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Odd choice. 1. May is a bank holiday for most of Europe (not Switzerland apparently). Falling as it does in the middle of the week means plenty of people will take the first two, last two, or full week off (we are), leaving many offices short staffed. lego have 4. May fixed in their calendars, on a Saturday, no less; it seems odd to deliberately plan things for the week if they aren't forced to. If so, here's betting on Monday or Tuesday for HP to spread the workload.

Ack! The dreaded Mandela effect! So now I had to go check. Only counting the leaked pix for the summer waves, 2023 the leaks were about the 28th, 2022 the 8th, and 2021 they were 16. April. The dates for the previous years are proving more difficult to nail down right now. Edit: The official lego press release was on or before 28. April 2020. Haven't found the leaks for that year yet. We had official pix for half the 2019 summer wave 25. April, and lego released them all on 29. April (including the 2019 HP AC). 2018 was the relaunch of the theme, and I'm not sure it should count, but I found some early official pix of the Great Hall (not even the toy fair version) from 16. February 2018 on brothers-brick. Going off their reporting, the rest seems to have been officially press released 16. May. Soooooo impatient.

How many of the rest of you keep refreshing your damn browsers? When have we last been so late in the year for pix of the summer sets? This feels really late. My impression was lego has started following the leaked pix shortly after with official releases (presumably as damage control and to take away from the leakers' thunder), if so, we're still dependent on those leaks for the timeline. I am feeling so let down by their lack of leakiness...

Iirc, part of the issue with epilogue Hermione & Ron in the Deluxe HE was "where do you stop?" because they didn't feel you could include those two and then not include Rose and Hugo as well, especially if you had Harry & Ginny's kids in the set (that's now nine just between the 2 families), and then maybe you go for Draco & Astoria, and then you need Scorpious... (that's twelve between the 3 families) Throw in the trolley witch and engineer, and they'd have been well on their way to having enough characters just in the epilogue alone to fill the set, which presented a problem if they wanted to stick to their various scenes through the ages plan. I think that might have been from an interview with Marcos. That was one of his last HP sets.

@Gorilla94, ooo, right you are, in Dumbledore's Office. I'll fix it. Cheers.

Just looking at the lego HP video game, years 1-4, there are a number of missing minifigs, still. From the named ghosts, in addition to the Fat Friar and Bloody Baron, we also have Prof Binns and Peeves. Among the Slytherins, there's Millie and boy, girl, and Prefect. From the Ravenclaws, there's Anthony Goldstein, Penelope Clearwater, and boy, girl, and Prefect. Hufflepuffs: Ernie Macmillan, and boy, girl, and Prefect. Gryffindors: Katie Bell, Alicia Spinnet, and boy, girl, and Prefect. Staff: Prof Vector. Death Eaters: Crabbe Sr, Goyle Sr. (We've had Macnair, but he wasn't named.) Amos Diggory, Barty Crouch Sr, generic Beauxbatons and Durmstrang students. (Doris Crockford went unnamed, Madam Malkin and Igor Kakaroff should put in an appearance this summer.) Tom the innkeeper. Dragonkeeper, shifty wizard, witch, wizard, boy, girl. And finally the Muggles: the Masons, Aunt Marge, and for completionism's sake, the milkman and station guard. Also, Firenze, the Weird Sisters, Mrs Norris, the Giant Squid, and Bowtruckles

I doubt it. They have more appeal if they aren't generic. Would you rather have "random Hufflepuff number 2" or Zacharias Smith, say? The same goes for the professors. As long as they have named characters to draw from, I expect them to. As for the ghost discussion, usually I prefer things to match, but there's something nice to the diversity of different coloured ghosts, too. I've been using the green Banshee as an extra ghost in my Hogwarts as well.

We waited 22 years for a Lee, do you honestly think we'll see a second one any time soon?

Another good example of that for me is the Lee Jordan minifig. While I was very pleased to finally get him, it makes no sense to me that they didn't use Mateo's (Dreamzzz) dreads hairpiece for him.

@Murdoch17 that looks nice. I had combined both sets too (also presently boxed and unfortunately no pictures), but it didn't look as nice as yours does. As far as the connections go, I think I actually prefer it with the 'pathway' in between the graves as it appears in your picture.

To add to @BrickMatit's reply, the new naming convention is to prefix the castle sets with "Hogwarts Castle", which both the Owlery and Boathouse do. Of the nine Harry Potter sets released in the winter 2024 wave, five of them are found / located on the Hogwarts' grounds. Those two Hogwarts Castle sets, and Hagrid's hut plus the two Forbidden forests sets (/ polybags). [Correction: all but the Owlery] of those five has the clips I mentioned earlier to permit you to connect them to each other. Based on the shapes, I wouldn't necessarily call the ones we've seen so far "modular" however. It feels like more of a storage / display aspect. On the other hand, the new Great Hall set is supposed to have removable rooms that can be swapped with others (like the Potions classroom), and that sounds very modular indeed.

It has the same 34816 Brick, Modified 1 x 2 with Bar Handle on End - Bar Flush with Edge and 60475 Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Open O Clip (Vertical Grip) - Hollow Stud arrangement the other new sets from the winter 2024 wave have (as opposed to the technik pins from the 2021+ modular system), so I'd say yes, not that it matters. It's an easy and cheap thing to swap out and isn't attached to the castle at any rate. Hagrid's hut uses the clips to attach Draco's tree stump and the very miniature pumpkin patch to the main build.

@Lion KingHere's the link to the Polish article: https://fanklockow.pl/2024/03/11/zapowiedzi-lego-2024-harry-potter/ I'm just going to throw my defence of Grawp in the ring. I thought he was nicely done, although I certainly preferred the moulded Basilisk from CoS to the brick built atrocity from 2018's GH. It's a bit of a mixed bag when which approach is more appealing. I assume budgetary constraints dictate those choices often as not.

It's the same nine sets between DE and AU / Oz. https://www.lego.com/en-au/themes/harry-potter?filters.i0.key=variants.attributes.flags.key&filters.i0.values.i0=exclusive&filters.i0.values.i1=hardToFind

@Black Falcon, if you look on the lego S@H page and filter for either exclusiv or rare sets, or both, those are the sets you're less likely to find elsewhere, or if you do, they very likely will never be on sale. https://www.lego.com/de-de/themes/harry-potter?filters.i0.key=variants.attributes.flags.key&filters.i0.values.i0=exclusive&filters.i0.values.i1=hardToFind ("Filter", submenu "Empfohlen", "Exklusive Sets" & "Seltene Sets"). As you're in DE, Brickmerge also allows for you to filter for the rare sets. (https://www.brickmerge.de/LEGO-Harry Potter, Auswahl: selten / exclusiv). Here Müller seems to get some of the semi-exclusives. It used to be Toys-R-Us (which is now Smyths) who'd get them, but they don't seem to have the same arrangement anymore. @BacktoBricks, I'm not sure how good it is in the UK, but the shopping tab of a google search usually does alright as a price tracker goes (currently it's calling itself "products" for me, that might be a translation thing, though, because I know it used to be "shopping". Or they've rebranded, who knows.). It's pretty strictly geo-locked, however, so you can't check other countries.