Gorilla94 Posted January 21 Posted January 21 9 hours ago, Felkin said: Hopefully we'll get an updated design for Quidditch players sometime soon; I'd quite like to see the helmets & padding the players wore in Half-Blood Prince (which seemed fitting given how violent Quidditch is), since it's one of the few Hogwarts uniform variants we've yet to see in minifig form. The current Quidditch outfits feature in the Diagon Alley D2C, which is due to retire this year I believe, so once that's no longer on sale I guess we might see new Quidditch uniforms featured in sets in 2026. My dream would be for a Quidditch pitch D2C as a colourful display piece, rather than the minigame versions with flick-fire studs we've had previously, but admittedly that's a long shot. Now I am torn between waiting and hoping for an improved version and buying somw players now. With so many figures being severe downgrades the prices for the ok-ish figures could climb up pretty fast... On the other hand that is what they are... just somewhat "ok". I am sure we will get something quidditch-field-like. It is a part of Hogwarts and we are going to get the "most detailed one", aren't we? A full stadion... I doubt it. Certainly not 7 players for each team, even if they give us only 2 teams. And fillig the stadion would require an insane amount of figures. Quote
Virginia_Bricks Posted January 21 Posted January 21 On 1/20/2025 at 5:38 AM, Gorilla94 said: I think they will make them fit in a pot, so I assume either the plant piece from the Neville cmf or a round brick. How do you guys display your castle? Is it full with several versions of the trio as well as clones of Draco and so on? Right now I am planning on only using 1 iconic version of each character... on the other hand it would be tempting to let Hagrid in his suit be somewhere with Madame Maxime, too... maybe showing of some of his creatures. I display my favorite scenes from each movie, so having duplicates is wonderful so every room can be full of activity. Like right now Lockhart is in my Great Hall and Quirrell is in the dungeons. Canonical? Absolutely not, but I prefer mini-figure scale sets so I can effectively play with it like a dollhouse. Quote
Gorilla94 Posted January 21 Posted January 21 (edited) Displaying scenes is a neat approach. Right now I have about 50 individual students right now. For some named ones I have certain places planned like Finnigan producing an explosion in the potions class. I made a Slytherin student with a face clearly laughing about him standing a row behindert him and a confused looking student next to him. Neville will be wandering throug a corridor looking confused what he forgot and so on. Quirrel will be standing next to the mirror trying to figure out, how to get the stone. I could see Harry and Draco duelling. Got the old cobra piece for that scene. The one character that will 100% appear twice is Hermione. Cat Hermline behind one toilet cabin is too iconic to not include next to her Standard appearance Edited January 25 by Gorilla94 Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted January 25 Posted January 25 Since the minifig list likely won’t be that exciting, I was wondering what new animals or creatures we can expect this summer With the new long-fur cat piece we could finally see a proper Crookshanks! Ripper is pretty much a given. We already have a bulldog piece (two, if you count the French breed), but it’s still a neat addition! Fingers crossed for a new owl colour! I also wouldn‘t mind to see the dark tan smowl introduced last year in a Friends set. Curiously, it‘s not friendsified at all and could thus easily reappear here If the Monster Book of Monsters is a Polly-Pocket-style playset rather than a display model, we could get some (brick-built?) creatures this way! A „full-body“ Mandrake could be interesting! Some have suggested the Dreamling piece, and even though it‘s pretty oversized for that, it‘s a distinct possibility. Quote
