Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Gorilla94]

14 hours ago, BrickMatit said:

[...] There's something else to consider, when thinking about how long a Hogwarts castle last: the longer it last the more numerous are the sets LEGO has to keep on shelves, in their warehouse and in production. LEGO is already retiring Boathouse, a set that is relevant, in my opinion [...]

This is true but also 100% avoidable, if Lego did not waste so many spots in their waves. Brickbuild creatures... especially the incredibly ugly Harry and Hagrid motorbike ... could have easily been produced two years later. If there were not several sets (advent calendar, duellieren Club, sorting ceremony) to replace the great hall Interieur, but little addition of new stuff, this would not be an issue.

[krimimimi]

@Gorilla94 I think they have to stretch it out some, because releasing the "most detailed" Hogwarts ever in a shorter time period would price it out of a good chunk of people's budgets. As it stands now, we have no idea what it will end up costing us, which probably also helps their sales. If people knew from the outset the sets so far would cost them about 780 EUR, would they have started collecting them? And we're not done yet. That's two years out of at least three years, at this rate it'll be close to 1.2 k by the end of 2026, and if it goes into 2027? 

[BrickMatit]

19 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

This is true but also 100% avoidable, if Lego did not waste so many spots in their waves.

There's likely various reason for LEGO to produce that sort of sets. As @krimimimi already said, producing more sets of the "most detailed Hogwarts castle" in a shorter period could push spending beyond the budget available to some buyers. And some others, seeing how expensive would have been the castle, could have decided to not even beginning buying the bigger sets.

Then you have to considered that LEGO is also aimed at kids and Harry Potter is pretty popular also today to justify having smaller sets for them - like Dueling Club or Sorting Ceremony or Advent Calendars. And with the budget for the minor sets, LEGO would have produced something like Charm class, surely not an exciting set.

Furthermore, the fact that LEGO continues to produce objects, creatures and others not playsets likely means that there's enough people buying them. And those people maybe wouldn't have buy a playset, but simply invest their money in not LEGO objects or creatures by other producers. This, for LEGO, would means less earnings.

So, while I'm not fond of that type of sets, I can imagine why LEGO produce them.

[Virginia_Bricks]

8 hours ago, BrickMatit said:

Then you have to considered that LEGO is also aimed at kids and Harry Potter is pretty popular also today to justify having smaller sets for them - like Dueling Club or Sorting Ceremony or Advent Calendars. And with the budget for the minor sets, LEGO would have produced something like Charm class, surely not an exciting set.

Personally Dueling Club is a near perfect affordable set for a modular castle line. Under $30 makes a facade set basically impossible, so getting an iconic scene you can modulate the castle with and all prints is solid.

[BrickMatit]

16 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Personally Dueling Club is a near perfect affordable set for a modular castle line. Under $30 makes a facade set basically impossible, so getting an iconic scene you can modulate the castle with and all prints is solid.

Perfectly agree, it's a set I really like for what it is.

[Gorilla94]

On 11/27/2025 at 8:00 AM, BrickMatit said:

LEGO would have produced something like Charm class, surely not an exciting set.

To be honest I really like the set with the cute little play function. If it did use printed elements and the Dwalin beard, it would he just awesome in my opinion. 

[krimimimi]

I also like the new Potions classroom. It's a nice physical space and captures the room and class well, with a decent selection of characters. I like the inclusion of two uniform skirt pieces and stockinged legs and the Slytherin uniform is very much needed in the set and voila, present! The exploding potion piece and the new flask are also very welcome. It's a little expensive, but the build is more robust than many similar ones, so it's not (entirely) unjustified. Aragog and the Anglia were also quite good.

I think for me the small set that comes closest to being perfect remains the Polyjuice Potions Mistake from the 2021+ castle. Brilliant. It's a room with actual building facade, it appears a couple of times in the series, it has four minifigs, five characters, gives us some much needed Slytherin uniforms while still including the trio in case you're gifting it, includes the absolutely iconic cat!Hermione head... Chamber of Secrets access play feature, easily modded for the troll's bathroom scene... All of that for a reasonable price, and of course it did what I expected from a modular castle, acting as a module, which most of the rest of the 2021+ series somewhat inexplicably didn't.  Very nearly perfect. If they'd given us Myrtle instead of golden!Harry it would have been my idea of a perfect set.  

