Harry Potter 2021 - Rumors & Discussion

[Roebuck]

11 hours ago, Robert8 said:

About the trailer, it seems credence is becoming Snape 2.0

I am your father Snape You thought it was the muggle, but I was hiding as the obscurial in the closet

Is that a normal spider or a new mould similar to the creature in the movie?

Nice that they include the owl in more sets There are still way too few owls in the sets to my liking, however the way they give us 1 new owl every year that they include in 2-3 sets give us in the long run a lot of different owls (I just need to buy some extra of them to get a decent amount)

Regarding the castle style, I have not built any of the new ones yet, but to me the 2018-20 style looks to be aimed more at adults and older kids, now they seem to target younger kids and in 2-3 years they will probably do something different again. I prefer the look of the former style, but they do take up a lot of space, the new ones do not and the figs are great in addition they have more moulded creatures so it is not all bad

[Darth Shadowthrone]

With the trailer coming tomorrow, Is anyone else hoping there’ll be at least a couple of Fantastic Beasts sets coming this year? 
 

 

[ZeLuiz08]

As for the new Clock Tower, sets had been released annually since 2018 based on the movies in the chronological order, and let's admit this was working fine. Future sets were predictable.

I admit that I don't like the 2019 clock tower being themed with the winter, and I don't like the astronomy tower being themed with Professor Slughorn's Christmas party, as these minifigures could come in the sets of Christmas calendars. But, the structures of the towers are very good and beautiful, we cannot complain about them.
It was said that the 2021 sets would be a commemorative edition 20 years after the release, Ok, I don't like the idea, but it was interesting to get some things we lost along the way like the pixies, the fluffy, Lockhart (accessible to the general public ) and the secret chamber.
So now we're moving to 2022 and the commemorative sets continue? Sorry, but that's not fair to those who have been collecting since 2018. If Lego wanted to release these new sets after having finished the collection they started in 2018 ok, but creating a new collection in the middle of the previous one is not right.
And yes I want Madame Pomfrey, but she could have come in a series 3 from the Minifigures Collection.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

2 minutes ago, Darth Shadowthrone said:

With the trailer coming tomorrow, Is anyone else hoping there’ll be at least a couple of Fantastic Beasts sets coming this year? 

Everyone's hoping, but we have no idea if we'll actually get them.

[Roebuck]

35 minutes ago, Darth Shadowthrone said:

With the trailer coming tomorrow, Is anyone else hoping there’ll be at least a couple of Fantastic Beasts sets coming this year?

Yes, if nothing else I hope we at least gets some of the figs somehow (preferably in sets), e.g Rosier:

[puttingstickersonisintense]

Oh wow I predicted they would give Ron a white bandaged leg months ago aha, glad they did that for the accuracy.

Pomfrey really does look amazing. Lego seems to go all out for some of the teachers which is nice.

Surprised they changed Harry's hair for his appearance in the newest book set, I wonder why they did that? Looks as if he is meant to be from the GOF which is strange.

Also has anyone noticed how Neville in the other book set has a very short hairpiece? Shouldn't he have long hair if the set is based in the GOF film? I mean not a big deal really it can be swapped out but it's just an interesting observation. I guess they are not being film accurate when it comes to these books since they did add a young Cedric in a book set last time so fair enough aha.

[Flixter]

10 hours ago, Micmac said:

Hopefully this Clock Tower is the end of this anniversary version of Hogwarts.

It's not, Marcos Bessa already confirmed that new Hogwarts sets will be made in this style

10 hours ago, Micmac said:

I'm really not sure what the thought process was at lego not to continue the old style and make Deathly Hallows sets, We know there is a demand for them here as its all we talked about for months

According to them they're trying to focus on earlier films because they're more "magical" and child-ish. After all, Lego is made for kids first 

[Textorix]

4 hours ago, lego_guyon02 said:

This new system may be intended to focus more on the inside of the castle but I don't see how anyone could look at these interiors and say with a straight face that these are actual improvements. The Bathroom sink looks disproportionate and the stall isn't well designed either, Fluffy and the Quidditch set both don't even really have an interior to praise/criticize and the Chamber of Secrets set may have the best interior of the '21 wave but at the end of the day it's still nothing more than a handfull of very simple builds and a large stickersheet. The interiors in the 2018-2020 Hogwarts sets often looked like an afterthought, I agree, but the 2021-now interiors really aren't any better or worse.

