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I’m not going to buy the main tower itself but that’s only because I’m going to build it using my own existing parts!, I’ll just have to wait for the new roof cones to appear on bricklink or B&P! It’s definitely the best version of the tower and I’m happy they included the fat lady portrait for those who can’t get the staircase GWP.

Balin’s tomb in the mines of Moria would be more appropriate as a book-nook, as it’s an enclosed rectangular room with walls and collumns. The Door of Durin with the Watcher in the water would work well as a book-end too

I imagine Dol Guldur Battle 79014, and was swapped for Azog after the studio made all the changes mid-production.

Hi everyone the other day I found on eBay what claims to be an unused prototype for a headgear element for the original character design for Bolg, it looks legit from the sculpt style and the logo inside the hollow stud: https://ebay.us/m/K0gLm3

I just found a Chinese product video of the main tower set on the app Rednote: http://xhslink.com/a/9pgZhBoWVVidb，复制本条信息，打开【小红书】App查看精彩内容！ the video shows off some of the play features such as the snare trap switch, and the mirror being double- sided if this link is not permitted I’ll remove it.

How about a ‘microfighter’ series but it’s with a brick built pet instead of a vehicle, similar to the small Hedwig and Fawkes we have already but but a little smaller and includes a rare/exclusive figure variant. Trevor, Crookshanks, Scabbers, Nagini etc

Yes but you can easily swap the faces to make new students

I can see them do this, each set with a pet too, using the baby thestral and foal for the carriages. It would be a neat way to get/make extra students from the other schools as the ship set only had the two champions.

On the HBP version of the castle there is a square building on the other side to the Long Gallery which it could include for stability, the favourite fan theory is that that building includes the Charms Classroom (I think based on the view out the window in the HBP video game). It’s also what the rope bridge links to from the Quad. In Hogwarts Legacy the Astronomy tower is merged with this building to reduce the amount of stairs you have to climb and also to make the geometry of the DADA classroom work I think.

It’s a great tower build, the best version of the building by a mile, and I’m also impressed with the stairs etc, it’s got everything in it i expected. Figures for me however don’t warrant purchase as I have been collecting since 2018 and have made my own purist Kettleburn. Im also different from everyone else in that I’m content with keeping my Fluffy from the previous system, he has no opening mouth (velociraptor jaw?), but can at least lay down sleeping. I’m disappointed the keys don’t have wings but I’m very interested in getting hold of the new super large roof cone sections for my own MOC, that will save a lot of parts and design headaches! As the pattern seems to be to put a moulded creature in the big castle sections I agreed next year might be the COS again, under the Viaduct Building, but what else could they do to differentiate it from the previous set?

I really hope the Hogsmeade set comes with a Hagrid, it would be nice to have a new variant wearing his moleskin coat, could be dark grey, or dark brick yellow base colour perhaps. They could then re-use it for a set hopefully of the Detention in the dark forest which we have talked about several times in the past (lots of debates about dead unicorns 🦄)

Hermione is holding a gold key in the leak with what looks like Harry with the philosopher’s stone, I hope they make a new mould for flying wings for the keys, the old feather part is retired and nothing else in the live inventory works for wings I think, it would be a worthwhile new mould to capture the scene properly

This is what I’m expecting, with Griffindor common room and Fluffy being inside the smaller tower (Ravenclaw in Hogwarts Legacy), and an overall footprint similar to the Great Hall set. it would also make sense for stability, a very tall heavy tower on its own would be more prone to toppling over especially when sliding modular rooms in and out the back is a play feature.

Are we expecting a re-use of the heads from before with a brick built body or an all-new mould like the Rancor or Dewback etc ?

Maybe we will see the Gandalf face used for Aberforth?

I’m a big Hogsmeade fan and 2nd this. No Shrieking Shack please, the previous set is enough and covers it well. 3000 parts would be close to £300, so about 4x the size of the original Hogsmeade village set, for that I can imagine: Bigger and better Honey Dukes, like 2x the original building but not overkill like the original modular DA shops Bigger and better Three Broomsticks likewise Zonkos joke shop Hogs Head pub clock building from the theme park lots of extras such as a horse drawn sleigh, lampposts, snow covered tree, a cow, new Hagrid variant, the entrance arch from the theme park etc

