Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[krimimimi]

On 3/17/2025 at 12:49 PM, BacktoBricks said:

The irony is, if there was no racebending with the new cast, Lego could essentially use the same minifigures for the characters whether the set was based off the movies or shows. The current minifigures look roughly faithful to how the books portray them, so if the new show stuck with how the books portrayed them appearance wise, it wouldn't really be an issue in terms of Lego. The only thing that would be different would be the costumes the characters were wearing, but the heads and hairpieces for the characters could be the same wether it's  a movie or a show set. I don't think any of us would mind some variety in costumes or the extra locations and characters the show series could provide, such as the kitchens and Winky (long way off I know) as we would never get them with movie sets.

The sets could appeal to both demographics then. 

The fact that it won't be possible is not Lego's fault. They might be facing a dilemma even they don't want to consider.

I agree. As long as they remained remotely faithful to the books, it would have been a virtual non-issue in minifig format. Seems an unforced error on HBO's side, especially as, whatever else, JKR had gone to some effort to have the racial and religious demographics of the UK at the time ('90s) numerically very accurately reflected. You can quibble some about screen time, but then the same issue would apply to a far greater extent to the genders, which was fine; ultimately it's a story about a boy.

On the other hand, as far as lego goes, they had few qualms changing Ariel's race. I thought they might do it only for the minifigures versions in 43225 the massive D2C display set, but they followed up by changing her appearance in the friends minidolls format for the Disney Princesses theme as well. I imagine they'll do the same with HP. 

[Black Falcon]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

It seems unlikely to be a nano-set given Harry Potter already got one this year and historically has only done 1 maximum a year.

That being said, nothing rules it out yet either. But I don't think Hogsmeade as a D2C nano set makes sense like Hogwarts did. The scale isn't the same.

Exactly. I don´t see anyone wanting a Microscale Hogsmeade and if they would make that as the big Set of the year I`m going to eat slugs.

Eitherway, we still haven´t much info about the set yet anyways and so far I´m not even sure how certain the bit of info we got is.

 

[BacktoBricks]

Where has the Hogsmeade info come from?

[krimimimi]

8 minutes ago, BacktoBricks said:

Where has the Hogsmeade info come from?

Apparently from an IG story from @LSWSA13678, but I haven't personally seen it. 

[BacktoBricks]

1 minute ago, krimimimi said:

Apparently from an IG story from @LSWSA13678, but I haven't personally seen it. 

Thank you. Going to take it with a heavy pinch of salt for now.

 

51 minutes ago, krimimimi said:

Seems an unforced error on HBO's side, especially as, whatever else, JKR had gone to some effort to have the racial and religious demographics of the UK at the time ('90s) numerically very accurately reflected. 

You make a very good point there. Her portrayal may be stereotypical and unprogressive, but she did include diversity in an era that from my own experience was nowhere near as openly diverse as it is now. So for the era, the representation is fairly accurate and changing it to make it more diverse could be seen as a similar approach to Disney updating The Little Mermaid or Snow White to make them more progressive; if you take the stories as products of their time, then it's unnecessary and so far it does not seem to be going down well for either Disney or Lego. The Little Mermaid set was not well received and everywhere I've seen comments discussing the Snow White cottage, people expressed the idea that if it turned out to be movie based they wouldn't buy it.

The irony with Lego, is that they can change the skintones, but all the HP students look like clones anyway as they keep using the same facial expressions.

 

[JS038]

We finally have some leaks of Aunt Marge’s visit lego set. They’re on the same ig as the one mentioned above pertaining to the Hogsmeade leak. 

- aunt Marge appears to be some form of big fig (no indication of a regular fig for her)

- both front and back of the house. Hinges closed to one full house or opens to show interior. While it looks more complete than the previous version, perhaps it has less details? The back atrium is included this time (makes sense with the scene)

- ripper the dog is present. All minifigs appear to be new variants? Aunt Petunia it’s hard to tell. Harry is the same as the night bus. 

[icm]

I like what I see of the house so far. If the interior is good, I'll probably try and get this set for half price without minifigures.

[Tariq j]

Oh nice, they really seem to have gone all out for the house. You can see Harry’s bedroom and the staircase in the rear part of the set, so I’m guessing you’ve obviously got the living room at the front section. 

[Roebuck]

4 hours ago, JS038 said:

ripper the dog is present.

Same print/color as we got before?

[Bugbot20082]

4 hours ago, JS038 said:

We finally have some leaks of Aunt Marge’s visit lego set. They’re on the same ig as the one mentioned above pertaining to the Hogsmeade leak. 

