Wizarding World 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[Accio Lego]

8 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

No and no idea why it is constantly asked, while every time it will just be the same answer anyways. Personally, I would just keep this thread.

Personally, it’s a ‘finding things later’ thing for me. Year long threads are easier to look through and reference than multiple-year ones, and if nothing else, a change in name to accurately reflect the time period covered would be preferred. 

[Black Falcon]

1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

Personally, it’s a ‘finding things later’ thing for me. Year long threads are easier to look through and reference than multiple-year ones, and if nothing else, a change in name to accurately reflect the time period covered would be preferred. 

I totally get why people want to have a new thread, it is just that asking here again and again won´t change a thing and actually it gets rather annoying especially if you open the thread to read a discussion about Lego HP and then the only new comment is asking for a 2026 topic - since clone opatra seems to be busy with other things and taking a break of the forum, they should write to another mod. But anyways, since the unread content feature is still broken I am happy if we keep this thread, as this one at least shows up there, while a new one just wouldn´t. Once that is fixed I really don´t care if we get a new thread or use a long-living one like for LotR for instance.

[Black Falcon]

And to not completely be of topic, the minifigures I would expect for the big Hogwarts Modul this year:

Madam Pomfrey (I already mentioned that the only way I couldn´t see her beeing included in the Hospital Wing would be if she is included in the Chamber of Secrets to take care of the petryfied students there), Harry, Ron, Hermione, Bloody Baron, Myrtle, Lockhart, Grabbe, Goyle, Filch, Ginny, Colin Greevy, Justin Finch-Fletchley.

Don´t expect the list to be correct honestly and expecting 12 figures it is one to much anyways, but really depends also on what is displayed in the castle aside from the chamber and the expected bathroom. Could see them omiting even Lockhart since he is already included in another Set and they seem not to make that many doubles aside from the duo and McGonagall.

[brickbride]

Characters who are needed or otherwise a given IMO: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Bloody Baron (if the Slytherin Common Room's included, which I do think it will be) OR Myrtle if it's not, Lockhart, Ginny, Tom Riddle. That's 7 (and the basilisk).

Characters who could be included as well: Crabbe and Goyle (but they might as well go with alternate polyjuiced faces for Harry and Ron especially since including only one would be odd and otherwise they'd take two slots), Draco, Pomfrey (no reason for her inclusion other than that she was missing from the Hospital Wing and this seems like something LEGO would do), Filch (and Mrs Norris), any random teacher like Sinistra that we haven't had before (akin to Kettleburn in the Main Tower set), Bloody Baron OR Myrtle (see above), Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, any random student extra (though probably not since we can't even fit all the characters that would make sense AND Penelope Clearwater was in the Hospital Wing).

Honestly a lot of it depends on what exactly the East Wing entails. It's where most of the classrooms are. I expect Lockhart's class to be a given (because Lockhart is needed for the Chamber part anyway, they might as well kill two birds with one stone) but they might still give us another classroom and the corresponding teacher there (possibly even Trelawney whose class was a notable exclusion in the Hospital Wing since the East Wing sort of has towers).

Also check out "Hogwarts East Wing prototype" at the usual place, there's someone claiming they have a good idea what the East Wing will look like from the outside. Thoughts?

Edited January 26 by brickbride

[BrickMatit]

8 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Honestly a lot of it depends on what exactly the East Wing entails.

Agree. At the moment we don't even know how large it will be and so how much locations could accomodate in it.

[ThoBru]

21 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Also check out "Hogwarts East Wing prototype" at the usual place, there's someone claiming they have a good idea what the East Wing will look like from the outside. Thoughts?

If I may ask, what is the “usual place” ? I’m curious about this claimed prototype 

[BrickMatit]

2 minutes ago, ThoBru said:

I’m curious about this claimed prototype

The prototype is the background image LEGO use in instructions to show where to put sets.

The "usual place" is likely Reddit. Just write "Reddit Hogwarts East Wing prototype" into your browser bar and you should easily find the thread @brickbride refered to.

[Black Falcon]

25 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Characters who are needed or otherwise a given IMO: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Bloody Baron (if the Slytherin Common Room's included, which I do think it will be) OR Myrtle if it's not, Lockhart, Ginny, Tom Riddle. That's 7 (and the basilisk).

