The Summer Sets Have Leaked, and They're Beautiful! (Pic Spam!!!)

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So final release photos of the first wave we've known about for a couple of months have finally hit the interwebs, and goodness are they lovely. (Apparently they went live a bit early on the Spanish amazon store, and we have stonewars.de to thank for archiving many of these plus a bunch of Instagram users (special thanks to YetiZombie for collecting the pictures), and basically the net went wild capturing away (I have no idea where the pictures of Fawkes and the buildable figs came from, for example), and here we are. Oodles of eye candy!) But that's not enough, oh no, we've got pix of four more sets from the summer series, both from the 20th anniversary collection and regular edition, and it's safe to say the Harry Potter / Wizarding World line has received a boatload of love. Lego is trying some new things and a decent variety of builds, and I'll be eager to see what sticks moving forward.

There's so much to absorb, I'm highlighting the very new stuff in red. Most of the pics are available in larger form if you click on them.

We're getting the first peek at the new "collectible" Chocolate Frog cards, and I think it's a lovely idea! In much the same way they're including random tiles in the Vidiyo series (I'll do a report on that in the near future) we'll find a few "cards" in a couple of the sets, so far four in the Hogsmeade set, and six in the Chamber of Secrets set. More to follow? We'll have to wait and see.

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ETA: The sets have gone live for preorder a good two weeks earlier than expected on the German lego.com site!

That's presumably the case in other countries as well, so check your local S@H (Shop at Home -> lego.com). (Accordingly, I'll upload better pictures later, but it takes a while. Done.) If you are thinking of pre-ordering, would you consider using the affiliate links at stonewars for all the amazing work they do for the lego community? You'll probably need to change the store's country, but the links should still work. (And in case it needs saying, no, I don't earn a cent off advertising here or there, but I do appreciate people who contribute to the HP lego fan community and like to support them. ❤️)

There are double VIP points in the S@H through the 20th of this month. Be sure to ask if that applies to pre-orders as well.