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gingerwitch.livejournal.comHa! Pictures! Famous last words about when we'd see the pictures from the set, huh? Photos beneath the fold. ( Read more... )
gingerwitch.livejournal.com76457 Hogsmeade Village Info Leaks
Aug. 7th, 2025 04:42 amgingerwitch.livejournal.comThe things we knew about the 2025 lego Harry Potter D2C (direct to customer) exclusive set so far...
76457 Hogsmeade Village
Release date: Sept 1, 2025
3228 pieces | $380-430 USD
(US prices unfortunately subject to fluctuations due to tariffs)
We now have some fairly reliable new leaked information.( Read more... )
That's what we know for the moment, rumour is we can expect to see the set officially presented next week. As it's a D2C, we're not likely to see much by way of leaks before then.
76457 Hogsmeade Village
Release date: Sept 1, 2025
3228 pieces | $380-430 USD
(US prices unfortunately subject to fluctuations due to tariffs)
We now have some fairly reliable new leaked information.( Read more... )
That's what we know for the moment, rumour is we can expect to see the set officially presented next week. As it's a D2C, we're not likely to see much by way of leaks before then.
The new Diagon Alley set...
May. 18th, 2024 08:04 pmgingerwitch.livejournal.comAnd now I've completed the provisional model of the new Diagon Alley set on Mecabricks. It's a cute build. 76439 Lego Harry Potter Diagon Alley: Ollivanders™ & Madam Malkin's Robes and once yet again, they've changed the naming conventions in contrast to last year's set, eliminating the 'Diagon Alley' bit and including the second shop in the official name. No idea why, they're just making my OCD tendencies go bonkers. (Actually, I do have an idea why, and it's because the main stores are included in the D2C 75978 Diagon Alley set, so they're undoubtably trying to boost visibility for the 'hook' sets in the Diagon Alley-lite series, but that still doesn't soothe my desire to have it all nicely match. Marketing peeps, you know this is just going to cause the tidy little spreadsheet of sets to fail, right? feh) ( Read more... )
Weasley's Wizard Wheezes! It's official!
May. 1st, 2023 05:50 pmgingerwitch.livejournal.comProbably in response to the leaked WWW photos, we now have an official reveal of 76422 Diagon Alley: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes $89.99 / £84.99 / 84.99 EUR | 834 pieces (8+) | 7 minifigs. (HBP). Pictures below the fold. ( Read more... )
And that's it. I remain optimistic we'll see the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts honoured tomorrow with the reveal of at least the eponymous set. We shall see. I'll keep you owl posted.
And that's it. I remain optimistic we'll see the 25th anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts honoured tomorrow with the reveal of at least the eponymous set. We shall see. I'll keep you owl posted.
gingerwitch.livejournal.com76422 Weasleys Wizard Wheezes $89.99 | 834 pieces (8+) | 7 minifigs! (HBP) We now have a soft focus shot of the set, and some answers to the question of what we saw in the super fuzzy picture of the summer line-up that I'm attaching below. Spoil yourself at your own discretion.( Read more... )
gingerwitch.livejournal.comLego has posted pictures of 2023's 1st half year's sets on the S@H due March 1st, 2023, and they're... interesting.
The 76420 Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake (the Second Task) is more successful than I could have hoped and feels like a design triumph at the price point. Well done! The 76413 Hogwarts™: Room of Requirement (the Room of Hidden Things) is again in the 2021+ modular style, but continues to improve on 2022's trend towards bettering the exteriors of the (logically compromised) modular style. It's fairly satisfying as a castle addition on its own, which for the modular style is high praise, and as in Dumbledore's Office, it also folds open, making much better use of its footprint than the original 2021 modular editions did. And finally the four House Banner sets representing each of the House Common Rooms are something of the messy collage I'd feared. This time they've done a more satisfying job with the minifigs, however, (Hufflepuffs represent!) giving us a robe, cardigan and Quidditch jumper for each of the Houses and a better variety of figs than usual, and I love the little Grindylow. ❤️
Pic spam of the Banner sets follows. I'll be posting the other two sets later in the day... ( Read more... )
And that's it for now. The other two will follow later.
The 76420 Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake (the Second Task) is more successful than I could have hoped and feels like a design triumph at the price point. Well done! The 76413 Hogwarts™: Room of Requirement (the Room of Hidden Things) is again in the 2021+ modular style, but continues to improve on 2022's trend towards bettering the exteriors of the (logically compromised) modular style. It's fairly satisfying as a castle addition on its own, which for the modular style is high praise, and as in Dumbledore's Office, it also folds open, making much better use of its footprint than the original 2021 modular editions did. And finally the four House Banner sets representing each of the House Common Rooms are something of the messy collage I'd feared. This time they've done a more satisfying job with the minifigs, however, (Hufflepuffs represent!) giving us a robe, cardigan and Quidditch jumper for each of the Houses and a better variety of figs than usual, and I love the little Grindylow. ❤️
Pic spam of the Banner sets follows. I'll be posting the other two sets later in the day... ( Read more... )
And that's it for now. The other two will follow later.
gingerwitch.livejournal.comJust in time for the new school year, lego has released the new D2C (direct to customer) Hogwarts Express, and it's a cracker. It's one of the last sets Marcos Bessa has designed for the theme (the other being the Harry Potter 2022 Advent Calendar), and the most expensive the line has ever seen. Technically it's also the widest / longest set in the theme, but as that's almost definitely a design choice driven in part by marketing, I'm somewhat cynically going to (mostly) overlook it. In a bit of a departure, it's only "sort of" minifig scale, which is to say the minifigs fit in there quite nicely, but with a good deal more room than we're (they're?) accustomed to. Aside from width, it's also a fair bit larger than the Hogwarts Expresses we're used to (boy is it ever!) and doesn't fit on the standard track pieces. In fact, that's enough of a design issue that the tracks for this massive display set are brick built.
