Wizarding World 2026 - Rumors & Discussion

[Gorilla94]

7 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

So if the rumor is right and the next modular castle is still movie themed, we might get sets that work for both like the boat house, owlrey, and Hagrid’s hut did. The astronomy tower could fit into that maybe, but less likely. Best bet is a quidditch pitch

I highly doubt the Astronomy tower would match the required scale to fit the current system, if the new one is classic play scale.

I think the most we can not really "expect" but at least not rule out is finally a propper crookshanks and maybe a new lesser known teacher.

[BrickMatit]

The start of a new castle system - the fourth since 2018 - doesn't surprise me: the three-year scheme -is quite established, and while I still have some hopes that LEGO will surprise us with an Astronomy Tower set, I don't actually believe it a lot.

I don't know how trustable the source describing the set is, but both him and Unibrick said that 76483: First Year at Hogwarts Castle set is movie based and we can assume also 76479: Harry meets Dobby set is, considering the series won't show that scene before the second season. 

Price point for the first set is said to be 109,99$ and using the price per piece ratio of the last Great Hall, we can suppose that the First Year set should have nearly 960 pieces. Just as a comparison, the 2018 Great Hall had 878 pieces, the last one 1732. So, assuming the set is a playset and not something else, we can conclude that this could easily be the starting point for a new Hogwarts system - even if it's strange for LEGO to start it in January and not in summer, like it used to since 2018. The only reason for this, I think could be the put on air of the TV series, so It will be interesting to see if there will be also series  based sets - at least to give old collectors some not appeared before characters or locations and of course something series related for people liking it.

The fact that LEGO sticks with the very first movies when launching a new castle was discussed a lot in the past, but it's perfectly understandable.

Considering the probable number of pieces this Great Hall would be a downsize version of the location, compared with the last one from the most detailed Hogwarts castle and, by the way, it's understandable too: it gives people a more affordable castle both in price and in space requested. Certainly, this will pretty likely rule out the possibility to add new sets to the current layout without a heavy moccing work.

[RODDY]

On 7/5/2026 at 5:01 PM, Black Falcon said:

Well if we suspect the great hall to be a new Hogwarts system set, and expect the wave to be similar to the 2018 one, I wonder what else we will get. I mean, that system didn´t really consist out of that many sets, so there should be some room for more sets aside from the castle, even if we are getting the normal grounds sets and some buildables. If they not just decease the number of sets that is.

If this year is any indication of the general direction of the amount of traditional playsets with only 6 playsets, then we will probably get just a remake of the 2018 wave with maybe a set from the later movies if we are lucky (Looking at you Inferi Cave, East Wing had our first bloody minifigure since 2008 and a hanging petrified cat, no reason you aren’t too macabre now). Another playscale Hogwarts Express, Aragog, Hagrid’s Hut all seem like shoe ins. Overdue for a Quidditch Pitch even if the last one didn’t sell that well. Maybe a smaller Hogwarts add on like the 2018 Whomping Willow set. Or even a playscale Burrow since the Collector’s Edition one is retiring end of year.
And thats pretty much it. I do hope I’m wrong and they sneak in some more later book sets that we haven’t got yet to keep those of us who aren’t buying in yet another Hogwarts system interested. But even then the options are slimming. I’d imagine Lego doesn’t want to do the Deathly Hallows tent to keep the Doe Patronus exclusive to the East Wing so we won’t see that till after the East Wing retires next year. Could def see remakes of the Goblet of Fire Tasks it’s going to be 8 years since the last First and Third Tasks. There’s stuff like Shell Cottage and Godrics Hollows but those seem like long shots. Idk the future of the theme seems a bit like we scrapping the bottom of the barrel?

Edited July 7 by RODDY

[hunnybunny]

Feels way too soon, either because previous system feels incomplete after all the hype about being most extensive or simply a break was needed. 

I somewhat doubt that we are getting new system already so soon, I think it will tank East Wing sales if so.

[BrickBob Studpants]

1 hour ago, RODDY said:

Idk the future of the theme seems a bit like we scrapping the bottom of the barrel?

