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Now that I think about it, wasn't Stan Shunpike under an Imperius and he flew with them in the BotSP? Honestly, I'd love most of the named Death Eaters. And I really hope they include Scabiour, I found him well menacing. He left a bigger impression on me than most of them did. I'm greedy. Four masks, four torsos, maybe a printed skirt or two, and hood or two, pointy hat, maybe a couple of hair pieces (or were there other good hat pieces?), and my Death Eater Army could be realised. Really I'm not asking for much at all. Put them in an Accessory Pack and I'll buy several. The rescue scene with Buckbeak and Sirius could be part of a castle set. Perhaps with Lupin's DADA classroom, Boggart cupboard, and the Snape Boggart, which at present is the only thing they haven't repeated from the minifig 4 pack. Frankly I'd like either that and Neville, or the jack in the box clown and one of the twins, both of which seem likely given lego's current character preferences. I'd really love Voldemort with his Drinkingstraw of Doom (he's evil enough, it's probably plastic ) and a unicorn, but given that scene is one of the only chances I think we'll see Fang, I can't see it being the $20 one, or else having all the things I'd want in it. Unless they included Fang in a new Hagrid's hut version... Hmm... Hi, @Slytherin Alumni, welcome to the forum. I'm not sure how likely it is we'll see such a range of films covered in one year, but I'd hope we see most of those eventually. I'd really love a ghosts pack, but I was just re-listening to an interview from May where they poo pooed the notion of re-releasing Peeves. We can hope, though. He appears in other formats. Then again, their deal is apparently with Universal. Which of those sets would you most like to see?

In addition to Voldy (and nominally Snape), we've got Lucius, Bellatrix, Pettigrew, Crouch Jr. and Greyback. Oh, and Draco, too, for that matter. But I agree we could use more. And Narcissa too while we're at it. I keep hoping we'll get an Accessory Pack we can mix and match to make more of them, with luck maybe 12-16 variations. I do kind of like the Klan DE, but admittedly he isn't great for a broom fight.

But like the Great Hall, Privet Drive is relevant every year / film (except DH2 for PD). Sure a few details from the set are PS / CoS related (the envelopes and owl, the room under the stair to re-create the first year, the upstairs room with barred window, floating cake and Dobby and the Anglia rescue from second year) but the lion's share of the build is unchanged throughout the years. For example, at this point we should have enough Harrys and the CMF figs to stage an (extremely one-sided) Battle of the Seven Potters if we like, or the farewell scenes with the Dursleys. The only significant thing missing at this point is Hagrid's / Sirius' motorcycle to re-creating Harry's arrival at and leaving of Privet Drive. PD just is not a PS / CoS set in the same way a thing like the Knight Bus is that literally has no appearances outside of a single film (PoA).

Sorry, that was a Freudian slip, I meant HBP. (Three guesses what I wanted instead. )

If they don't do it during the PoA (and GoF) year, then they'd get stuck waiting for another three or four years, though, which I can't see either. That, or they'd release it in the midst of a OotP / DH centric year, which is also strange. (And then we'd complain that it stole one of "their" slots... ) When you consider how fond they are of modes of transportation in general... They always seem to find ways to work them into this line (KB, HE, Anglia; Durmstrang ship, Beauxbatons Carriage), despite it not being a vehicle heavy story.

Because we always seem to end up back here, here's what Marcos Bessa himself had to say on the topic last August: The interview was with Tips&Bricks and this excerpt appeared on Promobricks on 20. August.

Promobricks were the ones who supplied us with the initial set / price list and they said they guessed that one of those sets would be an AC. They neither knew for sure there would be one (although it seems not improbable), nor obviously could they know for sure that it was part of that list, but if so, their pick was the most likely, the $45 USD set. Electricbricks has since given us the piece counts for most of the sets except the D2C and the $120 USD sets, fuelling more speculation. That sounds like it would be a great way to get around a pile up of (somewhat unspectacular) trees, to effectively alternate Christmas years with story years / Accessory Packs. (Although I'm still going to plead for the inclusion of more wreaths in both versions. A little decoration goes a long way.) @Clone OPatra is the Electricbricks piece count information something we consider reliable enough that it could be added to the first page of this topic? When I add up what I've spent on my little DA compatible builds, apparently that's just what I'd like to do. I'm also not sure it would be limited to hardcore fans as purchasers, either, in much the same way off last month's photo streams, lots of folks seem to have integrated Hogsmeade into their Christmas / Winter Village displays. The sets may be less niche than the Knight Bus, as an example.

