Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[BrickMatit]

32 minutes ago, BacktoBricks said:

the product does not feel worth the value. The Burrow I only got the minifigures because I have know where to put such a tall display piece. I want to support the product because I don't want the theme or the D2Cs to end, but not at the price of being extorted. 

And The Burrow, last year, had 2405 pieces for 260$. Now we're talking about 3228 pieces for 380$. With The Burrow price per piece ratio, Hogsmeade should cost 350$.

[domen151]

38 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

And The Burrow, last year, had 2405 pieces for 260$. Now we're talking about 3228 pieces for 380$. With The Burrow price per piece ratio, Hogsmeade should cost 350$.

And lets not forget that even Burrow was pushing it last year in comparison to some other similar licenced sets, like Sander Sister Cottage or the Snow White one 😅

[Bugbot20082]

Edit: didn’t see the previous page of comments, for some reason my feed loaded without all post-leak conversation. 

Looks like 3 groupings of buildings on grey baseplates. 7 shops/pubs represented. The baseplates might explain the high price/part ratio 

White horse with black sleigh for Fudge :) no Hagrid :(

New colour of the hat/hair from the Jaws set for Ron 

New torso designs/variants for everyone except Mrs Flume, Draco, Mcgonagall and Fudge I think. 

Aberforth leg printing for kilt.

Mix of at HBP, OotP and PoA sticker details and figures, nice and versatile!

Edited 17 hours ago by Bugbot20082

[RODDY]

I actually like 2/3rds of the set. The Three Broomsticks is a huge improvement on the exterior in comparison to the last one and Hog’s Head/Zonko’s Gift Shop Baseplates look great. But the Honeydukes/Owl Post/Dervish & Banges sends me through the roof. Honeydukes looks practically the same as the old one besides the angling of the roof. Owl Post/Banges are way too small and remind me of the Magical Menagries which I think was the only blemish to the absolute perfection of the  Gringott’s set. They should have picked one of the two shops, preferably Banges because we have never gotten a music store in Lego Harry Potter and given us some instrument molds like a Violin or something. Set is a skip for me. 

[Virginia_Bricks]

4 minutes ago, RODDY said:

I actually like 2/3rds of the set. The Three Broomsticks is a huge improvement on the exterior in comparison to the last one and Hog’s Head/Zonko’s Gift Shop Baseplates look great. But the Honeydukes/Owl Post/Dervish & Banges sends me through the roof. Honeydukes looks practically the same as the old one besides the angling of the roof. Owl Post/Banges are way too small and remind me of the Magical Menagries which I think was the only blemish to the absolute perfection of the  Gringott’s set. They should have picked one of the two shops, preferably Banges because we have never gotten a music store in Lego Harry Potter and given us some instrument molds like a Violin or something. Set is a skip for me. 

Its crazy because Hogs Head/Zonko's looks to contain a third storefront not included in the leak list, but is so much better than the Post/Banges/Dukes building.

Will be interesting to see all the new prints because each store sign looks like a sticker. I do see the DA print likely to be reused in a Room of Requirement set down the road.

[Robert8]

Wow its beautiful

I didnt even know it was coming until it showed up on my feed today. What a nice surprise. Sometimes not following leakers do pay off

[BrickMatit]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Its crazy because Hogs Head/Zonko's looks to contain a third storefront not included in the leak list

It's Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop.

Edited 16 hours ago by BrickMatit

[BrickMatit]

The 1st of September GWP should be a 202 pieces Room of Requirement set.

Edited 16 hours ago by BrickMatit

[Virginia_Bricks]

7 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

The 1st of September GWP should be a 202 pieces Room of Requirement set.

2 pieces off from Charms, so reasonable to assume it will fit the modular castle theme.

[BrickMatit]

1 minute ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

2 pieces off from Charms, so reasonable to assume it will fit the modular castle theme.

Yes, likely, and at this point I expect the Dumbledore Army scroll from Hogsmeade to be in this set too.

[Accio Lego]

There are several small details I love – Aberforth finally having his kilt, the triangular box of exploding bonbons that you can see Draco holding in one of the pics, Katie having an alternate possessed face and a little clear stand to make her hover, Ariana’s portrait, they packed a lot of detail into a cramped set for all that everyone is complaining about depth and piece count is all I’m saying. 
 

