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Someone said the Werewolf By Night fig from the latest CMF would make a good Firenze from PS. Picked up one today to have a look. Here he is with just the head and hairpiece. And here with the Werewolf torso. And a comparison to the OotP centaurs from the Umbridge's Encounter set. I'd like to try the CMF Centaur body and Orc hairpiece on the centaurs, but I don't have either piece to hand.

I hope Lego stick to updating classic factions (pre-KK1) and don't create new ones for a while. It looks likely that Dragon Knights will be in the GWP, which would be the fourth classic design to be updated if so. Wolfpack and Dark Forest would be my personal picks for the next factions to make a comeback, because they (as well as the returned Forestmen) have the most different looking base compared to the Lion Knight's castle. You could just change the banners and shields for that to make it a castle for the Black Falcons or any of the 2000 onwards factions.

Are we expecting the GWP to be free with ANY purchases over a certain amount, or just one particular theme/group of sets?

I was thinking about some future figures, and I really hope any Bill Weasley figure we get use the Sirius Black hairpiece in Dark Orange rather than the Dastan piece I think we may already get. It's already been used in Dark Orange in this theme on Ron and Wormtongue, and likely any GoF Fred and George without their hats. The piece has also been used on Snape, Borgin and three different colours for Tonks, so it would be nice to see some variation.

Shows how good that original Viking set was that there was barely any need to upgrade to the design 8 years later with the Hobbit set, and 18 years after it was initially released it's still a great looking model.

Just done a quick count so may be one or two out, but so far (including polyjuice potions, disguises, etc, but not the gold figs) we've had 46 Harry, 26 Ron, and 30 Hermione variants. Not bad for six years!

I would struggle to think of a place for the Longbottoms, but I guess Charlie in a Weasley based set would make sense. It would be good to get the Fad Lady as a figure, perhaps in a brick built frame, but again not going to hold my breath on these ones :) Lily and James were my first thought too, but even as photos they were very prominent - unlike the Longbottoms and Charlie.

Aragorn appeared in 4 sets, 2 variants. Gandalf appeared in 7 sets, 2 variants (basically). Indy, Jack Sparrow and Harry Potter from a few years previous are worse offenders I think, however Galdalf is the big one for LOTR above Aragorn. I think we're basically saying the same thing lol. I suppose they could include the armour and dirty torsos for the Hobbit you could swap in. There were 30 new minifig prints in Rivendell, not including the short legs and sitting skirt pieces, and so hopefully that budget could be moved around for new molds. Something Lego is excelling at now which it wasn't so much in 2012-14 is big location based sets, which is much more what LOTR is about, rather than vehicles.

I like the look of the set, but unless that torso print is new, it's not of much interest to me I'm afraid. It looks like it may be the one from the Creator Pirate Ship set though, will have to await more detailed photos.

Oh, I wasn't suggesting it would be a problem for the ragged clothes prints, that should be expected, it's the armour I was talking about which is not so certain.

Nice to see the lists combined, just a quick explanation on why some are missing from mine - Firenze I had along with the goblins as they are not humans, however the list is now so small I may as well include him in the PS characters. Fat Lady, the Longbottoms and Charlie Weasley only appear in photos or paintings, so I'm not expecting figures of them. Winky and Terry Boot I don't think actually appear. There are a couple of house elves in GoF but no evidence of either being Winky and Terry Boot is sort of in the background in PS, but is far more background than say Susan Bones or Hannah Abbott. Bem, Nigel and the Waitress are all film introduced characters that aren't in the books, and there was no real indication they'd be included, however with the Owl Post Worker who isn't even in the films, I guess these are now possible, however the list is large with Pike and Kellah and several others so I was still planning to omit these for now. Mr and Mrs Granger and Housekeeping Witch - these I forgot! I'll add them, I like that and future Leaky Cauldron set gets another possible minifig. There is also the witch who asks Harry if he's lost in Knockturn Alley. Yeah, I agree about the different ages, however the list is just to keep a running total of which characters have or have not appeared to date. Many students often change a lot over the course of the eight films, not just different haircuts but facially too, so a variant tracker would be useful but a big job! Most adult characters look the same throughout, with some exceptions (Flitwick, Tonks 😁) In the films, five non-students change actor - Dumbledore (got both), Bozo/Daily Prophet photographer (got the one from CoS), Tom the Barman (got neither), the Trolley Witch (got the one from PS) and Aberforth (got the one from DH). Some Death Eater and Order members were also played by background actors and recast but that's for a much deeper dive into the background players which I don't have time to do yet 🙂

Rivendell had the weapons pack, elf hair, Gimli helmet, dwarf beard, and the fern piece as new elements, and a few recolours. I'm not sure what to expect from Barad Dur, but I'd hope for Frodo and Sam to have Orc helmets and dirty clothes, and Sauron to have a new helmet at the very least - I'm not sure if there are any existing pieces which would work as armour for these three figures, or if new ones would have to be made. Orc Hair, Gollum body and Gollum arms have all been out of production for a long time. An Orcish weapon pack would be great though with 6 or so different pieces.

