Wizarding World 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[Tomsriddle]

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

Some people think so. If you go back a couple of pages in the thread you'll find people speculating based on MOCs that it should be possible.

Is it possible the Flying Lessons set could be the base of the astronomy tower? lol idk if that’s possible, but i know they haven’t revealed where it fits within the Modular’s yet. 

I was looking at it closed up and it almost looks like it could be the base of the astronomy tower lol or at least connect somehow maybe. 

[Virginia_Bricks]

49 minutes ago, Tomsriddle said:

Is it possible the Flying Lessons set could be the base of the astronomy tower? lol idk if that’s possible, but i know they haven’t revealed where it fits within the Modular’s yet. 

I was looking at it closed up and it almost looks like it could be the base of the astronomy tower lol or at least connect somehow maybe. 

Very unlikely. The base would be too thin to support a tower that is supposed to be taller than the Main Tower.

While it might have a final location in the wave, it could also be like the Owlery and just sit on its own. The clips just being there as a possible connection but not to create the silhouette.

[Tomsriddle]

Gotcha thanks!

i went out and bought the entirety of this waves castle, because i believe it’ll be the last and most detailed hogwarts set for the movies.

Especially because the TV series begins this Christmas, I can see Lego focusing on the series for the next ten years. 

[Accio Lego]

3 hours ago, Tomsriddle said:

Especially because the TV series begins this Christmas, I can see Lego focusing on the series for the next ten years. 

I highly doubt that Lego will put all their eggs in one basket on the reboots just yet. The Fantastic Beasts sets apparently didn’t do well enough to continue with, they haven’t really invested much in the Disney live action remakes after the disaster of the giant Little Mermaid clamshell D2C, and they’ve even leaned towards over caution with Star Wars sets for newly released Disney+ shows (just look at what The Mandalorian got the year it came out). 
 

I'm very much expecting the set representation next year to be at least 50/50, if not 70/30 in favor of the movies. We’ll probably get a welcome break from Sorcerer’s Stone stuff in favor of the streaming series, but I fully expect there to still be stuff from the later movies. 

[brickbride]

On 3/27/2026 at 9:06 PM, RODDY said:

considering that old price point with inflation is now $26 and it comes with double the pieces, I think the $4 difference is fair. And even if you go by a reasonable PPP would put it at $25 but even then you still have to factor Stag mold which of course brings up the price to $30. You can argue if the extra pieces are necessary or not but what you are physically getting in the box is pretty good value all things considered. The Privet Drive Escape set is $10 cheaper because it has one less minifig and half the pieces. Even if the old Expecto Patronum set came out the same as it did back in 2019, it’d still be $26 its basically a wash, at least in this version you pay a little more and you get more pieces.

I still disagree. The old Expecto Patronum did what it was supposed to do. Just like the Rise of Voldemort set - both were sets people bought for the figs and nothing else. Could LEGO build a better graveyard at a higher piece count? Sure. Could LEGO build better trees at a higher piece count? Sure probably I guess though their track record with trees lets me hesitate. But again, the sets did what they were supposed to do.

The Privet Drive Escape works along the same lines; the "Privet Drive" part of it looks like crap and the "play function" (a hinge) is truly pitiful, but then no-one's buying this set for either of those reasons.

Here, however, they pretty clearly jack up the piece count so the fans will think "roughly 250 pieces for EUR 30, that's fair" when in reality those pieces don't get you anything worthwhile. I'm not dissing smaller sets, you can build some pretty nice stuff with 200+ pieces, but this "forest" looks like advent calendar reject builds so IMO we'd be better off with a smaller piece count and a smaller overall price.

