Thanks! I have to say that I would improve on this more if I did it all over again. It was my first larger MOC that I did when I was 13. Thanks though, I appreciate the comments. And yeah, we love Miyazaki's stuff... all of it. :)

this man i have to say is the best moc i have ever seen on moc pages you and your mom rock the house!!!!! you two did a good job you and her get 5 stars from me. keep it up :) P.S. (howls moving castle is my favorite movie) are you a fan of that guys anime films?

Thanks!

There is no such thing as a perfect MOC but if there were it wold look a lot like this

Very nice. I love all the different colours so that it looks like its made from scraps they've found in their travels : )

I love this MOC! It is a great movie. It would be very very cool if you did howls room, you know all fancy like. I love it! XD

A flying version would also be insane...cool, but insane. :)

Yeah, the only inside room I did was the main one that you can access by opening the back. This is a MOC I'd love to rebuild sometime and do it much better.

amazing! just like the movie! it would be cool to do an inside part too.

nice. do all of the little outbuildings have interiors as well? just kidding, that would be insane. you should make the flying version too.

Really well done!

Liked the book, liked the movie, liked your creation.

I never seen anything like this. The scale is Giant!

Good job. this is really cool.

I am blown away. This is amazin. Pls check out my Howl minfig and other Miyazaki characters. Also join the group DFTBA. 101/100

THIS IS AMAZING!!! Also, I guess that interior, really accurate, is very tidy: it must be a depiction of it after Sophie's cleanings! ;-)

Wow, I Saw This Had 16K Visits And Now, Now I See Why.

oh my gosh how did u build that i bet it took forever!!!!!

HOLY!! That is amazing! How do you move it?

:O . . . I'd kill for LEGO skills like that!

Amazing!

There was one book we found at the library, and then we watched the movie over and over as we built. The exterior is really not accurate, just a pretty good likeness. The interior room however is pretty close. Thanks!

Absolutely fantastic! Where on earth did you get the reference photos required for such details? I'd definitely say you and your mom make a crack construction team :)

i loved the movie and i love this creation! nice touch with turnip head!

this is awstricking.... i am a HUGE fan of Miazaki, and Howls moving castle is my... 3rd favorite one of his films, this is actually pretty accurette, keep building!

This is the best moving castle ive ever seen in my life...WOW i need to replace my jaw..

Pretty terrific! Can't wait to see what's next!

This is simply amazing. So much detail packed in to this castle, and it must have taken a lot of skill to build it so it is stable. Great work. -Sam

Wow! Thanks! Sad to say I'm slowly dismantling the build. It used so many of the parts I need for other things.

CONGRATULATIONS ON 100 LIKES!

My mom says "About time somebody said so!" I say, "Great....now I have to put up with her repeating your comment to my face everyday." Thanks. :)

You Have The Best Mom EVER !!!!!

Awesome! Simply awesome. :)

wow I saw this on the bros brick.

Well, I didn't order too many parts as I pulled together pieces from sets like the Star Destroyer, Cloud City and other sets that had house pieces. If you're not familiar with Lego.com's Pick a Brick, you should check that out for pieces. Also, builders order from bricklink.com too. I needed only extra 2x3, 2x4, and 2x6 bricks in grey and brown, plus some dark grey plates & tiles. So I just went to the Lego store for bulk bricks and ordered the rest online. The magic dial by the door wouldn't fit and I couldn't think of any Lego that would work well for it. If anyone has any ideas on that, let me know. Thanks for the comments.

First off: Brilliant! Just, Brilliant! Second off: Where did you order the parts and what parts did you order (if it's not too much trouble)? I love the movie and I love legos and I love your combination of the two. Oh yeah, also, did you put the magic dial by the door?

sweet! I love that movie! You should make some stuff from Castle In The Sky!

Ahhh!! Is so awesome it blinds my eyes!! X0 nice, love the mouth!

