Wizarding World 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[Black Falcon]

2 hours ago, Legofan04 said:

Well shoot that's a disappointment then on what is otherwise a pretty good molded piece.

I am glad they didn´t as that would require the legs to be formed like a bar, which makes the mould look weird with not really much of an advantage on the other side. I mean you can basically display everything with the Phoenix placed on the hand rather than the hand around fawkes legs.

[InfiniteUniverse]

Am I the only one questioning why the bathroom doesn’t have a door of sorts? Like, the other side being open makes complete sense, but there being no divide between the bathroom and the rest of the middle section sorta irks me.

Edited May 2 by InfiniteUniverse

[brickbride]

I might be the only one here who's very underwhelmed with the East Wing's interior.

Such a big, expensive set, and that's all they could cram in there? The Slytherin Common Room and the Library are probably the best part (and the latter only because I really like the shape of the room, the antistud ceiling still looks bad though).

But other than that? They did the bathroom better in the 2021 system and most of the rest is just corridors. The 2021 system managed to cram a pretty good Lockhart's Office into the space where Lockhart now stands in the pics! (And I said from the beginning that the place where Filch now stands would not be Lockhart's DADA class due to the lack of tables. I got shouted down.) The Chamber of Secrets is the most pathetic version ever, again they cribbed the good parts (the Salazar head and the two Ninjago snakes) from the 2021 system, but the entire thing just looks underwhelming. There is nothing whatsoever going on in the roof area, I would at the very least have expected them to use the two larger turrets for Astronomy (since they've been cribbing everything else from the 2021 system) and possibly Divination.

Bottom line: They're clearly marketing this thing to the completionists and minifig (and patronus) collectors, but very little effort seems to have gone into the design. And that's really a criticism of the entire new modular system going right back to the Great Hall which also just looks empty and underdesigned apart from the fig selection. I'll be so glad when this new system is over. Hopefully they'll go back to smaller sets and hopefully those will at least look somewhat worth the price.

13 hours ago, RODDY said:

Personally think the most likely scenario is that we get an Umbridge’s Office as the GWP this year with the Ministry of Magic and maybe a Divination Classroom standalone set in January to finish up the classrooms and help bridge the gap between this system and the next.

I'm expecting Umbridge to be in the Ministry set, she's one of the charactes who are the most associated with the Ministry. Divination on its own would be a pretty boring classroom set (the Moments book is mostly stickers of teacups) with the Parvati and Trelawney minifigs being the only draw. So sure, we might get it (since lack of design and attracting minifig collectors are LEGO's current go-tos).

Edited May 2 by brickbride

[RODDY]

36 minutes ago, brickbride said:

I’m expecting Umbridge to be in the Ministry set, she's one of the charactes who are the most associated with the Ministry. Divination on its own would be a pretty boring classroom set (the Moments book is mostly stickers of teacups) with the Parvati and Trelawney minifigs being the only draw. So sure, we might get it (since lack of design and attracting minifig collectors are LEGO's current go-tos).

Don’t forget my main man Bem, you want to talk minifigure draw now that’s a draw. He’s the last student I really care for we that we haven’t got yet and he’s most prominent in Divination explaining the Grim. I would say I’d buy it Day 1 for  Bem but it’d buy it Day 1 regardless, I think Divination would be nice $20 set and god knows I like a mini heater. 

As for Umbridge, if this is truly an Order of The Phoenix take on the set, I honestly hope they exclude her. The minifig lineup is gonna be tight given the sheer number of Death Eaters, Dumbledore’s Army, and Order Of the Phoenix members that show up at the Battle and all of them should take precedent over Umbridge who just makes a blink and you’ll miss it appearance at the Court Hearing. The GWP allows her to be a good bonus figure as she’s not essential to the Ministry at least in Order of The Phoenix imo. And given Lego’s recent trend of GWPs being connected passageway areas like Room of Requirements/Hogsmeade and Burrow/Borgin & Burkes, an Umbridge’s Office would fall right in line with the Floo Network connection to the Ministry. 

[Gorilla94]

52 minutes ago, brickbride said:

I might be the only one here who's very underwhelmed with the East Wing's interior.

Nope. It looks severly unfinished like most of the line. I will replace the stickers with custom prints. That's why I didn't place any of them on all of the sets... especially the not so great hall just looks pathetic purely buildwise.

Even the Minifigs in this set are just ok-ish in most cases. Myrtle again having plain legs is a disgrace.