I don't think the inflation argument holds that much water either because while on the whole things are getting more expensive, at the same time technological avances and such lead to some things becoming cheaper to produce. Case in point is, again, the Privet Drive Escape set: We haven't had four minifigs - one of them Hagrid - for EUR 20 for a long time. Another case in point is the Sorting Hat Ceremony: We haven't had four minifigs and a brand new sparkly cat for EUR 15 in a long time. You can also see it in other themes; i.e. Friends used to be very, very stingy with minidolls, and for the bigger sets they still often are. But these days you can get two minidolls and at least one animal, possibly more, for EUR 10 list price no problem - there's one or two sets like this in every wave (currently the Axolotl Boat Ride and Flamingo Pool Party come to mind).  Another example is Marvel mechs; those used to be EUR 10, then they got jacked up to EUR 15, and now they're still EUR 15 but usually include a second minifig so after the initial price increase they've actually gotten cheaper in relative terms.

Bottom line: Either minifigs and minidolls have gotten a lot cheaper to produce or LEGO are applying a different type of calculation to smaller sets in order to make the examples I've given possible. Either way I don't think we should just go "this used to be the price several years back, so let's add and add and add to it, and then whatever's the total has to be fair" while disregarding all other factors. LEGO charge whatever they feel they can get away with, period.

Edited March 29 by brickbride

[Black Falcon]

8 hours ago, brickbride said:

I still disagree. The old Expecto Patronum did what it was supposed to do. Just like the Rise of Voldemort set - both were sets people bought for the figs and nothing else. Could LEGO build a better graveyard at a higher piece count? Sure. Could LEGO build better trees at a higher piece count? Sure probably I guess though their track record with trees lets me hesitate. But again, the sets did what they were supposed to do.

The Privet Drive Escape works along the same lines; the "Privet Drive" part of it looks like crap and the "play function" (a hinge) is truly pitiful, but then no-one's buying this set for either of those reasons.

To me it doesn´t look nearly as bad as you say and actually I think it adds a lot to the set (well small side builds in general do) as the set would IMO look pretty dull if it would be only the bike and the death eaters and the hinge is not the only function of it actually, as it also is used to let the death eater fly using the action element. 

8 hours ago, brickbride said:

I don't think the inflation argument holds that much water either because while on the whole things are getting more expensive, at the same time technological avances and such lead to some things becoming cheaper to produce. Case in point is, again, the Privet Drive Escape set: We haven't had four minifigs - one of them Hagrid - for EUR 20 for a long time. Another case in point is the Sorting Hat Ceremony: We haven't had four minifigs and a brand new sparkly cat for EUR 15 in a long time. You can also see it in other themes; i.e. Friends used to be very, very stingy with minidolls, and for the bigger sets they still often are. But these days you can get two minidolls and at least one animal, possibly more, for EUR 10 list price no problem - there's one or two sets like this in every wave (currently the Axolotl Boat Ride and Flamingo Pool Party come to mind).  Another example is Marvel mechs; those used to be EUR 10, then they got jacked up to EUR 15, and now they're still EUR 15 but usually include a second minifig so after the initial price increase they've actually gotten cheaper in relative terms.

The technology argument doesn´t hold that much water either though, since Lego isn´t the only company benefiting from technological advancements, but all other companies do aswell. So inflation overall does already include those advancements anyways. Now of course not every company or branch does benefit in the same way but just neglecting inflation and claiming it would be outweighed by technological advancements is to me a strange reasoning, since we simply don´t know how much Lego did benefit from such things, not to mention that it usually saves money on some end (beeing able to produce more pieces per hour, decreasing the number of needed workers etc.) but in the first place it costs money, so needs some time till the benefit outweighs the costs. And personally I doubt that it is able to also outweigh inflation. 

8 hours ago, brickbride said:

Bottom line: Either minifigs and minidolls have gotten a lot cheaper to produce or LEGO are applying a different type of calculation to smaller sets in order to make the examples I've given possible. Either way I don't think we should just go "this used to be the price several years back, so let's add and add and add to it, and then whatever's the total has to be fair" while disregarding all other factors. LEGO charge whatever they feel they can get away with, period.

The thing is, inflation is a factor we know and which definitely has an influence on the prices, whether and how much influence other factors have is just pure speculation without any info about them ;). 

