Lego Creator: Harry Potter is a HIDDEN GEM

In this video, we're looking back at Lego Creator: Harry Potter

[@ceeb420]

Semi-related, but seeing the pre-first HP movie merchandise really takes me back. I really loved how the character designs they used for merch *kind of* looked like the actors about to portray them but also *kind of* like how they were portrayed in the book artwork. It made for an interesting amalgamation of a design that really is nostalgic to look back on.

[@NeverSaySandwich1]

It is super nostalgic, once Azkaban came out it became much more serious in tone and advertising. Sorcerer's stone and Chamber of Secrets are fantastic movies (Chamber being the best HP movie) and have a very comfy atmosphere. Chalk that up to the director Chris Columbus

[@Dutchcardcollector1]

indeed 1 and 2 were lovely childish and very book accurate. vs older were more action movie

[@Here4Hummus]

This game was real! I remember playing this as a kid, but it felt like a fever dream, I didnt have a clue what i was doing.

[@Boooozle]

That's exactly how I feel XD

[@gonkdroid8279]

Same, still have fond memories of it though

[@Naftiftoffe]

Hahaha same

[@chazfallaw]

Yup, no idea what was going on at all

[@KidBeanie]

Yes!! I have been thinking about this game for years! I didn't even know it was a game; I just remember looking at grass, railroad tracks, and maybe the outside of hogwarts. I cant believe this is real

[@TheHumanVoiceBox]

Definitely want to see a sequel video, thanks for covering this

[@UnabridgedGamer]

To be fair, you could make some cool stuff in Creator and Creator Knights, but something about the first Potter game’s development left it far glitchier.

[@Highretrogamelord]

Ah, that's a nice Christmas present. I grew up with almost all LEGO Creator games, except for LEGO Creator: Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. I also remember getting stuck at the damn ring when I played it for the first time. Well, it was still less frustrating than the rings in Superman 64. So thank you for this video and Merry Christmas/Happy Holidays.

[@joshbenjamin1038]

I had no idea there was a sequel, but I would love a video on it!

[@KodyCrimson]

I think a cool video could be looking at the level builders in Indiana Jones 2: The Adventure Continues and whichever Harry Potter game had one, because that's a neat feature they really need to bring back.

[@gonkdroid8279]

Agreed

[@StarryScribbles]

SO ICONIC the best part of that game other than the interactive area menu things

[@Jay-fs2nw]

It was in Harry potter 1-4

[@LookingGlass1865]

I have vivid memories of playing this game as a kid, but I didn't think anyone else remembered it lol

[@TheFrenchPineapple]

I had the sequel as a kid, I'd like a video about that

[@Baphomet66.6FM]

My favourite moment was when he said he doesn't have the plus or minus keys and then shows a shot of his laptops plus and minus keys 💀

[@Space-Holiday]

This was a cool game when I was a kid. I loved the original Lego Harry Potter sets so this was amazing, especially the fact you could make yourself as a minifig and roam around. Annoyingly though, there was a limit on how much you could place down in an area. I once really tried to map out the Hogwarts classes and at some point it just stopped letting me place stuff down 😂

[@dcflake5645]

I saw this in PC world when it was released. It was like £25 and I think at the time Vice City was a similar price. I choose well I think.

[@freitag424]

As a kid I loved to play it. The character generator was fantastic and it was great to explore all the hidden rooms. Unfortunately I never played the second game, so I would love to see a review on that!

[@Andrewnuva199]

I had a lot of fun with this game back in the day, and it's been funny for me looking at some of the retrospective videos not figuring out the breath of controls as far as getting to different stages. It's not clearly explained and does rely on you getting curious about the wand button, checking the help functions and maybe reading the manual, but it is a whole chunk of the game that isn't always obvious to newcomers. That bit with the broomstick challenge was definitely tricky though Aside from the plus/minus button situation and stiff controls, moving things up and down to mount Harry on the broom was one of those things that was hard for child me to grasp, and I guess not easily explained as you discovered with your playthrough.

