Wizarding World 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[Murdoch17]

45 minutes ago, sammy_zammy said:

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

That was in the books, though. He never died in the films, which is what the sets are based on.

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, sammy_zammy said:

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

No. In both the book and the movie the time turner creates a bootstrap paradox – Harry and Hermione were only able to go back in time to save Buckbeak (and cast the patronus charm) because they’d already gone back in time to save Buckbeak. There is no separate timeline where he doesn’t survive. 

[VinnieCannoli]

I'm dying to know what the next section of detailed Hogwarts will look like.

If we got the new Troll this year, the year 2025 should bring us the Chamber of Secrets with the new version of Basilisk (there is a Gilderoy Lokhart figure even - everything hints on that). And the next section (I assume) is that huge tall tower with Dumbledore's office? It will probably be more expensive than The Great Hall. And...I guess it will have some space for Dueling and Leviosaa sets.

PS:

sorry i mean Leviosa. Not leviosaa. Duh.

Edited December 1, 2024 by VinnieCannoli

[brickbride]

7 hours ago, mark1991t said:

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.

The LOTR one has been leaked in the usual place, it's reportedly the Gandalf vs. the Balrog scene for a list price of USD 120. I'd assume a similar M.O. - same price and also an iconic scene with limited amounts of characters - for HP.

Any guesses as to the subject matter? The Forest Scene (Harry vs. Voldie) comes to mind although it's pretty dark. Or maybe the Astronomy Tower, but that one's even darker.

Or maybe just the Hogwarts Express, since that definitely has been done as a booknook before and LEGO seem to be adopting their competitors' ideas a lot these days (Notre Dame, working model of the solar system, microscale Hogwarts and Grounds just off the top of my head).

Edited December 1, 2024 by brickbride

[Black Falcon]

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

Or maybe just the Hogwarts Express, since that definitely has been done as a booknook before and LEGO seem to be adopting their competitors' ideas a lot these days (Notre Dame, working model of the solar system, microscale Hogwarts and Grounds just off the top of my head).

How is any of this adopting an competitors idea? Solar System was first on ideas, Notre Dame is a building and Lego has been doing those with the Architecture line for years and Hogwarts isn´t the first microscale Set they have been doing, let alone for the Harry Potter theme. Nothing of what you mentioned is an unique idea where you would need a competitor to get the idea from ;).

Aside from that, we got enough Hogwarts Express Sets, so I don´t think we will get that. Though if they would do two bookends actually, the Express would be a good model for it since you could either make one end Hogsmeade Station and the other Kings cross (9 3/4), or one side Kings Cross and the other 9 3/4.

In the end it also might depend on what we are getting if they think kids will be interested in something like that and given a lot kids do have the HP books, it doesn´t seem unlikely to me that parents would buy something like that for their kids to put next to the books - so I don´t think we will see any to dark scenes done. But that basically still leaves more than enough scenes to be displayed.

[BacktoBricks]

The moving wall entrance to Diagon Alley would make a cool shelf insert and they do love to reuse that Harry minifigure. 

Or the Platform 9 3/4 wall with platform either side.

It doesn't have to be really expensive Lego *cough*. 

Edited December 1, 2024 by BacktoBricks

[Felkin]

I'd love to see Platform 9 & 3/4 bookends; one with the Trio as first-years, and the other with them as adults (since Lego didn't include adult Ron and Hermione in the D2C Hogwarts Express for some inexplicable reason) to show their whole journey.

[brickbride]

2 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

How is any of this adopting an competitors idea? Solar System was first on ideas, Notre Dame is a building and Lego has been doing those with the Architecture line for years and Hogwarts isn´t the first microscale Set they have been doing, let alone for the Harry Potter theme. Nothing of what you mentioned is an unique idea where you would need a competitor to get the idea from ;).

Notre Dame: LEGO has always been adamant that they won't do churches. This has allowed competitors a niche for producing famous cathedrals and the like without stepping on LEGO's toes. Notre Dame has been done by several of them as far as I know. Now LEGO come out with Notre Dame and completely ignore their own policy on churches in the process. If that's not adopting a competitor's idea, what is?

