Wizarding World 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[BrickBob Studpants]

7 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

You literally cut the part where I wrote that it is an easy reference […]

Yeah, but if they didn‘t care at all about the park, they wouldn‘t use it as a reference, no?

8 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

At least the show has the ability to use one Hogwarts and not change it from Film to Film (or series to series). Never understood why they didn´t think this more though for the films...

Who says they‘re not gonna do the same with the show and shuffle things around between seasons?  Things will certainly change, no matter how far they get. In terms of the cast for instance, they cast two octogenarians for Dumbledore and Binns, and it‘d be a bit of a miracle if both of them see the end of the show (unless it gets cancelled midway through ). Sure, set consistency and casting aren‘t the same, but my point is they aren‘t thinking that far ahead with decisions like these. The showrunners might change too with a show that could theoretically run for 10 years.

14 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

It could aswell just be soemthing else, noone mentioned here, of course.

Like what? Locations, vehicles, creatures, and objects have all been mentioned. What else is there? Theoretical constructs?

[Virginia_Bricks]

12 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Like what? Locations, vehicles, creatures, and objects have all been mentioned. What else is there? Theoretical constructs?

With the castle basically not done in D2C form besides the micro-castle, which they won't repeat while the current one is available, they are really limited in terms of D2Cs.

Nobody has mentioned it here yet that I'm aware of, but I wonder if they would do the Tri-Wizard challenges as one big set. $100-150 USD per challenge. Or even just the first challenge and multiple brick built dragons.

The only thing I feel very certain of is that they won't do something close to $250 with the East Wing coming out just a month earlier at that price.

[BrickBob Studpants]

4 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Or even just the first challenge and multiple brick built dragons.

We don’t really get to see the other three dragons though. All we have is a shot of them in their cages in the dark, and the miniatures for the champions to pick. Not exactly set material, let alone a D2C set.

Besides, there really is a chance we don’t get one this year. For realsies, this time  Watch me get proven wrong again tho.

[Accio Lego]

59 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

We don’t really get to see the other three dragons though. All we have is a shot of them in their cages in the dark, and the miniatures for the champions to pick. Not exactly set material, let alone a D2C set.

The movies barely recognize that Harry’s patronus is a stag though – just one distant outline the first time he sees his future self cast it across the lake and then nothing but those silly shockwaves of light, elven when his time traveling self actually ends up casting that exact same spell. Still didn’t stop Lego from doing 3 sets with the stag including a buildable one. 
 

And it’s not like the designs for all four dragons don’t exist in detail. They’ve been available in various merchandise form since the GoF movie came out too. 

[Black Falcon]

3 hours ago, RODDY said:

I actually don’t think this is a mark against it. The Diagon Alley D2C sold for four years without Gringotts (dark times indeed without a complete street) but did extremely well. Diagon Alley has more than proven it can stand alone without its centerpiece. Or maybe they even include it in a remake, you never know. 

What I meant was more that it would make more sense to have Gringotts go till end of the year to have them together on the shelves for a time at least, if they were going to make the Cauldron this year. Of course it still can be simply a question of production capacity that Gringotts has to retire before the new Set hits the shelves.

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeah, but if they didn‘t care at all about the park, they wouldn‘t use it as a reference, no?

Again. The main point about this was, that I don´t think that they wouldn´t make the cauldron just because it isn´t in some Theme Park. 

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Who says they‘re not gonna do the same with the show and shuffle things around between seasons?  

Noone, it is more my hope that they do. 

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Like what? Locations, vehicles, creatures, and objects have all been mentioned. What else is there? Theoretical constructs?

Not all Locations were mentioned. The only vehicle mentioned is the Hogwarts Express and objects only in the sense of the Hogwarts Icons build. In the end the Designers could just come up with something completely new, like, who would have guessed Hogwarts Icons, befor we got it?

