accio brick - the lego harry potter comm

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
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So there's been a crackdown on the individuals leaking the photographic material for the coming sets. Personally, I think it generates buzz, and that's a good thing, the dribs and drabs that keep us hanging on, ever eager for the next crumb, but obviously that's lego's call. One such individual, cmf-wotsit, has developed a workaround, which is sketching the new sets. We've now had confirmation via Fateful that the sketches line up with the pics they've seen for the Hogwarts Express Bookends, and it seems worth posting the latest sketch for 76448 Dumbledore’s Phoenix (previously $19.99, I'd expect it to go for $23 USD off of recent information about pricing).

We had two likely choices for this set, a small buildable creature or Dumbledore's actual Office (probably the scene where Fawkes helps Dumbles escape, or maybe the one where he regenerates). It looks like we now know which of the two it's going to be. Spoilers beneath the fold. ( Read more... )

So in this winter's lego Harry Potter winter 2024 wave, we got a cute little Ford Anglia set (lego 76424 Flying Ford Anglia - 165 pieces $15 | 15 EUR | £13). And as part of this summer's lego Harry Potter summer 2024 wave, we're getting a suitably terrifying Aragog set (76434 Aragog in the Forbidden Forest - 195 pieces $20 | 20 EUR | £18). While I love that they're actually producing small sets for the theme that can make a nice little present without breaking the bank, I have to ask: why didn't we get the first ever battered Ford Anglia from the scene with Aragog? All told, there have been 5 regular and one microscale Ford Anglias in sets in the 23 years of lego Harry Potter sets, and not one of them has been the mangled version we see at the end of CoS. (And that's not counting the nanoscale Ford Anglia builds in 2023's lego 76419 Hogwarts Castle and Grounds, 2022's 76404 lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar, and 2018's lego 71043 nanoscale Hogwarts Castle.) Why not? In fact, there are so few pieces required to make the change, I'd really like to know why they didn't include the pieces for both versions. If you're doing it from the outset, it's so much cheaper, and it would have barely dented the budget. Make it a dollar | Euro | pound more if that's what it takes, but they'd be giving us two builds for the price.

As this is a MOC (My Own Creation), there are certain considerations to make it more successful, and I'll explain those in more detail beneath the fold. ( Read more... )