BacktoBricks Posted January 25 Posted January 25 4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said: Since the minifig list likely won’t be that exciting, I was wondering what new animals or creatures we can expect this summer With the new long-fur cat piece we could finally see a proper Crookshanks! Ripper is pretty much a given. We already have a bulldog piece (two, if you count the French breed), but it’s still a neat addition! Fingers crossed for a new owl colour! I also wouldn‘t mind to see the dark tan smowl introduced last year in a Friends set. Curiously, it‘s not friendsified at all and could thus easily reappear here If the Monster Book of Monsters is a Polly-Pocket-style playset rather than a display model, we could get some (brick-built?) creatures this way! A „full-body“ Mandrake could be interesting! Some have suggested the Dreamling piece, and even though it‘s pretty oversized for that, it‘s a distinct possibility. Like you I think Ripper is a given, but I'm not holding out hope for Fluffyshanks as the Grim didn't get the CMF wolf recolour treatment that I think would have been a lot better for the Grim. Happy to be proven wrong though! I'm hoping we will also see Fawkes appear in the Main Tower, either in his CMF form or an open winged flying version would be great. So long as he's not reduced to a red baby bird. We've got quite a lot of the creatures from the HP movies now so I can't really think of what else to expect. The Basilisk has got to show up again at some point and I'd say Fluffy likewise seeing as you really can't have the most detailed Hogwarts ever and miss out creatures and scenes that are crucial, but I'm not expecting them this year. I would love it they did the DADA classroom and put the Boggart in in Snape form, but again I would expect DADA to show up as a separate set. They could easily sell it with Boggart Snape, a Dementor, a spider build etc. Would make for a fun little set. Funnily enough, I was looking at owls on BL yesterday and came across that Friends dark tan smowl and hoped it might appear in the Summer wave. The Dreamling piece was my suggestion and I agree it is slightly oversized, but seeing it in the nougat colour already it looks like it would be a good approximation of the Mandrake form. I'd say it is no more oversized than the round printed bricks are undersized, but the fact it doesn't fit in a pot might be its downfall. I'm guessing the Monster Book of Monsters will be a similar concept to the GWP and have the opening jaw mechanism prioritised over any internal play features seeing as that is what the book is known for. The GWP mechanism was actually quite good when rolled on the right surface. Brick built creatures aren't really my thing so I can't say I'm hoping for any in particular. Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted January 25 Posted January 25 8 minutes ago, BacktoBricks said: The Basilisk has got to show up again at some point and I'd say Fluffy likewise seeing as you really can't have the most detailed Hogwarts ever and miss out creatures and scenes that are crucial, but I'm not expecting them this year. Yeah, neither of them would make much sense. The tower should be a mostly vertical model and thus have a rather small footprint, so I think an inclusion of the chamber of secrets (and thus the Basilisk) in that set can be ruled out. The chamber deserves its own set! Fluffy can also be ruled out for that set since I highly doubt they‘d dedicate two consecutive flagship castle sections to the same film. PoA, GoF, and OotP would all be far better candidates in my opinion. I‘ve made my case for OotP before, but I‘d also be pretty happy with the former two Quote
BacktoBricks Posted January 25 Posted January 25 1 minute ago, BrickBob Studpants said: Yeah, neither of them would make much sense. The tower should be a mostly vertical model and thus have a rather small footprint, so I think an inclusion of the chamber of secrets (and thus the Basilisk) in that set can be ruled out. The chamber deserves its own set! Fluffy can also be ruled out for that set since I highly doubt they‘d dedicate two consecutive flagship castle sections to the same film. PoA, GoF, and OotP would all be far better candidates in my opinion. I‘ve made my case for OotP before, but I‘d also be pretty happy with the former two I would like a later movie too. Dumbledore's Office with a later Gambon Dumbledore would be a nice change over COS Dumbledore's Office. Dumbledore's Office, Umbridge's Office and maybe even the Room of Requirement could all be fitted in the Main Tower I would think and covet OOTP pretty well. Quote
Gorilla94 Posted January 25 Posted January 25 4 hours ago, BacktoBricks said: Like you I think Ripper is a given, but I'm not holding out hope for Fluffyshanks as the Grim didn't get the CMF wolf recolour treatment that I think would have been a lot better for the Grim. Happy to be proven wrong though! A proper Crookshanks would bd filling the worst gap we hsve right now in my opinion. Could the Grim have to do with the set planning process, so the introduction of the new mould was too close? I painted my old Fluffy a week ago. With black eyes, nose and white teeth he looks gorgeous and fits peefectly with modern creatures in my opinion just in case someone else destests the new version, too. What makes me think a bit... how long do you think this castle cycle will go? I mean, they can't keep Petting this amount of "Hogwarts Castle: ...." sets out for 4 years without retirering the old ones, can they? Quote
