Wizarding World 2025 - Rumors & Discussion

[Gorilla94]

On 2/1/2026 at 1:55 AM, JeanGreyForever said:

This is me too. There's just way too many locations in Harry Potter for me to buy all the sets that aren't at Hogwarts. I only have Diagon Alley that isn't a Hogwarts themed set, and as much as I love that set, I do regret getting it because I have no space. Particularly since I also collect Disney and Marvel. And am strongly considering getting into LOTR, which I've also avoided due to lack of space.

Yeah... If I go nuts I'll moc Springfield one day owning all 3 official buildings as well as a Moc of Moe's and the Androids dungeon already^^' I limited my lotr purchases to bag end... Was really tempted by Barad Dur. If they ever do the Erebor I'll have to get it.

At this point I just hope we will get Crookshanks and the Bloody Baron minifigwise and an Astrology Tower besides the east wing, who's siluette is already shown in the instructions. In the best case scenario another lesser known teacher.

 

[Virginia_Bricks]

11 minutes ago, Gorilla94 said:

Yeah... If I go nuts I'll moc Springfield one day owning all 3 official buildings as well as a Moc of Moe's and the Androids dungeon already^^' I limited my lotr purchases to bag end... Was really tempted by Barad Dur. If they ever do the Erebor I'll have to get it.

At this point I just hope we will get Crookshanks and the Bloody Baron minifigwise and an Astrology Tower besides the east wing, who's siluette is already shown in the instructions. In the best case scenario another lesser known teacher.

 

My solution is to regularly disassemble sets. Most non-D2C sets in my collection only stay built for 2-3 years before being disassembled and bagged. It also helps scratch the itch to build a set without buying a new one, but building a set I already own. Beginning to disassemble the recent Hagrid's Hut to open up room for the Lovegood house and Hospital Wing sets.

Maybe one day I will have a larger Lego room and can have most everything built at once, but for now I'm content. Though it hurts your fingers way more to disassemble than to assemble.

[Gryffindor]

Wait, so the only 3 play scale sets this next wave will be Knockturn Alley, Hogwarts East Wing, and Expecto Patronum? That’s kind of a bummer.

Did we determine the Dobby set is for sure a buildable Dobby and not a playset of Dobby being freed? 

If there really are only those 3 sets with minifigures, we can expect the Expecto Patronum set to come with Harry’s stag patronus, and then maybe like Ron’s or Snape’s in Knockturn Alley and then theirs or Dumbledore’s (or maybe Ginny’s but I doubt hers would be prioritized) in the East Wing? That is kind of a letdown to only get 3 patronuses, unless they come in the buildable things sets, but I kind of doubt that.

[Accio Lego]

4 minutes ago, Gryffindor said:

If there really are only those 3 sets with minifigures, we can expect the Expecto Patronum set to come with Harry’s stag patronus, and then maybe like Ron’s or Snape’s in Knockturn Alley and then theirs or Dumbledore’s (or maybe Ginny’s but I doubt hers would be prioritized) in the East Wing? That is kind of a letdown to only get 3 patronuses, unless they come in the buildable things sets, but I kind of doubt that.

There is no ‘if’ about getting Ron’s patronus – it’s just a matter of which set. Ginny might have a better shot than you think, since she’s got the double advantage of having a preexisting animal and casting it on screen. 
 

The patronuses also haven’t been strictly confined to regular playsets either, since the Secret Potions Class includes Hermione’s Otter and is more of a buildable cauldron than a playset. Most of the ‘hidden room’ sets across themes have been plants, and we do have a plant based set with a weirdly mistranslated name and an unfavorable price to piece ratio, after all. 

[brickbride]

9 hours ago, Gryffindor said:

Wait, so the only 3 play scale sets this next wave will be Knockturn Alley, Hogwarts East Wing, and Expecto Patronum? 

Looks like it, yes. Both Dobby and the plants thing have been leaked to be a buildable fig/Botanicals.

Someone in the Reddit comments mentioned another unknown set, 76478 with a list price of USD 130, but I haven't seen any of the well-known leakers confirm it.

[Black Falcon]

7 hours ago, brickbride said:

Looks like it, yes. Both Dobby and the plants thing have been leaked to be a buildable fig/Botanicals.

Someone in the Reddit comments mentioned another unknown set, 76478 with a list price of USD 130, but I haven't seen any of the well-known leakers confirm it.

76477 is also still unknown.

