Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[brickbride]

12 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Uh… because the ninjas are culturally Japanese, Christianity is practiced by less than 1% of Japan’s population, and Christmas officially doesn’t exist in the Ninjago universe?

Does Darth Vader celebrate Christmas in-story by putting on an ugly Christmas sweater? Would Nebula of GotG ever wear an ugly Christmas sweater with Thanos' face on it in-story? And what the heck is that Gingerbread AT-AT with a Gingerbread Darth Vader figure even supposed to be, again in-story?

We get all of those because the target group celebrates Christmas and wants Christmas-themed LEGO sets. Ninjago has a huge Western following, so there's no reason we couldn't have ninjas in ugly Christmas sweaters or a gingerbread temple instead. Actually an AC wouldn't even really have to be Christmas-themed, it could just be the ninjas doing winter activities like skating and building snowmen and the like.

Edited January 24 by brickbride

[Accio Lego]

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

Does Darth Vader celebrate Christmas in-story by putting on an ugly Christmas sweater? Would Nebula of GotG ever wear an ugly Christmas sweater with Thanos' face on it in-story? And what the heck is that Gingerbread AT-AT with a Gingerbread Darth Vader figure even supposed to be, again in-story?

We get all of those because the target group celebrates Christmas and wants Christmas-themed LEGO sets. Ninjago has a huge Western following, so there's no reason we couldn't have ninjas in ugly Christmas sweaters or a gingerbread temple instead. Actually an AC wouldn't even really have to be Christmas-themed, it could just be the ninjas doing winter activities like skating and building snowmen and the like.

At the end of the day, both Star Wars and GotG have both gotten Christmas specials (even if the holiday was renamed in the rather infamous Star Wars offering). Ninjago hasn’t, and after so many years as one of LEGO’s in-house evergreen themes, I’m assuming there’s multiple reasons why it’s never had an advent calendar before. (One of those reasons probably has to do with the fact that none of LEGO’s more specialized in house themes have gotten advent calendars since they started doing them regularly.)

And none of this really has anything to do with the rumors that Harry Potter won’t have an advent calendar this year. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

5 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

And none of this really has anything to do with the rumors that Harry Potter won’t have an advent calendar this year. 

Fair point. If another theme got a calendar for the very first time this year, you could argue it would replace the HP one (like the MC one replacing the Marvel one and vice versa), but they’ve also introduced new calendars before without sacrificing existing ones (like the Disney one), so such a decision would likely have little to do with HP 

[brickbride]

46 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

 (One of those reasons probably has to do with the fact that none of LEGO’s more specialized in house themes have gotten advent calendars since they started doing them regularly.)

City? Friends?

Looking up 2025 sets on Brickset gives me 42 matches for Friends, 50 for City, and 48 for Ninjago. They're all themes with a narrow focus (City is like 99% vehicles these days) but a broad appeal.

[Bugbot20082]

It’s been asked before but it’s almost February, will We have a 2026 thread? 

[BrickBob Studpants]

15 minutes ago, Bugbot20082 said:

It’s been asked before but it’s almost February, will We have a 2026 thread? 

We could theoretically create a new one, but only the mods can pin it and transfer comments, so it’d be kinda pointless. Guess we have to wait for @Clone OPatra to return!

[Gorilla94]

1 hour ago, Bugbot20082 said:

It’s been asked before but it’s almost February, will We have a 2026 thread? 

Is there a reason why it's important?

Would anyone be interested in working together on modifications/expansions of the castle?

[Accio Lego]

Finally got my back ordered Lovegood house this week. A couple of fun things I noticed: 

We’ve finally got a new Quibbler cover print. It’s not super obvious since it’s tucked away in the printing press when the set is built, but there’s a 2x3 tile with a print of the unnumbered edition featuring a large multiheaded caricature (previous Quibbler tiles were always the iconic no. 240274 with the spectraspecs).

It gets zero attention in the shop@home set photos, but there is a specialized tile+sticker to recreate Luna’s painting of her friends on her bedroom ceiling. This was a lovely detail from the books that never made it to the movies since they decided to cut out the part where Luna’s room is visited, so I’m really happy to see it on Lego form. 
 

