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In light of recent developments, I figured you could use a bit of positivity, so... Lego has announced a Harry Potter In-store Build for the Harry Potter theme during the Back to Hogwarts week. At participating Lego Stores (for clarification, that's actual brick and mortar Lego Stores and not just a store selling lego or even the online shop), while supplies last, you can build a Butterbeer sales cart, and frankly it's pretty cute. ( Read more... )

Again, check your local store's page to see if they're participating or making changes.

Worth considering:
The Back to Hogwarts Event begins tomorrow 01 September.
(US link above or Canadian link)

- Purchases at or above $40 get this year's Harry Potter lego Polybag: 30706 Quidditch Lesson as a GWP. (While supplies last.)



- Purchases at or above $130 additionally get 40770 Hogwarts™ Castle: Room of Requirement GWP. (While supplies last.)



- Lego Insiders (what the VIP program is now called) can order 76457 Hogsmeade™ Village – Collectors' Edition early as of 01 September (everyone else needs to wait until 04 September).
- While supplies last, those doing so will also receive the metal Hogsmeade™ Sign GWP.



So be aware, waiting to make your Harry Potter purchases until the Butterbeer truck build event may cost you the GWPs if they run out of them by then. As the Make and Take event doesn't seem tied to purchases, it might be safer to order what you want on the first and attend the in-store event the following weekend if it works for you.

Hello, my lovelies. It's that time again. They're offering a double VIP / Insider point special later this week, and it's timed to go with a Jane Austen GWP (Gift with Purchase).

From the lego website, from the 19th through the 23rd, earn double points on your purchases at lego.com:

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So after my multi-paragraph whinge about the planting in the lego Harry Potter set 76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class from the 2025 summer wave, we're now seeing a preview of a new set in the Wednesday series. And why do I bring it up, you might ask? Also bearing in mind that this is the theme that brought us the adorable gargoyles last year (later used in the 2025 76453 Malfoy Manor), 76784 lego Wednesday Black Dahlia Flower is well worth mentioning in its own right (and certainly in this context) because in addition to a buildable flower (a dahlia, obvs), it includes a mini-greenhouse, also worth mentioning because that greenhouse (in stark contrast to the 2024+ Hogwarts Herbology greenhouse) contains some nice plant builds, certainly for the price. ( Read more... )

Part two in our exploration of the official announcement of the lego Harry Potter summer 2025 sets. You can see the following sets here beneath the fold in part two of this three part series:

76445 Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class
76451 Privet Drive: Aunt Marge's Visit
76450 Book Nook: Hogwarts Express
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And that's it for part two. Part three coming up soon.

WooHoo! Just like it says in the title, we now have the official pics of this summer's lego Harry Potter sets. You can see the following here beneath the fold in part one of the series:

76448 Fawkes: Dumbledore’s Phoenix
76449 Chomping Monster Book of Monsters
76458 Thestral Family
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We have pix and information now for the 2025 Polybag for the lego Harry Potter theme: 30706 Quidditch Lesson polybag (info from fateful_04). ( Read more... )

Pics of the two sets from the 2025 Lego Harry Potter Winter Wave are beneath the fold... Frankly they're good enough that even if you aren't normally the sort to peek at spoilers, this one is worth it.

Both sets come with a portrait from the collectible series introduced in 2024.( Read more... )

In honour of Snape's most excellent arm printing (thank you, lego!), here Potter Puppet Pals' "Snape's Diary", which includes the even more excellent Snape's Ode to his Buttons (it begins at the 1:57 mark, but the embedded player doesn't seem to want to start from there):

Quelle surprise. 😉

I always keep an eye out for sets I can integrate into my lego Harry Potter builds, and in much the same vein as the Wicked sets, thanks to the Greek lego store and the sharp-eyed folks at Promobricks, we now have an advance peek into two sets from the Netflix hit "Wednesday". Expected release date, 01 October, 2024.

My first impression is that those two properties (Wicked / Wednesday) seem to occupy much the same space, at least visually, which always feels like a mixed bag. It's obviously nice to have more pieces and builds to flesh out a mood or your similarly themed MOCs, but it also makes the actual sets seem even less original than they might without the direct comparison. On the other hand, now is when they're relevant, so waiting or staggering them doesn't really make sense either. My second thought is that both of the Wednesday sets have very robust bases that I rarely enjoy paying for, but they do at least seem to be put to use holding the extra parts included in both sets, so at least there's that. ( Read more... )

And we now have some great pix of the 2024 lego Harry Potter theme gift with purchase (GWP)! Amusingly enough, it also solves the question of "Just what should Floo powder look like?" that erexen and I were discussing only yesterday. How's that for timing, huh? (It looks like we were right about transparent fluorescent acid green... 😆)( Read more... )

I'm definitely looking forward to this set. 😃

It looks like some parts of Europe will be getting their own "build a lego Harry Potter freebie" in the weeks to come in the form of a small Hogwarts Express set to build and keep.

On the 4th and 5th of September, from 3 to 5 pm, the German, Austrian and Swiss lego stores are expected to have their own Back to Hogwarts event with a little Hogwarts Express. Contact your local store to see if they're participating. Supplies are limited, first come, first serve, and only one engine per person. ( Read more... )

If you miss out, don't worry. It looks like it's only 43 pieces, and unlike this year's Barnes & Noble build, none of them are exclusive.