Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Robert8]

New Harry will need a new hairpiece for sure

I wonder if LEGO will let this theme rest during 2026 now that the series is confirmed to premiere in early 2027

[Lion King]

I haven’t followed this thread for months b i jsut saw a list. Is a Sorting Hat mold going to be new? And I’m quite surprised to see a motorcycle set at a lowest price.

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, Robert8 said:

New Harry will need a new hairpiece for sure

I wonder if LEGO will let this theme rest during 2026 now that the series is confirmed to premiere in early 2027

We’ve already got sizable a set list for January 2026, so no. 
 

I also think it’s safe to say that Lego won’t jump lock stock and barrel into the show right off the bat. Just look at how they handled Fantastic Beasts, Live action Little Mermaid, or even the Mandalorian show. They start out with a very small number of sets to see if there’s any interest while continuing with the established theme. No positive response, no more sets, show does well, then we see a select number of show sets alongside the traditional ones. 

[JeanGreyForever]

1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

We’ve already got sizable a set list for January 2026, so no. 
 

I also think it’s safe to say that Lego won’t jump lock stock and barrel into the show right off the bat. Just look at how they handled Fantastic Beasts, Live action Little Mermaid, or even the Mandalorian show. They start out with a very small number of sets to see if there’s any interest while continuing with the established theme. No positive response, no more sets, show does well, then we see a select number of show sets alongside the traditional ones. 

Not to mention the way they skipped out on the new Superman movie and Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny a few years back. And their MCU sets have started to dwindle in number as well, due to a lack of faith in those movies doing well enough to sustain more sets. The HP theme is too popular for them to sabotage if the show doesn't take off as expected. FB is the perfect example because those movies weren't successful enough to warrant continuing more sets, which is why the third movie didn't get anything.

[Virginia_Bricks]

16 hours ago, Lion King said:

I haven’t followed this thread for months b i jsut saw a list. Is a Sorting Hat mold going to be new? And I’m quite surprised to see a motorcycle set at a lowest price.

Likely the same Sorting Hat mold as in the build able Sorting Hat and now the Main Tower.

EDIT: Just finished the Main Tower build last night and it is crazy how tall it is. Compared it to the Burrow and the Shire (both $260) and it is shocking to think they are all the same price. Sure the Main Tower is more hollow, but the interior details feel pretty similar between the 3 too. Not sure if Lego will do an official Astronomy Tower in this wave, but even if they don't I can't wait for a MOC to come out to add another massive tower.

Edited July 15 by Virginia_Bricks

[Bugbot20082]

On 7/11/2025 at 7:10 PM, Virginia_Bricks said:

I’m guessing the Hospital Wing will connect to the Main Tower at the Devil’s Snare challenge and be about as long and tall as the Gyfinndor portion of the Main Tower. Include the trio, Pomfrey and Dumbledore from POA.

But I’m scratching my head on what they put in the first level and underground chambers.

I also hope it’s POA and we finaly get another MG Dumbledore! The rock module could be the witch statue passage to Hogsmeade (a loose tie in to the UCS set). 

I would personally love if they borrowed from Hogwarts Legacy and put in a new Prefect Bathroom in the middle/ground level 
 

[brickbride]

15 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

EDIT: Just finished the Main Tower build last night and it is crazy how tall it is. Compared it to the Burrow and the Shire (both $260) and it is shocking to think they are all the same price. Sure the Main Tower is more hollow, but the interior details feel pretty similar between the 3 too. 

The Burrow is enclosed from both sides, though, isn't it? That obviously has to take away from the height. As for the Shire, I don't think they were going for height in the first place, plus the consensus seems to be that the set is vastly overpriced. So those might not be the best comparisons. 

[Chocolate Frog]

On 7/15/2025 at 1:26 AM, Accio Lego said:

We’ve already got sizable a set list for January 2026, so no. 
 

I also think it’s safe to say that Lego won’t jump lock stock and barrel into the show right off the bat. Just look at how they handled Fantastic Beasts, Live action Little Mermaid, or even the Mandalorian show. They start out with a very small number of sets to see if there’s any interest while continuing with the established theme. No positive response, no more sets, show does well, then we see a select number of show sets alongside the traditional ones. 

I think they’ll make the TV show sets the ‘toy’ sets but keep the movie sets for collectors with an adult budget. I also think they’ll make the TV show sets minidoll rather than Minifigure to make it easy for buyers to differentiate.

