Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station

"A Recommended set with a BrickScore of 76.5 that earns its place as the most accessible Hogwarts Express to date, though The Brothers Brick's 62 is a genuine flag: buyers who want to actually run the train around curves will encounter real limitations that enthusiastic Harry Potter fans may never notice."

The Hogwarts Express and Hogsmeade Station (76423) earns a BrickScore of 76.5 and a Recommended rating, with moderate agreement among critics who broadly praised the set's scope but differed on execution. MandRproductions scored it 97 and called it a clear upgrade over the 2018 version, while The Brothers Brick scored it 62 and catalogued meaningful engineering compromises around the coaches and pilot wheel mechanism. Brickset sat between them at 80. Owner data from 1,604 ratings at 4.75 out of 5 leans toward the enthusiastic end.

Where they split: The expert gap between MandRproductions (97) and The Brothers Brick (62) is the widest in this batch and reflects genuinely different priorities: MandRproductions evaluated the set as a complete Harry Potter display package and found it excellent, while The Brothers Brick applied stricter train-engineering standards and found meaningful functional compromises that undercut the value. The moderate agreement score reflects this real split rather than noise.