Wizarding World 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[Salix]

Oh nice, like in previous advent calendars you will be able to use the builds for a set, in this case the Great Hall.

4 hours ago, Yaxley said:

Some news from Poland ;) 

https://fanklockow.pl/2024/03/05/zapowiedzi-lego-2024-harry-potter/?fbclid=IwAR20WBlz8c6urUL0KUVuXmR8zOmlIYJNf5Y7smnJBKHO-bmDAwX6mt1V1J0

Dzięki ;)

[BrickBob Studpants]

Fudge and Sinistra have to be placeholders for Crouch and Vector, or at least so I hope

Sounds awesome! Still funny that the ideas for the Great Hall’s figure selection we spitballed here (the troll, Vector, and one of the missing two house ghosts) have a good chance of actually panning out 

[brickbride]

I was kinda expecting the Great Hall set to contain the Chamber of Secrets, too, given the price. Instead it seems like they'll go the way of new locations (Hufflepuff Commonwealth room ...). Which is fine, I guess, but there is no way I'll start collecting the new system at this price point. It makes the ridiculously overpriced old Chamber of Secrets set look downright affordable.

Also I'm not sure if today's kids will go for such a pricy system focusing more on of books-only locations. But well see.

Edited March 6, 2024 by brickbride

[BrickBob Studpants]

51 minutes ago, brickbride said:

I was kinda expecting the Great Hall set to contain the Chamber of Secrets, too, given the price.

That wouldn‘t have made too much sense given that the 2021 set is still available. I‘m so glad they decided on a new scene to stand out from the set’s precursors 

Edited March 6, 2024 by BrickBob Studpants

[brickbride]

Actually, the more I think about it, the more baffled I am. The 2021 system had a total list price of what, about EUR 500? And it ticked a lot of boxes, covering many of the movie locations. Barely in some cases (such as the Astronomy and Clock towers), and of course there's the lack of common rooms and classrooms,  but it did cover most things.

The 2018 system before that had a list price of I think about EUR 370 but only covered the above-ground parts with some omissions (i.e. Fluffy's corridor).

With the new system (Owlery, Boathouse, Great Hall, and Snape's Classroom) we're already at more than EUR 300 and all we've covered of either system is the Great Hall itself! And Snape's Classroom alone is EUR 40. If they'll go the more detailed route and include more classrooms and common rooms, this is going to need a lot of space, not to mention money.

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

That wouldn‘t have made too much sense given that the 2021 set is still available.

I thought it was going EOL? It's certainly being sold off even by LEGO itself. Plus the existence of a new system makes the old one kind of obsolete. I double they'll be compatible. They both include the Great Hall, too.

Edited March 6, 2024 by brickbride

[MaxHeadroom]

Interesting news. I’m very happy that the carriage is small since we’ve already got one and I’d like to see as many parts as possible go towards the ship. Ideally the carriage would be no larger than the Grindewald one for example. 
 

Not sure how I feel about the Howarts news though. The potions class is just an alternate room then and is not needed to make the full exterior? That’s actually a good idea and keeps costs down for people who just want the exterior. The list of rooms in the Great Hall is interesting. Looks like it’s just the Great Hall and courtyard with no tower which is what I was expecting. Interior is a bathroom, a dungeon with secret passages (so… a hallway with the common room entrance?), and the Hufflepuff common room. I do hope they include the chamber of secrets and stone challenges somewhere under this castle eventually, although if the swappable rooms continue to be a thing I guess they could just release them separately from the actual castle interior sets. 

[brickbride]

45 minutes ago, MaxHeadroom said:

Interesting news. I’m very happy that the carriage is small since we’ve already got one and I’d like to see as many parts as possible go towards the ship. Ideally the carriage would be no larger than the Grindewald one for example. 

There's two figs for the carriage, though if they do Madame Maxime the usual way I'm not sure if she can even be seated. But there's only two figs for the ship, too. This makes me think it won't be much bigger than the carriage (apart from the sails), otherwise it will look empty.

Though the old one had only two as well, and nowhere near four sails, so who knows ...

Edited March 6, 2024 by brickbride

[BrickMatit]

1 hour ago, MaxHeadroom said:

The potions class is just an alternate room then and is not needed to make the full exterior?

Well, it could be possible that the Potions Classroom set has the dimensions to both go under the Great Hall or under future sections of the castle. If it's true that one can switch rooms under the Great Hall, Potions Classroom has to have a full rock exterior, I imagine, and this could work as underground section of others buildings.

