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Whovastron

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Something I think people are forgetting with HP being evergreen, is that Lego is nowadays more a landscape suited for evergreen licences themes, especially compared to back in the day of like pre-2013. Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Disney, Minecraft, Speed Champions, even Jurassic World, which of course isn’t evergreen, but will most certainly come back with each movie. I think Lego is keen on having evergreen franchises they can count on. Considering the ‘Wizarding World’ marketing, almost like Superheroes, and the press coverage of this theme, I think they are atleast hoping it can become one. Whether it will, who knows, but if it’s not to be, it will surely atleast last as long as Nexo Knights.

Jern92

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1 minute ago, Lego-fire said:

UK Lego site won't let me order 71043! Anyone had any luck?

The NZ site won't let me do it either. Odd.

BacktoBricks

BacktoBricks

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35 minutes ago, Lego-fire said:

UK Lego site won't let me order 71043! Anyone had any luck?

Nope still just says coming soon. And I've got to go to bed so I'll just have to see what happens in the morning ...

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Vindicare

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15 hours ago, Roebuck said:

That is a interesting thought! Maybe the first waves have most HP sets, but the later waves have more FB sets. I saw the designers where complaining that they more or less where working in the dark designing Grindelwald´s Escape - 75951, because the security with new films are so high they barely get any info at all. With HP and when FB films are released they have all the source materiel they can dream off.. The other reason there are few FB sets are most likely because Lego are not sure they will sell well.. Hopefully they do so we can see the shift in a few years from HP to FB, maybe those waves will have some HP sets that where for some reason not in earlier waves like COS :grin:

I agree!

Should be doable, hopefully we see something like that soon :sweet:

If you have read or looked at a designer interview about HP it is pretty clear that first wave focused on year 1-2  (" We based these sets on movies 1 and 2 with a few bits from 3 added for flavour")! So no we have not gotten year 3 yet just a flavour from it, next wave most likely is 3 and 4.. With your logic we can say that the GH set is from every movie that has the great hall in at least one scene etc :hmpf:

It’s obvious that the Express is meant to be Year 3, given the inclusion of Lupin & Dementor. Just as the Hall is Year 1, given we have the mirror & Quirrell. Both of sets have flavors, as the designer said, of other movies, like the wall to get on the platform & the addition of the Basilis, though. 

geobrush

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Brickvault youtube review of the Hogwarts Castle is up and it is great. I want that set now. Can't wait for September 1st. 

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SoupOrFishOil

SoupOrFishOil

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Has anybody built the sets on LDD, particularly the Great Hall and Whomping Willow? It will be a couple of months before I can get my hands on any of the sets, but I'd love to start tinkering with some mods.

Thanks if you can share. :classic:

Edit: Nevermind. They are in the LDD subforum now; they weren't when I last looked. Thanks PicnicBasketSam, if you see this!

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BrickJagger

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4 hours ago, Whovastron said:

Something I think people are forgetting with HP being evergreen, is that Lego is nowadays more a landscape suited for evergreen licences themes, especially compared to back in the day of like pre-2013. Star Wars, Marvel, DC, Disney, Minecraft, Speed Champions, even Jurassic World, which of course isn’t evergreen, but will most certainly come back with each movie. I think Lego is keen on having evergreen franchises they can count on. Considering the ‘Wizarding World’ marketing, almost like Superheroes, and the press coverage of this theme, I think they are atleast hoping it can become one. Whether it will, who knows, but if it’s not to be, it will surely atleast last as long as Nexo Knights.

Minecraft and Speed Champions are not evergreen, and I actually see Minecraft ending the second kids stop playing the game, which could happen soon.

Jurassic World will likely be discontinued after the third and final JW film is released. You likely won't see more JW sets until if/when Universal decides to make more movies.

Yeah, it'll last as long as NK for sure. Evergreen is another story.

Markalus

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1 hour ago, geobrush said:

Brickvault youtube review of the Hogwarts Castle is up and it is great. I want that set now. Can't wait for September 1st. 

If it’s anything like the UCS Millennium Falcon release (and I suspect it will be) then I doubt there will be stock available come Sept 1st. In my region they are allowing 2 per customer too, which is crazy! 

eliminator

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2 minutes ago, Markalus said:

If it’s anything like the UCS Millennium Falcon release (and I suspect it will be) then I doubt there will be stock available come Sept 1st. In my region they are allowing 2 per customer too, which is crazy! 