Characters who could be included as well: Crabbe and Goyle (but they might as well go with alternate polyjuiced faces for Harry and Ron especially since including only one would be odd and otherwise they'd take two slots), Draco, Pomfrey (no reason for her inclusion other than that she was missing from the Hospital Wing and this seems like something LEGO would do), Filch (and Mrs Norris), any random teacher like Sinistra that we haven't had before (akin to Kettleburn in the Main Tower set), Bloody Baron OR Myrtle (see above), Colin Creevey, Justin Finch-Fletchley, any random student extra (though probably not since we can't even fit all the characters that would make sense AND Penelope Clearwater was in the Hospital Wing).

To me it makes more sense to include Crabbe and Goyle as whole figures, as that won´t eat up much more budget anyways, since you wouldn´t want to have Harry and Ron run around in Slytherin clothes all the time, especially with the Chamber included. Also, I also think they could include two Ghosts in the Set, unless we have to expect another one where either of them would fit in. 

2 minutes ago, ThoBru said:

If I may ask, what is the “usual place” ? I’m curious about this claimed prototype 

Usually Reddit, but could as well be Instagram I guess. Eitherway, all I have found on reddit is an older post that only showed the picture of the instructions, but since we talked about this several times already, I doubt that is the post in question.

[Virginia_Bricks]

I was assuming RedNote, but I don’t visit that site often.

The Bricktap Discord has nothing new.

[brickbride]

It's reddit. Apologies if everyone has already known this, but I don't actually own the sets so it was news to me. The Main Tower does look a lot like the left part of that background image in the Great Hall instructions and so it stands to reason that the East Wing will as well, plus it correborates with the already-leaked description of it.

Edited January 26 by brickbride

[Virginia_Bricks]

11 hours ago, brickbride said:

It's reddit. Apologies if everyone has already known this, but I don't actually own the sets so it was news to me. The Main Tower does look a lot like the left part of that background image in the Great Hall instructions and so it stands to reason that the East Wing will as well, plus it correborates with the already-leaked description of it.

Yeah, this has been what I based my calculations on. Basically once the Main Tower image leaked it seemed highly likely the Viaduct Entrance would be handled this way. I truly believe they planned out the main portion of this modular castle in advance and set it into 3 parts for 3 years. And then built additional sets around those that would be nice to have but not necessary for the iconic facade.

I was hoping you were referencing another traced image of the East Wing set like we got for the recent castle sets. It would have been early for that, but you never know.

[Virginia_Bricks]

Finally heard back from Lego on Gringotts. In the US, the set is officially sold out and retired. I believe they are going through final inventory and seeing what backorders they can fulfill with inventory left, but there are no future production runs. I don't think they expected the # of purchases on Insiders Weekend and it would last longer. 

[Black Falcon]

25 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Finally heard back from Lego on Gringotts. In the US, the set is officially sold out and retired. I believe they are going through final inventory and seeing what backorders they can fulfill with inventory left, but there are no future production runs. I don't think they expected the # of purchases on Insiders Weekend and it would last longer. 

Strange, I mean, they discounted it to make sales obviously but I doubt they thought it would last, that is what sales are for after all. But if they don´t have plans to make more sets, they could just have let it retire together with the other sets and at least here they were sold out too but right now you can backorder them. 

15 hours ago, brickbride said:

It's reddit. Apologies if everyone has already known this, but I don't actually own the sets so it was news to me. The Main Tower does look a lot like the left part of that background image in the Great Hall instructions and so it stands to reason that the East Wing will as well, plus it correborates with the already-leaked description of it.

I only know it from this thread too as it was linked here, if I remember correctly when we were talking whether we would get the viaduct bridge or not. And actually on the picture it also looks like that one isn´t the only bridge we will be getting.

[brickbride]

36 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Strange, I mean, they discounted it to make sales obviously but I doubt they thought it would last, that is what sales are for after all. But if they don´t have plans to make more sets, they could just have let it retire together with the other sets and at least here they were sold out too but right now you can backorder them. 

Wasn't the Lion Knights Castle also sold out in Germany way before it officially retired?

Generally I'm no big fan of just how hard LEGO make it to buy their sets between the short times till EOL, sets being permanently sold out, GWPs, exclusives, and so in. There's a number of sets I would have bought if they'd been more readily available.

Edited January 26 by brickbride

[Black Falcon]

5 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Wasn't the Lion Knights Castle also sold out in Germany way before it officially retired?

