Wizarding World 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[JS038]

I wonder how it will look in scale with it being “many rooms” but still “attaches alongside Hogsmede”

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, Tariq j said:

That’s going to be an epic set!

I’m not sure if you did this on purpose or not, but I’m sure the new MoM land in Universal’s Epic Universe has played a part in LEGO’s choice this year. 
 

Which is good news for those rooting for a OotP inspired set – the park features the ‘Fountain’ of Magical Brethren and an altogether brighter atmosphere than that seen in DH1. Apparently, replicas are one of the more popular big ticket items at the park. If LEGO is trying to leverage that newfound popularity, then they’ll want to do a battle of the Ministry with the Gambon!Dumbledore duel, Bellatrix, Sirius, etc.

[Virginia_Bricks]

2 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

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.

I would guess OOTP mainly to separate it from the playset on DH.

It’s smart to temper expectations on mini-figures. 14 seems fair with 12 in Hogsmeade. Trio, Luna, Neville, and Ginny. 2-3 Death Eaters. Dumbledore and Voldemort. Sirius, Lupin, and Kingsley. Umbridge and Fudge. We might get the disappointing Fudge repeated…

Seems also like a great chance to give us a patronus Pheonix

[RODDY]

3 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

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.

Definitely OOTP, I think it’s the more iconic and recognizable version of the Ministry of Magic with Sirius’s death and Voldemort/Dumbledore duel being very memorable moments. While the DH sequence is cool it’s nowhere near as recognizable. And it’s got the minifigure selection that’s more worthy of the D2C spot. 

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

Seems also like a great chance to give us a patronus Pheonix

That didn’t even occur to me yet, but you’re right – so far this is the only set this year with a high probability of having Dumbledore, and the new fly phoenix mold in the East Wing leaks screams double use with the patronus gimmick. 
 

Theoretically, you could also squeeze in a couple other Order members’ patronuses if they wanted to do a trio like they did with the golden minifigures gimmick in the Hogwarts Icons set. Arthur, Kingsley, and Tonks all have known patronuses and are Ministry employees who can do double duty sitting in offices or racing to the rescue in the Department of Mysteries – and since Tonks’s patronus already exists and Dumbledore’s would be a recolor of mold introduced in another set, you’ve theoretically got a bit more budget for making a Lynx or Weasel happen. 

Edited Wednesday at 02:57 AM by Accio Lego

[brickbride]

 

4 hours ago, BacktoBricks said:

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.

3 hours ago, JS038 said:

I wonder how it will look in scale with it being “many rooms” but still “attaches alongside Hogsmede”

This. Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade already do not look good together. Just pick one (Diagon Alley!) and disregard the other (Hogsmeade), do not try to fit both.

[Roebuck]

I missed the memo, when did we start a 2026 thread 

[BrickBob Studpants]

If they do feature the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, they could finally give us a prominent character we’ve never ever had as a minifig in over 20 years. I’m talking about the actual Moody of course! All 3 minifigs so far were based on Barty Crouch Jr  The only representation of the real Moody was as a nanofig.

[brickbride]

YMMV. Minifigs are supposed to visually represent the character so if it looks like a Moody, walks like a Moody, and is listed on Bricklink as a Moody I'd say it is a Moody. ;-)

[BrickBob Studpants]

15 minutes ago, brickbride said:

YMMV. Minifigs are supposed to visually represent the character so if it looks like a Moody, walks like a Moody, and is listed on Bricklink as a Moody I'd say it is a Moody. ;-)

I know, it’s just a technicality  Just pointing out we never had an OotP/DH Moody!

As much as I kept demanding more DH sets, I kinda hope this is a pure OotP set. Ironically, OotP is now one of the most overlooked movies, and the 2022 MoM set already captured the DH inflitration scene perfectly, so no need to repeat the polyjuiced trio, Thicknesse, and Yaxley. Gambledore, some members of the order, and random Death Eaters would be way cooler!

[BacktoBricks]

10 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

I would guess OOTP mainly to separate it from the playset on DH.

It’s smart to temper expectations on mini-figures. 14 seems fair with 12 in Hogsmeade. Trio, Luna, Neville, and Ginny. 2-3 Death Eaters. Dumbledore and Voldemort. Sirius, Lupin, and Kingsley. Umbridge and Fudge. We might get the disappointing Fudge repeated…

Seems also like a great chance to give us a patronus Pheonix

 

9 hours ago, RODDY said:

Definitely OOTP, I think it’s the more iconic and recognizable version of the Ministry of Magic with Sirius’s death and Voldemort/Dumbledore duel being very memorable moments. While the DH sequence is cool it’s nowhere near as recognizable. And it’s got the minifigure selection that’s more worthy of the D2C spot. 