Oh definitely. We’ve reached a point where they’ve almost done everything they could. I honestly wouldn’t be upset if they pulled the plug

[RODDY]

1 hour ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Oh definitely. We’ve reached a point where they’ve almost done everything they could. I honestly wouldn’t be upset if they pulled the plug

Same give me an Inferi Cave, pull the plug, bring back Indiana Jones for a couple of years, I’ll be a happy camper. 

[Mom builds lego]

Learning that the new sets are movie based has me even more put out that there is no HP advent calendar. I’ve had one every year 

[BacktoBricks]

23 hours ago, hunnybunny said:

Feels way too soon, either because previous system feels incomplete after all the hype about being most extensive or simply a break was needed. 

I somewhat doubt that we are getting new system already so soon, I think it will tank East Wing sales if so.

To be honest, I would be perfectly happy with a smaller castle system as no system is going to ever be everything to everyone; there is always going to be a compromise somewhere, wether that be internal detail losing out to a better facade or vice versa or simply the price being extortionate to try and make both those aspects better. So give me a Great Hall without a rock base etc. 

However, what I would like to see in that case is a more complete castle in terms of locations rather than this three year cycle. Like you say, even the 'most detailed' castle system ever feels woefully incomplete when we barely get beyond the three main sections. Also I do know that for those who do not follow Lego and leaks in general, the constant changing of system gets confusing with people often asking what set this castle system matches etc. So whilst the three year pattern has become established, the start of another system does feel too soon yet again.

[brickbride]

LEGO SW is reported to be getting a USD 200 SW-themed movie theatre. This might be a fun idea for HP as well but probably not realistic (since the first movie already had its anniversary this year, and the next thing we're getting will be the HBO series).

[Virginia_Bricks]

14 minutes ago, brickbride said:

LEGO SW is reported to be getting a USD 200 SW-themed movie theatre. This might be a fun idea for HP as well but probably not realistic (since the first movie already had its anniversary this year, and the next thing we're getting will be the HBO series).

A New Hope is celebrating 50 years next year so that is why Lego is doing concept art anniversary figures and then this set and another that is a diorama of filming Tatooine (with a George Lucas mini-fig). 

[Accio Lego]

First installment in the spooky new Midnight Valley Collection has leaked and it comes with a new longhaired cat that would look very close to Crookshanks if not for the white chest patch. 
 

Top of my wishlist for January is a set that includes him. It’s silly that we got fluffy Mrs. Norris but nothing for the cat who explicitly has long hair. 

[BacktoBricks]

1 hour ago, Accio Lego said:

First installment in the spooky new Midnight Valley Collection has leaked and it comes with a new longhaired cat that would look very close to Crookshanks if not for the white chest patch. 
 

Top of my wishlist for January is a set that includes him. It’s silly that we got fluffy Mrs. Norris but nothing for the cat who explicitly has long hair. 

Well at least we could use it as a close approximation if we don't get him again as I think it would still look better than the violently orange version from Grimmauld Place.

Yes, to me, Mrs Norris would have been better if she had stuck to the old smooth hair mold like she was in the Dumbledore's Office set. Whilst the latest one does look good as a character, I don't think it looks like Mrs Norris. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

Small update on the MoM: $450, 3491 pcs, 10+ minifigs. Fingers crossed significantly more than 10, not just 11

[RODDY]

2 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Small update on the MoM: $450, 3491 pcs, 10+ minifigs. Fingers crossed significantly more than 10, not just 11

What is up with the pricing this year? First Knockturn Alley, now this. Miss me with the Star Wars pricing. If this doesn’t come with more figs than the East Wing at almost twice the price, I think it’s a bust. 

[Virginia_Bricks]

49 minutes ago, RODDY said:

What is up with the pricing this year? First Knockturn Alley, now this. Miss me with the Star Wars pricing. If this doesn’t come with more figs than the East Wing at almost twice the price, I think it’s a bust. 

The US Iran war drove up oil prices which are kind of essential for plastic. This is what I expected for a price.

