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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... )

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. ( Read more... )

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?"):

And the leaking season has begun! We have first pictures of what appear to be the Nanoscale Diagon Alley and the Malfoy Manor sets... Pictures and set info below the fold. ( Read more... )

I'll keep you posted when we know more.

And we have them! Set names and rudimentary descriptions of the Lego Harry Potter theme's winter 2024 wave! It's largely remakes / reimaginings, which this far into an evergreen theme with minimal new source material was to be expected. Fair dinkum. I do think they've missed a trick or two by not exploring scenes they haven't visited before, but it sounds like they have some ideas to keep things interesting, so let's take a closer look... ( Read more... )

And we have some news from a very reliable leaker on this year's lego Harry Potter theme gift with purchase (GWP). Open the fold for more... ( Read more... )

As previously mentioned, we're getting three Brickheadz sets in the lego Harry Potter theme this summer: ( Read more... )

We've seen Dobby and the Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes pix already, now we've got a peek for you at the remaining four sets. I'm still expecting the full reveal sometime today, because you don't release the first ever Battle of Hogwarts set the week of the 25th anniversary of the BoH without somehow reflecting that fact, darn it. (Or if you do, you need fire your marketing peeps and come speak to Ginger, just saying.)( Read more... )

We're not expecting to see any official news on the summer sets until May, and as any good fan knows, 02 May 2023 is the canonical 25th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, so I'm hoping for a nice promotional event. (lego, are you listening?) In fact, it fits so nicely, I'll be seriously disappointed if they don't do it. Seriously, they do a "May the 4th be with you" event every year for the Star Wars fans, so I want to see some love for the Harry Potter fandom, too. Full stop. That's me, greedy, needy and oh so demanding. 😉

Official plans aside, promobricks (PB) had a German podcast on this for Easter, eurobricks' bRICKbRAT provided the missing set names, and yesterday the English promobricks (PBeng) video channel updated with the new info, and appearing more or less at the same time, an article on the German StoneWars (SW) site, with an assist from Brick_Clicker, added still more details. Unfortunately there are a few discrepancies between the versions, so I'll try to highlight them. ( Read more... )

And that's all the news on the sets we're expecting in the near(ish) future.

As already mentioned, lego has published pictures of the six Harry Potter lego sets from the 1st half year of 2023. I've presented the first four House Banner sets here. The remaining two are slightly larger, more standard, non-gimmick sets of the Triwizard Tournament's Second Task and the Room of Hidden Things version of the Room of Requirement from the Battle of Hogwarts. ( Read more... )

So, fangirling took place, because I'm me and fundamentally can't help it, and MicMacPadWac took another crack at it and redesigned the build as what it might look like if it were a Hogwarts Moments set, and now the world has this, which is too cool for words:



Contrasting it with the original SEC,



we see the Moments version has gained in height and shortened in both the width of the central piece (from 10 to 4 studs) and the sides, but it's a strong contender as set design goes. (One guess as to what I'll be doing with the extra pieces from that Potions set I ordered last week. 😆) Headcanon: they wouldn't need the ladder at all (what are wands for?), except Narcissa is too nearsighted to read the titles on the upper shelves and too vain to wear specs. 😉



I think I'm going to try to take a shot at widening the set while attempting to keep the book format, and perhaps there'll be room for those armchairs while I'm about it (to say nothing of the Caol Ila...😉).