accio brick - the lego harry potter comm

Stuff! So first off I've been playing with a cool tool / site called mecabricks. It allows you to make builds out of virtual legos, which is nifty both in terms of the pictures you can generate and the ability it gives you to envision designs of your own and make lists of parts you'd need to order to complete them.

This is an example of a build that doesn't exist as a set... Vorkosigan78 (also on eurobricks) had suggested putting the Prefect's Bath from the 75948 Clock Tower set into the new Hogwarts 2021 format. I played around with their idea a bit and came up with this:



(Two obvious liberties: Myrtle is a ghost and not a poltergeist, and as such couldn't pick up the egg, and Harry's torso is tilted through a tile in a way you couldn't do with physical legos. Let's call it artistic license. 😉)

The renders you can do on mecabricks are pretty cool, too.

Another thing I did while I was at it was add a number of the new sets to their library. (Seven official builds so far and one of my own made public.) In theory this means you can create pictures of your own with them, which is pretty sweet.


Other than that, a small pic of the new polybag has leaked, and I'm chuffed to bits:



Set number 30392 is called Hermione's Study Desk, it should have 31 pieces and cost about $4. I can't say how pleased I am to 1) see Hermione get a little love and 2) not get yet another Harry. 😆 Also worth noting: the new owl that's only been available with the CoS set so far, and another Chocolate Frog collectible tile. That's by far the cheapest we've come by one yet. 😊


And the last bit of info I had for you, from the 12th through the 18th of this month, you'll be able to earn double VIP points on purchases at the lego stores (online and physical). That equates to about 10% off future purchases, so if you were thinking of getting the lego store exclusives like the wizarding world minifigure accessory pack, that would be a good time for it. 😊

So as I’m staying nice and warm and toasty inside today (it snowed yesterday, and also: lockdown), I decided it might be fun to take a look at the minifigures we’ve seen this series (from 2018 onwards) and make a list of the ones that are still missing. It wasn’t long. And then I thought, oh what the heck, why not try to make a list of non-trivial characters (and I appreciate that mileage will vary greatly on that qualifier 😆) that have never been released as minifigs at all... That kept me occupied for a while. 😉 ( Read more... )

What strikes me as interesting is this is (an admittedly flawed) attempt to use an objective metric, and yet the characters’ (completely subjective) impact on me as a fan often doesn’t correspond (remotely) to their rank. Food for thought...

Figs of characters that have never been released as minifigs (ranked in order of the average of their screen time and book mention rankings). Drumroll please for... ( Read more... )


Is there anyone you’d add?

UPDATED: 08 March 2022