Latest rumor is also that the GWP is the Room of Requirement! Given the DA sign up sheet we can see in Hogsmeade, fingers crossed that we’ll get an OotP based mini set and have a chance of a new patronus – anyone got statistics on recolors in GWPs?(fingers crossed Ron’s terrier finally appears)

[BrickBob Studpants]

Kinda funny this GWP has more pieces than the 2020 version of the RoR  Of course it won‘t come with as many minifigs and patronusses/patroni(?), but I‘m still curious to see what‘s included here.

[brickbride]

So all the Most Expensive Hogwarts Ever completionists will need not only several overpriced regular sets and at least one overpriced partly exclusive set (the Flying Lesson) but also at least one set only available as a GWP for buying even more overpriced sets? LEGO is really going all out on this one. (Yes I know they did all of this with the 2021 version but at least that one didn't focus on completeness as its main draw. Since the 2024 version does you'd think the least they could do would be to make all the overpriced parts of it, you know, available. )

Edited 15 hours ago by brickbride

[Virginia_Bricks]

7 minutes ago, brickbride said:

So all the Most Expensive Hogwarts Ever completionists will need not only several overpriced regular sets and at least one overpriced partly exclusive set (the Flying Lesson) but also at least one set only available as a GWP for buying even more overpriced sets? LEGO is really going all out on this one. (Yes I know they did all of this with the 2021 version but at least that one didn't focus on completeness as its main draw. Since the 2024 version does you'd think the least they could do would be to make all the overpriced parts of it, you know, available. )

Its likely the GWP will just be a $ threshold on all HP Lego sets like the last 2 years, not buying Hogsmeade itself

[brickbride]

Sure, but that still requires you to buy HP sets directly from LEGO at full price, which really only makes sense for exclusive sets.

76786 This is how they should have done Malfoy Manor.

[Accio Lego]

Just saw the upcoming Halloween BAM figures and one is a ghost that uses the same white and grey color scheme as the Harry Potter ghosts (although a bit more heavy on the white than any of the licensed characters), and the black cat will be making an appearance along with the first unlicensed appearance of the pointed witch hat with flowing wavy hair (ginger). So it will be a good time for anyone wanting to put together Harry Potter background characters. 

[brickbride]

16 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

And the fact is now I just won't pay it. In fact I've stopped paying it for some time now. I don't feel like I'm getting the quality or value anymore. It probably won't make a difference in grand scheme of things, but I am voting with my wallet, not just out of principle, but necessity and the fact that the noticeable downgrade in quality and volume of stuff in comparison to price in a company that continues to market themselves as the best and have bumper profits is fostering a dejected feeling.

I know how you feel. I do love LEGO but these days, more and more sets seem to be streamlined by the controlling department based on "How little can we get away with?".

To give just one example, the D2C DA had shades of this too (especially the Daily Prophet office which is inexplicably missing a floor) but there were also plenty of aspects like the many built shelves, the leaning front of QQS, the storage area at Ollivander's, and the entire WWW building with the figure inside where you felt like the designers just wanted to build something cool without caring how many parts it took.

These days I rarely get that feeling from a HP (or generally LEGO) set. Instead the sets feel like they've been downpared to the bare minimum before release. Like with all the minifigs missing printing (especially on skirts!) where we already know LEGO can do better. Or those hideous white doorframes in the Astronomy Tower because tan would have added a few extra cents to the budget. Or those stupid and impractical grid plates in the 2021 modular Hogwarts where you can't pose minifigs or build anything, really - I've recently built the 2021 Flying Lesson and through the instructions I could pretty much feel the designer trying to design around the grid plates in order to eke out an extra stud or two to work with. I don't think that's much fun for the designers and it's not much fun for the customers either. And then there's the blatant cash-grab that is the new modular Hogwarts where you pay through the nose to get a half-finished product filled with placeholders, and then have to pay some more in oder to beef it up with add-ons.

I know a lot of people are getting tired of the price discussion but to me it's not just that list prices are too high these days (although they are), it's also the growing discrepancy between LEGO marking itself as a premium product and what is actually delivered. Pretty much every set description has phrases like "treat yourself" or "spoil yourself" in it but an overpriced, underdesigned product doesn't feel like much of a treat to me. And there's all those lifestyle pictures where people proudly display their sets in their home, but who wants to display an expensive sets full of stickers that only looks good from the one angle they use for the box design? Again that's perfectly okay for a playset - if the price matches what you get, and these days it usually doesn't - but if you pay hundreds of euros for a supposed display object it had better look good from all angles.