Wizarding World 2024 - Rumors & Discussion

[Huigberts Builds]

39 minutes ago, Bugbot20082 said:

I like the new system, although it looks like it won’t include the clock or astronomy towers unless they keep it going for 5 years+, where other waves have only had a 3 year plan I think before a reboot. 

Most likely yes. I feel like this is probably just going to be the minifigure version of the nanoscale castle from 2018. And tbf, I wouldn't mind if we didn't get another clock tower. The 2019 one was pretty much perfect, it will probably still look great next to the new system. Only way really I could see them improve on it is by changing the interior to include the pendulum like in the original 2004 version.

The Astronomy Tower is a bigger loss however. While the previous version looked great, it was already pretty small for the original 2018 system, let alone for what we're getting now.

Then again, they included the Owlery, which wasn't in the original nanoscale set either, so maybe we'll get them anyway.

[Shiva]

Of the 76440, I wish to get all the figures + the Beauxbatons carriage with the Pegasus.

Durmstrang ship is nice too.

[Virginia_Bricks]

3 hours ago, Jaromir said:

Interesting point of view. If proportions of the blurred image of Hogwarts castle are true, the Great Hall won't be the biggest set, comparing to the the big tower. Or maybe other castle segments will be combined from different sets, like rocky base plus ground flour will be one set, first floor and top floor will be other set.

One of the reviews (Tiago Catarino), showed the new pictures of where the sets fit and gives more confirmation the blurred image is correct.

 

[Khargeust]

So the shields in the ship are stickers. Sad.

[Gorilla94]

I think the most interesting piece of new Information is the Hidden door in the rockwork. I think this confirms a Chamber of Secrets expansion.

I have to say the hat of Professor Vector is terrible :( That hair-hat Combo works perfectly for a wacky Halloween witch. not for her... I'll try to paint either the fairytale princess come hat or the new cmf witch hairpiece... litterally every other Wizard hat looks better for her...

Edited May 7 by Gorilla94

[JS038]

I’m genuinely torn on if the picture in the book confirms that the future expansions will be a minifig version of the nanoscale castle. 

It’s looking like it might be, but there’s part of me that believes that is just a placeholder image, and we will get a proper astronomy tower, bell tower, clock tower, and they might milk this set out for more than 3 years.

The modular aspect about the new greta hall gives me the impression some mixing and matching might be required by the end of the final product.

Edited May 8 by JS038

[Jaromir]

Wow, love the fact that building are modular and can be easily disassembled. I am just thinking if we get more classrooms and all of the Hogwarts dormitory. The divination class was at the top of the tower if I am correct, so the Ravenclaw dormitory.

[Bugbot20082]

The next big castle section will be the grand staircase tower with the lookout tower/quad entrance arch attached, all on top of another rocket foundation, here is my hopes for the interior:

Dumbledore’s office (this is a given) in the roof

Griffin statue staircase's below

Gryffindor Common-room removable module in the main tower below that 

Moving staircase like the micro set on the ground floor of the main tower. 

Umbridge’s office in the lookout tower (like the micro castle)

DaDA classroom in the roof section over the arch

Dungon module 1: OotP Room of Requirement, with Neville and Ron (to differentiate it from the previous set).  

Dungeon module 2: Slytherin Commin Room, incudes the Bloody Barron

smaller middle Dungeon space: trophy room

5 figures mentioned above + Harry + Draco + new Slytherin student
 

Which might leave the Ravenclaw common room, Divination and other classrooms, library etc for the viaduct entrance building. No idea for the dungeons for that section though.

 

Edited May 8 by Bugbot20082

[Lion King]

I would be pleased if they make a new mold for griffin statue but I doubt it anyways. 

[Black Falcon]

22 hours ago, Gorilla94 said:

I think the most interesting piece of new Information is the Hidden door in the rockwork. I think this confirms a Chamber of Secrets expansion.

I don´t think so. The leaks already revealed that before as it was said that it would contain a secret way out of the castle (such as Harry used to get to Hogsmeade for instance)

4 hours ago, Lion King said:

I would be pleased if they make a new mold for griffin statue but I doubt it anyways. 