[@chrismeier8560]

You always dig up my past. And only the good stuff. Please never stop.

[@sivartwad]

I’ve been dying for someone to cover these old Lego HP games

[@geoffreydevereaux3272]

Seeing the Lego Island titles here was super nostalgic. Be fascinated to see you talk about those.

[@ThatOneGuy9002]

This game was my childhood! Thanks for bringing back all those good memories!

[@471john]

Now, this is why I am here. Man, I played or at least tried playing all the Lego Creator games on my PC and let me tell you. Playing pirated games without any knowledge of the language makes it a unique experience. You don't know if there are bugs because it is pirated, or you suck because you have no idea how to read the instructions, or the game sucks 🤣 But I loved them either way as it was the perfect combo of my favourite things, Lego and Harry Potter. Right in, the nostalgia feels.

[@victorsouza6088]

If Flandrew ever got to focus on Nintendo weird old media, I would love to see him suffer through the Zelda CDi content, that would be gold

[@Akita23]

Happy holidays flandrew and everyone! This is an awesome surprise

[@Galloway5090]

my mum had this on her old pc, i used to play this so much and didnt even know what i was doing as i was still basically an amoeba without a fully formed frontal lobe. But i vividly remember just building train tracks near the train station for hours on end, which is how i found this video because it just randomly popped into my head like 5 minutes ago

[@reomemewagon]

I always marveled at the advertisement for this game in the directions that came with my Lego sets

[@Fondoofus5542]

I remember borrowing this from the library, but I haven’t had a clue what I was doing.

[@JPHarringtonJr]

This game looks so charming. I was too cool for it at the time it came out. Thanks for covering it!

[@maxtruty]

I think I had this game growing up, but I don't remember any of the building parts. I don't think I ever got further than just walking around the area with a ton of grass!

[@TheAnimeexpansion]

My Grandma got me this when I was little and I loved it!! Still have it on my shelf

[@markposthuma2000]

The music for this game is pure nostalgia! (And the best part for me)

[@Leonardo-cw1dd]

seeing the rest of the lego creator harry potter games would be interesting to watch

[@DarkPsychoMessiah]

One of the few games the family ancient computer at the time could handle.

[@Twillek1019_]

Oh god I remember that one. My friend had it back when we were younger.

[@qman2061]

Now this is the deepest cut

[@striderjason9863]

The only memories I have of LEGO Creator: Harry Potter is some Irish lad on the internet named Kevin play it.

[@spyczech]

Finally someone is talking about my OG lego nostalgia game I had the hogwarts castle that was my spoiled rich kid moment, the design was so good on the early hp lego stuff

[@kpaenen]

Still have this game lying around in a moving box somewhere, it was the bomb. It did crash every 30mins though. Never knew there was a sequel.

[@SuperFrandaman]

Loved this video! Please do a video on The Chamber Of Secrets Lego Creator

[@CharltonCharles]

100 percent want to see the Chamber Of Secrets sequel! Can’t say I ever played this when I was young, was a bit early in my life!

[@wishdankpods]

as a kid i found this in our storage garage one day, don’t know why we had it as my mom was the only person who looked harry potter but didn’t know how computers work and my dad liked legos but not harry potter, i (luckily) loved both and immediately threw it into my pc and poured hours of my time into it. if anyone can give me any insight on how i can play it now, as the disk doesn’t work on modern windows, please let me know i’m dying to play it again!

[@aaronfreeman3890]

Gotta do rock raiders next

[@RamonGonzalesIII]

Core memory unlocked, I forgot I even played this game but I loved every second of it

[@kaargen]

Wow, I had no idea this existed. I thought there was only the first lego creator game.

[@felman87]

3:30 Wouldn't the Plus and Minus keys next to the numbers at the top work?