A 'UCS' Hogwarts that is formed of just the most famous part - the Great Hall and Grand Staircase Tower would be my pick for a future large build. It could be minifig compatible with over 20 figures, including various different rooms in the tower section above the staircases and being able to change the set up in the Great Hall (Welcome Feast, Halloween, Christmas, House Cup, Duelling Club, etc)

44 by my count, although since we got the Owl Post Shop Employee this number could go higher. PS (9): Alicia Spinnet, Tom, Dedalus Diggle, Doris Crockford, King's Cross Guard, Prof Vector, Bloody Baron, Fat Friar, Augusta Longbottom CoS (5): Millicent Bulstrode, Mr and Mrs Mason, Ernie MacMillain, Penelope Clearwater PoA (1): Aunt Marge GoF (6): Roger Davies, Barry Crouch sr, Prof Karkaroff, Amos Diggory, Frank Bruce, Eloise Midgen OotP(6): Mrs Figg, Zacharias Smith, Madam Bones, John Dawlish, Antonin Dolohov, Prof Grubbly-Plank HBP (8): Narcissa Malfoy, Amycus Carrow, Alecto Carrow, Thorfinn Rowle, Leanne, Katie Bell, Cormac McLaggen, Marcus Belby DH (9): Charity Burbage, Bill Weasley, Mundungus Fletcher, Elphius Doge, Rufus Scrimgeour, Xenophilius Lovegood, Aunt Muriel, Bathilda Bagshot, Dirk Cresswell

I say yes for two reasons - one cause I want as many variants as possible and the casual clothes the pair wear from the journey to Hogwarts are already too prevalent (3 sets each, plus Ron's torso was reused for Tiny Tim). There are old two confirmed new molds for the March wave so I imagine a fair slice of the budget will go on prints. The second is that there may be a 'UCS' Burrow on the way - I think there is quite a good chance it will be based on its debut in CoS. Harry and Ron wear the same outfits in that set and so that would free up print budget from that set for new molds and prints.

I picked a set for each film in like to see in the summer wave - for each film there is at least one other set I'd love to see. PS: The Chamber of Winged Keys CS: The Duelling Club POA: The Leaky Cauldron GOF: The Durmstang Ship OOTP: The Ministry Battle HBP: The Inferi Cave DHI: The Wedding Tent DHII: The Boathouse

I'd guess Katie Bell and Demelza Robins.

Has anyone ever sorted out the best torso (and I guess leg and arm) prints for each version of Vader? I think I'm right in saying he appears in Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, Rogue One, Clone Wars S7, Rebels, and Obi-Wan Kenobi, and there are subtle differences in the armour for each appearance. I've never really looked into it but just sorting through my Vaders and wanted to know which ones were most accurate.

Assuming all information is correct, there is huge potential for variants (Hagrid and Trio in the hut, Ron and Hermione in the FF, all three figs in the Owlery) but only two possibly new characters. Both are so far unnamed students the boathouse set - it sounds like it's from the start of Year 1 so it's likely Harry's two chums will be in the non-house robes. The list of missing students is now pretty slim: Alicia Spinnet, Millicent Bulstrode, Ernie MacMillain, Penelope Clearwater, Roger Davies, Eloise Midgen, Zacharias Smith, Leanne, Katie Bell, Cormac McLaggen, Marcus Belby. Of those, only Ernie and Millicent are in Harry's year I think. However, Fang and Norbert of the list of creatures is great! We still don't have a dedicated Trevor (although plenty of frogs/toads in the sets) Errol, or Firenze, however all other named creatures, beasts and beings are accounted for. We're just waited on the Troll in the Dungeon, Unicorn (RIP), Inferi, Giants from the BoH and (I doubt this will ever happen) the other three Triwizard dragons.

I'd like this to be true, its certainly got a more fun vibe to it like previous spring/summer waves have before. All sounds a bit too good to be true though, so as others have said no offence but a pinch of salt taken here. That Forbidden Forest set sounds interesting. It would be great if the Hippogriff was not Buckbeak and could be a more varied colour.

Does anyone know if the 20% off banners will be in store or online only?

The D2C is based on HBP - look at the stretch of wall between the Grand Staircase Tower and the Quad Entrance. From HBP onwards it's a blank wall, before that there was a strange tower that juts out with no windows.

Is that a new tux piece? They all look so similar, so it's hard to tell, but good to know it's a new face print for the goblin at least. If it's free with €130 worth of HP Lego I'm hoping it's free with no more than £120 here in the UK.

Defence Against the Dark Arts There is a DADA tower, it appears in films 1-5 but was replaced by the Astronomy Tower after that.

Shame there is no kilt piece for Aberforth - I may try adding the bagpiper cloth.