RODDY Posted March 11 Posted March 11 Ohhhh I got a new theory looking at the Library. See that yellow square next to H?, I wonder if that’s a lamp indicating that it might be the Restricted Secrion. Quote
Accio Lego Posted March 11 Posted March 11 5 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said: Also appears to be 11 minifigures in the end which is disappointing. Finally, it’s just the sketch and none have had clips showing but where the Astronomy tower would connect had a railing, so I think we can all let that wish fade. It’s worth remembering that the format of these leaks is someone sketching the bare bones outline of these sets with a digital painting program. Small details like the clips to attach to the other castle sections just don’t show up, so it’s pointless to discuss them with any seriousness based on this. The East Wing not having 12 minifigure outlines isn’t something to take as gospel either. The dotted outlines a liberal use of question marks clearly means the leaker only saw a preliminary image with blank minifigs like the first Collectors Edition Burrow leak we saw, and the Ginny minifigure in that was barely visible in that which threw a bunch of people off. Plus, the image itself is clearly cut off on the left side, so there could be more elements (twelfth character, patronus) that aren’t visible. On top of that, these are clearly preliminary images that could easily be changed before the set is finished. Quote
JS038 Posted March 11 Posted March 11 I think the stone bridge will connect into the balcony in Lockhearts classroom. When you look at the blacked out silhouette image from 2024 of what the whole castle system should look like, the stone bridge goes from the window in fluffy’s room into the first large pillar on the East Wing. It lines up fairly perfectly height wise to be slightly elevated above the little outdoor terrace, and bridge into the left large pillar. Quote
Virginia_Bricks Posted March 11 Posted March 11 49 minutes ago, JS038 said: I think the stone bridge will connect into the balcony in Lockhearts classroom. When you look at the blacked out silhouette image from 2024 of what the whole castle system should look like, the stone bridge goes from the window in fluffy’s room into the first large pillar on the East Wing. It lines up fairly perfectly height wise to be slightly elevated above the little outdoor terrace, and bridge into the left large pillar. It would also be weird to create the opportunity for them to connect but not give the bricks that connect them. Not sure though they line up. The balcony seems to be 4 bricks above the base and the Main Tower window is 2 bricks above the base. Quote
brickbride Posted March 12 Posted March 12 On 3/11/2026 at 1:26 AM, Virginia_Bricks said: That being said the common room looks well detailed for a small module. The bathroom is hard to tell and looks cramped but should hit the right notes and clearly has a slide. The balcony for Lockhart’s classroom is nice but otherwise it seems sparse. Yes, from the sketch Lockhart's Office seems to be large but sparse. I prefer the small but detailed version from 2021. And the fact that his office seems bigger than the Slytherin Common Room is just weird. They should have given us Lockhart's Class with the pixies instead, that would have made so much more sense and then the East Wing (where many of the classrooms are) would have had at least one classroom instead of zero. Quote
RODDY Posted March 12 Posted March 12 7 minutes ago, brickbride said: Yes, from the sketch Lockhart's Office seems to be large but sparse. I prefer the small but detailed version from 2021. And the fact that his office seems bigger than the Slytherin Common Room is just weird. They should have given us Lockhart's Class with the pixies instead, that would have made so much more sense and then the East Wing (where many of the classrooms are) would have had at least one classroom instead of zero. That is Lockhart’s Classroom, not his office. Quote
brickbride Posted March 12 Posted March 12 (edited) How do you figure that from the sketch? Surely a classroom should have at least two tables. Also there's no mention of pixies, and none of them seem to appear in the sketch. Edited March 12 by brickbride Quote
Virginia_Bricks Posted March 12 Posted March 12 15 minutes ago, brickbride said: How do you figure that from the sketch? Surely a classroom should have at least two tables. Also there's no mention of pixies, and none of them seem to appear in the sketch. It was an early draft and I think they said they used AI to remove the watermark so little details like Pixies could have been missed. One desk would be very odd, but the sketch even had a ? mark on the desk so they didn't feel confident even calling it one. Quote
