Harry Potter 2018 - Rumors & Discussion

[RODDY]

2 hours ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

The mods cut off replies on the Star Wars discussion thread because people were talking about Cloud City (only the most highly anticipated SW set this year). Anyone know of any other Star Wars 2018 discussion threads where we’re actually allowed to discuss Lego Star Wars?

I would say it's the most anticipated SW set in the last almost decade. It's the holy grail of Lego. Future Lego Star Wars Sets would be a good thread to take a look at. 

Getting back on track with Diagon Alley, I see a release date close to Christmas could happen. If I remember correctly back in 2011 the last Diagon Alley was released around the Holiday season by itself and not of a particular wave. Maybe the same idea here. There is precedent. The problem is getting hands on it could be very hard. That would look very nice under the Christmas tree...

Edited August 18, 2018 by RODDY

[spiderfan2000]

Wow!  That Diagon Alley looks amazing even out of focus in the distance!  I'm already dreading how much that will cost, seeing as (at least from the perspective it looks like it could be bigger than Assembly Square and could easily be comparable to Ninjago City in terms of piece count.  

I can identify Gringotts, Ollivanders, and Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, and I'm guessing that the small green shop is meant to be Flourish and Blotts, and that the red one is Quality Quidditch Supplies, though I'm not certain.

[Balrogofmorgoth]

50 minutes ago, Scarilian said:

Called it? :P

Well, this is a Harry Potter discussion topic so Chances are discussion was stopped because people have been wanting a Cloud City set for ages but until something comes up it just falls into the line of a wishlist.

 

Yeah I know this is Harry Potter I was just trying to figure out where else to go for Star Wars. And the Hogwarts Castle D2C wasn’t confirmed by Lego until the press release, but we knew it was coming so we still discussed it

[GoldenNinja3000]

If that set is actually coming out then I don’t think it’ll be as soon as December. That would be two HP D2C sets within 4 months. I think it’s more likely it could come out next summer. 

[Balrogofmorgoth]

49 minutes ago, RODDY said:

I would say it's the most anticipated SW set in the last almost decade. It's the holy grail of Lego. Future Lego Star Wars Sets would be a good thread to take a look at.

Thanks, I’ll take a look!

[1980-Something-Space-Guy]

10 hours ago, ETELENZOS92 said:

Hey Guys,

Has anyone noticed that in the video of the D2C appears in the back at 4:30 a D2C Diagon Alley, where it is blurry the purple Weasley twins store with orange windows and some more buildings?

Edit; And Gringotts bank on the left!! So there is from Left to the right --> Gringotts, Ollivander's, a Green small shop, a Red small shop and The Weasley's shop

[Snip]

Holy cow, keen eye! If we do get this as a set, we could see new versions of the Weasley twins, which have been greatly been overdue in my collection for years!

[RODDY]

3 hours ago, GoldenNinja3000 said:

If that set is actually coming out then I don’t think it’ll be as soon as December. That would be two HP D2C sets within 4 months. I think it’s more likely it could come out next summer. 

Way too early for minifigures to leak from a Summer set. Ollivander is the key to all of this.

Edited August 19, 2018 by RODDY

[eliminator]

It's only a matter of time before an updated Diagon Alley comes out. I'm actually hoping for a summer 2019 release; give the fans the opportunity to get the current sets available. IMO, too much all at once might actually be a bad thing.

[GoldenNinja3000]

36 minutes ago, RODDY said:

Way too early for minifigures to leak from a Summer set. Ollivander is the key to all of this.

Ollivander leaked in April or something. That’s way too soon for a minifigure from a December D2C set to leak. 

[RODDY]

41 minutes ago, GoldenNinja3000 said:

Ollivander leaked in April or something. That’s way too soon for a minifigure from a December D2C set to leak. 

No it's not. Boba Fett leaked in January and Cloud City is out in September. 8 months. Ollivander in April and add 8 months and you got December. It's like poetry it rhymes ;) I expect more minifigs leaks in October

Edited August 19, 2018 by RODDY

[Clone OPatra]

Thanks everyone who reported the off-topic posting in this thread  There are plenty of places on EB to ask what's up with a thread being locked (Forum Information and Help, for instance) that don't involve butting into and derailing a different theme discussion thread.

