accio brick - the lego harry potter comm

While in all honesty I can't say I've particularly taken notice of these things since I was kid (something I'll assume is down to growing out of the target audience's age range, as opposed to being a question of actual availability on the market), this is the first time I've seen them produced for Harry Potter legos. w00t. My interest, quite naturally, was piqued. The success of the particular line of toys notwithstanding (HP is consistently amongst lego's top five best sellers), it is something of a niche audience. (I feel seen. 😉) Oh, but apparently they're now without chewing gum? Not that the stuff was especially good, it truly wasn't, but it was the only sugared chewing gum we were permitted in our household, and (presumably for entirely sentimental reasons) I find myself now missing it. C'est la vie. ( Read more... )

Bottom line, I'm not sure how I feel about the cards, but I loved the artwork, and presently there seems to be some new material here I haven't seen in the Ameet books. Then again, I don't have any from this year's collection yet, so it will be interesting to see if the cards do their own thing, or if they're sharing material.