This is officially the coolest thing ever. I have to go watch the movie now... lol

wow this is absoultly amazing :)

This is great, I didnt know a Moc could be such a moving experience. Anyways, great detail.

WOW!!! It's funny I just recently saw this movie a few weeks ago and had I not seen it, I would have just passed this up. You did such an amazing job with everything, all the detail you put into it, and I really like your innovative approach to keeping all the sections together with magnets. That technique only helps reinforce what I have told many builders about using the pieces that they have not worrying about the pieces they don't have. This is truly a monumental build, Excellent Job.

Love your work!

The way everything spontaneously fits together is truly amazing. I'm very impressed with the interior as well. Good luck at the show! Good day

Wow that's really good, and I loved the movie!

All I gotta say is wow.That thing is so huge. You must've had a lot of work to make that thing. I love the interiro.Nice wrok.

I...I... really can't say or do anything but gape at this... It's incredible!!!

This is one of the most amazing biuld's ive ever seen AMAZING

A.M.A.Z.I.N.G!!!!! That was brilliant,awesome, fantastic,amazing and all in one fantabulus!

wow, this is amazing!

Thanks. It's easy to second guess yourself after it's all built and people start seeing it. It's cool to hear what everyone likes...turnip head is a favorite, and the interior. If I did it over, I would try to keep the interior while still making the outside taller and less wide. Once the interior was laid out and I began building around it the whole thing became kind of "fat." I had a week to complete it by then and so I just kept going. Thanks for taking a long look and commenting.

Do you have any idea how awesome this is?! You made the surface so detailed and great, ok itŽs not 100% the original thing, but that doesnŽt matter! I scrolled down every pic and was really overwhelmed but then came the interior and I couldnŽt believe: This thing was so awesome, how can this have an interior, btw a great interior! So all in all I can really feel how hard this is to build and you did fantastic! Incredibly awesome job!

Very nice! Howl's Moving Castle is one of my favorite movies. I especially love the interior and how it matches up to the real thing. Plus, that Turniphead is awesome!

Pretty awesome!

Wow,this is one of the collest system mocs i have ever seen on the pages.Congratalutions man!

i love the movie its great! this moc is fantastic! i like the turnip head by the way!

This is one of my favourite movies, and this is one of my favourite mocs. Good details like your other mocs, but this one is outstanding! There are no more words to describe it!!! YouŽare one of my favourite builders, ingenious work :)

I also have no idea what this is all about, but oh well who cares! It's amazing! Great detail, brillint design and just amazing overall. Well done.

I have no idea what this is from and simply don't care because this monstrosity is totally redonculous on it's own merits! The interior is superior and the exterior burns my posterior!(with jealousy of course) Fantabulous build my friend!~H

This is great work! I enjoyed looking at all the detail, and the fact that you did this with your mom makes it even better.

really cool i love the detail especially mr. turmip head

Great lego!

That is amazing, a beautiful build. SImply amazing. I am stunned. Really, I have nothing else to say. Nothing at all.

Simply stunning!

Brilliant!

Holy Cow!!! This is awesome! I can't believe that your mom actually agreed to build the castle with you!!!I like turnip head (aka. the prince) the best.

this is creepy cuz i just got done watching the movie then i went on mpages and saw on explore page "howls moving castle"

Howls movimg castle is my favorite movie ever 5/5

Thanks. :) I'm happy with it too. It's one of the largest MOCs I've ever built.

I don't care if your Lego castle is not iqual to the movie castle, it is awesome anyway! excellent job!!!

O.K. I'm really jealous. You're a new builder, and you've had four really famous people comment on this, AND you have like 5,000 views. In one day! I wish i was popular when I started. Good job!

I love that movie! it was extremely trippy and semi-disturbing, but awesome! fantastic job on this build!

Hmmmmm....good question. I forgot to count while I was building. And should I count the pieces that fell inside and were never seen again? Well, really if I had to guess, maybe 6000+. Someday, when I take it apart, if ever, I'll count them.

