Wizarding World 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[VinnieCannoli]

Both-dueling club and leviosa set are great. I personally prefer rubber capes. I remember having problems with cloth capes all these years - from Basil the Batlord that had his cape absolutely destroyed over years of play to Chima and other modern stuff when you just afraid to touch it because you don't want to ruin it.

I really like fireplace from Charms Class. Might get two of thesesets for mocs and to expand the classroom.

50 minutes ago, mark1991t said:

Because of the materiaal. Not flexible enough, I've read. 

People are afraid they melt, like some tyres do. When they melt, they could wipe off prints. 

 

I don't think that this specific rubber will melt. It feels almost like plastic judging by Dr.Strange cape that i use a lot for red wizards in fantasy mocs. Those tend to last.

Edited November 29, 2024 by VinnieCannoli

[THELEGOBATMAN]

1 hour ago, Roebuck said:

Why do not some people like them?

Not posable for display purposes, and they don't fit into vehicles.

These are my main two reasons, and I think they are pretty important.

[BrickBob Studpants]

I like both sets, but I‘m disappointed they didn‘t use the BTS hairpiece on Lockhart. Great figure otherwise!

[joeee]

I presume the Charms class will slide into our Great Hall?

I am stoked to see the Flying Lessons set! I am itching for more Hogwarts exterior.

[BrickMatit]

15 minutes ago, joeee said:

I presume the Charms class will slide into our Great Hall?

It's just my impression or the Charms class is nearly half the dimension of the Potion class?

If this is the case, Charms class could be switchable with something in the Flying Lesson sections. 

Edited November 29, 2024 by BrickMatit

[VinnieCannoli]

It seems that the Charms Class is smaller than Potions set to fit in "the great hall" and stay secured.

And just like Potions set was meant to be put inside The Great Hall in 2024, I think the charms class will be released for the 2025 Hogwarts part. (which one is the next? The tower?)

Edited November 29, 2024 by VinnieCannoli

[BrickMatit]

14 minutes ago, VinnieCannoli said:

It seems that the Charms Class is smaller than Potions set to fit in "the great hall" and stay secured.

Ah, that's not only my impression 

14 minutes ago, VinnieCannoli said:

I think the charms class will be released for the 2025 Hogwarts part.

We miss at the moment the last set from january list, Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lesson. Maybe the Charms Class could be also stay there.

Edited November 29, 2024 by BrickMatit

[Accio Lego]

One thing I haven’t seen anyone mention yet is that the Dueling Club includes casting wands for both Draco and Harry – and Harry’s appears to be the correct dark brown! That’s pretty exciting in my book because when the part was first introduced they only did it in black and white with the final battle in mind, so the Harry in the Expecto Patronum set has the wrong color of wand. If these ones come with spares like the previous sets I’ll definitely be switching out the Expecto Patronum one with the spare brown. 

[lifeinplastic]

I liked the fact that last year there were more opportunities to get some Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw student torsos. Thought Lego were starting to get that and would have included something either in the Charms Class or Duelling Club but Lego revert to their old selves and like to disappoint!!!

[Clone OPatra]

I was really hoping we'd see a new piece for Flitwick's beard that actually fits the character design, and they could've used the existing talk conical wizard hat with a cool print up the side too. The student selection is also massively boring.

The Duelling Club is better, and I'm glad to have a way to get the upgraded Snape in a cheaper set, along with the new Lockhart which I do like. They play feature also looks good. 

Both of these don't wow me, but I suppose the Duelling Club is something I'd buy.

[brickbride]

Box art for the microscale Diagon Alley is out as well. For me it looks better fully closed, as a real alley, but I still don't like that it's microscale. That might work for Hogwarts which is really all about the silhouette but to me DA is about the fun details, and shop signs consisting of, say, a 1x1 plate with a clip don't excite me. There's certainly a market for it, though.