Roebuck Posted January 26 Posted January 26 https://www.thebrickfan.com/marcos-bessa-leaves-the-lego-group/ Quote
Gorilla94 Posted January 26 Posted January 26 1 hour ago, Roebuck said: https://www.thebrickfan.com/marcos-bessa-leaves-the-lego-group/ Sorry, I don't know anything about the designers. Was he involved with Harry Potter? Quote
Black Falcon Posted January 26 Posted January 26 15 hours ago, BacktoBricks said: I'm hoping we will also see Fawkes appear in the Main Tower, either in his CMF form or an open winged flying version would be great. So long as he's not reduced to a red baby bird. We've got quite a lot of the creatures from the HP movies now so I can't really think of what else to expect. The Basilisk has got to show up again at some point and I'd say Fluffy likewise seeing as you really can't have the most detailed Hogwarts ever and miss out creatures and scenes that are crucial, but I'm not expecting them this year. I would love it they did the DADA classroom and put the Boggart in in Snape form, but again I would expect DADA to show up as a separate set. They could easily sell it with Boggart Snape, a Dementor, a spider build etc. Would make for a fun little set I would take fawkes as granted, since I would take Dumbledores office as granted too. But in the end, even in the most detailed Hogwarts, they won´t be able to include everything we would wish for, since it will probably be just three years like the last two waves. 1 hour ago, Gorilla94 said: Sorry, I don't know anything about the designers. Was he involved with Harry Potter? He worked on the last two Waves. You can also check his website, as mentioned in the article and search the sets he worked on: LEGO Products designed by Marcos Bessa Quote
brickbride Posted January 26 Posted January 26 German YouTuber Held der Steine has a review up of the microscale Diagon Alley. Two noteworthy things for me: one, the box art depicts Gringotts in the middle and the sides of the Alley each at an angle but there aren't any hinge plates or hinge bricks so while you can arrange the modules like that they don't really hold together. And two, the entire thing is tiny! Near the end of the video he shows it next to the new Great Hall which, at the same price point and far fewer pieces, looks gigantic in comparison. I really think we need to come up with a better measurement than price-to-pieces ratio given LEGO 's recent tendencies to stuff even playsets and display sets full of 1x1 plates (Friends had another recent example with the Beekeeper's Garden). Quote
Black Falcon Posted January 26 Posted January 26 20 minutes ago, brickbride said: German YouTuber Held der Steine has a review up of the microscale Diagon Alley. Two noteworthy things for me: one, the box art depicts Gringotts in the middle and the sides of the Alley each at an angle but there aren't any hinge plates or hinge bricks so while you can arrange the modules like that they don't really hold together. And two, the entire thing is tiny! Near the end of the video he shows it next to the new Great Hall which, at the same price point and far fewer pieces, looks gigantic in comparison. I really think we need to come up with a better measurement than price-to-pieces ratio given LEGO 's recent tendencies to stuff even playsets and display sets full of 1x1 plates (Friends had another recent example with the Beekeeper's Garden). Price to piece ratio is soemthing that is easy to track and also normally the first info we get about a set is the number, name, price and piece count - so we won´t get rid of it, but I think it is also quite common agreed on, that that alone doesn´t tell us much about how good the price for a set is - in the end there won´t be an objective way to measure it. That beeing said in the end I look at set and then decide whether it is worth it to me or not - ppp can help with that, but in the end the price there isn´t the price I am going to pay for most of the sets anyways (and if then with a GWP). On a side note, Sets got way more detailed in the last years and naturally that also means that the sets get a lot more little parts than they used to in the past - but they also look much better, although granted older sets still have a certain charm ;). That is also the reason why the great hall is much bigger compared to the microscale Set, since there is a lot air surrounded by bigger pieces - but I don´t think a bigger size is in the end more worth. Quote
