Wizarding World 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[BacktoBricks]

6 hours ago, brickbride said:

I think 2024's pretty much done anyway, shouldn't we have a 2025 thread by now with what we know of the January and Summer waves? Can anyone make one or does it have to be a mod?

The mods make the year threads and a mod said recently on the Star Wars forum that they've changed the concept of yearly threads to being that they start at the beginning of each year rather than the next year's thread gets opened and you have to discuss the sets from that year in that thread. So 2025's HP thread should theoretically be opened at the beginning of January.

[brickbride]

Didn't know that, thanks.

In other news, Minecraft Advent Calendar has leaked. That should put the discussion as to whether or not LEGO are still doing ACs to rest. I'm absolutely expecting them to do one for HP in 2025, probably with stuff to fill the Main Tower.

Edited December 20, 2024 by brickbride

[Virginia_Bricks]

How does everyone buy their spare bricks for MOCs? Debating between buying specific sets that contain mostly the pieces I need and selling the minifigures or buying pieces in bulk from Bricklink.

Looking to MOC up the Black Lake set to have all 4 prisoners, but don't really need the minifigures besides one set.

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

Didn't know that, thanks.

In other news, Minecraft Advent Calendar has leaked. That should put the discussion as to whether or not LEGO are still doing ACs to rest. I'm absolutely expecting them to do one for HP in 2025, probably with stuff to fill the Main Tower.

Next year’s advent calendar should be interesting, since the designers seem to finally have gotten the message that basing them mostly around a specific scene does better. With this year covering the first movie with its adult characters and some of the builds, that means next year’s will have to be a later film. It also can’t be PoA based, since last year’s advent calendar pretty thoroughly cover the only Christmas scene from that movie. That leave CoS (never had an advent calendar and not a bad option, since I’m pretty sure Polyjuice Mistake is off shelves and this would give them a chance to reissue cat Hermione. And they could also recreate the sleeping draught cupcake scene and give us the real Crabbe and Goyle too. The problem being that none of the characters wear anything other than school robes in those scenes), another GoF (if this year’s been long enough for a SS repeat, then next year will be long enough for a Yule Ball repeat, and all those dress robes mean there’s plenty of content they haven’t made before), OotP (we’re vastly overdue for Christmas at Grimmauld imho), HBP (which has both Slughorn’s Christmas party AND Christmas at the Burrow as options - and the collector’s edition Burrow will still be on shelves at that point), or DH1 (wildly unlikely, since the Christmas scene from that movie involves Nagini using Bathilda Bagshot’s corpse as a sock puppet, which isn’t very festive). 

[THELEGOBATMAN]

We've got the piece counts, and they are as bad as one would expect (but the Herbology Class is particularly horrific).

76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class (60€, 390 pcs)

76448 Dumbledore’s Phoenix (20€, 299 pcs)

76449 Book of Monsters (60€, 518 pcs)

76450 Book Nook (100€, 832 pcs)

76451 Aunt Marge's Visit (90€, 639 pcs)

76452 Quality Quidditch Supplies & Ice Cream (100€, 795 pcs)

76454 Hogwarts Castle: Main Tower (250€, 2135 pcs)

[joeee]

Yikes!

Herbology 390 pcs vs Potions Class 397 pcs: Here's to hoping the greenhouses will be mostly GIANT window pane walls and roofs; which is accounting for high price and low piece count.

Aunt Marge's Visit 639 pcs vs 4 Privet Drive 797 pcs is a head scratcher as well. UNLESS the extra 158 pieces make up the Ford Anglia so the Dursley's home would be more a less a remake of the 2020 set. Still, I am hoping for a greenhouse because it is so iconic for Aunt Marge to bounce through it.

Main Tower at 2135 pcs vs Great Hall 1732 pcs sounds about right so that's a relief.

[brickbride]

1 hour ago, joeee said:

Yikes!

Herbology 390 pcs vs Potions Class 397 pcs: Here's to hoping the greenhouses will be mostly GIANT window pane walls and roofs; which is accounting for high price and low piece count.

Aunt Marge's Visit 639 pcs vs 4 Privet Drive 797 pcs is a head scratcher as well. UNLESS the extra 158 pieces make up the Ford Anglia so the Dursley's home would be more a less a remake of the 2020 set. Still, I am hoping for a greenhouse because it is so iconic for Aunt Marge to bounce through it.