Solar System: Cada has had one for quite some time now, from the same designer as the safe, I think.

Microscale Hogwarts and Grounds: Yes LEGO did the castle first in 2018, but when the castle and grounds was announced a lot of us immediately pointed to competing products that were already available.

And now the booknooks. Again, not an original idea!

To be clear: I don't mean to imply that LEGO are doing anything untoward. They don't adopt other companies' designs, just their ideas which to the best of my knowledge cannot be copyrighted. But it's not longer the case (if it ever was, I don't really know enough to tell one way or the other) that LEGO pave the way and the competition follows. LEGO clearly are looking towards the competition these days, gauging what works and what they can adopt into their own portfolio so as to prevent customers from straying.

2 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

It doesn't have to be really expensive Lego *cough*. 

Again, the LOTR one is supposed to be USD 120, so I'd assume it's at a similar price point. The Reobrix one I mentioned above is about that price, but it has over 3.000 pieces. I guess we can all agree that a LEGO set with a list price of around USD 1200 won't have much more than 1.200 pieces. Diagon Alley, though, is another good possibility. I recall a MOC of a booknook from Rebrickable that looked really cool.

Edited December 1, 2024 by brickbride

[Black Falcon]

4 hours ago, brickbride said:

Notre Dame: LEGO has always been adamant that they won't do churches. This has allowed competitors a niche for producing famous cathedrals and the like without stepping on LEGO's toes. Notre Dame has been done by several of them as far as I know. Now LEGO come out with Notre Dame and completely ignore their own policy on churches in the process. If that's not adopting a competitor's idea, what is?

Again, how is that an idea? It is an Architecture Set, the choice of a building in itself is not an idea. 

4 hours ago, brickbride said:

Solar System: Cada has had one for quite some time now, from the same designer as the safe, I think.

It is a Moc that was avaiable on Rebrickable for a long time before Cada decided to make a Set out of it.

4 hours ago, brickbride said:

Microscale Hogwarts and Grounds: Yes LEGO did the castle first in 2018, but when the castle and grounds was announced a lot of us immediately pointed to competing products that were already available.

And what exactly is the point here? Lego did Harry Potter Sets before, and even Micro scale ones, like the old Diagon Alley Shops. If every location you could do is an unique idea to you, then yeah, others have done it before. But to me it just isn´t. On a side note, this unique idea from Lego´s competitors was already on ideas as of 2012.

4 hours ago, brickbride said:

And now the booknooks. Again, not an original idea!

And again, has been long ago on ideas,

4 hours ago, brickbride said:

To be clear: I don't mean to imply that LEGO are doing anything untoward. They don't adopt other companies' designs, just their ideas which to the best of my knowledge cannot be copyrighted. But it's not longer the case (if it ever was, I don't really know enough to tell one way or the other) that LEGO pave the way and the competition follows. LEGO clearly are looking towards the competition these days, gauging what works and what they can adopt into their own portfolio so as to prevent customers from straying.

There is hardly any proof any of this is true. If anything Lego designers are Lego fans and as such of course they also look at Mocs and such, or maybe even have build something like that before they even worked for Lego. Who knows. Everything you mentioned was done before as a Moc and honestly it is kinda hard to come up with anything that wasn´t done as a Moc before, because there are just so many Mocs out there nowadays with tons of creative ideas. 

[Gorilla94]

To be honest i am pretty disappointed. Lockhards torso is ok-ish... I do not need more Harrys, Dracos and Snapes. Snapes printed arms will be usefull at some point. I hope the tiles are printed at least. Otherwise I'll bricklink Lockhard and build it from my own pieces with custom printed ones.

Flittwicks class room is just bad... I adored Snapes Portion class. It was very clever how it folds up smoothly. I expected this here, too. Also stickers... and pathetic minifigures. There should have been at least a new mould for Flittwick with his special beard and bald head. I guess, i'll skip it and build something myself.

Malfoy Manor is irrelevant to me as a building. I just want a pretty Hogwarts. At least I get a new version of Dobby as another house elf for the kitchen. Maybe I'll bricklink Lunas Hair piece to upgrade her minifig...

