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The tower roof section of the fluffy set could be an easter egg for the potion challenge (which appears only in the book)

The candle holder in Lockhart's classroom is a completely new mould

The Fluffy sets uses recoloured vine pieces for the Devil Snare. I hope they are either dark green or the (not bright) green and appear eventually on Bricks and Pieces because they would be another great vegetation piece

That is not Ron in the CoS set. It is Colin Creevey

I told you they would recolour it

But the positive is they are actually printed tiles and there is many different designs not just one per set

The new Dumbledore is also all I wanted (white hair and new robe colour) and the Chamber of Secret set includes Rawenclaw and Hufflepuff robe versions

Nearly headless Nick is glow in the dark now

The final sets look really good!

So it is a minifig flying lesson?

By the way, stonewars have slightly edited the D2C description (propably as a result of our discussion here): "Das LEGO Harry Potter 76391 D2C Set ist das Set, das bis vor kurzem fälschlicherweise von vielen für das Schachspiel gehalten wurde und 249,99 US-Dollar kosten soll. Tatsächlich soll es sich dabei aber um ein anderes D2C Set handeln. Was es nun genau wird, ist leider noch nicht öffentlich bekannt, allerdings hörten wir zumindest, dass es etwas völlig anderes werden soll, als viele Fans erwarten. Es ist also leider vermutlich nicht mit einer Erweiterung für Schloss Hogwarts oder der Bank Gringotts für die Winkelgasse zu rechnen. Stattdessen hält sich aktuell das Gerücht, es könnte sich um verschiedene baubare Objekte handeln… Ob das wirklich glaubwürdig ist, können wir derzeit nicht bestätigen. Sobald wir hier konkretere Details für euch haben, stellen wir euch das LEGO Harry Potter 76391 D2C Set nochmal im Detail vor!" https://www.stonewars.de/geruechte/lego-harry-potter-2021-neuheiten-2-halbjahr/ In the first paragraph they are reiterating the chess set mixup and then go on to transcribe Guyons and Falconfans comments (the lower your expectations and different from what we expect kind of comments) leading up to the rumour about the buildable objects. Then the important sentence "If this is really believable, we can currently not confirm." ("Ob das wirklich glaubwürdig ist, können wir derzeit nicht bestätigen."). In other words they have clarified that they can not verify the rumour of the buildable objects and that they are just reporting on the rumour (which has originated most likely on this forum). So we are trapped in a loop where the rumour's believability is self-sustaining

Take into account the latest naming conventions in the HP series: Official title of the January classroom books 76382: Hogwarts Moment: Transfiguration Class 76384: Hogwarts Moment: Herbology Class Now lets say the title of the Harry and Hermione set is "76393 Hogwarts Icon Collection: Harry Potter and Hermione Granger". You see how my post with the subtheme name makes sense now and the term "collection" in the title indicates that it there is possibly more than one to collect in the future Furthermore the word "icon" derives from early christian iconography of Jesus Christ but is nowadays used in the context of brands. There are sports icons (e.g. Ronaldo, Messi) and fashion icons (various models). The word icon in its definition refers to well known persons much less objects. "Hogwarts Icons" would therefore (if they used the word correctly) refer to famous persons in Hogwarts. If it were your point 1. and it were objects, then it would have to be famous objects. The 4 founding members and their trinkets (sword, locket, cup and diadem) could be considered iconographic objects in addition to the sorting hat, but a regular cauldron or a school book are not "iconic" objects.

They said a few pages ago that they have a list. If they had a picture of both the chess set and the real D2C, the mistake with the 250 $ chess set would have never happened, because noone would pay 250 $ for that amount of pieces. Theoretically both sets are D2C and it is harder to get pictures for them because they have to come from Lego themselves or that one exclusive retailer (in the case of the chess set). The fact that the supposed "hacker" had them, makes him more believable than those that read of a list. I had a similar thought regarding the Harry and Hermione figure set. TLG would not just call that set "Harry and Hermione". If the 120 $ Harry and Hermione set does well, the plan could be to release more sets under the "Hogwarts Icons Collection" title as a subtheme name with further releases for Ron, Dumbledore, Hagrid or other characters in a similar scale

It is new

What happened to the Polybag?

They won't break constantly. What are you talking about? A complete chess set is the play feature and faithful recreation of the scene. If it were only a queen like in the first rendition 20 years ago you would he right however. Much more interesting about the article is the flying lesson set, which they say is minifig scale which is opposed to what falconfan and guyon said. The information about the D2C is worded like they have no information themselves and are just reporting what we have discussed on here

Inofficial list from Brick Fanatics (plans might change, like with the Great Hall): Charms and Herbology December 2021, Transfiguration and Potions Dec 2022 A year of shelf life/restocking time is not really an early retirement (compared with the 3 months of the last Hidden Side wave). And Transfig and Potions get 2 years.

No Harry is in his Diagon Alley Muggle clothes

These are preliminiary pictures that got leaked in February through an Italian retailer and have been around for a few weeks. They are legit, but they do not show 100 % finalized products (mainly the minifigs and some part recolours).

That would fit for the season 7 theme. But maybe they are mixing it up from later seasons and we get Ross with glow-in-the-dark teeth from Season 6

The mask is in the trailer. It is the Star-Lord mask. In this what if episode T'Challa never becomes the Black panther. He is abducted by Yondu (like it is shown in the trailer) as a child and is raised just like Peter. The title could be "What if Yondu's space GPS messed up and he took the wrong kid". You are right that they technically haven't shown a clear shot of the legs. But in this article is some official photos of T'Challa Star-Lord https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-what-if-disney-plus-black-panther-star-lord/ The What if series is an episodic retelling of each of the MCU films. So one episode is the "what if Peggy Carter was injected with the super soldier serum because Steve failed to pass Erskine's last morality test" version of the first Captain America movie and so on.

How would the T'Challa Star-Lord leg printing fit the normal Black Panther printing? Have you even seen his What if costume? He is wearing a purple version of the Star-Lord leather jacket in the What if trailer. It isn't a Black Panther costume in space but just a stylized recolour of Star-Lord's costume with T'Challa in it. This is a render of a Lego version of the trailer costume. The legs are just black combat trousers with yellow highlights (no purple energy effects whatsoever).

Monica is from Season 7 as well. Although in her case episode 9

The torso is a slight improvement, but the head with the printing and the unprinted "ear" piece clashes to much. It would have looked better if either the ear piece was also printed (like they did once in the past) or if the printing on the head was toned down, so that it doesn't have this abrupt change between ear piece and head. Or even better give us a mask like they did for Captain America and Cap Marvel alongside a Chadwick Boseman head print. Lego is severly lacking in good and easy to get head prints for POC

On a positive note: Captain America with shield, hair piece and printed helmet is coming in the Lego Marvel magazine issue after Thor. That is even cheaper than the small mech set