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These are all the sets in the current series of Harry Potter lego, arranged approximately chronologically as they occur in the books and films. (Notable exception: the Fantastic Beasts sets are at the end of this list.) Each set is identified by name, set number (linked to its brickset entry), the appropriate films, and the characteristics that make it applicable for a particular book / movie.

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If anyone can recommend any changes to the list, please don't hesitate to comment. If you are looking for the list of retiring sets, go here.
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And it looks like 10 of the lego Harry Potter sets will now also have double Insider points and five sets are on sale as part of the Back to Hogwarts Event!

As of midnight in Europe and Australia, the same five sets are showing as reduced in price 10 sets are showing with double points, so I'm guessing they'll do the same for the US and Canada and probably South America, too.Read more... )
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As the title suggests, I've finished the digital model for the Butterbeer Truck and posted it on Mecabricks. As we don't have the instructions of parts list, it's a best guess, and unfortunately Mecabricks doesn't check if the parts are current or exist in a given colour, so I've eyed it and gone by best guess on both counts. I'll probably update it once the instructions are published if the inventory feature is working again over on MB.

Feel free to incorporate it into your digital Hogsmeade builds.

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Ron tries to valiantly face the tragedy of an empty cup while Hermione battles the vicious foam.

Gingerwitch's Butterbeer in Hogsmeade - Ron's coming up Empty. Digital build from Mecabricks using the lego Butterbeer Truck from the lego Harry Potter 2025 Back to Hogwarts Event.

ETA: Oooo! The 200th post to this comm. Not bad, Ginger, not bad.
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In light of recent developments, I figured you could use a bit of positivity, so... Lego has announced a Harry Potter In-store Build for the Harry Potter theme during the Back to Hogwarts week. At participating Lego Stores (for clarification, that's actual brick and mortar Lego Stores and not just a store selling lego or even the online shop), while supplies last, you can build a Butterbeer sales cart, and frankly it's pretty cute. Read more... )

Again, check your local store's page to see if they're participating or making changes.

Worth considering:
The Back to Hogwarts Event begins tomorrow 01 September.
(US link above or Canadian link)

- Purchases at or above $40 get this year's Harry Potter lego Polybag: 30706 Quidditch Lesson as a GWP. (While supplies last.)

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- Purchases at or above $130 additionally get 40770 Hogwarts™ Castle: Room of Requirement GWP. (While supplies last.)

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- Lego Insiders (what the VIP program is now called) can order 76457 Hogsmeade™ Village – Collectors' Edition early as of 01 September (everyone else needs to wait until 04 September).
- While supplies last, those doing so will also receive the metal Hogsmeade™ Sign GWP.

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So be aware, waiting to make your Harry Potter purchases until the Butterbeer truck build event may cost you the GWPs if they run out of them by then. As the Make and Take event doesn't seem tied to purchases, it might be safer to order what you want on the first and attend the in-store event the following weekend if it works for you.
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Well, friends, we knew it was coming, we just didn't know how it would affect lego fans first. Unfortunately now we have an answer. 😕

International Bricklink and Brickowl orders have been impacted by the US's ending of the De Minimis exemption.

Brief Background: that's a rule that permitted small shipments to go untariffed, as that's more work (thus costing more money) than they traditionally would have generated. In the face of radically increased tariffs, that's no longer necessarily the case, and of course the sole point isn't to generate revenue anyway, but to shape international commerce / policy.

What's happening? As of tomorrow, Friday 29 August, international shipments still arriving (by and large) will start to be charged full tariff rates. In response, many parts of the world presently aren't shipping commercially to the US at all. Frighteningly, some countries have even suspended all mail delivery. The result greatly limits where American shoppers will be able to make purchases. As the inverse isn't also true, and this is non-reciprocal, the flip side of the situation for lego fans outside the US being we may see some reduction in prices, so keep your eyes peeled for sales as businesses compete for a smaller customer pool.

It's not just limited to the small businesses and their shipments, however.
Lego itself has been impacted by the current developments, most notably in the parts on offer in the North American Pick-a-Brick (PaB) stores. Read more... )

For the moment at least, it seems the rest of the world is not affected by this issue, but as we can learn from the situations in Mexico and Canada, we're all interconnected. Nothing happens in a vacuum.
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And we also have the set list for the lego Harry Potter theme for the sets expected to be released in January 20026. Last year the Knight Bus was delayed till March, and we've had other years with two winter release dates, so there's always a chance they don't all hit the shelves at the same time, but this is what we know so far: set names, numbers and possible price points. As they were given in dollars, I imagine we'll see some changes there... 😕Read more... )
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The official lego instagram now has a quickie tour of Hogsmeade and it in turn includes a teaser that we'll be seeing a Knockturn Alley set next July. The timing would indicate it's not part of a future D2C, but their line of smaller Diagon Alley stores.

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Here's a still of the relevant image. Read more... )
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So we have first news of what awaits us during the now annual Back to Hogwarts Special Event lego has for the Harry Potter theme starting every September 1st.