I have a really bad feeling. I hope the flying lesson will be better.

[Virginia_Bricks]

If I did my math right, the charms class will be 8 x 11 studs, which while the correct width for the middle portion of the Great Hall would be 1 stud not deep enough (possible 1 stud is hidden in the pictures). Therefore, there is the possibility the Charms classroom will go under the Flying lesson.

And if I put my tin foil hat on, I believe Lego not only likes these leaks but is directly responsible for them and intentionally made sure the picture showing where it inserts was not leaked because it is related to an unleaked set.

[BrickMatit]

51 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

If I did my math right, the charms class will be 8 x 11 studs

That's my couunt too.

51 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

And if I put my tin foil hat on, I believe Lego not only likes these leaks but is directly responsible for them and intentionally made sure the picture showing where it inserts was not leaked because it is related to an unleaked set.

Well surely it's at least a strange coincidence that the only images missing from leaks is the rear of the Charms Class set, where we can expect to see how the set will be insert in the general castle layout... 

Edited December 1, 2024 by BrickMatit

[LemonFlavouredBleach]

Flying lesson just got revealed, looks amazing and worth the price . Cant wait to see how it connects to the great hall

[Clone OPatra]

Ooh the Flying Lesson set is paradoxically one where I actually like the build a lot but don't care about the figures one bit!

The Knight Bus looks like the most rectangular version yet, though...

[sammy_zammy]

Also revealed from the boxart, how the Charms lesson fits in the back of the Flying Lesson!

And a new Transfiguration lesson too.

Flying Lesson in general looks a really fantastic substantial build - the way it folds in is super cool. I'm really liking how this new Hogwarts line is shaping up!

Edited December 2, 2024 by sammy_zammy

[cosmic]

Okay so, the choice to give legs for Narcissa and Bellatrix makes more sense now that they were looking to recreate the table scene and have the various death eaters be able to pose in the manor. Still would like to see Narcissa released with a proper dress, but she's kind of the only figure worth getting in this set. Easily skipping this set if she appears elsewhere, heck I can see myself skipping it regardless. I loved this theme while it lasted but kind of feel like it's run it's course. I'm ready to see it end only because I feel like i've gotten what I needed to get from it. 

Awkward how none of the Hogwarts sets combined to make a proper representation of the build. The more recent green roofed sets provided a silhouette closer to what the castle should look like, but still not quite exact and very blocky in some spaces. i wish they planned a proper castle that when combined truly provided the silhouette and design of hogwarts. They got close but never nailed it, and we have to accept this run of the theme for what it was, which was great in many ways and repetitive and surprisingly inaccurate in others. 

And to those who may feel i am being negative in calling for this to end, I mean no negativity with the statement. More so, that with a lack of new source material, it seems they have exhausted the material they had to work with. Just my point of view.

[JS038]

Can anyone tell how the first flying lesson connects to the larger Hogwarts? Or is it still unclear?

[Clone OPatra]

8 minutes ago, cosmic said:

I'm ready to see it end only because I feel like i've gotten what I needed to get from it. 

And to those who may feel i am being negative in calling for this to end, I mean no negativity with the statement.

To me it's not that this sentiment is negative, it's just that it's incredibly selfish and self-centred. If the theme isn't giving anything new you want, simply don't buy it? Nobody is forcing you. The rest of us, and for successive waves of children who don't have sets from even five years ago, find things to like and buy, and derive enjoyment from the theme's continued existence.

For what it's worth, this year alone LEGO has continued to do some new stuff within the theme, so the idea that they've exhausted everything is, to me, a bit ludicrous.

[joeee]

1 hour ago, JS038 said:

Can anyone tell how the first flying lesson connects to the larger Hogwarts? Or is it still unclear?

From what I see: there are two unused clips on the shorter tower plus one unused clip on the first floor of the taller tower. Did my best measure out the height of the clips and they are on par with the Great Hall and Boathouse pegs:

Can it connect to the larger Hogwarts? Yes! The clips are at the perfect height with Great Hall and Boathouse. The shorter tower of the Flying Lesson can clip to the back of the courtyard or Great Hall.
Does the set technically go here? Nahh, the Flying Lessons set sits way north east of the Great Hall and TLG has yet to release the buildings inbetween. 

