Harry Potter 2018 - Rumors & Discussion

[RyanMe]

Seeing some posts of the CMF on instagram at Target. Looks like they are ringing up at $4.49. Can anyone confirm if they raised the prices $.50?

[diepotato47]

If they're out in NZ they might be coming to Australia soon, has anybody spotted them in the wild?
These sets are well worth the wait in my opinion, very excited!

[just2good]

49 minutes ago, RyanMe said:

Seeing some posts of the CMF on instagram at Target. Looks like they are ringing up at $4.49. Can anyone confirm if they raised the prices $.50?

Who has posted it?

[sunhuntin]

Thanks, @Jern92. Didn't think to search for FB as opposed to HP. Have now ordered them. Still no Hermione BH though.

Nothing on shelf at my store, but my friend on the service desk said he would get a case of the CMF put aside for me to pick up tomorrow, as they had only come in today. I told him I would be checking the tape. lol.

edit: just bought the Express from Toyworld. expensive there, but I figure it won't be available anywhere else.

Edited July 24, 2018 by sunhuntin

[Whovastron]

Had a thought about the reveal of the D2C. What if they announce it on July 31st (Harry Potter’s, Neville’s and J.K Rowling’s birthdays) and then have it on display on August 1st. Would be similar to how they announced and displayed the Falcon last year before release, and it means people buying the new sets would get it advertised to them in store.

[GriffindorForLife]

6 hours ago, just2good said:

Who has posted it?

If you search the hastag #legoharrypotter and scroll down a bit in the 'recent' section you can see the image. It's posted by brooklyn_bricks

Edited July 24, 2018 by GriffindorForLife

[BenderBrau]

18 minutes ago, Whovastron said:

Had a thought about the reveal of the D2C. What if they announce it on July 31st (Harry Potter’s, Neville’s and J.K Rowling’s birthdays) and then have it on display on August 1st. Would be similar to how they announced and displayed the Falcon last year before release, and it means people buying the new sets would get it advertised to them in store.

31st seems like the best option, but I have a feeling they'll reveal it on the day of VIP release. July was already big with its releases and maybe they don't want to overshadow them? And let's hope they don't cancel the early access like they did with Bugatti.

By the way, were there any rumours about UK price? I know it's suppoed to be 500 €, so in theory it should cost about as much as the Death Star (£410), but we know prices here are all over the place.

[Whovastron]

22 minutes ago, BenderBrau said:

31st seems like the best option, but I have a feeling they'll reveal it on the day of VIP release. July was already big with its releases and maybe they don't want to overshadow them? And let's hope they don't cancel the early access like they did with Bugatti.

By the way, were there any rumours about UK price? I know it's suppoed to be 500 €, so in theory it should cost about as much as the Death Star (£410), but we know prices here are all over the place.

Well the prices for the HP stuff have been really good over here. If it’s €500, I’d say it’s £400 maximum

[Black Numenorean]

On 7/23/2018 at 11:54 AM, djmangunz said:

They are incredible and well worth investing in them all, especially based on the resell prices of Harry Potter sets in the past. Quite honestly for what you get in each set the prices are quite reasonable as well. The detail and thought that went into each set is light-years beyond the older versions. For example, I have the 2001 Hogwarts Express and side to side the 2018 version is so much more impressive, just the locomotive alone. 

ok thank you for your feedback. In dollars, the price is very good, unlike french price ^^.

I had the 2000 Hp'w wave too. Can you tell me the difference? And do you prefer this wave to 2000?

[GoldenNinja3000]

1 hour ago, BenderBrau said:

31st seems like the best option, but I have a feeling they'll reveal it on the day of VIP release. July was already big with its releases and maybe they don't want to overshadow them? And let's hope they don't cancel the early access like they did with Bugatti.

By the way, were there any rumours about UK price? I know it's suppoed to be 500 €, so in theory it should cost about as much as the Death Star (£410), but we know prices here are all over the place.

I don’t think they’ll reveal it on the day of VIP release. They just did that for the James Bond car and doing it again less than a month later would be weird, especially because it doesn’t look like it really worked out for them with the car.

[RyanMe]

8 hours ago, just2good said:

Who has posted it?

