Wizarding World 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[Legofan04]

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

But there's a large gulf between addressing the previous complaints (that is: not using gridded plates, making the modules a tad bigger, and not churning out lackluster efforts like the Fluffy Encounter or Sirius Black's Rescue) and expecting us to pay a total of EUR 450 for just TWO parts of the castle - the same parts that were (apart from the underground section) both done in a single EUR 100 set in 2018! Or to pay around EUR 40 for a single class module (EUR 20 for a half-module), effectively doubling the prices of the 2021 system. That's just ridiculously expensive for playsets. There has to be some kind of middle ground.

Wasn't saying that Lego should be expecting us to pay such an insane amount. I was merely pointing out that people weren't liking the majority of smaller Hogwarts systems sets we were getting in the 2021 system.  I do think Lego's paid attention to that, however whether they were able to collect that data in time to inform this batch of sets, or learned the right lesson about what consumers want, is a different matter.

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

Though I'd rate the Room of Requirement among the good sets as well,

I personally loved the Room of Requirement but there were a lot of complaints about the lack of more stuff in the room, the height, and other things. Unfortunately it suffered from being based on source material that is hard to pull off at a cheaper scale.

3 hours ago, JS038 said:

Really hoping the main tower depicts OotP or a movie that isn’t PS or CoS. Would love to maybe see an Umbridges office

An Upbridge office would be wonderful. Imagine they would base it off the scene where Harry tries to contact Sirus  so could include a reference to that.

[Bobdapeach]

21 hours ago, joeee said:

-I should be excited for the Herbology Class, but why does part of my brain surmise it will NOT be a greenhouse and will only be a slide in ala January’s Charm Class. I am hoping to be pleasantly surprised! I want a substancial greenhouse after those two amazing Ideas sets with all the window panes!

That was my first thought too, but then I remembered the Potions one is $38 and the Chatms class is only $20

idk what the consensus on the potions class is, but I really like it!  If the herbology greenhouse is $22 more I’m looking forward to it, it should be good

[BrickBob Studpants]

I only noticed after the discussion in the Marvel thread that there‘s no advent calendar on the current set list!  Of course that doesn‘t mean there won‘t be one as the list may be incomplete, but it‘s pretty curious nonetheless.

Also, there doesn‘t appear to be a D2C set, but I‘d be kinda glad if we got a break next year. We already have the $200 microscale DA and the $250 Hogwarts expansion, so our wallets will surely be thankful for a breather

[brickbride]

21 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Also, there doesn‘t appear to be a D2C set, but I‘d be kinda glad if we got a break next year.

I'd assumed those leaks came from retailers, so that might explain the lack of D2Cs. As for the AC, maybe it's a scheduling thing? Like maybe those sets are all June releases and the ACs come in September? Just a wild guess 

[MaxHeadroom]

Honestly I stopped buying the Advent calendars after the second one, and I’m good having a year without a D2C too. What would they even do for a D2C at this point? If they do one, hopefully it’s another easily skipped out of scale with minifigures thing. 

[brickbride]

13 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

As for comparing in price to the D2C Diagon Alley it is a decent comparison volume wise (piece count is radically different given the size of pieces). Both are 16 studs deep and DA is only a few studs longer, while the GH is taller. I'm expecting the GH and MT will also have more minifigures overall.

Meh. I've seen them both displayed. The D2C Alley is lovely, lots of detail and interesting techniques. The Great Hall is just an oversized, rather empty playset. They may have a similar footprint but I don’t really think they play in the same league design-wise.

The same for the modular comparison - these days modular buildings are crammed to the rafters with detail. You can't compare that to a sparsely decorated "starter set" even if they are outwardly roughly the same size.

21 minutes ago, MaxHeadroom said:

Honestly I stopped buying the Advent calendars after the second one, and I’m good having a year without a D2C too. What would they even do for a D2C at this point?

I don't know, but I have a suspicion what they will put in the AC: stuff to beef up the EUR 250 Main Tower.

Seriously, no way are we not getting a bunch of ACs. I don't know about Marvel but in general that's really easy money for LEGO (given the prices and the fact that it's just minibuilds and minifigs) and everyone else is doing them - even other brick companies such as Bluebrixx- so they'd just leave the field to the competitors if they opted out.

Edited December 9, 2024 by brickbride

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

I'd assumed those leaks came from retailers, so that might explain the lack of D2Cs. 

The last couple of 2HY lists always included at least the set number and sometimes the price point of the D2C set as well, so its absence is a bit suspicious  It‘d be the first year without a D2C set since 2019, but given how many HP ones are still on shelves, I think a break would make sense!

