Wizarding World 2022 - Rumors & Discussion

[empiresperish]

WHY are some people so eager to convince everyone we don't need a CMF? For the last year it seems. Both series were some of the best cmfs they've ever done. You must really hate dual molding and leg printing, unique molds, and one off accessories. There's some items I can't imagine getting in sets (like a deluminator) and more variants of the characters like the absolutely amazing hogsmeade trio from #2. 

Finally getting Rita right after Percy is AMAZING and a cmf version of her 1st task dragon outfit would only complete the perfection.

I have to hold out hope for 2nd task Fleur, Cedric, and epilogue Ron and Hermione. Ommisions made between both 'regimes.' Would really sting to get so close to an actually complete roster and pull a LotR, which is the main reason this line has consistently given me joy as it keeps reaching toward that goal Lego has historically been allergic to. 

[Ravenclaw62442]

Yeah, I don’t get this “we don’t need” another CMF that seems to be everywhere. Yeah we do, there’s loads of figs they could give us that we probably won’t get elsewhere. 
 

Epilogue Ron, and Hermione. (And Draco, Scorpius, Rose…)

Karkharof (I can’t see them redoing the ship any time soon and there aren’t a million figs they could include anyway so I think it’s unlikely)

Youngledore and Young Grindlewald from DH. 
 

Dean Thomas (unless they add him in a Quidditch set but I’d rather Quidditch players in one of those) 

They could add in a Death Eater. 
 

We have Lilly and James and we have a Sirius from the time of their death (wanted poster outfit in the AC) so it would be nice to get Lupin from that era too. 
 

Zacharias Smith and Ernie McMillan. 
 

named quidditch players. 
 

Harry from the end of PS before his jumper is ripped would be an easy one for them. 
 

Barty Crouch Sr

2nd Task Fleur and Cedric.

Bloody Barron and Fat Friar.

Peeves! (Although we probably never will get him) 

and that’s just off the top of my head.

 

We need a 3rd CMF! 

[Roebuck]

On 12/17/2022 at 12:47 AM, BrickBob Studpants said:

They seem to have ditched the previous pattern of two licensed and one numbered series a year and are now doing the opposite. I would thus expect the last series in 2023 to be S25

We do not know this, series 23 could be the odd one out and next year we are back to "normal". Personally I hope for two normal series per year since it is much more likely i get something useful out of that one compared to a random licensed one

Nice to get Rita, however I do not like paying over 10$ to get a fig with a book I have no use for

[Axxe90]

Out of curiosity: Tomorrow is exactly 1 year ago that the 2022 rumors thread was created. By then we even had the number of sets and prices for the summer wave. 
 

Could we expect that info for summer 2023 anytime soon now?

[Seaber]

It's brilliant that Rita is coming out, an excellent character to include in a book too. Like Percy she's recognisable but not essential to many scenes that scream set potential. 

There are still four other variants of her, so she could show up again at some point if this theme is as evergreen as many say (and I hope) it is. 

Won't bother updating the list on here as only put it out a couple of days ago 😁 I also think a third CMS would be great and worthwhile, as well as easy to populate, but there is no indication we will get another at this time. 

36 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

Nice to get Rita, however I do not like paying over 10$ to get a fig with a book I have no use for

I've never spent more than £4 on the book with figure, just be patient for a bargain is my advice :) 

[BrickBob Studpants]

It‘s not like I would hate getting a third series, but a bunch of improved / new versions of existing minifigs and / or minor new characters is not as exciting to me as either a series based on a theme that desperately needs one (like the Marvel D+ shows) or an entirely new license  

Also, as I‘ve brought up before, not much use to produce a series 3 if half of the slots would be occupied by the usual suspects anyway

[Ravenclaw62442]

I would sacrifice Marvel as a theme for half a wave of a 3rd CMF 😅

[krimimimi]

9 hours ago, Rolyat24 said:

We certainly don’t need a third cmf but I wouldn’t be surprised if one shows up eventually. 

