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We're going to see at least one addition with the green roof, the clock tower is being reincorporated into the Infirmary set. As the designers have said to consider the anniversary style a soft reboot, we're likely to see more.

Thanks for going to the effort, @BrickMatit. I never would have found that quote. What a strange justification for it though. How much savings can the grille possibly bring?

I thought part of the point with the grilles is it enabled better movement of the minifigs with the firstie legs? Because you can't move the legs separately, their movement is restricted, and having a grilles without the studs for large areas meant you could pin and swivel a fig.

That's because there were at least two different stations. The first looked like the rest of the buildings we're used to seeing in Hogsmeade, except it was a bunch of them in a row to form the platform. And the second had a sort of boat house look to it, more in keeping with the architecture of the castle. https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/b/b1/Hogsmeadestation2.PNG/revision/latest?cb=20090807165657 The suitability for play features is part of what makes me think it'll end up being in the kids' range instead. Are any of the D2C's particularly 'playable'? The D2C could be another artwork. Portraits of the golden trio. Or worse, Dumbledore.

Finally, someone else who wants the Gunhilda de Gorsemoor statue. The more I think about it, the more likely I think it is we'd see Gringotts separate and more affordable for masses. I just can't imagine they'd price the building that far out of reach for so many. If the D2C is DA/KA at all, then I'd expect it to be similar in size to the existing DA with a bunch of misc shops and more expensive because the Leaky is slightly larger and needs to include the brick wall.

My first reaction is 'those are very cute!' (and thanks for sharing it). My second reaction is how many pieces are wasted in a repetitive base build whose parts I don't need? I just looked at the piece count, and that set is somewhere between the Burrow and the CoS in number of bricks. For the size of the set, I'd far rather have more castle sections with parts I can use for my own builds. (CoS, for example, has somewhere between 11 and 13 of those little sections.) That said, if they want to make more vignette-y castle sections, I definitely wouldn't object. All those empty 8x8 sections in my castle aren't great. Making sense of them would go a ways to improving the format.

Shh! Careful! Someone with clout might hear you. Seriously the HP world is so character rich, and they keep covering the same bases over and over again, that if we were to limit the characters strictly to one or two new ones in sets, they could evergreen this puppy and our great grandchildren might still not have everyone from our want lists. I liked this year's AC, but have to agree with @spiderfan2000 It wasn't very Christmassy. I think 2023, as @BrickFunatic says, I'd love to see a good sized Grimmauld Place, but with a proper Christmas celebration advent calendar tie in. HP always did Christmas well, and that seems like a nice way to reflect it. The set could be OotP, and the calendar chock full of Weasley jumpers, perhaps a Kreacher if the set's budget wouldn't spring for it, Molly and a wounded Arthur, maybe even skipping Ron and Hermione for once if they were in the building's set instead. It would be nice to have older but not yet adult twins, especially as the adult twins were in such an expensive set. And while I appreciate the way they've differentiated the ages of the characters, it does make for even more gaps in the collection when you have such differences between a film 1 character and a potential film 8 character.

Yes, I can't see it either. But it struck me as a great deal more likely than Ilvormorny, say. Tbh, I can't wrap my head around most of the vehicle builds and complained when we got our second Weasley auto on the shelves with the Privet Drive set instead of Hagrid's motorcycle, but then someone like @Murdoch17 pops up and points out the Hogwarts Express was more than just a red train, and we had someone else here months ago explain with some detail why the Ford Anglia has always been wrong (apparently it's not just a light blue car), and there does seem to be some kind of audience for more precision. So, Hogwarts Mobile Icons! Now with more wheels? After this year, I'm not ruling it out. Or perhaps the Durmstrang ship that appeared for 3 seconds, who knows. Speaking of... I wonder how many of us have bought or plan to buy the icons set. Artistic sets aren't just a question of money and appeal, there is also the very real consideration of physical space.

Thanks for the link, @Roebuck . I was just looking at some of their suggestions for what the $470 set could be: 1) a massive vehicle 2) the Quidditch pitch 3) Azkaban 4) another school of witchcraft and wizardry 5) a Diagon Alley expansion and realized the only one I could be tempted to buy is a Diagon or Knockturn Alley expansion. That's kind of freeing. I'd add 6) the second half of the nanoscale castle to the list before another school, and it still wouldn't tempt me because I haven't got the space. I kind of doubt they'd create a whole new school as we haven't really seen them. And Azkaban looks boring as sin. The Quidditch pitch also seems like it would be a highly repetitive build, but I said the same thing about the colosseum, so clearly that's not the factor I think it is.

