5 Things You Don’t Know About LEGO: Harry Potter

Now available for all major platforms, LEGO Harry Potter: Years 1-4 (available on DS, PC, PS3, PSP, Wii and Xbox 360) is the most ambitious of all LEGO video games to date, says publisher Warner Interactive Entertainment. It’s a bold claim — especially considering the amount of playability found in previous LEGO games — so we caught up with Vince Grogan, associate producer at developer Travellers Tales, to give us a few examples of what to expect this time around.

1. LEGO Harry Potter is the largest game ever in the LEGO series in terms of actual real estate. The game is composed of well over 400 level segments.

2. LEGO Harry Potter has the most cut-scenes compared to any previous LEGO game. If you add up all the cut-scenes in the game the total running time would be 1 hour, 22 minutes and 39 seconds.

3. The largest LEGO model in the game is the Basilisk Snake which is made up of 783 individual LEGO bricks, of which 167 make up its head. The second largest is Aragog the spider, with 566 individual LEGO bricks – each of his eight legs contain 19 LEGO bricks, his main body contains 208 and the rest make up his head and not to mention the pincers! Travellers Tales also recreated their own version of the Hogwarts Express especially for the game which was the third largest model with 534 LEGO bricks.

4. The character customizer which is situated in Madam Malkin’s Robes for All Occasions in Diagon Alley has more than 1 trillion possible customizable combinations.

5. The Nintendo DS version is the only version to have Peeves the Poltergeist (who appears in the books, but was cut from the films) as a playable character.

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