[Virginia_Bricks]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The last couple of 2HY lists always included at least the set number and sometimes the price point of the D2C set as well, so its absence is a bit suspicious  It‘d be the first year without a D2C set since 2019, but given how many HP ones are still on shelves, I think a break would make sense!

The spring SW UCS set hasn't leaked yet either, so not ruling out a HP D2C.

[BrickBob Studpants]

8 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

The spring SW UCS set hasn't leaked yet either, so not ruling out a HP D2C.

It has. We‘ve known about Jango‘s Slave One for a while now

[Virginia_Bricks]

3 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

It has. We‘ve known about Jango‘s Slave One for a while now

You are right and that was leaked so long ago I forgot.

[Jaromir]

Do you think guys, that flying lesson set will connect to the main tower? Last year we had a boat house from winter wave, that was being connected to the great hall from summer wave. I think it is kind of pointless to release parts of Hogwarts from two opposite ends of the castle and make them combine together with the final set.

[Tariq j]

4 hours ago, MaxHeadroom said:

Honestly I stopped buying the Advent calendars after the second one, and I’m good having a year without a D2C too. What would they even do for a D2C at this point? If they do one, hopefully it’s another easily skipped out of scale with minifigures thing. 

The only one that comes to mind would be a Creator style Ford Anglia. But I agree, I don’t mind not having a D2C this year either. I’m really excited for the main tower - I feel like it’s the one of the few aspects of Hogwarts that (excluding microscale sets) Lego haven’t quite mastered. The 2010 version was pretty good but didn’t have a lot of space and the 2018 version was pretty empty. 
 

 

 

[Virginia_Bricks]

20 minutes ago, Jaromir said:

Do you think guys, that flying lesson set will connect to the main tower? Last year we had a boat house from winter wave, that was being connected to the great hall from summer wave. I think it is kind of pointless to release parts of Hogwarts from two opposite ends of the castle and make them combine together with the final set.

I hope not. Canonically it shouldn't, but till the instructions leak we won't know.

[Jaromir]

5 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

I hope not. Canonically it shouldn't, but till the instructions leak we won't know.

We still don't know if the main tower, will be main tower itself only, or will it have additional parts of the castle.

[BacktoBricks]

Maybe we won't get a D2C this year as the Main Tower is basically straying into that territory in terms of price and we still have five D2Cs on shelves after this year: Hogwarts Icons, Diagon Alley, Hogwarts Castle, Gringotts and The Burrow. The first two will supposedly retire at the end of next year and then the last three supposedly not until the end of 2026. Only the Hogwarts Express is set to retire this year, so the shelves are pretty saturated right now. I'd personally be totally okay with them skipping the D2C this year, but I do hope there will be an Advent Calendar as they can be a great cheap-ish way to provide character variants.

[Virginia_Bricks]

Wondering if this year the promotional set could be another classroom module. Would love a History of Magic with Professor Binns and clearly if Charms is $20, the price range is fine for a promotional set.

[Black Falcon]

5 hours ago, MaxHeadroom said:

Honestly I stopped buying the Advent calendars after the second one, and I’m good having a year without a D2C too. What would they even do for a D2C at this point? If they do one, hopefully it’s another easily skipped out of scale with minifigures thing. 

Leaky Cauldron with Nocturn Alley?

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The last couple of 2HY lists always included at least the set number and sometimes the price point of the D2C set as well, so its absence is a bit suspicious  It‘d be the first year without a D2C set since 2019, but given how many HP ones are still on shelves, I think a break would make sense!

They didn´t. And the sources are likely different anyways since the normal Sets often get leaked by retailers. Also we got the infos quite early this time so wouldn´t be surprised if we don´t get the info about the UCS this year.

[brickbride]

17 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Leaky Cauldron with Nocturn Alley?

Unlikely IMO. The D2C Alley retires at the end of 2025, making another add-on for it in mid-2025 seems like a bit of a weird decision. Plus the Leaky Cauldron is a pub and LEGO isn't fond of those.

[BrickBob Studpants]

32 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

They didn´t.

Maybe not every time, but I distinctly remember Gringotts being part of the same set list that had the 2HY sets. And I do believe it happened in other years as well

[Virginia_Bricks]

6 hours ago, MaxHeadroom said:

Honestly I stopped buying the Advent calendars after the second one, and I’m good having a year without a D2C too. What would they even do for a D2C at this point? If they do one, hopefully it’s another easily skipped out of scale with minifigures thing. 