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The event will take place 01 - 07 September 2025, with GWPs (gifts with purchase) on offer while supplies last. Experience shows it's worth deciding what, if anything, you want in advance and acting quickly. Please note: the price thresholds for the GWPs may be off, but I'm not sure if this is the result of tariffs. Take them as ballpark figures, and we'll have to wait for official confirmation. I also think there's a good chance the pound and euro numbers are reversed. We'll know soon enough. Read more... )

If you're considering putting together an order for the GWPs, it's worth noting the Harry Potter BrickHeadz go on sale 01 September, and can be used to meet those thresholds. Even if you aren't an avid BrickHeadz collector, they're always worth a consideration for ebay as many people don't order from the lego store directly, although I'm not sure why.
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Photos! Good ones even! 😆

We have photos of the 2025 GWP (gift with purchase), and it's genuinely better than I was expecting! Lego Harry Potter 40770 Hogwarts Castle: Room of Requirement.

Let's not oversell it. Overall it's a mixed bag, to be sure, as it's in the format of the foldable classrooms which have issues based on their constraints / parameters. There's little way around that with the current 2024+ Hogwarts castle scheme, and folded, it's a bit of a mess. That acknowledged, this little GWP nicely captures the scene where Neville greets the trio in the RoR in Deathly Hallows (DH2), and DH (or HBP) sets are always welcome, and I haven't got a lot of room left to display things anyway. Plus it makes sense in combination with the Hogsmeade D2C set with the Hog's Head (it was that or an RoR with Dumbledore's Army (DA) practice). As a side note, it's largely something people can get in the ballpark of, building it on their own, if they miss this set. It's always nice when lego do that to reduce the FOMO. There are a few stickered pieces (the portrait, for one) that make it hard to directly replace, the adult Mimbulus Mimbletonia (the recolour of the potions bubbles presently only available in the 2025 76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class set, and then there are the hammocks... Still. An acceptable MOC is within reach.

Also, this year is now officially the year of Neville, just saying. At this point, we may be seeing more of him than Harry. To be clear, I don't actually mind that, but I do feel Hermione and the girls haven't been as fairly represented this year. If they were going to push Neville, they needed to tone down the Ron. And where's Ginny been hiding? Read more... )
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So via BrickTap, we now have a GWP rumour, and boy am I glad I gave up trying to guess. Read more... )
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Ha! Pictures! Famous last words about when we'd see the pictures from the set, huh? Photos beneath the fold. Read more... )
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The things we knew about the 2025 lego Harry Potter D2C (direct to customer) exclusive set so far...

76457 Hogsmeade Village
Release date: Sept 1, 2025
3228 pieces | $380-430 USD
(US prices unfortunately subject to fluctuations due to tariffs)

We now have some fairly reliable new leaked information.Read more... )

That's what we know for the moment, rumour is we can expect to see the set officially presented next week. As it's a D2C, we're not likely to see much by way of leaks before then.
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We interrupt the Jane Austen MOC coverage to bring you some (admittedly scant) news about this year's D2C. We knew it was going to be Hogsmeade and had speculated that it would be minifig / playscale as we just had the nanoscale Diagon Alley set, and now we have confirmation on both counts, plus the name, price, and piece count. The 2025 lego Harry Potter theme D2C (Direct to Customer) set 76457 Hogsmeade Village will cost $380 USD (tariffs may yet affect that) and will have contain 3228 bricks. Release date, as we've come to expect, is timed for a 01 September "Back to Hogwarts" event.

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Here's hoping it's as good as 75978 the Diagon Alley D2C was. That set has really stood up to the test of time.
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* credit for the title to u/bunnymeowcat from the Jane Austen subreddit

Thursday the Lego Jane Austen GWP special went live, in honour of the 250th anniversary of her birthday, and I reviewed the first Jane Austen tribute lego Ideas MOC from TJBricks, Barton Cottage from 'Sense and Sensibility'. Today we're going to look at the exterior of the same creator's take on Pemberley from 'Pride and Prejudice', while I introduce you to a shedload of architectural terms you aren't convinced you want to know... 😆 drum roll please

Pemberley Part One.

The first bit of genius here is using material that has entered the public domain. As with (most) of Sherlock Holmes (I recall some eager waiting for the clock to tick down to when Moriarity could be included...), doing this set now means no negotiating for rights in order to build it and no licensing fees, which helps keep the price down. More lego and build for less. Always a good thing, and in the case of Ideas submissions, factors that make it more likely that a project will be made. (Apropos of nothing, might we some day see Shakespeare sets?)

The next bit of genius is how TJBricks has navigated the difficulty of the interior proportions while capturing the façade. I'll point that out in gushing detail, some below and more in the next post, but it really needed singling out in advance as it deserves to be noted.

