Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[mark1991t]

44 minutes ago, BacktoBricks said:

Is Draco's faceprint new?

I think its new, as @Virginia_Bricks says.

[Gorilla94]

13 minutes ago, mark1991t said:

I think its new, as @Virginia_Bricks says.

It is. He has clearly a gloriously arrogant smirk. It fits the character really well. Love it. I always liked the disgusted face he had until now but wished they gave him something like this on the other side of the head having him now scared,  disgusted and with an evil smirk is great :)

[THELEGOBATMAN]

So, to start off, the new box art is gorgeous to look at. The Patronuses are a weird 25th anniversary collectible, and I don't much care for them.

The cauldron looks good enough, but it's a weird set. Not really sure who it's made for, because it doesn't look too exciting to play with, nor so amazing as to be a display piece.

The Cornish Pixie looks kinda bad, but not too terrible. I like the display stand though.

The Sorting Ceremony sucks, I think. The minifigures are plain and boring, while the build is scattered. The wheel is obviously a nice reference to a set I own, but that's about all it has to offer.

The Lovegood house is really good, if cramped inside. Ron should've been included. It's definitely an overpriced set.

The Philosopher's Stone set is awesome. I love it as a display piece, it's really well done. I like that it's compact, and the minifigures are very detailed, but 160€ is hard to swallow. It'd be a better deal for 120€.

The Privet Drive set is perfect, easily my favourite of the bunch. It's overpriced at 20€, but since it's so small, it doesn't matter as much. The minifigures are great, the builds are very well done, and I'll be glad to finally have a Deathly Hallows set.

And now, for the worst Harry Potter set ever, and probably one of the worst sets I've ever seen in general... My god. The Ford Anglia is horrendous. It's so unsettlingly smooth. The figures are somehow twice as bad, and easily the worst thing LEGO has ever made. A terrible set to play with, and an even worse display piece.

[(1)Stein]

Dang! the only set I'm really interested in would be Lego 76463 Hospital Wing..... and there is still no image! 🥲😢😭

[mark1991t]

5 hours ago, mark1991t said:

Both faces are new too, but can be one piece with two prints

4 New face prints for the Death Eaters as the better images show.

[Virginia_Bricks]

1 minute ago, mark1991t said:

4 New face prints for the Death Eaters as the better images show.

Really leaning into it being a battle pack. Buy 2 sets and you can have 4 unique Death Eaters on top of the one in Gringotts. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

9 minutes ago, mark1991t said:

4 New face prints for the Death Eaters as the better images show.

You‘re right!! So we went from 2 prints to 6!! Impressive!  Hopefully we get at least one more Death Eater in the 2HY sets so we can display all 4 of the new ones simultaneously without being multiple copies

Has anyone figured out yet whose masks the new designs are based on?

[BacktoBricks]

@Virginia_Bricks @mark1991t Thank you!

4 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

It is. He has clearly a gloriously arrogant smirk. It fits the character really well. Love it. I always liked the disgusted face he had until now but wished they gave him something like this on the other side of the head having him now scared,  disgusted and with an evil smirk is great :)

It's great to get some more variety. Now I just wish the Ron would get the same. 

[Virginia_Bricks]

It appears the box design change is not purely for the 25th anniversary since the 25th anniversary sets (those with patronuses) have a special marking on their box. Compare this to SW that did a whole different box design for 25th anniversary sets with even an 18+ box variant.

I'd believe this indicates Lego wants to move away from Daniel, Emma, and Rupert being the boxes in advance of the series and doing sets on both the movies and the series. Therefore all Lego HP sets have the same box design and its not tied to specific media.

[Blazej_Holen]

What happened to Lego lately? Its just me or are the new released sets lackluster as hell? Prices are going up riddiculously while the quality of the design and all goes down faster and faster… Pitty. Ideas are good overall, but the design for the price is just absurdly horrible. Sorry but not sorry. 

[Jaromir]

I am kind of surprised with the Harry and Hagrid set, lovely minifigure selection, can't say same thing about the build, clearly this set is only about figures. Same applies to sorting hat ceremony, but worse minifigure selection with little bit better build. I can't tell my feeling about Lovegoods house, it is kind of weird, but I like it, lovely minifigures. Rest of the sets are totally pass for me. Waiting for hospital wing.

[Stereo]

I have some Classic theme 'googly eyes' that I might swap into the Anglia, if I see it for a good deal (assuming it'll be $80+US msrp).  Not sure about the mouths, maybe there's a classic 1x2 tile with smiling/frowning mouth (11031 monkey fun, but only medium nougat)?  I don't actually hate the printed tiles it comes with, I just think googly eyes are funnier.

