LEGO 70425 Hidden Side Newbury Haunted High School

Who doesn’t love a good Haunted High School. The LEGO 70425 Hidden Side Newbury Haunted High school is the biggest set of the brand new series, and has lots of great features, and reminds me of two previous series LEGO released, but then didn’t continue.

This set had 9 bags and took a few hours to build at a relaxed pace. There are lots of hidden features, and it was fun to discover them as I built and then played with it.

LEGO 70425 Hidden Side Newbury Haunted High release date.

The Hidden Haunted High School LEGO set is scheduled to be released on August 1, 2019. This is not a VIP only release. I expect this series of sets to be available at both the official LEGO store, as well as 3rd party retailers like Amazon, Target, and Walmart.

I generally only buy my LEGO sets at the LEGO store (so I can get the VIP points), at Amazon, using affiliate links to support fellow bloggers, or at Target with my RED card so I can get a 5% discount.

LEGO 70418 Pieces & Minifigures

There are 1474 pieces in this set, including 7 minifigures and Spencer the dog. Paola, Jack, Parker, Mr Elton, Rose Davids, Mr Clarke, and Wade.

The size of the assembled Graveyard Mystery set is over 11” (30cm) high, 16” (43cm) wide and 10” (26cm) deep when haunted.

It has 2 full sticker sheets (most of the hidden side sets use a lot of stickers. It has a lot of the new haunted green pieces as well.

All of he Hidden Side sets are focused around the town of Newberry, where strange things happen. You can’t see them without the use of an iPhone, or iPad app, however. From the LEGO website:

Using the LEGO® Hidden Side™ app is like looking through a window to a cool and spooky Hidden Side filled with challenging mysteries to solve, ghosts to defeat and unique ghost bosses, like Mamali, to overcome in each set.

LEGO 70425 Hidden Side Newbury Haunted High School Price

This set is priced at $129.99 US and will be on sale starting August 1, 2019.

LEGO Hidden Side Information

From the LEGO website:

Solve the mysteries haunting the town of Newbury before it’s too late. Forget what you know – you’ve never experienced LEGO® play like this before. Your phone opens the door to a virtual hidden world where your LEGO sets come alive in an unfolding ghostly adventure.

It seems these LEGO sets will use your phone to do some kind of Augmented Reality. LEGO tried this before with the Dimensions sets (which were sort of a flop, and now only collected by hard core fans). This seems different though. Not only do you get a set where you can build something and play with it , but when you point your phone at it it comes alive or something and you get an additional experience.

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