on – and won’t regret when it inevitably sells out for good in the next few weeks.
76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors’ Edition is available while stocks last at LEGO.com and in LEGO Stores, but is already becoming increasingly hard to find in some territories. And that means its aftermarket price is already going gangbusters – so if you see it in stock where you are, grab it while the going’s good.
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