RODDY Posted March 12 Posted March 12 (edited) 28 minutes ago, brickbride said: How do you figure that from the sketch? Surely a classroom should have at least two tables. Also there's no mention of pixies, and none of them seem to appear in the sketch. It’s what the leakers believe it is with the box protruding from the right hand side believed to be the DADA staircase. I believe them since they have the hard images and we only have these sketches.These are prototype photos they won’t include everything such as Pixies and what not. The last time prototype pictures leaked in 2021 for HP, they were missing a lot of things that ended up being included in the set so I wouldn’t take these as the end all be all for what they actually are. These are just good to get a taste for what is coming. Edited March 12 by RODDY Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted March 13 Posted March 13 Both sets look promising based on the sketches! Nice to see the snake statues return (with the same dual-moulded Ninjago piece seemingly) and the basilisk being sand green again is a decent choice Finally a flying version of Fawkes! What annoys me though is Narcissa, who has legs again rather than a skirt, at least judging by the preliminary picture the sketch is based on. It made sense for Malfoy Manor, but she should definitely have a skirt in all other sets! Quote
Virginia_Bricks Posted March 13 Posted March 13 Wondering if the new mold for Snowy in the Tintin Moon Rocket set will be used for Ron's Jack Russel patronus. Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted March 13 Posted March 13 18 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said: Wondering if the new mold for Snowy in the Tintin Moon Rocket set will be used for Ron's Jack Russel patronus. Definitely not, since the spacesuit is moulded, not just a print. It wouldn‘t look like a regular dog if they recoloured the piece, it would like a dog with a head that‘s slightly too small for its body, or a dog wearing a fur-coloured sweater Quote
RODDY Posted March 13 Posted March 13 (edited) Going further down the Astronomy Tower/One more Hogwarts expansion rabbit hole again, with Knockturn Alley releasing alongside it and a Vanishing Cabinet all but guaranteed due to it being HBP based, could we be getting its sister? Last time we got Borgin & Burkes in 2011, that years Hogwarts system also had a Vanishing Cabinet acknowledging the connection between them. Recently we have had Hogsmeade and the Room of Requirement GWP with the portrait of Arianna, The Burrow and the Borgin & Burkes GWP, so Lego does love giving us ways of connecting the sets. And now we know for certain that Lego doesn’t mind repeating rooms with two DADAs, we might end up getting two versions of RoRs especially since this is the HBP version of that room is the last version that hasn’t been done since the reboot. We have also yet to see a Room of Requirement included in the Most Detailed Hogwarts system for sale when it was included in both the 2018 and 2021 castles. Edited March 14 by RODDY Quote
Virginia_Bricks Posted March 14 Posted March 14 20 minutes ago, RODDY said: Going further down the Astronomy Tower/One more Hogwarts expansion rabbit hole again, with Knockturn Alley releasing alongside it and a Vanishing Cabinet all but guaranteed due to it being HBP based, could we be getting its sister? Last time we got Borgin & Burkes in 2011, that years Hogwarts system also had a Vanishing Cabinet acknowledging the connection between them. Recently we have had Hogsmeade and the Room of Requirement GWP with the portrait of Arianna, The Burrow and the Borgin & Burkes GWP, so Lego does love giving us ways of connecting the sets. And now we now for certain Lego doesn’t mean repeating rooms with two DADAs, we might end up getting two versions of RoRs especially since this is the HBP version of that room is the last version that hasn’t been done since the reboot. We have also yet to see a Room of Requirement included in the Most Detailed Hogwarts system for sale when it was included in both the 2018 and 2021 castles. I think if they do another module, the RoR is back on the table. Two DADA classrooms changed my mind, especially since the other RoR wasn’t retail. Still not sold they are doing another module though. Let’s say Astronomy Tower and HBP as you propose. To be the right height I think it needs 5 floors. The actual Astronomy portion is 1, RoR could be a 2, Slug Club or Slughorn’s office could be 3, an entrance hallway could be 4, but I can’t figure out what goes in the dungeons unless they do both the party and Slughorn’s office. Quote
RODDY Posted March 14 Posted March 14 41 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said: I think if they do another module, the RoR is back on the table. Two DADA classrooms changed my mind, especially since the other RoR wasn’t retail. Still not sold they are doing another module though. Let’s say Astronomy Tower and HBP as you propose. To be the right height I think it needs 5 floors. The actual Astronomy portion is 1, RoR could be a 2, Slug Club or Slughorn’s office could be 3, an entrance hallway could be 4, but I can’t figure out what goes in the dungeons unless they do both the party and Slughorn’s office. If they exclusively want to stick to HBP, then Slughorn’s Potion’s Classroom would be the one to put in the Dungeons. And they have actually done two Potions Classrooms in the 2018 Hogwarts System so there is precedent for it. Quote
Gorilla94 Posted March 14 Posted March 14 43 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said: Still not sold they are doing another module though. Let’s say Astronomy Tower and HBP as you propose. To be the right height I think it needs 5 floors. The actual Astronomy portion is 1, RoR could be a 2, Slug Club or Slughorn’s office could be 3, an entrance hallway could be 4, but I can’t figure out what goes in the dungeons unless they do both the party and Slughorn’s office. Basement with Slug Club, two little builds like a solar system and a telescope for Astronomy in the roof. Other possible buildings Umbridge's office (also possible as a ministry of magic gwp), trelawneys class (would be suited for a seperately sold classroom too) hallway (maybe with all the rules done by Umbridge as wall decoration, prefects bathroom, RoR with vanishing cabinet or dumbledores army training... there are enough rooms left. Quote