[BrickBob Studpants]

16 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

Again. The main point about this was, that I don´t think that they wouldn´t make the cauldron just because it isn´t in some Theme Park. 

Gotcha. Agreed, the theme park has no bearing on whether something gets made or not. I’d say the Leaky Cauldron won’t get made for other reasons

It being a pub isn’t much of an issue in my eyes, I see a bigger issue with its relevancy. I doesn’t really have much of a facade (on purpose in-universe), so it’s not visually iconic, and it doesn’t really work as a stand-alone set. DA and Gringotts both being discontinued doesn’t help either!

[Black Falcon]

9 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Gotcha. Agreed, the theme park has no bearing on whether something gets made or not. I’d say the Leaky Cauldron won’t get made for other reasons

It being a pub isn’t much of an issue in my eyes, I see a bigger issue with its relevancy. I doesn’t really have much of a facade (on purpose in-universe), so it’s not visually iconic, and it doesn’t really work as a stand-alone set. DA and Gringotts both being discontinued doesn’t help either!

It would probably make more sense to have it together with another build anyways, to have the entrance to Diagon Alley not go nowhere. But sure, probably the cauldron is more likely to happen as a normal DA set now rather than a D2C set, but I wouldn´t rule him out as option either. 

But in the end, which option is left then? All ideas that were mentioned were stated to be unlikely for different reasons now by one or the other member of the thread ;)

[brickbride]

9 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

Where does Azkaban come from now? I haven´t heard anyone mention it here, 

Last year before we knew about Hogsmeade, the Ministry, Azkaban, and a Quidditch Pitch were all popular picks.

10 hours ago, RODDY said:

I think the safe pick if you are a betting man is a Diagon Alley revamp even if it may have less shops, unless they doing something really out of left field.
They can just have it based on Philosophers Stone and keep some essential shops like Ollivanders & QQS for those who didn’t get the old one while including the Leaky Cauldron, Madame Malkins, and Eeylops Owl Emporium to entice people who have the old ones. 
Which is already one shop less to combat the inflation and imagine most of those shops wouldn’t need huge real estate except the Cauldron and QQS.Kinda like how the Hogsmeade had Hogs Head and Zonkos to entice old buyers who had the original playset (and it worked on me damnit). 

I agree that surely they'll revamp DA sometime but I doubt it would be this year. The people who've just bought Hogsmeade, and may have caught up on Diagon Alley and Gringotts when those went EOL, are unlikely to shell out a lot of money for another Diagon Alley so soon. Plus the same way that Diagon Alley's success likely contributed to Hogsmeade being made, I could see the lackluster reception of Hogsmeade putting a damper on any plans for a new Diagon Alley. The Hogwarts Express wasn't that popular either but it has been retired for longer and there's not even a playset version currently on the shelves so I could see them doing that.

And even if they eventually revamp Diagon Alley I'm fairly certain we wouldn't get anything resembling the 2020 one. It had like 5.544 pieces (if I remember correctly) for an initial EUR 400! Hogsmeade recently had like 3.100 pieces for EUR 380. It already uses one less baseplate, so gives us fewer locations, and its locations are just village huts, not townhouses, and they still look pretty terrible (for a D2C). So LEGO are not going to give us even just three baseplates full of Diagon Alley-style locations for anything less than EUR 500.

 

Edited February 23 by brickbride

[BrickMatit]

3 hours ago, brickbride said:

And even if they eventually revamp Diagon Alley I'm fairly certain we wouldn't get anything resembling the 2020 one.

That's pretty sure, in my opinion. As you notice, compared to Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade is a theft - well, it's a theft also compared to Gringotts or The Burrow.

Surely, if we look at the current edition of the theme - "The most detailed etc." one - and considering how this appears to be a pretty complete PS and CoS version the only important things missing are Hogwarts Express, Quidditch and Whomping Willow.

