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. 

[(1)Stein]

HAPPY New Year! 😉 Shouldn't we be in the 2026 thread by now? 🤔

Edited Thursday at 04:38 PM by (1)Stein

[BrickBob Studpants]

A picture of the polybag / paper bag is out there! No Dumbledore minifig, but it‘s nice to get baby Fawkes, the Sorting Hat, and the Sword of Gryffindor in a really cheap set ^^

[brickbride]

Meh, I think both the Marvel and DC ones are actually better. Both get two figs and just look more exciting overall. Spider-Man in the Marvel polybag even has arm printing!

I also think this one is a downgrade compared to the Flying Lesson (which again had two figs, counting the statue, and still gave us valuable parts like the Snitch).

At the very least they could use the polybag format in order to give us characters other than Yet Another Generic Harry.

Edited Friday at 08:01 AM by brickbride

[Accio Lego]

6 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

A picture of the polybag / paper bag is out there! No Dumbledore minifig, but it‘s nice to get baby Fawkes, the Sorting Hat, and the Sword of Gryffindor in a really cheap set ^^

Given how many of the collectible portraits are based off paintings seen in the headmaster’s office, I do wish they’d given us a section of wall with one of them. Beyond that, giving us a polybag that’s essentially a recreation of a single room from the previous year’s flagship set is pretty odd. 

[Gorilla94]

Well... the idea of the Windows being used for the desk is cute.

[BacktoBricks]

The new polybag is not the most original, but as a cheap purchase or little gift for a child it's pretty good I think with some cute accessories. Like @Gorilla94 I think the windows for the desk look nice aesthetically. 

Interestingly in the UK, the new Sorting Hat Ceremony set is temporarily out of stock, but the Cornish Pixie is also. So I think there is an answer to why we keep getting the buildable creatures. The Lovegood House is also on a week's backorder.

[Virginia_Bricks]

4 minutes ago, BacktoBricks said:

The new polybag is not the most original, but as a cheap purchase or little gift for a child it's pretty good I think with some cute accessories. Like @Gorilla94 I think the windows for the desk look nice aesthetically. 

Interestingly in the UK, the new Sorting Hat Ceremony set is temporarily out of stock, but the Cornish Pixie is also. So I think there is an answer to why we keep getting the buildable creatures. The Lovegood House is also on a week's backorder.

Basically a cheap way for those who can't afford the Main Tower to get most parts of Dumbledore's office. Those who can afford the Main Tower will likely just get this polybag for free in September, so don't need to tailor this as unique.

In the US, the PS Collector's Edition set and Lovegood house are on backorder. I think the Lovegood house will be the best selling set of this Jan 1 wave (though it is slated to retire already this year, which I think gets extended)

[brickbride]

The polybag has first or second year Harry (short legs) and a baby phoenix, how does that go together? Do LEGO think baby Fawkes could carry that sword into the Chamber?

4 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Those who can afford the Main Tower will likely just get this polybag for free in September, so don't need to tailor this as unique.

So a polybag is basically just a GWP for whoever buys the latest overpriced D2C? Here they are sold in stores. I therefore should think LEGO would want to make them appealing to a broader public. How many people are going to be all "I must have Generic Harry for my Dumbledore' Office Without Dumbledore Display"?

Even for an impulse buy I can see a kid handing this to their parent and them going: "No way, you have how many Harrys at home already?".

They should have given us the Snape Boggart instead.

Edited Friday at 06:26 PM by brickbride

[Roebuck]

43 minutes ago, brickbride said:

The polybag has first or second year Harry (short legs) and a baby phoenix, how does that go together? Do LEGO think baby Fawkes could carry that sword into the Chamber?

 

[Black Falcon]

17 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

A picture of the polybag / paper bag is out there! No Dumbledore minifig, but it‘s nice to get baby Fawkes, the Sorting Hat, and the Sword of Gryffindor in a really cheap set ^^

Especially happy about the sword, since I really like that one.

10 hours ago, brickbride said:

Meh, I think both the Marvel and DC ones are actually better. Both get two figs and just look more exciting overall. Spider-Man in the Marvel polybag even has arm printing!

I also think this one is a downgrade compared to the Flying Lesson (which again had two figs, counting the statue, and still gave us valuable parts like the Snitch).

At the very least they could use the polybag format in order to give us characters other than Yet Another Generic Harry.

