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gingerwitch.livejournal.comW00t! Promobricks has once again dropped a massive news-bombshell and provided us with many of the set names and descriptions from the lego Harry Potter summer 2022 collection. ( Read more... )
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gingerwitch.livejournal.comPromobricks has a lovely new leak for us on the Harry Potter lego sets due this winter, and I'm chuffed already, just from the descriptions alone. 😃 We can expect four new sets, two more of the Hogwarts Moment sets (Divination and Moody's DADA classroom), an extension to the 2021 Hogwarts modular castle system for the Infirmary (!) and a buildable trunk. (And yes, I'm afraid that does indeed confirm what I've been saying: we won't be seeing a return to the popular 2018/20 style.) That last item is a little more difficult to explain than the others - off Promobricks' description, they seem to be struggling, too 😆 - so I think we'll need to wait for pictures on that one to judge. But basically the overall takeaway should be this: lego is evidently fairly serious about the HP line, which is awesome! For one thing we're seeing what is only our second winter wave since the series' reboot in 2018, which even if the sets themselves perhaps aren't quite your cup of tea is great news. (Think of it this way, as long as the series is in production and the more sets there are, the greater the chances of one day seeing that set you'd love to have. So, win! 😃) And in addition to expanding on last year's "gimmick" with the Hogwarts Moment "book" sets, they're giving us a regular set for the first time in a winter wave, and an all new format in the form of the buildable suitcase. Creativity at work! Always a good sign, it's not merely production by rote, and they really do seem willing to try out a bunch of things with this series. So without further ado, on to the leaks... ( Read more... )
And that would be all they've said about the sets at this time. I'll be sure to keep you posted when there's more.
A note as to our source: the promobricks video with all the info. While it's unlikely to be of much interest to you as it's in German, you can still give them an upvote for providing us with this preview, so maybe click through and show them a little love? ❤️
(And a cheery thanks to lego_guyon02 and GF for their respective heads up. Much appreciated.)
And that would be all they've said about the sets at this time. I'll be sure to keep you posted when there's more.
A note as to our source: the promobricks video with all the info. While it's unlikely to be of much interest to you as it's in German, you can still give them an upvote for providing us with this preview, so maybe click through and show them a little love? ❤️
(And a cheery thanks to lego_guyon02 and GF for their respective heads up. Much appreciated.)
The Advent Calendar, Days 16 - 20...
Dec. 20th, 2020 01:20 pmgingerbred.livejournal.com🎄🎁 And here are the next 5 days of this year's Harry Potter advent calendar 75981... (Days 1 - 5, days 6 - 10, and days 11 - 15, if you're looking for them.)
To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 16
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Day 17
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Day 18
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Day 19
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Day 20
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And that's all she wrote for today's instalment. More soon, my dears. Christmas nighs...
To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 16
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Day 17
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Day 18
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Day 19
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Day 20
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And that's all she wrote for today's instalment. More soon, my dears. Christmas nighs...
The Advent Calendar, Days 11 - 15...
Dec. 20th, 2020 01:33 amgingerbred.livejournal.com🎄🎁 The next 5 days of this year's Harry Potter advent calendar 75981... (The previous entry, days 6 - 10 of the calendar can be found here and the first five days are here if you're looking for them.)
To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 11
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Day 12
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Day 13
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Day 14
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Day 15
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And once again that's it for this instalment. More soon, my lovelies...
To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 11
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Day 12
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Day 13
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Day 14
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Day 15
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And once again that's it for this instalment. More soon, my lovelies...
The Advent Calendar, Days 6 - 10...
Dec. 19th, 2020 04:43 pmgingerbred.livejournal.comLJ has sorted the banning with regards to the comm, so we're back! w00t!!! Unfortunately anything that was posted and many comments that required moderation got eaten by the system in the meantime. Sorry about that. Please feel encouraged to try again, as it shouldn't happen anymore. (Also, in the interests of not being spammed, please go ahead and unsubscribe if you weren't too keen on lego... lol And thanks, guys! You are the very best. 😘)
🎄🎁 And so we continue with the next 5 days of this year's Harry Potter advent calendar 75981, and it's shaping up to be a very nice addition to the Clock Tower 75948 set indeed. (The previous five days of the calendar can be found here, if you're looking for them.)
To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 6
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Day 7
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Day 8
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Day 9
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Day 10
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And that's it for this instalment. Stay tuned for more...