Oh, I need it. 😆

I also think it's unreasonable to expect parents to shell out for a minifig that may have only been released once a decade or two ago so their kids who are now old enough to be interested can play out a scene. Setting it up that way only increases the chances mum or dad source them from knock offs, and that doesn't help the brand as a whole either. If there are gaps, lego, please fill them and take our happily surrendered money. With the improvements to their minifig design over the years, not to mention the extra bits and bobs in the CMFs, I definitely don't mind rereleases / fig updates either. 

3 hours ago, Ravenclaw62442 said:

We have Lilly and James and we have a Sirius from the time of their death (wanted poster outfit in the AC) so it would be nice to get Lupin from that era too. 

I'd also like to see Snape and Pettigrew from the flashbacks as well. (Although it's odd 21 year old AC Sirius in the flashback outfit is so old looking because he's only arrested in the outfit in the past and doesn't wear it in the "present", but then I guess the 20-21 year old Lily and James CMFs weren't all that young looking either.) 

I wouldn't even mind unnamed CMF characters in the least, to get some more variety in the head and hair pieces, both for the student body and wizarding population, but they've plenty named ones they can do first. 

[Blazej_Holen]

What do you guys say about new Rita Skeeter minifig? :) Leak is already aout, and it will be included in new HP book… so, finally right? :)

[Killian]

2 hours ago, Blazej_Holen said:

What do you guys say about new Rita Skeeter minifig? :) Leak is already aout, and it will be included in new HP book… so, finally right? :)

It's a cool figure, but I'm not buying the book at that price just to get it when it'll likely appear in a set eventually, probably with a bug for the alternative form

[Accio Lego]

4 hours ago, Killian said:

It's a cool figure, but I'm not buying the book at that price just to get it when it'll likely appear in a set eventually, probably with a bug for the alternative form

I wouldn’t count on Rita ever appearing in a set. Tom Riddle might have, but remember, he’d already made an appearance in the original CoS set back in 2002. Percy and Rita, on the other hand, have never appeared in sets before because neither of them really participated much in any sort of action sequences in the movies - the only way I could ever see either one of them appearing again is if the Lego designs decided to put them in an advent calendar (a la Moaning Myrtle). 
 

I can get not wanting to splurge on the book at list price - but you’d probably be safer watching out for a good sale or promo from your bookseller of choice if you want to be sure of having a complete character roster, because I doubt Percy and Rita will be making more mainstream appearances anytime soon if at all. 

[Clone OPatra]

12 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

Percy and Rita, on the other hand, have never appeared in sets before because neither of them really participated much in any sort of action sequences in the movies 

Good old Madame Pince in her action-packed library showdown scene.  They even did her an exclusive hat hair (which could also benefit Rita), quite a lot for such a minor character. Not to mention Sinistra and the Honeydukes owners, also extremely minor characters with way less screen time than Percy and Rita.

[MaxHeadroom]

I’ve been campaigning for a Zabini probably as long as I’ve been active on EB so I’m very happy to finally have him. The Second Task set is excellent and the banners are take it or leave it like the moments books. That ROR though, I have some thoughts. 

The summer 2022 castles were a genuine improvement from the earlier sets. The exteriors looked solid considering the box constraints and while the interiors weren't anything amazing they were solid enough, even if they were clearly put on the back burner. The Room of Requirement meanwhile couldn’t be more of a step back. What are we getting for an interior here? An 8x16 area with a fun door function, display cases awkwardly built into pillars, a small pile of undecorated 2x2 bricks, two other container pieces, a small record player, a bust with a helmet, and an extremely tacky pixie sticker. Then there’s a 8x8 room with a sink(?), a roof piece with a random scroll, an empty roof piece, and another empty roof piece. Where’s the vanishing cabinet? The parts budget for the random sink room and roof pieces could’ve easily gone there. Also things like the HBP book or a training dummy which I’m sure kids who missed the 2020 set would appreciate. Not to mention making the only stack of things they do include a bit taller to make use of the increased height for this module. If the interior was nice I wouldn’t care but since it isn’t I’ll say the exterior is awful. It’s a mess of different textures, colors, empty arches, window designs, and roof designs. The minifigures and the fact it’s a DH2 set in the first place are the only things this set succeeds in. 
 