Marge looks like she uses the same large sphere/hemisphere used for the technic solar system for Earth. The feet are bricks (1x1 tiles for shoes, action posing stem part as a leg) and arms might be Hagrid’s. It’s very strange to use a 2x2 dome brick as a head. I hope the set includes a regular Marge minifigure which we have not seen yet, the gimmick might be the regular minifigure fits inside the inflated body. some other things: ripper is a repeat of existing bulldog colour, sticker on the front door with letters stuffed in the letterbox and bars on Harry’s window show that like the previous it’s got references to the other movies

I think minifigures of human characters from the show is perfectly viable, and a CMF would satisfy the need for new hair/hat moulds and small Pokemon animals, a CMF series of 12 would really capture attention and launch the theme with a bang. It is far too early but I could not resist coming up with a wishlist, totally unrealistic with a new mould for every pokemon animal accessory: Ash (no hat, green shirt) + Pickachu Misty + Togepi or Staryu Brock + Zubat (Geodude could be made with existing parts in a set or Mario style series) Professor Oak + Charmander Tracey Sketchit + Marill Garry Oak + Squirtle Jessie + Ekans James + Koffing Giovanni + Meowth Nurse Joy + Bulbasaur Officer Jenny + Growlathe Ash (Red hat, blue vest) + pokedex, Caterpie Every character also coming with a common new pokeball (dual moulded for easy and quality recolouring) in different colours (it’s the wizard wand of the theme). I would hope they do not force every biped pokemon character to be a ‘minifigure’ like what they did with Tweety and RoadRunner in LoonyTunes, it might work for some (machop, Hitmonchan, Mr Mime etc) but not others I can expect they would try it with (Meowth, Squirtle)

Iv not played the game Hogwarts Legacy but I’ve taken a great interest in it’s architecture and layout from watching YouTube tours, I’m warming up to it being my personal definitive version of the castle, I love what they have done with the common rooms and how they got the hospital wing and headmaster’s office to fit etc, it all just works! I wonder how different or similar the show version will be, at least starting fresh we shouldn’t have any modifying as the series goes on.

The silhouette in the instructions suggests that only the parts of the castle from the UCS set will be included, going by the usual 3 year plan we could expect 3 big sections: Great Hall, Staircase Tower, Viaduct Entrance Building. That would indicate the layout you suggested. That being said the Owlery and flying lesson building and upcoming greenhouse sets were not in the preview so we have no way of knowing for sure what else could be included.

Couple of things i could see being a UCS set, at least ones I would be happy to see in production: Gryffindor Tower/ Common Room. The film set done 1:1 like the Friends apartment’s, every seat, table, fireplace, window etc in its place. includes predictable figs such as the trio and NHN, plus a few figures we don’t have or are underrepresented such as Y4/5 Seamus Finnigan , long legs Lee Jordan, Lavender Brown in robes etc Or A UCS Battle of Hoth style Hogsmeade Village, including the clock building from the theme park, Hogs Head, Zonko’s, the music shop, a Honeydukes twice the size of the first one etc. A highland cow, sleigh, red Butterbeer cart, multiple benches, multiple lampposts. Sadly it makes the Hogsmeade Advent Calendar redundant but there could be also lots of other variants for others such as Neville, new Hagrid coat, Crabbe etc or Astronomy Courtyard: basically the entire long Gallery, Bell Towers, Training Grounds Tower, Astronomy Tower all together in one in system scale in the same scale and detail and compatible with the new 2025 ‘most detailed’ castle system. Interior includes the library, Room of Requirement from HBP, Separate Slughorn & Snape office, boys bathroom, the vanishing cabinet, scenes from different movies in different rooms perhaps.

I was at the event brick-tastic this Saturday in Manchester, There was some guys from the Pick-a-brick team on the same table as New-Elementary (seems like they are friends/connected), they had some of the upcoming parts on display such as the dumpling and snake hat, it was great to have a chance to speak to them. They had a showcase on a laptop of the new interface where parts in a variety of colours will be reduced down to one entry where you click on the colour in a small pop up window etc. i mentioned the problem of scratched windows/windshields etc when bagged with sharp bricks and they are aware of it and suggested everyone keep reporting the issue as the incidents gets logged and the more logs there are the more likely they will address the problem.

If people are interested I can make a castle floor plan for the entire complex, could serve as a guide for anyone’s else’s MOC’s? I’m not going to buy the new System as i have been collecting from the start so it won’t integrate with the new sets. It would be based on modular 8x8, 8x16, 16x16 plates as used on the 2018-2023 systems.

Ah whoops sorry wrong thread!

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