[brickbride]

1 hour ago, Chocolate Frog said:

I also think they’ll make the TV show sets minidoll rather than Minifigure to make it easy for buyers to differentiate.

No they won't. Minidolls are for girls' themes, not for Harry Ron Hagrid Car Spider Bike themes like LEGO HP. You also couldn't differentiate between younger students/older students/adults that way, and can you imagine what a Voldie/Death Eater minidoll would look like?

[Virginia_Bricks]

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

The Burrow is enclosed from both sides, though, isn't it? That obviously has to take away from the height. As for the Shire, I don't think they were going for height in the first place, plus the consensus seems to be that the set is vastly overpriced. So those might not be the best comparisons. 

Yeah, but when you expand it, it is just slightly less wide than the Main Tower. It is a whole lot more dense and that is why its piece count is higher, but a good reminder price per piece doesn't hold as much weight as some give it. The minifigures are a lot better in the Burrow and building techniques are more complex.

 

5 hours ago, Chocolate Frog said:

I think they’ll make the TV show sets the ‘toy’ sets but keep the movie sets for collectors with an adult budget. I also think they’ll make the TV show sets minidoll rather than Minifigure to make it easy for buyers to differentiate.

The box art will be different since you can't include Daniel, Emma and Rupert and that will be enough to differentiate sets. It will still be interesting to see how they do it because some actors aren't that different looking especially when they get in costume and then convert to Lego style. To my knowledge Lego hasn't had a theme do a re-adaption of set material, so really nothing to extrapolate from. On top of that they have really well covered the PS the last 2 years which limits set possibilities without repeats in 2027.

[brickbride]

51 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Yeah, but when you expand it, it is just slightly less wide than the Main Tower. It is a whole lot more dense and that is why its piece count is higher, but a good reminder price per piece doesn't hold as much weight as some give it. The minifigures are a lot better in the Burrow and building techniques are more complex.

PPP might not hold that much weight but for me "It's really tall" doesn't either. I've said it before, for EUR 200+ I'd rather have a fully enclosed modular crammed full of details than a half-empty placeholder for add-ons like the Great Hall or a tower where several storeys consist of little but stairs. But to each their own! The new system just isn't my cup of tea.

Edited July 16 by brickbride

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

To my knowledge Lego hasn't had a theme do a re-adaption of set material, so really nothing to extrapolate from.

I can only think of two sort-of examples. One is Ghostbusters, and even then it was a reboot rather than a remake (and not an adaptation either since there is no other source material), there was only one set (plus the Dimensions stuff), and it was a movie, not a show.

The other is The Little Mermaid, but even then, it was a single set, and not really comparable since there was no real theme beforehand. And again, it was a movie rather than a show.

I still think they won’t switch to show stuff unless it proves to be hyper-successful. I’m actively rooting against it for multiple reasons, and I’m surely not alone in that This current trend of turning every single film franchise into muddled cashgrab TV show needs to DIE.

[brickbride]

57 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I’m actively rooting against it for multiple reasons, and I’m surely not alone in that This current trend of turning every single film franchise into muddled cashgrab TV show needs to DIE.

Well HP's not a film franchise to begin with but a book series. I wouldn't have issues with more than one adaptation co-existing. Especially since film and TV are different media with different possibilities and the movies left plenty of room for improvenent (i.e. more focus on backstories, and a books-accurate Snape).

However, I do think that the source material is problematic in many ways: from JK's attitude towards bullying (only ever bad if our heroes are on the receiving end) to Hogwarts running on slave labour to even the "good" characters' dismissive attitude towards Squibs and Muggles to the vilefication of Slytherin House as a whole. This coupled with the casting news means I have no interest in another straight adaptation of the books. I'd rather see different aspects of the wizarding world (FB had the right idea despite ending up an illogical, incoherent mess) or, as I've said before, maybe a "What if" type of adaptation where these problems are actually addressed and the outcome isn't set in stone.

[BrickBob Studpants]

27 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Well HP's not a film franchise to begin with but a book series. I wouldn't have issues with more than one adaptation co-existing. Especially since film and TV are different media with different possibilities and the movies left plenty of room for improvenent (i.e. more focus on backstories, and a books-accurate Snape).

Except from what we’ve seen so far, nothing really looks visually distinctive from the movies and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’re creatively bankrupt enough to even reuse the music (or a slight variation thereof). And book-accuracy is already out the window with Snape  

I still fail to see the worth in having the same story served up as a show. Sure, you can include more side stories, but they’re exactly that, and the pacing might be off too, especially for the earlier books. I don’t know what tripling the length of PS and CoS will accomplish  And a lot of the sideplots cut from the movies are dumb anyway, the “Look at stupid Hermione trying to free the house elves, lol” subplot in GoF being the worst offender.

