[MOC] Diagon Alley - An amalgamation

[-DoNe-]

For the past months I've spent quite some time working on my Diagon Alley "MOC". It's been a labour of love thats for sure and its finalyl come to a point where I can share the progress. It's definitely not done yet. I have a "Quality Quidditch Supply" MOC built digitally waiting for funds. This is a different form of MOC as you've probably spotted both Flourish & Blotts and Weaslys Wizard Weezers sets as well as some models from the original Diagon Alley set released in 2011. The idea for this amalgamation started when in december of 2024 I managed to snag both weasleys and F&B for €85. As soon as that happened I knew I had to combine them with my original set, which have been sitting in a drawer since it was new in 2011.
 

The plan was to reconfigure the original sets to work with the style introduced with set 75978. The main aspects was to transfer them to 16x32 stud baseplates and great the same styled "sidewalk" as per the newer set. The old ones was also rather skinny so Olivanders and Borgin & Burks have both been extended to feature more expansive interiors. After these to were finished I turned my attention to Gringotts. I knew I wanted to keep the design from the original set but it had to be significantly modified as it's way to small to work in this scale. So I set out to fully rebuild it. I'm most pleased with the result as the beautiful original design remains yet the much larger size gives it a commanding role, something it lacked before. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of the interior so that I'll have to share those at later time.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited March 28 by -DoNe-

[Feuer Zug]

Great work capturing the look of Diagon Alley. About the only thing that would make it better is hinged plates to narrow the alley.

[-DoNe-]

11 hours ago, Feuer Zug said:

Great work capturing the look of Diagon Alley. About the only thing that would make it better is hinged plates to narrow the alley.

Thanks! It's so it comes to together to form a narrow alley. When I take some interior photos I'll make sure to get one of those shots as well!