InfiniteUniverse Posted March 14 Posted March 14 (edited) 12 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said: I think if they do another module, the RoR is back on the table. Two DADA classrooms changed my mind, especially since the other RoR wasn’t retail. Still not sold they are doing another module though. Let’s say Astronomy Tower and HBP as you propose. To be the right height I think it needs 5 floors. The actual Astronomy portion is 1, RoR could be a 2, Slug Club or Slughorn’s office could be 3, an entrance hallway could be 4, but I can’t figure out what goes in the dungeons unless they do both the party and Slughorn’s office. 5 floors does sound like the right height. Also, consider how the previous Astronomy tower has a similar rectangular shape to the new Flying Lessons set. Now imagine stacking two Flying Lessons sets on top of each other. Add roughly half of another set to form the top of the tower, and you’d get a build that is 2 cm short of the main tower’s height! Since the Flying Lessons set contains 651 pieces (including the swinging wall section), and the main structure uses under 500 pieces by my count, doubling that brings the total close to the yet-unrevealed set’s 1,182 pieces. The MOC below is 813 pieces, and I think is a good indicator of what it might look like. Perhaps it could include a slightly wider rampart, more in line with the previous Astronomy tower set, and a rock facade for the bottom level instead of an entrance door. I imagine one of the floors in an official set would have to contain Trelawney’s classroom. It’s a must! Edited March 14 by InfiniteUniverse Quote
BrickMatit Posted March 14 Posted March 14 (edited) 3 hours ago, InfiniteUniverse said: Since the Flying Lessons set contains 651 pieces (including the swinging wall section), and the main structure uses under 500 pieces by my count, doubling that brings the total close to the yet-unrevealed set’s 1,182 pieces. That's my opinion too. It's a rough estimate, but Astronomy Tower could be done with 1180 pieces. Surely the interior would be pretty crowdy. And I'm not sure about the size of the dungeon, which in my opinion should be larger, because such a tall set with such a small base would be really unstable. Edited March 14 by BrickMatit Quote
Black Falcon Posted March 14 Posted March 14 On 2/26/2026 at 9:59 PM, 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 Pretty happy that I was right that the Expecto Patronum leak was missing minifigs in the list and the Eastwing indeed includes both Myrtle and Bloddy Baron, though Pomfrey isn´t included there either. Still can´t see them skipping her completely so maybe in another Set then. D2C could indeed be Quidditch and she included to take care there. Though probably there are enough other minifigs you would want to be included in a set like this. If she really isn´t included at all in the system would be a big disappointement, but seems more and more likely by now. On 3/11/2026 at 1:26 AM, Virginia_Bricks said: Knockturn Alley I have no notes for. Interior still pending but exterior feels almost perfect. East Wing is a B+/A-. It feels well designed and full for what it is, but doesn’t hit like the Main Tower did. That is the clear best set from this wave. I think Main Tower and Great Hall are way more iconic and recognizable anyways, so probably that is a fight that the East Wing had to lose anyways - but personally, I will wait to see the final model before judging it, especially from some traced prelim. Quote
BrickBob Studpants Posted March 14 Posted March 14 58 minutes ago, Black Falcon said: D2C could indeed be Quidditch and she included to take care there. It can‘t be ruled out there‘s still one coming, but in previous years we‘ve already known the set number at least by late February, and often the name and more details too. I wouldn‘t be surprised if there wasn‘t one this year for the first time since 2019 Quote
Virginia_Bricks Posted March 14 Posted March 14 18 hours ago, Gorilla94 said: Basement with Slug Club, two little builds like a solar system and a telescope for Astronomy in the roof. Other possible buildings Umbridge's office (also possible as a ministry of magic gwp), trelawneys class (would be suited for a seperately sold classroom too) hallway (maybe with all the rules done by Umbridge as wall decoration, prefects bathroom, RoR with vanishing cabinet or dumbledores army training... there are enough rooms left. You are covering 3 different with those rooms though. Only Flying Lesson has covered multiple movies and that was simply because of the transfiguration lesson that most probably can’t even tell was COS not PS. Maybe they break their one movie per set pattern, but I’m not sure. An OOTP Astronomy Tower might work easier within that pattern. Astronomy is still included but just the classroom and not Dumbledore’s death. DA ROR. Umbridge’s office. Hallway with decrees. And Divination. GOF and HBP just have too many key scenes outside the castle. A Dumbledore’s Army RoR would work well with the anniversary patronuses. Quote