The clear parts used for the projector feature are printed with the Deathly Hallows symbols, not stickers. It seems like a good fact to put out there since some people were probably worried about how well that play feature would work with their sticker applying abilities (or just stickers in general). 

[Black Falcon]

On 1/21/2026 at 10:38 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Turns out the number of the AC (76340) was correct after all, but of course it’s a Marvel one ^^ The HP one has yet to be confirmed!

Edit: Looks like there‘s no HP AC this year!

Totally not surprised about the first, as I´ve said it all along, that number could only be a Marvel Calendar (or another Marvel set) but surely not the HP one. That we are not getting a HP one at all is surprising though.

On 1/22/2026 at 4:23 AM, Accio Lego said:

That can’t be right. The Harry Potter advent calendar always sells out before most of the others on Lego shop@home. 

I would say it matters really on the contents of the calendars. This year the best received seemed to be the City and Minecraft ones but we also had years where the City one had leftovers, while HP was gone. Especially to adults the current one probably didn´t offer that much compared to other years, as the ugly sweaters might be fun, but aren´t really usefull for the Castle and other years really offered more with exclusive Figures, like the Carol Ghost or Aberforth, the other minifigs could be easily added to the castle (or Hogsmeade) and the objects could be used for decoration, while this year there were just upscaled builably objects and animals.

 

On 1/23/2026 at 6:17 AM, brickbride said:

And why doesn't Ninjago, which is hugely popular with kids, ever get an AC?

The only reason I really see is that they already have two unlicensed calendars and the total number of Calendars is also pretty high already. Till 2011 we had max two calendars each year, 2012 they started with friends and when they introduced the Harry Potter one we already had 4 each year - 2021 Marvel (5), 2024 Disney (6) and I was always surprised that they increased the numbers of those calendars so much as most kids only get one anyways, since they are not exactly cheap. And if we wouldn´t have likely heard about it already I could have seen them skipping HP this year to make a Ninjago one for the anniversary. But as it is they are likely just cutting the number of those calendars down - or we will get another one for any new theme.

12 hours ago, brickbride said:

City? Friends?

He mentioned more specialized themes, so clearly meant themes aside of those. So actually maybe Castle and Pirates would be better to mention here, as Ninjago has taken their places as steady inhouse theme now. @BrickBob Studpantsif those don´t count for you either, how about clickits? ;)

2 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

Is there a reason why it's important?

No and no idea why it is constantly asked, while every time it will just be the same answer anyways. Personally, I would just keep this thread.

[Accio Lego]

8 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

No and no idea why it is constantly asked, while every time it will just be the same answer anyways. Personally, I would just keep this thread.

Personally, it’s a ‘finding things later’ thing for me. Year long threads are easier to look through and reference than multiple-year ones, and if nothing else, a change in name to accurately reflect the time period covered would be preferred. 

[Black Falcon]

1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

Personally, it’s a ‘finding things later’ thing for me. Year long threads are easier to look through and reference than multiple-year ones, and if nothing else, a change in name to accurately reflect the time period covered would be preferred. 

I totally get why people want to have a new thread, it is just that asking here again and again won´t change a thing and actually it gets rather annoying especially if you open the thread to read a discussion about Lego HP and then the only new comment is asking for a 2026 topic - since clone opatra seems to be busy with other things and taking a break of the forum, they should write to another mod. But anyways, since the unread content feature is still broken I am happy if we keep this thread, as this one at least shows up there, while a new one just wouldn´t. Once that is fixed I really don´t care if we get a new thread or use a long-living one like for LotR for instance.

[Black Falcon]

And to not completely be of topic, the minifigures I would expect for the big Hogwarts Modul this year:

Madam Pomfrey (I already mentioned that the only way I couldn´t see her beeing included in the Hospital Wing would be if she is included in the Chamber of Secrets to take care of the petryfied students there), Harry, Ron, Hermione, Bloody Baron, Myrtle, Lockhart, Grabbe, Goyle, Filch, Ginny, Colin Greevy, Justin Finch-Fletchley.