Edited July 16 by BrickBob Studpants

[Felkin]

The TV series is due in 2027, so I expect one more year of the current "most accurate Hogwarts ever" design, and hopefully the last few characters that we haven't yet gotten, and then probably a mix of larger collector pieces based on the movies for adults and smaller child-friendly sets based on the TV show. WB / HBO / Max / whatever their called this week are gonna want to promote the heck out of the new TV series as a means of promoting their streaming service going global, but the movies still hold a lot of nostalgia for some adults, so I expect that Lego will want to cover both markets.

[brickbride]

@BrickBob StudpantsTo be fair Hermione's plan to free the House Elves is pretty stupid. She never once talks to them about what their lives would look like once they're free, and her leaving clothes lying around for them to find should accomplish nothing since she's not actually their master. But that's exactly what I mean - those plot points need to be addressed. Again, I could see a "What if" type of adaptation working where Harry maybe gains Slytherin allies, House Elf allies other than Dobby, where Draco defects to his side, and so on.

I think we're both arguing the same side - that this show, which looks to be "just like the movies but more woke" won't work. However, like I've said, I do see a lot of room for expansion even in the earlier books. The thing about Harry as our POV character is that he's both very, very unobservant and lacks curiosity. Part of it stems from JK's inability to plan ahead (by which I mean aspects that are introduced in later books but should be part ofthe earlier ones according to all logic), but for example he barely interacts with members from other Houses save for Luna and Draco. Hermione, on the other hand, clearly does (because everytime JK needs to introduce a new student character Harry's like "Who's that?" and Hermione's like "That's X, don't you know her?") but in the books we don't see any of it because we're stuck with Harry. I would like to see what the members of the other Houses get up to. Or the antagonists! For CoS, we could have Ginny slowly, over several episodes, becoming entrapped by the diary rather than all of it being dealt with in dialogue afterwards. And we could even see what the hell Lucius was thinking when he dumped his Dark Lord's most prized possession in a random Weasley's cauldron. That sort of thing. Also in the later movies the backstory was dealt with way too little; stuff like Remus knowing what the Marauders' Map is or Snape saying "I, the Half-Blood Prince" came completely out of left field for all the viewers I know who hadn't read the books.

9 minutes ago, Felkin said:

... and smaller child-friendly sets based on the TV show. WB / HBO / Max / whatever their called this week are gonna want to promote the heck out of the new TV series as a means of promoting their streaming service going global, but the movies still hold a lot of nostalgia for some adults, so I expect that Lego will want to cover both markets.

The thought of a "child-friendly" HBO show will never not be funny to me. ;-) But I agree with @BrickBob Studpants - as long as the show isn't a proven success, LEGO won't take much of a risk on it. Maybe the odd little set here and there, especially ones like "Ron and Harry and car" or "Ron and Harry and spider" that they can be relatively sure will sell anyway, or maybe sets featuring characters like Peeves that got cut out of the movies, but nothing more.

Edited July 16 by brickbride

[MaxHeadroom]

The idea of a complete and mostly faithful adaptation of the books is a dated one which relies on the public having a massive reverence for the books which I just don’t think is the case anymore. I liked Harry Potter as a kid. The books were fun at the time although when I reread them as a teen I already found myself having major issues with several parts of them. I still have fun with the movies once in a while watching them while building the Lego sets. At the end of the day though the designs of HP and general aesthetic are often brilliant and a lot of fun, the designers for those movies did an excellent job (which often translates to great Lego sets) but the books and storyline aren’t exactly Shakespeare or anything and they’re far from perfect across the board. Even if you’ve got nostalgia blinders on to the issues with the books, having the creator involved creatively also isn’t great (ignoring everything outside of HP) simply because her more recent ideas like feces in the hallways before plumbing have been pretty universally disliked. So far from what I can tell all they’re doing to update the series is just getting a more diverse cast, which just feels like a coat of fresh paint and doesn’t really help it that much. Certainly doesn’t do much to address all the plot elements people have already discussed here which we can assume they’re going to replicate faithfully. I’d love to see a massively changed adaptation of HP but that would never happen and I think everyone has different changes they’d make. Really I’d like HP to stay in the past as a nice memory and for the kids of today to get their own new big budget fantasy series that speaks to them and not an adaptation of something else but obviously that wouldn’t be profitable. 

