Wizarding World 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[brickbride]

Where did you see those?

EDIT: found them. Not my kind of thing but they might give us some idea about which stores we can expect next.

Also, where is the pink building from the old DA set (QQS, I think)? Shouldn't that be next to Ollivander's or something?

Edited October 16, 2024 by brickbride

[Accio Lego]

Looks like the new gargoyle piece will be flanking the Malfoy Manor gates – excellent. I also like the white peacocks side build. A little peeved they included Luna and Voldemort but left out Ron though. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Didn‘t expect to see Luna and Voldy here, but I‘m not saying no to that! I like what I‘m seeing  The new gargoyle piece works well here, Harry gets his disfigured face, and the building itself looks very detailed despite being a façade ^^

And with that, every single character from the 2010-11 era has finally been remade

[Seaber]

Glad that there seems to be no figure in the shops set, I like it but don't feel bad for skipping it. Narcissa brings the unmade figures list down further. 

PS (7+2): Alicia Spinnet, Tom, Dedalus Diggle, Doris Crockford, King's Cross Guard, Bloody Baron, Augusta Longbottom, (Firenze, Unicorn) 

CoS (8): Millicent Bulstrode, Mr Mason, Mrs Mason, Ernie MacMillain, Penelope Clearwater, Mr granger, Mrs granger, Knockturn Alley witch

PoA (2): Aunt Marge, Housekeeping Witch 

GoF (4): Roger Davies, Amos Diggory, Frank Brice, Eloise Midgen

OotP(6): Mrs Figg, Zacharias Smith, Madam Bones, John Dawlish, Antonin Dolohov, Prof Grubbly-Plank

HBP (6+1): Amycus Carrow, Alecto Carrow, Thorfinn Rowle, Katie Bell, Cormac McLaggen, Marcus Belby, (Inferi) 

DH (8+1): Charity Burbage, Mundungus Fletcher, Elphius Doge, Rufus Scrimgeour, Xenophilius Lovegood, Aunt Muriel, Bathilda Bagshot, Dirk Cresswell, (Giants) 

 

I guess we could get new students in the Duelling Club, Charms, and Flying Class, probably unlikely though. Aunt Marge in the Knight Bus may be an outside chance too? 

[MaxHeadroom]

So now Ron is conspicuously absent from the DH2 final battle lineup AND the DH1 climax lineup. There’s room for Luna and Voldemort but not Ron? What does Lego have against Ron? It makes the scene and figure lineup feel so incomplete. Having only 2/3rds of the trio is so awkward. 

[BrickMatit]

5 minutes ago, MaxHeadroom said:

There’s room for Luna and Voldemort but not Ron?

Ron is the second male character, the main being Harry and Hermione the main female character. So usually, when LEGO need to choose between them - unless he's in the scene, like Ford Anglia or Aragog - he's sacrificed.

[THELEGOBATMAN]

The Malfoy Manor looks awesome. I love how detailed the façade is, and the use of sand green bricks. The inclusion of a gate and a smaller sidebuild is also a nice touch.

The minifigure selection is impressive, nine minifigures is a lot (well, maybe not for 150€—the set is overpriced anyway). I especially like Harry with his puffed face faceprint. Now, a question remains—why isn't Ron here? They even put Voldemort on the balcony, who's not even present in this scene. But they omitted Ron, skipping his forest outfit, when both Harry and Hermione get one?

I don't like the Diagon Alley. The shops are fine, but nothing particularly spectacular. The overall shape is awful, seems like a huge waste of space when you're displaying it.

[Felkin]

49 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

Ron is the second male character, the main being Harry and Hermione the main female character. So usually, when LEGO need to choose between them - unless he's in the scene, like Ford Anglia or Aragog - he's sacrificed.

Lego has made a small handful of HP sets without Harry himself in them; the recent Forbidden Forest and Potions classroom sets spring to mind, allowing other male characters to feature like Ron and Seamus. But yeah, DH Ron's continuing absence is starting to feel deliberate, only appearing in the MoM and Gringotts sets... in both of which he's transformed into another person! Poor Ron, always overlooked...

[hoiharry]

The manor looks really nice, day one for sure.

But why did they give Harry a dark brown jacket?? I'm pretty sure his is dark blue right? I know it's a dark scene, but they wear the same outfits at Lovegood's house and the chase scene that came before.

