Harry Potter 2018 - Rumors & Discussion

[MAB]

1 hour ago, harleydavid98 said:

What do you guys think the likelihood of a HP Lego advent calendar is? It’d be a pretty cool way to the Christmas versions of the different characters

Zero.

 

[KevinMD]

1 hour ago, harleydavid98 said:

What do you guys think the likelihood of a HP Lego advent calendar is? It’d be a pretty cool way to the Christmas versions of the different characters

Zero? It’s an interesting idea but they still haven’t done Ninjago which has a fairly long production history. Would be neat to see one done though.

7 minutes ago, The Pearson said:

Random question:

What are the two buildings in the 2010 Hogwarts, other than the Great Hall and the Grand Staircase Tower?

 I’m sorry if this is the wrong place to ask.

Astronomy tower (of sorts, also appears to include the room of requirement) and dumbledore’s office.

[MAB]

3 hours ago, Robianco said:

Ah... Probably confused by the description on BL which includes POTC in the title.

I imagine it was designed with both characters in mind, it is generic enough.

[deskp]

9 minutes ago, MAB said:

I imagine it was designed with both characters in mind, it is generic enough.

Nah it was made specifically for Ollivander. The potc minifigure is a nobody and doesn't match anyone.

[harleydavid98]

14 minutes ago, KevinMD said:

Zero? It’s an interesting idea but they still haven’t done Ninjago which has a fairly long production history. Would be neat to see one done though.

They do Star Wars, Friends and City, Friends came about a long time after Ninjago, so I think we’re more likely to see a HP one than Ninjago, but at the same time, I don’t really see either happening, just a thought I had seen as a Christmas set (unless it’s Hogsmeade) would be pretty lame

[The Pearson]

39 minutes ago, KevinMD said:

Astronomy tower (of sorts, also appears to include the room of requirement) and dumbledore’s office.

Thank you but I was more referring to the exteriors.

[MAB]

17 minutes ago, harleydavid98 said:

They do Star Wars, Friends and City, Friends came about a long time after Ninjago, so I think we’re more likely to see a HP one than Ninjago, but at the same time, I don’t really see either happening, just a thought I had seen as a Christmas set (unless it’s Hogsmeade) would be pretty lame

They have already announced the 2018 ones. They could of course do a 2019 one but the key would be to make enough small builds that are meaningful for HP. They need about 18 interesting builds that are not minfiigures. They could take inspiration from here:

And do the Quidditch pitch over 6 days and another 2 days for the train.

Also bear in mind that the SW one this year is rather un-Christmassy when it comes to minifigures. They look like just be regular set figures. And with the HP CMF series as well, there will probably be enough variants of figures as it is.

[AnnaBuildsLego]

25 minutes ago, harleydavid98 said:

They do Star Wars, Friends and City, Friends came about a long time after Ninjago, so I think we’re more likely to see a HP one than Ninjago, but at the same time, I don’t really see either happening, just a thought I had seen as a Christmas set (unless it’s Hogsmeade) would be pretty lame

If there were a HP Advent Calendar we'd probably have heard about it, and it would most likely have been revealed with the other Advent Calendars. They've shown us the Star Wars, Friends and City ones. So there almost certainly is no HP one.

[harleydavid98]

Just now, MAB said:

They have already announced the 2018 ones. They could of course do a 2019 one but the key would be to make enough small builds that are meaningful for HP. They need about 18 interesting builds that are not minfiigures. They could take inspiration from here:

And do the Quidditch pitch over 6 days and another 2 days for the train.

Also bear in mind that the SW one this year is rather un-Christmassy when it comes to minifigures. They look like just be regular set figures. And with the HP CMF series as well, there will probably be enough variants of figures as it is.

 

Just now, AnnaBuildsLego said:

If there were a HP Advent Calendar we'd probably have heard about it, and it would most likely have been revealed with the other Advent Calendars. They've shown us the Star Wars, Friends and City ones. So there almost certainly is no HP one.

Ooh, I’m so sorry I should be more specific, I didnt mean for this year, I just meant in general

i think it’d be pretty easy to have minibuilds for a HP calendar, they could do each of the miniature dragons from the Triwizard Cup for a start, and I think the Star Wars minifigs aren’t particularly Christmassy because there isn’t really Christmas in Star Wars whereas there is in Harry Potter, it would be really easy for them to do

[MAB]

10 minutes ago, harleydavid98 said:

i think it’d be pretty easy to have minibuilds for a HP calendar, they could do each of the miniature dragons from the Triwizard Cup for a start, and I think the Star Wars minifigs aren’t particularly Christmassy because there isn’t really Christmas in Star Wars whereas there is in Harry Potter, it would be really easy for them to do

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That has been the point of them, they are meant to be out of the ordinary. They take something that isn't Christmassy and give you something that is ...