It was out of stock after the Insiders weekend in October I belive, but it was restocked later on. It really only sold out right when it went on sale, as everyone was going to buy it. 

5 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Generally I'm no big fan of just how hard LEGO make it to buy their sets between the short times till EOL, sets being permanently sold out, GWPs, exclusives, and so in. There's a number of sets I would have bought if they'd been more readily available.

Well honestly I´ve missed out on some sets too, but that really was only my fault in the end as there was plenty of time to buy everything, even if sets also sold out in between, they also became avaiable again. Which sets are you referring to? 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Yeah, a shelf life of just two years for a D2C set is crazy!! That used to be the shelf life of regular sets! But with yearly D2C sets, it‘s not really that much of a surprise considering limited space on shelves and production capacity.

[Virginia_Bricks]

4 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeah, a shelf life of just two years for a D2C set is crazy!! That used to be the shelf life of regular sets! But with yearly D2C sets, it‘s not really that much of a surprise considering limited space on shelves and production capacity.

I should have just bought Gringotts during Back to Hogwarts. I had budgeted for it but was buying other sets during that time and told myself to wait till Insiders Weekend and 2x points. But I stopped staying up to midnight to buy sets on release (though I might now with Minas Tirith not to risk it) because typically GWPs don't sell out that quick.

I've learned my lesson on D2C sales though typically I don't wait till they are near EOL. Last year was just my second back as an AFOL so wasn't even thinking about Gringotts when it released.

[brickbride]

10 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

Which sets are you referring to? 

To keep on topic, one of them's the Borgin and Burke's GWP. It has a single reused fig, 190 pieces, let's say a list price of EUR 15 and that's already being very generous given actual EUR 15 sets like the Ford Anglia or the recent Sorting Ceremony. (LEGO list it at EUR 20 but come on.) At a list price of EUR 15 and the usual retail discounts I would buy it; I don't need it and I'm not sure where it would even fit but I like both Lucius and and Knockturn Alley. ;-)

However, the only way to get it was to buy EUR 130 worth of HP sets on one specific September 1 when a) I had no time to go LEGO shopping and b) there was absolutely nothing I would have wanted to buy (my interest in HP mostly runs towards older sets), and the GWP is now usually listed for like EUR 50 plus shipping on my country's second-hand pages. (Germans are really very fortunate here due to the sheer size of their country and the number of listings, but I'm not German and international shipping adds up quickly if you can even find a seller that would undertake it.)

So yes, I could absolutely get the set if I wanted to pay EUR 55 or more. For a very small, quick build with a single reused fig that other people got for free, that I don't need and don't really know where to put. And I'd probably feel bad even opening the box given how much money I'd just wasted. On the other hand I could take that EUR 55 and buy lots of other things, including LEGO sets I would get more enjoyment out of. So I'll pass.

That's what I mean about LEGO making it hard to get their sets. Or at least it's one part of it. There's all the LEGO store exclusives - my country has a whopping two LEGO stores, both of which are hundreds of kilometers away. There's LEGO House exclusives. LEGO airport store exclusives! There's the LEGO online store which from what I hear lists quite a few sets that are supposed to be in production but in reality sold out, so even if you manage to order one they might just cancel your order. There's all the retailer exclusives. There's GWPs for specific amounts spent. There's GWPs for specific amounts spent on specific themes. There's even more specific GWPs only available with a single set and often sold out immediately. I know a German LEGO forum where a lot of people are talking about staying up till 1 am, snagging one of these exclusive GWPs, then selling it off immediately (whether they like the GWP itself or not) so they'll have gotten the main set at a price they can somewhat justify. That's absurd if you think about it - I can't even think of any other company, toy company or not, that does business like that - but perfectly normal in today's LEGO circles.

Edited January 27 by brickbride

[Roebuck]

The hole point with GWP is to make you buy the qualifying sets for full price at Lego. If you instead wait for them to be discounted somewhere else Lego have sold them the set for around half the price first so they earn a lot less.

There are so many GWP now during a year so my best advice is just to ignore most of them. A few I have on the nice to have list if I manage to combine them with a PAB order, swap them with someone else or buy them cheap that is fine or else I am missing out on them. And then there are 0 to maybe 1 a year I need to have that I will bite the bullet and order from Lego if there is no other option (I never buy them for crazy prizes in the after marked)..

There are very few sets that are exclusive like the Lego house sets and they should not be hard to come by in Europe even if you do not take the trip to Billund..