While there isn't much to go on with the Diagon Alley, because like I said it could just be a MOC or sketch build for a model that isn't going to happen, seeing both a Diagon Alley and Ollivander fig is conspicuously coincidental. Let the speculative discussion continue!

[GoldenNinja3000]

1 hour ago, RODDY said:

No it's not. Boba Fett leaked in January and Cloud City is out in September. 8 months. Ollivander in April and add 8 months and you got December. It's like poetry it rhymes ;) I expect more minifigs leaks in October

I still don’t think it’s coming that soon after Hogwarts and I feel like we would’ve heard about another D2C coming out. Maybe it isn’t a Lego exclusive and it could just be a big $130-150 set coming out on January 1st or something. 

[RODDY]

1 hour ago, GoldenNinja3000 said:

I still don’t think it’s coming that soon after Hogwarts and I feel like we would’ve heard about another D2C coming out. Maybe it isn’t a Lego exclusive and it could just be a big $130-150 set coming out on January 1st or something. 

Let's remember that no one knew about the Hogwarts Express until it the official press statement. Lego can be very quiet with their sets sometimes. And alot of people didn't buy the microscale Hogwarts because of its scale. This would be a way to placate them. And DA seems to be quite the unit my guess is $250 with 3000 pieces. Gringott's and the Weasley Emporium look pretty big on their own. I  think everything is pointing at December. 

Edited August 19, 2018 by RODDY

[Tariq j]

The Diagon Alley from the background looks good, very modular buildings esque . Professor Lockhart makes his first appearance in DA, so maybe we might even see him here? 

[kirkwoodproductions]

Am I the only one who doesn’t think it looks big enough to be another D2C? Yes it’s big, but it looks quite flat. I’m just expecting it to be a large set in a regular wave.

[nikhkin]

13 minutes ago, kirkwoodproductions said:

Am I the only one who doesn’t think it looks big enough to be another D2C? Yes it’s big, but it looks quite flat. I’m just expecting it to be a large set in a regular wave.

It definitely looks like a facade to me. I would think it is more like Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown - 76108 than a modular building.

 

It really would not surprise me if it was nothing at all, and just a MOC someone in the office had worked on being used as something colourful and interesting for the background of the video. 

[Whovastron]

I’m not sure if it’s due to the camera they’ve used. But watching the clip with the Diagon alley set, it does actually look like a micro scale type build. You see the womping Willow Set in the foreground and it certainty makes it look small. And the top had of the Weasley character looks suspiciously like a minifigure too hat, and the dome on grindgots looks like either the 4x4 or 6x6 dome...

2 minutes ago, nikhkin said:

It definitely looks like a facade to me. I would think it is more like Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown - 76108 than a modular building.

 

It really would not surprise me if it was nothing at all, and just a MOC someone in the office had worked on being used as something colourful and interesting for the background of the video. 

I wouldn’t be so sure, all the other sets seen are either from the current wave or the development process of Hogwarts. This wouldn’t be the first time Lego have shown a future set in on of these videos, they did it with the Helicarrier 

[BrickBob Studpants]

It's weird every way you slice it  The Ollivander minifig is quite a big clue that this might be a real set, but then again the minifig leaked way too early and TLG probably wouldn't release two D2C sets in the same theme back to back (apart from SW that is). Yet, why would they release Ollivander in a random book or a polybag if they can save him up for a Diagon Alley set? The model in the video prooves that they were at least considering one...

[Whovastron]

13 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said:

It's weird every way you slice it  The Ollivander minifig is quite a big clue that this might be a real set, but then again the minifig leaked way too early and TLG probably wouldn't release two D2C sets in the same theme back to back (apart from SW that is). Yet, why would they release Ollivander in a random book or a polybag if they can save him up for a Diagon Alley set? The model in the video prooves that they were at least considering one...