Yeah these sets are focused on interiors and rooms are bigger to play but people pretend like 2021 interiors are more detailed than 2018-2020 which is just not true because of things you said.

2 hours ago, Flixter said:

It's not, Marcos Bessa already confirmed that new Hogwarts sets will be made in this style

He didnt specify how long will this line last... I dont think there is much left for them to do in this style. I cant imagine Astronomy Tower in this style... Bell Towers could work but they didnt make them in previous line so I dont think they have any plans for doing them now. All what is left for them to do in this style are some smaller generic buildings and then they can reboot again.

Edited December 12, 2021 by Textorix

[lego_guyon02]

3 hours ago, Darth Shadowthrone said:

With the trailer coming tomorrow, Is anyone else hoping there’ll be at least a couple of Fantastic Beasts sets coming this year? 

I'm much more looking forward to any potential FB set(s) than all these poorly designed Potter sets we've been getting recently.

Hopefully LEGO will do something similar to what they did with CoG when they announced the Grindelwald's Escape set right alongside the release of the first trailer.

[Flixter]

1 hour ago, Textorix said:

Yeah these sets are focused on interiors and rooms are bigger to play but people pretend like 2021 interiors are more detailed than 2018-2020 which is just not true because of things you said.

He didnt specify how long will this line last... I dont think there is much left for them to do in this style. I cant imagine Astronomy Tower in this style... Bell Towers could work but they didnt make them in previous line so I dont think they have any plans for doing them now. All what is left for them to do in this style are some smaller generic buildings and then they can reboot again.

Well if they do reboot it (which I find doubtful) I hope they won't get back to 2018-2020 style. It was just terrible and boring

Edited December 12, 2021 by Flixter

[Clone OPatra]

2 minutes ago, Flixter said:

It was just terrible and boring

In what sense?

[Textorix]

22 minutes ago, Flixter said:

I hope they won't get back to 2018-2020 style. It was just terrible and boring

Huh? Those sets are everything but boring to me. I understand if someone critize those sets for space problems (they stack next to each other creating long model, rooms are small for kid to play etc.) but in terms of design those are arguably the most detailed and movie accurate Hogwarts buildings we have ever gotten in this theme. I am not saying that they will return to grey roofs again but this style of 8x8 rooms wont last longer than 1-2 more years in my opinion.

Edited December 12, 2021 by Textorix

[Micmac]

38 minutes ago, lego_guyon02 said:

I'm much more looking forward to any potential FB set(s) than all these poorly designed Potter sets we've been getting recently.

Hopefully LEGO will do something similar to what they did with CoG when they announced the Grindelwald's Escape set right alongside the release of the first trailer.

I'm in the same boat, i think sets based on a current movie might give us the missing spark the sets are missing at the moment. 

 

3 hours ago, Flixter said:

It's not, Marcos Bessa already confirmed that new Hogwarts sets will be made in this style

According to them they're trying to focus on earlier films because they're more "magical" and child-ish. After all, Lego is made for kids first 

I thought he said the green roofs were sticking around but he never said the anniversary sets were.

And the childish first movie stuff is such a lame answer from him, lego are making sets for the very dark looking new batman movie. Lego can always find sets no matter how dark a movie gets. They made a set with a baby Voldemort that you put in a pot with blood a hand and a bone of his father,  and he is reborn in flames into a pasty half snake version of himself. How did that get made but we can't have a tent with the trio in the woods or the wedding tent or shell cottage. These are very tame sets that I think people would like for the new prints of the trio. 

I still can't believe that a company like lego had no long term plan for the new harry potter line that didn't stretch past three years. The sets were selling really well so they reboot the line to give us sets we already have and they don't finish the last few movies. I think they saw $$$ and ruined the first wave trajectory with the anniversary sets and now I'm not sure there is a path back to that style. 

