Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Legofan04]

3 hours ago, Clone OPatra said:

Yes they're a new single-piece mould

Oh that's awesome then. Overall the set has a couple new pieces and it seems that the skirt piece for the flower is molded in a new color.  As far as the price of the set goes I will say that I prefer  lego over charging for a set  when it has new specialized pieces over what's happening in other themes where sets are a good $30 more than they should be and there's very little effort.

Just saw the new advent calender. Overall not a fan.  The sweaters are cool, and I'm glad each house gets two, but the builds don't do it for me. 

[JS038]

Only thing seemingly unique about it is what appears to be Cedric with a new face and hair print? Interesting. Maybe we’ll see that again in a 2026 set.

also the inclusion of child Luna and what looks like Daphne Greengrass are so similar it’s hard to know it’s not two variant of Luna. 

This AC and the builds have a very (above averagely) childish look / feel to them overall. 

Edited yesterday at 02:41 AM by JS038

[Clone OPatra]

13 minutes ago, JS038 said:

Only thing seemingly unique about it is what appears to be Cedric with a new face and hair print? Interesting. Maybe we’ll see that again in a 2026 set.

Face looks like the young Han Solo face (which they used for Cedric way back in the Clocktower set) and the hair is just Clone Wars Anakin hair. Nothing new st all, and baffling they'd revert to those bad options when they've used much better ones since.

[karrit]

I can't believe they are giving us 8 Minifigs in the Advent Calendar.  The other builds are garbage though.  Looks like I'll be doing the same three Calendars this year that I did last year, City, SW & HP.  

After seeing the Wednesday Dahlia Flower Set pictures I'm even more annoyed at the lame plants we're getting in the Herbology set.  The plants in the Wednesday set are way more interesting.

[Roebuck]

46 minutes ago, karrit said:

I can't believe they are giving us 8 Minifigs in the Advent Calendar

SW get 2

[Tariq j]

3 hours ago, Huigberts Builds said:

Ngl, this is probably my least favourite Harry Potter Advent Calendar, especially compared to the others great ones coming out this year. Harry Potter has been winning the AC race ever since the first one in my book, but this year it just gets outshined by pretty much every other one. Sure the sweaters are cute (although I don't remember ever seeing them in the movies) and so are the builds, but the builds are pretty useless to me. Other years they would enrich my other sets, this year idk, maybe for the people who bought the tiny Hedwig, but I wouldn’t have gotten them if it wasn't for the figures. Maybe they changed designers? Feels very different from other years. I'll buy it for the sweaters, but meh...

Yeah, I preferred it better when they included things builds and accessories that could be incorporated into sets. They’ve could have maybe done some builds related to the Gryffindor common room considering the upcoming Tower set or something like that.  

[brickbride]

Nothing says Christmas like buildable date rape drugs, sorry, whimsical magical love potions. And the overall childish looks of the whole thing make it even worse.

What have we got today? Let's build a letter that invites us to magic school, what fun! And the next day? Oooh, a cutely horrible monster book to study! And the day after that? Uh ... date rape drugs. And beer.

Something here doesn't quite seem to fit together. Just saying.

Also I'm genuinely baffled that they're including yet another buildable Hedwig, a buildable Sorting Hat (when one comes with Fawkes), and a buildable Thestral (when there's one in the book and we're getting a buildable Thestral family, too). And another buildable spider after the Aragog set, another buildable Buckbeak after the recent set (and this one looks terribly but then again so did the big version), and another buildable Mandrake, buildable stag Patronus, and buildable Monster Book. Maybe you're supposed to display all the cutesy tiny versions with the big versions assuming you've bought all the sets? That's really the only way I can explain it, but it doesn't make the AC feel very fresh or stand-alone. And it doesn't track with the gold coins and Polyjuice and Hogwarts letter and the other stuff that doesn't really fit with any existing set, or the kids in the Christmas sweaters.

Edited 15 hours ago by brickbride

[THELEGOBATMAN]

Easily the worst Harry Potter AC we've ever gotten. It might be cool for smaller kids, and eight minifigures is definitely an impressive number, but it's still a huge disappointment.

The oversized builds and wobbly-eyed creatures look nice, but they are utterly uninteresting. None of the minifigures are canon too, so there's not even a place you could display them.

Middle-aged Cedric pretending to be a high schooler looks hilarious—it's so funny that after seven years, they still haven't figured out how to make him resemble Robert Pattinson, or at least look good.