I really hope so. OOTP has always been a favourite of mine so it would be really good to see it get some better representation now and to finally get the full lineup of DA members from the battle. Having also just listened to the new Audible full-cast version of OOTP, the Ministry battle is still fresh in my head.

I'm guessing we might get the trio, Neville, Ginny, Luna, Bellatrix, Lucius (double sided Death Eater face), Dumbledore, Voldemort, Sirius, Tonks, Arthur Weasley and maybe a couple of faceless Death Eaters.

[Virginia_Bricks]

Summer set reveals should all be done by May 1/2 per UniBricks. That should include HP since it has a June Europe release. That would include the mystery set if it exists.

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

This. Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade already do not look good together. Just pick one (Diagon Alley!) and disregard the other (Hogsmeade), do not try to fit both.

I'm concerned they are trying to fit this to match the HP "modulars" not Hogsmeade vs DA. The only way I can see them doing it well is if they make it two full 32x32 baseplates and the offices form the exterior of the set with the fountain just in front. And then have plenty of space behind for all the rooms. But they will have 4x the piece count of the playset.

I am hopeful at this piece count they can do the Fountain of Magical Brethren so much better and it might mean the centaur mold gets resurrected.

I will be purchasing this most likely. Just a question is this year or down the road since I had Barad-Dur on my list and they should be similar in price.

[BrickBob Studpants]

52 minutes ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

That would include the mystery set if it exists.

The set has a number, piece count, age rating, and price, all confirmed by reliable sources, so it definitely exists

[Tariq j]

15 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

I’m not sure if you did this on purpose or not, but I’m sure the new MoM land in Universal’s Epic Universe has played a part in LEGO’s choice this year. 
 

Which is good news for those rooting for a OotP inspired set – the park features the ‘Fountain’ of Magical Brethren and an altogether brighter atmosphere than that seen in DH1. Apparently, replicas are one of the more popular big ticket items at the park. If LEGO is trying to leverage that newfound popularity, then they’ll want to do a battle of the Ministry with the Gambon!Dumbledore duel, Bellatrix, Sirius, etc.

I wasn’t aware of that! That’s interesting to hear. Like others I’m guessing it will be an OOTP based set since the last Ministry set was based off DH1.

4 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

As much as I kept demanding more DH sets, I kinda hope this is a pure OotP set. Ironically, OotP is now one of the most overlooked movies,

It’s just occurred to me that OOTP is the only film whose climax/final battle has never been depicted before. The final battle in the first 3 movies have all been done several times, and we’ve had two graveyard duel sets based off GoF. The Half Blood Prince sort of gets done in the 2010 Hogwarts set and both Malloy Manor and the Battle of Hogwarts have had sets recently. The Battle at the Ministry has never been done before.

 

[BrickBob Studpants]

8 minutes ago, Tariq j said:

It’s just occurred to me that OOTP is the only film whose climax/final battle has never been depicted before.

Indeed! Plus, it didn’t get its own castle extension, unless you (somehow) count the 2020 RoR set. I’m not saying OotP has been completely ignored, but other movies have definitely been treated more favourably lately. Arguably even HBP, since two of the DA expansions are based on it, plus part of the UCS Hogwarts Express and Hogsmeade.

So yeah, we finally have a potential OotP-based D2C set that on top of that might cover the climax!

[Virginia_Bricks]

GWP possibilities

• Umbridge's Hogwarts Office which could easily fit the small slot layout
• OOTP Room of Requirement for all the Patronuses with a DA member. (Cho, Fred, and George all seem like good ideas but none of their Patronuses are existing molds)
• The Phone Booth if not naturally included with Arthur

[Accio Lego]

7 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

GWP possibilities

• OOTP Room of Requirement for all the Patronuses with a DA member. (Cho, Fred, and George all seem like good ideas but none of their Patronuses are existing molds)

Seamus Finnigan! His patronus is a fox, which was introduced as a new animal mold just last year! (That said, the GWP being included in this year’s patronus gimmick seems less likely than the D2C)

 

Edit: Just remembered the designers for CMF series 29 did a talk about the design process (you can see the video on the Brick Fanatics YouTube channel) and they specifically mentioned a swan as being a possibility considered for the chocolatier’s chocolate sculpture – which they claim was rejected because of the reusability of a brown swan, no mention of new mold budget. Given that a preexisting mold was eventually used for the purpose, were the designers just skimming over the budget constraints, or do they know something we don’t about upcoming new animals?

Edited Thursday at 12:33 AM by Accio Lego

[RODDY]

8 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

GWP possibilities

• Umbridge's Hogwarts Office which could easily fit the small slot layout
• OOTP Room of Requirement for all the Patronuses with a DA member. (Cho, Fred, and George all seem like good ideas but none of their Patronuses are existing molds)
• The Phone Booth if not naturally included with Arthur

I kinda hate how likely and sensical the Phone Booth is as a GWP because I NEED Umbridge’s Office for this Modular Hogwarts and this is the most likely place for it show up as of rn.

