accio brick - the lego harry potter comm

I'm running a touch late for the occasion, but I've designed a digital lego set for milotzi: McGonagall's Quarters. (You can find it over on Mecabricks.) It converts the 76382 Hogwarts Moment: Transfiguration Classroom set into the Gryffindor Head's chambers while keeping the hallmarks of the Moment theme - all builds must be storable in the closed book format.

It's an interesting set of constraints, none of the builds can be wider than 4 studs, and a volume of no more than (roughly) 225 bricks. Unfortunately neither the stickers nor the book covers are in the Mecabricks database, so I've built the cover and simply had to do without the stickers. They'd be used just as they are in the original set.

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Anyway, I was thinking of you, M. Hope you had a nice day. 😘

There's a new DK book announced for 2022:

"Go on a spellbinding visual journey through the Hogwarts Houses!

Delve into the world of the four Hogwarts school houses – Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw – in this enchanting guide featuring recent LEGO® Harry Potter™ sets and minifigures. Learn all about the Sorting Ceremony, when each young witch and wizard is put in the house they naturally belong to.

Find out about the four founders of Hogwarts and the personality traits associated with each house’s students. From Ron Weasley to Draco Malfoy, learn which house your favorite LEGO Harry Potter minifigures are in, and discover fun facts about students, teachers, creatures, and locations.

Explore the school’s magical classrooms, cozy common rooms, and the Great Hall with its house tables. Join students for flying lessons and a game of Quidditch, and see who wins the House Cup."

You can play from home...



More info available at lego. Good luck. 🍀

Lego has announced a UK-wide Magical Mystery Hunt, running November 06-07:

The LEGO Ford Anglia has gone missing can you help to find it?

To celebrate the 20th Anniversary of LEGO® Harry Potter™, come on an enchanting adventure and solve the clues to unveil the secret location of the bewitched LEGO® Ford Anglia™.

All Magical Mystery Hunters who are brave enough to adventure into the realms of the unknown and find the LEGO® Ford Anglia™ can enter a competition to win exclusive tickets to Warner Bros Studios Tour London™, Warner Bros Harry Potter Photographic Exhibition™ and a bundle of all the LEGO® Harry Potter™ prizes!

Simply find a Gold LEGO® Harry Potter™ Statue in London, Edinburgh or Cardiff to start your adventure, and use your phone to solve clues and unlock exclusive content in your city.

OR (!) Search from home and use your ingenuity to solve the clues and unlock a menagerie of exclusive LEGO content along the way. More coming soon.



We also have our first official pictures of the Gryffindor Dorm GWP. Worth noting, all it takes is changing twelve tiles to change the dorm from Gryffindor to one of the others.
2 2x4 tiles (the beds' canopies 87079)
2 2x2 tiles (comforters 3068b)
2 2x4 plates (the beds bases 3020)
1 or 2 2x2 jumpers (carpet 87580)
2 to 4 2x2 triangular tiles (carpet 35787)

Matthew Lewis reenacts 20 of his favourite Harry Potter scenes with lego and he's just as funny as he is cute. "You're looking good, Tom. I mean 'Draco'. Oops, sorry, mate. It's not funny falling from that height, is it? Been there..." 😆

According to Brick Fanatics, the 76391 Hogwarts Icons Collectors' Edition set won't be the last surprise in store for fans as part of the lego Harry Potter 20th anniversary celebration. They report lego will be capping off the anniversary year with "something very special indeed for Harry Potter fans."

How frustratingly vague! 😆 Anyway, speculation is running riot as one might expect... We still haven't seen a golden Draco minifig, which I've always maintained would have made more sense than Hagrid or Professor McGonagall, to say nothing of Quirrell or - if we're fair - Voldemort himself, who hadn't even put in an appearance 20 years ago... 😐 There's some hope that we might eventually see an update to the HP video games (something for the ipad would be lovely, cheers, and more than likely tank my productivity completely lol). Another D2C doesn't seem probable at this date, although it's presumably too late in the year to see another set for sale with retail either... (They have to know what's coming, and when they do, news eventually leaks.) Unfortunately at present no one seems to know anything for sure. I can't help thinking we may discover there's a Draco included with this month's GWP, but I guess we'll have to wait and see...

And we have pix!

Well we finally have pictures of the brand new Gryffindor dorm room set that will be a gift with purchase at the end of the next month (25th October - 7th November), and better yet, purchases that qualify for it can also receive a free Hermione's desk set as well in lego stores. (Or who knows, maybe online too if you're very good at negotiating with customer service like one lady we know and love. (I'm looking at you, E. 😘))



It looks like we're going to get two beds, a school trunk (with a candle and a chocolate frog), plus a frame integrated in the set for displaying our collectible tiles, and possibly four (!) chocolate frog tiles, too? Fingers crossed. (Just in case my enthusiasm isn't coming across, that would be pretty cool. *nods* 😉)

And this is the Hermione polybag that the lego stores will be gifting as well:



Worth noting, she's available with purchases upwards of $40USD. (No word yet on EUR prices.) The polybag comes with one tile. (The polybag also has a window you can see through in order to tell which tile you're getting. Just saying...)

Promobricks has a lovely new leak for us on the Harry Potter lego sets due this winter, and I'm chuffed already, just from the descriptions alone. 😃 We can expect four new sets, two more of the Hogwarts Moment sets (Divination and Moody's DADA classroom), an extension to the 2021 Hogwarts modular castle system for the Infirmary (!) and a buildable trunk. (And yes, I'm afraid that does indeed confirm what I've been saying: we won't be seeing a return to the popular 2018/20 style.) That last item is a little more difficult to explain than the others - off Promobricks' description, they seem to be struggling, too 😆 - so I think we'll need to wait for pictures on that one to judge. But basically the overall takeaway should be this: lego is evidently fairly serious about the HP line, which is awesome! For one thing we're seeing what is only our second winter wave since the series' reboot in 2018, which even if the sets themselves perhaps aren't quite your cup of tea is great news. (Think of it this way, as long as the series is in production and the more sets there are, the greater the chances of one day seeing that set you'd love to have. So, win! 😃) And in addition to expanding on last year's "gimmick" with the Hogwarts Moment "book" sets, they're giving us a regular set for the first time in a winter wave, and an all new format in the form of the buildable suitcase. Creativity at work! Always a good sign, it's not merely production by rote, and they really do seem willing to try out a bunch of things with this series. So without further ado, on to the leaks... ( Read more... )

And that would be all they've said about the sets at this time. I'll be sure to keep you posted when there's more.

A note as to our source: the promobricks video with all the info. While it's unlikely to be of much interest to you as it's in German, you can still give them an upvote for providing us with this preview, so maybe click through and show them a little love? ❤️

(And a cheery thanks to lego_guyon02 and GF for their respective heads up. Much appreciated.)

Pictures of the D2C have leaked; it's the last unknown set in the lego Harry Potter line up this year. It should retail for ca. 250 USD or EUR 250, and is likely to go on sale in September, although there are rumours it might be delayed. It's a collection of iconic HP things, including Hedwig, a potions set, books, a wand, a school scarf (all House colours provided), a Snitch, a chocolate frog, an acceptance letter to Hogwarts and Harry's glasses. The set also comes with three more of the golden anniversary minifigs: Minerva McGonagall, Hagrid and Albus Dumbledore, and a frame for them to make your own minifig-sized chocolate frog cards.

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... and I've put yet another build on mecabricks, Filch's Office.



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