Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 Well in that case there arent any recognisable buildings left...
THELEGOBATMAN Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 42 minutes ago, RedHoodPug said: All the upset about the anniversary sets not looking like the current sets, if only there was some way a Lego set could be modified to suit the end user’s ideal. What's the point of making Lego sets if you an just build your own set then? Not everyone likes to modify official Lego products, as by that they become unofficial, they become your own.
drewdotexe Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) They could potentially do some other buildings or features such as the Owlery, an expanded courtyard or the covered bridge? Not sure how these would work in practice, the Owlery would be a standard tower but the only scene I remember from the films is when Harry and Cho bump into each other on the steps. Not sure the inside would have much interesting to feature either. The courtyard they could do a Harry vs Voldemort duel, or the Weasley twins flying away after wreaking havoc during the OWLS in OOTP. For the bridge, Neville and Seamus with the scene where Scabior and the others are attacking, with some sort of play feature that collapses the bridge? Edited March 10, 2021 by drewdotexe
Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said: What's the point of making Lego sets if you an just build your own set then? Not everyone likes to modify official Lego products, as by that they become unofficial, they become your own. Right? If wanted to build something which would be my own I wouldnt buy all these sets. I dont have a building talent like jl.bricks or other great moc builders so if I would build something, it would look bad :D I like when I buy set which is perfect as is and doesnt need any heavy upgrade. 9 minutes ago, drewdotexe said: For the bridge, Neville and Seamus with the scene where Scabior and the others are attacking, with some sort of play feature that collapses the bridge? I like that bridge a lot but it would work only as a standalone set because it would be hard to make it able to connect with Clock Tower.
Roonil Wazlib Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Yope said: This way we can get a chamber of secrets which wouldn't have been at all compatible with the modular 2018-2020 sets. I don't necessarily think that's true. They could have easily done a COS in the new style with generic castle wall on the exterior. Snape's classroom from the WW set wasn't underneath anything despite the fact that canonically it's in the dungeons. The COS doesn't have to be entirely underneath the castle as long as the bathroom is above it. It especially didn't have to be below the great hall since it's actually the kitchens that are supposed to be there
Alexandrina Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 3 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said: I said even if they look nice, and I was talking about August sets. I'm well aware. I was just asking why - if the August wave is another anniversary wave, and if you like the look of the August sets - it would matter if they were anniversary sets. It's been a few posts back now, so apologies if I misinterpreted you, but I read your initial comment to mean that the quality of the August sets is irrelevant - them being anniversary sets would make you not like them regardless of whether you thought they looked good.
Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, Roonil Wazlib said: I don't necessarily think that's true. They could have easily done a COS in the new style with generic castle wall on the exterior. Snape's classroom from the WW set wasn't underneath anything despite the fact that canonically it's in the dungeons. The COS doesn't have to be entirely underneath the castle as long as the bathroom is above it. It especially didn't have to be below the great hall since it's actually the kitchens that are supposed to be there My original vision of CoS was something like Whomping Willow set but bigger. It would have some random Hogwarts buildings from outside and interior would be the chamber ofc and on the higher floor there would be bathroom entrance. Other rooms could be Slytherin common room, Lockharts room etc. It wouldnt go under Great Hall but it would just connect next to it or to any other building as you like it. Its a shame we will not get something like that. Edited March 10, 2021 by Textorix
Roonil Wazlib Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, Textorix said: My original vision of CoS was something like Whomping Willow set but bigger. It would have some random Hogwarts buildings from outside and interior would be the chamber ofc and on the higher floor there would be bathroom entrance. Other rooms could be Slytherin common room, Lockharts room etc. It wouldnt go under Great Hall but it would just connect next to it or to any other building as you like it. Its a shame we will not get something like that. Yeah, I saw a MOC similar to what you're describing on Lego Ideas a while back. It's too bad, that concept would have been a lot better than what we got.