Black Falcon Posted March 14 Posted March 14 1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said: It can‘t be ruled out there‘s still one coming, but in previous years we‘ve already known the set number at least by late February, and often the name and more details too. I wouldn‘t be surprised if there wasn‘t one this year for the first time since 2019 We are talking about leaks here, you can never predict when something leaks. But I would be surprised if there wouldn´t be a set this year, as there is no reason to think the last sets didn´t do well. But well we will see. Quote
RODDY Posted March 14 Posted March 14 41 minutes ago, Black Falcon said: We are talking about leaks here, you can never predict when something leaks. But I would be surprised if there wouldn´t be a set this year, as there is no reason to think the last sets didn´t do well. But well we will see. I don’t think it’s a matter of the last D2Cs selling well, I think it’s that they just run out of ideas to do that aren’t already on shelf and that can sell well to both casuals and hardcore collectors. Like when we were brainstorming ideas here about what it could be, there was no real standout or front runner, there was always some sort of complication of it coming to fruition. 1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said: You are covering 3 different with those rooms though. Only Flying Lesson has covered multiple movies and that was simply because of the transfiguration lesson that most probably can’t even tell was COS not PS. Maybe they break their one movie per set pattern, but I’m not sure. An OOTP Astronomy Tower might work easier within that pattern. Astronomy is still included but just the classroom and not Dumbledore’s death. DA ROR. Umbridge’s office. Hallway with decrees. And Divination. GOF and HBP just have too many key scenes outside the castle. A Dumbledore’s Army RoR would work well with the anniversary patronuses. Ideally I would love a mix between HBP and OoTP but I do think you are right OoTP would be easier and better to do if they want to focus on just one of the books/films. If this is truly the last year and the Astronomy Tower is the last attachment, an OOTP version would give us most of the most important rooms while sacrificing the least. As much I’d like to see a Slughorn’s Office with a new Hourglass Piece or a Slug Club with Cormac and a Vanishing Cabinet, I’d rather have Divination’s to finish up the Classrooms and Umbridge’s Office. I’d doubt we’d ever see a GOF attachment cause there’s pretty much just the Prefects Bathroom and Yule Ball would go in the Great Hall so it’d be a set like the Sorting Hat or Dueling Club. 8 hours ago, InfiniteUniverse said: The MOC below is 813 pieces, and I think is a good indicator of what it might look like. Perhaps it could include a slightly wider rampart, more in line with the previous Astronomy tower set, and a rock facade for the bottom level instead of an entrance door. I imagine one of the floors in an official set would have to contain Trelawney’s classroom. It’s a must! I saw this MOC a couple weeks ago and it’s what fully radicalized me into fully believing that the mystery set is the Astronomy Tower when I was initially skeptical that 1182 pieces was enough. Use the remaining 370 pieces for a rock base and widen it by a stud or two, and you got something that would fit in very nicely in the current system. Now fingers crossed we don’t get disappointed lmaoo. Quote
Black Falcon Posted March 14 Posted March 14 2 hours ago, RODDY said: I don’t think it’s a matter of the last D2Cs selling well, I think it’s that they just run out of ideas to do that aren’t already on shelf and that can sell well to both casuals and hardcore collectors. Like when we were brainstorming ideas here about what it could be, there was no real standout or front runner, there was always some sort of complication of it coming to fruition. Aside from Gringotts, there was no standout the last years either and we still got a set ;). And them running out of ideas would probably the last thing why we wouldn´t get more sets. Quote
RODDY Posted March 15 Posted March 15 (edited) 39 minutes ago, Black Falcon said: Aside from Gringotts, there was no standout the last years either and we still got a set ;). And them running out of ideas would probably the last thing why we wouldn´t get more sets. It’s not just ideas, but ideas that would sell well to the general public. I think both The Burrow and Hogsmeade were very viable Collector’s Edition picks. The Burrow is pretty iconic with it being the Weasley’s Home and showing up in multiple films/books. I was more than happy with the playscale version myself but I do get why they picked to do it. Hogsmeade Village despite its execution has crossover appeal with Christmas Village fans, has the Universal setup so people can visit it and interact with it, and again shows up a bunch. I personally don’t think any of the other options that aren’t already on shelves would sell that well but that’s just my opinion. But hey Lego if you are listening and sales be damned, D2C Ministry of Magic please and thank you ;) Edited March 15 by RODDY Quote
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