The only reason I thknk about getting this set is through a buddy working at a lego store with 40% as a foundation of a moc.

[Roebuck]

https://brickset.com/article/131537/summer-lego-harry-potter-sets-revealed!

 

[Legofan04]

1 hour ago, brickbride said:

They did the bathroom better in the 2021 system and most of the rest is just corridors.

The 2021 system was mostly just corridors (such as in the Fluffly set, Sirus escape tower, and final battle), and not just that, but the floors were mostly grated, with very little room to actually place figures. Now, the Eastwing does have its problems, and admittedly has less room than I would like for the price (even though I enjoy it overall), but let's not make the 2021 system out to be some masterpiece. The Salazar head  in the previous Chamber was ridiculous.  The 2021 Bathroom admittedly was a lot better, though. Wish this version had a better stall.

2 minutes ago, Roebuck said:

https://brickset.com/article/131537/summer-lego-harry-potter-sets-revealed!

 

Is this the same Snape from the past couple years? Something looks different about the torso, but I'm not sure what.

[BrickMatit]

37 minutes ago, Legofan04 said:

Is this the same Snape from the past couple years? Something looks different about the torso, but I'm not sure what.

The shirt under the dress is darker, black instead than dark silver?

[hoiharry]

23 minutes ago, BrickMatit said:

The shirt under the dress is darker, black instead than dark silver?

I believe it's still the same Snape. In the lifestyle photos you can still see the silver shirt. So probably just something weird with the rendering.

[BrickMatit]

6 minutes ago, hoiharry said:

I believe it's still the same Snape.

Oh, thanks. Yes, I've just seen the lifestyle photos and he appears the same. @Legofan04

[(1)Stein]

Interesting box art of the east wing 🤪

Large pictures of 76474 Hogwarts™ Herbology Plants (Click to Zoom)

 

76478 Book Nook: Dumbledore's Office

76471 Knockturn Alley™ Wizarding Shops

 

Edited May 2 by (1)Stein

[InfiniteUniverse]

49 minutes ago, (1)Stein said:

Interesting box art of the east wing 🤪

Where is the box art image from?

[(1)Stein]

14 minutes ago, InfiniteUniverse said:

Where is the box art image from?

Proshop

Edited May 2 by (1)Stein

[brickbride]

6 hours ago, Legofan04 said:

but let's not make the 2021 system out to be some masterpiece.

I never said it was. In fact I called the Chamber overpriced when it came out, and have criticized sets like the Fluffy Encounter and Sirius Black's Escape for their poor design. But those two (along with the office part of Dumbledore's Office) were the low points of the system.  All the things I've mentioned in my post were much better done in the 2021 system and specifically the Chamber of Secrets and Polyjuice Potion Mistake sets (yes, the Salazar statue, too), and again, at a significantly lower price point than we have here.

Are the two corridors next to the bathroom able to house slide-out modules? If so maybe that's the point, but it looks ugly and unfinished. The East Wing is supposedly busy and full of classrooms, and we haven't even gotten one.

 

Edited May 2 by brickbride

[JS038]

1 hour ago, (1)Stein said:

 

Astronomy Tower silhouette in the background again 👀 

[(1)Stein]

28 minutes ago, JS038 said:

Astronomy Tower silhouette in the background again 👀 

There is also connection points on the back of the East Wing! So good signs that we might not be done yet with this series! 🤗

[RODDY]

REJOICE, UNITED STATES HAS A JUNE 1st RELEASE DATE FOR THE SUMMER WAVE AND THE EAST WING IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! 

[JS038]

I was hoping that once the sets were on Lego.com that we would see some lifestyle marketing images of the east wing combine with the other castle sets. That has been the fast with all previous large castle expansions. From what I am seeing, there does not appear to be any images showing the castles combine beyond the one we keep seeing.

[(1)Stein]

11 minutes ago, RODDY said:

REJOICE, UNITED STATES HAS A JUNE 1st RELEASE DATE FOR THE SUMMER WAVE AND THE EAST WING IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! 

Cool new LARGE Images!

 

 

Edited May 2 by (1)Stein

[RODDY]

8 minutes ago, (1)Stein said:

Cool new LARGE Images!

Man everytime I see this set I think I fall more and more in love with it and it was already love at first sight, absolutely glorious set. Appreciate you sending along the images 1(Stein), you always bring the heat with all these lifestyle pictures! 