THELEGOBATMAN Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 3 minutes ago, Alexandrina said: I'm well aware. I was just asking why - if the August wave is another anniversary wave, and if you like the look of the August sets - it would matter if they were anniversary sets. It's been a few posts back now, so apologies if I misinterpreted you, but I read your initial comment to mean that the quality of the August sets is irrelevant - them being anniversary sets would make you not like them regardless of whether you thought they looked good. Sorry, maybe I didn't phrase this right: anniversary sets that are Higwarys expansions. Let's take a look at June sets, but only the builds (all of this is my opinion) - Bathroom looks like a cube, Fluffy tower is awful, and Great Hall with Staircase Tower look really word, but for example GH looks MUCH worse than the 2018 one. But there's one exception - Hogsmeade, which looks fantastic. I don't like new style for Hogwarts - weird shapes (cubes, walls, towers on a wall of stone), sand-green roofs (much worse than dark-grey) etc., and the worst thing - they don't fit with 2018-2020 sets at all, not only do they look worse, but they also remake some fo the things they've done. If in August we get more sets like Hogsmeade, or just sets that aren't part of Hogwarts, then great. But if we don't, I'll lose my interest in this theme (at least for 2021).
BrickMatit Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 6 minutes ago, Textorix said: My original vision of CoS was something like Whomping Willow set but bigger. My original vision was something like that. When most of us thought that Lego would have given us Bell Towers, I imagined that they would have produced Long Gallery + Bell Towers (maybe just one tower). And they would have put inside Chamber of Secrets (DH scene) and Slytherin and Hufflepuff dormitories.
Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, BrickMatit said: My original vision was something like that. When most of us thought that Lego would have given us Bell Towers, I imagined that they would have produced Long Gallery + Bell Towers (maybe just one tower). And they would have put inside Chamber of Secrets (DH scene) and Slytherin and Hufflepuff dormitories. This would be a great way to fill in the unknown interior of that castle section and give us two very desirable sets in one.
BrickBob Studpants Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 We need some leaks, the Marvel thread is catching up with ludricous speed 8 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said: If in August we get more sets like Hogsmeade, or just sets that aren't part of Hogwarts, then great. But if we don't, I'll lose my interest in this theme (at least for 2021). Getting strong monkey paw vibes here
Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 2 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said: We need some leaks, the Marvel thread is catching up with ludricous speed Yeah, its a pitty that there is no one who reads these forums and has some valid information about august sets which could boost up this thread again
Alexandrina Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 8 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said: We need some leaks, the Marvel thread is catching up with ludricous speed The Marvel thread was ahead in mid-February. Once they've got their D2C leaks out of their system, Potter will shoot back ahead! 18 minutes ago, BrickMatit said: When most of us thought that Lego would have given us Bell Towers, I imagined that they would have produced Long Gallery + Bell Towers (maybe just one tower). And they would have put inside Chamber of Secrets (DH scene) and Slytherin and Hufflepuff dormitories. That would have been an absurdly big set, though. The Chamber of Secrets needs to be its own thing, really, if we're following the 2018-20 style, and if you aren't compromising on the quality of the Chamber or the Bell Towers, you're getting a few thousand pieces. And that's before the Slytherin dormitories appear. 1 minute ago, Textorix said: Yeah, its a pitty that there is no one who reads these forums and has some valid information about august sets which could boost up this thread again Let's not get into all that again.
Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Alexandrina said: Let's not get into all that again. Just innocent joke sry... anyways I feel we will get new info very soon.
Alexandrina Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 1 minute ago, Textorix said: anyways I feel we will get new info very soon. In the next two hundred days, at any rate.
Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 4 minutes ago, Alexandrina said: That would have been an absurdly big set, though. The Chamber of Secrets needs to be its own thing, really, if we're following the 2018-20 style, and if you aren't compromising on the quality of the Chamber or the Bell Towers, you're getting a few thousand pieces. And that's before the Slytherin dormitories appear. Nah it could be made with like 1200 pcs, nothing crazy big.
Alexandrina Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 Just now, Textorix said: Nah it could be made with like 1200 pcs, nothing crazy big. I'm not sure it could. The Astronomy Tower is about 950 pcs, and the Clock Tower 900 (minifigures excluded). Let's split that in the middle and say a Bell Tower is 925 pcs. The original Chamber of Secrets from 2002 is over 500 pcs, and you'd need a comparative amount of detail - for the sake of argument, let's say that they cut out the upper towers from the original and used that piece count for added detail. Just the Bell Tower and the Chamber is 1500 pcs. The Long Gallery is actually bigger than the Bell Towers, so that would be probably another 1000 pcs to do it justice, and the Dungeon/Slytherin Common Room would probably be another 200. That's nearly 3000 pcs, plus minifigures (and you'd need a lot in a set that size - probably a dozen or so).
