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And it looks like 10 of the lego Harry Potter sets will now also have double Insider points and five sets are on sale as part of the Back to Hogwarts Event!

As of midnight in Europe and Australia, the same five sets are showing as reduced in price 10 sets are showing with double points, so I'm guessing they'll do the same for the US and Canada and probably South America, too.( Read more... )

In light of recent developments, I figured you could use a bit of positivity, so... Lego has announced a Harry Potter In-store Build for the Harry Potter theme during the Back to Hogwarts week. At participating Lego Stores (for clarification, that's actual brick and mortar Lego Stores and not just a store selling lego or even the online shop), while supplies last, you can build a Butterbeer sales cart, and frankly it's pretty cute. ( Read more... )

Again, check your local store's page to see if they're participating or making changes.

Worth considering:
The Back to Hogwarts Event begins tomorrow 01 September.
(US link above or Canadian link)

- Purchases at or above $40 get this year's Harry Potter lego Polybag: 30706 Quidditch Lesson as a GWP. (While supplies last.)



- Purchases at or above $130 additionally get 40770 Hogwarts™ Castle: Room of Requirement GWP. (While supplies last.)



- Lego Insiders (what the VIP program is now called) can order 76457 Hogsmeade™ Village – Collectors' Edition early as of 01 September (everyone else needs to wait until 04 September).
- While supplies last, those doing so will also receive the metal Hogsmeade™ Sign GWP.



So be aware, waiting to make your Harry Potter purchases until the Butterbeer truck build event may cost you the GWPs if they run out of them by then. As the Make and Take event doesn't seem tied to purchases, it might be safer to order what you want on the first and attend the in-store event the following weekend if it works for you.

The official lego instagram now has a quickie tour of Hogsmeade and it in turn includes a teaser that we'll be seeing a Knockturn Alley set next July. The timing would indicate it's not part of a future D2C, but their line of smaller Diagon Alley stores.

https://instagram.com/p/DNQZy-siTag

Here's a still of the relevant image. ( Read more... )

Photos! Good ones even! 😆

We have photos of the 2025 GWP (gift with purchase), and it's genuinely better than I was expecting! Lego Harry Potter 40770 Hogwarts Castle: Room of Requirement.

Let's not oversell it. Overall it's a mixed bag, to be sure, as it's in the format of the foldable classrooms which have issues based on their constraints / parameters. There's little way around that with the current 2024+ Hogwarts castle scheme, and folded, it's a bit of a mess. That acknowledged, this little GWP nicely captures the scene where Neville greets the trio in the RoR in Deathly Hallows (DH2), and DH (or HBP) sets are always welcome, and I haven't got a lot of room left to display things anyway. Plus it makes sense in combination with the Hogsmeade D2C set with the Hog's Head (it was that or an RoR with Dumbledore's Army (DA) practice). As a side note, it's largely something people can get in the ballpark of, building it on their own, if they miss this set. It's always nice when lego do that to reduce the FOMO. There are a few stickered pieces (the portrait, for one) that make it hard to directly replace, the adult Mimbulus Mimbletonia (the recolour of the potions bubbles presently only available in the 2025 76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class set, and then there are the hammocks... Still. An acceptable MOC is within reach.

Also, this year is now officially the year of Neville, just saying. At this point, we may be seeing more of him than Harry. To be clear, I don't actually mind that, but I do feel Hermione and the girls haven't been as fairly represented this year. If they were going to push Neville, they needed to tone down the Ron. And where's Ginny been hiding? ( Read more... )

Ha! Pictures! Famous last words about when we'd see the pictures from the set, huh? Photos beneath the fold. ( Read more... )

We interrupt the Jane Austen MOC coverage to bring you some (admittedly scant) news about this year's D2C. We knew it was going to be Hogsmeade and had speculated that it would be minifig / playscale as we just had the nanoscale Diagon Alley set, and now we have confirmation on both counts, plus the name, price, and piece count. The 2025 lego Harry Potter theme D2C (Direct to Customer) set 76457 Hogsmeade Village will cost $380 USD (tariffs may yet affect that) and will have contain 3228 bricks. Release date, as we've come to expect, is timed for a 01 September "Back to Hogwarts" event.



Here's hoping it's as good as 75978 the Diagon Alley D2C was. That set has really stood up to the test of time.

This summer lego is introducing three different book nooks. One from the Harry Potter theme, one from the Lord of the Rings / Hobbit theme, and the third is a tribute to Sherlock Holmes. All three have a 01 June 2025 release date. Pictures of the LotR set have leaked now, so let's take a look at them, shall we? ( Read more... )

And that's the three new Book Nooks for you. Which, if any, are you more likely to buy? Did I miss any Easter eggs in the Sherlock Holmes set? And is it too, too frightfully obvious which set I liked best? 😆

Part three in our exploration of the official announcement of the lego Harry Potter summer 2025 sets and this autumn's advent calendar. You can see the following sets here beneath the fold in third and final part of this series:

76452 Quality Quidditch Supplies & Ice Cream Parlour
76454 Hogwarts Castle: the Main Tower
76456 Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2025
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A preview of the remaining two instalments in our exploration of the official announcement of the lego Harry Potter summer 2025 sets. You can get a brief peek at the following sets here beneath the fold:

76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class
76451 Privet Drive: Aunt Marge's Visit
76450 Book Nook: Hogwarts Express

76452 Quality Quidditch Supplies & Ice Cream Parlour
76454 Hogwarts Castle: the Main Tower
76456 Harry Potter Advent Calendar 2025
( Read more... )

Welp.

Everyone gets Crimbo jumpers!

Honestly that's about the extent of my positivity here. 😕 It's a return to the nanoscale or buildable things that you really can't do much with except maybe stick them on your tree and... Why???? What were they thinking? In past years, they've given us some prints we could use for our builds to upgrade stickers or just things that were missing altogether... and instead here we get a completely useless buildable microscale creature or a magical thing. Yay. 😐 For something that has been my favourite set of the year for years now, this is such a disappointment, so much so I don't think I'll buy one new. Anyway, if that buildup has made you curious and you want to spoil yourself, you'll find a pic beneath the fold. ( Read more... )