So I can understand people thinking about a Quidditch Pitch as a D2C set. In the past I created a nearly complete pitch, using two of the 2018 Quidditch Match set and adding stands (you can see an image here

). Really it's miles away from a D2C set quality - it has no field, no stands behind goal areas... but it's already a 2330 pieces MOC. And just to close the space behind the goals you'd likely need more than 500 pieces. So a nearly 3000 pieces for at least a 350$ set. And minifigure would be a problem too, considering just for two complete teams you need 14 minifigures (it's true that only 2 torsos would be needed) and at least Madam Hooch. So I don't really think a minifigure dimension Quidditch Pitch could be a good D2C.

A new Hogwarts Express could be an idea for a set, but that's the fact that it was already done in 2022 and I don't know how adult collectors usually react when they see a repetition of a set they had. That set was likely not well received, in my opinion because of the price: 500$ was likely too much for Harry Potter buyers (better the shrinkflation, as likely LEGO tested with Hogsmeade). In any case, I think a Hogwarts Express D2C, smaller to the 2022 one, wouldn't add too much to the series to justify a D2C treatment.

Maybe a Chamber of Secrets – Collectors' Edition, similar in style to the January Philosopher Stone one could be a good add. It's true it would be a second D2C in the same year, but untill now Collectors' sets were only put up for sale on summer. And the price of the set - 170$ - wouldn't be so high to be a strong constraint for buyers that would have to pay in a year less than for Hogsmeade. While I'm not into this type of set, I think that they could appeal a lot of buyers. Edit: Fawkes instead of Hedwig, Tom's diary and one or two Lockhart's books, Gryffindor's sword, a Polijuice reference, the notorious sock and the phoenix patronus to tempt completists.

Edited February 23 by BrickMatit

[Black Falcon]

3 hours ago, brickbride said:

Last year before we knew about Hogsmeade, the Ministry, Azkaban, and a Quidditch Pitch were all popular picks

Ah, well last year is something that is probably to long in the past to remember, then. Still, strange choice for me.

[BrickMatit]

2 hours ago, Black Falcon said:

Still, strange choice for me.

Azkaban is something that here and there appears as a suggestion and I've never understood what can be the appeal of a dark grey, perched on a cliff, triangular plan building, without windows. The interior, if there would be one, would be nothing but a series of cells. Add a bunch of dementors, Bellatrix and that male death eather appearing in the movie, maybe also Sirius, all in prisoners outfit and a section of wall that can be removed for the explosion.

Ministry of Magic has a very complex structure to being represented in a playset, even in D2C dimension, cause it's partly on the ground - phone box entrance - partly underground. And even the underground section has an outside section - with the fountain and offices buildings - and inside section - the interior of offices - and also a more underground section - Wizengamot, Department of Mysteries. But when I read about Ministry of Magic, I suspect that what some people want is not so much the location, but the characters. Really, the Veil room is a cave with the veil, nothing else - but to have a complete selection of minifigures you'd need more than 15 minifigures - Dumbledore's Army (Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny, Luna), Deatheaters (Lucius, Bellatrix and other 4), Order of Phoenix members (Sirius, Lupin, Kingsley, Moody, Tonks). No way LEGO will produce a set like this. It's better in the battle in the entrance hall, because it would need just Dumbledore, Harry, Voldemort and Bellatrix.

Edited February 23 by BrickMatit

[Gorilla94]

Glad to hear the Bloody baron being confirmed at least.

I think, we will see some form of Quidditch set. Maybe a half field, so you can put it against the wall next to the castle and have a complete looking silhouette. Maybe not in this wave but still while the "most detailed castle"-sets are on shelves.

7 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

more than 15 minifigures

Dont forget the golden minifigures required to make a fountain that does not suck. And there would still be complaints about all the stuff not included like polyjuced characters from the infiltration or Harrys trial.

Another possibility would be a haunted Hut with with whomping willow... I'd really like to have a good whomping willow in my castle. Special selling point could be crookshanks with the new mould.