[brickbride]

Yes, the Polyjuice Potions Mistake was great!

Personally, the new Duelling Club has always seemed overpriced to me. There's absolutely no reason why it should have been EUR 25 instead of EUR 20 at the most, and LEGO have themselves kind of proven this now by giving us a four-fig set (including Hagrid and two sought-after Death Eaters!) for EUR 20 and another four-fig set from the same system as the Duelling Club for EUR 15. I actually think both of these are better than the Duelling Club in their own way, too. The Sorting Ceremony offers some great play value for kids, not to mention I've been advocating for a gender-equal allowance-friendly set for AGES (even though the build looks too cheesy for me as an adult, like McGongall's inviting everyone to come play Wheel of Fortune; Ravenclaw has the wrong colours, and the fig selection is really boring) and the Hagrid's Bike set gives us our very first minifig set of a coveted DH scene (even though the build itself and especially the play function are pitiful and Hagrid looks so stupid with the printed googles). I'm not looking to buy either but they have their justification.

That said, in order to find my favourite small sets you'd have to go back a while. 4865 Forbidden Forest is great for the figs, including our only decent version of Narcissa up to this day. And I love 4736 Freeing Dobby especially for its Lucius fig, his alternate headprint cracks me up every time. Like "WHY are you wearing your Death Eater mask while on an official visit to Hogwarts?" and "Do you REALLY think no-one would recognise you with that mask, no hood, and your long platinum blond hair?" ;-)

Edited November 29, 2025 by brickbride

[(1)Stein]

Do we have a set list beyond January 2026 yet?

[BrickMatit]

3 hours ago, (1)Stein said:

Do we have a set list beyond January 2026 yet?

Not that I know of.

[Virginia_Bricks]

3 hours ago, (1)Stein said:

Do we have a set list beyond January 2026 yet?

Just the set numbers and age ratings. They came early, I don't remember set names leaking till after Jan 1 this year.

[JS038]

The summer set names actually leaked on December 8 last year. So if we’re lucky again this year, we could know what the summer will look like in a weeks time. I will caveat that was earlier than usual. 

[RODDY]

Hospital Wing pictures are out and ngl the set looks great! Love the Boggart cabinet build and the new hair piece for Lupin is perfection. Hospital Wing is a more fleshed out version of the 2021, 1 less bed but I do like the extra shelves where Pomfrey can fetch stuff for the students. Also dig the little book shelf before the common room.
Connection is at the Devils Snare so now I’m officially worried about space for this bad boy but modern problems require modern solutions. Overall I really enjoy this set and this Hogwarts line is really proving to be absolute cinema, can’t wait to see what’s next. 

[Tariq j]

Official pictures of the Hospital Wing have dropped. The common room and hospital wing look pretty good, not quite sure how to feel about  the DADA classroom as it uses that “pullout” system as oppose to being built into the set so it does lack some details. I do really like the boggart wardrobe and spider though.

[Virginia_Bricks]

The Hospital portion is the standout interior and like they went full throttle with the Bogart cabinet. But Ravenclaw feels underwhelming, but I get why you include a library and a place to store her diadem.

I can see this driving up demand for the Snape Boggart becuase it so easily fits in.

The connection is cleaner than I expected and now there is a new connection possibility off the back of it. Does that mean a Hospital Wing set or is this just opening up the possibility for creative connections? Also, neat they made two possible connections on the side so you can choose how to line this up yourself.

Edited December 2, 2025 by Virginia_Bricks

[(1)Stein]

So I guess I was right about where it connects!

Edited December 2, 2025 by (1)Stein

[BrickBob Studpants]

The HP design team finally discovered the BTS hairpiece! …for Lupin  Well, I still hope they‘lll use it for the next version of Lockhart as well.