My store's pre-order list of 60 will be filled tomorrow and they say they have extras on hand. This is wayyyy more than the half-dozen UCS MFs they had. Looks like Lego is better prepared this time.

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Markalus

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8 minutes ago, eliminator said:

My store's pre-order list of 60 will be filled tomorrow and they say they have extras on hand. This is wayyyy more than the half-dozen UCS MFs they had. Looks like Lego is better prepared this time.

Let’s hope so. Pre-orders is a great step towards pre-empting demand. I still think they will be overwhelmed with orders though.

Whovastron

Whovastron

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2 hours ago, BrickJagger said:

Minecraft and Speed Champions are not evergreen, and I actually see Minecraft ending the second kids stop playing the game, which could happen soon.

Jurassic World will likely be discontinued after the third and final JW film is released. You likely won't see more JW sets until if/when Universal decides to make more movies.

Yeah, it'll last as long as NK for sure. Evergreen is another story.

Minecraft has been going 5 years, Speed Champions 4, with no sign of either slowing down. They’re close enough to evergreen as licences themes have been at Lego. Don’t really see any reason why you’d specifically say those weren’t.

even if they’re not evergreen, they have both lasted longer than most previous licences themes, so the likelihood of Harry Potter being around for a while is good. And I did say specifically that Jurassic World will be around as long as the films are being released, I never said they’d be releasing sets after the films stop being released.

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BacktoBricks

BacktoBricks

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5 hours ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

It’s only available for VIPs, are you signed in to your Vip account?

Yep I am a VIP and 7 hours post midnight and still not available on UK S@H. I live min 6 hours from a Lego store so no chance of picking it up in person unfortunately. Kind of think I should wait in case they do an exclusive poly or something on September 1st (Ollivander?), but at this rate I'll have to.

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Whovastron

Whovastron

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Just now, BacktoBricks said:

Yep I am VIP and 7 hours post midnight and still not available on UK S@H. I live min 60 hours from a Lego store so no chance of picking it up in person unfortunately. Kind of think I should wait in case they do an exclusive poly or something on September 1st (Ollivander?), but at this rate I'll have to.

According the september calendar there isn’t a HP polybags.

i hope t come online for all you guys soon enough. My and the misses are just getting up to head to our nearest store to pick one up

BacktoBricks

BacktoBricks

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2 minutes ago, Whovastron said:

According the september calendar there isn’t a HP polybags.

i hope t come online for all you guys soon enough. My and the misses are just getting up to head to our nearest store to pick one up

Yeah I know, but the calendar hasn't been completely reliable of late. I'm not saying there will be anything, just that for such a large purchase it seems odd. 

Hope you manage to get one. Happy building! 

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joeee

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Midnight here in California and the 71043 is still not available for order. Ah well! it is okay. I can wait. I hope everyone who wants one now is able to get one! =)

Roebuck

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4 hours ago, Vindicare said:

It’s obvious that the Express is meant to be Year 3, given the inclusion of Lupin & Dementor. Just as the Hall is Year 1, given we have the mirror & Quirrell. Both of sets have flavors, as the designer said, of other movies, like the wall to get on the platform & the addition of the Basilis, though. 

I do not think you understand what I mean.. Yes, the express is meant to be year 3 or at least have some bits from it like most of the minifigs (even tough the trolley witch and small legs on the kids are from 1-2). The only other bit I see from 3 is the hole in the WW.. So do you really think that a couple of minifigs and a hole in a tree is everything Lego are making from probably the most popular HP movie *huh* I could be wrong time will show, but next wave most likely will have several year 3 sets (probably with the new legs on the kids as well) :wink:

Brickr

Brickr

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2 minutes ago, Sharwood1 said:

I called Lego this afternoon asking what time and they said 9am uk time. I'm in Australia so 6pm. 40min time 

Good call, thanks for the heads up, been refreshing since 6:30am UK time :)

Roebuck

Roebuck

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42 minutes ago, Sharwood1 said:

I called Lego this afternoon asking what time and they said 9am uk time. I'm in Australia so 6pm. 40min time 

Available in Norway now :sweet:

Edit: "Pre-order this item today; it will be in by 1 Sep 2018"*huh*

I am waiting for a better deal anyway so do not matter for me, but bad news it that is true for day one shoppers..

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