Harry Potter 2018 - Rumors & Discussion

[Roebuck]

Since we got the Thestral mould this wave I think a new buckbeak mould is highly likely in next wave. After seen those pictures I am even more sure, looks great

 

Bricktober set 17 of November in USA:

https://www.thebrickfan.com/lego-harry-potter-bricktober-2018-5005254-barnes-and-noble-confirmed-details/

Edited November 8, 2018 by Roebuck

[spiderfan2000]

Hopefully that artwork is an indication of things to come next year.  That Buckbeak in particular would be great to see in a set, as it would make for a nice improvement on the 2004 version.

[Balrogofmorgoth]

That artwork is awesome , I really hope it’s a sign of things to come

[Roebuck]

Hey, what kind of animal or more likely fantastic beast is there in the picture where Harry are flying buckbeak (beside hippogriff and owl)

[Robert8]

I  think those are indeed upcoming minifigures

Harry would get a new hairpiece for years 5, 6 and 7. Ron would get a new one for year 4

 

[The Dangerous HC]

7 minutes ago, Robert8 said:

I  think those are indeed upcoming minifigures

Harry would get a new hairpiece for years 5, 6 and 7. Ron would get a new one for year 4

 

What artwork is everyone talking about? I have scoured Insta and seen nothing

[Legoniche]

See I don’t think there is any new hair piece required- this is how I would do it (not necessarily how lego’s Doing it:

harry year 1,2,3: new moulder harry hairpiece 

harry year 4: swept hair he has in CMF series

harry year 5,6,7: Oliver Woods hair in black

hermione year 1,2: new moulded Hermione hairpiece 

Hermione year 3: CMF Hermione hair 

Hermione year 4,5,6,7: Hermione 2011 hair 

Ron year 1,2,4: the new Ron Weasley hair 

Ron year 3: CMF Ron hair 

Ron year 5,6,7: CMF harry hair in dark orange/ 2011 Ron hair 

however, the dispute of what year the trio are in, in the CMF series has been cleared up thanks to those images- the CMF trio are in year 3, NOT year 4- i always thought the CMF Ron Andrew Hermione were yr 3, but I thought that the Harry from the CMF series was year 4- due to the hair. I hate that Lego are using that hair for his year 3 appearance, his yr 1+2 hair works much better for yr 3 

[RODDY]

2 hours ago, The Dangerous HC said:

What artwork is everyone talking about? I have scoured Insta and seen nothing

mp lego news

Edited November 8, 2018 by RODDY

[MrSkyFish]

is the art from a book or something?

[The Dangerous HC]

1 hour ago, RODDY said:

mp lego news

Nice one, cheers ??

[Captain Nemo]

Don’t read too much into that artwork. Stuff like that is not made by the set design team, rather outsourced artists. They are given lots of leeway in their ability to design and include characters in styles and costumes that were never intended to come to fruition—at least as they are show here. 

[Huigberts Builds]

5 hours ago, Roebuck said:

Hey, what kind of animal or more likely fantastic beast is there in the picture where Harry are flying buckbeak (beside hippogriff and owl)

I think it's just meant to be a brick build deer/stag or maybe a reindeer. Nothing too special.

On a side note does anyone know if the diagon alley micro set will be released in the Netherlands? And if so how you can get it? 

[Heppy9]

40 minutes ago, Huigberts Builds said:

I think it's just meant to be a brick build deer/stag or maybe a reindeer. Nothing too special.

On a side note does anyone know if the diagon alley micro set will be released in the Netherlands? And if so how you can get it? 

It is currently free with an €80 spend on shop@home or Lego stores

[hachiroku]

I got today the Great Hall, and added it to the Whomping Willow set. I really hope they keep releasing more parts of the castle to have a full one.

[Balrogofmorgoth]

Anyone know what kind of promotion is happening for the Diagon Alley set in the US? Lego is seriously mishandling their promotions this year, it’s pretty bad.