 

Whereas this year they seem to have stopped doing the Christmas tradition, and there appears little in the calendar that is Christmassy.

[harleydavid98]

51 minutes ago, MAB said:

That has been the point of them, they are meant to be out of the ordinary. They take something that isn't Christmassy and give you something that is ...

Whereas this year they seem to have stopped doing the Christmas tradition, and there appears little in the calendar that is Christmassy.

With Star Wars yeah, but there’s so much more to go off with Harry Potter that it wouldn’t need to stop being Christmassy

[KevinMD]

1 minute ago, MAB said:

That has been the point of them, they are meant to be out of the ordinary. They take something that isn't Christmassy and give you something that is ...

Whereas this year they seem to have stopped doing the Christmas tradition, and there appears little in the calendar that is Christmassy.

Oh it started last year with the awful bb8, but I digress. 

Harley does bring up a good point about HP and the holidays.  Maybe lego will see fit to make something (calendar or otherwise) but as mentioned definitely not this year.

[MAB]

Just now, harleydavid98 said:

With Star Wars yeah, but there’s so much more to go off with Harry Potter that it wouldn’t need to stop being Christmassy

So they can just put them in regular sets and get sales all year round. No need for a Christmas set.

They have to be careful not to over-saturate the market with minifigures. If this line is going to last multiple years, they need to keep things back or there will be complaints later on about repetition. As it is, key characters will have to be in every set, or it won't sell to the general public (as opposed to people collecting the whle range).

2 minutes ago, KevinMD said:

Oh it started last year with the awful bb8, but I digress.

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Notice which one I didn't include! :-)

[harleydavid98]

51 minutes ago, MAB said:

That has been the point of them, they are meant to be out of the ordinary. They take something that isn't Christmassy and give you something that is ...

Whereas this year they seem to have stopped doing the Christmas tradition, and there appears little in the calendar that is Christmassy.

With Star Wars yeah, but there’s so much more to go off with Harry Potter that it wouldn’t need to stop being Christmassy

46 minutes ago, MAB said:

So they can just put them in regular sets and get sales all year round. No need for a Christmas set.

They have to be careful not to over-saturate the market with minifigures. If this line is going to last multiple years, they need to keep things back or there will be complaints later on about repetition. As it is, key characters will have to be in every set, or it won't sell to the general public (as opposed to people collecting the whle range).

Notice which one I didn't include! :-)

I understand that with repetition, but if they stick to minibuilds and a few figures they could easily pull it off, I mean as I said before, what sets could we possibly get Christmas Arthur, Christmas Molly etc in, I wouldn’t want them in the Burrow because that would mean no normal Arthur/Molly in the Burrow, I wouldn’t want it in Grimmauld Place for the same reason, an advent calendar would be perfect for this theme providing it sells well into next year

[x105Black]

41 minutes ago, KevinMD said:

Oh it started last year with the awful bb8, but I digress. 

Not sure what was so awful about BB-8 in the Advent Calendar.  It was great to get the standard version as the Christmas versions are always too ridiculous to me.

About Harry Potter, an Advent Calendar would be a great way to get Christmas variants.  I would be surprised if we didn't see it down the road (unless they show up in the CMF).

[Captain Nemo]

Let's move the topic away from Advent Calendars--there's a 0% chance we are getting a Harry Potter themed one in 2018--we would have heard about it yesterday when Lego unveiled all of the other calendars for the year. 

So let's pick that conversation up in 2019 please. 

Thanks! 

 

[topiku]

Is the aragog set still coming? I sure hope it will.

@Sir von Lego any information you can provide us?

Edited May 19, 2018 by topiku

[Sir von Lego]

On 5/19/2018 at 6:47 PM, topiku said:

 

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Edited December 28, 2018 by Sir von Lego

[harleydavid98]

Just now, Sir von Lego said:

As far as I know yes it is. I saw it back in February, again last month and got detailed info for that set. Perhaps it will be unveiled together with our missing FB sets?

Can you confirm that this Aragog is better than the previous 2?

[Legomaster34]

Really excited to see the Aragog set. I'm planning to get that one, along with the Quidditch set, first on a trip to the LEGO Store, since the first time I ever went to that store back in 2011 I got the Forbidden Forest and Quidditch Match sets (and a CMF, so I'm glad I'll be able to get a Harry Potter one of those this time too!) so I think it'd be fun to get the remade sets this time. (Aragog takes place in the forest, so close enough for me!)