[Alex6]

At this point I feel like I’m just buying these sets because of the mini figures, not too fond of the actual manor. Like others have said I was really looking forward to having the trio in their Deathly Hallows Part 1 outfits, a shame they hardly ever include Ron. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

The only three downsides of the Manor to me are its shallowness, the lack of Ron, and the usage of leg pieces on Bellatrix and Narcissa. Bellatrix without a skirt piece just looks plain wrong  Other than that, it‘s an awesome-looking set!

The DA set looks neat, but it will take up so much space, no matter how you display it! I need to think of a solution

Edited October 17, 2024 by BrickBob Studpants

[Accio Lego]

2 hours ago, hoiharry said:

But why did they give Harry a dark brown jacket?? I'm pretty sure his is dark blue right? I know it's a dark scene, but they wear the same outfits at Lovegood's house and the chase scene that came before.

It’s really hard to tell because so many of the shots clearly have a blue filter to make it look dark and gloomy. But checking Dobby’s death scene that comes immediately afterwards, it does look like it might be very dark brown or even black corduroy. And presumably Warner Bros. has given the Lego designers access to a better look at the actual costumes. 

[krimimimi]

3 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The only three downsides of the Manor to me are its shallowness, the lack of Ron, and the usage of leg pieces on Bellatrix and Narcissa. Bellatrix without a skirt piece just looks plain wrong  Other than that, it‘s an awesome-looking set!

The Malfoys are nothing if not shallow, so that fits, and as for Ron, he bunked off for a few months there (October through almost New Year's iirc), maybe someone is holding that against him? 😉

More seriously, I assume, given they've included Voldemort and Nagini, and particularly as there aren't that many scenes that take place at the Manor, that one of the things we're getting in the interior is the Table. We've only got five characters in the set who'd be seated at the Table, and it would be odd if three of them had to stand instead. I imagine that's the explanation for the legs vs. skirt pieces at any rate. 

@Accio Lego, I think you're right, that's almost always the answer, that they've access to source material we don't typically see, and yet I can't help thinking we'd usually be better served by having it match what we actually saw in the films. 

[Coryo]

I looked up bts photos from the beach scene, Harry's jacket does look blue both with and without the movie's colour grading, not sure how they landed on brown.

Also kind of strange that Draco uses the sweater + white shirt torso that the old guy from Home Alone had, when they could have just used his suit from the 2023 Room of Requirement set.

I do like the look of the Manor set overall though, hope the interior is somewhat decent

[hoiharry]

28 minutes ago, Coryo said:

I looked up bts photos from the beach scene, Harry's jacket does look blue both with and without the movie's colour grading, not sure how they landed on brown.

Also kind of strange that Draco uses the sweater + white shirt torso that the old guy from Home Alone had, when they could have just used his suit from the 2023 Room of Requirement set.

I do like the look of the Manor set overall though, hope the interior is somewhat decent

I knew it was a dark blue.  I was trying to look for a good photo too, but you beat me there hahaha.

[Virginia_Bricks]

1 hour ago, krimimimi said:

The Malfoys are nothing if not shallow, so that fits, and as for Ron, he bunked off for a few months there (October through almost New Year's iirc), maybe someone is holding that against him? 😉

More seriously, I assume, given they've included Voldemort and Nagini, and particularly as there aren't that many scenes that take place at the Manor, that one of the things we're getting in the interior is the Table. We've only got five characters in the set who'd be seated at the Table, and it would be odd if three of them had to stand instead. I imagine that's the explanation for the legs vs. skirt pieces at any rate. 

@Accio Lego, I think you're right, that's almost always the answer, that they've access to source material we don't typically see, and yet I can't help thinking we'd usually be better served by having it match what we actually saw in the films. 

Yeah, I was going to come here to mention Voldemort and Nagini make it a good guess that the table will be present. Hopefully they include enough chairs that you can add other Death Eaters in your collection

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

[…] enough chairs that you can add other Death Eaters in your collection

…who exactly?  Snape is a double agent, so he doesn‘t count, Greyback is neither a Death Eater nor does he sit at the table, and we don‘t have any other Death Eaters besides the masked one from Gringotts. Barty Crouch Jr. never was there either and certainly not with the clothes stolen from Moody  And Macnair has his executioner clothes, so that doesn‘t work either.

