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* credit for the title to u/bunnymeowcat from the Jane Austen subreddit

Thursday the Lego Jane Austen GWP special went live, in honour of the 250th anniversary of her birthday, and I reviewed the first Jane Austen tribute lego Ideas MOC from TJBricks, Barton Cottage from 'Sense and Sensibility'. Today we're going to look at the exterior of the same creator's take on Pemberley from 'Pride and Prejudice', while I introduce you to a shedload of architectural terms you aren't convinced you want to know... πŸ˜† drum roll please

Pemberley Part One.

The first bit of genius here is using material that has entered the public domain. As with (most) of Sherlock Holmes (I recall some eager waiting for the clock to tick down to when Moriarity could be included...), doing this set now means no negotiating for rights in order to build it and no licensing fees, which helps keep the price down. More lego and build for less. Always a good thing, and in the case of Ideas submissions, factors that make it more likely that a project will be made. (Apropos of nothing, might we some day see Shakespeare sets?)

The next bit of genius is how TJBricks has navigated the difficulty of the interior proportions while capturing the faΓ§ade. I'll point that out in gushing detail, some below and more in the next post, but it really needed singling out in advance as it deserves to be noted.

Again, this MOC has been submitted to lego Ideas, a platform where fans can vote for sets they like and if they reach 10K votes, lego considers them for production. There are no guarantees, but on the other hand registering is quick and free, and supporting worthy projects costs nothing and doesn't commit you to a future purchase, so please feel encouraged to support and spread the word. Read more... )

We'll look at the interior in the next post. Meanwhile, if you have a moment and would care to help support TJBricks' project, you can do so here by voting for their project on the lego Ideas site.
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A REVIEW and MOC (My Own Creation) in three parts...
This is the third and last entry in a three part series reviewing the official lego Harry Potter summer 2024 wave's 76431 Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class and introducing gingerwitch's (MOC) modification thereof.


Today we'll look at gingerwitch's MOC of the Potions Classroom, from the official lego set 76431, and see what difference a couple more hinges might have made. Read more... )
And that's it. Some small, but I think impactful changes. I'll probably make a parts list once I know which parts are in the original set to begin with. As is, at present it's only a mod of guesswork. I hope you liked it.
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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 | Β£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 | Β£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... )
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What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 12 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 11 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 10 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 09 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 08 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 07 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 06 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 05 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 04 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 03 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!

The calendar starts here with Day 01.

Day 02 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )
[identity profile] gingerwitch.livejournal.com
What If...

What if the 2022 Lego Harry Potter Advent Calendar focused on the Order of the Phoenix's Christmas at 12 Grimmauld Place in 1995? With the release of the lovely Grimmauld Place set this year and an abundance of canonical Christmas material, it seems such a shame that it didn't, so with the magic of Mecabricks, let's just pretend it did... Hey Presto!


Day 01 of the 12 Grimmauld Place Advent CalendarRead more... )

Let the guessing begin!
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Promobricks (caveat: German) surprised us this week with some news on next year's lego Harry Potter theme winter lineup, slated for release on March 1st, 2023. They'd previously announced there will be a fifty percent increase in the number of sets (that works out to two more πŸ˜‰) than in the winter 2021 and 2022 waves, and now we have some details on the six sets to go with that titbit (spoilers follow, click at your own peril, my lovelies):Read more... )

A final observation: as an added information bonus, the set numbers we now know provide a hint that we're likely to see at least six other sets in the summer wave. 😊 Let the wishful thinking begin! (Isn't it a pity "magical thinking" means something else entirely? It would have fit so well. πŸ˜‹)
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So I really wanted to try putting lego Harry Potter 40577 Hogwarts: Grand Staircase into the modular builds to see how it would all work together, which means I just had to build a model to give it a whirl... (Caveats: some parts are missing from the mecabricks database, and I'm working without instructions and kind of winging it.)

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Obviously all of the uber lovely artwork is missing, a real pity as lego does that soooo well, but it gives us a good first impression. This is what it would look like from the inside when you hook up the other sets:Read more... )
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BrickClickr has been at it again, and reports that this year's last remaining unidentified Harry Potter lego set 40577 will be the Grand Staircase, and should be a GWP (Gift With Purchse), probably in July, which would be a departure from the usual autumn timeframe, but would allow us to take advantage of the offer before the planned price increases in September. If true, that would be a very cool move on lego's part.

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Previous years' HP GWPs
40289 2018's Diagon Alley, 374 pieces and one exclusive minifig
40412 2019's Hagrid & Buckbeak BrickHeadz, 270 pieces and no minifig
30628 2020's Monster Book of Monsters, 316 pieces and one exclusive minifig
40452 2021's Gryffindor Dorms, 140 pieces and two non-exclusive minifigs (appearing in one and two other sets)

The set is described as following: it contains two pieces of the castle walls at 90* angles in the current modular format. The eponymous staircase is moveable, and the walls are covered in a number of portraits, like we've seen in the films. A minifig of Hermione is included, completing the Trio after last year's GWP contained only Ron and Harry (fair enough for a boys' dorm, though, I'd imagine πŸ˜‰). That's all there is at the moment, I'll be sure to keep you posted on the Staircase when more is known.


But in honour of the news, I thought I'd present a small(ish) Grand Staircase MOC upawalek has put up on ReBrickable for inspiration and some food for thought. (ReBrickable, in case you're unfamiliar with it, is a brilliant site where people can post and sell the instructions to lego builds they've made.) Read more... )Sight unseen, this GWP is definitely on my "wanna have" list.
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I'm running a touch late for the occasion, but I've designed a digital lego set for [livejournal.com profile] milotzi: McGonagall's Quarters. (You can find it over on Mecabricks.) It converts the 76382 Hogwarts Moment: Transfiguration Classroom set into the Gryffindor Head's chambers while keeping the hallmarks of the Moment theme - all builds must be storable in the closed book format.

It's an interesting set of constraints, none of the builds can be wider than 4 studs, and a volume of no more than (roughly) 225 bricks. Unfortunately neither the stickers nor the book covers are in the Mecabricks database, so I've built the cover and simply had to do without the stickers. They'd be used just as they are in the original set.

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Anyway, I was thinking of you, M. Hope you had a nice day. 😘
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A friend sent me this, and I thought you guys might like it, too. Wilkie-Twycross of reddit made a lego minifig version of Harry's class photo. Some figs are official versions, some are their MOCs. Try to see how many you can identify. (And just to get those competitive juices flowing, I got them all (natch πŸ˜‹), so now you'll just have to try harder. πŸ˜‰ Failure is not an option! 😘)

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Answers spoilered in the comments. Good luck. πŸ€

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