Brickset has put the 2018 and 2022 sets side by side for comparison. Wow.
The engine, tender and one carriage stand in front of a section of Platform 9 and 3/4, with four scenes from different years / books / movies re-created throughout the model. There are four quotes to accompany those scenes, three light bricks to illuminate them (in a lego first) and a massive ticket for the Express.
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Bottom line: this is a beautiful set, if not for everyone, but that's alright; the price tag alone would have seen to that. It's not a bad thing to design for a more diverse set of customers, it can only strengthen the theme. If it's not the set you were hoping for, no worries, experiments like this only go to show they're very likely to get to it eventually. Anything is possible, just have some faith. Luckily for us, this is shaping up to be a marathon and not a sprint. All in all from this fan's perspective, a very welcome addition to the lego Harry Potter theme's product line. Well done! Keep up the good work.
Brickset has put the 2018 and 2022 sets side by side for comparison. Wow.
The engine, tender and one carriage stand in front of a section of Platform 9 and 3/4, with four scenes from different years / books / movies re-created throughout the model. There are four quotes to accompany those scenes, three light bricks to illuminate them (in a lego first) and a massive ticket for the Express.
( Read more... )Bottom line: this is a beautiful set, if not for everyone, but that's alright; the price tag alone would have seen to that. It's not a bad thing to design for a more diverse set of customers, it can only strengthen the theme. If it's not the set you were hoping for, no worries, experiments like this only go to show they're very likely to get to it eventually. Anything is possible, just have some faith. Luckily for us, this is shaping up to be a marathon and not a sprint. All in all from this fan's perspective, a very welcome addition to the lego Harry Potter theme's product line. Well done! Keep up the good work.
LEGO 76405 Hogwarts Express
Jun. 4th, 2022 04:51 pmgingerwitch.livejournal.comNew Harry Potter collector's model for 500 euros to be released in autumn!
Some highlights from the promobricks article by Max Börnicke.
Max reports that the rumours are true, later this year lego will release 76405 Hogwarts Express, a collector's edition version of the Wizarding World's iconic train to Hogwarts. It'll run a gobsmacking cost of almost 500 EUR here, but there's a selection of exclusive minifigures, with 20 figs in total, and the 9 3/4 train station included to soften the blow. Promobricks has kindly compiled all the details for us... ( Read more... )
Release slated for September 2022.
Some highlights from the promobricks article by Max Börnicke.
Max reports that the rumours are true, later this year lego will release 76405 Hogwarts Express, a collector's edition version of the Wizarding World's iconic train to Hogwarts. It'll run a gobsmacking cost of almost 500 EUR here, but there's a selection of exclusive minifigures, with 20 figs in total, and the 9 3/4 train station included to soften the blow. Promobricks has kindly compiled all the details for us... ( Read more... )
Release slated for September 2022.
Hogwarts: History of Magic
Jul. 27th, 2021 06:42 pmgingerwitch.livejournal.comI've made a new "set" on mecabricks. It's public, so anyone can play with it.
The most exciting thing about Professor Binns' History of Magic class is the fact he's a ghost, which is a bit sad really, because one might think the goblin wars were an interesting period, but no. Not the way he tells it. Unfortunately in addition to his wanting delivery, he also doesn't seem to believe in light or heat, leaving students to take matters into their own hands. That doesn't always end well. Luckily Blaise knows just the right spell. ( Read more... )
The most exciting thing about Professor Binns' History of Magic class is the fact he's a ghost, which is a bit sad really, because one might think the goblin wars were an interesting period, but no. Not the way he tells it. Unfortunately in addition to his wanting delivery, he also doesn't seem to believe in light or heat, leaving students to take matters into their own hands. That doesn't always end well. Luckily Blaise knows just the right spell. ( Read more... )
gingerwitch.livejournal.comSo, 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...😉).
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...😉).
gingerwitch.livejournal.comA decade or so ago, there was a bit of official concept artwork for a potential Malfoy Manor set that unfortunately was never realised. Here that excerpt from the 'Lego Harry Potter - Building the Magical World' book:
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And a happy Valentines' Day, everybody. ❤️
( Read more... )And a happy Valentines' Day, everybody. ❤️
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
THIS POST IS STICKIED TO THE TOP OF THE COMM, AND OCCASIONALLY UPDATED. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE RECENT CONTENT.
( 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.
THIS POST IS STICKIED TO THE TOP OF THE COMM, AND OCCASIONALLY UPDATED. SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE RECENT CONTENT.
