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The new microscale Hogwarts is an impressive set, and very well executed in my opinion, but I’m relieved there’s no sign of any exclusive minifigures because I’m almost certainly going skip it. I’ve already got the 2018 microscale and this just doesn’t add that much display wise. This will appeal to a lot of adult collectors who didn’t have the budget or space for the 2018 set, but lego must realize there’s a chunk of us who will skip it. The one thing I’m interested in is what’s going on with the wings on those Beauxbatons horses and if it can be adapted for minifig scale winged keys.

Probably best not to be so certain of that until the Disney+ series comes out. Who knows how that will affect the series widespread popularity and marketability. But I do agree that as fun as the series is and as cool as it would be to gets sets, it’s still a league behind having Harry Potter selling power at the moment.

Possible but unlikely. Gringotts has decoration on the top of its dome, and the piece from the Buildable Minifigure doesn’t have any studs or attachment points on top. Gringotts done is also ribbed instead of completely smooth.

Now that the sets are up on shop@home some of the details are a little more visible, and I spy a 1x1 round tile with a Galleon print in the Express set. Just a tiny hint at what’s coming this fall. I expect we’ll see several more of them in the Gringotts D2C :)

The main masked Death Ester scenes are the Ministry battle in OotP, the attack on Diagon Alley at the beginning of HBP, and the attack on Hogwarts at the end of HBP. All those locations have been made since the reboot - albeit with different scenes for each of them. The Death Eaters shed the need for anonymity in DH, so if they’re not going to cheat and throw some into the battle of Hogwarts sets (which we’ve got two of so far) then they really need to give us a battle pack of masked Death Eaters.

Actually, Dumbledore’s wand/the Elder Wand has consistently been tan throughout the theme since 2018. And Harry is using Draco’s wand in the battle which has almost always been dark brown like his own (so at least that one’s right)

This isn’t the first time they’ve given all the students in a set the same legs and messed someone up as a result. The 2020 Room of Requirement set featured Luna with full sized legs like Harry and Hermione despite the fact that she should have had mid legs. (Luckily, that year’s advent calendar featured Yule Ball versions of the trio who were extras for those of us who already had the Clocktower set. So I had an easy way to fix Luna, and Lee can get the same treatment)

They’re referring to the last time the arctic explorer subtheme had sets in 2018. At the time there were rumors suggesting a research ship with an orca, but it apparently got scrapped for various reasons. That’s why so many people have been specifically expecting an orca since this year’s summer city subtheme set names dropped.

I’d definitely love to see packs of Ron/McGonagall/Luna/Kingsley and Lucius/Fenrir/2 generic Death Eaters (or maybe a blend so both packs have heroes and villains - Order v. Death Eaters and DA v. Death Eaters if you will). Maybe battle packs should be the new thing we keep talking about, seeing how this thread has apparently memed Dobby’s sock into existence.

Anyone else seriously peeved that they gave us Lee Jordan with recolored hobbit hair at the exact same time they introduced the perfect dreadlocks piece for him in the Dreamzzz line? I’m going to need to grab one as soon as it inevitably turns up in black because the official Lee just doesn’t cut it for me (he’s also getting medium legs as soon as I get my hands on him).

I’m not sure how much of it is true enthusiasm and how much is shock because he’s not completely cursed like brick built Yoda and other buildable figures lego has done in the past. Personally, I’m pleasantly surprised that his face is actually cute instead of creepy, but the arms and feet are a bit to off for me to think I’ll pick it up anytime soon.

There’s a red postbox on the outside and the sign, while fuzzy due to picture quality, does match up with the established Owl Post logo.

Lego Pygmy Puff confirmed!

Speaking of the Dreamzzz teasers, I noticed some very interesting potential parts. The poster shows both a male character with what appears to be dreadlocks and an actual hourglass piece. Admittedly this is poster art and there’s no guarantee yet that there are real life parts to correspond with it, but given that we’re talking about one of the main Dreamzzz characters and and object that seems to be central to the storyline, the odds are in favor of us seeing those parts when the actual sets are revealed. Hopefully that means we’ll see recolors in the Harry Potter theme to give us Lee Jordan and Slughorn’s hourglass.

Since the massive price tag suggests a strong possibility of getting the Gringotts dragon alongside the actual building, I’m guessing that the LeStrange vault will be released in the actual set - leaving the GWP to be one of the vaults featured in the first movie. This GWP will undoubtedly be used to incite more sales of the the Gringotts set, so while a high Harry Potter spending threshold is possible, we might see it being tied specifically to purchasing the bank set.