Gorilla94 Posted January 26 Posted January 26 2 hours ago, Black Falcon said: I would take fawkes as granted, since I would take Dumbledores office as granted too. But in the end, even in the most detailed Hogwarts, they won´t be able to include everything we would wish for, since it will probably be just three years like the last two waves. He worked on the last two Waves. You can also check his website, as mentioned in the article and search the sets he worked on: LEGO Products designed by Marcos Bessa That worries me... I really liked the speculated Idea of 4 big sets each coming with a common room and house ghost. I really hope we get the bloody Baron... Oh boy... the Designer of the in my opinion best small Potter Set... "polyjuce misstake" ... I hope the set Qualität will not suffer too much. Quote
Black Falcon Posted January 26 Posted January 26 2 hours ago, Gorilla94 said: That worries me... I really liked the speculated Idea of 4 big sets each coming with a common room and house ghost. I really hope we get the bloody Baron... Oh boy... the Designer of the in my opinion best small Potter Set... "polyjuce misstake" ... I hope the set Qualität will not suffer too much. I wouldn´t mind if they would actually go for a fourth year this time, and actually if we are getting the staircase tower now as a big Set we basically got the the part in two years that they made in one Set in the first wave after the themes return - and well given we are already in the second year, it also seems like there is to much left missing to just finish it next year - unless they make smaller sets out of the rest (or a part of it is already included in the summer wave). Quote
Bugbot20082 Posted January 26 Posted January 26 (edited) If people are interested I can make a castle floor plan for the entire complex, could serve as a guide for anyone’s else’s MOC’s? I’m not going to buy the new System as i have been collecting from the start so it won’t integrate with the new sets. It would be based on modular 8x8, 8x16, 16x16 plates as used on the 2018-2023 systems. Edited January 26 by Bugbot20082 Quote
Black Falcon Posted January 26 Posted January 26 59 minutes ago, Bugbot20082 said: If people are interested I can make a castle floor plan for the entire complex, could serve as a guide for anyone’s else’s MOC’s? I’m not going to buy the new System as i have been collecting from the start so it won’t integrate with the new sets. It would be based on modular 8x8, 8x16, 16x16 plates as used on the 2018-2023 systems. You mean a floor plan for the film Version of Hogwarts? If you have/plan to do something like that, I am sure it will be usefull for someone in here. Quote
Virginia_Bricks Posted January 26 Posted January 26 (edited) 8 hours ago, Black Falcon said: I wouldn´t mind if they would actually go for a fourth year this time, and actually if we are getting the staircase tower now as a big Set we basically got the the part in two years that they made in one Set in the first wave after the themes return - and well given we are already in the second year, it also seems like there is to much left missing to just finish it next year - unless they make smaller sets out of the rest (or a part of it is already included in the summer wave). Maybe... But they could do a $120 set of the tower next to the Grand Staircase and a $160/80 set for the Viaduct entrance and one swappable interior module and call it complete. While most of here would love an updated Clock Tower set or Astronomy Tower set, they could easily be excluded from the silhouette. What are people's opinions of exclusive minifigures in books? Picked up the Cedric Diggory second task figure with the book, but really don't care for the book. Edited January 26 by Virginia_Bricks Quote