10 minutes ago, Textorix said:

Huh? Those sets are everything but boring to me. I understand if someone critize those sets for space problems (they stack next to each other creating long model, rooms are small for kid to play etc.) but in terms of design those are arguably the most detailed and movie accurate Hogwarts buildings we have ever gotten in this theme. I am not saying that they will return to grey roofs again but this style of 8x8 rooms wont last longer than 1-2 more years in my opinion.

Yeah i don't see where this style can go after this year. I doubt we will see a plan of how to integrate them all together ever again, Its just going to become a mess of a build that will look nothing like Hogwarts.

If this was a rebooted castle theme would anyone be interested in it. I doubt it.

[Textorix]

12 minutes ago, Micmac said:

I thought he said the green roofs were sticking around but he never said the anniversary sets were.

Yep, that is what I meant.

 

12 minutes ago, Micmac said:

And the childish first movie stuff is such a lame answer from him, lego are making sets for the very dark looking new batman movie. Lego can always find sets no matter how dark a movie gets. They made a set with a baby Voldemort that you put in a pot with blood a hand and a bone of his father,  and he is reborn in flames into a pasty half snake version of himself. How did that get made but we can't have a tent with the trio in the woods or the wedding tent or shell cottage. These are very tame sets that I think people would like for the new prints of the trio. 

I still can't believe that a company like lego had no long term plan for the new harry potter line that didn't stretch past three years. The sets were selling really well so they reboot the line to give us sets we already have and they don't finish the last few movies. I think they saw $$$ and ruined the first wave trajectory with the anniversary sets and now I'm not sure there is a path back to that style. 

I find their answer to not making DH sets stupid too and I hope they change mind on that. I think there is still a path for them to go back to 2018-2020 sets in terms of detailed exteriors and accurate design. Hogsmeade set is a proof that they still can do those sets, I just dont think we will see grey roofs in Hogwarts sets again. Lets see what they do with summer wave because I dont expect another 2021 Great Hall style remake of Astronomy Tower etc.

Edited December 12, 2021 by Textorix

[Balrogofmorgoth]

3 hours ago, Flixter said:

It's not, Marcos Bessa already confirmed that new Hogwarts sets will be made in this style

According to them they're trying to focus on earlier films because they're more "magical" and child-ish. After all, Lego is made for kids first 

Yeah, I no longer trust Bessa with this theme. 

38 minutes ago, Flixter said:

Well if they do reboot it (which I find doubtful) I hope they won't get back to 2018-2020 style. It was just terrible and boring

???

Dropping the 2018-2020 style killed this theme in my opinion 

[Micmac]

4 minutes ago, Textorix said:

Yep, that is what I meant.

 

I find their answer to not making DH sets stupid too and I hope they change mind on that. I think there is still a path for them to go back to 2018-2020 sets in terms of detailed exteriors and accurate design. Hogsmeade set is a proof that they still can do those sets, I just dont think we will see grey roofs in Hogwarts sets again. Lets see what they do with summer wave because I dont expect another 2021 Great Hall style remake of Astronomy Tower etc.

yeah I think this summers sets will clear up what's going on with the theme as I can't see any longevity in this style. I really can't see a return to the old style as the anniversary sets  have continued into this 2022 but hopefully the non Hogwarts based sets continue to be of a better quality.

[Balrogofmorgoth]

1 minute ago, Micmac said:

yeah I think this summers sets will clear up what's going on with the theme as I can't see any longevity in this style. I really can't see a return to the old style as the anniversary sets  have continued into this 2022 but hopefully the non Hogwarts based sets continue to be of a better quality.

I agree it doesn’t seem like they’ll go back to the old style. But I would have loved several more sets to round out the films in that style. Bell Towers, Long Gallery, Owlery, Boathouse, Courtyard, the Bridge, rest of the Quad, etc. there’s so much more they could have done to make a much more complete Hogwarts. And these are all still very recognizable parts of the castle with plenty of minifig and scene recreation opportunities. I don’t understand when people say there’s not much more they could have done in that style. Like, have you seen the movies?

[Micmac]

15 minutes ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

Yeah, I no longer trust Bessa with this theme.