[Huigberts Builds]

13 minutes ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Middle-aged Cedric pretending to be a high schooler looks hilarious—it's so funny that after seven years, they still haven't figured out how to make him resemble Robert Pattinson, or at least look good.

I thought the original cmf one and latest book exclusive one were pretty good.

Interesting how all the Harry Potter sets that leaked end up being the last to be officially revealed. Really want to see the interior for Privet Drive and QQS.

[Coryo]

The quantity of minifigs is cool but those sweaters and builds are just kind of lame to me, probably gonna skip this one.

The most interesting part of the AC is that it canonizes Cho as being a year older than Harry, which never really came across in the movies.

[BacktoBricks]

On one hand I really don't like the AC because it means no more character variants from the actual film scenes. On the other hand, the prints are very cute and I know we'll never get these kind of sweaters which I'm sure would crop up in the magical world for some magical families. The Malfoys wouldn't be seen dead in them, but I feel like the Weasley family could wear them for Christmas (Charlie can be in Romania).

Not sure I like that new haipiece for Cedric and I dislike even more the thought of having to change hairpieces one way or the other to make him consistent with his other minifigures. The characters themselves are also nothing new or special.

For children though, opening this once a day and finding either a Christmas sweater character or a small magical creature or item build they can display, I'm sure it will be quite magical.

[lifeinplastic]

Ugh. I’ve been waiting ages for a set that come with multiple Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students but when it arrives, they have the most useless hideous torsos going! 👎👎👎

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

[…] they still haven't figured out how to make him resemble Robert Pattinson, or at least look good.

As @Huigberts Builds points out, they did, with the recent book exclusive! I guess they didn’t want to reuse that print because of the unfitting bubble print

8 minifigs is certainly impressive, but apart from the sweaters they’re not much to write home about. In my eyes, it’s the first time the HP AC gets its megablocks handed to it by the SW one! The MC one is better too. I still like it, but it’s less exciting than usual.

Now bring on the official pics for the June wave!

[THELEGOBATMAN]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

As @Huigberts Builds points out, they did, with the recent book exclusive! I guess they didn’t want to reuse that print because of the unfitting bubble print

Right, forgot about that. He also got a great faceprint in both the Hufflepuff Banner and the Quidditch Trunk—no idea why they didn't reuse this one!

Still, it wouldn't work though—they've used mid-legs for some reason, and those faceprints only work for semi-adult Cedric, and not a child.

Edited 19 hours ago by THELEGOBATMAN

[Micmac]

3 hours ago, THELEGOBATMAN said:

Easily the worst Harry Potter AC we've ever gotten. It might be cool for smaller kids, and eight minifigures is definitely an impressive number, but it's still a huge disappointment.

The oversized builds and wobbly-eyed creatures look nice, but they are utterly uninteresting. None of the minifigures are canon too, so there's not even a place you could display them.

Middle-aged Cedric pretending to be a high schooler looks hilarious—it's so funny that after seven years, they still haven't figured out how to make him resemble Robert Pattinson, or at least look good.

totally agree, this is awful. the figures aren't even worth getting with the strange torso prints. The creatures with the goggly eyes are bad too. Will just pull out some of my old unopened advents this year I think.

Also the greenhouse is a bit busy and strange that it's done in the tan colour as it seems like it doesn't link to the new castle system. I like the new mandrake part and the pot but the other plants are bad. We have some great versions of a greenhouse lately with the friends set and the larger Botanical garden version. I feel like thats what we should have got in a smaller scale and  in white too. If it wasn't harry potter and was just listed as a greenhouse i think people would not be impressed.

The main tower is a must buy though.

[Black Falcon]

9 hours ago, Huigberts Builds said:

Ngl, this is probably my least favourite Harry Potter Advent Calendar, especially compared to the others great ones coming out this year. Harry Potter has been winning the AC race ever since the first one in my book, but this year it just gets outshined by pretty much every other one. Sure the sweaters are cute (although I don't remember ever seeing them in the movies) and so are the builds, but the builds are pretty useless to me. Other years they would enrich my other sets, this year idk, maybe for the people who bought the tiny Hedwig, but I wouldn’t have gotten them if it wasn't for the figures. Maybe they changed designers? Feels very different from other years. I'll buy it for the sweaters, but meh...

