Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[BrickMatit]

31 minutes ago, akaseim said:

Is the Library in the East Wing?

It's usually put there.

[akaseim]

6 minutes ago, sebastian666 said:

I also think the 379 piece count of “Dobby the Free Elf” is pretty telling. That’s almost exactly the same number of pieces as the (now retiring / sold out) “Potions Class” and I could see LEGO giving us another modular room like that to swap out under the Great Hall.

This could be far fetched, but how good would it be to get the Hogwarts Kitchen scene where a now free Dobby has been hired to work as a salaried employee. It would be the perfect thing to swap out under the Great Hall now that the Potions Class is no more. 

This will be perfect!! I don't like the classes under the Great Hall and the Kitchen with Dobby could look great.... But then I will need somewhere to put the Potion Class, ideally near to Snape potions pantry and Slytherin common room (that won't be accurate but it's how I would like them). 

I think I may need a building with empty rooms... but that is not gonna happen. It would be wierd to sell and empty building :-D

5 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

It's usually put there.

I could buy the whole East Wing for a good library :-)

[Virginia_Bricks]

I haven't picked up the play set DA shops because I have the D2C and in my opinion it is the better version. But with the Knockturn Alley set being unique I might buy one finally.

What year do we think it will be based on? COS or HBP? Either way I think we get our first Mr Borgin mini-figure, Draco, Bellatrix if HBP or Lucius if COS, Harry, maybe a repeat of one of the new Death Eaters and 3 other various minifigures.

[brickbride]

Lucius is likely in the Dobby set. I really don't think they'll touch the Kitchen because of the whole "Hogwarts runs on slave labour" issue.

Edited January 8 by brickbride

[BrickMatit]

22 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Either way I think we get our first Mr Borgin

Mr Borgin already appeared in Wizarding World minifigure pack from 2021.

I think it could be based on HBP, just to avoid to repeat Borgin and Burkes: Floo Network set.

[BacktoBricks]

21 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

What year do we think it will be based on? COS or HBP? Either way I think we get our first Mr Borgin mini-figure, Draco, Bellatrix if HBP or Lucius if COS, Harry, maybe a repeat of one of the new Death Eaters and 3 other various minifigures.

We actually got Mr Borgin in the 2021 Wizarding Word Accessory pack. He was a reuse of other parts, but then a lot of characters are. 6 minifigures seems to be the standard for these shop sets so I'm going to say:

COS: Mr Borgin,  Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy, Harry with sooty face, shop keeper for other shop, death eater

HBP: Mr Borgin, Narcissa Malfoy, Draco Malfoy, Harry Potter, Fenrir Greyback, shop keeper for other shop

Or a mix: Mr Borgin, Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy, Harry with sooty face, shop keeper for other shop, Fenrir Greyback.

[BrickMatit]

Just now, BacktoBricks said:

COS: Mr Borgin,  Lucius Malfoy, Draco Malfoy, Harry with sooty face, shop keeper for other shop, death eater

In CoS case I'd expect Hagrid, instead of a death eater 

[Brick Wizard001]

Honestly i could imagine the Dobby set being the viaduct bridge. The scene did take place near one of the courtyards and would make sense with the piece count.

[BacktoBricks]

12 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

In CoS case I'd expect Hagrid, instead of a death eater 

I can't see the budget stretching to that and Hagrid can be picked up in a cheap set, but I could see a sticker for slug repellant making it's way into the set.

[Gryffindor]

My thoughts regarding patronuses for this wave:

-76462: Hogwarts House Symbol (14+, 542 pcs.) - no patronus

- 76469: Dobby the Free Elf (8+, 379 pcs.) - hopefully a playset with Lucius, Harry, Dobby, and Dumbledore. In that case, the patronus could be either Harry’s stag or Dumbledore’s Phoenix.

- 76471: Knockturn Alley Shops (8+, 788 pcs.) - hopefully a HBP set, meaning it could include Harry and/or Ron and therefore either of their patronuses. There’s always a SLIGHT chance they include Arthur or Kingsley as Order members patrolling or something, which could give us their patronuses. Or Snape since he’s a death eater. But it’s most likely Harry or Ron.

- 76473: Hogwarts East Wing (10+, 2164 pcs.) - I’d imagine Harry, Ron, Snape, and Dumbledore are all likely candidates to be in this set, so it could be any of their patronuses. I could also see Seamus being in this set and including his patronus, but I doubt they’d prioritize including his patronus over some other ones for more important characters. If it’s the Chamber of Secrets, maybe it’s Ginny and her horse? Or a slight chance of Cho and her swan.

- 76474: Hogwarts Courtyard Plants (14+, 817 pcs.) - probably not a playset, so therefore no patronuses. 
 

For the other two sets, it’s too soon to tell, but I’d imagine one or both of them will have patronuses. If one’s an advent calendar, I could see them including a patronus as one of the days or include it with a minifigure. 

