This year makes the 20th anniversary of the LEGO® Harry Potter theme and to mark this milestone event, the LEGO Group have been celebrating in various ways. These have included a series of 20th Anniversary sets, featuring Golden Minifigure and Wizard Card tiles, a Hogwarts Icons set, plus a giveaway for those attending the London run of the Curse Child. Now Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom in the Harry Potter movies, has been tasked to recreate various magical moments using the LEGO Harry Potter sets. You can check it out below.
Neville Longbottom actor Matthew Lewis recreates his favorite scenes from the Harry Potter™ movies to celebrate 20 years of magic with LEGO® Harry Potter™
Billund, October 15, 2021: To mark the 20th anniversary of LEGO® Harry Potter™, Neville Longbottom actor Matthew Lewis has come along to recreate and share his favorite magical moments from the iconic Harry Potter™ movies.
For over twenty years, fans of all ages have explored the wonderment of the Wizarding World™ and recreated magical adventures with LEGO Harry Potter. In a new video launched today, the LEGO Group challenged Matthew Lewis aka the fan-favorite and lovable Neville Longbottom, to think back to his time on the films and recreate his 20 favorite scenes from the Harry Potter movies using magical LEGO Harry Potter sets from the past two decades.
In the video, Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom in the series of movies from 2001-2011, journeys through scenes from all eight films. He recalls a trip on Hogwarts Express, relives an afternoon in Hogsmeade™ and revisits the legendary Chamber of Secrets, with his trip down memory lane including the beloved characters, details, and models from the last 20 years of LEGO Harry Potter universe.
Reunited with his clumsy character Neville Longbottom, Lewis takes fans through his vivid memories from the making of the films, shares humorous anecdotes, and opens up about his favorite scenes and LEGO Harry Potter sets.
Fun Facts
- The first LEGO Harry Potter sets launched in 2001 to coincide with the release of the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.
- The first-ever LEGO minifigure with a double-sided head was the Professor Quirrell minifigure from 2001 which has Voldemort’s face printed on the other side of his head.
- Over 80 different Harry Potter characters have been recreated as LEGO minifigures.
- The Harry Potter minifigure appears most frequently across the 20 years, with over 50 different LEGO minifigure versions of Harry Potter being designed in total.
- Neville Longbottom appeared as a minifigure for the first time in 2004 and has since been produced in several different versions.
- LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle is the LEGO Harry Potter set with the most elements at 6,020 pieces.