[@ryanmcintee]

Oh God I had forgotten I ever had this game till now

[@safebox36]

Wasn't there a sequel / remake of this just a few years later with more content? I remember because any time I talked about it in school, people mentioned stuff that just wasn't in this version at all.

[@heymrzanzeeba]

The lego HP game of my generation. I remember mucking about with this game on my Mum's old PC

[@araeden]

Thanks for the video! I think I still have my copy kicking around somewhere. Now I want to see if I can find it and run it on an old windows XP laptop.

[@araeden]

Funny thing is, I recently picked up that same Microsoft keyboard to restore.

[@JustinNathanielAdams]

Whoa, it got a sequel? :O I remember in the original if you click on the Bertie Botts beans there is a voiceover saying the flavor. Off the top of my head, I remember "Liver!" and "Toffee!"

[@YourLocalHippie443]

The smirk of plot armor 😏

[@zattoguy]

Wow I had completely forgotten that this existed…

[@blazethewolf4898]

i wanna see the other lego game, i saw it the local shop and remember being confused that it even existed, i'd never head of it before

[@Linkale_]

I got this game as a kid while I was sick of chickenpox. My father was like "try to focus on this game I bought you instead of the rash!" trying to help me get through the sickness. So I was having a bad time in real life while trying to undertand wtf was I supposed to do in this "game" that had barely any fun gameplay in it and played more like a list of annoying tasks.

[@gta71000]

I still have this game.

[@jamiemarchant]

I found the controls "too hard" cause of the mouse and it was very bugy on newer XP systems.

[@marievjing]

Hi Flandrew ;) I hope you'll do a video about all different versions of Home alone 2 like you promised a year ago :)

[@Hogan231]

Make a video of Star Wars Battlefront games.

[@Flandrew]

Soon

[@pettipasb]

i played standard creator and it was a blast

[@riccardobortolin4120]

I remember having this game, running at 5 fps

[@rayphoenix7296]

My only fond memories I have of this game are from seeing ads for it in Lego catalogues in the early 2000's. I never owned this game if you can even call this a game. I would like to see you provide coverage of the sequel to this game that ties in with Chamber of Secrets.

[@GrammarGaming]

do a full play through of star wars bounty hunter!!

[@gnbman]

Yes, finally!

[@RadioTails]

Maybe I'm being be dumb, but aren't the + - buttons near the BACKSPACE key, that your laptop has? O_o

[@jariussmith6688]

You did it!

[@frazerx01]

Of course i (we?) want to see a follow up video. I can't really say anything about the game. Yet. I bought it years ago on a flea market or something and now the CD is resting at my parents house. Maybe it's time to finally try it.

[@cloudycolacorp]

I was friends with a rich kid who had this and a shit-ton of the lego sets, the entire castle even. LEGO is so nostalgic

[@FATE522]

You gonna cover the Lego Creator Harry Potter sequel too?

[@bronykingamethystrain5676]

You used a cutout of the suspended Aragog prop from the HP Exhibition.

[@StarryScribbles]

I literally saw the + and _ keys on your keyboard wdym, unless the ones next to the top row of numbers need shift to work?

[@HasselHoffman-im5he]

It’s a shame trying to get this game to run on modern hardware is a pain

[@TheGameTunes]

Review the sequel!

[@Lamestain_]

The only real thing I remember from this game is that it ran at less than 10 FPS on our family Windows 98 PC :(

[@theaces3697]

the second game was so much better as you got to explore properly and you had objectives

[@IvanKinkle]

I never understood how to even work this game. 😂

[@EskChan19]

Yeah, this game was incredible! But I haven't been able to get it to work on a modern computer at all.