I still love the concept of the modular hogwarts sets and the Polyjuice Potion set is an excellent example of what could’ve been. I just wish they would’ve fully committed to interior sets and not wasted so much parts budget on exterior details roof modules, loosing the interiors in the process most the time. Committing to a consistent roof and especially window design would’ve been cool too. We’re at the point now where they’re probably planning for the next system (this one will probably continue in summer 2023 and maybe spring 2024?) and I’m ready to move on to it. 

[Clone OPatra]

1 hour ago, MaxHeadroom said:

I still love the concept of the modular hogwarts sets and the Polyjuice Potion set is an excellent example of what could’ve been. I just wish they would’ve fully committed to interior sets and not wasted so much parts budget on exterior details roof modules, loosing the interiors in the process most the time.

I completely agree. Though I am one who didn't like the new system in general, the Polyjuice Potion set was great and I was keen to see more Hogwarts locations rendered in that style.

Instead, they never followed through with the promise of that set, and in fact that set is still the only one NOT to include any roof sections. It's like they decided that all Hogwarts sets had to stand alone with a Hogwarts look, roofs and all, which is just weird.

We could've gotten cool stuff in room-form to truly add into the castle like the challenges from PS to swap out for the Chamber of Secrets sections, or common rooms in this format, and so much more.

Even for someone with a display of the 2018-20 sets which I greatly prefer, I would've gone for interior-focussed Hogwarts sets like that. What they've done instead does nothing for me.

[BrickBob Studpants]

On 12/19/2022 at 1:59 AM, empiresperish said:

WHY are some people so eager to convince everyone we don't need a CMF? For the last year it seems.

In early 2021, I absolutely would‘ve loved to get a third one. But look at the wishlists from back in the day, pretty much all of the characters on those have been released in normal sets in the meantime: Kreacher, Pomfrey, OotP Sirius, OotP Tonks, Crabbe, Goyle, Polyjuiced Hermione, Percy, and now Rita too

Sure, there are still missing characters, but none of them are as exciting as the ones listed above would‘ve been.

Also, while the first two series were amazing, they have since released minifigs on the same level of detail in regular sets. Just look at the recent Moody, it‘s arguably even better than the CMF version! And characters like Pomfrey and Pince couldn‘t have been done better, even as part of a CMF series

[Rolyat24]

10 hours ago, MaxHeadroom said:

We’re at the point now where they’re probably planning for the next system (this one will probably continue in summer 2023 and maybe spring 2024?) and I’m ready to move on to it. 

I wonder if we’re getting ahead of ourselves by assuming we’ll see a new castle system this soon. There’s new leadership working on the theme now so we can’t exactly go off of previous patterns. Not to mention the 2018-2021 system used well known areas of the real castle, so was bound to be “complete” at some point, whereas this new castle in theory could keep going for a very long time. Of course, at some point they’ll want to make an updated Great Hall, which I suppose would be what ushers in the new system. But even then, there’s nothing really stopping them from making a new Great Hall in this same style. 
 

While I’m hopeful for a new system as early as 2024, I’m not entirely certain it’s guaranteed at this point. 

[Accio Lego]

12 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

Good old Madame Pince in her action-packed library showdown scene.  They even did her an exclusive hat hair (which could also benefit Rita), quite a lot for such a minor character. Not to mention Sinistra and the Honeydukes owners, also extremely minor characters with way less screen time than Percy and Rita.

Yes, but note that all those characters (and Rosmerta and the Trolly Witch) are tied to specific iconic locations that fans would be eager to get (library, astronomy tower, Three Broomsticks, Honeydukes, Hogwarts Express). Locations like the Daily Prophet offices, Burrow, and Gryffindor common room/Fat Lady portrait have all been made without Rita or Percy respectively, so it’s pretty clear they’re not going to get similar treatment. I’m just encouraging people not to act like these characters are guaranteed to show up again, because that’s far from the case - I suspect whoever’s in charge of choosing which characters to include with these  books is responding to backlash over the Tom Riddle incident be making absolutely sure that it won’t happen again. It’s just something that people should keep in mind when deciding if they need these minifigures or not. 