That isn't working out so reliably for me. I said much the same thing about the Moment sets, and now love the silly things... You know, once I let go of the feeling I had to have all the sets (not having those Harry and Ron keychains is really making all the difference ), my wallet came around to embracing the series going evergreen...

@lego_guyon02 thanks for the differentiated reply. I agree the main problem with just wishing for minifigs is whether or not they'll do another HP CMF series, and if they stuck with the 12 fig format, FB would probably get short shrift. For that reason I'm thinking if they did DA again, they'd once again do it without Gringotts and make that a more affordable stand alone set in a year or two. People have proven they'd buy the set without Gringotts, and we wouldn't necessarily need the first DA set either, unlike with part 2 of the nanoscale Hogwarts. Splitting either around an eventual Gringotts would still give us a decent street view. As for price, it might be more expensive because prices in general have increased, and because the Leaky would need the extra wall portion / entrance to DA. Also, my wallet, like yours, hopes that they wouldn't put such a key build in such an expensive set.

Yes, very near and dear to my heart (and / or shoulder bag, whichever... ) (But thank you for the heads up, @drewdotexe) @Darth Shadowthrone, curious, you'd prefer an AP to their inclusion in a new CMF series? Because the quality of the minifigs would be better the CMF route. Or I guess I should be asking if the figs you'd want to see don't require new prints? It never ceases to surprise me when you guys remember what FB things are called (which isn't a good sign ; it's a cute series, I'd like it to succeed). The movies, although beautiful, just didn't stick with me all that much. I think I connected with HP more because of the books, and the slow instalment release unfortunately hasn't helped FB any. I'd be curious, though, if there are kids (or adults for that matter) coming at the franchise's fandom as FB fans who weren't first fond of HP. And more relevantly for lego, if they're only purchasing the FB sets... So imagining a "crappy new Hogwarts segment" , and that seems more than fair budget-wise, they could make it something that slots in with the Infirmary or whatever they release in the summer to encourage sales amongst the otherwise HP-only crowd, what scenes leap out at you? What would you include? And basically the same question I asked Darth Shadowthrone, why would you prefer concretely a segment to a CMF? What could it offer you to make it an improvement over exclusive minifigs alone?

If we have that kind of luck, probably not until 2023? OotP ish. Thanks, @Roebuck

Question as to how those are called, was the CoS last year considered one? There was a kerfuffle here upon release as there were pre-sales at a bunch of shops in April, and then something changed and it was only sold at lego S@H (and maybe a small handful of others like amazon?) and everyone else had to wait until mid August. Does a 'retailer exclusive' have to remain that way? No, nein, nyet. They don't count or I'm stuck buying those two plus Hermione all over again. (Trying to lobby for more non-pink / purple / aqua /minidoll female representation. Still haven't gotten over the Hermione Brickhead being the only one not available here at normal shops.) Pfft. As though a consideration like that were relevant. 4768 Durmstrang Ship, 75958 Beauxbatons' Carriage.

There's virtually no chance we won't see a Knight Bus remake remake (remake?) again this year. The last just retired, it's one of their staples and yet it only appears in PoA, and off the Infirmary and Moment books, it looks like they're repeating the two films a year focus approach. Hopefully it will come with more than just a new Sirius / Grim to justify it. (I'm going to feel a complete tit buying it if not. ) Oh, Mimi, bricklink is your friend, bricklink is your friend... I'm half surprised we didn't get yet another Ford in 2021, but then two were still on the shelves at the time and we were spared. (How about Hagrid's motorcycle and sidecar instead, lego? Please and thank you.) As for completionism, 2018-2020, I've now got everything but the FB sets. (DA just arrived, dead chuffed.) 2021 onwards, I skipped (and don't plan on changing that) the art sets, the chess set, the Harry and Ron keychains, and Icons. (Budgets, both monetary and spatial, dictated that. Well, on all but the keychains... ) I still don't have Fawkes, and if they release another one this year I probably won't get him, but if it looks like he might be the end of the series I may go back and pick him up. He's only available at MRP though, and takes up a lot of room on the shelf... On the other hand, pretty. Decisions, decisions. Along those lines, while I miss the 2018+ style like most of the rest of you, and really wish they'd given a little more thought to the exteriors (the Infirmary is a vast improvement), there's something to be said for 2021's generally smaller footprint. At the very least if you're going to go back over recently trodden ground, at least it's a fairly radical departure. Or a HBP version with lots of flames, sort of like they did the Burrow?