Keeping with the PoA and GoF parameters, I'll go with Rita Skeeter, Grindylow and Shrieking Shack. If not the Shack, then Merpeople's trap for the second task.

For one thing it's possible a good chunk of that is down to the price increases planned for 2022, although I gather primarily Germany was hit by that. As for the other, Ninjago City was out for 2 1/4 years. For nearly 1 1/2 years of that time, the Ninjago City Docks were available as well. Plus the issues with production & delivery thanks to the virus seem to have thrown things out of whack. There are sets people want and simply cannot get. (I have a friend in the US (im)patiently waiting for DA to be orderable again, for example, and my order here is only a pre-order for when they become available again.) And this year showed us that they're willing to extend things past their usual sell by dates. It was strange, although welcome, having the Great Hall available basically until CoS hit the shelves. I have to wonder if that doesn't ultimately increase sales. You see the new design, panic and purchase the older set, and eventually the new design grows on you until you purchase that as well. (Assuming you hadn't three of each in your collection already... )

It would be interesting to note when we start talking about what and for how long. It's far too long a thread to go back through, but maybe I'll try to keep track this year. I wonder how interest / buzz converts to actual sales, but I don't suppose we'll ever see those numbers... That's one of the nicest things about being an adult, being in a position to properly spoil your inner child.

Yes, I was practising my stealth, time-lapse ninja moves... Excellent point about the CMF, @BrickFunatic and @BacktoBricks. We can go on nearly forever if they give us just a few paltry minifig pieces to work with. @Textorix, don't get me wrong, I like that he's a fan (any and all enthusiasm for the line is a good thing and helps keep it around longer), but the "certainty" about things that are demonstratively false guarantee I consume rather rarely. (Often enough to reinforce that impression, however.) I greatly prefer text to video as a format anyway, and there are far more accurate sources out there (promobricks and stonewars, for two, and hothbricks has pipped them to the post on a couple of things lately).

How sure are we about the AC having that set number though? Promobricks themselves said "höchstwahrscheinlich" which is "very probably" but I got the sense that might just be going off the price. If the AC weren't on the list at all (and iirc, we've seen it added late in the season before, last year or the year before?), then that wouldn't be the natural divide we might be inclined to think it is. Also, does anyone recall when the FB sets were announced last time? (And yes, I know the changed release date impacts things.) Topic Bricks is almost consistently wrong in some of his assertions, though. His EOLs tend to be off as well, even at time points when you can pretty much confirm it via the lego S@H if you just took a bit of care to look. Too much of the YT/IG info loop is people making assertions and not wanting to be the last to do so until it becomes a massive game of chinese whispers. Or has everyone forgotten a certain nono? @BrickMatit, any theories as to possible causes of the drop off? Does more information earlier lead to less discussion? Or do people here feel the apparently less appealing set design (judging by the comments) killed some of their interest?

Given the 2019 lineup contained no sets outside of PoA and GoF except the advent calendar, I'm thinking 2022 will be narrow in its focus as well. If it is, the Leaky with some stores from the other side of the street would make more sense than Gringotts, as the Leaky plays a role in PoA. Not that the D2Cs have major tie ins, but there are some. (As for price, the Leaky would need to include the wall and would be a tick larger than the other store fronts, so the higher price would be justified.) Gringotts fits with DH better, so maybe latter? And I still think we're more likely to get the dragon in a small set so the kids don't miss out. They did the ninjago city things bit by bit as well, so I could see them doing the same here. Have to disagree with @Micmac on that count, knowing there's more out there may increase sales. You don't "have to" get them, it's a question of knowing your options while they're still available at RRP. The nanoscale DA included Gringotts, which was part of what was so frustrating that the minifig scale version didn't.

For that price, I hope it's the Knockturn Alley shops as well.

