More leaks! Boxes! Aragog! Beaky! Mandrake! Great Hall!

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So we have leaked pictures of the boxes, which of course means they aren't great. Let that guide your decision to view beneath the fold or not. One of the things its sufficient to provide us with, however, are the names of the thus far unidentified students in the Great Hall. (Hint that means, yes, they are named characters.) If that's sufficient to entice you...


There's not much new to see by placing the Mandrake in its proper setting, but the artwork is nice.

76433 Buildable Mandrake - 579 pieces (ca. $60 - $70). Chamber of Secrets




Beaky's box art gives us our first peek at the rest of the set. We're getting two buildable pumpkins, a rock wall formation (which probably should have been more irregular, but I do like the way they did the mortar on it), and a buildable carrion covid, which at first glance looks nicely done.

76427 Buildable Buckbeak - 723 pieces ($60). Prisoner of Azkaban.




Aragog's box art is the only look we've had at the set so far, and we're getting a stonking good spider(!), Harry and Ron and another of those little islands of the Forbidden Forest (with what might be a glow in the dark spider web) that will link with the winter 2024 wave's Forbidden Forest set (with Hermione and Ron) and this year's polybag with Draco and an owl.

76434 Aragog in the Forbidden Forest - 195 pieces (ca. $15 - $20). Chamber of Secrets.




And finally... the front view of the new Great Hall set. WooHoo! As expected, the unnamed professor is Vector, and the unnamed students are Leanne (Katie Bell's friend) from Hufflepuff, Terry Boot from Ravenclaw (who looks a bit too much like Seamus for my taste), and Daphne Greengrass from Slytherin. That last one is kind of interesting, as she remains unidentified in the films and, iirc, undescribed in the books. There had been a picture of a blonde "ice queen" from Slytherin with reasonably straight hair that fandom had at one point identified as Tracey, that has since been edited out of the wikis, perhaps because of an HP game I didn't play, and they've gone back and forth on descriptions of Daphne. Personally I'm stuck at a headcannon from previous iterations, but I'm very pleased to see Daphne make an appearance nevertheless. Leanne, too, because I wasn't sure we'd ever get her, and I'm hoping for an older version of her and that Hogsmeade bridge and the Cursed necklace with poor Katie.

76435 Great Hall at Hogwarts - 1732 pieces ($200 - $220). Philosopher's Stone.



Thanks to @cmf6169_leaks from IG who found the pix, except for Aragog which they got from the ever reliable Brick Clicker. Much appreciated!

Up next, this year's Christmas book...

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[erexen.livejournal.com]

Is that box in German or Dutch? Fat Friar? Ok, THAT Aragog may be worth building, all the others pretty much sucked for me. Excellent that we have more students, though yeah, odd for Daphne... You gave me head canon.

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German, she says confidently, although I'm going off a measly three or four words I can read. Bergtroll (mountain troll), Hermine (weird that she was the only one to get renamed), and "der fette..." (probably Mönch; the fat...) are German.

Sometimes Dutch is the same, and as I don't know what the Dutch for any of that is, who knows, maybe it's Dutch, too. (I'm still betting not.) If you speak English and German and forget you can't speak Dutch, it's surprising how much you can actually understand.

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You see what I meant about the Great Hall set being plonked down on grass. You can see where the Boathouse is supposed to attach, except there's no water. Huh.