Wizarding World 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[BrickBob Studpants]

6 hours ago, brickbride said:

So to recap the lineup is: basilisk + 12 minifigs (which isn't that much really - the last Chamber of Secrets from 2021 had 11 figs + basilisk and cost EUR 120 less)

Yeah, but the number of minifigs is not always proportional to a set’s price, even among playsets  The Main Tower also had 12 minifigs. 20 or more would be nuts for a regular retail set!

6 hours ago, brickbride said:

[…] Tom Riddle is the most noteworthy omission (he was in both the 2002 and 2021 Chambers).

Agreed, you can’t have the CoS without him. He’s essential to the scene!

What baffles me a bit is that we get 3 students on top of the trio, Draco, and Ginny, which is kinda odd since Lockhart is now the only professor included in the set (or staff member in general). As for the students, it’s probably gonna be Justin as the Hufflepuff representative, Collin, and a random Ravenclaw student (should’ve stuck to my initial prediction )

[BrickMatit]

30 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Agreed, you can’t have the CoS without him. He’s essential to the scene!

It would be foolishness to have a Chamber of Secrets without Tom Riddle. I know that Main Tower had PS challenges and no Quirrell, but he was in the Great Hall set, while Tom Riddle isn't in any other set. And it's not a minor character like Pomfrey, whose lacking could somehow be justified, also considering she didn't appear in the PoA Hospital Wing (not that I appreaciated her missing, anyway).

[Mom builds lego]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Yeah, but the number of minifigs is not always proportional to a set’s price, even among playsets  The Main Tower also had 12 minifigs. 20 or more would be nuts for a regular retail set!

Agreed, you can’t have the CoS without him. He’s essential to the scene!

What baffles me a bit is that we get 3 students on top of the trio, Draco, and Ginny, which is kinda odd since Lockhart is now the only professor included in the set (or staff member in general). As for the students, it’s probably gonna be Justin as the Hufflepuff representative, Collin, and a random Ravenclaw student (should’ve stuck to my initial prediction )

Minifigs are definitely not proportional to set price. The Office set had 15 new minifigs for $150 Canadian (not sure what it was USD, maybe $110?) Way better value than say Quality Quidditch Supplies & Ice Cream Parlour with 6 minifigs at $130 Canadian. I do love that there have been some great little play sets that include 4 minifigs in $20-30 range like the dueling club, sorting hat ceremony, privet drive escape. 

[brickbride]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The Main Tower also had 12 minifigs. 20 or more would be nuts for a regular retail set!

You say that. I say that EUR 250 list price is nuts for a regular retail set.

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Agreed, you can’t have the CoS without him. He’s essential to the scene!

What baffles me a bit is that we get 3 students on top of the trio, Draco, and Ginny, which is kinda odd since Lockhart is now the only professor included in the set (or staff member in general). As for the students, it’s probably gonna be Justin as the Hufflepuff representative, Collin, and a random Ravenclaw student (should’ve stuck to my initial prediction )

I guess technically Tom Riddle could be among the "3 students", leaving a spot for someone else, but I doubt it - his uniform should be noticably different (if we go by the 2021 version) and he should have "adult" legs, so overall would be hard to mistake for a regular student. So 3 more students (likely including Justin, Colin, and maybe Millicent or Blaise Zabini) plus Tom Riddle would be my interpretation/guess.

Edited yesterday at 01:52 PM by brickbride

[BrickBob Studpants]

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

You say that. I say that EUR 250 list price is nuts for a regular retail set.

That’s a separate discussion though

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

So 3 more students (likely including Justin, Colin, and maybe Millicent or Blaise Zabini) plus Tom Riddle would be my interpretation/guess.

Indeed. The rumour said 12 minifigs,  we currently know about 11, and I doubt someone would confuse Tom for a regular student.

I’d rather have a repeat of Filch or a new costume for Dumbledore (if there are any left at this point) over random kitbashed students, but I’ll accept it. This set will technically contain the highest number of students ever in a set between the trio, Ginny, Draco, Tom (if included), Myrtle, and the 3 semi-random ones

[brickbride]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

This set will technically contain the highest number of students ever in a set between the trio, Ginny, Draco, Tom (if included), Myrtle, and the 3 semi-random ones

If you want to call a decades-old spectre of the Dark Lord and one of his undead victims students, then sure I guess. ;-) I don't even think it holds up in terms of minifig parts since Tom's uniform would likely be too old-fashioned to be of much use for modern-day students, and Myrtle would have ghost colouring.

[Gorilla94]

Hm... Minifig-wise that is - except for the bloody baron - extremely underwhelming. Glad I have Pomfrey and Pince. Hospital wing and library without them has something of a big middle-finger towards new collectors.