Edited March 6, 2024 by BrickMatit

[MaxHeadroom]

1 minute ago, BrickMatit said:

Well, it could be possible that the Potions Classroom set has the dimensions to both go under the Great Hall or under future sections of the castle. If it's true that one can swithc rooms under the Great Hall, Potions Classroom has to have a full rock exterior, I imagine, and this could work as underground section of others buildings.

That’s an interesting idea. I was imagining it just being like a floor + decorated interior wall that could slide in and out of a hollow rockface based on the “pulled out” part of the description. Fully swappable and interchangeable lower parts of the castle could work too though, and keep individual sets a bit smaller if they don’t have to include both above ground and underground parts in all the sets. 

[NoOneOfImportance]

4 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

Well, it could be possible that the Potions Classroom set has the dimensions to both go under the Great Hall or under future sections of the castle. If it's true that one can switch rooms under the Great Hall, Potions Classroom has to have a full rock exterior, I imagine, and this could work as underground section of others buildings.

My guess is that the classrooms/areas don't individually have rock exterior, but rather there is rock exterior/framing that sections can slot into..

[BrickMatit]

1 minute ago, NoOneOfImportance said:

My guess is that the classrooms/areas don't individually have rock exterior, but rather there is rock exterior/framing that sections can slot into.

That's an interesting idea: leaving the rock exterior part in the bigger and high price set can save pieces in minor sets instead of need to increase prices or reduce details.

[Seaber]

The potions classroom is situated under the viaduct entrance in the films and games so hopefully it can be added there in a possible future set 

[Black Falcon]

1 hour ago, Seaber said:

The potions classroom is situated under the viaduct entrance in the films and games so hopefully it can be added there in a possible future set 

If that infos are true, that System would be strange though. I mean we get modules that don´t have a place where they can be added - or better said they can be added anywhere but you would always have some of them left over. At least it seems unlikely to me that they would do Sets with empty places for the modules.

[JeanGreyForever]

I hope this Great Hall will not only have all four tables placed parallel to each other but also have enough room for multiple teachers at the back. I feel we've never gotten that definitive Great Hall set since most are always cramped and not tall enough for my taste. I wonder if it may have been better for the set to just focus on the Great Hall itself and not other rooms like the Potions classroom and Hufflepuff common room.

That being said, I'm glad that classrooms and common rooms are a part of the Hogwarts castle again. The modular system, as much as I enjoyed that, really skimped on classrooms. We never got one again after the first Great Hall/Chamber of Secrets set.

Also glad to see the troll finally included. The Hufflepuff common room underneath the Great Hall makes me wonder if there was ever any consideration to include the kitchens underneath too.

As for Madame Malkin's Robes, I hope it's not too incompatible with the D2C Diagon Alley sets. Surprised Draco was not included considering his first appearance in the books is in this shop.

[Accio Lego]

Interesting descriptions, although I have a feeling some things are lost in translation. Kinda a bummer that the Mandrake apparently doesn’t have a sound brick - what’s the point of only doing it after the sound brick is introduced then?

I'm also slightly peeved that we only see collectible portrait counts in the descriptions of the potions class and advent calendar – surely the Great Hall should have some as well? I’m hoping that’s just incomplete info since the Great Hall also doesn’t have a complete list of character names. 
 

With Flitwick in the advent calendar and 3 as yet unnamed students in the Great Hall, I can’t help but wonder if we’ll be seeing some version of the frog choir. 
 

Fingers crossed for the Bloody Baron and Fat Frair as our yet unnamed ghosts. It would be great to finally complete the set. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

Fingers crossed for the Bloody Baron and Fat Frair as our yet unnamed ghosts. It would be great to finally complete the set. 

So the worst case is Nearly-headless Nick and Sinistra in the GH, Fudge in the Durmstrang ship, and the Grey Lady in the AC, whereas the best case is Bloody Baron and Vector in the GH, Crouch Sr. in the ship, and Fat Friar in the AC.

Fingers crossed it's the latter!!

Edited March 6, 2024 by BrickBob Studpants

[Accio Lego]

27 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

So the worst case is Nearly-headless Nick and Sinistra in the GH, Fudge in the Durmstrang ship, and the Grey Lady in the AC, whereas the best case is Bloody Baron and Vector in the GH, Crouch Sr. in the ship, and Fat Friar in the AC.