Don´t expect the list to be correct honestly and expecting 12 figures it is one to much anyways, but really depends also on what is displayed in the castle aside from the chamber and the expected bathroom. Could see them omiting even Lockhart since he is already included in another Set and they seem not to make that many doubles aside from the duo and McGonagall.

[brickbride]

Characters who are needed or otherwise a given IMO: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Bloody Baron (if the Slytherin Common Room's included, which I do think it will be) OR Myrtle if it's not, Lockhart, Ginny, Tom Riddle. That's 7 (and the basilisk).

Characters who could be included as well: Crabbe and Goyle (but they might as well go with alternate polyjuiced faces for Harry and Ron especially since including only one would be odd and otherwise they'd take two slots), Draco, Pomfrey (no reason for her inclusion other than that she was missing from the Hospital Wing and this seems like something LEGO would do), Filch (and Mrs Norris), any random teacher like Sinistra that we haven't had before (akin to Kettleburn in the Main Tower set), Bloody Baron OR Myrtle (see above), Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, any random student extra (though probably not since we can't even fit all the characters that would make sense AND Penelope Clearwater was in the Hospital Wing).

Honestly a lot of it depends on what exactly the East Wing entails. It's where most of the classrooms are. I expect Lockhart's class to be a given (because Lockhart is needed for the Chamber part anyway, they might as well kill two birds with one stone) but they might still give us another classroom and the corresponding teacher there (possibly even Trelawney whose class was a notable exclusion in the Hospital Wing since the East Wing sort of has towers).

Also check out "Hogwarts East Wing prototype" at the usual place, there's someone claiming they have a good idea what the East Wing will look like from the outside. Thoughts?

Edited Monday at 03:15 AM by brickbride

[BrickMatit]

8 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Honestly a lot of it depends on what exactly the East Wing entails.

Agree. At the moment we don't even know how large it will be and so how much locations could accomodate in it.

[ThoBru]

21 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Also check out "Hogwarts East Wing prototype" at the usual place, there's someone claiming they have a good idea what the East Wing will look like from the outside. Thoughts?

If I may ask, what is the “usual place” ? I’m curious about this claimed prototype 

[BrickMatit]

2 minutes ago, ThoBru said:

I’m curious about this claimed prototype

The prototype is the background image LEGO use in instructions to show where to put sets.

The "usual place" is likely Reddit. Just write "Reddit Hogwarts East Wing prototype" into your browser bar and you should easily find the thread @brickbride refered to.

[Black Falcon]

25 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Characters who are needed or otherwise a given IMO: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Bloody Baron (if the Slytherin Common Room's included, which I do think it will be) OR Myrtle if it's not, Lockhart, Ginny, Tom Riddle. That's 7 (and the basilisk).

Characters who could be included as well: Crabbe and Goyle (but they might as well go with alternate polyjuiced faces for Harry and Ron especially since including only one would be odd and otherwise they'd take two slots), Draco, Pomfrey (no reason for her inclusion other than that she was missing from the Hospital Wing and this seems like something LEGO would do), Filch (and Mrs Norris), any random teacher like Sinistra that we haven't had before (akin to Kettleburn in the Main Tower set), Bloody Baron OR Myrtle (see above), Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, any random student extra (though probably not since we can't even fit all the characters that would make sense AND Penelope Clearwater was in the Hospital Wing).

To me it makes more sense to include Crabbe and Goyle as whole figures, as that won´t eat up much more budget anyways, since you wouldn´t want to have Harry and Ron run around in Slytherin clothes all the time, especially with the Chamber included. Also, I also think they could include two Ghosts in the Set, unless we have to expect another one where either of them would fit in. 

2 minutes ago, ThoBru said:

If I may ask, what is the “usual place” ? I’m curious about this claimed prototype 

Usually Reddit, but could as well be Instagram I guess. Eitherway, all I have found on reddit is an older post that only showed the picture of the instructions, but since we talked about this several times already, I doubt that is the post in question.