[@Flandrew]

It took me as long to get this game working, as it did making the actual video

[@Jack-tp8rb]

As someone who had both games, please look at the second it's incredible. Much better (from hazy 20 year old memories)

[@Qasemiro]

I can think it's perfect before I see it. ❤❤ Please compare spider man friend or foe,web of shadows and the amazing spider man versions And Lord of the rings Aragorn's quest versions And 007 quantum of solace versions too❤

[@frederikfilbert842]

This is great

[@Magikalic]

I used to spend hours on this game and I honestly think the vibe is perfect, but goddamn, was it janky. if you played as the ghost character, then you could clip fully out of the map in the outside bit in the forbidden forest. i used to pretend that I was exploring the woods.

[@johnc8446]

I used to have this game might still have it played it when I was 5 and I hated it and the painting guy I hated even more game was just a bit hard

[@Jaksolo]

Thank you sir for this video I could never find it I remembered a Lego hogwarts but anytime I looked online all I could find is telltale’s Lego game thank you sir I know at least as far as this existing I wasn’t crazy

[@thedeadstig123]

Do you know of a lego football game? I swear as a kid I had one for a console, remember you could have a skeleton as a goalie but can't seem to find it

[@BTMOvie78]

Yeah it's a real game, played it with a friend on his PS or PS2 and you played the whole team and there was special powers and stuff

[@thedeadstig123]

@@BTMOvie78 yep that's the game, you could choose from all these different mini figs for the players of your team

[@BTMOvie78]

@@thedeadstig123 it's LEGO Football (Soccer) Mania (2002) !

[@Badger8200]

I didn't have the Harry Potter game but did play creator Knights kingdom the controls were the same was fun for a time but didn't hold my attention for long

[@mangermatilla1538]

Merry Christmas

[@corncobjohnsonreal]

Bro this kid is a pinhead cartoon

[@nateosborne7361]

Cover the second one! That’s the one I played.

[@morganwaumsley547]

can you please do lego city undercover

[@Aldo.flores]

How its supposed i feel nostalgic about this game if it crashes every 5 minutes when I tried to played. The only interesting things were the minifigs included on some version of the game

[@MakoTenseii]

I loved it when I was a kid but man it ran like ass on my windows 98 pc lol

[@cainjake7940]

Sequel please the 2nd one is grear

[@litkingbee7476]

This game was awesome, just so slow

[@f4th0mbl4ck]

I use that same keyboard at work. Your dad's taste is fire.

[@themrstermann2971]

Yes final now only missing the lego creator harry potter 2 it complited diffrebd

[@spaceaec1969]

lego racers was sick as fuck

[@DavidDumbedDown]

This video was uploaded at 14:00

[@DavidDumbedDown]

15:04

[@Dutchcardcollector1]

i literaly bougth this game today on the internet for 1€ ❤😊

[@BluShiGuy]

BRICKS

[@matthewbolitho-jones]

I like Lego Creator: Harry Potter

[@DerLetzteMonarch]

Damn, this game and all of its sounds evoke so much nostalgia for me. It's such a bad game. Terribly glitchy, the gameplay is so bad and it looks so low quality, even for its time. Yet, 8 year old me spent so many hours trying to recreate the entirety of the Hogwarts grounds and the actual interior layout of the castle. I specifically remember being so frustrated when I found out that certain placeable doors allowed you to load into specific rooms in the castle after just having spent hours building the interior of the Great Hall. And then I did it all over again.

[@ErimlRGG]

1:05 Nice way to poor shame parents, dude. Very necessary for the video

[@ErimlRGG]

as if Lego weren't/aren't expensive

[@MidwestPopArtExperimentalFilms]

This game isn't good by pretty much any standards. However, almost nothing can compare to growing up in the early two thousands with this as one of only a dozen or so computer game discs at your disposal. The "it will never come back" nostalgia branding is a bit overdone, and to be honest, it's good that we've evolved past this era. However, to any who can relate, or any who come across this comment who never did experience such a short window of time, let me say here, honestly: it was one of life's greatest joys at the time.

[@TheSystem092]

Yeah fun but clunky. CoS is better but still all creator games were clunky. Knights Kingdom was my favourite