Edited December 2, 2024 by joeee

[Ferder]

1 hour ago, cosmic said:

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Awkward how none of the Hogwarts sets combined to make a proper representation of the build. The more recent green roofed sets provided a silhouette closer to what the castle should look like, but still not quite exact and very blocky in some spaces.

Be patient. It took until the very end of the wave for the green roof sets to resemble the full castle. This collection is really just getting started. I’m sure they are saving the large iconic buildings like Grand Tower and Viaduct Entrance entrance for the summer releases. 
 

[brickbride]

4 hours ago, LemonFlavouredBleach said:

Flying lesson just got revealed, looks amazing and worth the price .

To be honest, my first impression was: "Great, empty rooms I'd have to buy another set for (each) for EUR 80, that's what I have always wanted for Christmas." I really hate how unfinished every set in this new system looks. On purpose! Like, say, thr Fluffy Encounter looked bare and unfinished, too, but that ws bad design. Now they just want you to have to buy the interiors extra.

[Chocolate Frog]

This may seem off-topic at first, but bear with me - has anyone (in the UK) noticed that some large Tescos now have their toy aisle run for them by The Entertainer? Two things here - firstly, none of the ones I’ve visited have any Lego - but more disturbingly, the fact The Entertainer is running them means we will never see any HP Lego in these locations, because of their well-known refusal to stock Harry Potter products, which they regard as blasphemous. 

[Huigberts Builds]

Hmmmm, don't know how I feel about the final 2 sets.

For the Flying Lesson I think the exterior is absolute excellent, it looks great, it kinda feels like they combined the previous flying lesson with the 2018 Whomping Willow set. I'm sure it will look great combined with the other sets. But the interior really isn't my cup of tea. The smaller office and trophy room are fine, but the other 2 rooms feel a bit claustrophobic and very undetailed. I was hoping for all the classes to be as detailed as the potions class, which was such a huge upgrade from the one before. But both transfiguration and Charms really aren't that. Charms is even closed when displayed, I mean so was Potions, but at least there it made somewhat sense, here the arches will look awful if it has this huge brick of a class stored inside. The rooms feel more like storage containers than actual display pieces. And the figures really aren't great either, McGonagall is probably the worst one we've ever received, including the ones pre 2018, which is a huge downgrade considering the one right before it was the absolute best. The others are nothing special either, Oliver Wood is alright though.

The Knight Bus is a huge disappointment. Stan no longer has printing on his hat, Padfoot still uses the old piece, which like, defeats the entire point of why many people who owned the previous one wanted this set. The build itself, while perhaps more accurate, somehow feels less than the previous one. The interior is alright, although I did really enjoy the sliding bed from the last one. The sleeping witch is a nice inclusion, but it just reuses the Flower Lady torso, and I can't spot the Shrunken Head anywhere, so if that's the trade in, I don't really think it's worth it. So far I've been collecting all the system scale sets from 2018 onwards, but I think this might become the set where I stop that.

[Gorilla94]

I have to admit I regret buying the great hall now... I was very hyped after the boat house, potions class and Hagrid's hut... the Hall by itself is ok at best... and this new wave is just lazy with incredibly weak minifigures ridiculously overpriced too small sets  :/

[THELEGOBATMAN]

The Flying Lessons... I don't like it, even though it looks awesome at first glance.

The exterior, no doubt, looks incredible. It's highly detailed, and looks really big. But that's mostly it for the positives, because the minifigures are incredibly boring... not even one slightly exciting character or variant. The worst part is the interior though—because it proves how awful the new Hogwarts system truly is.

It's empty! The interior is basically a blank slate for the other Hogwarts sets! And the ridiculous part is, if I slide the Charms classroom in... what am I supposed to do with the other segment that was already there? I hate this system.

The Knight Bus is literally the 2019 version, but with smaller windows (so, more accurate). The bench, Padfoot, and the Sleeping Witch are very nice additions. Overall, I dig it, even though it's not particularly exciting.

Edited December 2, 2024 by THELEGOBATMAN