Dropping the 2018-2020 style killed this theme in my opinion 

I think Bessa is no longer running this theme and yes dropping the style killed my passion for what lego was doing with the theme. Now I feel like I'm a bah humbug every time I make a comment on here. 

4 minutes ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

I agree it doesn’t seem like they’ll go back to the old style. But I would have loved several more sets to round out the films in that style. Bell Towers, Long Gallery, Owlery, Boathouse, Courtyard, the Bridge, rest of the Quad, etc. there’s so much more they could have done to make a much more complete Hogwarts. And these are all still very recognizable parts of the castle with plenty of minifig and scene recreation opportunities. I don’t understand when people say there’s not much more they could have done in that style. Like, have you seen the movies?

if lego is confident enough to make these Hogwarts buildings that look nothing like Hogwarts I don't see why they wouldn't have risked making less well know parts of the castle in the original style and added better interiors and cool characters to them to make sure they sold. 

[Clone OPatra]

For me the theme has transitioned from one where I'm truly excited about the sets to one where I'm just looking at the new Minifigures and/or parts included.

It must be said that LEGO has been doing a commendable job covering new material despite "rebooting" the theme. Even the massive CoS set has barely any overlap with previous sets in the Minifigure and accessory department, and instead delivered awesome new stuff. Compare that to Star Wars which is also constantly retreading the same material, and still hasn't delivered characters like Aunt Beru after all these years.

It's a bit of a bummer to not like the sets themselves, but I'm still pretty jazzed about certain aspects and it's great LEGO isn't merely lazily going over the exact same few key characters, and giving more tangential characters their due instead.

[Balrogofmorgoth]

7 minutes ago, Clone OPatra said:

For me the theme has transitioned from one where I'm truly excited about the sets to one where I'm just looking at the new Minifigures and/or parts included.

It must be said that LEGO has been doing a commendable job covering new material despite "rebooting" the theme. Even the massive CoS set has barely any overlap with previous sets in the Minifigure and accessory department, and instead delivered awesome new stuff. Compare that to Star Wars which is also constantly retreading the same material, and still hasn't delivered characters like Aunt Beru after all these years.

It's a bit of a bummer to not like the sets themselves, but I'm still pretty jazzed about certain aspects and it's great LEGO isn't merely lazily going over the exact same few key characters, and giving more tangential characters their due instead.

Now if they would only pull up their big boy pants and do some Deathly Hallows scenes

[Flixter]

1 hour ago, Clone OPatra said:

In what sense?

Don't get me wrong, the exterior was highly detailed but this isn't the thing I care most in the sets, especially in Hogwarts

[MaximVlogs]

2 hours ago, Textorix said:

Да, эти наборы ориентированы на интерьеры, а комнаты больше, чтобы играть, но люди делают вид, что интерьеры 2021 года более детализированы, чем 2018-2020, что просто не соответствует действительности из-за того, что вы сказали.

Он не уточнил, как долго продлится эта строчка ... Не думаю, что им еще многое предстоит сделать в этом стиле. Я не могу представить Астрономическую Башню в таком стиле ... Колокольни могли бы работать, но они не делали их в предыдущей строке, поэтому я не думаю, что у них есть какие-либо планы по их созданию сейчас. Все, что им остается делать в этом стиле, - это несколько обычных зданий меньшего размера, а затем они могут снова перезагрузиться.

Bell tower in fluffy 

[Flixter]

1 hour ago, Micmac said:

thought he said the green roofs were sticking around but he never said the anniversary sets were.

Clearly they're not anniversary sets of they're being made in this style even after anniversary

[Balrogofmorgoth]

9 minutes ago, Flixter said:

Clearly they're not anniversary sets of they're being made in this style even after anniversary

A fact that kinda just seems like a bad joke at this point

[Legoman123]

I don’t mind the Clock Tower at all.  I think it’s a nice change to have Lego really focus on the interior of Hogwarts for once and let’s be honest we’re going to see more sets to attach to this style of Hogwarts so I’m sure there will be an adequate building to put as a bottom floor for the clock tower set.  In fact to be honest I think the flying lesson set would work well under this set. 
 

Having said what I’ve written above are we actually expecting LEGO to carry on with this line of Hogwarts? 

Edited December 12, 2021 by Legoman123