[Black Falcon]

7 minutes ago, Blazej_Holen said:

What happened to Lego lately? Its just me or are the new released sets lackluster as hell? Prices are going up riddiculously while the quality of the design and all goes down faster and faster… Pitty. Ideas are good overall, but the design for the price is just absurdly horrible. Sorry but not sorry. 

Which Sets exactly are lackluster for you? To me personally the current HP wave is superior to the two we had before - the first was still good for what it was, but I wasn´t really a fan of the last system at all. This one looks just so much better - and I cant really see the quality of the January wave decreasing either.

[brickbride]

Philosopher's Stone: Hedwig looks decent (which is more than you can say for the last couple iterations of her) but not as good as she would have to as a centerpiece, especially compared with the Hogwarts Icons set. My favourite build might actually be the candle. The vignettes look better than I expected but that's because of so many stickers, no points here. Is that supposed to be Harry's trunk? 'Cause it looks like a suitcase, not a trunk. And didn't the leaks say the chess piece would be the queen? That doesn't look like a queen to me, it doesn't even have a crown. Also people in the usual place are already speculating that there will be one of these for each year, that sounds plausible.

Luna's House: That's ... a compromise for sure. On the one hand it looks kind of like the Rookery in the style of the playset Diagon Alley, or like those 4+ Batcaves and Arkham Asylums over at Superheroes, just very junior overall. And what's with the tea party outside on the lawn, couldn't LEGO make a house where you can fit two chairs and a table inside? On the other hand I do like the light brick and its use, and it's just something different. And Xenophilius actually looks good, though the Dementor has nothing on the old ones with the sand green faces and capes, those were way creepier. I won't buy it and I don't think it would look good next to more "adult" buildings like the Burrow or even Privet Drive, but I don't hate it either. Also: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (re: Ron)!

Motorbike: Hagrid with the goggles looks beyond stupid and the play feature is ... let's say lacking, but I might still get this at a discount if only for the Death Eaters. Or maybe not. I really don't want or need anything else about it other than the Death Eaters and maybe the broom, and EUR 20 minus a discount is too steep for that. We'll see.

Sorting: Okay the spinning wheel is a disaster, this was so much better done in 4701. Also the colours for Ravenclaw are entirely wrong, should be dark blue and gray! Surely LEGO know this by now. I might have considered getting it but now I don't think I will, it just looks too cheesy overall. The hourglasses and of course the cat are the best part. Finally a gender-balanced and affordable set for kids, though, so I'm not complaining.

Pixie: Wow. That looks even worse than Dobby which is saying something.

Ford Anglia: The car is not too terrible (apart from the fact that we've had it like a hundred times already) but yikes those faces! Mine probably sported the same expression like either Ron's or Harry's when I finally found the pic. Also the leak said that Hedwig would be included but she's missing here. I'm kind of tempted to think she looked so bad they had to omit her at the last second, but given that they actually released drone Hedwig in Hagrid's Motorcycle Accident that's probably not the case.

Do we know any definitive prices for any of them yet? I'm asking because the Marvel January sets just got officially revealed and apparently the Daily Bugle is USD 100 but somehow EUR 110! Is that going to be a regular thing? Whatever happened to the tarriffs excuse?

 

 

 

 

Edited November 1 by brickbride

[Blazej_Holen]

7 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

Which Sets exactly are lackluster for you? To me personally the current HP wave is superior to the two we had before - the first was still good for what it was, but I wasn´t really a fan of the last system at all. This one looks just so much better - and I cant really see the quality of the January wave decreasing either.

Which sets exactly? All of them. Except Privet Drive “battle pack” which is kinda good because of Deatheaters. 
 

I was talking about all sets across the themes. Regarding HP, its about past few years actually. 

[krimimimi]

19 hours ago, MaxHeadroom said:

 And yes, where is Ron. 

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

Ford Anglia: [...] Also the leak said that Hedwig would be included but she's missing here. I'm kind of tempted to think she looked so bad they had to omit her at the last second, but given that they actually released drone Hedwig in Hagrid's Motorcycle Accident that's probably not the case.

A buildable Hedwig is included, she can be seen in the rear of the car. I can confidently say you're not going to like her though. She appears to have a printed dome piece for a head and from the angles pictured looks like a Star Wars droid. 

Edited November 1 by krimimimi

[brickbride]

@krimimimiI found seven pics and only one side view of the car has what appears to be a gray half-dome in the backseat, is that supposed to be Hedwig? She is not even gray!

[mark1991t]

34 minutes ago, brickbride said:

is that supposed to be Hedwig? She is not even gray!

Yep. You found her. 

Also the Dementor you are talking about in Luna's house is a Death Eater. Dementor should come in Hospital Wing. Still no pics.