Yope Posted January 27 Posted January 27 Quick update of my list of most prominent missing characters ranked by screentime, book mentions and popularity. The list of "popular" characters was based on here: https://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/harry-potter-characters I've included the figures that have been released since I first made this list (in green), it's nice to see the progress! Unsurprisingly (as there is reference material), characters with the most screentime are the ones we're ticking off the quickest. Screentime Mins Book Mentions Popular Narcissa Malfoy 6.75 Percy Weasley 486 Narcissa Malfoy Barty Crouch Sr 5.25 Kreacher 312 Aberforth Dumbledore Percy Weasley 5 Bill Weasley 302 Bill Weasley Xenophilius Lovegood 5 Barty Crouch Sr 295 Poppy Pomfrey Fang 3.5 Ludo Bagman 246 Lee Jordan Rita Skeeter 3.5 Rita Skeeter 188 Charlie Weasley Scabior 3.5 Igor Karkaroff 165 Helena Ravenclaw Aberforth Dumbledore 3.5 Peeves 164 Regulus Black Igor Karkaroff 3.25 Winky 162 Kreacher Nigel 3 Poppy Pomfrey 156 Katie Bell Kreacher 3 Rufus Scrimgeor 153 Ariana Dumbledore Mundungus Fletcher 3 Mundungus Fletcher 147 Andromeda Tonks Bogrod 3 Angelina Johnson 135 Angelina Johnson Katie Bell 2.75 Xenophilius Lovegood 124 Winky Marge Dursely 2.75 Katie Bell 116 Ted Tonks Rufus Scrimgeor 2.5 Charlie Weasley 110 Albus Potter Cormac McLaggen 2.5 Lee Jordan 109 Alice Longbottom Blaise Zabini 2.5 Fang 105 Firenze Poppy Pomfrey 2.25 Ernie Macmillan 92 Arabella Figg Helena Ravenclaw 2.25 Narcissa Malfoy 89 Rose Weasley Scorpius Malfoy Peeves Xenophilius Lovegood James S Potter Gellert Grindelwald Frank Longbottom Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted January 27 Posted January 27 12 minutes ago, Yope said: Quick update of my list of most prominent missing characters ranked by screentime, book mentions and popularity. Looks like Marge will be the only character we can scratch off that list this summer Unless they throw in Nigel or Katie somewhere. Quote
Gorilla94 Posted January 28 Posted January 28 11 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said: Looks like Marge will be the only character we can scratch off that list this summer Unless they throw in Nigel or Katie somewhere. or Ernie... I think we will for sure get at least one new named student with the big tower set. Of course it is up to each on their own if you want to count a random robe/sweater, the generic kid face and a generic hairpiece an exclusive character. Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted January 28 Posted January 28 (edited) 3 hours ago, Gorilla94 said: Of course it is up to each on their own if you want to count a random robe/sweater, the generic kid face and a generic hairpiece an exclusive character. Yeah, most students can very easily be recreated with existing parts, so they don‘t really count in my book. I wouldn‘t be surprised if a student ends up being the only „new“ character in the 2HY sets …unless they include the Bloody Baron in the tower, but I absolutely don‘t want yet another PS-based expansion Edited January 28 by BrickBob Studpants Quote
BrickMatit Posted January 28 Posted January 28 1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said: unless they include the Bloody Baron in the tower, but I absolutely don‘t want yet another PS-based expansion I think ghosts could appear with the related common rooms. In this case, if Bloody Baron (and Slytherin common room) will be in the tower I would see it more likely paired with CoS, more than PS. Or just as a filler in a not-PS not-CoS tower. For me, I'm more inclined to imagine the tower to have Nearly-Headless-Nick and the Gryffindor common room. 17 hours ago, Yope said: Quick update of my list of most prominent missing characters ranked by screentime, book mentions and popularity. There aren't a lot of characters missing. We can colour green Marge and students can easily be recreated with existing parts or put by LEGO as random named minifigures in the main sections of the castle. Xenophilius Lovegood could appear in a Lovegood House future set, continuing locations out of Hogwarts like Malfoy Manor (but I'll prefer to see a Tent Scene with patronus and lake and, in any case, DH Ron). Mundungus and Rufus are those unlikely to be seen in the future, I think. Even less Firenze and Arabella Figg, any 19 Years Later characters and Gellert Grindelwald. And Ariana would appear if LEGO decide for a Hog's Head set. And at least until the TV series, I think we can easily ruled out only-book characters. Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted January 28 Posted January 28 19 minutes ago, BrickMatit said: For me, I'm more inclined to imagine the tower to have Nearly-Headless-Nick and the Gryffindor common room. I hope not, as I‘m just sick of PS/CoS-based castle expansions They can still include a house ghost and a common room and what not, but would it kill them to give the other 75% of the movies some love too? I‘m grateful for the GoF, OotP, HBP, and DH sets we got so far, but they‘re still vastly overshadowed by the other three movies. Quote
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