[Marvelous Spidey]

3 hours ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

Anyone know what kind of promotion is happening for the Diagon Alley set in the US? Lego is seriously mishandling their promotions this year, it’s pretty bad.

Currently available as a free gift with $99 purchases. I added the Winter Fire House to my cart and it came up so it should be on all purchases

Edited November 9, 2018 by Marvelous Spidey
Corrected from $75 to $99, it is all purchases

[nikhkin]

17 hours ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

Anyone know what kind of promotion is happening for the Diagon Alley set in the US? Lego is seriously mishandling their promotions this year, it’s pretty bad.

It says "FREE Exclusive Diagon Alley Micro Build! Get it free with purchases over $99. Offer valid November 9-21, 2018".

Other than the Bricktober packs (which was somewhat out of their hands), what's Lego messed up with the GWPs?

[Balrogofmorgoth]

5 hours ago, nikhkin said:

It says "FREE Exclusive Diagon Alley Micro Build! Get it free with purchases over $99. Offer valid November 9-21, 2018".

Other than the Bricktober packs (which was somewhat out of their hands), what's Lego messed up with the GWPs?

Diagon Alley, Bricktober, both Solo polybag minifigs (those polys are so badly advertised). It just feels like it’s been nothing but chaos and questions of what is happening when. It is what it is. At least I got my Diagon Alley last night on S@H! Now I gotta spend $75 at Barnes and Noble on the 17th for the HP Bricktober pack

[Whovastron]

38 minutes ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

Diagon Alley, Bricktober, both Solo polybag minifigs (those polys are so badly advertised). It just feels like it’s been nothing but chaos and questions of what is happening when. It is what it is. At least I got my Diagon Alley last night on S@H! Now I gotta spend $75 at Barnes and Noble on the 17th for the HP Bricktober pack

Tbh they don’t have much control on bricktober. Ya unfortunate that we all New about it, but form a business point of view, nothing was even hinted until the full reveal by Barnes and noble. Not mishandled at all by Lego, all down to B&N.

Diagon Alley again just suffered from leaks, if there were no leaks, we would of just had a reveal and announcement and it’s been widely advertised like any other S@H promotion.

as for the solo polybags, they were well advertised here in the U.K. on S@H.

bricktober is gonna be a mess because of TRU closing, it’s not Lego’s fault, and they’ve sold atleast the HP ones to B&N, taking any blame out of their hands really.

[Balrogofmorgoth]

1 minute ago, Whovastron said:

Tbh they don’t have much control on bricktober. Ya unfortunate that we all New about it, but form a business point of view, nothing was even hinted until the full reveal by Barnes and noble. Not mishandled at all by Lego, all down to B&N.

Diagon Alley again just suffered from leaks, if there were no leaks, we would of just had a reveal and announcement and it’s been widely advertised like any other S@H promotion.

as for the solo polybags, they were well advertised here in the U.K. on S@H.

bricktober is gonna be a mess because of TRU closing, it’s not Lego’s fault, and they’ve sold atleast the HP ones to B&N, taking any blame out of their hands really.

In the US the Solo polybags and Diagonal Alley were not advertised at all. I think one of the Solo ones was advertised late as a promo for a little bit but the second one never even showed up. Diagon Alley should have been in the store calendar but it wasn’t so nobody knew about it until the promotion started. And Barnes and Noble told me bricktober might not even happen because they’re having too much trouble getting the products from Lego 

Edited November 10, 2018 by Balrogofmorgoth

[nikhkin]

5 hours ago, Balrogofmorgoth said:

In the US the Solo polybags and Diagonal Alley were not advertised at all. I think one of the Solo ones was advertised late as a promo for a little bit but the second one never even showed up. Diagon Alley should have been in the store calendar but it wasn’t so nobody knew about it until the promotion started. And Barnes and Noble told me bricktober might not even happen because they’re having too much trouble getting the products from Lego 

Diagon Alley is advertised on there right now. I quoted the US site's information in my last post. 