Edited January 8 by Gryffindor
Forgot Snape!

[BacktoBricks]

I think this silhouette image from the back of the instruction booklets suggest what the East Wing will probably roughly be like. The rest of the castle parts match up pretty well so far. https://www.reddit.com/r/legoharrypotter/comments/1cows12/what_are_your_theories_about_the_new_wave_of/

[RODDY]

My one hope though I’m not necessarily expecting it is that the Central Tower is included in the East Wing set. Would be a nice compromise if we end up not getting the Astronomy Tower and would be a good way to add more variety to the tower heights without The Main Tower dwarfing everything.

[akaseim]

1 hour ago, BacktoBricks said:

I think this silhouette image from the back of the instruction booklets suggest what the East Wing will probably roughly be like. The rest of the castle parts match up pretty well so far. https://www.reddit.com/r/legoharrypotter/comments/1cows12/what_are_your_theories_about_the_new_wave_of/

I like it :-) But I don't like that it looks like the last one set in the silhouette.... Maybe the East Wing doesn't include the bridge and it will come with the Courtyard set? No idea if there is a courtyard with plants near any bridge :-D but I hope that set is for the Castle

Edited January 8 by akaseim

[Virginia_Bricks]

39 minutes ago, BacktoBricks said:

I think this silhouette image from the back of the instruction booklets suggest what the East Wing will probably roughly be like. The rest of the castle parts match up pretty well so far. https://www.reddit.com/r/legoharrypotter/comments/1cows12/what_are_your_theories_about_the_new_wave_of/

If it is just that silhouette it will include the Viaduct Bridge at the piece count since it is more bricks than the Main Tower right next door but a smaller portion of the castle.

My unrealistic dream is that the Hospital Wing is the right hand side of the Viaduct Entrance and so the East Wing is the entrance, left hand side, and Astronomy tower. I'd buy two hospital wings in that case, one for the Viaduct entrance and one for behind the main tower. My only glimmer of hope on this is that balcony on the Hospital Wing makes no sense no matter how you connect it.

[Black Falcon]

15 hours ago, brickbride said:

Knockturn Alley Shops: Sigh. LEGO, why are you doing that to me? I love Knockturn Alley but I hate the playset DA line, so I don't think I'll get it after all. By the way does anyone remember that GWP of B&B with the floo? Do you think there would be a way to incorporate that? It's a theoretical question for me because I don't own that one and won't pay aftermarket prices for it. The name (with "B&B" and a semicolon after it) had people wondering back then but It's been a while and we've never heard anything about it ever again.

Well it is Lego, so you can of course include it if you want, but there won´t be a space for it to do so, else it would look very empty there. And likely everything shown in the GWP will be there anyways, in a different style of course.

15 hours ago, brickbride said:

East Wing: Don't need that one either since I don't collect the new modular system. But I was pretty sure that any set including the Chamber of Secrets would actually be called "Chamber of Secrets" (an exciting, promising name) instead of something really dull like "East Wing". So I wonder if we'll even see it there. If we don't, though, that should be definitive proof that they're intending on carrying on with the system for more than three years since the Chamber is kind of an integral part of Hogwarts and unlike with certain towers that may or may not fit the silhouette there's really no excuse for not including it in this system.

I would be surprised if they would skip the chamber, and actually also if there would be more next year, I really think we will be done with that wave - even if I would rather have another wave of this system than getting the next one. As for the name, I do agree that the chamber is the most iconic Part of this set (if included) but then again the chamber is just one part of the the set that you can´t even see from the outside, unlike the Main Tower or the Great Hall, so naming the Set after the Building rather than the Chamber actually makes sense to me, as East Wing with Chamber of Secrets is kinda long.

12 hours ago, Roebuck said:

So only 1-2 sets that will include a patronus, that is less than I hoped. Hopelessly they will keep the collecting of them going over several years so we can get more animals 

I still think it is hard to predict how many we will get. I mean, Harrys is kinda a given and Rons is also quite likely I guess, so I would say two should be save. But without knowing what the Sets actually are, predictions are even harder and then they didn´t include one in the Motorbike Set but did in Lunas House. Then we also don´t know if we will be getting one in the September Set and actually the Adventscalendar could also possibly include one, even if the old one had no Golden Fig.

8 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Knockturn Alley and the big Hogwarts expansion should both include a patronus, and if Dobby is indeed a buildable figure, I expect one of the two unknown sets to be a playset. Maybe even both, since we also have the House Symbol and whatever the plant set is as buildable objects / creatures to fulfill the quota Moreover, the D2C set surely features a patronus too since the Hogwarts Icons set also tied into the anniversary.

Thus I’m leaning towards at least 3 or 4 patroni this summer ^^

I thought we expect the Adventscalendar to be one of those two ;). But yeah, I think 3 to 4 seems a possible number.