Edit: Forgot about Yaxley and Thicknesse!! Those two are present of course ^^ (and the latter is a Death Eater in the movie)

Edited October 17, 2024 by BrickBob Studpants

[krimimimi]

2 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Yeah, I was going to come here to mention Voldemort and Nagini make it a good guess that the table will be present. Hopefully they include enough chairs that you can add other Death Eaters in your collection

Judging by the lack of depth of the build, I'm guessing the table only has seats on one side and is open to the back, so removing it from the build to place on the table top, or whatever, gives us space to add more DEs. 

@BrickBob Studpants, we can also add Pettigrew and Albert Runcorn (/HP). Although perhaps not a Death Eater per se, unclear, his goals clearly align with theirs, he's respected by them, and unlike Thicknesse he isn't canonically known to be Imperiused. And Snape, double agent or not, was present. As for the others, surely we have some generic black suits lying about, although more (many more!) would be nice. 

Lego, if you're listening, it's well past time for a DE accessory pack. 

Edited October 17, 2024 by krimimimi

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, krimimimi said:

Lego, if you're listening, it's well past time for a DE accessory pack. 

Year 8 of the current theme and we only have two generic Death Eaters  I know a DE BP isn‘t as whimsical and magical as a classroom set, but come on! All we ask for is one measly $15-20 BP 

Or a Battle of the Department of Mysteries set. Still plenty of magic, like a portal for interdimensional travel!

[JeanGreyForever]

Voldemort being included in the Malfoy Manor set doesn't surprise me. I'm just grateful they didn't include Charity Burbage for obvious reasons.

I don't think Ron was really necessary so his exclusion doesn't bug me. Particularly since we're finally getting Malfoy Manor.

As for the microscale Diagon Alley, I hope they consider making some of those new buildings into a further D2C Diagon Alley expansion set. 

[Legoman123]

I think the manor is dreadful, there’s just no depth to it at all, it’ll be yet another lackluster interior from Harry Potter, just like the Grimmould Place set 

[brickbride]

Grimmauld Place at least had a good excuse since the mechanism to hide the house required a certain room layout. This here just feels like LEGO being cheap. But like I've said, really shallow facades are the new normal. Just look at Gru's House from Minions (75583) from the back! 

[Bugbot20082]

I like the dimensions of the front of the Mannor, they got the outline done well and it’s packed with details like the railings, snake heads etc, loads of windows. 
Minifigure count is good but I 2nd the disappointment in absence of DH Ron for 2nd time, the posable legs for all figures is likely to have them all sit around a long table.

The peackoks, fountain and statue are nice additions

One odd thing is the absence of wands, I see only 2 black ones in the image and then the white one. This would have been the ideal set to include a black recolour of the wand pack from Olivandar’s this year 

[Virginia_Bricks]

14 hours ago, Legoman123 said:

I think the manor is dreadful, there’s just no depth to it at all, it’ll be yet another lackluster interior from Harry Potter, just like the Grimmould Place set 

The angle of the picture doesn't necessarily mean the middle of the manor will be lacking an interior. There was a Malfoy Manor MOC posted to the Lego Harry Potter subreddit a few days before this leak and the width of each set seem pretty similar (8 studs) and the MOC had a decent interior.

[strangely]

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

This here just feels like LEGO being cheap. But like I've said, really shallow facades are the new normal. Just look at Gru's House from Minions (75583) from the back! 

I don't think it's Lego being cheap, I think it's Lego knowing what price point they can get the consumer to pay out for a product. For Gru's house, you'd be looking at $200+ to turn that into a modular style dollhouse and is any Despicable Me consumer seriously going to pay that much?

I think Malfoy Manor has a similar issue: how many people were going to pay $200-$300 for a modular dollhouse version of it. It doesn't even appear very much in the movies and only a handful of scenes take place there.

Then you have a second issue: the scenes that do take place there involve murder, kidnapping and torture. So already the set is less kid friendly, alienating a large section Lego's usual consumer base. So you have a set that's basically more palleteable for adults, but also is not a popular location from the films. So was Lego really going to put out a high priced set for this? It just feels like a modular version of Malfoy Manor would have been a big gamble.

I actually really like the set the way they did it. The facade is flat, but so is the actual facade of the building it's based on, so that works for me. If it has the long table and a few other things like a dungeon, balcony, etc then I'll be pleased with it.

Edited October 18, 2024 by strangely