Also I don´t actually think that minifigs are that expensive in itself, but probably more the fact that they have a lot printed pieces that all need their own place in logistics, so especially using existing parts and unprinted pieces should keep the cost quite reasonable. And having small sets sell in bigger numbers should help keeping the price down too, but generally TLG has been rather increasing the prices of the bigger Sets than the smaller ones, so in the end it is probably a mixed calculation anyways.

 

[brickbride]

On 3/30/2026 at 2:34 AM, Black Falcon said:

The technology argument doesn´t hold that much water either though, since Lego isn´t the only company benefiting from technological advancements, but all other companies do aswell. So inflation overall does already include those advancements anyways. Now of course not every company or branch does benefit in the same way but just neglecting inflation and claiming it would be outweighed by technological advancements is to me a strange reasoning, since we simply don´t know how much Lego did benefit from such things, not to mention that it usually saves money on some end (beeing able to produce more pieces per hour, decreasing the number of needed workers etc.) but in the first place it costs money, so needs some time till the benefit outweighs the costs. And personally I doubt that it is able to also outweigh inflation. 

The thing is, inflation is a factor we know and which definitely has an influence on the prices, whether and how much influence other factors have is just pure speculation without any info about them ;). 

That's not what I meant or wrote at all. Clearly inflation factors into price increases but also - from the examples I've given and others - sometimes things become cheaper to produce over time, even within LEGO's own portfolio (or at least: LEGO realize that the cannot keep upping the prices on them without massive customer loss, and are thus willing to accept a slightly reduced profit marge on them). I've given enough examples of this. Plus in my experience companies tend to blame their price increases on inflation regardless of whether that's objectively justifiable because no-one likes to say outright "We've found that people are willing to pay that much so we'd be stupid to charge less". It's plain to see that LEGO have been experimenting a lot with how far they can go pricing things lately, from surveys outright asking people how much they'd be willing to pay for a set, to obvious experiments like the City supermarket (which had a ppp ratio for like 15 cent a piece - for City! - and was on the shelves for like half a year).

[spiderfan2000]

So is anyone else thinking about adding the new CMF unicorn to their Forbidden Forest?

[Accio Lego]

3 minutes ago, spiderfan2000 said:

So is anyone else thinking about adding the new CMF unicorn to their Forbidden Forest?

Definitely tempted, although I’m planning on swapping out the clear horn it comes with for a different color. 
 

An interesting thing is that in the Harry Potter universe unicorn foals are gold colored and change to silver and then white as they age (similar to real life grey colored horses), and the upcoming unicorn foal in series 29 looks to have a gold mane and tail. 

[Gorilla94]

5 hours ago, spiderfan2000 said:

So is anyone else thinking about adding the new CMF unicorn to their Forbidden Forest?

I don't have a forbidden forrest. I'll put it next to Hagrids hut. It was the first great class he gave, where the students saw his competence and even enjoyed learning from him.

[BacktoBricks]

11 hours ago, spiderfan2000 said:

So is anyone else thinking about adding the new CMF unicorn to their Forbidden Forest?

Definitely thinking above adding it to my minifigure display frame in the appropriate place next to Draco, Harry and Fang. 

Really hoping we get some news on the unknown set soon. I'm hoping for either an Astronomy or Clocktower, the former making the most sense for the Hogwarts silhouette or if not some other playset like the First Task. Just please don't let it be another buildable.

[Virginia_Bricks]

Typically HP is spared today, but a reminder to be skeptical about any leaks made today on April Fools. Typically a few real leaks make there way in, but always a lot of red herrings. Though I do enjoy it because its a fun guessing game on what is real and what is not.

Reviews went out this week/last week on 4/1 releases so I would expect summer set reveals to begin in earnest middle of this month after May the 4th information is revealed.

[RODDY]

13 hours ago, spiderfan2000 said:

So is anyone else thinking about adding the new CMF unicorn to their Forbidden Forest?