[Virginia_Bricks]

Prices for 76462 Hogwarts Crest ($50 USD) and 76474 Hogwarts Courtyard Plants ($100 USD) came out this morning.

That puts Courtyard plants closer to large castle section price per pieces than buildable figure/creatures. The only similar buildable figures/creatures were the Mandrake and Thestral Family (both 10+). Both 14+ sets currently, the new Anglia and the new House Crest set, are well below that price per piece.

[sebastian666]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

My unrealistic dream is that the Hospital Wing is the right hand side of the Viaduct Entrance and so the East Wing is the entrance, left hand side, and Astronomy tower. I'd buy two hospital wings in that case, one for the Viaduct entrance and one for behind the main tower. My only glimmer of hope on this is that balcony on the Hospital Wing makes no sense no matter how you connect it.

I think you may actually be on to something here… I just finished building the Hospital Wing and the current suggested connection points to the Main Tower simply don’t work. The Ravenclaw common room section of the Hospital Wing set pushes into the balcony of the secondary tower in the Main Tower set causing friction / separation. I’ve seen people try to simply connect the two sets at the bottom connection point of the Hospital Wing but that doesn’t really work either. It makes that whole side of the castle feel awkward and off balanced somehow.

It would make a lot more sense to me that - even if the Hospital Wing doesn’t end up as the right hand side of the Viaduct Entrance - that it is ultimately supposed to connect to the East Wing in some fashion and the marketing team just showed it connecting to the Main Tower for the time being since it was a January release and the East Wing doesn’t come out until August. 

[Black Falcon]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Prices for 76462 Hogwarts Crest ($50 USD) and 76474 Hogwarts Courtyard Plants ($100 USD) came out this morning.

That puts Courtyard plants closer to large castle section price per pieces than buildable figure/creatures. The only similar buildable figures/creatures were the Mandrake and Thestral Family (both 10+). Both 14+ sets currently, the new Anglia and the new House Crest set, are well below that price per piece.

Well in the end depends on the parts used and not the age recommendation. But eitherway whether it is an playset or buildable plants set, the name just makes no sense to me. If it were plants why would they name it courtyard plants then? Magical Plants would make much more sense. And if it is an actual playset showing one of the courtyards, the plants part makes no sense, so for me the translation error make most sense right now.

[BrickBob Studpants]

I think you guys are right and the Dobby set could actually be a remake of Dobby’s Release. The set has a similar piece count as the 2023 buildable Dobby, and so far, remakes of buildable figures mostly had a different scale to set them apart from their precursors. A same-scale remake only 3 years later would be quite silly

Or maybe it’s a Shell Cottage set with his grave  

[Virginia_Bricks]

2023 had 2 buildable sets, 2024 had 3, 2025 had 4, and 2026 has 2 so far (18+ excluded). Likely we get 4 and the Crests is the 3rd so one more to determine.

The Cornish Pixie (2026), Fawkes (2025), Hedwig (2024), and Dobby (2023) are the affordable, small ones.

The others have been between $50 - 80 USD. In total the sets have average right around $50 each year (2023 was $52.50, 2024 was $50, 2025 was $50.75, and 2026 is so far $53.33)

That makes both Dobby and Courtyard plants different than before. Dobby would be another likely affordable set and Courtyard would be the most expensive non-18+ one.

If its a buildable Dobby at $40 (seems fair with the last at $35) that brings the average down to $50 and total price and piece count similar to last year. If its a buildable plants set at $100, that brings the average up to $65 and a lot more pieces and cost than last year.

For that reason, I'm concluding the Courtyard is a modular set and Dobby is another buildable creature (age ranges are the exact same). And honestly those are aimed at kids who in 3-4 years phase out of Lego (and then come back 10-15 years later) so there is a new wave to market to.

The unknown non-advent calendar set is likely also a minifigure set. I'm guessing Courtyard, East Wing, Knockturn, and that set have patronuses. Harry's Stag will be in one, Dumbledore's Phoenix in another, Ron's Terrier in another, and the final will either be a Horse (Ginny), Doe (Snape), or Dog (Sirius).

We haven't had Sirius since 2022 so he seems bound to show up soon, so what if the Courtyard set is his escape. That is also the only HP set to ever have Courtyard in its name.

[Accio Lego]

8 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Prices for 76462 Hogwarts Crest ($50 USD) and 76474 Hogwarts Courtyard Plants ($100 USD) came out this morning.

That puts Courtyard plants closer to large castle section price per pieces than buildable figure/creatures. The only similar buildable figures/creatures were the Mandrake and Thestral Family (both 10+). Both 14+ sets currently, the new Anglia and the new House Crest set, are well below that price per piece.

Where are you seeing the price leaks? I can’t find anything on Reddit or Instagram yet. 