Main Tower at 2135 pcs vs Great Hall 1732 pcs sounds about right so that's a relief.

Yikes to the lot of them, really. Except for the phoenix - that sounds like a plausible brick count for yet another buildable monstrosity (LEGO can do birds fairly well but not at this small a scale) with no minifigure. As for Aunt Marge's, for what it's worth the Flying Ford as a stand-alone set was 165 pieces so that theory sounds plausible. Though I'd imagine Aunt Marge to be brick-built in the inflated version, which would add a few pieces again.

Otherwise they're ALL bad. The Book Nook is especially badly priced given the competition (like I've said, the Reobrix one has over 3.000 pieces and is in the same price range), plus the LEGO LOTR one is rumored to be USD 120 at around 1.200 pieces so the HP one would be worse value for money than the in-house competition, too. (And the LOTR one almost HAS to include at least one minifigure given the subject matter while the HP one might well have none.) The older Privet Drive set was only USD 80 but had about 150 pieces more than the new one, as @joeeehas pointed out. The playset Diagon Alley entry, too, might be even worse value for money than its already overpriced predecessors. And the Main Tower now officially has way fewer pieces than a modular building while costing more (2025 Tudor Corner: 3.266 pieces, EUR 230). In the last years, we've seen price-to-pieces ratios like those with the more badly priced outlier sets in the more expensive subthemes (like Marvel's X-Men Jet and Hoopty), but now LEGO seems to be jacking up prices across the board.

9 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Next year’s advent calendar should be interesting, since the designers seem to finally have gotten the message that basing them mostly around a specific scene does better. With this year covering the first movie with its adult characters and some of the builds, that means next year’s will have to be a later film. It also can’t be PoA based, since last year’s advent calendar pretty thoroughly cover the only Christmas scene from that movie. That leave CoS (never had an advent calendar and not a bad option, since I’m pretty sure Polyjuice Mistake is off shelves and this would give them a chance to reissue cat Hermione. And they could also recreate the sleeping draught cupcake scene and give us the real Crabbe and Goyle too. The problem being that none of the characters wear anything other than school robes in those scenes), another GoF (if this year’s been long enough for a SS repeat, then next year will be long enough for a Yule Ball repeat, and all those dress robes mean there’s plenty of content they haven’t made before), OotP (we’re vastly overdue for Christmas at Grimmauld imho), HBP (which has both Slughorn’s Christmas party AND Christmas at the Burrow as options - and the collector’s edition Burrow will still be on shelves at that point), or DH1 (wildly unlikely, since the Christmas scene from that movie involves Nagini using Bathilda Bagshot’s corpse as a sock puppet, which isn’t very festive). 

Like I've said: I'm pretty sure we'll get stuff for the Main Tower. Which would point heavily towards CoS since half the Christmases you mention don't even take place at Hogwarts, the Slytherin common room might be included in the actual set, and the Tower is likely CoS-based.

That said, I wouldn't expect them to adhere to the plots of specific scenes. This year we got the caroling ghost and the House statues, none of which were plot-relevant in the slightest, as well as random House students like Susan Bones and Cho Chang with no plot-relevance for PoS, either. For anything plot-relevant I'd therefore expect it to either get a specific, smaller set (like PPM) or for it to be included in a bigger set.

 

Edited December 21, 2024 by brickbride

[Gorilla94]

6 hours ago, joeee said:

Herbology 390 pcs vs Potions Class 397 pcs: Here's to hoping the greenhouses will be mostly GIANT window pane walls and roofs; which is accounting for high price and low piece count.

Aunt Marge's Visit 639 pcs vs 4 Privet Drive 797 pcs is a head scratcher as well. UNLESS the extra 158 pieces make up the Ford Anglia so the Dursley's home would be more a less a remake of the 2020 set. Still, I am hoping for a greenhouse because it is so iconic for Aunt Marge to bounce through it.

Main Tower at 2135 pcs vs Great Hall 1732 pcs sounds about right so that's a relief.

Even with 30% Black Friday discount and huge pieces, it is a pathetic deal...

I doubt they will combine sceenes from 2nd and 3rd movie in one set.

Well, the price of the great hall Was nuts already.

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

Though I'd imagine Aunt Marge to be brick-built in the inflated version, which would add a few pieces again.