[Virginia_Bricks]

1 hour ago, Black Falcon said:

76477 is also still unknown.

That is Norbert

[Black Falcon]

2 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

That is Norbert

Ah, right, forgot about that one.

[Alas_Earwax]

I've seen this mentioned a few times over on a certain sub-site. But does anybody else feel like this 'most detailed' Hogwarts edition is providing some less roomy interiors? Don't get me wrong, it's extremely accurate on the exterior, and I don't think anyone could realistically complain about it from that angle. But I've noticed the system has this super accurate external look of Hogwarts, yet a lot of the interior is built up on short amount of spaces. Not to mention the inaccuracy of certain areas, too.

The 2021 system may have been block-ey on the outside, but I think the interiors were mostly solid. If we compare the Dark Arts classroom with the Chamber of Secrets set, compared to the version we just got, it's pretty bland. It's mostly flat plates with some elements of a scene thrown together. It's also located underground. Hello? Don't get me started on transfiguration in the new system. I feel like had we had individual rooms based on classes, similar to the Polyjuice Potion mistake, they'd have had a fuller appearance than the system is currently offering. Rooms like Dumbledore's office in the new system also suffer from a lack of space. Now I get it, maybe this system isn't exactly intended for 'play', but it just seems a bit silly that I'm torn between which I prefer, when on paper the new system should have it all. But there are drawbacks. Big ones. I have every set, so it makes no difference. I'm just wondering if anyone feels the same? On the one hand, it's amazing to have that outside 'look' of Hogwarts. But I really do think when the interiors for 2021 got it right, they were unmatched (currently).

[brickbride]

3 hours ago, Alas_Earwax said:

The 2021 system may have been block-ey on the outside, but I think the interiors were mostly solid. If we compare the Dark Arts classroom with the Chamber of Secrets set, compared to the version we just got, it's pretty bland. It's mostly flat plates with some elements of a scene thrown together. It's also located underground. Hello? (...) But I really do think when the interiors for 2021 got it right, they were unmatched (currently).

Thank you! All I've seen so far is people going "Well the interiors of the 2024 system are bad but it's still better than the 2021 one", and that's simply not true. In truth the interiors of the 2021 system were all over the place. Some sets like the Fluffy Encounter, Sirius Black's Escape, and the Dumbledore's Office Part of Dumbledore's Office were basically empty, but others like the Chamber of Secrets (I especially adore what they did for Lockhart's office in a small 8x8 module), the Polyjuice Potions Mistake, the Room of Requirement, and the Library Part of Dumbledore's Office, had excellent interiors. Much better than the 2024 system IMO.

I agree with you that the only reason to buy the 2024 version is to get the silhouette right, and that's only if you have the space for it (and won't get the microscale castle instead for whatever reason) and don't mind the crappy, offputting connections (like the one between the Main Tower and the Great Hall).

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In other news, StoneWars has put out their EOL list early because apparently a bunch of sets are retiring by the end of July, 2026 (not year-end as they used to)! For HP these are:

- Gringotts (which to me means that we might get a smaller playset Gringotts next year unless they do the bookshop first)

- the small buildable Hedwig and Fawkes

- the Sorting Hat (good riddance!)

- Great Hall (!!!)

- Hagrid's Motorcycle Accident (good riddance again, like the Sorting Hat this should never have been greenlit, even our local retailer who pretty much never discounts anything above -20% at the most had this at like a -40% discount)

- Malfoy Manor (!!!)

The outliers here, for me, are the Great Hall and Malfoy Manor. The latter didn't last long at all for such a highly-anticipated, never-been-done-before set, making me wonder if they'll shy away (again) from too-dark content in the future. Retiring the Great Hall just as the East Wing hits the shelves seems pretty nonsensical from a collector's POV, too, but then again it might simply be a space issue, plus preventing collectors from getting a feeling for the entire series before buying is kind of LEGO's new thing (see the Diagon Alley playset line).

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StoneWars also has the EOL list for year-end 2026 out but I guess this is subject to more change. Current notable entries include the Lovegood House (which if true would barely have made it a full year, see above what I've said for Malfoy Manor), the latest playset Diagon Alley set (QQS - that one retiring before the next one hits the shelves wouldn't surprise me at all), the book nook (can't have been much of a seller IMO), and several Hogwarts Castle modules: Herbology, Flying Lesson, and Charms Class. We haven't even found a way to connect the Flying Lesson with the rest yet, and it's already retiring? Thoughts?

Edited 20 hours ago by brickbride