[brickbride]

13 hours ago, Brick Wizard001 said:

Honestly i could imagine the Dobby set being the viaduct bridge. The scene did take place near one of the courtyards and would make sense with the piece count.

A viaduct bridge with less than 400 pieces? The last one had 730 pieces, and while the 2021 system was somewhat wasteful in terms of parts, this one is even more so. If anything you might have more luck with the still-unknown 76477 set (480 pieces).

9 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Prices for 76462 Hogwarts Crest ($50 USD) and 76474 Hogwarts Courtyard Plants ($100 USD) came out this morning.

That puts Courtyard plants closer to large castle section price per pieces than buildable figure/creatures. The only similar buildable figures/creatures were the Mandrake and Thestral Family (both 10+). Both 14+ sets currently, the new Anglia and the new House Crest set, are well below that price per piece.

The Mandrake is probably the most apt comparison, though, seeing as it's a plant. The House Crests might be DOTS-style with lots of 1x1 plates which would drop the price per piece significantly. If nothing else I'd expect them to use the brand-new willow leaves pieces (as seen for example in 11372) for a Willow build.

3 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

That makes both Dobby and Courtyard plants different than before. Dobby would be another likely affordable set and Courtyard would be the most expensive non-18+ one.

If its a buildable Dobby at $40 (seems fair with the last at $35) that brings the average down to $50 and total price and piece count similar to last year. If its a buildable plants set at $100, that brings the average up to $65 and a lot more pieces and cost than last year.

For that reason, I'm concluding the Courtyard is a modular set and Dobby is another buildable creature (age ranges are the exact same). And honestly those are aimed at kids who in 3-4 years phase out of Lego (and then come back 10-15 years later) so there is a new wave to market to.

The unknown non-advent calendar set is likely also a minifigure set. I'm guessing Courtyard, East Wing, Knockturn, and that set have patronuses. Harry's Stag will be in one, Dumbledore's Phoenix in another, Ron's Terrier in another, and the final will either be a Horse (Ginny), Doe (Snape), or Dog (Sirius).

We haven't had Sirius since 2022 so he seems bound to show up soon, so what if the Courtyard set is his escape. That is also the only HP set to ever have Courtyard in its name.

I'd initially thought about the courtyard set being Sirius Black's Escape, but again, that would not make sense with the set being 14+. 14+ within the HP theme is pretty much shorthand for "buildable crap" and even the largest parts of the modular system are only 10+ (the East Wing continues the tradition), with the smaller ones being 8+. Therefore the courtyard plants pretty much have to be buildable plants IMO.

The last buildable Dobby was 8+ so I guess "Dobby the Free Elf" could be buildable creature. But I really doubt it. First of all, the last one was already a free elf (he literally held the book with the sock in his hands). They're not going to give us Buildable Slave Dobby! Second, with the Potions Class retiring we now have exactly zero of the larger fold-out modules on shelves, so an 8+ set with a piece count of just under 400 pieces looks like a really plausible substitution. It's not the scene I personally would have chosen but they've already shown that a) LEGO for some reason hate giving us classrooms (the last system barely had any) and b) this system will remake the smaller, more obscure sets from 20+ years ago (Troll on the Loose, Chamber of Winged Keys, Sorting Hat); so the scene fits right in.

My price predictions for the rest of the sets:

Dobby - EUR 40 (like the Potions Class) or EUR 45 (if they jack up prices again)

East Wing - at least EUR 250

Knockturn Alley - EUR 110 or EUR 120

76475 - EUR 35 to EUR 40 (advent calendar)

76477 - EUR 50

 

Edited January 9 by brickbride

[Bugbot20082]

13 hours ago, brickbride said:

Lucius is likely in the Dobby set. I really don't think they'll touch the Kitchen because of the whole "Hogwarts runs on slave labour" issue.

I would think the kitchen is unlikely because the films are what’s licensed for the LEGO theme, not the books and we never see the kitchen in the movies, I don’t think it’s even mentioned…

[Roebuck]

19 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Thus I’m leaning towards at least 3 or 4 patroni this summer ^^

Hope you are right with at least one new mould

18 hours ago, VinnieCannoli said:

HP keeps giving. (the only thing that i didn't like that we won't be getting any new monster mold with the castle part this year)

How do you know?
You assume it is the basilisk and a reuse from last time? Maybe Aragog is included with a new mould 

[akaseim]

Question: Do you think we could get more classes for the Castle even if the East Wing is the last big set? I have seen that the Great Hall and the Main Tower will last 2 years each, so the East Wing will be on shelves until summer 2028. Maybe we could still get some classes or rooms for it, right? We love the Castle but we wish more play sets like the scenes and classes. On the other side, I think everything but the Herbology class and the Hospital scene are all from the first book/movie, so something relate to others would be great too.