[(1)Stein]

1 hour ago, RODDY said:

Appreciate you sending along the images 1(Stein), you always bring the heat with all these lifestyle pictures! 

Thanks! The Dealer large image product database for 76473 hasn't been posted yet! But I'll post the large lifestyle image when I get it!

Edited May 2 by (1)Stein

[RODDY]

9 minutes ago, (1)Stein said:

Thanks! The Dealer large image product database for 76473 hasn't been posted yet! But I'll post the large lifestyle image when I get it!

Sweet I’ll be on the lookout whenever they drop, can never have too many pictures of this beaut.

[Mom builds lego]

I love the East Wing and Dumbledore’s Office but man they are pricey! In Canada it’s 379.99 for the East Wing and 179.99 for Dumbledore’s Office. Hopefully I find a sale eventually - I’ve been holding out for a deal on the Main Tower but I’ll soon have to bite the bullet before it goes EOL. 

[Legofan04]

8 hours ago, BrickMatit said:

Oh, thanks. Yes, I've just seen the lifestyle photos and he appears the same. @Legofan04

Ohh okay. Thanks

[Black Falcon]

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

They did the bathroom better in the 2021 system and most of the rest is just corridors.

The Bathroom was an own module (and set) back then so it beeing better doesn´t really surprise me. They could have fleshed it more out, but for that they would have made the whole build wider to have more space inside, which would have just further increased the price though.

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

The 2021 system managed to cram a pretty good Lockhart's Office into the space where Lockhart now stands in the pics! (And I said from the beginning that the place where Filch now stands would not be Lockhart's DADA class due to the lack of tables. I got shouted down.)

Lockharts Office was a full module in the last version whereas now he stands in the entrance, which would be what a half module was back then - not to mention that it is the entrance and to me it just wouldn´t make sense to place any room in there as you need space to open the doors and let the minifigure move through them and all.

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

The Chamber of Secrets is the most pathetic version ever, again they cribbed the good parts (the Salazar head and the two Ninjago snakes) from the 2021 system, but the entire thing just looks underwhelming.

The 2018 version consisted ouf of harry, fawkes and the basilisk, and basically you just had to play the secene on the floor and not sure what was better on the last version really. I mean you could argue whether the ecexution in the new version or the last one was more for your personal taste, but overall they are not really different. You got Harry, Ginny, Lockhart, Riddle, the Gryffindor Sword, Diary and Sorting Hat, Salazars Head, the Basilisk, two Snake heads and the slide in both versions and I see nothing the old version had which the new one doesn´t have, while the existing one includes Myrtle, Ron (which you would get easily elsewhere) and most importantly fawkes and you can actually let the Snake come out of Slytherins mouth. Again, the overall design is sure up for everyones own taste, but I don´t see what would make it "the most pathetic version ever"

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

There is nothing whatsoever going on in the roof area, I would at the very least have expected them to use the two larger turrets for Astronomy (since they've been cribbing everything else from the 2021 system) and possibly Divination.

The top of the turret has very limited space though, not sure how they could fit a class in there and the turrets are already part of the libary, so I don´t see any good way how they could have cramped something else in there.

9 hours ago, brickbride said:

Bottom line: They're clearly marketing this thing to the completionists and minifig (and patronus) collectors, but very little effort seems to have gone into the design. And that's really a criticism of the entire new modular system going right back to the Great Hall which also just looks empty and underdesigned apart from the fig selection. I'll be so glad when this new system is over. Hopefully they'll go back to smaller sets and hopefully those will at least look somewhat worth the price.

I´d actually say the main appeal of this system is the exteriror Design. The only other versions that came even close to that would be the 2018 Hogwarts Castle and the Castle and Grounds Sets, while both previous Systems really weren´t that great if you wanted to Display a Castle. 

7 hours ago, Legofan04 said:

The 2021 system was mostly just corridors (such as in the Fluffly set, Sirus escape tower, and final battle), and not just that, but the floors were mostly grated, with very little room to actually place figures. Now, the Eastwing does have its problems, and admittedly has less room than I would like for the price (even though I enjoy it overall), but let's not make the 2021 system out to be some masterpiece.

Especially when you compare it with the Main Tower Set is really looks small. The main tower is just way more impressive with its size, compared to the new Sets where many parts are used to build the viaduct bridge, which does make it look great. In the end I can understand that they didn´t want to make the east wing even bigger and with that more expensive and I would expect them to have build it about in size compared to the other castle sections.