[Virginia_Bricks]

I was assuming RedNote, but I don’t visit that site often.

The Bricktap Discord has nothing new.

[brickbride]

It's reddit. Apologies if everyone has already known this, but I don't actually own the sets so it was news to me. The Main Tower does look a lot like the left part of that background image in the Great Hall instructions and so it stands to reason that the East Wing will as well, plus it correborates with the already-leaked description of it.

Edited Monday at 04:48 AM by brickbride

[Virginia_Bricks]

11 hours ago, brickbride said:

It's reddit. Apologies if everyone has already known this, but I don't actually own the sets so it was news to me. The Main Tower does look a lot like the left part of that background image in the Great Hall instructions and so it stands to reason that the East Wing will as well, plus it correborates with the already-leaked description of it.

Yeah, this has been what I based my calculations on. Basically once the Main Tower image leaked it seemed highly likely the Viaduct Entrance would be handled this way. I truly believe they planned out the main portion of this modular castle in advance and set it into 3 parts for 3 years. And then built additional sets around those that would be nice to have but not necessary for the iconic facade.

I was hoping you were referencing another traced image of the East Wing set like we got for the recent castle sets. It would have been early for that, but you never know.

[Virginia_Bricks]

Finally heard back from Lego on Gringotts. In the US, the set is officially sold out and retired. I believe they are going through final inventory and seeing what backorders they can fulfill with inventory left, but there are no future production runs. I don't think they expected the # of purchases on Insiders Weekend and it would last longer. 

[Black Falcon]

25 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Finally heard back from Lego on Gringotts. In the US, the set is officially sold out and retired. I believe they are going through final inventory and seeing what backorders they can fulfill with inventory left, but there are no future production runs. I don't think they expected the # of purchases on Insiders Weekend and it would last longer. 

Strange, I mean, they discounted it to make sales obviously but I doubt they thought it would last, that is what sales are for after all. But if they don´t have plans to make more sets, they could just have let it retire together with the other sets and at least here they were sold out too but right now you can backorder them. 

15 hours ago, brickbride said:

It's reddit. Apologies if everyone has already known this, but I don't actually own the sets so it was news to me. The Main Tower does look a lot like the left part of that background image in the Great Hall instructions and so it stands to reason that the East Wing will as well, plus it correborates with the already-leaked description of it.

I only know it from this thread too as it was linked here, if I remember correctly when we were talking whether we would get the viaduct bridge or not. And actually on the picture it also looks like that one isn´t the only bridge we will be getting.

[brickbride]

36 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Strange, I mean, they discounted it to make sales obviously but I doubt they thought it would last, that is what sales are for after all. But if they don´t have plans to make more sets, they could just have let it retire together with the other sets and at least here they were sold out too but right now you can backorder them. 

Wasn't the Lion Knights Castle also sold out in Germany way before it officially retired?

Generally I'm no big fan of just how hard LEGO make it to buy their sets between the short times till EOL, sets being permanently sold out, GWPs, exclusives, and so in. There's a number of sets I would have bought if they'd been more readily available.

Edited Monday at 07:15 PM by brickbride

[Black Falcon]

5 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Wasn't the Lion Knights Castle also sold out in Germany way before it officially retired?

It was out of stock after the Insiders weekend in October I belive, but it was restocked later on. It really only sold out right when it went on sale, as everyone was going to buy it. 

5 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Generally I'm no big fan of just how hard LEGO make it to buy their sets between the short times till EOL, sets being permanently sold out, GWPs, exclusives, and so in. There's a number of sets I would have bought if they'd been more readily available.

Well honestly I´ve missed out on some sets too, but that really was only my fault in the end as there was plenty of time to buy everything, even if sets also sold out in between, they also became avaiable again. Which sets are you referring to? 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Yeah, a shelf life of just two years for a D2C set is crazy!! That used to be the shelf life of regular sets! But with yearly D2C sets, it‘s not really that much of a surprise considering limited space on shelves and production capacity.