- aunt Marge appears to be some form of big fig (no indication of a regular fig for her)

- ripper the dog is present. All minifigs appear to be new variants? Aunt Petunia it’s hard to tell. Harry is the same as the night bus. 

Marge looks like she uses the same large sphere/hemisphere used for the technic solar system for Earth.  The feet are bricks (1x1 tiles for shoes, action posing stem part as a leg) and arms might be Hagrid’s. It’s very strange to use a 2x2 dome brick as a head. I hope the set includes a regular Marge minifigure which we have not seen yet, the gimmick might be the regular minifigure fits inside the inflated body. 

some other things: ripper is a repeat of existing bulldog colour, sticker on the front door with letters stuffed in the letterbox and bars on Harry’s window show that like the previous it’s got references to the other movies 

Edited March 25 by Bugbot20082

[BrickBob Studpants]

Love the new Privet Drive set!  Marge looks better than expected and the house itself is an improvement to me as well ^^

As for the Hogsmeade rumour, I‘m fully behind the idea, but they kinda shot themselves in the foot minifig-wise with the 2023 AC  They can still do a few new characters and variants of course, but I doubt the minifigs will be much of a draw here. The set itself however has great potential!!

Edited March 25 by BrickBob Studpants

[sammy_zammy]

Privet Drive looks pretty nice, can’t help but feel incredibly spoilt by the 2020 set’s roof though. Not sure I see the upgrades elsewhere for it to be worth a second purchase. Curious to see how the interior looks.

That said, it’s clearly a provisional image (see the turquoise Privet Drive sign!) so maybe my opinion will improve once I see real photos

[AD_Bricks]

46 minutes ago, sammy_zammy said:

That said, it’s clearly a provisional image (see the turquoise Privet Drive sign!) so maybe my opinion will improve once I see real photos

Some pictures I can see online show the sign actually being teal, so I think it's probably final.

Also, one of the four star wars sets that leaked says "preliminary image" inside the confidential stamp, and that one is clearly preliminary (blatantly incorrect minifigs) unlike the other three, so I think privet drive would probably have that too if it was also not finalised.

[MaxHeadroom]

Hmmm. The house being 360 does make this tempting. Maybe I’ll get it if there’s a sale. Can’t wait to see the rest of the sets. 

[BacktoBricks]

I'm liking most of what I see. Sure the roof is not as good as the last one, but the fact that it can become fully enclosed and has the conservatory is really nice. I also love the diamond pane stickers for the top windows as that feature has always stood out to me as part of the house's features and was noticeably absent on the last model. The fact that they didn't include the same for the lower bigger windows is awkward though as now there is an inconsistency between levels. If the top ones are 2x2 pane prints and not stickers and they didn't want to make 2x3 pane prints as well I would have taken clear backed stickers over nothing. Applying stickers is always a choice after all if you don't like the finish.

Maybe the Privet Drive sign is teal to give that dusky glow feel seeing as the scene takes place in the evening?

Harry is a Knight Bus reuse as expected and understandable and Ripper appears to be the same bulldog in 60258 City Tuning Workshop. I don't think Ripper's collar was blue, but the two toned nougat and white coluring is fairly accurate over all. Great to see Uncle Vernon with a unique torso at last and a mid leg and unique Dudley too.

I would like Aunt Marge to also have a normal minifigure, which for set playability and acting out her blowing up you'd think would be necessary, but I'm guessing they will go with the play starting at her already blown up. That being said, her inflated version looks very nice with the prints on those parts.

Petunia is a letdown though. I believe her torso will be the same outfit as her last figure just with a changed/updated print as although the last Privet Drive was based on Chamber of Secrets, Petunia's outfit was actually from Prisoner of Azkaban. I will have to wait for better pictures to see whether or not the torso will be better, but her using a reddish brown hairpiece which is blatantly inaccurate is annoying since the dark brown is still in production for the Lion Knight's Castle. I'm guessing they didn't want to keep the colour going after that set retires at the end of this year so easier to just use the reddish brown one. Thankfully an easy fix though.

Overall though, a really good minifigure selection and set though. Can't wait for pictures of the other sets. 

[Virginia_Bricks]

The worries were that with such a low piece count it wouldn't be an enclosed model, but thanks to 2 8x16 plates the roof took a whole lot less pieces. And I think that is a great tradeoff, so much so I might considering either selling my 2020 version or piecing it out for castle MOCs since the main brick color is the same.

[mark1991t]

5 hours ago, sammy_zammy said:

That said, it’s clearly a provisional image (see the turquoise Privet Drive sign!) so maybe my opinion will improve once I see real photos

1 hour ago, BacktoBricks said:

Maybe the Privet Drive sign is teal to give that dusky glow feel seeing as the scene takes place in the evening?