I think maybe - just maybe - they will expand the castle with an astronomy tower, if the series should get delayed. I surely hope so.

 

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, Gorilla94 said:

Another possibility would be a haunted Hut with with whomping willow...

You mean the Shrieking Shack?  It‘s quite funny how they translated it into German, because when translated back into English, it’s the Howling Hut, so both terms are synonyms of the original ones that also happen to form an alliteration 

(Also funny in the sense that the German word „heulen“ can mean both howling and weeping, so when I first read PoA, the mental image I had was of a crying hut )

[brickbride]

3 hours ago, BrickMatit said:

A new Hogwarts Express could be an idea for a set, but that's the fact that it was already done in 2022 and I don't know how adult collectors usually react when they see a repetition of a set they had. That set was likely not well received, in my opinion because of the price: 500$ was likely too much for Harry Potter buyers (better the shrinkflation, as likely LEGO tested with Hogsmeade). In any case, I think a Hogwarts Express D2C, smaller to the 2022 one, wouldn't add too much to the series to justify a D2C treatment.

Maybe a Chamber of Secrets – Collectors' Edition, similar in style to the January Philosopher Stone one could be a good add. It's true it would be a second D2C in the same year, but untill now Collectors' sets were only put up for sale on summer. And the price of the set - 170$ - wouldn't be so high to be a strong constraint for buyers that would have to pay in a year less than for Hogsmeade. While I'm not into this type of set, I think that they could appeal a lot of buyers. Edit: Fawkes instead of Hedwig, Tom's diary and one or two Lockhart's books, Gryffindor's sword, a Polijuice reference, the notorious sock and the phoenix patronus to tempt completists.

I'm not suggesting a repetition of the Hogwarts Express but a different take entirely (scaled for train tracks with a full set of tracks and King's Cross Station, motorized if possible). That's what most everyone wanted when a D2C Hogwarts Express was announced - the price surely didn't help but there was quite a lot of backlash from train fans and others who'd hoped for a different execution of the set. There wouldn't be too much overlap in buyers I'd think. Batman's allegedly getting a remote control tumbler (719 pieces, USD 180!!!), and the last playset HE was EUR 130 without motorization and with a teeny-tiny village station, so any proper HE with motorization and King's Cross would easily be in D2C territory pricing-wise. And they might want to take a break from buildings after the lackluster reception of Hogsmeade.

I'm pretty sure we'll be getting a CoS version of the PoS collector's edition along the way but they might want to limit those to once a year, similiar to the way modular buildings or Winter Village sets come out once a year. So I'd expect one next January (unless sales for the PoS one are so bad it kills the series, but I doubt that).

2 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

Another possibility would be a haunted Hut with with whomping willow... I'd really like to have a good whomping willow in my castle. Special selling point could be crookshanks with the new mould.

I've argued against a D2C Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow in the past and will gladly do so again. ;-) For one thing it's a tree and a shack, it doesn't really benefit from the "bigger, more detailed" treatment of a D2C. For another, sales of a D2C Shrieking Shack would I think depend a lot on sales of Hogsmeade which wasn't that popular to begin with.

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if we'd get a playset Willow and playset Quidditch Pitch next January in order to bridge the gap between the current modular system and a new one.

Edited February 23 by brickbride

[Virginia_Bricks]

3 hours ago, brickbride said:

 I've argued against a D2C Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow in the past and will gladly do so again. ;-) For one thing it's a tree and a shack, it doesn't really benefit from the "bigger, more detailed" treatment of a D2C. For another, sales of a D2C Shrieking Shack would I think depend a lot on sales of Hogsmeade which wasn't that popular to begin with.

I wouldn't be surprised, though, if we'd get a playset Willow and playset Quidditch Pitch next January in order to bridge the gap between the current modular system and a new one.