[Huigberts Builds]

I kinda prefer the previous Charms Class over this one. Sure, this one is easier to incorporate in the Larger Hogwarts Castle and doesn't use those book covers, but other than that the build really isn't that much better, still just walls and a couple of loose decorations. Sure the new build is slightly better, but not much. At least the previous one had two rows of desks, and I highly preferred the original Flitwick. The beard, while not perfect, was much more accurate to how it appeared in the movie. And the set worries me that they are going to make way too many of those swappable sets. I want to be able to incorporate all the expansions once the full castle is build, like I was able with the other 2 Hogwarts systems, but by the looks of it we're going to end up with a bunch of loose rooms.

Now the duelling club is way better. Love how you can use it in the great hall, even comes with a little fire place that I thought was really missing there (not the most amazing build, but still nice little inclusion). Great to have more opportunities to get this perfect Snape. Lockhart looks amazing. Would've preferred a cloth cape, but it looks good. Highly prefer this new face, that smile works so much better. Only a bit of a shame they appear to be dead set on using this hairpiece when such a perfect piece exists already in another colour. The wand pieces are great too to get in new colours. However that also makes me wonder why we haven't gotten more of the new Ollivander wands yet. Malfoy Manor was the perfect set to include those. Oh well.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

We still have yet to see the 80€ flying lesson set.

Wonder how it'll look with that pricepoint, but it doesn't sound particularly exciting honestly. I'm perfectly happy with the anniversary set based on this scene, it was quite awesome.

[BrickMatit]

13 hours ago, VinnieCannoli said:

It seems that the Charms Class is smaller than Potions set to fit in "the great hall" and stay secured.

Thinking about it, it could also probably go in the central part instead of the corridor.

[Black Falcon]

13 hours ago, VinnieCannoli said:

It seems that the Charms Class is smaller than Potions set to fit in "the great hall" and stay secured.

And just like Potions set was meant to be put inside The Great Hall in 2024, I think the charms class will be released for the 2025 Hogwarts part. (which one is the next? The tower?)

You could also put it in the great hall small corridor between the other two rooms - but there should definitely be more places for both swapable room sizes in future sets. Next big one should be the flying lessons and given the price it should include a part of the castle.

 

On 11/23/2024 at 11:56 PM, brickbride said:

Yes, I'm not saying I'd have expected WWW to make it as long as the D2C. The latter has had an extraordinarily long running time and I think it was extended because of Gringotts, too.

But like I've said, WWW started off a modular series which was continued in 2024 and which I guess most of us would have expected to further continue in 2025, and now it's going EOL. If you look at, say, the modular Hogwarts system, 2021's Chamber of Secrets is only going EOL now that the 2024 replacement starter set (the Great Hall) has arrived. And all the remaining expansions for the 2021 system are going with it, even the recent ones (which gives some of them a pretty short running time, but I can understand retailers not wanting two different modular Hogwarts systems competing for shelf space). That makes sense! What wouldn't make sense to me would be continuing with a modular Diagon Alley system where one of two existing sets (and the one that started the series) is already going EOL.

The more I think on it, the more I expect that both the playset Diagon Alley and the playset Hogsmeade Village are over and done with. Which in the case of Hogsmeade might well be because they hit the end of their planned run. I know a lot of us expected another expansion with Zonko's and the Hog's Head, but that might never have been in the works given Zonko's not that iconic and the Hog's Head is a pub (which LEGO doesn't like).

But in the case of Diagon Alley I'd rather expect it to be because of poor sales, as starting the series in 2023 and adding to it in 2024 and then pulling the plug on WWW by the end of 2024 while there's still so much ground to cover seems pretty odd.

The difference there is IMO, that while the Castle parts usually had one big Sets that was kinda the main point of the castle, which stayed around longer than other Sets, with some other Sets retiring pretty soon - Diagon Alley doesn´t have such a main Set, just different Shops, where there is no reason really for one of them to stay around for to long. That beeing said I would be surprised if we don´t get a new shop next year, and would guess they will have two of them avaiable, with one coming and retiring every year.