Def thinking about it but I’m trying my best not to give in because then I would have to hunt down Fang too since I have the old Hagrid’s Hut from 2019 and I told myself no more spending on Lego till the East Wing comes out. 

[RODDY]

Summer set pics are starting to leak with Ninjago and Fortnite kicking off the party, hopefully not too long for the Harry Pottee sets, I’m dying out here of excitement. 

Edited April 3 by RODDY

[BacktoBricks]

10 minutes ago, RODDY said:

Summer set pics are starting to leak with Ninjago and Fortnite kicking off the party, hopefully not too long for the Harry Pottee sets, I’m dying out here of excitement. 

You've basically written my comment for me.  Fingers crossed!

[Virginia_Bricks]

31 minutes ago, RODDY said:

Summer set pics are starting to leak with Ninjago and Fortnite kicking off the party, hopefully not too long for the Harry Pottee sets, I’m dying out here of excitement. 

It seems most of the summer wave is June for everyone except the US which is August.

[BrickBob Studpants]

HP leaks seem rather likely, considering we already got drawings for some of them, just like the Fortnite set and the Sandcrawler 

Fingers crossed for better quality please. You can actually make out more details in the drawings than these blurry messes

[RODDY]

34 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

It seems most of the summer wave is June for everyone except the US which is August.

Another reason why I hate being from the States lol. But hopefully Zavvi comes in clutch like it did back in 2020 the last time HP sets came out in August here in the good ol USA. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Welp, looks like my theme of the year award will go again to One Piece  This year it was closer, especially thanks to the DH1 sets, but there‘s no way the 2HY sets are gonna tip the scales

[Shiva]

On 4/4/2026 at 9:52 AM, BrickBob Studpants said:

Welp, looks like my theme of the year award will go again to One Piece  This year it was closer, especially thanks to the DH1 sets, but there‘s no way the 2HY sets are gonna tip the scales

In my mind, I heard a "Watch me!", regarding scale tipping.

One Piece does have nice looking minifigs.

[BrickBob Studpants]

Well I’ll be damned! According to Unibricks, a ~4000 piece Ministry of Magic awaits us!

And I was convinced there wouldn’t be a D2C set this year! GAMBLEDORE VS VOLDY OR BUST

Edit: They could also incorporate the Battle of the Department of Mysteries!

Edited April 7 by BrickBob Studpants

[RODDY]

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Well I’ll be damned! According to Unibricks, a ~4000 piece Ministry of Magic awaits us!

And I was convinced there wouldn’t be a D2C set this year! GAMBLEDORE VS VOLDY OR BUST

Edit: They could also incorporate the Battle of the Department of Mysteries!

AHHHHHHH I AM SO HAPPY IM WRONG, I CAN’T WAIT FOR A D2C MINISTRY OF MAGIC! Always wanted it but didn’t think LEGO had the stones (bricks) to do it! Please give us the Umbridge’s Office GWP! This might pass 2020 as my favorite year in the theme.

Edited April 8 by RODDY

[Tariq j]

That’s going to be an epic set! Off the top of my head there’s so many rooms include:

Main Atrium

Umbridge’s Office

Arthur’s Office

Yaxley’s Office

Wizengamot Courtoom

All the rooms featured in the Battle of Mysteries (wonder if they might include rooms from the books too)

Interesting as they say it can be connected to Diagon Alley and Hogsmede. 

 

 

 

 

[BacktoBricks]

I really want to get excited for this, but considering how Hogsmeade felt like just a facade with a very weak miifigure selection I'm trying to temper my expectations.

Do we think it will be Order of the Phoenix based or Deathly Hallows? I feel like the Death Eater minifigures in the Privet Drive Escape set could either be reused as some of the minifigure selection for a OOTP end battle, or could indicate it will be DH based and they were made to complement the set.

[sammy_zammy]

This sounds amazing! Hopefully it beats the 2022 set. I only built my copy last summer, and really enjoyed it but felt they could do so much more with it. Super excited for this.