BrickBob Studpants Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) 4 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said: Oh I hope so, I still have my hand to eat if we don't get DH sets next year, don't I? YES Speaking of DH: It just dawned on me that by the time we will finally get our precious DH sets, I will aready have completed my PhD I was expecting to „complete“ that aspect of the collection (every film being represented) before diving into the hard part of the thesis, but of course TLG had other plans ... and yes, I will make you call me Dr. Lego-Freak afterwards Edited March 10, 2021 by Lego-Freak
Balrogofmorgoth Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 20 minutes ago, Textorix said: Yeah, its a pitty that there is no one who reads these forums and has some valid information about august sets which could boost up this thread again There are. They’re just smart enough not to risk it right now
Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) 18 minutes ago, Alexandrina said: I'm not sure it could. The Astronomy Tower is about 950 pcs, and the Clock Tower 900 (minifigures excluded). Let's split that in the middle and say a Bell Tower is 925 pcs. The original Chamber of Secrets from 2002 is over 500 pcs, and you'd need a comparative amount of detail - for the sake of argument, let's say that they cut out the upper towers from the original and used that piece count for added detail. Just the Bell Tower and the Chamber is 1500 pcs. The Long Gallery is actually bigger than the Bell Towers, so that would be probably another 1000 pcs to do it justice, and the Dungeon/Slytherin Common Room would probably be another 200. That's nearly 3000 pcs, plus minifigures (and you'd need a lot in a set that size - probably a dozen or so). I mean they just did CoS, Great Hall, Great Tower (or whatever part is that) in one set with like 1200 pcs so why they wouldnt be able to make set with just one Bell Tower, small part of long gallery section and Chamber of Secrets as interior part... nothing crazy there rly. 9 minutes ago, Balrogofmorgoth said: There are. They’re just smart enough not to risk it right now So people who leaked Marvel stuff arent risking? Edited March 10, 2021 by Textorix
THELEGOBATMAN Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 5 minutes ago, Textorix said: So people who leaked Marvel stuff arent risking something? Sometimes sources allow leakers to tell other people what they know, sometimes they don't. Some leakers obviously knew what for example the D2C was for a long time, but decided to share it only now. Why? Because they were allowed to do so. Trust is a fragile and delicate thing, so no one wants to break it just to please someone they don't even know.
Textorix Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) Yes, I get that its up to their sources but what I am interested about is how they now when is the right time to share something. Why they share it now and not ealier or later, does it really matter when it leaks if its not offcial info from Lego? I would like to know whats the difference between leakers being allowed to share Marvel stuff but not Harry Potter. Edited March 10, 2021 by Textorix
BrickMatit Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 40 minutes ago, Alexandrina said: That would have been an absurdly big set, though. Oh, well, maybe. But in Whomping Willow we had Griyffindor dormitory... yes, only two beds and probably not enough, but Gryffindor dormitory. To have Slytherin and Hufflepuff dormitory you need only four beds And that's 2018 style. And for the Chamber of Secrets... why has it to be big and on it own? In 2018 style Lego recreated a lot of rooms trying to give them detailed in a very little spaces, just to adapt them to the exterior aspect: Gryffindor and Ravenclaw dormitory, Dumbledore's office, Prefects' bathroom, Snape's and Slughorn's offices, Infirmary, Snape's and Moody's classroom. And the exterior aspect and his resemble to that one of the films is, for me, the central point of that style. So, if they liked to produce Long Gallery and Bell Tower(s) in 2018 style I'm sure they would gave us a immediately recognisable building in his exterior aspect, able to connect to the rest of Hogwarts. And for the inside, a detailed and not so big Chambers of secrets and 2 Slytherin plus 2 Hufflepuff beds rapresenting dormitories. So, this isn't something impossible to create, in my opinion. Maybe something that would disappoint some or a lot of us, but Lego has just produced a June wave that disappoint a lot of us.
Balrogofmorgoth Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) 8 minutes ago, Textorix said: Yes, I get that its up to their sources but what I am interested about is how they now when is the right time to share something. Why they share it now and not ealier or later, does it really matter when it leaks if its not offcial info from Lego? I would like to know whats the difference between leakers being allowed to share Marvel stuff but not Harry Potter. I understand wanting to know, the curiosity is killer, but there’s a big difference between wanting to know and acting like you deserve to know. Sources will allow info when and how they see fit and that is based on things behind the scenes that they don’t tell us all. It’s just how it is. Some take bigger risks than others. Some play it safe. They determine that, not us, and we’re not entitled to what they have just because we want it. I don’t have all the answers, but I also know I’m not entitled to all the answers. Edited March 10, 2021 by Balrogofmorgoth
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