HP stuff also tends to have a lot of (frippery?). There are comparatively plenty of cheese pieces and cones and ski pole decorations thrown in that may not take as much out of their set budgets. Piece count per EUR was always a strange metric. There have been suggestions that weight might be a better approach. The attempted normalisation of prices across Europe is also odd with such a span in VAT, which is included in our prices.

With the exception of the RoR, those were all "outside of the castle" sets, though. (Arargog's Lair is another one with a 15 / 16 month run, and I'm not sure if we should count the FB sets or not, but they also had runs of similar length.) For me, the Moment sets seemed a natural replacement for the small sets that aren't part of your Hogwarts castle build that disappear soonish, and I'd expect sets like Hedwig and Fawkes to likely follow suit. Removing PPM, for a concrete example, hamstrings part of CoS's functionality / playability, which is why I wouldn't expect it to vanish too soon, and it adds Hermione and Ron (and Crabbe and Goyle), all of whom weren't in CoS (plus it MOCs easily enough to the troll encounter with maybe the Hulk for lack of a troll), so that one in particular would surprise me. It does feel like we're getting fewer other location sets though, so maybe that will change the lifecycles. We didn't even get the nearly traditional "tree set" last year. @williejm feel free to DM as well if a description of the Moment sets would help.

Glad to help. If you'd like a description like that for the new Moment books, just DM me and I'll try to do them later this week. Feedback on what is more and less useful for you would also help. I think Brick Fanatics was demonstrably wrong about some HP thing recently and weren't they the source of the list of possible GWPs we so thoroughly mocked? So definitely taking it with a grain of salt, and I doubt lego would announce the sets' retirement before they hit the stands anyway, but that said, I can see both DADA and Divination gone in a year's time, say, as Charms and Herbology were as well. More interesting, and potentially questionable, is the inclusion of so many of the 2021 castle sets - Polyjuice Potion Mistake, Fluffy Encounter, and Flying Lesson.

Not at all.

Hey, I was in the process of captioning it for the blind, except that isn't what you asked for. Would that help you? And if so, do you care about colour descriptions as well, or only as they differ to others?

There was an interview last year that was reported on one of the lego fan sites (probably a German one, and therefore not word for word, so more of an article than an interview in format, iirc) before the new 2021 modular sets were officially announced in which they claimed the grates we'd be getting increased mobility of the figures given the fixed position of the little first and second year student legs. You'd anchor them to one stud and then be able to swivel them almost freely to suggest movement that wouldn't work otherwise unless you had the usual jointed minifig legs. With the number of skirt pieces and short legs we've had, that was supposedly something of a consideration that has some merit. (I have a bunch of the new sets in a WIP that currently forces the minifigs to be lined up facing outward atm and it looks silly.) A year on I can't remember if that claim was the author's observation or attributed to what was actually said, however, but sometimes it feels like you get different answers depending on who asks and when. (Those budget claims struck me as odd, too.)

Has anyone heard anything about why they're continuing the chocolate frog cards or if we're going to see any new ones? I'm really pleased that they are, they were fun, and especially as some of that face to face trading the designers kept talking about fell rather flat last year, but I wondered at the reasoning. (Some folks had said upthread they felt it would detracted from the specialness of the anniversary inclusion.)

Where are you seeing it? Not showing up for me on the S@H, may have to clear cache though... Thanks, @Falconfan1414

They just sent out the newsletter email ("some incredible new sets") including link to 2021 "classic set" from the HP line 76393 Hermione & Harry Colossalfigs, but the new HP sets aren't on the site yet. What are the chances they try to draw traffic in with a mailer but update the sets later?

They're not in the Australian or German lego S@Hs yet, although the new Creator Modular is on the site, so I don't know that we'll be seeing the other March releases (besides the suitcase) revealed today... But happy new year either way, everyone.

Try here: there were a bunch of them, and then also search for 'Gringotts' on that page to see @Micmac's lovely entry lower down. (There's both two and three story versions so you can see what looks more in scale with your street. You might not think you need to see the smaller one, but it helps to check. A friend and I tried expanding the three broomsticks recently (because it was clearly larger, right?), but it ruined our Hogsmeade set up, throwing everything out of proportion, so back to the drawing board it went. It can be nice when people take some of the experimentation out of it for you, especially if you're going to be ordering parts.) And several people have also posted their instructions on rebrickable.

Most of us are probably stuck buying the books online, too, which unfortunately doesn't solve the chocolate frog card selection problem.