[Roebuck]

12 hours ago, Accio Lego said:

Edit: Just remembered the designers for CMF series 29 did a talk about the design process (you can see the video on the Brick Fanatics YouTube channel) and they specifically mentioned a swan as being a possibility considered for the chocolatier’s chocolate sculpture – which they claim was rejected because of the reusability of a brown swan, no mention of new mold budget. Given that a preexisting mold was eventually used for the purpose, were the designers just skimming over the budget constraints, or do they know something we don’t about upcoming new animals?

The CMF have so big new mould budget so it's probably no issue to include one with a figure, but we can hope something is coming in City or similar 

I see now that this thread is another one that do not show up in "my activity", I usually just look there to find new post in the threads I post in. Is there anyway to fix that, makes it hard to follow when I have to actively look in every thread to see it there are any new posts

Edit! Never mind I see that this post suddenly showed up there now, even tough there are several pages with post that have not  Hopefully fixed now then (however still interested to know what to do next time this happens)

Edited Thursday at 05:34 AM by Roebuck

[brickbride]

On 4/8/2026 at 2:49 PM, Virginia_Bricks said:

I'm concerned they are trying to fit this to match the HP "modulars" not Hogsmeade vs DA. The only way I can see them doing it well is if they make it two full 32x32 baseplates and the offices form the exterior of the set with the fountain just in front. And then have plenty of space behind for all the rooms. But they will have 4x the piece count of the playset.

Hogsmeade has 3.228 pieces, 12 (mostly poorly done) figs, 3 baseplates' worth of (mostly poorly done) buildings, and it costs EUR 380/USD 400. This is roughly what EUR/USD 400 gets you these days. Though I don't think Hogsmeade is selling well so they might want to do slightly better with the next D2C. But I'm not expecting miracles.

The playset DA line is roughly EUR 100 per two-building set (they vary in price) so yes, we might get the equivalent of eight playset DA buildings (though at least those would come with considerably more than 12 minifigs which I don't expect here).

Either way I'm reserving judgement until I see it.

23 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

I’m not saying OotP has been completely ignored, but other movies have definitely been treated more favourably lately.

YMMV of course, but IMO OotP is by far the worst instalment of the book series. It's where Harry gets reaaaaaally whiny and annoying, plus it's the one where JK and her publishers made the big announcement up front that an important character would die and then the entire book was like "Hermione almost dies! But then she doesn't! Mr Weasley almost dies! But then he doesn't! And so on and so on" which got old extremely fast.

Add to that all the glossed-over bullying of Young Snape, Harry's utter idiocy regarding the Department of Mysteries, all the child abuse by Umbridge which is for once played straight instead of for comedy, Hermione's disfiguring of a fellow student which is even presented as clever and heroic, and that ludicrous finale where Lucius would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddlesome kids ... Yeah, I don't blame LEGO for mostly staying away. There's just a looooot of uncomfortable content here even by JK's standards.

Edited Thursday at 03:21 PM by brickbride

[MaxHeadroom]

Especially after passing on Hogsmeade least year I’m definitely comfortable not collecting everything and do expect it to be genuinely good for me to buy it. With Lego (and everything else) getting more and more ludicrously expensive I will be picky with this.

I’m a lot more interested in this over Hogsmeade for sure though. Do we think they’ll stick with the same dark green and classic red color combo? I’ve always found the red of the original set slightly off putting. 
 

Also maybe it’s been discussed here already but I’m very intrigued by the new small character body from One Piece that still incorporates standard hands and heads. Would it be a good option going forward for small characters with inhuman proportions like Dobby? 

[RODDY]

I know the minifig selection for the D2C Ministry of Magic will be a bit tight due to prior D2C minifig counts and just the sheer amount of characters that show up in the Ministry but I’d love for them to somehow sneak in Arabella Figg into this set. 

Edited Thursday at 02:37 PM by RODDY

[Virginia_Bricks]

2 hours ago, MaxHeadroom said:

Especially after passing on Hogsmeade least year I’m definitely comfortable not collecting everything and do expect it to be genuinely good for me to buy it. With Lego (and everything else) getting more and more ludicrously expensive I will be picky with this.

I’m a lot more interested in this over Hogsmeade for sure though. Do we think they’ll stick with the same dark green and classic red color combo? I’ve always found the red of the original set slightly off putting. 

Whether a set is good or not to me doesn't depend on the price. Something can be great and terribly priced (or just out of my price range) and the inverse is true and something be terrible but well priced.