Too bad they don‘t reuse the baby skull piece from the 2022 set for the skelegro potion, but maybe they realised how unintentionally morbid that was

[BrickMatit]

So, as expected, the set is the eastern part of the Quad.

The position under the roof sacrifices the Ravenclaw Common Room even more than how much was sacrificed the Hufflepuff Common Room under the Great Hall: just one seat and a really tiny entrance - was Flitwick the designer?  

Hospital Wing without Madam Pomfrey was already described as not so good, but this time the Hospital has also a small bookcase where you can store potions, lotions and so on. The set, based on PoA, has strong references to CoS - Grey Lady, Penelope Clearwater, the Skele-Gro - so having also Madam Pomfrey wouldn't be out of case even if she doesn't appear - as I remember - in PoA movie. Likely the choice of having Ravenclaw in this set allocated budget towards the new Grey Lady, making impossible to have also Madam Pomfrey. I already commented some time ago the strange decision of putting Ravenclaw in this set.

Great to have the Grey Lady from the first movies. LEGO is going full on PS, CoS and PoA! At this point it's pretty certain we'll see also Bloody Baron and I expect it to appear in the summer 2026 set, that I think will represent the Chamber of Secrets and Slytherin Common Room: a logical thougth, I believe.

DADA classroom is a good playable part with the big spider and the dementor. The big well-done wardrobe makes the interior of the class less lacking than other swappable modules in bigger sets. Now, with DADA, we can complete waht I considered the major teachings in Hogwarts (Transfiguration, Herbology, Charms, Potions and DADA).

In the end, I think it's a good addon to the castle.

Edited December 2, 2025 by BrickMatit

[Gorilla94]

I am quite confused abaut it's position. If we look at it will see the inside of the great hall behind it to no need to expand. The fassade there. Do you think it will be Expander even more? The connection on the other side is interesting.

For my part I have Pomfrey and the superior Scelegrow from the last system, but it sucks for people who don't. The cabinet being a sticker is a shame. The Ravenclaw common room is probably the worst room in the new system...

 

i like the fassade per se and love the grey lady. Otherwise I find it very dissapointing. All in all i think it is a solid foundation for a Labor intensive moc, if I get it on sale.

Edited December 2, 2025 by Gorilla94

[(1)Stein]

It's a nice set which will make the castle seem more built out that it has additional connectors on the other side leave room for the Quad expansion! Wander where they will take it from there!?

Edited December 2, 2025 by (1)Stein

[Virginia_Bricks]

I personally believe that back connection is just to open up extra possibilities for connections. That being said it meant including a piece only once in the set which adds a little more complexity to the manufacturing process, so is a little extra bit of creativity worth adding a one off piece? 

[(1)Stein]

All new Harry Potter sets have been posted by Lego!

Hospital Wing!

https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/blt0d94736aa8502944/76463_ShopperVideo_30s_16x9_WoText.mp4

Reviews imminent!

Edited December 2, 2025 by (1)Stein

[mark1991t]

New video on Instagram from the design team, posted by George Gilliatt. Its shows some of the features. The Love Good house has not only the deathly hallows symbol by the light function, but also all the hallows apart. Also not in that video but on one of the images on shop@home is a new print for the Quibbler in the Love Good House.

https://harry-potter-through-another-looking-glass.fandom.com/wiki/The_Quibbler?file=Quibbler_No1.png (real Quibbler)

Edited December 2, 2025 by mark1991t
Forgot to add the link to the mentioned video

[(1)Stein]

Super large image of the Hospital Wing Box Front!

Super large image of the Hospital Wing Box Rear!

Super large Image of the Hospital Wing Box Side 

Super large Image of the Hospital Wing Box Front and set

Super large image of the Hospital Wing Minifigures

Enjoy! 🤗

Edited December 2, 2025 by (1)Stein

[Virginia_Bricks]

What part of the castle is the background image depicting? 

Also, not loving the print on Penelope's head. It just feels lacking. Almost like a minifigure from a decade plus ago.