On 11/27/2024 at 7:26 PM, Accio Lego said:

That’s interesting. Quality issues tend to be structural issues with the build – like the neck on the WALL-E Ideas set. But the Knight Bus is a vehicle, which Lego practically puts out in their sleep, and it’s the fourth version of this particular vehicle that Lego has made. So for there to be  structural issues with the build that need to be corrected they presumably must be adding a new play feature that’s different from what we’ve seen before. 

Could aswell be a quality issue with a part that needs to be replaced. But I doubt we will really find out what the real reason is.

[Murdoch17]

I think Hedwig is one of the first characters included in their own death scene. (the Battle of 7 Potters) The only other examples I can think of along with Hedwig would be the 2011 Forbidden Forest set with Harry, but he didn't perma-die, so it doesn't count, but the Battle of Hogwarts from 2023 with Voldemort / Nagini / Bellatrix does.

Edited November 30, 2024 by Murdoch17

[Black Falcon]

8 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

I think Hedwig is one of the first characters included in their own death scene. (the Battle of 7 Potters) The only other examples I can think of along with Hedwig would be the 2011 Forbidden Forest set with Harry, but he didn't perma-die, so it doesn't count, but the Battle of Hogwarts from 2023 with Voldemort / Nagini / Bellatrix does.

Maybe I am missing something here, but when did we get a set of the Battle of the Seven Potters?

[BrickBob Studpants]

11 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Maybe I am missing something here, but when did we get a set of the Battle of the Seven Potters?

The Hagrid Bike set counts, despite not being minifig-scale

20 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

The only other examples I can think of along with Hedwig would be the 2011 Forbidden Forest set with Harry, but he didn't perma-die, so it doesn't count, but the Battle of Hogwarts from 2023 with Voldemort / Nagini / Bellatrix does.

How about the 2001 set with Quirrell or the upcoming Malfoy Manor? Granted, Dobby technically dies outside of the Shell Cottage, but he gets mortally wounded at MM! And I‘m sure there are even more examples

Edited November 30, 2024 by BrickBob Studpants

[brickbride]

16 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Maybe I am missing something here, but when did we get a set of the Battle of the Seven Potters?

We haven't yet. It's 76443, buildable Hagrid and Harry on the motorcycle, with Hedwig included.

[Black Falcon]

9 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The Hagrid Bike set counts, despite not being minifig-scale

Honestly, I didn´t even consider what film that is from. I am just not interested in it at all.

[hunnybunny]

3 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

We still have yet to see the 80€ flying lesson set.

Wonder how it'll look with that pricepoint, but it doesn't sound particularly exciting honestly. I'm perfectly happy with the anniversary set based on this scene, it was quite awesome.

Possibly twice as big as Owlery so maybe Training grounds tower?

Edited November 30, 2024 by hunnybunny

[Legocentrico]

I don't know if it's been said before, but the charms lesson could be thought of in the central part under the great hall.

[mark1991t]

According to JediJacPenguin in a story on his other insta-account 'jjpsleaksite', we can expect a booknook for Harry Potter in 2025, which should be part of a subtheme of sort. Another booknook should be released for Lord Of The Rings.

[Black Falcon]

Well, then we probably can expect them for other themes too (Jurassic Park for instance)

[sammy_zammy]

8 hours ago, Murdoch17 said:

I think Hedwig is one of the first characters included in their own death scene. (the Battle of 7 Potters) The only other examples I can think of along with Hedwig would be the 2011 Forbidden Forest set with Harry, but he didn't perma-die, so it doesn't count, but the Battle of Hogwarts from 2023 with Voldemort / Nagini / Bellatrix does.

What about Buckbeak in the 2019 Hagrid’s Hut with executioner? He died in one timeline, at least.