The amazon link hothbricks provided listed the book at 19 EUR. lol @ the several stern ginger faces

I'd love to see it when you're finished. Same, although I suspect he'd be the Fang I'd like for one scene but then not the Fang I'd like for another... Dogs are tricky like that. Thanks for the reminder about positivity. Dead chuffed about Pomfrey, rather pleased about Percy, too (even at the book's nearly 20 EUR price point... ). Unfortunately I won't be sourcing more prefects' robes that way, but then that's how I was using the Moments' torsos anyhow, and I'll definitely enjoy fleshing out my Weasley clan, regardless. I'm enjoying the AC so much again as well. It's nice to have a little bit of HP lego to look forward to every day, and I love being able to add printed tiles to my extant builds to make them better. Thanks @Yope for posting that list again. I thought that was a very a helpful way to represent it.

But it is a DK book.

I'm betting no more anniversary boxes and that they'll focus mostly on PoA and GoF this summer. 1) Shrieking Shack was missing from the 2018+ series, and it would expand on the Hogsmeade set up. We need a Snape because there was none in the 2021 summer sets (besides the golden one anyway), and fan favourites Lupin (we still haven't had a Werewolf!Lupin since the reboot) and Black are obvious choices with Scabbers / Pettigrew and the trio. Depending on the scale, it could include some of the earth mound that goes at the base of Whomping Willow or the WW itself. It would be about the size of the current Hogsmeade set with seven minifigs. Second Task. Hagrid and Buckbeak. Maybe the CMC class this time instead of the hut again? Quidditch... Either we get a set with the Weasley twins (and Lee is a CMF) or Harry meets the Dementors or they wait until Weasley is our King in HBP. I think they'll hold off till next year and release the long dreamt of Quidditch Pack. 2) Modular boxes... One with a sloped roof to do Lupin's DADA with Boggart Cupboard (with Neville's and Boggart!Snape; coupled with the SS Snape, we could do the scene and have more reason to get both sets) and skeleton hanging from the ceiling. Another box and a half for the Gryffindor common room and Fat Lady entrance with a shredded portrait option. The Hufflepuff basement seems likelier here than elsewhere between the Cedric focus in GoF and Newt being a 'Puff. Minifigs Ernie and Hannah and "Potter Stinks" badges. Plus we need some height. (I don't think the suitcase will matter.) They could put it all together in "Bell Towers" we'd complain about and yet still purchase. If they were ever going to squeeze a library in, maybe here with Pince, Hermione and Krum? 3) I got nothing as I wouldn't have guessed the things they've done as is. Dobby's sock? It's as likely as anything else I'd come up with. 4) Durmstrang ship on the other hand seems likely. (I'll BL the minifigs.) 5) The last Hogwarts Express was PoA, so I think it might get put off until fifth or sixth year, either with the Hogsmeade Station (to expand our Hogsmeades) & thestral carriage or the Draco punching Harry scene. But they can't seem to do without the Knight Bus, so a version with Padfoot and Aunt Marge and her dog might get people to buy it despite owning the last version. They don't have anywhere else sensible to put it in the series, so this summer seems likely, and a Padfoot fig lets us complete the SS scene and would tie back in to the Fat Lady's portrait. And we haven't seen the Weasleys' Ford Anglia lately, another staple, so I'm thinking a call back to second year and a beat up version that rescues the boys from the spiders? It would let us flesh out our Forbidden Forests and give us more creatures. We really need a tree in here somewhere... No, we only see Burbage's death in DH 1 no MS itself.

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So it's weird that the Infirmary bends the wrong way around right? Or is that just me? I don't understand why they didn't go with hinge plates on the interior to make it bend the other way.

I think it's on the little cart beside Pomfrey. I find it a little worrisome that the Potions Moment set isn't in the picture. I wonder if that's getting cancelled sooner than expected? Along similar lines, someone upthread had mentioned Charms was getting a reprieve, but the German S@H site at least lists it as sold out, which usually means it isn't returning. I'm not the biggest fan of the 2021 modular box style, but I like the look of the Infirmary a lot more than most of the sets. While the lighter windows probably capture the Infirmary's feel better, I wish they'd be more consistent because that just helps make the exteriors look more of a hodge podge.

Damn, right you are. (Two guesses who doesn't put her stickers on most of her builds... ) I thought "Moody" and the spider were a sure bet for fourth year DADA.

Lego.larry's vignette, Harry and Ron practise potions.