And you can fit the table and chairs inside Luna's House. They are pictured outside for easy play. Inside they fit on the black jumperplates on the ground floor. 

[brickbride]

56 minutes ago, mark1991t said:

Also the Dementor you are talking about in Luna's house is a Death Eater. Dementor should come in Hospital Wing. Still no pics.

And you can fit the table and chairs inside Luna's House. They are pictured outside for easy play. Inside they fit on the black jumperplates on the ground floor. 

Sorry, I mixed them up. In my defense, canonically most Death Eaters can't fly. 😉

You're also right that you can technically cram the tea party inside the house, though that reminds me of those stackable pieces of furniture in the Moments books more than anything else. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for the good old sets before shrinkflation  where you could fit all the figs and side builds into the main structure and still have studs to spare.

Edited November 1 by brickbride

[krimimimi]

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

@krimimimiI found seven pics and only one side view of the car has what appears to be a gray half-dome in the backseat, is that supposed to be Hedwig? She is not even gray!

That's ok, she's white. If you've seen the pictures I did, the one with the direct side view and what appears to be a grey Hedwig also has a dividing line on it and the view above the line is a slightly off centre frontal shot. Between the boys' shoulders, Hedwig is visible and you can see she's white plus her face print. 

But I did say you weren't going to like her...

46 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Sorry, I mixed them up. In my defense, canonically most Death Eaters can't fly. 😉

* can't fly without brooms 

[Black Falcon]

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

And didn't the leaks say the chess piece would be the queen? That doesn't look like a queen to me, it doesn't even have a crown.

You should complain to Warner about that not Lego. And well in the end the Queen is in Battle, a crown doesn´t really help you there, does it?

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

Luna's House: That's ... a compromise for sure. On the one hand it looks kind of like the Rookery in the style of the playset Diagon Alley, or like those 4+ Batcaves and Arkham Asylums over at Superheroes, just very junior overall. And what's with the tea party outside on the lawn, couldn't LEGO make a house where you can fit two chairs and a table inside? On the other hand I do like the light brick and its use, and it's just something different. And Xenophilius actually looks good, though the Dementor has nothing on the old ones with the sand green faces and capes, those were way creepier. I won't buy it and I don't think it would look good next to more "adult" buildings like the Burrow or even Privet Drive, but I don't hate it either. Also: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (re: Ron)!

It would probably work better next to the old Burrow, than to the new one - and yeah, from the outside it looks good, on the inside there is of course not much room - but I also don´t think we would ever get a bigger version of it like we got with the Burrow, for that it isn´t just iconic enough IMO. 

4 hours ago, Blazej_Holen said:

Which sets exactly? All of them. Except Privet Drive “battle pack” which is kinda good because of Deatheaters. 
 

I was talking about all sets across the themes. Regarding HP, its about past few years actually. 

You will always find people to be disappointed with certain Sets, especially considering their expactations. And I am not going to say every set is mindblowing, some are better some are just not for me - in the end everyone has his own taste anyways. But if you find nothing you like at all, then I don´t know. 

38 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Sorry, I mixed them up. In my defense, canonically most Death Eaters can't fly. 😉

Actually, at least some seem to be able to do that - they turn in some shadowy cloud that moves fast through the air. You can see it in the very scene the set depicts actually. Or when Snape flees from the Battle with McGonagall.

[mark1991t]

7 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Actually, at least some seem to be able to do that - they turn in some shadowy cloud that moves fast through the air. You can see it in the very scene the set depicts actually. Or when Snape flees from the Battle with McGonagall.

Yes in the movies. I think @brickbride was talking about the books, in which canonically they can't fly. However, the sets we see are based mostly on the movies.

[brickbride]

2 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

You should complain to Warner about that not Lego. And well in the end the Queen is in Battle, a crown doesn´t really help you there, does it?

(...)Or when Snape flees from the Battle with McGonagall.

4704 used one of those Belville crowns for the queen, I liked that better.

And yes, Snape in the books can fly, that's why I said "most of them". Death Eaters somehow turning into mist in the movies is just an annoyance that makes no sense.

Edited November 1 by brickbride

[Black Falcon]

8 minutes ago, brickbride said:

And yes, Snape in the books can fly, that's why I said "most of them". Death Eaters somehow turning into mist in the movies is just an annoyance that makes no sense.

When we look at the Lovegood house scene, it doesn´t seem to be that few that are able to do that. And, well they are Wizards so I wouldn´t say it doesn´t make sense. Eitherway, Lego is just depicting something the movies shows, of course the minifigures can´t turn in some dark cloud, though.

[mark1991t]

Interesting to notice that the Hagrids Motorbike set is a different motorbike, than the one showed on the Insider-reward poster that you can buy with VIP-Points, despite every other poster show Old en Current Harry Potter sets.