[Balrogofmorgoth]

35 minutes ago, nikhkin said:

Diagon Alley is advertised on there right now. I quoted the US site's information in my last post. 

I didn’t say it wasn’t on there right now. I said it wasn’t in the store calendar. They didn’t advertise it until it started, we usually get some warning with these things. Regardless, it wasn’t meant to become a big deal, it was merely a side observation. I spent the money, got the free set, done and done. Promotions have just felt a little more chaotic this year than they normally are, that’s all. I’m not really mad about it, it’s just an observation.

Edited November 10, 2018 by Balrogofmorgoth

[Legochaek]

Diagon Alley is out of stock at my local store and online in the UK. They said they don’t think they’ll be getting it back in. 

[Scarilian]

On 11/10/2018 at 3:15 PM, Whovastron said:

it’s not Lego’s fault

It kind of is to be honest

Diagon Alley was sold in stores, that was where our first IRL leak of the set came from, due to the early distribution and direct sale of the set as opposed to a 'gift with purchase'. As a result of this they have ran out of stock incredibly prematurely in many locations (As noted by Lego-Fire) they are already out of stock in the UK and will not replenish, having removed the info on the promotion from the website.

The Bricktober sets themselves admittedly had some issue due to the lack of a distributor in the forms of Toys R Us, i can understand that causing issue. Yet this does not magically make all the stock they had disappear. They have the stock, have advertised it and seemingly have no plans to release it in a majority of locations unless they find a distributor. The packaging has even been changed to remove the Toys R Us Logo so they could easily give us the promotion. If they wanted to save Bricktober they could have distributed it with purchases over a certain amount. Instead they have only distributed via distributors who seemingly have no clue what they are doing, such as Barnes and Noble who directly sold the set to people resulting in an influx of scalpers.

While the closure of TRU is a factor, the majority of the blame here rests on Lego for not only failing to have a back-up plan for if a distributor pulled out, but also consistently providing the sets either to official stores where the policy of distribution was not enforced OR to simply not have the stock to satisfy demand. The second of which was also a factor with the HP Minifigure line.

Edited November 12, 2018 by Scarilian

[LegoFjotten]

3 hours ago, Scarilian said:

It kind of is to be honest

Diagon Alley was sold in stores, that was where our first IRL leak of the set came from, due to the early distribution and direct sale of the set as opposed to a 'gift with purchase'. As a result of this they have ran out of stock incredibly prematurely in many locations (As noted by Lego-Fire) they are already out of stock in the UK and will not replenish, having removed the info on the promotion from the website.

The Bricktober sets themselves admittedly had some issue due to the lack of a distributor in the forms of Toys R Us, i can understand that causing issue. Yet this does not magically make all the stock they had disappear. They have the stock, have advertised it and seemingly have no plans to release it in a majority of locations unless they find a distributor. The packaging has even been changed to remove the Toys R Us Logo so they could easily give us the promotion. If they wanted to save Bricktober they could have distributed it with purchases over a certain amount. Instead they have only distributed via distributors who seemingly have no clue what they are doing, such as Barnes and Noble who directly sold the set to people resulting in an influx of scalpers.

While the closure of TRU is a factor, the majority of the blame here rests on Lego for not only failing to have a back-up plan for if a distributor pulled out, but also consistently providing the sets either to official stores where the policy of distribution was not enforced OR to simply not have the stock to satisfy demand. The second of which was also a factor with the HP Minifigure line.

Oh come on... seriously?

How many stores sold the Diagon Alley set in addition to the one where the first picture came from? Claiming this is the cause they run out of stock prematurely is a huge assumption on your part.

Barnes and Noble screwup? Of course you blame that on LEGO too.

Not having a backup-plan for if a distributor pulled out? Are you being serious? No business ever has a backup plan for one-off promos.