🎄🎁 And so we continue with the next 5 days of this year's Harry Potter advent calendar 75981, and it's shaping up to be a very nice addition to the Clock Tower 75948 set indeed. (The previous five days of the calendar can be found here, if you're looking for them.)
To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 6
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Day 7
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Day 8
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Day 9
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Day 10
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And that's it for this instalment. Stay tuned for more...
The Advent Calendar!
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gingerbredrulesWell, I'm not sure if LJ is going to straighten out the banning with regards to the comm. At the moment I might be the only one who can post here, which sort of defeats much of the point of making this a comm... (Issues...) Hopefully we can get this cleared up soon. 😊 (And if somebody would care to try posting, go right ahead. That should help answer if it's possible or not. (Just don't put a lot of effort into it, because I'm betting it fails. You can always delete the post if it doesn't.) ETA: MW was so kind as to test it, and it did in fact fail. 😕 (Please help us, LJ.))
In the meantime, I guess I'll just get started with the advent calendar... 🎄🎁
Goblet of Fire. Harry's, Hermione's and Ron's fourth year, students from rival schools Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive at the castle to compete in the Triwizard Challenge, taking place after a roughly two century long hiatus (for safety concerns) to help commemorate Hogwarts' 1000 year anniversary. The Yule Ball is the highlight of the festivities that year, a formal winter dance for all students fourth year and above.
Clock Tower 75948
The 2020 calendar 75981, centres on the Yule Ball and is a nice compliment to the Clock Tower 75948 set. (Worth noting, the calendar basically retires now. As with all the other advent calendars lego makes, if there are sets left over, obviously you can pick them up later and often cheaper, but no more are in production, so if you want it, get on it, or resign yourself to picking it up off ebay / bricklink / brickowl / etc. (You can sometimes get pretty good deals on auctions of used past years' sets.))
The pictures above is from the inside of the calendar. To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 1
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Day 4
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Day 5
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In the meantime, I guess I'll just get started with the advent calendar... 🎄🎁
Goblet of Fire. Harry's, Hermione's and Ron's fourth year, students from rival schools Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive at the castle to compete in the Triwizard Challenge, taking place after a roughly two century long hiatus (for safety concerns) to help commemorate Hogwarts' 1000 year anniversary. The Yule Ball is the highlight of the festivities that year, a formal winter dance for all students fourth year and above.
Clock Tower 75948
The 2020 calendar 75981, centres on the Yule Ball and is a nice compliment to the Clock Tower 75948 set. (Worth noting, the calendar basically retires now. As with all the other advent calendars lego makes, if there are sets left over, obviously you can pick them up later and often cheaper, but no more are in production, so if you want it, get on it, or resign yourself to picking it up off ebay / bricklink / brickowl / etc. (You can sometimes get pretty good deals on auctions of used past years' sets.))
The pictures above is from the inside of the calendar. To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 1
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Day 2
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Day 3
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Day 4
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Day 5
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gingerwitchThese are all the sets in the current series of Harry Potter lego, arranged approximately chronologically as they occur in the books and films. (Notable exception: the Fantastic Beasts sets are at the end of this list.) Each set is identified by name, set number (linked to its brickset entry), the appropriate films, and the characteristics that make it applicable for a particular book / movie.
( Read more... )
If anyone can recommend any changes to the list, please don't hesitate to comment. If you are looking for the list of retiring sets, go here.
( Read more... )If anyone can recommend any changes to the list, please don't hesitate to comment. If you are looking for the list of retiring sets, go here.
gingerwitchGiven the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales and Christmas shopping, this seems a useful list to cobble together. This is an attempt to list all the sets from the current series of Harry Potter lego, by year of release, with notes as to which sets are officially retired already or should retire soon, the books / movies they represent, and the minifigs included in the sets.
As for anything that hasn't been listed as "retired" or "retiring", I'd still prioritise buying the older sets off your wishlists first. Stonewars.de is the source for the information on which sets will be retiring soon or in 2021, as for the ones marked "RETIRING NOW" they are currentlydisappearing from lego stores around the world, and brickset lists them as no longer available in some countries' online lego stores. Don't panic, often you can find a recently retired set in toy stores near you, but if you want one, you need to act soon so you won't find yourself paying exorbitant prices on the resale market.
The Tasks...
Dec. 10th, 2020 09:04 pmgingerwitchInstagram user AhoyBrickBoy has made a lovely digital render of his MOC of the tasks from Goblet of Fire.