A fresh coat of paint for the figures is really all remake sets would be from what we’ve seen of the filming sets, costumes, casting, branding etc. More varied figures with different skin tones is great and would make the sets look more interesting. It looks like Harry has a dark red jumper in the costume photo and new colored jumpers would be great and really make the houses stand out from each other (making the house disparity even more obvious though). Those are both changes that I think would clearly make better and more visually interesting toys. Are they toys I’d buy though? It’s a bit of a ship of Theseus thing where I’m not sure how much could really be changed from my nostalgic view of the series (Lego and book/film) for me to stay attached to it and not just switch to another theme. And a lot of things would be new for the sake of it. Do we really need to waste budget on new Harry head prints just because his scar is different now? 
 

I think that unless WB is forcing their hand somehow, Lego will play it safe and cater to the adult market wanting the older stuff since the adult market seems to be their focus so far this decade. They’ll maybe try a one off D2C set or something from the show not in a minifig scale just to test the waters and if it does well maybe in a couple years in they’ll try out committing to the new series. But as we saw with Fantastic Beasts, new HP stuff is not the most popular and Lego wasn’t bothered with the last Beasts movie at all (I confess I still haven’t watched it either). I don’t think the series is even worth discussing until we see audiences reactions to at least some proper trailers or even the first season. Lego almost certainly won’t have anything specifically tied to the show when it releases in 2027. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Looks like the motorcycle set is based on DH after all!  The initial rumour just said “Privet Drive Motorcycle”, and it’s now known as “Privet Drive Escape”. Since “escape” is in the set’s name now, I hope this means we also get a Death Eater in the set! Kinda surreal to have this discussion again only a year later. After this year’s set, I didn’t think we’d see a minifig-scale version anytime soon, let alone so shortly thereafter!

Quite a specific thing to redo so quickly, but I’m more than happy with it! And with the Lovegood’s house being part of the same wave, they’re now doing exactly what I wanted back in 2021

[brickbride]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Since “escape” is in the set’s name now, I hope this means we also get a Death Eater in the set! 

EUR 20 list price and three figs, one of which is a new Hagrid (goggles)? I wouldn't get my hopes up.

[Virginia_Bricks]

8 minutes ago, brickbride said:

EUR 20 list price and three figs, one of which is a new Hagrid (goggles)? I wouldn't get my hopes up.

If all that is new for Hagrid is the goggles that is just a new face print. Yes, the shirt he wears is different but I wouldn't get too hopeful of a new torso print since the coat is still the same. And they definitely are not creating a new mold that would let him sit. 

They could throw in the Death Eater from Gringotts or Voldemort from Malfoy Manor to have a figure repeat to get to 3.

[brickbride]

They could, but Hagrid probably already counts as more than one minifig in their budgeting (new face print or not) so that would make more than three for a EUR 20 set which seems unlikely.

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

They could, but Hagrid probably already counts as more than one minifig in their budgeting (new face print or not) so that would make more than three for a EUR 20 set which seems unlikely.

Exhibit A: 

And if you look at Hagrid more like a moulded creature rather than a minifig or even a bigfig, exhibit B:

 

Besides, what would they escape from, if there’s no Death Eater (or Voldemort) included? The vast emptiness of space?

[brickbride]

Exhibit A is from 2011, I think we can discount it for that reason alone. Exhibit B might ve more relevant, being from 2022, but like I've said I don't know. They seem to be getting more stingy with the figs lately (case in point: exhibit A's Narcissa looks way better than the one in the recent EUR 150 Malfoy Manor). The recent Charms Class does have three figs at EUR 20 but none of them are Hagrid so while it's not impossible I just don't think it's likely.

[NoOneOfImportance]

I wouldn't be surprised if LEGO put Voldemort from Malfoy Manor into the bike, if they want three figures. He's in the scene, and it makes him more accessible for the time being. 

As far as the new show, I oddly wouldn't be surprised if LEGO first delves into it with some 18+ stuff. The show is on HBO, which I don't think has as much of a younger audience, so testing the waters with an 18+ model representing an iconic location (or something like the little mermaid one with something as an "overall" representation could work well. 

[brickbride]

According to Brick Clicker's latest video the price for the D2C Hogsmeade set is still USD 380 (we've had a couple sets change prices lately). Piece count is 3,228 so well over .10 per piece (as opposed to the big DA or Gringotts).

Edited July 18 by brickbride