I think it’s a mistake to presume this is a D2C. I don’t know what everyone else is seeing but the set could easily be similar in scale to the previous, and granted that was a D2C, but it could easily just be a £120 sorta set, maybe a retailer exclusive 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Maybe it's just the blurriness of the picture, but to me, this model seems quite a bit larger than the previous iteration, even if the building are just facades 

[HalfPintOfInnes]

Three new sets rumoured to be part of the winter wave: Early December/Early January

 

Chamber of Secrets

Medium Sized Playset

Minifigures: Harry, Tom Riddle,  Ginny, Lockhart

Brickbuilt Basilisk with moulded head.

 

Room of Requirement

Medium Sized Playset

Minifigures: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, Seamus and Colin

Brickbuilt Death Eater Statues

 

Diagon Alley

Large (expensive) set (3/4 buildings)

Gringotts Bank, Weasley Wizard Wheezes, Ollivanders

Minifigures: Harry, Hermione, Hagrid, Ollivander, Ron, Fred, George, 2 Death Eaters, Molly and 2 Goblins.

Edited August 19, 2018 by HalfPintOfInnes

[nikhkin]

Someone just posted this leak list on Reddit. Can anyone confirm it's validity? We've seen a lot of wishlists passed off as leaks before.

Plus I remember there being an interview saying the Chamber of Secrets set had been cancelled. This was the reason for the Basilisk being included in the Great Hall. It seems odd they would then release another set with a Basilisk a few months later. 

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Chamber of Secrets:

Medium Sized Playset

Minifigures: Harry, Tom Riddle, Ginny, Lockhart

Brickbuilt Basilisk with moulded head.

Room of Requirement

Medium Sized Playset

Minifigures: Harry, Hermione, Ron, Luna, Seamus and Colin

Brickbuilt Death Eater Statues

Diagon Alley:

Large (expensive) set (3(?) buildings)

Gringotts Bank, Weasley Wizard Wheezes, Ollivanders

Minifigures: Harry, Hermione, Hagrid, Ollivander, Ron, Fred, George, 2 Death Eaters, Molly and 2 Goblins.

 

 

Edited August 19, 2018 by nikhkin

[Black Numenorean]

Interesting but the wave must be focused on the 3 and 4 (movie or book): the chamber of secret is not appropriate.

But, if TLC do it, why not.

[BrickBob Studpants]

Seems rather suspicious that this list appears just after the Diagon Alley model has been spotted in the designer video... I'd love this to be true, but I'm not buying it right now 

Edit: Colin only appeared in CoS and was replaced by Nigel in the following movies, so him being in a OotP set sounds very fishy

Edited August 19, 2018 by Lego-Freak

[ETELENZOS92]

50 minutes ago, Lego-Freak said:

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Yes... its soo suspicious...

1 hour ago, nikhkin said:

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They were talking about to include a Chamber of secrets under the Great Hall in this set, They were not talking about canceling a chamber of secrets set..

Anyway, the inclusion of The Room of requirement of the 5th movie is so strange ... I was thinking how everyone would focus more on the prisoner of Azkaban and the Gobblet of fire ... And about a second series of minifigures, I doubt it very much. In this have already included characters that we did not expect in this series as Cho, Cedric, Flitwick, Luna, all of them from the movie 4 up, so I do not think there is a series 2 unless that they do it due to the success that this having this ... I have traveled around 10 stores here in Spain to find all the sets, only those of Aragog were left and the others had already run out.

I bought 30 minifigures from the left side of the box and got the 16 hp plus Grindelwald, the rest I will return to the store since they are closed; I opened them according to the tact and I am not interested in the fantastic beast minifigures, but I have been left with an extra neville for having more mandrakes and several Dean Thomas to wear their uniform with a scarf for the trio in future MOC's and one of Hermione for use it as Ginny Weasley. I was lucky to get them all the first time!

Now I just need the set of the Great Hall that has not yet been found , and in Toy's R Us here in Spain there is still nothing at all of LEGO Harry Potter .. only Brickheads .. 

 

Edited August 19, 2018 by ETELENZOS92