Hogsmeade, 12 Grimmauld Place, Shrieking Shack, Hagrid's Hut, Quidditch Pitch, Ministry of Magic, etc.

Honestly any playset can be done as a D2C set

[Black Falcon]

1 minute ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Hogsmeade, 12 Grimmauld Place, Shrieking Shack, Hagrid's Hut, Quidditch Pitch, Ministry of Magic, etc.

Honestly any playset can be done as a D2C set

Honestly, Hagrids Hut is probably one of the Sets I am least looking forward to get a UCS version. Ministry of Magic on the other side would benefit from a better version.

54 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Maybe not every time, but I distinctly remember Gringotts being part of the same set list that had the 2HY sets. And I do believe it happened in other years as well

Well eitherway it is no reason to believe we wouldn´t get a D2C Set this year. And I don´t think that the expensive summer wave is a reason either, in the end the D2C Sets also aim towards people that don´t buy another Hogwarts. 

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

Unlikely IMO. The D2C Alley retires at the end of 2025, making another add-on for it in mid-2025 seems like a bit of a weird decision. Plus the Leaky Cauldron is a pub and LEGO isn't fond of those.

Well they have done other addtiions to series even though the first Set wasn´t avaiable anymore, Ninjago City for instance. In the end Gringotts will still be around and you can also just build an Diagon Alley with that and the new UCS set. In the end it could also just be new Diagon Alley Shops whether they include the Cauldron or not. 

And given they will be sold as 18+ Set anyways, I don´t think that there is no way they would do a Cauldron Set.

[brickbride]

51 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

In the end Gringotts will still be around and you can also just build an Diagon Alley with that and the new UCS set. In the end it could also just be new Diagon Alley Shops whether they include the Cauldron or not. 

And given they will be sold as 18+ Set anyways, I don´t think that there is no way they would do a Cauldron Set.

I've read somewhere that the designers deliberately left out Gringotts initially because it was the only thing iconic enough that it could be done later, on its own. Nothing else really qualifies. Not many people are going to want to start their DAs with Potage's Cauldrons and a bunch of other shops that are seen on-screen for half a second only from the outside, while missing out on the likes of Ollivander's and WWW.

And LEGO don't do pubs even with the expert modulars, it's getting kind of noticeable. The latest one has something that very, very much looks like a pub but calls itself an inn. The only instance I can think of where they did a building that explicitly serves alcohol was the Hogsmeade Village Visit, and I guess no-one had told them that in JK's world, the go-to drink for thirteen-year-olds is supposed to be alcoholic. 

Don't get me wrong, I'd love seeing a DA Expansion! I just don't think we will.

Edited December 9, 2024 by brickbride

[JS038]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Hogsmeade, 12 Grimmauld Place, Shrieking Shack, Hagrid's Hut, Quidditch Pitch, Ministry of Magic, etc.

Honestly any playset can be done as a D2C set

I would absolutely love to see a ministry of magic in the form of a D2C set. It would be great to get the department of mysteries, the battle with voldy & Dumbledore, the arch where series dies. None of those scenes have ever been touched and it would be very cool to see in a creative format. 

[sammy_zammy]

9 hours ago, MaxHeadroom said:

Honestly I stopped buying the Advent calendars after the second one, and I’m good having a year without a D2C too. What would they even do for a D2C at this point? If they do one, hopefully it’s another easily skipped out of scale with minifigures thing. 

Well they could always do UCS Dobby’s sock at long last…

Edited December 9, 2024 by sammy_zammy

[brickbride]

8 hours ago, JS038 said:

the arch where series dies. None of those scenes have ever been touched 

LEGO might well give us that scene soon. Since their new line is apparently "HP: Death Scenes" between Hedwig in the motorcycle set and Dobby in the Manor.

I agree that a Ministry sounds awesome and like something that could really benefit from the larger scope of a D2C. However, I doubt LEGO would take the risk. We've had the Ministry olny once before, that set was heavily criticised and I cannot imagine it sold well. Plus it's kind of the bad guy lair in story terms.

Much safer, in recent years, for LEGO to limit their D2Cs to generelly well-regarded concepts like Hogwarts Castle, the Hogwarts Express, the Burrow, or Diagon Alley/Gringotts (the latter was probably the biggest risk and I cannot imagine they would have taken it if not for the success of Diagon Alley, which probably explains the long wait). I mean the Hogwarts Express one kind of failed but that was due to execution only - when they first announced a Hogwarts Express D2C everyone was thrilled.

Edited December 10, 2024 by brickbride