There was never really a steady concept anyways, they have done minibuilds in the past, aswell minifig sized stuff and personally I don´t mind when they bring new ideas to a theme instead of the same stuff every year.

3 hours ago, Coryo said:

The quantity of minifigs is cool but those sweaters and builds are just kind of lame to me, probably gonna skip this one.

The most interesting part of the AC is that it canonizes Cho as being a year older than Harry, which never really came across in the movies.

I am not sure if Lego builds actually count towards making anything canon, but you would think, the books do ;).

4 hours ago, Huigberts Builds said:

Interesting how all the Harry Potter sets that leaked end up being the last to be officially revealed. Really want to see the interior for Privet Drive and QQS.

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Now bring on the official pics for the June wave!

According to the Legoleak Reddit, Harry Potter and the other themes are supposed to be revealed today.

 

Have to say, I don´t think the buids of the Advent Calendar are bad and surely kids will have their fun with them - actually I think even more with the buildable creatures than something like the letter (though at least is comes with a Hogwarts Sigil). I can understand why adults would prefer something else, especially things they could place in the actual sets. Also like the sweaters, but still hope we don´t get them every year now but rather some exclusive figures with new prints.

[Huigberts Builds]

1 hour ago, Black Falcon said:

There was never really a steady concept anyways, they have done minibuilds in the past, aswell minifig sized stuff and personally I don´t mind when they bring new ideas to a theme instead of the same stuff every year.

Maybe, idk. To me it always felt the advent calendar at the very least complimented a set from either that or the previous year with some small builds and accessoires that would fit in with the others. Sure they experimented a little with a board game, multiple schoolyears at once, sometimes more micro builds than another, but overall they fitted in better with the regular sets than any other theme. While this year it feels quite the opposite.

Still gonna buy it, it's interesting to say the least, this Advent Calendar kinda feels like how I expected the calendars to be back in like 2019. Not to mention this might be our first Harry that never appeared on screen (correct me if I'm wrong, just don't remember any of these sweaters) which opens up the doors for a lot of other new interesting things. Would love to get a Santa Hagrid and Dumbledore one day. Although I also still wish to get some of the missing Christmas scenes from the movies, especially Fred and George in their Christmas sweaters (as it's the closest to how they appeared in the old pc games).

[JeanGreyForever]

I agree that this is the worst HP AC. The minifigures are the only good thing about it. The builds don't carry any interest for me and the animal ones in particular look horrible.

5 hours ago, Coryo said:

The most interesting part of the AC is that it canonizes Cho as being a year older than Harry, which never really came across in the movies.

I think the movies specifically made Cho the same age as Harry to keep her in his orbit. Hence why she's still portrayed as a student at Hogwarts in Deathly Hallows Part 2, even though in the books she had already graduated by then. Another similar decision involved Padma and Parvati both being Gryffindor in the movies, apparently because they needed to be seen together in Goblet of Fire for Harry to realize they're viable dates for him and Ron at the Yule Ball. And the movies hadn't depicted interhouse friendships at that point so it wouldn't make sense for Ravenclaw Padma and Gryffindor Parvati to be walking around together unless they were both in the same house.

It's somewhat ambiguous if Luna is the same age as Harry or Ginny in the movies as well.

[Chocolate Frog]

I cannot believe the negative reactions to this calendar. First, it’s not a £300 set aimed at adults, it’s a kids set designed to provide them with a fun activity every day in the run up to Christmas. EIGHT new Minifigures and a proper build every day (as opposed to a table made of three bricks with a roast chicken on top, or two brick built wrapped presents) will look great from a kids point of view. The figures are collectible too, like the ones in funko AC’s. And why aren’t they any good for displays? They may be non-canon but so is one of the Flitwick’s (!) or a number of background wizards Lego have made or any of the non HP wizards or witches Lego put in other sets which people put in HP displays. Or Peeves… anyway, the torsos look nicely done and will be great for making extra students to use in Christmas scenes eg in the Great Hall or  Hogsmead (particularly with the 18+ set coming in September). I also think it’s cool to have some ‘Expanded Universe’ type figures in HP, which generally gets much less weird stuff than other fandoms (eg Star Wars - Blue Snaggletooth anyone, or Jaxxon) but is fun to have - and dare I say it will probably become highly collectible. So, I respect the views of people who don’t like it, but I definitely don’t agree with them. 