Fingers crossed it's the latter!!

Earlier sources were already saying Crouch in the Triwizard Arrival set, so I’m pretty optimistic on that one at least. Plus, the two characters dress pretty similarly so it’s an easy to understand mistake – like Yaxley being confused for Lucius when the Ministry set came out. Fudge isn’t even in the arrival scene, so it wouldn’t make sense to include him anyway. 
 

I’m also pretty optimistic about getting a new professor in the Great Hall, because even the article feels the need to say it’s “probably” Sinestra – that’s pretty noncommittal, and might just be someone taking a guess at who a ‘female professor’ might be based on the last great hall set. 
 

The author of the article doesn’t commit at all on the matter of the ghosts’ identities, so I’ll hold out hope that that means they’re new characters since Nick would be fairly identifiable at this point, right?

Fingers crossed 

[Huigberts Builds]

35 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

Earlier sources were already saying Crouch in the Triwizard Arrival set, so I’m pretty optimistic on that one at least

True, although I'm a bit skeptical after the Ultron and Quicksilver stuff for Marvel turned out to be wrong.

[JeanGreyForever]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

So the worst case is Nearly-headless Nick and Sinistra in the GH, Fudge in the Durmstrang ship, and the Grey Lady in the AC, whereas the best case is Bloody Baron and Vector in the GH, Crouch Sr. in the ship, and Fat Friar in the AC.

Fingers crossed it's the latter!!

I actually would like to see another Grey Lady minifigure but one based on her appearance in the first two films rather than Deathly Hallows. She had a way more intricate dress design in the first movies.

[Ferder]

1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

Interesting descriptions, although I have a feeling some things are lost in translation. Kinda a bummer that the Mandrake apparently doesn’t have a sound brick - what’s the point of only doing it after the sound brick is introduced then?

The sound brick seems to have made the sorting hat a pretty expensive set, so it's for the best that it's left out to keep the price down. Besides, there are enough noisy electronic toys out there. We don't need LEGO to join. Lego has gotten by just fine on people using their imagination to make the sound effects. 

[Murdoch17]

16 minutes ago, Ferder said:

The sound brick seems to have made the sorting hat a pretty expensive set, so it's for the best that it's left out to keep the price down. Besides, there are enough noisy electronic toys out there. We don't need LEGO to join. Lego has gotten by just fine on people using their imagination to make the sound effects. 

Clearly you've never heard of the LEGO 9v light and sound lineup of the late 1980's / early 90's! They've been doing this stuff since Futuron, I believe.

Edited March 6, 2024 by Murdoch17

[Accio Lego]

34 minutes ago, Huigberts Builds said:

True, although I'm a bit skeptical after the Ultron and Quicksilver stuff for Marvel turned out to be wrong.

At least we have movie canon on our side – this set is based off a very specific scene and Fudge isn’t present at the arrival of Beuxbatons and Drumstrang, while Crouch Sr. is. 

[Ferder]

16 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

Clearly you've never heard of the LEGO 9v light and sound lineup of the late 1980's / early 90's! They've been doing this stuff since Futuron, I believe.

You're right! I forgot about those. I never owned those sets. I did have a motorized train with lights though. 

[Salix]

On 2/28/2024 at 2:06 AM, Ferder said:

Just saw this Brickset designer note on the Talking Sorting Hat

If anyone buys the hat and already as the Buildable figures I'd love to see how they look combined. 

As promised here are pictures/clips of the combination of the buildable figures with the hat: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4MWwScokUK/?theme=dark&img_index=5

Had to hold the hat though as it was too big to stay on the buildable figure on its own.

[brickbride]

38 minutes ago, Salix said:

As promised here are pictures/clips of the combination of the buildable figures with the hat: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4MWwScokUK/?theme=dark&img_index=5

Had to hold the hat though as it was too big to stay on the buildable figure on its own.

Thanks for the video!

That said, I find the sound super annoying (not your fault oc). No way would I buy something like that for a kid! They already ruined the very good Hidden Side sets with the stupid app, it's like they're actively trying to make their stuff unattractive to parents. Anyone who shells out EUR 100 for LEGO at least wants some peace and quiet to go with it. It's not like households with kids tend to suffer from a lack of electronic noise.

Edited March 7, 2024 by brickbride