A couple of nice details from task 2: the way the hair seems to "float" (excellent piece choices!) and the way the chains on Hermione and Ron are drawn taut. (I can't quite see how the latter was achieved, to the extent that I asked myself if it was "photographed" upside down. It might be the same mechanism that keeps Harry suspended, however, and simply not more visible from that angle. Either way, I like the result, as well as the idea that a digital set might not be subject to the same restrictions a physical one might. Why *not* display it upside down?) The blue branch pieces (plant leaves 4x3 medium azure) also work a lot better than I expected. (Live and learn, lol.) But if I should happen across a batch, I now see their usefulness... 😉
Not sure which modelling software he's using, but in a perfect world, the "sleeping" faces from the original second task set 4762 Rescue From the Merpeople lend it an extra something if you're trying to recreate it at home. Hermione's face appeared in two minifigs from a total of three sets in 2005 and 2007. Ron's face appeared on one minifig in the same three sets. Caveat: those figs' waking expressions were a bit of a letdown, and I much prefer the current series of minifigs (they've done some great work with them), but it was definitely good for this scene.
A couple of nice details from task 2: the way the hair seems to "float" (excellent piece choices!) and the way the chains on Hermione and Ron are drawn taut. (I can't quite see how the latter was achieved, to the extent that I asked myself if it was "photographed" upside down. It might be the same mechanism that keeps Harry suspended, however, and simply not more visible from that angle. Either way, I like the result, as well as the idea that a digital set might not be subject to the same restrictions a physical one might. Why *not* display it upside down?) The blue branch pieces (plant leaves 4x3 medium azure) also work a lot better than I expected. (Live and learn, lol.) But if I should happen across a batch, I now see their usefulness... 😉
Not sure which modelling software he's using, but in a perfect world, the "sleeping" faces from the original second task set 4762 Rescue From the Merpeople lend it an extra something if you're trying to recreate it at home. Hermione's face appeared in two minifigs from a total of three sets in 2005 and 2007. Ron's face appeared on one minifig in the same three sets. Caveat: those figs' waking expressions were a bit of a letdown, and I much prefer the current series of minifigs (they've done some great work with them), but it was definitely good for this scene.
The Advent Calendar!
Dec. 5th, 2020 05:48 pmgingerbred.livejournal.comWell, I'm not sure if LJ is going to straighten out the banning with regards to the comm. At the moment I might be the only one who can post here, which sort of defeats much of the point of making this a comm... (Issues...) Hopefully we can get this cleared up soon. 😊 (And if somebody would care to try posting, go right ahead. That should help answer if it's possible or not. (Just don't put a lot of effort into it, because I'm betting it fails. You can always delete the post if it doesn't.) ETA: MW was so kind as to test it, and it did in fact fail. 😕 (Please help us, LJ.))
In the meantime, I guess I'll just get started with the advent calendar... 🎄🎁
Goblet of Fire. Harry's, Hermione's and Ron's fourth year, students from rival schools Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive at the castle to compete in the Triwizard Challenge, taking place after a roughly two century long hiatus (for safety concerns) to help commemorate Hogwarts' 1000 year anniversary. The Yule Ball is the highlight of the festivities that year, a formal winter dance for all students fourth year and above.
Clock Tower 75948
The 2020 calendar 75981, centres on the Yule Ball and is a nice compliment to the Clock Tower 75948 set. (Worth noting, the calendar basically retires now. As with all the other advent calendars lego makes, if there are sets left over, obviously you can pick them up later and often cheaper, but no more are in production, so if you want it, get on it, or resign yourself to picking it up off ebay / bricklink / brickowl / etc. (You can sometimes get pretty good deals on auctions of used past years' sets.))
The pictures above is from the inside of the calendar. To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 1
( Read more... )
Day 2
( Read more... )
Day 3
( Read more... )
Day 4
( Read more... )
Day 5
( Read more... )
In the meantime, I guess I'll just get started with the advent calendar... 🎄🎁
Goblet of Fire. Harry's, Hermione's and Ron's fourth year, students from rival schools Beauxbatons and Durmstrang arrive at the castle to compete in the Triwizard Challenge, taking place after a roughly two century long hiatus (for safety concerns) to help commemorate Hogwarts' 1000 year anniversary. The Yule Ball is the highlight of the festivities that year, a formal winter dance for all students fourth year and above.