I’m expecting at least one large printed cloth piece that will drive up the price

[brickbride]

On 7/7/2026 at 5:42 PM, RODDY said:

If this year is any indication of the general direction of the amount of traditional playsets with only 6 playsets, then we will probably get just a remake of the 2018 wave with maybe a set from the later movies if we are lucky (Looking at you Inferi Cave, East Wing had our first bloody minifigure since 2008 and a hanging petrified cat, no reason you aren’t too macabre now).

The 2018 modular hogwarts system consisted of the Great Hall (POS and slightly CoS themed), Whomping Willow (CoS), Clock Tower (GoF), and Astronomy Tower (HBP). That's four sets spread out over three years (two in 2018, one each in 2019 and 2020) covering the material up to sixth year.

If they're trying to tie in with the TV series this time around (as the "first year at Hogwarts" title kind of implies to me), they'll have to slow down the pace considerably. So we would need to either cover more of Hogwarts or - more likely to me - split the sets into smaller portions. I.e. the Astronomy Tower, which was like EUR 90 I think, inexplicably had a greenhouse added to it (with the Mandrakes being a reference to second year). So we might get i.e. another Astronomy Tower that's at least EUR 90 by itself (though not necessarily any bigger or more detailed), and then the greenhouse as an extra set in the new system.

Also the 2018 system was before LEGO HP really started with the cash-grabs. Such as the 2021 Chamber of Secrets set which had the slide to the Chamber but not actually the trap door (for that you needed to buy the Polyjuice Potions Mistake set). And then the 2024 system with all the slide-out placeholders to be replaced by proper rooms at extra cost. I'd be very surprised if we got a straighforward system like the 2018 one again without any customizable/you'll need to buy those extras if you want it to look good component this time around.

11 hours ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

Small update on the MoM: $450, 3491 pcs, 10+ minifigs. Fingers crossed significantly more than 10, not just 11

8 hours ago, RODDY said:

What is up with the pricing this year? First Knockturn Alley, now this. Miss me with the Star Wars pricing. If this doesn’t come with more figs than the East Wing at almost twice the price, I think it’s a bust. 

How is that at all surprising? Hogsmeade was USD 400, 3,228 pieces according to brickset, 12 figs. Compare that to the D2C Diagon Alley which had way more figs, way more pieces (the difference amounts to MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND PIECES, that's a decently sized modular by itself!), and cost the same initially. So the MoM being even more expensive with at best the same amount of minifigs was to be expected. They just don't make 'em like they used to.

Edited Friday at 09:04 AM by brickbride

[BrickMatit]

39 minutes ago, brickbride said:

Compare that to the D2C Diagon Alley which had way more figs, way more pieces (the difference amounts to MORE THAN TWO THOUSAND PIECES, that's a decently sized modular by itself!), and cost the same initially.

I don't know if the price in euros will be identical to the one in dollars, so I'll limit my little analysis to last year, taking into consideration only the Hogsmeade set.

Here how much it should have cost Hogsmeade using other sets price per piece ratio.

Diagon Alley (2020) -> 232€
Diagon Alley (current price) -> 262€
Hogwarts Express (2022) -> 314€
Gringotts (2023) -> €289
The Burrow (2024) -> 349€

The increase ratio between the first one and the last one is 64%, while the cumulative inflation was 25% in Eurozone.

LEGO may have had to bear costs higher than average inflation, for example for raw material or transportation costs, but the fact its net profit continues to grow in percentage terms year over year suggests than only a part of the price increases are due to costs.

Anyway, whatever the cause of the price increase, in the end you receive less than before for what you pay. And if your earnings didn't increase by 64% in these years - likely - well the effect will be even bigger. 

LEGO is squeezing AFOLs, but it's not that many of them aren't happy to be squeezed.

As @RODDY says, the fear is that Harry Potter was Starwarsified.

Edited Friday at 09:36 AM by BrickMatit

[Roebuck]

Can not remember seeing this before with pygmy puff, but could have forgotten also 

 

[BacktoBricks]

I saw this a couple of months ago on a foreign Amazon and found the Ginny minifigure hadn't been added to Bricklink at that point. Obviously a better Ginny than the previous version of her in robes from the old COS set as she actually has her ginger eyebrows, but a slight downgrade on the one in the new COS set as the book budget clearly doesn't stretch to dual moulded legs. A nice way for people to get a Pygmy Puff though.

