25 craziest Harry Potter Lego creations

13. Steve Hassenplug’s Robotic Chess Board

This next one isn’t directly about Harry Potter per se, but it’s so cool we just had to mention it. Longtime Lego Roboticist Steve Hassenplug unveiled this mega chessboard, complete with robotically controlled chess pieces that players can move around on the board. If the scene sounds kind of familiar, it’s because it is. In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the trio of Ron, Hermione and Harry have to play a game of Wizard’s Chess in order to reach the Sorcerer’s stone before Voldemort can use it for himself. These giant chess pieces were large enough to where our heroes could ride on them, but they also moved on their own after a command was shouted.

Hassenplug was so inspired by this scene, he created his very own chess set and pieces made entirely out of Legos that can also move with nothing more than a command. According to Popular Science, the project took over a year to complete to the tune of thirty-thousand dollars. Each piece, except for the pawns, have their very own battery-operated movement. For example, the knight’s horse’s front two legs move. And the tower can actually fire cannons from the ramparts. The King and Queens also have light-up scepters, and Hassenplug’s wife and friend actually came up with the Queens’ facial details.

If you want to get in on a game, players control their pieces from a touchscreen pad that answers to the robotic software in each piece. And unlike the Harry Potter scene, these pieces don’t destroy one another when knocking them out of the game. Yet.