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gingerwitch.livejournal.comJust in time for the new school year, lego has released the new D2C (direct to customer) Hogwarts Express, and it's a cracker. It's one of the last sets Marcos Bessa has designed for the theme (the other being the Harry Potter 2022 Advent Calendar), and the most expensive the line has ever seen. Technically it's also the widest / longest set in the theme, but as that's almost definitely a design choice driven in part by marketing, I'm somewhat cynically going to (mostly) overlook it. In a bit of a departure, it's only "sort of" minifig scale, which is to say the minifigs fit in there quite nicely, but with a good deal more room than we're (they're?) accustomed to. Aside from width, it's also a fair bit larger than the Hogwarts Expresses we're used to (boy is it ever!) and doesn't fit on the standard track pieces. In fact, that's enough of a design issue that the tracks for this massive display set are brick built.
Brickset has put the 2018 and 2022 sets side by side for comparison. Wow.
The engine, tender and one carriage stand in front of a section of Platform 9 and 3/4, with four scenes from different years / books / movies re-created throughout the model. There are four quotes to accompany those scenes, three light bricks to illuminate them (in a lego first) and a massive ticket for the Express.
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Bottom line: this is a beautiful set, if not for everyone, but that's alright; the price tag alone would have seen to that. It's not a bad thing to design for a more diverse set of customers, it can only strengthen the theme. If it's not the set you were hoping for, no worries, experiments like this only go to show they're very likely to get to it eventually. Anything is possible, just have some faith. Luckily for us, this is shaping up to be a marathon and not a sprint. All in all from this fan's perspective, a very welcome addition to the lego Harry Potter theme's product line. Well done! Keep up the good work.
Brickset has put the 2018 and 2022 sets side by side for comparison. Wow.
The engine, tender and one carriage stand in front of a section of Platform 9 and 3/4, with four scenes from different years / books / movies re-created throughout the model. There are four quotes to accompany those scenes, three light bricks to illuminate them (in a lego first) and a massive ticket for the Express.
( Read more... )Bottom line: this is a beautiful set, if not for everyone, but that's alright; the price tag alone would have seen to that. It's not a bad thing to design for a more diverse set of customers, it can only strengthen the theme. If it's not the set you were hoping for, no worries, experiments like this only go to show they're very likely to get to it eventually. Anything is possible, just have some faith. Luckily for us, this is shaping up to be a marathon and not a sprint. All in all from this fan's perspective, a very welcome addition to the lego Harry Potter theme's product line. Well done! Keep up the good work.