Again, this MOC has been submitted to lego Ideas, a platform where fans can vote for sets they like and if they reach 10K votes, lego considers them for production. There are no guarantees, but on the other hand registering is quick and free, and supporting worthy projects costs nothing and doesn't commit you to a future purchase, so please feel encouraged to support and spread the word. Read more... )

We'll look at the interior in the next post. Meanwhile, if you have a moment and would care to help support TJBricks' project, you can do so here by voting for their project on the lego Ideas site.
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There's not a lot going on in the world of JKR's Harry Potter lego right now, so I've been exploring lego representations of a few other authors' works, particularly where I feel they might slot in nicely with the lego Wizarding World. Today the Lego Jane Austen GWP special went live, in honour of the 250th anniversary of her birthday. Sticking with the theme, in the coming days I'll be taking a look at two Jane Austen MOCs from TJBricks - Barton Cottage from 'Sense and Sensibility' and Pemberley from 'Pride and Prejudice' - which have been submitted to lego Ideas, a platform where fans can vote for sets they like and if they reach 10K votes, lego considers them for production. Personally I think that's an excellent way to get people to engage and a great way to showcase fan creativity. It's free to register, and you can vote for as many designs as you like, and there's never any obligation to purchase if it does get released, so support away to your heart's content! And even if lego decides not to release the set? There's still a chance fans will - with official lego pieces and everything - via Bricklink. All very cool, even if not always affordable. 😆

One unfortunate drawback to the Ideas projects is they aren't forced to discuss piece counts or keep potential pricing realistic. Another is that lego generally doesn't rework the sets in a significant way, and as a result some of the design choices are more simplistic or, at the other end of the spectrum, senselessly extravagant than they would be were they projects exclusively from lego's eminently capable hands. Some adjustment of expectations is required due to those aspects. Lego is also perfectly aware of the pricing problems, and support of a project increases the chances that some form of it might see the light of day, so don't let minor quibbles keep you from voting for it, especially as lego remains MOCable. Change at will, my lovelies!

Today I'll be reviewing Barton Cottage...Read more... )

As a whole, great job, or I frankly wouldn't bother to niggle. This really gives you a starting point to work with, material to sink your teeth into. Further I'd like to mention the effort they've gone to on social media, reddit, youtube, Jane Austen forums, Ideas subreddits, Classical Lit, Period Dramas, National Trust, etc. interacting with, y'know, people (I know, right?) to promote their work, which is a non-trivial part of launching an Ideas campaign, and something in all honesty I can't see myself ever having the energy to do. (No way, no how. 😐) There's even a little commercial (video) that I'm non-trivially jealous of 😆 that they've made for the Pemberley project, which was ... is there a chef's kiss emoji? There should be. 👩‍🍳💋 Anyway, phenomenal work all around, and I wish them a boatload of success with it, not the least because I want this set, naturally... 😉

So if you have a moment and are so inclined, you can help support them here by voting for their project on the lego Ideas site.
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Hello, my lovelies. It's that time again. They're offering a double VIP / Insider point special later this week, and it's timed to go with a Jane Austen GWP (Gift with Purchase).

From the lego website, from the 19th through the 23rd, earn double points on your purchases at lego.com:

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This summer lego is introducing three different book nooks. One from the Harry Potter theme, one from the Lord of the Rings / Hobbit theme, and the third is a tribute to Sherlock Holmes. All three have a 01 June 2025 release date. Pictures of the LotR set have leaked now, so let's take a look at them, shall we? Read more... )

And that's the three new Book Nooks for you. Which, if any, are you more likely to buy? Did I miss any Easter eggs in the Sherlock Holmes set? And is it too, too frightfully obvious which set I liked best? 😆
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So after my multi-paragraph whinge about the planting in the lego Harry Potter set 76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class from the 2025 summer wave, we're now seeing a preview of a new set in the Wednesday series. And why do I bring it up, you might ask? Also bearing in mind that this is the theme that brought us the adorable gargoyles last year (later used in the 2025 76453 Malfoy Manor), 76784 lego Wednesday Black Dahlia Flower is well worth mentioning in its own right (and certainly in this context) because in addition to a buildable flower (a dahlia, obvs), it includes a mini-greenhouse, also worth mentioning because that greenhouse (in stark contrast to the 2024+ Hogwarts Herbology greenhouse) contains some nice plant builds, certainly for the price. Read more... )
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Part three in our exploration of the official announcement of the lego Harry Potter summer 2025 sets and this autumn's advent calendar. You can see the following sets here beneath the fold in third and final part of this series:

76452 Quality Quidditch Supplies & Ice Cream Parlour
76454 Hogwarts Castle: the Main Tower
76456 Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2025
Read more... )
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Part two in our exploration of the official announcement of the lego Harry Potter summer 2025 sets. You can see the following sets here beneath the fold in part two of this three part series:

76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class
76451 Privet Drive: Aunt Marge's Visit
76450 Book Nook: Hogwarts Express
Read more... )

And that's it for part two. Part three coming up soon.

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