Clock Tower 75948
The 2020 calendar 75981, centres on the Yule Ball and is a nice compliment to the Clock Tower 75948 set. (Worth noting, the calendar basically retires now. As with all the other advent calendars lego makes, if there are sets left over, obviously you can pick them up later and often cheaper, but no more are in production, so if you want it, get on it, or resign yourself to picking it up off ebay / bricklink / brickowl / etc. (You can sometimes get pretty good deals on auctions of used past years' sets.))
The pictures above is from the inside of the calendar. To play along at home, try to find the door you'd need to open in the picture. The pieces behind the doors are visible below, go ahead and take a guess what they'll build, and you can "unfold" parts of this post to see if you're right. (Note: the folds only work if you haven't clicked through to the post itself.)
Day 1
( Read more... )
Day 2
( Read more... )
Day 3
( Read more... )
Day 4
( Read more... )
Day 5
( Read more... )
gingerwitch.livejournal.comGiven the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales and Christmas shopping, this seems a useful list to cobble together. This is an attempt to list all the sets from the current series of Harry Potter lego, by year of release, with notes as to which sets are officially retired already or should retire soon, the books / movies they represent, and the minifigs included in the sets.
As for anything that hasn't been listed as "retired" or "retiring", I'd still prioritise buying the older sets off your wishlists first. Stonewars.de is the source for the information on which sets will be retiring soon or in 2021, as for the ones marked "RETIRING NOW" they are currentlydisappearing from lego stores around the world, and brickset lists them as no longer available in some countries' online lego stores. Don't panic, often you can find a recently retired set in toy stores near you, but if you want one, you need to act soon so you won't find yourself paying exorbitant prices on the resale market.
The Tasks...
Nov. 26th, 2020 10:14 amgingerwitch.livejournal.comInstagram user AhoyBrickBoy has made a lovely digital render of his MOC of the tasks from Goblet of Fire.
A couple of nice details from task 2: the way the hair seems to "float" (excellent piece choices!) and the way the chains on Hermione and Ron are drawn taut. (I can't quite see how the latter was achieved, to the extent that I asked myself if it was "photographed" upside down. It might be the same mechanism that keeps Harry suspended, however, and simply not more visible from that angle. Either way, I like the result, as well as the idea that a digital set might not be subject to the same restrictions a physical one might. Why *not* display it upside down?) The blue branch pieces (plant leaves 4x3 medium azure) also work a lot better than I expected. (Live and learn, lol.) But if I should happen across a batch, I now see their usefulness... 😉
Not sure which modelling software he's using, but in a perfect world, the "sleeping" faces from the original second task set 4762 Rescue From the Merpeople lend it an extra something if you're trying to recreate it at home. Hermione's face appeared in two minifigs from a total of three sets in 2005 and 2007. Ron's face appeared on one minifig in the same three sets. Caveat: those figs' waking expressions were a bit of a letdown, and I much prefer the current series of minifigs (they've done some great work with them), but it was definitely good for this scene.
A couple of nice details from task 2: the way the hair seems to "float" (excellent piece choices!) and the way the chains on Hermione and Ron are drawn taut. (I can't quite see how the latter was achieved, to the extent that I asked myself if it was "photographed" upside down. It might be the same mechanism that keeps Harry suspended, however, and simply not more visible from that angle. Either way, I like the result, as well as the idea that a digital set might not be subject to the same restrictions a physical one might. Why *not* display it upside down?) The blue branch pieces (plant leaves 4x3 medium azure) also work a lot better than I expected. (Live and learn, lol.) But if I should happen across a batch, I now see their usefulness... 😉
Not sure which modelling software he's using, but in a perfect world, the "sleeping" faces from the original second task set 4762 Rescue From the Merpeople lend it an extra something if you're trying to recreate it at home. Hermione's face appeared in two minifigs from a total of three sets in 2005 and 2007. Ron's face appeared on one minifig in the same three sets. Caveat: those figs' waking expressions were a bit of a letdown, and I much prefer the current series of minifigs (they've done some great work with them), but it was definitely good for this scene.
gingerwitch.livejournal.comThese are all the sets in the current series of Harry Potter lego, arranged approximately chronologically as they occur in the books and films. (Notable exception: the Fantastic Beasts sets are at the end of this list.) Each set is identified by name, set number (linked to its brickset entry), the appropriate films, and the characteristics that make it applicable for a particular book / movie.
( Read more... )
If anyone can recommend any changes to the list, please don't hesitate to comment. If you are looking for the list of retiring sets, go here.
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( Read more... )If anyone can recommend any changes to the list, please don't hesitate to comment. If you are looking for the list of retiring sets, go here.
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