I wish we get at least Myrtle with printed medium legs in grey. 

[brickbride]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

That’s a separate discussion though

I don't think it is.

I mostly agree with you that, say, 20 or so minifigs would be unheard-of for a playset. And that the number of figs decreases with bigger sets. But until a year or so ago it also used to be unheard of for a so-called playset to cost EUR 250, and as that seems to be the new norm it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to expect at least a couple more figs for a set this expensive.

It's not like they'd run out of characters; so far most every bigger set in the new system had noteworthy omissions, plus there's still missing characters like Burbage which have never been made.

Actually I've just looked it up: The old Chamber ended up being EUR 150 (it used to be less before at least one price increase, possibly two (I can't remember exactly), but let's go with that). It had 11 figs, one of which was a golden anniversary figure so let's not count that, too. That would give us one fig per every EUR 15 spent. In terms of the East Wing that would amount to 16-17 figs. I'd expect most people would be happy with 14-15 (which would at least give us Pince, Filch, and possibly Trelawney for a more complete Hogwarts roster). Do you really think that unreasonable?

For comparison, Ninjago City had 19 figs and was EUR 300. Ninjago City Gardens had 22 figs for EUR 350. The Daily Bugle (a licenced set from a fairly expensive IP) had 25 figs for EUR 350! Granted neither of them are playsets but again, we're far outside of what used to be playset pricing here.

Edited 21 hours ago by brickbride

[RODDY]

There’s no way that Tom Riddle isn’t in the East Wing, at least Quirell was in the Great Hall and that set is a companion to the Main Tower. I think this to me would be by far the most egregious exclusion, especially since Tom Marvollo Riddle/I am Lord Voldemort is the main villain of the entire series nevertheless just the Chamber of Secrets where he plays a pivotal role in the climax. I can live without Pince, she’s a blink and you’ll miss her character. I can live without Pomfrey in the Hospital Wing since it’s based on PoA. But excluding Tom Riddle from the Chamber is like excluding Vader from the Final Duel, inexcusable. I think they must have mistaken him as one of the 3 students imo. 

I’m not too bothered by the lack of staff besides Filch & Ms. Norris I don’t need another Harris Dumbledore in red robes or a random professor, I’d rather have all the petrified victims in one big package since they are more relevant to the reference material and are harder to come by. So if the last two students are Collin and Justin alongside Riddle, I’ll be stoked. Especially since we got Ernie in the Main Tower which was neat. I’m still hoping Ms. Norris finds her way into this set even without Filch alongside the blood writing wall. But not sure if Lego will tackle that for a playset. 

 

[BrickMatit]

1 hour ago, RODDY said:

I think they must have mistaken him as one of the 3 students imo

The same leaker, in the past, said there will be 12 minifigures - pretty coherent with the number of pieces and price, considering it's the same of Main Tower - but now he listed only 11 minifigures. Maybe Tom Riddle is the 12th.

Edited 17 hours ago by BrickMatit

[Accio Lego]

So have we got any ideas on 76478 other than it probably being a retailer exclusive and the $130/1182 piece ratio meaning it’s most likely a proper play set? 
 

My guess is another castle section like the Hospital Wing or Flying Lesson – something that could include Snape because I highly doubt Lego would do a set of anniversary patronuses and not include his Doe somewhere. 

Edited 17 hours ago by Accio Lego

[RODDY]

38 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

So have we got any ideas on 76478 other than it probably being a retailer exclusive and the $130/1182 piece ratio meaning it’s most likely a proper play set? 
 

My guess is another castle section like the Hospital Wing or Flying Lesson – something that could include Snape because I highly doubt Lego would do a set of anniversary patronuses and not include is Doe somewhere. 

I’m huffing on the copium that it’s the Astronomy Tower and I think it might be just enough pieces to pull it off, even if it maybe a little shorter than the Main Tower. I’ve seen some mocs of it at 800 pieces that look pretty close to the size needed to be in scale with the rest of the castle so another 400 pieces or so should get us there. The tower alone in the 2020 set was 412 pieces, so about triple that to 1182, I think you got it.And Snape does play a pivotal role in the whole sequence of events that transpire there, so he’s a realistic inclusion there. 
 

 

56 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

The same leaker, in the past, said there will be 12 minifigures - pretty coherent with the number of pieces and price, considering it's the same of Main Tower - but now he listed only 11 minifigures. Maybe Tom Riddle is the 12th.

Good catch, didn’t realize that the original was 12 and it now went down to 11. So yea Riddle could still be 12 and we could still get three more students. That makes a lot of sense now.

Edited 16 hours ago by RODDY