We don't normally agree, but I agree that a D2C Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow makes little sense. I think they could release a larger playset (like $160 USD) with a few hundred more pieces. A little more fleshed out tree and a slightly bigger shack, but a D2C priced set, even at the Burrow price of $260, would just be overkill. 

I do think it has a high chance to be a set next year (winter of summer wave) as a gap set like Hagrid's Hut.

[BrickBob Studpants]

Some news! The new Expecto Patronum set comes with the same minifig selection as the 2019 set, the East Wing further includes Harry, Ron, Myrtle, and Lockhart, Knockturn Alley is based on HBP and comes with Harry, Ron, and Greyback, among others of course, and the plants set is said to resemble the Botanicals cactus set.

Hopefully that means that Knockturn Alley comes with the Vanishing Cabinet, as it’s one of the very few elements from the 2010/11 sets that hasn‘t been remade yet

[JS038]

Where did you find this information? 

[Virginia_Bricks]

37 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Some news! The new Expecto Patronum set comes with the same minifig selection as the 2019 set, the East Wing further includes Harry, Ron, Myrtle, and Lockhart, Knockturn Alley is based on HBP and comes with Harry, Ron, and Greyback, among others of course, and the plants set is said to resemble the Botanicals cactus set.

Hopefully that means that Knockturn Alley comes with the Vanishing Cabinet, as it’s one of the very few elements from the 2010/11 sets that hasn‘t been remade yet

So two ghosts in a set, wonderful! Disappointed with Lockhart because I just don't need 3 of him (Dueling, DA, and now East Wing) over other professors or students.

That puts us at 5 leaked of the 12. Riddle, Ginny, Ravenclaw Student, Slytherin Student, and a Hufflepuff Student gets you to 10. I think they might exclude Hermione which seems crazy in a $250 set to not give the main female character but Ginny might fit that requirement. I would finish it off with Dumbledore and Pince.

I think it is safe to say 7 mini-figures in Knockturn Alley, so I would add Draco, Bellatrix, and Mr Borgin. Maybe Hermione is the 4th to even out the heroes and villains.

Edited Thursday at 09:40 PM by Virginia_Bricks

[RODDY]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

So two ghosts in a set, wonderful! Disappointed with Lockhart because I just don't need 3 of him (Dueling, DA, and now East Wing) over other professors or students.

 

Speak for yourself, we are still missing the red robe Lockhart, pink robe Lockhart, blue robe Lockhart, and green robe Lockhart. I NEED THEM ALL!!! I need a CMF line of every iteration of Lockhart. 
 

But fr I’m ecstatic that we are getting two ghosts in one set. I’ve been really excited for the East Wing cause it’s probably gonna be the definitive Chamber of Secrets set and this minifig lineup is already looking super promising with a new Lockhart, Bloody Baron (the coolest Hogwarts ghost), Myrtle, and Riddle. Myrtle’s inclusion also confirms the bathroom so that’s sweet even if I knew it was already likely. I’m hoping for Millicent Bulstrode to be the Slytherin student because of her connection to the Polyjuice Mistake but it’ll probably be Draco if Harry and Ron have the Crabbe and Goyle alt faces so you can recreate the Polyjuice scene in the Slytherin Common Room. Hufflepuff will be Justin so you can have all the petrified victims. I hope they skip Ravenclaw (I say this as a Ravenclaw), I would rather have scene related characters rather than having all houses represented. There’s no logical choice here but probably young Luna or Cho. Ginny is a must. Honestly fine if they skip Hermoine though she’ll likely be included especially if the Library is there and she has the Basilisk page crumbled in her hand. I think Dumbledore again I wish they could skip bud he does give Harry his whole spiel of our choices define us so he kinda has to be here. If no Pomfrey is anything to go by, I wouldn’t expect Pince who is even more obscure so I’m my final pick will probably be Filch and Ms. Norris. Ideally in my world I’d take out the Ravenclaw for Pince and Draco for Millicent. 