Ok, somebody remind me about this during next year's MOCie awards! This is just BEYOND cool! It was cool enough with just the exterior, but then you went and added interior to it and I was OFFICIALLY floored! AMAZING work! ~ Chris.

Incredible! It's literally stuffed with details, I don't know where to start. I also loved the movie. Great job.

Wow, thanks! I'm blown away by getting a mention in TBB. I should probably explain about the hidden support underneath. As you can see, the legs are tiny and cannot support anything, so a fellow builder at LEAHI suggested plexiglass blocks. We used two in the middle and took out the edges that showed in the pics with photoshop. There are two levels as you can see in the building pics and the top lifts off after I take the face off. The whole thing is surprisingly solid and stable, except for the face, which can be touchy. To answer a few more questions, I really didn't start with an idea, just an outline of the size it needed to be and created a platform for the bottom level. Then I started adding one section at a time by looking at pictures from the movie and improvising. Then the face, being held on with Lego magnets had to be light and so is not as filled in as I wanted. If I did that part over I would fill in the seams for sure and add more detail. It is a squatter version than what you see in the movie because I had to stop somewhere. The interior was key to making this complete I agree. I probably wouldn't have built it if my mom hadn't said it would make Howl's Castle authentic. She kept saying you need to add this, and this, and what about this? Mom said I should say how much fun it was to work on this with her, but I have to say it was sometimes not so fun. She wants to interrupt and say she had fun and learned a lot! What will I do next? Take a break and build some normal sets with instructions. Who knows, maybe something bigger, or maybe not.

This is a wonderful creation, it gives the right feeling too :)

I love the movie but I never thought I'd see someone try to make the castle from Lego. Very nicely done and surprisingly well detailed. The 'face' is a little sparse, but considering time constraints, you did an amazing job.

Wow, how does that thing stand?

Fantastic job! This is one of the better moc's I've seen in a while. Nice job!

Awesome. this movie was insanely cool, and though there's some room for improvement this is really a spectacularly accomplished rendering of the castle. The interior is a fantastic detail, too.

WOW! I was waiting for someone to build this thing! Truly amazing work!

Whoops! Only just now read the dialogue. Your Mom did a great job too. Pieces ~ Nowhereman

Beautiful. More than once I've considered giving this thing a try and rejected it on grounds of it being too complex. See, thing is though, that I've only ever considered building the exterior. The fact that you were able to fit the interior in as well (not to mention do a blamed good job of it) is mind-blowing to me. Terrific piece usage both on exterior and interior. I personally love the scarecrow. This is one of the best Miyazaki creations I've ever seen (along with an Ohmu I once spotted on Brickshelf)! Fantastic work all around and congrats on getting blogged! Keep on building ~ Nowhereman

Incredible though it looks kind of wobbly. Great job for getting blogged on TBB!

How could you even start a project like this, amazing, I can't imagine... what part did you build first ?

You were blogged in The Brothers Brick! Congrats! http://www.brothers-brick.com/2009/10/21/howls-moving-lego-castle/

Howl-y mother of ...! The fact that you attempted to build it is a feat in itself. And now you ended up with this wonderful creation. I think you captured the concept of Howl's Moving Castle really well... And the interior is just majestic! And you mom helped? Wow! High five to both of you! Both of you did an amazing build!

That is simply amazing! Well done on a great MOC!

I was just going to invite this to the Ghibli group but I see you already did, great! You two were really brave to even think about building this, all the strange angles, chaotic placement of houses, turrets and what have you must have been a huge challenge. Don't worry about this not being a perfect replica, your own touches look great and there are plenty of movie accurate details, like the interior. The interior! Man, I'm amazed at how accurate you two were able to build the main room, the fireplace, stairway, table, shelves, and entry all are instantly recognizable. I've gone on long enough so I'll just say great job to both of you! What will you do next?

I cant believe that nobody have commented on this yet. This is really cool and really big!! I dont know Howl's Moving Castle - but it is a nice build with great playability.