The more you can avoid FEMO the happier you will be in your Lego collecting   

[brickbride]

Yes, that's how I handle it. But a lot of people don't seem to, and publicly stress about what to buy for the latest GWP, or how much it sucks that another, better GWP comes along just after you've spent so much for the last GWP. Some of them seem to lose even track of how much money they're really spending and refer to what I would call significant purchases as "filler items" (i.e. "My cart only has EUR 130 and the treshold is EUR 250, I need to come up with a bunch of filler items. Any ideas?") Or they actually like a GWP they've gotten but can't justify keeping or even opening it because of the resale value. Or they brag in forums about how much they've sold it for to someone else. It just seems to suck a lot of joy out of the hobby, and to stress a lot of people out in different ways.

Edited January 27 by brickbride

[Virginia_Bricks]

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

Yes, that's how I handle it. But a lot of people don't seem to, and publicly stress about what to buy for the latest GWP, or how much it sucks that another, better GWP comes along just after you've spent so much for the last GWP. Some of them seem to lose even track of how much money they're really spending and refer to what I would call significant purchases as "filler items" (i.e. "My cart only has EUR 130 and the treshold is EUR 250, I need to come up with a bunch of filler items. Any ideas?") Or they actually like a GWP they've gotten but can't justify keeping or even opening it because of the resale value. Or they brag in forums about how much they've sold it for to someone else. It just seems to suck a lot of joy out of the hobby, and to stress a lot of people out in different ways.

But for some people the hobby is Lego being a toy and a collectible, not just a toy. You might not interact with it that way, but plenty of people do. I mean look at Funko Pops, Pokemon Cards, Hot Wheels, and so many more toy brands. Be thankful grading and protective sleeves have so far stayed away from Lego. For some people the collecting brings as much as joy as the building.

Or as a hobby it could be even worse like concert tickets or other limited release drops where you have to be on at that time and the secondary market is even more insane.

Sure Lego and their marketing tactics take a little while to learn if you are trying to maximize your budget, but they are predictable. I prefer to buy directly from Lego because in the US its not uncommon for someone to return a set with the mini-figures or key pieces missing. Therefore, I know to save my Star Wars purchases for May and its promo season, Harry Potter for September, and most everything else for a 2x points event which happen 4 times a year unless I'm buy a D2C on release. I'm a planner by default so this is the way I would handle it even without the promos. I also just accept I can't buy every set I want so if I miss a promo I like, I'm confident down the road another one I will like will show up.

[BrickBob Studpants]

3 hours ago, brickbride said:

"My cart only has EUR 130 and the treshold is EUR 250, I need to come up with a bunch of filler items. Any ideas?"

I‘m in this picture and I don‘t like it  Or rather, used to be. It happened a few times where I was really struggling to find sets to meet a GWP threshold because I already got all the sets I wanted! So nowadays, I purposefully only get the sets I care about the absolute most on day 1, and the rest (Botanicals, unlicensed Icons sets, Ninjago, Lunar New Year, Dreamzzz) serve as GWP threshold filler  Don‘t get me wrong, I still genuinely want those sets, they‘re not just filler

Luckily, pre-orders count again since late last year!

[Virginia_Bricks]

Really happy I bought Gringotts last night. The seller I purchased from raised prices 10% this morning after 45 sold yesterday (of their 75 in stock). 

With a lot of the first round of D2Cs from the reboot going end of life, it is interesting to see secondary market prices. I always thought Harry Potter was pretty affordable to buy used and after retirement, but the current average Bricklink listings for NIB retired D2Cs are:

• Diagon Alley: $520 (one seller has 490 of them at $460)
• Gringotts: $390 (one seller has 480 of them at $385)
• Hogwarts Express: $600

[Black Falcon]

On 1/26/2026 at 8:38 PM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeah, a shelf life of just two years for a D2C set is crazy!! That used to be the shelf life of regular sets! But with yearly D2C sets, it‘s not really that much of a surprise considering limited space on shelves and production capacity.

Regular Sets often have even shorter shelf lifes, though and in the end it depends on sales and such, there are so many big sets now, you can´t keep everything for years in production.

On 1/26/2026 at 8:45 PM, Virginia_Bricks said:

I should have just bought Gringotts during Back to Hogwarts. I had budgeted for it but was buying other sets during that time and told myself to wait till Insiders Weekend and 2x points. But I stopped staying up to midnight to buy sets on release (though I might now with Minas Tirith not to risk it) because typically GWPs don't sell out that quick.

