Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Virginia_Bricks]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Having just built some of the One Piece sets, I‘m now wondering whether the portraits will continue to appear in the 1HY sets at least. I‘m still missing two of them, and resorting to Bricklink isn‘t fun  The chocolate frog cards ended after two years, so it‘s not super likely, but it‘d be a nice thing to continue since it‘s still the same castle system and unlike the cards, the portraits are actually incorporated into the builds!

I'd expect them to continue because they are also an easy way to decorate hallways and dungeons in otherwise boring parts of sets.

If by some miracle I don't have all of them when they stop releasing them, I have already decided to email Lego customer service and ask for my missing ones. So far I have collected each set that contains them so I think it is fair to expect to get a full set in that scenario.

[brickbride]

15 hours ago, krimimimi said:

Also how do they do that now that we have the Great Hall? It sounds like better material for an Accessory Pack (that we no longer get ) or an Advent calendar. 

Consensus is that the Sorting Ceremony will be like the Duelling Club, i.e. yet another set you can replace the original contents of the Great Hall with. That would make it the fourth one (the Great Hall, 2024 AC, Duelling Club being the first three) and that's part of what I meant when I said they've been wasting slots. I really cannot see how we'll get anywhere with this Most "Complete" Hogwarts system ever in a reasonable timeframe.

8 hours ago, RODDY said:

They can make it a part of a larger set like the Astronomy Tower so they can completely avoid naming it or they can do a different name like Fiendfyre Escape or Dumbledore’s Army Training or Room of Hidden Things for the Half Blood Prince Vanishing Cabinet. It’s so easy to do and having multiple variations of the same room which is known for changing would be a cool play feature. After the Prisoner of Azkaban, new rooms become much more scarce so I could definitely see them redoing it in some form. 

They could, but there's two problems with this. One, like I've said they've been wasting so many slots already - shouldn't they concentrate on giving us additional parts of the castle instead of redoing things like the Great Hall interior or the RoR again and again?

Two, we now know that the RoR, closed up, equates to a single small slide-out module. I could actually see them doing it in another set like you've suggested so you can then replace it with the GWP. But given how crappy those placeholder modules tend to look and given the space constraints I cannot see how they would do the training or Fiendfyre version without it looking very bad. Maybe the Vanishing Cabinet as a stand-alone, especially if HBP Draco happens to be part of the set already, but nothing else.

By the way I (somewhat to my surprise) like the hammock version, mostly because of the hammocks. They should sell this for EUR 10-15 (which sounds about right for one fig) or even EUR 20 if they include two more figs, and I bet people would buy it. But that's how it's been for some time; more and more I've been feeling that LEGO keep their better and more creative designs for GWPs (that is, marketing purposes) while regular customers are stuck with their second best.

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[brickbride]

Just found the lifestyle pic comparing DA and Hogsmeade side by side. Wow that's a bad angle, whoever decided to put WWW in the middle really did Hogsmeade no favours at all (since WWW is the only DA building without much of a sidewalk in front and therefore looks even more massive than the others in comparison). The Three Broomsticks is the only Hogsmeade building (barely) higher than WWW and that's without accounting for the many slanted roofs taking away so much space. Or, you know, the fact that DA has one more module. If you put the two sets up side by side and tell visitors that they cost basically the same (assuming you bought DA early before the price increase) it's like a textbook definition of LEGOflation.

Edited 2 hours ago by brickbride

[brickbride]

German YouTuber Held der Steine has a video review up of the HP booknook. Near the end he compares it side by side to the Reobrix one and the LEGO LotR one. Until then I hadn't realized that the two LEGO ones aren't remotely the same size - the LotR one (for all its many faults) is much taller than the HP one. Do the designers not talk to each other? I cannot imagine that displaying both on your bookshelf would look good and that's without factoring in the Sherlock Holmes one, too.