[Gorilla94]

50 minutes ago, Chocolate Frog said:

They may be non-canon but so is one of the Flitwick’s

Which one, if you don't mind my asking?

I agree. The AC is pretty useless for me as an adult, who just builds on his castle, but I would have adored it as a kid and played with the animals and buildable potions for hours. 

[brickbride]

1 hour ago, Chocolate Frog said:

I cannot believe the negative reactions to this calendar. First, it’s not a £300 set aimed at adults, it’s a kids set designed to provide them with a fun activity every day in the run up to Christmas.

That's the bare minimum definition of what an AC is and does. Doesn't mean that people can't have opinions on whether it does it well.

As a kid, I wouldn't have found the figs terribly exciting. Random students I either have a ton of (Draco, Harry ...) or don't care about, all wearing basically the same sweater? How is that better than robes, especially if Christmas sweaters aren't really a thing in your country? This year's City AC with its costumed figures is much more fun, and you'd think a magical setting would lend itself to even more of that. Why not Harry in a stag Patronus costume for once or something off the wall like that if we're not going with Canon scenes?

I also don't like the sweater design. What's the thing on the Slytherin sweater even supposed to be? Surely not a snake - a frog maybe? It does look too Funko Pop to me, not consistent with either LEGO or HP (like that horrible HP Dots cooperation set where you had anime-style face tiles for the characters). The Ravenclaw thing is maybe a Pixie, I guess? Why? Because those are blue? If the entire House wears matching Christmas sweaters - and that's a thing I can't really see happening, especially in Slytherin - they had better have their House symbol on them or something. Draco Malfoy wearing a Christmas sweater with a weird Funko Pop style frog on it to match with Blaise Zabini is just something that does nothing for me. It's not off the wall enough to be funny, like Voldemort dressed as Santa or Sirius wearing a dog costume, and it's too random and unbelievable otherwise.

Edited 13 hours ago by brickbride

[Huigberts Builds]

1 hour ago, Chocolate Frog said:

And why aren’t they any good for displays? They may be non-canon but so is one of the Flitwick’s (!) or a number of background wizards Lego have made or any of the non HP wizards or witches Lego put in other sets which people put in HP displays. Or Peeves…

I don't think anyone here has an issue with the figures, it's the builds. Also I wouldn't say Flitwick isn't canon, he's just retconned, but all of the versions we got appeared on screen so they're canon to the specific movie they appeared in.

[BacktoBricks]

33 minutes ago, brickbride said:

What's the thing on the Slytherin sweater even supposed to be? Surely not a snake - a frog maybe?

I believe it's meant to be a Grindylow.

Edited 12 hours ago by BacktoBricks

[BacktoBricks]

15 hours ago, JS038 said:

also the inclusion of child Luna and what looks like Daphne Greengrass are so similar it’s hard to know it’s not two variant of Luna. 

The thing is, I don't think the girl in the Hufflepuff sweater is even meant to be Daphne Greengrass which just makes it even more confusing. As much as they have used the exact same head and hair as Daphne in the Great Hall, Daphne should be in a Slytherin sweater, so I would guess if anything it's meant to be Hannah Abbott.

Edited 10 hours ago by BacktoBricks

[Black Falcon]

3 hours ago, brickbride said:

I also don't like the sweater design. What's the thing on the Slytherin sweater even supposed to be? Surely not a snake - a frog maybe? It does look too Funko Pop to me, not consistent with either LEGO or HP (like that horrible HP Dots cooperation set where you had anime-style face tiles for the characters). The Ravenclaw thing is maybe a Pixie, I guess? Why? Because those are blue? If the entire House wears matching Christmas sweaters - and that's a thing I can't really see happening, especially in Slytherin - they had better have their House symbol on them or something. Draco Malfoy wearing a Christmas sweater with a weird Funko Pop style frog on it to match with Blaise Zabini is just something that does nothing for me. It's not off the wall enough to be funny, like Voldemort dressed as Santa or Sirius wearing a dog costume, and it's too random and unbelievable otherwise.

As already mentioned above, it is a Grindylow. And actually it is consitent to the Lego version of it we got in the black lake set, same is the pixie for the Ravenclaws. Given that Grindylows life in the black lake and the Slytherin Common Room is underneath it and they can actually even see into the sea from there, it makes a lot sense to me that they would choose them. All in all I would say you are probably overthinking those sweaters, they are just a fun little thing they added, but they surely aren´t for everyone.