I've learned my lesson on D2C sales though typically I don't wait till they are near EOL. Last year was just my second back as an AFOL so wasn't even thinking about Gringotts when it released.

At least some GWPs exclusive to a certain Set have sold out quickly, Minas Tirith will probably be among them. Gringotts wasn´t avaiable in the US for Insiders weekend?

On 1/27/2026 at 6:12 AM, brickbride said:

To keep on topic, one of them's the Borgin and Burke's GWP. It has a single reused fig, 190 pieces, let's say a list price of EUR 15 and that's already being very generous given actual EUR 15 sets like the Ford Anglia or the recent Sorting Ceremony. (LEGO list it at EUR 20 but come on.) At a list price of EUR 15 and the usual retail discounts I would buy it; I don't need it and I'm not sure where it would even fit but I like both Lucius and and Knockturn Alley. ;-)

However, the only way to get it was to buy EUR 130 worth of HP sets on one specific September 1 when a) I had no time to go LEGO shopping and b) there was absolutely nothing I would have wanted to buy (my interest in HP mostly runs towards older sets), and the GWP is now usually listed for like EUR 50 plus shipping on my country's second-hand pages. (Germans are really very fortunate here due to the sheer size of their country and the number of listings, but I'm not German and international shipping adds up quickly if you can even find a seller that would undertake it.)

Well, yeah, GWPs are only avaiable for a short time, but aside from Sets that are exclusive to a Set I don´t remember any that was gone that fast lately. But aside from that you also mentioned normal Sets you would have bought and I just don´t think that any Set really was sold out all the time - closest to this is probably the Gingerbread AT-AT but even that one was avaiable for more than just a few days.

On 1/27/2026 at 6:12 AM, brickbride said:

That's what I mean about LEGO making it hard to get their sets. Or at least it's one part of it. There's all the LEGO store exclusives - my country has a whopping two LEGO stores, both of which are hundreds of kilometers away. There's LEGO House exclusives. LEGO airport store exclusives! There's the LEGO online store which from what I hear lists quite a few sets that are supposed to be in production but in reality sold out, so even if you manage to order one they might just cancel your order. There's all the retailer exclusives.

Aside from BAM and certain GWPs (Usually when a Store opens) I don´t remember any Set that is exclusive to the Stores and retailer exclusives can still be bought at Lego, so it isn´t really like you couldn´t get your hands on those, but sure, not everyone probably knows that they even exist.

On 1/27/2026 at 6:12 AM, brickbride said:

There's GWPs for specific amounts spent. There's GWPs for specific amounts spent on specific themes. There's even more specific GWPs only available with a single set and often sold out immediately. I know a German LEGO forum where a lot of people are talking about staying up till 1 am, snagging one of these exclusive GWPs, then selling it off immediately (whether they like the GWP itself or not) so they'll have gotten the main set at a price they can somewhat justify. That's absurd if you think about it - I can't even think of any other company, toy company or not, that does business like that - but perfectly normal in today's LEGO circles.

I can think of a few that are far worse though. You just have to look at some shoe brands where some limited collection drops at a certain time and usually is gone within minutes if not seconds. I don´t even remember a single GWP that sold out in less than an hour, let alone after some seconds. And as @Virginia_Bricks mentioned the same goes for certain tickets and I could name further examples.

On 1/27/2026 at 2:39 PM, Virginia_Bricks said:

But for some people the hobby is Lego being a toy and a collectible, not just a toy. You might not interact with it that way, but plenty of people do. I mean look at Funko Pops, Pokemon Cards, Hot Wheels, and so many more toy brands. Be thankful grading and protective sleeves have so far stayed away from Lego. For some people the collecting brings as much as joy as the building.

It isn´t really that common, but it isn´t really like it doesn´t happen at all, especially for older Sets. And yeah, some people put their sets into Acryl Cases, which would be the protective sleeves for Lego.

[Virginia_Bricks]

39 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

At least some GWPs exclusive to a certain Set have sold out quickly, Minas Tirith will probably be among them. Gringotts wasn´t avaiable in the US for Insiders weekend?

For like 10-20 minutes. Lion Knight's Castle went quicker, but Gringotts was the second set to sell out in the US for Insiders Weekend.