 

Edited Thursday at 10:27 PM by RODDY

[RODDY]

76478 is now officially confirmed to have 1182 pieces by JediJacPenguin. 

[brickbride]

8 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

That puts us at 5 leaked of the 12. Riddle, Ginny, Ravenclaw Student, Slytherin Student, and a Hufflepuff Student gets you to 10. I think they might exclude Hermione which seems crazy in a $250 set to not give the main female character but Ginny might fit that requirement. I would finish it off with Dumbledore and Pince.

I think it is safe to say 7 mini-figures in Knockturn Alley, so I would add Draco, Bellatrix, and Mr Borgin. Maybe Hermione is the 4th to even out the heroes and villains.

Riddle and Ginny are I think a given. But if the Polyjuice scene is depicted at all, then Cat-Headed Hermione would be a notable miss (and Draco would make a lot more sense than a random Slytherin but I'm not holding my breath for him). We've already had Dumbledore in the Main Tower, so that slot could go to someone more relevant. Maybe we'll get Pomfrey instead. :-( Otherwise, the only Ravenclaw who'd make sense was already in the Hospital Wing, but how about Filch (and Mrs Norris)?

As for Knockturn Alley, we have a bunch of random Death Eaters currently in production (two from the motorbike, one from Luna's House). Just saying.

4 hours ago, RODDY said:

76478 is now officially confirmed to have 1182 pieces by JediJacPenguin. 

Thanks for the confirmation! I think that's the first time a well-known leaker has talked about it. StoneWars reported the rumour some time ago but I'm pretty sure they got it either from the reddit comment (same as me) or from us discussing it here. I wonder what it'll be!

9 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Some news! The new Expecto Patronum set comes with the same minifig selection as the 2019 set

What price are we expecting there? The last one was EUR 20 but it only had 121 pieces, this one's said to be more substantial. Hagrid's bike is again 124 pieces for EUR 20 (both with four figs each). However they very deliberately omitted Harry's stag patronus there, plus with the patronus collecting going on right now I could see them marking up the stag because you need it for your collection. I'm guessing the set would be around EUR 30? EDIT: CALLED IT!

In other news, pics of all the CMF series 29 figs have leaked. The witch looks a bit disappointing to me, she has a weird dark purple hat with light bluish short hair combo. Nice dress, though (as is the elf maiden's). Unlike the elf maiden's it doesn't seem to show any skin so you could use it with flesh-coloured heads and hands just the same.

Otherwise there's a little brown dragon (meant to be a chocolate sculpture I guess), and the elf maiden comes with a unicorn foal in case someone wants to populate their Forbidden Forest. ;-) I've long advocated for an allowance-friendly set for girls like "Hermione and a unicorn in Hagrid's class". It doesn't look like LEGO will follow through with that anytime soon, but if you buy any Hermione in student robes off bricklink, and add the elf maiden's unicorn, you can now make your own. ;-)

Edited Friday at 06:20 AM by brickbride

[brickbride]

For easier reference I've compiled a current list of all the summer wave sets - hope I haven't forgotten anything:

- 76462: Buildable Hogwarts House Crest (14+, 542 pcs.) USD 50

- 76469: Buildable Dobby the Free Elf (2-in-1 with Kreacher) (8+, 379 pcs.) USD 25

- 76471: Playset Diagon Alley Series: Knockturn Alley Shops (8+, 788 pcs.) USD 100

- 76473: Hogwarts Castle Series: East Wing (10+, 2164 pcs.) USD 250

- 76474: Buildable Herbology Class Plants (comparable to the Tiny Plants* set from Botanicals) (14+, 817 pcs.) USD 100

- 76475: Playset Expecto Patronum (Harry+Sirius+Dementors+stag) (?, 244 pcs.) USD 30

- 76477: Buildable Baby Dragon Norbert (?, 480 pcs.) USD 50

- 76478: ? (?, 1182 pcs.) USD 130 - possibly part-exclusive (otherwise we'd probably have more information at this point)

No advent calendar this year.

