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acciobrickAnd now we have pictures of the final two entries for the lego Harry Potter 2025 Winter Wave:
LEGO Harry Potter Set 76446 - Knight Bus Adventure (8+) | 4 minifigures and Padfoot (Harry, Sleeping Witch, Ernie, Stan and Padfoot) | 499 pieces | US $50 - DE/FR €TBA - UK £TBA | Release: MARCH 2025. Picture courtesy of LuckyBricks Steckstein Experten.
So here's the thing about the Knight Bus set... Padfoot, plus a minimalistic park bench and street light don't justify the price increase from 2019's 75957 The Knight Bus, nor the roughly 100 brick increase to the piece count. Further, its release was slated for January 2025, and it's now been recalled and pushed back to March. Why? It's a vehicle. As people are quick to point out, it doesn't even look very different from the last version (acceptable in any event as that'll be six years between sets), but why is there the jump in price, and what was it that caused them to push the release back? Lego knocks out excellent vehicles in their sleep, so why the recall?
Well if you look at the side of the bus, there's a light grey "button" that extends out a bit from the bus. Again, why? Misprints they bring to market anyway and issue new stickers for. So some of us have speculated that the release date push back may be down to structural problems with the design, that it might not hold up to a pesky six year-old beaning his poor sister with the bus (oddly specific, gw?? hmm...), and that wouldn't make sense if it were just a regular bus, but it might make sense if there were a mechanism to shrink the bus together as in the film.
Even if that's not the button's function, it's highly likely it's there to cause some action or another, and that seems a more likely cause for the delay than that they'd have suddenly forgotten how to build a bus.
It also looks like we have a new Daily prophet newspaper announcing Sirius Black's escape from Azkaban. Woohoo! On the other hand we seem to have lost the Shrunken Head. 😕
And now the set we've been waiting for, the latest addition to the castle, LEGO Harry Potter Set 76447 - Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lessons (9+) | 7 minifigures (Hooch, McGonagall, ? (probably Oliver Wood), Harry, Draco, Neville and the statue that catches him) | 651 pieces | ca. US $80 - DE/FR €TBA - UK £TBA | Release: 01 JANUARY 2025. Pictures courtesy of JB Spielwaren.
The good news, it folds up to a small footprint, and we now know where the Charms set is intended to go. We seem to have a very barebones office for Professor McGonagall to watch Harry chasing the Remembrall. When I think about how well Professor Snape's office was done in the 2018 Whomping Willow set... This is a true disappointment, especially as there are a couple of scenes that take place there over the years. (Have a biscuit, Potter.) Even a couple of stickers could have done wonders. There's also a trophy room, a play feature to send poor Neville flying (*snerk*) and a couple of places to attach flying brooms. And finally the set comes with a Quidditch equipment room and an incredibly meagre Transfiguration classroom that folds open like the Hufflepuff Common Room or the Troll's deconstructed lavatory, only smaller.
This is of course the down side to the current castle system, they don't seem to be willing to sell sets with the slots for the rooms empty, so when you buy new rooms, the ones the set comes with sit... around. They also quite evidently haven't the same format from one set to the next, which means the Potions Class won't fit here instead, you're forced to purchase Charms. At least we get confirmation as to the foldability of the Charms set, but what else would the hinges have been for?
LEGO Harry Potter Set 76446 - Knight Bus Adventure (8+) | 4 minifigures and Padfoot (Harry, Sleeping Witch, Ernie, Stan and Padfoot) | 499 pieces | US $50 - DE/FR €TBA - UK £TBA | Release: MARCH 2025. Picture courtesy of LuckyBricks Steckstein Experten.
So here's the thing about the Knight Bus set... Padfoot, plus a minimalistic park bench and street light don't justify the price increase from 2019's 75957 The Knight Bus, nor the roughly 100 brick increase to the piece count. Further, its release was slated for January 2025, and it's now been recalled and pushed back to March. Why? It's a vehicle. As people are quick to point out, it doesn't even look very different from the last version (acceptable in any event as that'll be six years between sets), but why is there the jump in price, and what was it that caused them to push the release back? Lego knocks out excellent vehicles in their sleep, so why the recall?
Well if you look at the side of the bus, there's a light grey "button" that extends out a bit from the bus. Again, why? Misprints they bring to market anyway and issue new stickers for. So some of us have speculated that the release date push back may be down to structural problems with the design, that it might not hold up to a pesky six year-old beaning his poor sister with the bus (oddly specific, gw?? hmm...), and that wouldn't make sense if it were just a regular bus, but it might make sense if there were a mechanism to shrink the bus together as in the film.
Even if that's not the button's function, it's highly likely it's there to cause some action or another, and that seems a more likely cause for the delay than that they'd have suddenly forgotten how to build a bus.
It also looks like we have a new Daily prophet newspaper announcing Sirius Black's escape from Azkaban. Woohoo! On the other hand we seem to have lost the Shrunken Head. 😕
And now the set we've been waiting for, the latest addition to the castle, LEGO Harry Potter Set 76447 - Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lessons (9+) | 7 minifigures (Hooch, McGonagall, ? (probably Oliver Wood), Harry, Draco, Neville and the statue that catches him) | 651 pieces | ca. US $80 - DE/FR €TBA - UK £TBA | Release: 01 JANUARY 2025. Pictures courtesy of JB Spielwaren.
The good news, it folds up to a small footprint, and we now know where the Charms set is intended to go. We seem to have a very barebones office for Professor McGonagall to watch Harry chasing the Remembrall. When I think about how well Professor Snape's office was done in the 2018 Whomping Willow set... This is a true disappointment, especially as there are a couple of scenes that take place there over the years. (Have a biscuit, Potter.) Even a couple of stickers could have done wonders. There's also a trophy room, a play feature to send poor Neville flying (*snerk*) and a couple of places to attach flying brooms. And finally the set comes with a Quidditch equipment room and an incredibly meagre Transfiguration classroom that folds open like the Hufflepuff Common Room or the Troll's deconstructed lavatory, only smaller.
This is of course the down side to the current castle system, they don't seem to be willing to sell sets with the slots for the rooms empty, so when you buy new rooms, the ones the set comes with sit... around. They also quite evidently haven't the same format from one set to the next, which means the Potions Class won't fit here instead, you're forced to purchase Charms. At least we get confirmation as to the foldability of the Charms set, but what else would the hinges have been for?
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Date: 2024-12-03 10:35 am (UTC)