Which is even worden. At that price she should be an exclusive big fig.

To be honest I regret starting to collect the new line. The boathouse, potions classroom, and Hagrids Hut were so cute, I fell for it, when a toy shop had a huge sale... 

[ArrowBricks]

13 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

We've got the piece counts, and they are as bad as one would expect (but the Herbology Class is particularly horrific).

76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class (60€, 390 pcs)

76448 Dumbledore’s Phoenix (20€, 299 pcs)

76449 Book of Monsters (60€, 518 pcs)

76450 Book Nook (100€, 832 pcs)

76451 Aunt Marge's Visit (90€, 639 pcs)

76452 Quality Quidditch Supplies & Ice Cream (100€, 795 pcs)

76454 Hogwarts Castle: Main Tower (250€, 2135 pcs)

Where’s this from? 

[sammy_zammy]

On 12/19/2024 at 5:45 PM, VinnieCannoli said:

The price of this set makes me curious about pieces or the size of the house. I wonder if we will have something to make Marge into floating ball (maybe there will be brick built variant of her body). And will they give Harry screaming super angry head?  

I saw this the other day and did think it was probably expecting a bit much, based on the size of the 90€ DA playsets… I’d anticipate very similar size to the 2020 set.

It seems ironic that we are now at the point where playsets are more expensive than the D2C / Collectors Edition sets… for example the Hogwarts Main Tower is more expensive and has fewer pieces than the Burrow D2C set. I Imagine that’s because the Main Tower will have more large pieces, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the Burrow looks a more impressive, accurate and detailed model!

[Virginia_Bricks]

Prices look as expected to me. Besides the greenhouse, nothing looks especially bad or especially good. Price per piece has always been a weak correlation because a 1x1 stud is worth a whole lot less than a 16x16 plate (or brand new troll mold).

Let’s wait till we get pictures to really judge price

[Black Falcon]

8 hours ago, joeee said:

Yikes!

Herbology 390 pcs vs Potions Class 397 pcs: Here's to hoping the greenhouses will be mostly GIANT window pane walls and roofs; which is accounting for high price and low piece count.

That is exactly what I think, a good price to piece ratio for this set would actually have me worried. 

13 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Prices look as expected to me. Besides the greenhouse, nothing looks especially bad or especially good. Price per piece has always been a weak correlation because a 1x1 stud is worth a whole lot less than a 16x16 plate (or brand new troll mold).

Let’s wait till we get pictures to really judge price

Exactly.

[BrickMatit]

34 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Let’s wait till we get pictures to really judge price

Totally agree with your statement. For me, even when sets are revealed, the price per piece ratio is not a value to use all alone to judge a set.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

2 hours ago, ArrowBricks said:

Where’s this from? 

Brickmerge.

[Accio Lego]

4 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

That is exactly what I think, a good price to piece ratio for this set would actually have me worried.

We literally just saw the designers pull out all the stops regarding clear panels for the Ideas botanical garden, I’d be shocked if the Harry Potter designers weren’t planning to make full use of those preexisting panels to make a proper greenhouse. Although if you look at actual pictures of the set there’s plenty of muntins on the greenhouse, which means we might be looking at printed panels, and that would certainly explain the price to piece ratio. 

[Black Falcon]

8 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

We literally just saw the designers pull out all the stops regarding clear panels for the Ideas botanical garden, I’d be shocked if the Harry Potter designers weren’t planning to make full use of those preexisting panels to make a proper greenhouse. Although if you look at actual pictures of the set there’s plenty of muntins on the greenhouse, which means we might be looking at printed panels, and that would certainly explain the price to piece ratio. 

Who knows, we might even get a new mould for one of the plants. Mandrake would be a possibiity

[Accio Lego]

33 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Who knows, we might even get a new mould for one of the plants. Mandrake would be a possibiity

Realistically, we don’t need a completely new mandrake mold. They could use the preexisting baby body and just make a new head/leaves part (like the space baby head). It would just need a proper, larger flower pot instead of a recolored cauldron (which, frankly, is overdue). 

[Dpumpkin22]

The Direct has an article today about 14 expected and rumored HP Lego sets for 2025. Malloy Manor and Hagrids bike are listed.

