Improved Pix of Malfoy Manor and the Nanoscale Diagon Alley...

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We now have better quality pictures from Smyths of the new lego Harry Potter Winter 2025 wave sets the nanoscale 76444 Diagon Alley: Wizarding Shops and 76453 Malfoy Manor. They're 2750 and 1601 pieces respectively and due out 01 January 2025.


76444 Diagon Alley: Wizarding Shops (18+) from the lego Harry Potter Winter 2025 wave | 0 minifigures, at least 12 nanofigures and a brick built dragon | 2750 pieces | US $199.99 - DE/FR €TBA - UK £TBA | Release: 01 JANUARY 2025

They've changed some of the colour schemes for the shots, legitimate in as much as they weren't consistent in the sets or across the parks. From the look of it, we've got:

LEFT: the Knight Bus, the Leaky Cauldron, one of the pet stores (most likely the Magical Menagerie - see the kitty used as a shop sign), Madam Malkin's, a recoloured Quality Quidditch Supplies, then a couple of shops I can't recognise at that angle.

CENTRE: Gringotts Bank

RIGHT: Broomstix or the Owl Post I'd imagine due to its height, Scribblus, Ollivander's, a blue shop I can't identify (Wiseacre's?), Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Flourish & Blotts, Weasleys' Wizards' Wheezes (complete with Muggle World façade and proper English phone booth.

I'll need an unfolded frontal shot to do better. Or the official description. Either will work, I'm thoroughly unfussed.



76453 Malfoy Manor from the lego Harry Potter Winter 2025 wave | 9 minifigures (and Nagini) | 1601 pieces | US $149.99 - DE/FR €TBA - UK £TBA | Release: 01 JANUARY 2025

Presently my two favourite elements are Harry's hexed face (nice work Hermione) and the brick built peacocks. As the windows in the centre piece are blocked, it will be interesting to see what they've included in the rear / inside of the building. The table and fireplace seem likely (the former especially as Narcissa, Bellatrix and Voldemort have legs instead of skirt pieces, which wouldn't allow them to sit, and that's the most intuitive reason for it), and given the minifigures included, I'd expect a holding cell / dungeon.

And because he's not included in the Malfoy Manor set, a shout out to Harry and the Potters and their classic, "(No one's asking) 'Where's Ron?'" (aka "Where the hell is Ron?"):

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[erexen.livejournal.com]

[erexen.livejournal.com]

Like you, I'm curious about the shops, but probably not curious enough to purchase the nano set. No figures... yet another WWW. meh.

Really excited by the Malfoy Manor, though still kind of surprised by inclusion of Moldyshorts... and missing Griphook to go with the sword? More Snatchers, to add wizards for Diagon Alley body count? Sincerely hoping that the manor is Not as shallow a build as it seems, though they did include the portico after all.

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

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Yeah, definitely not buying it to see the shops. 😆

I'm still on the fence about the Manor. The interior will probably be the deciding factor for me.

I think they needed Mouldyshorts for the table I am pretty sure is included. Right now we have the 4 from the Malfoy / Black family, and without Mouldy, that would be it. Griphook is less important than Dobby (who is kind enough to do his dying elsewhere). One day they'll probably give us a Shell Cottage and include Griphook there. Plus we've had a couple of him, including in an AC and CMF, and he's not such a major character. They have a limited number of figs they can include, we aren't even seeing a Ron here, or a Scabbers / Pettigrew, or an Ollivander... You have to make some cuts and I'm ok with the selection. It lets us do most of the two scenes we have at the Manor (and frankly I'm relieved there's no Snape). I do still hope we'll see a four Death Eater Accessory Pack at some point though

[mywitch.livejournal.com]

[mywitch.livejournal.com]

I hadn't seen that video Where's Ron?! LOL Brilliant, I especially loved the shot of him driving.
Hi Ginger! 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷

my_thestral - check out this video! I know you love Ron :D

[my_thestral]

OMG, this is hilarious! :D Morose Snape on the piano, and Dumbledore banging on drums, LOL — it doesn't get cooler than that! The driving Ron is actually featured in one of my stories, I'll have you know, so the thought had crossed my mind before! :D And I might just have an answer to where Ron is: inside the Malfoy Manor, tucked in the sheets, waiting for a certain dashing blond disaster to come back to keep him company... you know, as soon as he's done cursing the silly Pottah or some such... :D
You've made me laugh.... again, I might say, thanks for that, darling!

[gingerwitch.livejournal.com]

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I think the squid hugging Ron and spinning in circles on the beach was a close second to his driving. Plus he has form, driving Muggle vehicles without a license...

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And that's a very good place for Ron to be. 😊 Coincidentally it turns out Draco's bedroom was included in the Manor.

Snape on the piano is everything. I love it to death. There's a... uh... Dumbledore jumping out of a cake in the Neville's party episode that definitely rivals drumming Dumbles.

If you haven't seen it, there's an even more morose Snape in Snape's diary 📔 which includes an Ode to his buttons...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=IqBoV6jlAII

[my_thestral]

"Coincidentally it turns out Draco's bedroom was included in the Manor." Oups... Erm, I assume this is a kid-friendly set and Ron was safely under the borrowed Invisibility cloak, LOL!
"Button, oh, button, where hath thou fled..." Is it wrong to giggle through such honest misery!? I can't help myself! :D

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> Is it wrong to giggle

I hope not, because I definitely did. 😆 Piano playing, diary keeping, depressing poetry writing Angsty!Snape just works so well. 🥰

Uh yes, kid friendly. Headcanon is a different matter. 😉