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Wow, what a line up. Battle of Hogwarts was a given eventually with the figs introduced in the room of requirement. We need Ron, and this follows the tradition now of the £45 Hogwarts winter set being made almost redundant by the figures being released elsewhere. I expect a green Voldemort, Harry, Ron, aberforth maybe (if he’s not in the expecto patronum set) the build will probably be another courtyard expansion, or maybe the bell towers with the hanging walkways and a big staircase? I thought the 2000+ piece set was Gringots, but the Knight Bus? That’s wild. No idea how Gringots is going to work, if it’s on a thin baseplate like the rest of DA, how is the underground stuff going to work? Intrigued to say the least. At €400 odd, I’d be surprised if we didn’t get atleast another building. If I was to bet, I reckon the set will be Gringots facade, vaults, dragon, Borgin and burkes. Expecto Patronum is interesting. Could be a display set of that scene in POA, I hope it’s a DHp2 set though, could have Abberforth, spiders, troll, basically everything from the ‘Courtyard Apocalypse’ scene. Dobby…not for me thank you quidditch Trunk? Maybe a good parts pack EDIT: oh wow there’s two sets we don’t even know about including a 1000+ piece? Damn, considering Grimmauld Place was one of the later known exclusives last year, very exciting I’ve seen a lot of people saying that Harry Potter is a dying and unpopular theme, but this is the most sets ever in a year right? I mean there’s TWO D2Cs?! 11 regular sets, advent calendar, 2 D2Cs, two Brickheadz packs, a polybag, and then exclusive book minifig…big year for the theme. guess I have to get the Hogwarts Express pretty soon so I’m not 2 £400+ sets behind…

If I were to hazard some guesses. The Velociraptor set will feature the open roof car (the one they escape the T-Rex in), the Dilophosaurus set will be the Nedry scene, but include the newer, smaller Dilophosaurus mould. The Triceratops set will feature a tour car. Not sure about the brachiosaurus set, they’re just in the same cars as Nedry would have, so maybe the build is the body of the Brachiosaurus and a big tree? The Visitor centre will be a very thin facade, and I’m betting will include Rexy and a Raptor, leading to the bonus of getting all 3 Raptors if you’ve collected all the JP sets they’ve done

That does look really great. just ordered the Bomber, intrigued to see how well it scales with the older style TIE. If it looks dramatically different I’ll probably invest in that newer scale version

I wouldn’t be surprised if we got a 15th Doctor Brickheadz with a Dalek or something

They’re just saying that’s what it looks like, not what it is actually going to cost

So it pretty much suffers the same design flaws as the original, the ottos is too long and misshapen

How does it look worse than the last one, that being the first superheroes I didn’t get because of how bad it looked. The only good superheroes D2C this year has to be the Sanctum, and even that is so-so

The reaction to the razorcrest is quite funny to see. All comments are ‘shouldn’t be stickers’ ‘Lego surely don’t think this will sell for $600’ ‘too expensive’ have these people been living under a rock since 2017? There’s been 3 UCS vehicles sets over that price since then that have included stickers and sold well…and this is the cheapest of the lot, the way everyone acts surprised and like this is out of the blue is really quite humorous

it’s to the same scale as the falcon, Slave 1, AT-AT etc. let’s put it that way

It is minifig scale

There’s virtually no silver on it. Maybe I’ll get it eventually. But at the moment that’s an easy pass. The £30 micro galaxy squadron version is better right now just because it’s accurately coloured

Do we know how silver it’s going to be? If most of the service detail is drum lacquered, I’ll be very interested. But if it’s mostly grey with some accents…eh

Drop their customer service and email and they’ll send one out straight away knowing them!

Oh my that is…something. look, this may be a morbid take on it, but this, Hasbro’s ‘Legacy’ line, and Hot toys redoing Black Panther figures does kinda feel like profiteering off of his death to me. Like yeah it is honouring his impact, but at the same time, these are all big companies looking to make money… I dunno, weird move in my opinion

I’ve got it everyone, it’s just a giant Audi, in celebration of them being in pretty much every MCU movie since iron man

I’m stumped. Every guess I have contradicts something on that list. I thought maybe buildable props for each avengers, or a big marvel logo. But vehicle really gets in the way of guessed. What is there other than a quinjet or the milano to be so iconic. And they don’t really celebrate the franchise do they? And a Sanctuary II or Q ship also doesn’t. Maybe it’s just a model of Kevin Feige in a golf caddy full of merch

I’m predicting a Hagrid’s bike. It’s like the only thing in the advent calendar that doesn’t have a set (well, prophecy room too but oh well, it’s a perfect set to make)

ITS ONLY TAKEN 19 YEARS BUT OH DAMN TIE BOMBER! NOT JUST THE INTERCEPTOR PLEASE. loving the sound of the dioramas. This year wasn’t strong start in my opinion, but speeder bike chase and new final duel sounds great

Yeah this set isn’t depicting any scene that guy was in at all. The station is intended to depict the epilogue

Cars are usually made exceptions for. But big things like this can easily be made at a more accurate scale without compromising on detail and compatibility. The 2018 is almost perfect for size, it’s just squished lengthwise, if it was ‘stretched’ out, it would be perfect. That’s all this set needed to be really

So the platform is about 50 studs long, about 40cm. That’s pretty massive. The giant train just makes it look tiny. Stick it next to an accurate sized moc, or the 2018 set, and that will look banging also; £20 cheaper than I was expecting. Great stuff

So I haven’t had a chance to do have some proper thoughts on this, but honestly, I’m mixed. But not for the common reasons I’m seeing. couldn’t care less that Ron and Hermione aren’t there from the epilogue, I won’t be displaying the potters on that station, there’s far better potential displays in my opinion. I think all the Minifigures included are fab, my only criticism is that we don’t have a train driver? Such a strange omission in a collectors set. Other than that, love the selection. A Blaze and the slytherin girl might have been nice though. the platform is beautiful, too short, but beautifully done. Park that next to the 2018 train, or even a MOC longer one (accurate proportions) and it will look great. With a train this big though? Way too small for the train itself, it’s looks incredible. Some odd choices like the floating sign on the face, and the 3D yellow trim aside, it looks fantastic. My only issue is the size. It didn’t bother me at first, but yeah, it’s way too big. I get why they’ve done it, but it still looks wrong. I would have preferred that they shrink down the train, and add an extra arch to the platform. as for people complaining that there’s only one carriage. On paper, yes. That is a huge oversight. In reality, looking at the sheer size and length of that model, it baffles me that peoples complaint is a missing carriage. If it was smaller then sure, but at this size you’re easily adding on another 30cm or more, and another £50 to the price tag, maybe more. At a more “minifig” scale (basically the 2018 one but stretched) then absolutely, 2 carriages would make it only a big longer than this set. But at this size? You’re looking at something nearly 2 meters long, just wouldn’t work. overall it’s a good set, but lesser than the sun of its parts. The station is amazing, the train is amazing, the Minifigures are amazing. But the station and Minifigures don’t quite work with the train. I think I’ll have the train displayed alone, and my MOC 2018 version with the station

So there’s 1x2 stickers which have silhouettes of all the original Hogwarts flagship sets (I specifically recognised the 2004 clocktower) wonder what that’s all about

EDIT: I was wrong i like it, it’s a bit too big, but it’s what I’ve wanted for years

Looks to be scale to me. Lego trains have always been undersized. Steam engines are big things