It doesn't seem widely available though.

[BacktoBricks]

I think the book comes from Poland.

Edited Friday at 12:27 PM by BacktoBricks

[RODDY]

13 hours ago, Virginia_Bricks said:

The US Iran war drove up oil prices which are kind of essential for plastic. This is what I expected for a price.

I’m expecting at least one large printed cloth piece that will drive up the price

Idk I was expecting $400 myself with it only being a couple hundred pieces more than Hogsmeade which was already overpriced as is as much as I love that set.
And I understand the war to an extent but the way they’ve been pushing it imo feels like they are trying the Star Wars method of seeing just how far they can get away with pricing. Cloth piece though is a good point, maybe with that and more minifigs, the price hike could be somewhat justified. I guess spending $50 more isn’t a huge deal when you are already spending $400 but when you notice the trend with Hogsmeade being $50 overpriced and for no good reason (no big pieces or cloth)and then this year adding another $50 ontop of that, it feels less like the war and more so them testing their pricing as of rn.
 

5 hours ago, brickbride said:

The 2018 modular hogwarts system consisted of the Great Hall (POS and slightly CoS themed), Whomping Willow (CoS), Clock Tower (GoF), and Astronomy Tower (HBP). That's four sets spread out over three years (two in 2018, one each in 2019 and 2020) covering the material up to sixth year.

If they're trying to tie in with the TV series this time around (as the "first year at Hogwarts" title kind of implies to me), they'll have to slow down the pace considerably. So we would need to either cover more of Hogwarts or - more likely to me - split the sets into smaller portions. I.e. the Astronomy Tower, which was like EUR 90 I think, inexplicably had a greenhouse added to it (with the Mandrakes being a reference to second year). So we might get i.e. another Astronomy Tower that's at least EUR 90 by itself (though not necessarily any bigger or more detailed), and then the greenhouse as an extra set in the new system.

Also the 2018 system was before LEGO HP really started with the cash-grabs. Such as the 2021 Chamber of Secrets set which had the slide to the Chamber but not actually the trap door (for that you needed to buy the Polyjuice Potions Mistake set). And then the 2024 system with all the slide-out placeholders to be replaced by proper rooms at extra cost. I'd be very surprised if we got a straighforward system like the 2018 one again without any customizable/you'll need to buy those extras if you want it to look good component this time around.

 

The new Castle System has been confirmed to be based on the movies again, Lego is probably waiting to see how the TV show does which is fair. So I would assume another three year cycle, which would fall right after the second season, optimal for them and their love for the first two books if they decide to do a TV show castle. I do find your idea of splitting sets interesting but very possible as of right now the First Year of Hogwarts is only just the Great Hall. Maybe they’ll split that up and the Main Tower again like they did this system but at half the cost and without the rock face. Same with the Astronomy Tower and the East Wing. And ofc they could throw in some other locations too. Like a Whomping Willow that is by itself and could be compatible to both systems like the Owlery last system. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

The MoM Gambledore leaked!

• New outfit in blue violet!
• Same faceprint and hairpiece as Harris 

This is Gambledore erasure.

Edited Friday at 02:32 PM by BrickBob Studpants

[RODDY]

8 minutes ago, BrickBob Studpants said:

The MoM Gambledore leaked!

• New outfit in blue violet!
• Same faceprint and hairpiece as Harris 

This is Gambledore erasure.

No hat mold is wild especially when he is seen wearing the hat in that scene. Imagine the hat mold in that violet color it would have been sick. I understand the face because they are supposed to be the same character in universe but I’m still not happy with it lmao. 

[BrickBob Studpants]

8 minutes ago, RODDY said:

No hat mold is wild especially when he is seen wearing the hat in that scene. Imagine the hat mold in that violet color it would have been sick. I understand the face because they are supposed to be the same character in universe but I’m still not happy with it lmao. 

They have given him a unique faceprint in CMF S1 but not the Clocktower version a year later, so that aspect is not that surprising, but not bringing back the old hair-hat piece for a $450 set is just cheap

[Tariq j]

I assumed the Richard Harris head/beard was just a placeholder but that is a shame if it’s the actual version.