[topiku]

11 minutes ago, Legomaster34 said:

Really excited to see the Aragog set. I'm planning to get that one, along with the Quidditch set, first on a trip to the LEGO Store, since the first time I ever went to that store back in 2011 I got the Forbidden Forest and Quidditch Match sets (and a CMF, so I'm glad I'll be able to get a Harry Potter one of those this time too!) so I think it'd be fun to get the remade sets this time. (Aragog takes place in the forest, so close enough for me!)

Quite nostalgic :)

[BlueberryWaffles]

11 hours ago, Robert8 said:

In this wave alone they would be releasing 22 characters in the CMF line + 4 from the TRU pack + 1 book exclusive + 6 characters included in the sets that won't reapper because there is no real reason for them to (Susan Bones, Seamus Finnigan, Trolley Witch, Oliver Wood, Lucian Bole and Marcus Flint). That's a whopping total of 33 characters in just the first wave alone.

They need to save some characters for upcoming waves, especially considering this is meant to be a new "evergreen" theme

I'm starting to think the CMF line will be a mini army of Harrys, Hermiones and Rons, like the Batman Movie series

I think there's more than enough characters to last us a while. Off the top of my head, we're still missing

faculty: (Sprout, Mad-Eye, Flitwick, Trelawney, Lockhart, Pomfrey, etc.)

students: (Colin Creevey, Cedric, Cho, Seamus, Luna. etc.)

family members: all non-Ron Weasleys and the Dursleys

Any dark wizards really, none have been revealed yet right?

Phoenix members: (Kingsley, Tonks, Sirius)

Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students

Other side characters (Moaning Myrtle, Gringotts goblins, Xenophilius Lovegood, etc.)

And of course any FB characters. This theme could easily become another SW.

Edited May 19, 2018 by BlueberryWaffles

[harleydavid98]

5 minutes ago, BlueberryWaffles said:

I think there's more than enough characters to last us a while. Off the top of my head, we're still missing

faculty: (Sprout, Mad-Eye, Flitwick, Trelawney, Lockhart, Pomfrey, etc.)

students: (Colin Creevey, Cedric, Cho, Seamus, Luna. etc.)

family members: all non-Ron Weasleys and the Dursleys

Any dark wizards really, none have been revealed yet right?

Phoenix members: (Kingsley, Tonks, Sirius)

Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students

Other side characters (Moaning Myrtle, Gringotts goblins, Xenophilius Lovegood, etc.)

And of course any FB characters. This theme could easily become another SW.

Mad-Eye, Cedric and Cho weren’t in the films until film 4, Luna wasn’t until film 5 same as the Order members you mentioned except for Sirius, Beauxbatons and Durmstrangs both film 4, Xenophilius is the most ridiculous because he wasn’t in it until Deathly Hallows part 1, the 7th film, also there weren’t any dark wizards until film 4 when Voldemort returned, so we aren’t actually missing many characters that you mentioned because they’ll be coming when it’s them film’s time, these sets are based on 1-3

although yes, it’d be nice to get the Weasleys, the films 1-3 Faculty

Edited May 19, 2018 by harleydavid98

[BlueberryWaffles]

1 minute ago, harleydavid98 said:

Mad-Eye, Cedric and Cho weren’t in the films until film 4, Luna wasn’t until film 5, Beauxbatons and Durmstrangs both film 4, Xenophilius is the most ridiculous because he wasn’t in it until Deathly Hallows part 1, the 7th film, also there weren’t any dark wizards until film 4 when Voldemort returned, so we aren’t actually missing anyone that you mentioned because they’ll be coming when it’s them film’s time, these sets are based on 1-3

Yes, but he was talking about the long-term lifespan of the theme, which would span everything. Even just in 1-3, there's many from that list I don't think were announced. The Dursleys, all the Weasley family, Lockhart, Trelawney, Myrtle, Sprout, Sirius, and Flitwick were all in the first three years but not in this wave, unless I missed an announcement?

[harleydavid98]

Just now, BlueberryWaffles said:

Yes, but he was talking about the long-term lifespan of the theme, which would span everything. Even just in 1-3, there's many from that list I don't think were announced. The Dursleys, all the Weasley family, Lockhart, Trelawney, Myrtle, Sprout, Sirius, and Flitwick were all in the first three years but not in this wave, unless I missed an announcement?

I think he was talking about now, seen as he said “we’re missing” obviously we’ll be getting them in the future, so it’s not really relevant now, but a thing I don’t like about this site is that it doesn’t always show the edited stuff because I said “although yes, it’d be nice to get the Weasleys, the films 1-3 Faculty” in an edit of my statement, I know for a fact we will be getting most of these minifigures, especially the important ones like the Weasleys, Order members, Teachers etc