[Black Falcon]

20 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Realistically, we don’t need a completely new mandrake mold. They could use the preexisting baby body and just make a new head/leaves part (like the space baby head). It would just need a proper, larger flower pot instead of a recolored cauldron (which, frankly, is overdue). 

That would seem a bit to big to me, I think I would like the version of the class-books better than that option actually.

[Roebuck]

8 hours ago, Dpumpkin22 said:

The Direct has an article today about 14 expected and rumored HP Lego sets for 2025. Malloy Manor and Hagrids bike are listed.

Welcome

The first wave is already officially revealed including those two sets;
https://brickset.com/article/116535/2025-harry-potter-images-and-prices

[BrickMatit]

On Brickmerge, nex to the sets we've already had rumors about there's also the polybag LEGO® Harry Potter 30706 Quidditch Training.

Have a nice Christmas.

[mark1991t]

JB Spielwaren has a review out for Micro Diagon Alley. Not so much new info, but something that wasn't mentioned: Every Microfigure comes with a spare one. So you get them twice.

[Accio Lego]

11 hours ago, mark1991t said:

JB Spielwaren has a review out for Micro Diagon Alley. Not so much new info, but something that wasn't mentioned: Every Microfigure comes with a spare one. So you get them twice.

Well that will almost certainly make buying a set of them on bricklink a lot easier for those of us interested in the micro figures but not the full set. 

[brickbride]

18 hours ago, mark1991t said:

JB Spielwaren has a review out for Micro Diagon Alley. Not so much new info, but something that wasn't mentioned: Every Microfigure comes with a spare one. So you get them twice.

Thanks for the find! After watching it my opinion hasn't changed, that set is definitely a need-not-buy for me. The interiors look terrible and all the cool details of the original Alley get lost in microscale. To me, Gringotts is the only building that looks halfway decent both inside and outside.

I'm assuming there's a market for it though, as the original microscale Diagon Alley GWP from a few years back still sells at very high prices even though it looks just as bad to me.

21 hours ago, BrickMatit said:

On Brickmerge, nex to the sets we've already had rumors about there's also the polybag LEGO® Harry Potter 30706 Quidditch Training.

Good find, thanks! I'm honestly a little baffled since the last Quidditch-themed polybag was like two years ago, but polybags are always good for parts availability. I had reason to BrickLink a Golden Snitch the other day and I got it for an acceptable price locally, which probably wouldn't have happened if the Cho polybag hadn't made them more readily available.

Edited December 25, 2024 by brickbride

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

I'm honestly a little baffled since the last Quidditch-themed polybag was like two years ago, but polybags are always good for parts availability. I had reason to BrickLink a Golden Snitch the other day and I got it for an acceptable price locally, which probably wouldn't have happened if the Cho polybag hadn't made them more readily available.

Honestly, the question of which character will come in the Quidditch Training polybag is baffling me. I thought it might be Oliver Wood, in reference to the fact that he teaches Harry Quidditch and it would pair nicely with the Flying Lessons set, but Oliver actually managed to make the cut for the set itself, so that seems a lot less likely now.
 

I suppose Draco would be a possibility, provided they changed him up from the 2018 CMF version by giving him a different broom and/or legs (although getting him two years in a row for the polybag probably wouldn’t be well received with most fans), and while we’ve talked about being all Harry’d out in the past, I do think there’d be good reception for a mid-legs version of Harry based off of PoA. Ron and Ginny are also possible, but less likely currently because Chasers and Keepers don’t handle any equipment represented by a unique Lego mold at this time. 
 

That said – Quality Quidditch Supplies is one of the shops in this year’s Diagon Alley playset. WWW introduced spectacular new prints for Fanged Frisbees and Pygmy Puffs, and the next year Ollivander’s featured a brand new wand multipack in two different colors. With the included ice cream parlor not really having any opportunities for any groundbreaking new elements, it doesn’t seem crazy to speculate that we might be getting a proper quaffle mold. And if that’s the case, there’s already a precedent to include a newly introduced mold in the polybag (flying Hedwig appeared in the Owl Post polybag in 2020, the year that mold was introduced).

I’m kinda really hoping that QQS & Fortescue’s Ice Cream does introduce a new Quaffle part now. A Quidditch keeper guarding some mini goal hoops would make a decent polybag that fits the name we have – and Ron is the only member of the golden trio who hasn’t featured in one yet.