It depends I guess. I do like the Batman one, but the Spider man one is pretty useless to me personally. On the other side I really liked the last Harry Potter Polybag for the stuff included (aside from Harry) and the new one is actually not that bad - the sword is great, birds are always usefull too and brown parts anyways - the only thing I can´t really see use (for me) are once again Harry and the Sorting Hat. Still from the ones mentioned that Spiderman one is the worst to me and especially compared to the last one - but again, depends on personal preferences really.

4 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

The new polybag is not the most original, but as a cheap purchase or little gift for a child it's pretty good I think with some cute accessories. Like @Gorilla94 I think the windows for the desk look nice aesthetically. 

Interestingly in the UK, the new Sorting Hat Ceremony set is temporarily out of stock, but the Cornish Pixie is also. So I think there is an answer to why we keep getting the buildable creatures. The Lovegood House is also on a week's backorder.

The Pixie is on Backorder here and the sorting head ceremony out of stock, while all the other new Sets are still avaiable, including the Lovegood house. But yeah, interesting to see that the Pixie is sold out.

24 minutes ago, brickbride said:

The polybag has first or second year Harry (short legs) and a bavy phoenix, how does tgat go together? Do LEGO think baby Fawkes could carry that sword into the Chamber?

Wasn´t it in the Chamber of Secrets (book/film) where Fawkes died while Harry was present? And in the exact same scene he was reborn so to me it makes a ton of sense. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

44 minutes ago, brickbride said:

They should have given us the Snape Boggart instead.

Polybags (or paper bags now) rarely introduce new prints. The only one that did so in the last like 5 years was the Maple polybag two years ago

I‘d rather they have Boggart Snape in an actual set so they can give him a proper new hat

[Virginia_Bricks]

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

So a polybag is basically just a GWP for whoever buys the latest overpriced D2C? Here they are sold in stores. I therefore should think LEGO would want to make them appealing to a broader public. How many people are going to be all "I must have Generic Harry for my Dumbledore' Office Without Dumbledore Display"?

Even for an impulse buy I can see a kid handing this to their parent and them going: "No way, you have how many Harrys at home already?".

They should have given us the Snape Boggart instead.

What I meant, was the main audience buying polybags are kids. $5 is allowance money and so for them this is a great way to get the Sorting Hat, Sword of Gryffindor and Baby Phoenix. The Sorting Hat is now in a $15 set, so that is accessible, but the Sword of Gryffindor till this polybag was only in currently sold sets that were $100+ (was in a CMF before). The Harry minifigure is disappointing and honestly not the attractive part of the polybag.

For adult collectors, they either can afford a $100+ set that will include the sword or will spend the ~$140 in September and this polybag is free plus the regular HP GWP. So they are less incentivized to actually buy the polybag.

[brickbride]

10 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I‘d rather they have Boggart Snape in an actual set so they can give him a proper new hat

They're not giving us the Snape Boggart in a set because if they wanted to, they would have included him in the Hospital Wing. So it looks like we're not getting him at all.

9 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

For adult collectors, they either can afford a $100+ set that will include the sword or will spend the ~$140 in September and this polybag is free plus the regular HP GWP. So they are less incentivized to actually buy the polybag.

I guess I must be the only adult HP collector who's not doing either, then.

[BrickBob Studpants]

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

They're not giving us the Snape Boggart in a set because if they wanted to, they would have included him in the Hospital Wing. So it looks like we're not getting him at all.

They could easily release a DADA classroom set in the same style as the cauldron, i.e., a foldable Boggart cabinet    Granted, a cabinet is not as immediately recognisable as a cauldron, but the movie design is pretty unique (and that tracking shot is chef‘s kiss).

[Bugbot20082]

Off topic but is anyone else annoyed that after all this time they have not re-used either of those parts multi-packs from 2 years ago? 

the wands pack from the Olivandar’s shop set (would have been perfect to include with the Malfoy Manor House in black)

the spell/blast effect pack which was available in the battle for Hogwarts castle set. 
 

to be honest I wouldn’t say no to them appearing in an advent calendar in a new colour (black wands, yellow blast effects etc), they did it for Marvel once. 

[BacktoBricks]

So Star Wars just got a massive info dump for the names of upcoming sets going through to August.

Am I being too optimistic to think we might get some summer Harry Potter names soon?

I've got a total brain blank on leak timings of past years.