Seems like the only important missing information are the identity of 76478, the price for the East Wing (I'm thinking at least EUR 250 - EDIT: I've now indeed seen it leaked as USD 250), and any possible D2C.

*BTW, the Tiny Plants set (10329) has 758 pieces for only EUR 50 which makes me wonder if we'll get any large specialised prints or so (Mandrake?) in order to make up the huge price difference. Then again, the previous Mandrake had those huge, awful stickers and was also ridiculously expensive so they might just slap a "nerd Botanicals" tax on it regardless of contents.

Edited Friday at 12:06 PM by brickbride

[brickbride]

Which sets are you looking forward to buying? My answer is: none. I already own the old Expecto Patronum, and anything else is out of my price range or just not interesting to me.

8 hours ago, RODDY said:

I’ve been really excited for the East Wing cause it’s probably gonna be the definitive Chamber of Secrets set

I'm pretty sure 4730 will forever be the definitive Chamber of Secrets set. (If by that you mean the Chamber as a location, not CoS as a book/movie.) The flagship set of the 2021 system did a good job overall but I can't really count it given that Myrtle's bathroom was a separate set you had to buy extra in order to make the slide function work; if you combine those two you'll come pretty close, though.

I wouldn't expect much from the East Wing in terms of Chamber design given that it's said to only include a "small" chamber. You need enough room for it to have a certain grandeur.

Edited Friday at 06:35 AM by brickbride

[BrickMatit]

Very interesting news. Despite being a lover of the first movies, a HBP Knockturn Alley is the best choice. Assuming 6 or 7 minifigures, like previous Diagon Alley shops I'd add Draco (pretty certain) to the roster, Borgin (would be logic to have a shop owner); a new Narcissa would be a really good choice, but maybe there will just be a deatheater, considering how easily LEGO could combine the head and torso in production to create a new one from existing pieces.

Hope to have a Lockhart never done before sinche the rebooting of the theme in 2018. And Myrtle presence strongly suggest that her bathroom will be part of the East Wing, likely with a slide to link it with the Chamber of Secrets. The current known roster of minifigures is Harry, Ron, Lockhart, Bloody Baron and Myrtle. Tom and Ginny are certain in my opinion. So there are 5 missing minifigures. Bloody Baron strongly suggest the presence of Slytherin Common Room, so one male and one female student should be a must and I'd say Draco and Millicent could be LEGO choice (EDIT: considering usually there only one student, I'd say Millicent for variety). Usually big sets have characters from all of the Houses so there could also be a Ravenclaw random student and Hufflepuff one. (EDIT: I don't know if there is another not so know adult character missing, or there will be just another Dumbledore), add Hermione and the roster is completed (Harry, Ron, Hermione, Lockhart, Ginny, Tom, Myrtle, Draco or Millicent, Bloody Baron, random Hufflepuff and random Ravenclaw, Dumbledor or another adult).

Expecto Patronum has 100 pieces more than the former one, so I suppose more trees or bigger ones.

Edited Friday at 07:59 AM by BrickMatit

[brickbride]

15 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

Bloody Baron strongly suggest the presence of Slytherin Common Room, so one male and one female student should be a must

The Hospital Wing had Penelope Clearwater as the sole Ravenclaw. The Great Hall had Leanne Nolastname as the sole Hufflepuff. The Main Tower is the outlier but then again Gryffindor always gets special treatment (and the random Gryffindors in there were Percy, Neville and Dean, so no females).

We've already had Daphne Greengrass in the Great Hall and a completely out-of-place Markus Flint in the Main Tower, so it's not like you couldn't populate your Slytherin Common Room if you bought all those sets (which LEGO clearly want you to do). There might still be more than one Slytherin especially if they want to include Draco for plot purposes and also bait people who collect new characters (like Millicent), but it's not a guarantee.

Edited Friday at 07:53 AM by brickbride