Yeah, very likely they would make a brickbuild version. The only way I would see a moulded version happening, is if they would need one for another set and would just recolour it for that set then. 

[Bugbot20082]

46 minutes ago, Black Falcon said:

I don´t think so. The leaks already revealed that before as it was said that it would contain a secret way out of the castle (such as Harry used to get to Hogsmeade for instance)

 

Agreed, I think the secret door is just a play feature to make the model more fun, children can use their imagination: it’s a secret passage out of the castle, or the way Quirrel let in the Troll for example, Hogwarts is famous for secret passages so it’s on-theme and can be used in many ways 

[LemonFlavouredBleach]

Highly doubt we will see another chamber of secrets set within this new system, where would it even go

[Nick unassembled]

Does anybody know which/who's wands are appearing in the new ollivanders? I'm not much of a wand expert, only one I can discern is lucius'.

[Clone OPatra]

Seeing some of the LAN reviews, I've certainly warmed to the Great Hall set - I think there's no denying that it's actually quite big and therefore detailed looking from a distance, and would be fun to play around with, plus setting the Great Hall on its mountain is a cool effect.

However, on principle, as a toy for kids I still think it's way too big and expensive. Let kids have a Great Hall set at an affordable-enough price for a wide variety of families, something the 2018 one certainly achieved.

[Huigberts Builds]

21 hours ago, JS038 said:

It’s looking like it might be, but there’s part of me that believes that is just a placeholder image, and we will get a proper astronomy tower, bell tower, clock tower, and they might milk this set out for more than 3 years.

It is a placeholder image, but it's still an indication of what we can expect. Even if we were to get the other towers, I feel like they would first want to complete to front view of the castle, aka everything the nanoscale one gave us.

11 hours ago, Bugbot20082 said:

The next big castle section will be the grand staircase tower with the lookout tower/quad entrance arch attached, all on top of another rocket foundation, here is my hopes for the interior:

I feel like that might be a bit much for one set. I think they'll probably want to split it in 2. If they didn't include the grand staircase tower with the Great Hall they also won't include it with the similar sized Quad Entrance section of the castle.

I'd say most likely scenario would be a €150,- ish POA inspired Grand (Marble) Staircase tower, pretty similar in setup to the 2002 and Nanoscale one. 2 sets of moving stairs (and maybe an extra stationary one to the side). I think on a hinge would allow for the most accurate representation of the movies, but they might just go with the rotating ones again. One of which able to move towards the painting of the (poa) Fat Lady (switchable to the damaged version, similar to the clock in 76415). On top of the tower is just Dumbledore's Office, with a small Griffin statue underneath. (I feel like, unlike the nanoscale version, there won't be enough room for another room.) Then in the dungeons I think they would probably put something simple like the One-Eyed-Witch Passage. They could even include a couple of dementors floating around the tower.

Then I envision a similar priced Quad Entrance (I can see the sum of the 2 of them together equal €300,- at least). The layout I imagine to be somewhat like the Whomping Willow set. What was the DatDA classroom in nanoscale would be the Gryffindor Common Room (with Sirius Black fire place), aligning perfectly with the Fat Lady Portrait in the Grand Staircase Tower, turning it into an entrance. Then what was Umbridge's Office in Nano Scale would become the Gryffindor Dormitory. Ground level would be a bit more simple, maybe a couple of knights statues, a small office for Filch or a not too fancy classroom like transfiguration if they want to go the extra mile. Dungeons I think could be the Slytherin Common Room and Dormitory. Making it sort of the common room set (as the exterior is less interesting, that would make for a pretty nice set.)

Then for 2026 a €200,- they could finish the front view of the castle with a Viaduct Entrance and viaduct. Starting with the Dungeon, which I envision to be another Chamber of Secrets, but with a little bit more depth. They could even hide away the Basilisk underneath the Viaduct when he's not popping out of the statue. Ground level I imagine to be the library on one side (like the nano scale one) and a small room of requirement on the other side. With in the middle (in front of the entrance itself) a hallway with the wall on the side of the RoR filled with educational decrees. Then in system scale there would probably be enough room for a first floor this time around (or second for the Americans) which could be the Datda Classroom and Umbridge's Office (or Lockhart if they want to keep it CoS themed). 