In that vein, Hogsmeade was a good set (but not great like The Burrow). The interiors are a lot better than pictures give credit. The design of the exterior of each building is well above Diagon Alley. And the mini-figures are better than Diagon Alley and even with Gringotts. A few disappointing ones, but really evaluate DA and you notice you get the trio with just plain robes and common short legs, Draco is the standard, Harry and Hagrid aren't so special now with time, Fortescue, Olivander, and Molly are good but on par with McGonagall from Hogsmeade which people don't like. Really only Gilderoy is great and the twins are solid. We also got a horse in Hogsmeade, which Lego counts similarly to mini-figures in terms of budget (see Minas Tirith or The Shire).

1 hour ago, RODDY said:

I know the minifig selection for the D2C Ministry of Magic will be a bit tight due to prior D2C minifig counts and just the sheer amount of characters that show up in the Ministry but I’d love for them to somehow sneak in Arabella Figg into this set. 

Taking into account the last 5 playset D2Cs we can reasonably predict what we will get. The average price piece is 10.9 cents (Hogsmeade was the high point at 12.7 and DA at 9.5) and the average price per gram was 7.5 cents (Hogwarts Express was the high point at 8.1 and Gringotts at 7.0, though Hogsmeade was 7.1). The average mini-figures per price was 1 for every $31.50 USD (Burrow had one every $27 and Gringotts one every $36.20). The average pieces per mini-figure were 290 (Burrow had one every 240 pieces and Gringotts had one every 370 pieces). DA is the only outlier in price, I'm guessing as Lego was figuring out Harry Potter demand. Gringotts looks great on paper but it has less minifigures than average and smaller pieces. Hogsmeade looks bad on a paper but has larger pieces and more mini-figures than average.

We know that piece count is around 4,000 for the Ministry. So if it gets the average price that is ~14 mini-figures or the Hogsmeade pricing ~15 mini-figures. 14 and $460 feels very likely. That means Arabella Figg and Amelia Bones both likely get the boot unless Lego wants a never before seen character, which all D2Cs have had. I think it is fair to say they will reuse a Death Eater (maybe to replace Lucius even though his mask is not in the current Death Eater prints). So if you stick to 2 Death Eaters, Trio, Luna, Ginny, Neville, Voldemort, Dumbledore, Sirius, one adult DA member, Umbridge, and Fudge you would have room for either Arabella or Amelia if they go to 15 mini-figures and $480. They could easily also give one or multiple of Luna, Ginny, and Neville the boot.

 

Edited Thursday at 03:44 PM by Virginia_Bricks

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

We know that piece count is around 4,000 for the Ministry. So if it gets the average price that is ~14 mini-figures or the Hogsmeade pricing ~15 mini-figures. 14 and $460 feels very likely. That means Arabella Figg and Amelia Bones both likely get the boot unless Lego wants a never before seen character, which all D2Cs have had. I think it is fair to say they will reuse a Death Eater (maybe to replace Lucius even though his mask is not in the current Death Eater prints). So if you stick to 2 Death Eaters, Trio, Luna, Ginny, Neville, Voldemort, Dumbledore, Sirius, one adult DA member, Umbridge, and Fudge you would have room for either Arabella or Amelia if they go to 15 mini-figures and $480. They could easily also give one or multiple of Luna, Ginny, and Neville the boot.

I think you’re forgetting just how essential Bellatrix is to that particular battle – add on the fact that she’s a fan favorite character and I don’t think Lego will skip her. 
 

I think there is a decent chance they’ll skip Umbridge though. Her only Ministry appearance in OotP is during the courtroom scene where she’s wearing Wizengamot robes, she’s not present when Fudge witnesses Voldemort’s return or an exclusive character we can’t get anywhere else, so it makes sense not to force her into the set when you could include another character who does fit one of those parameters. 

[Virginia_Bricks]

6 minutes ago, Accio Lego said:

I think you’re forgetting just how essential Bellatrix is to that particular battle – add on the fact that she’s a fan favorite character and I don’t think Lego will skip her. 
 

I think there is a decent chance they’ll skip Umbridge though. Her only Ministry appearance in OotP is during the courtroom scene where she’s wearing Wizengamot robes, she’s not present when Fudge witnesses Voldemort’s return or an exclusive character we can’t get anywhere else, so it makes sense not to force her into the set when you could include another character who does fit one of those parameters. 

My 2 Death Eaters would be Bellatrix and Lucius. Lucius also makes a cameo before Harry's trial so that adds to his likelihood. I also don't think they do the courtroom scene without somebody besides Fudge judging Harry. Bones could be that choice if they want not done before. I agree Umbridge isn't essential and her outfit is not the iconic pink except for the collar, but I just expect the 2 jurors if they make that scene and Umbridge is more likely than Bones.