 

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

#legos?
50 cent price increase?

 

[Robert8]

$4.50 for a minfigure is just too much....

[Black Numenorean]

the official lego harry potter website  is beautiful : https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/harry-potter

Edited July 24, 2018 by Black Numenorean

[BacktoBricks]

29 minutes ago, Black Numenorean said:

the official lego harry potter website  is beautiful : https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/harry-potter

What I find strange is that if you scroll down the page, the Brickheadz box has a picture of a Harry Brickheadz but it is not the official one. Was this a prototype or unfinalised model? Seems strange to have the picture there.

EDIT: I think it may have been an Ideas project, but why would they show the picture uncredited? 

Edited July 24, 2018 by BacktoBricks

[Whovastron]

All those £4 rumours on the Minifigures can be put to bed, listed on Shop@home for £2.99

[Huigberts Builds]

Someone really messed up on the Lego site. Unfinished pictures for the whomping willow  (Filch you never were the most handsome character, but this is going to far) and the different Harry BrickHeadz + the printless Harry BrickHeadz. Still nice to see how these sets came to be.

[Balrogofmorgoth]

3 hours ago, RyanMe said:

 

As much as I hate the price increase, I suppose I should have expected it with a licensed CMF series. I’m sure this was harder to achieve than TLBM ones, there are more licensing issues at play

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

This is kinda crazy. Given the price increase and the fact that this is a big series, it will cost $4.5*22 = $99 to complete. Compare that to the $2*16 = $32 that it cost to complete S1 or S2 back in the day. Amazing.

Edited July 24, 2018 by BrickHat

[K_Tiger]

42 minutes ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

As much as I hate the price increase, I suppose I should have expected it with a licensed CMF series. I’m sure this was harder to achieve than TLBM ones, there are more licensing issues at play

I'm not sure how much faith I'd put into this being the new world order in CMF pricing. I say this because, for one, this is not the first time a Target store has marked up CMF prices of their own volition. I think I posted last week that the title for 204-00-1379 had changed from May series to the one in the picture, but I did not note that the price at my store was still $3.99.

I say wait and see what A: Your individual Target prices these at (if they get them at all. Local Target, I'm looking at you.), and B: What other retailers charge. If, say, Wal-Mart ups the price, then we can worry.

[sunhuntin]

Standard retail pricing of the CMF is $5.99NZD here. The store I am hoping to buy from has permanent lower than retail pricing on Lego, and theirs are $5.

[RODDY]

2 hours ago, K_Tiger said:

I'm not sure how much faith I'd put into this being the new world order in CMF pricing. I say this because, for one, this is not the first time a Target store has marked up CMF prices of their own volition. I think I posted last week that the title for 204-00-1379 had changed from May series to the one in the picture, but I did not note that the price at my store was still $3.99.

I say wait and see what A: Your individual Target prices these at (if they get them at all. Local Target, I'm looking at you.), and B: What other retailers charge. If, say, Wal-Mart ups the price, then we can worry.

I still see the Series 18 minifigs on brickseek. Where are you guys seeing the change?

Edited July 24, 2018 by RODDY

[Balrogofmorgoth]

3 hours ago, K_Tiger said:

I'm not sure how much faith I'd put into this being the new world order in CMF pricing. I say this because, for one, this is not the first time a Target store has marked up CMF prices of their own volition. I think I posted last week that the title for 204-00-1379 had changed from May series to the one in the picture, but I did not note that the price at my store was still $3.99.

I say wait and see what A: Your individual Target prices these at (if they get them at all. Local Target, I'm looking at you.), and B: What other retailers charge. If, say, Wal-Mart ups the price, then we can worry.

Agreed. It could be Target trying to take advantage of being the only retailer to carry them for now (mine doesn’t even have them yet, or the polybags for that matter)

Edited July 24, 2018 by Balrogofmorgoth

[zintac]

Does any one know where you can buy a unopened box in the US?

 

Been looking around, but have had no luck,

[Falconfan1414]

Well the first partial image of the d2c box has shown up. It just confirms that it is Hogwarts castle and is set number 71043 and is 16+. I think it is safe to assume we should be seeing it soon!