That would cover pretty much everything the nanoscale version covered. Then they could also do a couple of sets like this year's potion classroom, but then removable rooms for the underground (challenge) Chambers. A winged key set, chessboard room etc. That would ofc require one of the sets to have Fluffy and the trapdoor, could maybe be on the ground floor of the Quad Entrance, idk. And maybe even a set similar to the owlery, but this time one of the greenhouses.

After that they could continue ofcourse with the Astronomy Tower and Clock Tower in the following years (if they don't retire the system before that.)

[JS038]

Interestingly enough- on the front of the box for the new great hall set, the castle image set in the back behind it looks much more like the full scale layout. Similar to the 2023 micro build one. With a clear astronomy tower in the silhouette . 

[krimimimi]

Hey, I'm looking at the closed version of the Potions classroom shown on the back of the box and it looks like in between those "arches" there might be a new 1x3 jumper piece (dark tan) with a single stud. (Presently we have 1x3 with 2 studs.) In the middle it has a 1x1 dark grey flat tile, and to either side, there's a dark grey cheese piece attached at a 90* angle to the original 1x3 piece. That should only work if there's a flat tile beneath it, though, right? 

[Black Falcon]

49 minutes ago, krimimimi said:

Hey, I'm looking at the closed version of the Potions classroom shown on the back of the box and it looks like in between those "arches" there might be a new 1x3 jumper piece (dark tan) with a single stud. (Presently we have 1x3 with 2 studs.) In the middle it has a 1x1 dark grey flat tile, and to either side, there's a dark grey cheese piece attached at a 90* angle to the original 1x3 piece. That should only work if there's a flat tile beneath it, though, right? 

I don´t know, but to me it looks like they are normal plates, where the slope is just places on with the stud (if it had one) on top. Though it does look like the slope actually is 45 degree instead of 30, which would mean it would be a new part.

Edit: Nevermind, it actually is that 1x2plate with a slope on one half. That one Slope 45 2 x 1 with 2/3 Cutout : Part 92946 | BrickLink

Edited May 9 by Black Falcon

[krimimimi]

Thanks, @Black Falcon, I think you've got it. Wishful thinking on my part, more than once I've wanted that 1x3 jumper, and solving it with 1x1s (2 tiles and 1 plate) just isn't so chic. 

[Bugbot20082]

21 hours ago, Nick unassembled said:

Does anybody know which/who's wands are appearing in the new ollivanders? I'm not much of a wand expert, only one I can discern is lucius'.

Challenge accepted.

 

Set 76439 Ollivander & Madam Malkin's Robes contains 2 packs of wands, one reddish brown and one medium nougat.

 

Each Pack has 12 wands, consisting of 2 copies of 6 different shapes:

 

The 6 shapes are as follows and my guesses for their closest matches from the NobleCollection collectible wands are as follows:

 

1 Snake Headed: Lucious Malfoy, Amycus Carrow, Death Eater

2 Curved with spiral pattern on the handle: Bellatrix, Krum, George Weasley, Snatcher

3 Screw/spiral pattern down the full length: Hermione, Xenophilius, Cho Chang, Trelawney

4 Flat-ended with smooth handle: Harry, Sprout, Mundungus, Tonks?

5 Large Round mushroom shaped end with banded detail on the grip: Lupin, Quirrell (unofficial), Ron?, Moody?

6 Wedge-shaped profile end with spiral detail on the grip: Neville, Ginny, Dean Thomas, Arthur Weasley, Fred Weasley, Alecto Carrow, Percy Weasley

 

Several characters wands have a spiral/snail shape profile at the end of their wand (Queenie Goldstein, Fleur, Pettigrew), it’s a shame this pattern wasn’t included in the range of special wand moulds, number 5 on my list is rather plain in my opinion and doesn’t correlate well to any specific wand and should have had a spiral detail instead. 

 

Going by many of the names above it would fit very well for many characters to get a pack of these wands in black, perhaps in a Department of Mysteries Battle set?

