Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Minga 089]

6 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

What do you guys think? Would it work to add an additional level in the castle? I can't stand the Gryffindor common room or ravenclaw common room not being a pullout room. The main tower needs fluffy above devil's snare. I have to rebuild the terrible great hall from scratch anyways and it has to be taller, so it stays in proportion, when i make it wider for a satisfying interior.... one question would be how to fill the roofs with something nicht that does not Requiem a pullout room.

Yes I think this would work. Actually had the same thought and also wanted to go one floor higher with the Tower. As formunder the roof section Divination Classroom or a RoR with the vanishing carbinet are my ideas

Edited December 29, 2025 by Minga 089

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Minga 089 said:

RoR with the vanishing carbinet are my ideas

Kinda crazy we still don‘t have a remake of the Vanishing Cabinet, considering the 2010-11 sets included two of them  I hope they again give us two of them at some point!

[Black Falcon]

9 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

What do you guys think? Would it work to add an additional level in the castle? I can't stand the Gryffindor common room or ravenclaw common room not being a pullout room. The main tower needs fluffy above devil's snare. I have to rebuild the terrible great hall from scratch anyways and it has to be taller, so it stays in proportion, when i make it wider for a satisfying interior.... one question would be how to fill the roofs with something nicht that does not Requiem a pullout room.

Well of course if you´re increasing the size in all dimensions it would work. But I still won´t agree that the Great Hall is terible. Sure it is very small inside especially compared to the first one after the Theme came back but compared to the original from the films it is quite true to that - and while I also thought it is rather small, increasing its size would have just meant that they would have to make everything else bigger - and in the end more expensive too.

Edited December 29, 2025 by Black Falcon

[brickbride]

I still think the missing fireplace is a no-go. I cannot remember a single Great Hall so far that didn't have one, and for the Most "Detailed" Hogwarts Ever that's a really bad look. And yes I know it would technically be on the "open" side, but again LEGO has alway put it in before and has now offered it for an upgrade TWICE (with the Dueling Club and with the 2024 AC) so clearly it's not a matter of being true to the source material.

Also what's that nonsensical secret passage doing here? And why is it Christmas in the Hall but Halloween in the dungeons right below it? And why is the sky during the Halloween/Christmas/whatever feast blue with antistud clouds?

It would have been so easy to add a small fireplace (even if it's on the short side of the hall near the Gryffindor banner, better that than none at all), decorate the Hall with a bunch of pumpkins or bats or whatever, and make the sky black with glow-in-the-dark stars. But this feels like no thought at all went into it. And I haven't even gone into the portrait corridor (we're still missing a bunch of classrooms, why are we wasting space on that) or the pathetic Hufflepuff Common Room. Oh, and the terrible official connection to the Main Tower. I've said this before but if I'm to pay Modular prices I want Modular levels of design and detail. Just compare this Great Hall to the Tudor Corner which is well and coherently designed and crammed full of detail!

Edited December 29, 2025 by brickbride

[Accio Lego]

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

Also what's that nonsensical secret passage doing here? And why is it Christmas in the Hall but Halloween in the dungeons right below it?

It’s not Christmas in the Great Hall, that was an incorrect assumption some of us made initially upon seeing all the green leaf+red round tile stacks on the tables, since those are commonly used as ‘Holly’ in advent calendars and such. But the Great Hall actually is undecorated, the students just have an uncharacteristically healthy dinner of tomato and lettuce salads. 

[brickbride]

On Halloween Eve? Except that for some reason it's not evening in the Hall at all. Again, this makes no sense and would have been so easy to rectify. Even the old "Troll on the Loose" set had a (single) pumpkin decoration to signify that it took place during Halloween. If LEGO Hogwarts can decorate the toilets for this occasion surely they can decorate the Great Hall. Or would, like, a pumpkin and two bats have blown the budget for this EUR 200 set?

Edited December 30, 2025 by brickbride

[hoiharry]

17 hours ago, brickbride said:

I still think the missing fireplace is a no-go. I cannot remember a single Great Hall so far that didn't have one, and for the Most "Detailed"

The 2010 version also didn't have one.

[MaxHeadroom]

On 12/29/2025 at 11:19 PM, brickbride said:

On Halloween Eve? Except that for some reason it's not evening in the Hall at all. Again, this makes no sense and would have been so easy to rectify. Even the old "Troll on the Loose" set had a (single) pumpkin decoration to signify that it took place during Halloween. If LEGO Hogwarts can decorate the toilets for this occasion surely they can decorate the Great Hall. Or would, like, a pumpkin and two bats have blown the budget for this EUR 200 set?

The set isn’t trying to perfectly recreate an exact second of the story (I haven’t checked but I’d bet the clock doesn’t perfectly match everything either). The sky is dark and cloudy because that’s how it appears in the most memorable shot of it when it’s first shown. It’s Halloween in the bathroom because that’s when the troll is there and that’s the scene they wanted to recreate. Plenty of other sets do the same thing like the Flying Lesson where the rat into cup lesson is being taught while McGonagall and Harry are simultaneously participating in the flying lesson scene. 

[Kaijumeister]

Well, I finally bit the bullet and bought the Main Tower and Herbology Class. Merlin knows when I’ll actually build them but I’m invested in the latest Hogwarts system now.