The sign is the same as can be seen at the studio backlot Privet Drive. 

The new lego-house, with its window-configuration, is based on the real one, used in HP1 (not the picture above which is a studio-set). The 2020 lego set was based on the one above.

[krimimimi]

1 hour ago, BacktoBricks said:

I'm liking most of what I see. Sure the roof is not as good as the last one, but the fact that it can become fully enclosed and has the conservatory is really nice. I also love the diamond pane stickers for the top windows as that feature has always stood out to me as part of the house's features and was noticeably absent on the last model. The fact that they didn't include the same for the lower bigger windows is awkward though as now there is an inconsistency between levels. If the top ones are 2x2 pane prints and not stickers and they didn't want to make 2x3 pane prints as well I would have taken clear backed stickers over nothing. Applying stickers is always a choice after all if you don't like the finish. […]

I would like Aunt Marge to also have a normal minifigure, which for set playability and acting out her blowing up you'd think would be necessary, but I'm guessing they will go with the play starting at her already blown up. That being said, her inflated version looks very nice with the prints on those parts.

I've seen two different versions of the pictures, one from the IG account named above, and one with the watermark (mostly) removed from rednote. While the IG watermarked version is a bit cluttered, it appears to have the diamond panes in the ground floor as well. The rednote version seems to have lost that detail, in addition to the Privet Drive printing, while editing out the confidential watermark. 

I still have hope we might see a normal Marge. We're not looking at the box front that shows the included minifigs, but a scene with the minifigs in play. Having two Marge's would be odd, so maybe we'll get lucky. 🍀 

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Wow, this actually looks amazing. The house is really great. I love the sudebuild and Marge-balloon. Minifigures look great, and Ripper is a great addition.

[BacktoBricks]

2 hours ago, mark1991t said:

The sign is the same as can be seen at the studio backlot Privet Drive. 

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The new lego-house, with its window-configuration, is based on the real one, used in HP1 (not the picture above which is a studio-set). The 2020 lego set was based on the one above.

Ah okay thank you. Odd that they would choose the teal sign when basing the house on the movie look.

2 hours ago, krimimimi said:

I've seen two different versions of the pictures, one from the IG account named above, and one with the watermark (mostly) removed from rednote. While the IG watermarked version is a bit cluttered, it appears to have the diamond panes in the ground floor as well. The rednote version seems to have lost that detail, in addition to the Privet Drive printing, while editing out the confidential watermark. 

Ooo thank you, so maybe the windows will look better after all.

[Black Falcon]

8 hours ago, AD_Bricks said:

Some pictures I can see online show the sign actually being teal, so I think it's probably final.

Also, one of the four star wars sets that leaked says "preliminary image" inside the confidential stamp, and that one is clearly preliminary (blatantly incorrect minifigs) unlike the other three, so I think privet drive would probably have that too if it was also not finalised.

Actually, all of them are watermarked, just that it was removed (partly) from them. So all in all that means, anything in those pictures could still be changed in the final version, depending on how final those pictures are.

 

4 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

I would like Aunt Marge to also have a normal minifigure, which for set playability and acting out her blowing up you'd think would be necessary, but I'm guessing they will go with the play starting at her already blown up. That being said, her inflated version looks very nice with the prints on those parts.

I would actually be surprised if they is no normal version of her included. That she isn´t on the leaked picture doesn´t mean anything, since such pictures usually don´t feature both versions of a figure.

[AD_Bricks]

4 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

Actually, all of them are watermarked, just that it was removed (partly) from them. So all in all that means, anything in those pictures could still be changed in the final version, depending on how final those pictures are.

Fair point, but what I meant was that although all of them are watermarked with a confidential stamp, one of the Star Wars ones (the only one that seems to be preliminary) has a different confidential stamp that says it's preliminary, unlike privet drive.

Also, I haven't seen versions of the images with the watermarks removed, so we must be looking at different copies of the images, but either way, the sign is definitely supposed to be teal, so it would seem that privet drive is final.

[Roebuck]

18 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

Ripper appears to be the same bulldog in 60258 City Tuning Workshop. I don't think Ripper's collar was blue, but the two toned nougat and white coluring is fairly accurate over all.

Any other animals like owls in the set?

[BacktoBricks]

1 hour ago, Roebuck said:

Any other animals like owls in the set?

Only the standard closed wings Hedwig from what I can see I'm afraid.

[MaxHeadroom]

Calling it now that a normal Marge will not be included. It’s easy bait for hardcore collectors to buy another remake in 5 years time.