Edited May 9 by Bugbot20082

[MaxHeadroom]

The new wands are interesting. It seems like they’re trying to soft launch these so they can easily drop them depending on if people like them or not. Saves them the embarrassment from fully embracing a change and having to backpedal like they had to with the brooms. 

[Accio Lego]

1 hour ago, MaxHeadroom said:

The new wands are interesting. It seems like they’re trying to soft launch these so they can easily drop them depending on if people like them or not. Saves them the embarrassment from fully embracing a change and having to backpedal like they had to with the brooms. 

To be fair, the new broom head + shaft combo is great for some things. I don’t think the reason we’re still seeing it much less than the old broom is because it was unpopular or the designers don’t like it, but because it’s significantly more expensive. I’ve checked those parts on PaB in the past and the old fabuland broom costs less than the new broom head on its own. Budget can be a big deciding factor for sets designs so I’m not surprised that the old broom still sees more use. 
 

As for these new wand packs, I don’t see this as a soft launch because I can’t see them effectively replacing the regular wands anytime soon. A single new multipack of wands might be cheaper than half a dozen of the old pairs, but there’s typically only one set a year that even begins to need that many wands to begin with. For anything less it will probably remain more cost efficient to just have the appropriate number of the old wands. Which allows for different colors, which I imagine will remain a preference for a lot of the fanbase. The only time I can the new style being useful is A) in black if they ever give us a death eater battlepack type set, or B) if a designer ever gets really dedicated to giving Lucius an accurate wand (I’ve definitely had tool or utensil multipacks where only one part was used in the set before, so I could actually see this happening). 

[Mordarch]

I've just built the Boathouse set (76426) and I noticed something I've not really seen discussed alot (at least in reviews). It's the fact that Hermione has 'triple-moulded' (might be called overmoulded) legs. She's got black feet, grey legs and then black top of the legs. I don't think we see these types of legs often do we? I can only think of the Simpsons CMF figures.

As far as I can see they're continuing these legs with the new female students in the sets releasing soon. It's odd how stingy LEGO has been with double-moulded legs lately, but here we get some unnecessary (but highly appreciated) ones. Maybe similar to the teachers getting arm-printing, they might deem it a reasonable investment with the amount of use these legs will get in upcoming sets.

Considering the new wand moulds we're getting and the new creatures so far (Fang and Norberta) it would seem that LEGO has been upping the budget of the LEGO Harry Potter line recently.

[Black Falcon]

13 hours ago, MaxHeadroom said:

The new wands are interesting. It seems like they’re trying to soft launch these so they can easily drop them depending on if people like them or not. Saves them the embarrassment from fully embracing a change and having to backpedal like they had to with the brooms. 

I wouldn´t wonder if they are not meant to be used in regular sets but only in the Olivander one.

[Gorilla94]

16 hours ago, Mordarch said:

I've just built the Boathouse set (76426) and I noticed something I've not really seen discussed alot (at least in reviews). It's the fact that Hermione has 'triple-moulded' (might be called overmoulded) legs. She's got black feet, grey legs and then black top of the legs. I don't think we see these types of legs often do we? I can only think of the Simpsons CMF figures.

As far as I can see they're continuing these legs with the new female students in the sets releasing soon. It's odd how stingy LEGO has been with double-moulded legs lately, but here we get some unnecessary (but highly appreciated) ones. Maybe similar to the teachers getting arm-printing, they might deem it a reasonable investment with the amount of use these legs will get in upcoming sets.

Considering the new wand moulds we're getting and the new creatures so far (Fang and Norberta) it would seem that LEGO has been upping the budget of the LEGO Harry Potter line recently.

They used those legs in some HP sets before. I think the main question is how often it will be used in a set and in general. Lego wants to have as few different parts as possible to reduce logistics. If every female student from year 1 and 2 uses those legs and the skirt piece no matter which torso they use it is quite cost efficient. Personally i hate the combination of a torso showing an opened Robe and a short skirt. It looks to me as if the robe was cut off. I'd really prefer printed short legs for male and female students, but I guess this is personal taste.

We'll see about the wands. I would also be interested, if we'll see the wands with an open stud for spell effects from battle of hogwarts return.