[Balrogofmorgoth]

The theme is evergreen now…a third CMF will not happen. Lego is going to drag out the theme as long as they possibly can and they aren’t going to release a CMF and dig themselves into a hole of running out of characters to use for sets sooner than they have to. From their perspective it makes absolutely no sense to do another HP CMF at all. Of course I’d love to see another one, but it won’t happen. They need new characters and new variants of characters for their sets every year or people will lose interest and they know this

[BrickBob Studpants]

@Balrogofmorgoth: Couldn‘t agree more. Once they release Igor Karkaroff, Xenophilius Lovegood, Narcissa Malfoy, Scabior, and Death Eaters, we will hit a point where we‘re scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of desirable characters 

I consider the theme complete once we have the characters listed above. I‘ll still continue collecting the sets after that point of course

Edited December 20, 2022 by BrickBob Studpants

[BacktoBricks]

2 hours ago, Rolyat24 said:

While I’m hopeful for a new system as early as 2024, I’m not entirely certain it’s guaranteed at this point. 

I hope we don't get a new system just yet; it would make investing in this system seem rather fruitless and it would also feel pretty pointless to me considering there are so many more sets they could so with this system. It may not be the prettiest, but it certainly works for expandability. Clearly they have decided to go for the common rooms in the banners this year, but even that doesn't preclude them being made in this system style a year or two down the line.

 

In this system we could still get:

Winged Keys

Quirrell/Voldemort showdown with the Mirror of Erised

Snape's potion class, McGonagall's Transfiguration class, Flitwick's Charm's class like in the Moments books but as modules.

Troll in the bathroom

Greenhouse

Lupin's DA classroom

One-Eyed witch passage

Owlery 

Divination Classroom

Umbridge's Office

Slughorn's office / Christmas party

Viaduct

 

As for a third CMF I would totally take one, but I agree Lego doesn't need to do one and limit their options for sets so I'm doubtful it will happen. As rich as the HP material is, there is a lot less of it than the Star Wars universe and I feel like we are getting pretty close to competition now. Although @BrickBob Studpants you forgot poor Fang! 

[Lion King]

Would it be likely to have Fantastic Beasts characters in CMF? Y

[karrit]

51 minutes ago, DBlegonerd7 said:

Would it be likely to have Fantastic Beasts characters in CMF? Y

Series 1 did (actually contained 22 different figs) but not Series 2 (had 16 figs).  With each series being reduced to 12 designs I don't think they should include Fantastic Beast figs with Harry Potter figs.  Series 1 had 6 Fantastic Beast figs in addition to the 16 Harry Potter figs but was still only a box of 60 in total.  

[Balrogofmorgoth]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

@Balrogofmorgoth: Couldn‘t agree more. Once they release Igor Karkaroff, Xenophilius Lovegood, Narcissa Malfoy, Scabior, and Death Eaters, we will hit a point where we‘re scraping the bottom of the barrel in terms of desirable characters 

I consider the theme complete once we have the characters listed above. I‘ll still continue collecting the sets after that point of course

There are a lot of variants of characters I’d love to see at some point, namely Lucius in the Department of Mysteries among others. But yeah, as far as characters in general the list is pretty short. Although I would personally add Bill Weasley and Rufus Scrimgeour  to that list 

[Brick Clicker]

On 12/19/2022 at 6:50 AM, Axxe90 said:

Out of curiosity: Tomorrow is exactly 1 year ago that the 2022 rumors thread was created. By then we even had the number of sets and prices for the summer wave. 
 

Could we expect that info for summer 2023 anytime soon now?

“Dobby likes Professor Dumbledore very much, sir, and is proud to keep his secrets and our silence for him.” 

[Legocentrico]

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