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Spotted the use of one of the DADA stickers in a MOC on IG. Have we seen the stickers before? Also re: Marcos, I've looked for a lego organigram before to no avail. Do they have somewhere you can see who leads/led a line from / till? That really doesn't seem like it shouldn't be more well known.

I think if they're going to re-cover ground (Great Hall, presumptive "Clock Tower" in the Infirmary set) in this short of a cycle, they need to do something substantially different, and whatever else, they succeeded in that. The 2018-20 style is lovely, but it does sprawl, and not everyone has the space. The new line does almost the opposite. Additionally missing a set in the new line doesn't invalidate your Not!warts like it would have done in the 2018+ system. (The Astronomy and Clock Towers without the Great Hall just don't look like Hogwarts to me.) So the new system fills substantially different needs, which is smart. The exteriors are too discordant for my tastes, but it also isn't a major revamp to make them work better. Given you're meant to build the different locations with the set, does the trunk seem like a one off to anyone else? If not, any ideas how they would expand it (like Fawkes following Hedwig)? I'm also wondering if the different styles of sets (Moment, trunk, art, minifig scale, flying creatures...) will ultimately stretch the run of the 2021 series until they cycle back to the beginning? So maybe four or five years this time? I guess four is more likely. As for Hogsmeade, right now I'm eyeing J.L.Bricks' Hog's Head & Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop if lego doesn't come out with a Hogsmeade Village expansion of their own next summer. Anyone else planning something similar? If so, which shops? (I guess the Hog's Head would be more likely to put in an appearance in 2023.)

Yeah that sounds about right.

Alrighty... If you could choose, which would you rather have, pictures from the other three sets of the winter line or the set numbers and prices from the 2HY? Obviously we can speculate more with the latter, but do people find that more satisfying than the set pix or not?

I built my Hedwig to break dance. I found that more satisfying. (And yes, @BacktoBricks, I had to rebuild it to do so. Eh, my fingers survived. Although with all the disinfecting these days, I do notice the wear more.) I have hope they'll go back to the darker tones for the house colours as soon as they no longer need the mittens. If you look at the colours in the Gryffindor dorm / common room on the box, they've used the darker brick red for the duvet. The colour on the pennants on the stickers appears to be an in between thing though...

Come on, that's like two sets for the price of one. Clever.

Cool! Thanks for chasing that info down.

Definitely looking forward to the Trolls skirt piece, the Marauder's Map and the owl. Agree, the trunk lid is nice, too. I can see myself getting one, but not more of these. It's also really nice that we'll be able to reuse all those extra minifig bodies from the trio. China and India together make up more than a third of the world population, and Nougat is the colour they use in this theme to represent the Chinese or Indian skin tones. And of course they also use it for other ethnicities, so 40% representation doesn't seem off (especially as you really have to count McGonagall and Harry in which case it's only a third). JKR did a pretty good job of reflecting the ethnicities in the UK at the time she wrote the books, but this is a toy trying to appeal to a global market to make your own sigfigs. It's a clever move. Thanks for placing them side by side. The dark green was so much better. I get why they made the switch, to be able to use mittens and thus avoid the issue of skin tone and having to swap hands, but I hope they return to the darker colours for the rest of the 2022 series.

The problem with the "interview" quoted is the individual supposedly managed to lose the recording of the interview itself and is apparently paraphrasing from memory / notes. So it's an indication, but nothing more as the responses have already been watered down by the filter of the youtuber's understanding / recollection of what was said. If you're going to take the designers' responses with a grain of salt, that video should be taken with a whole salt cellar.

Stonewars says it's only Herbology and Charms going EOL 2021, Promobricks still lists Potions as joining them. I've seen "merchants" claim Potions and Transfiguration will be around for 2022, but I'm inclined to believe them as it makes sense. There was no other (non-golden) Snape in the 2021 sets, he and Draco complete the duelling minifigs from 2021's CoS, and CoS also doesn't include McGonagall, Hermione or Ron, so those two Moment sets help complete CoS while giving you props to swap in and out of the castle's rooms. Additionally, lego clearly isn't abandoning the line as they're bring out two new Moment sets next winter (DADA / Divination). At least until we see another Snape / McGonagall (earliest opportunity summer 2022), I'd expect Transfiguration and Potions to remain on the shelves.

Hey, a friend was asking me about finding a good price on the Great Hall in the US, something I know next to nothing about. Do you folks have something like brickwatch or brickmerge? @Prometheus87 more Ninjago City Gardens, but yes it definitely has similarities.

75396 Hogwarts Moment: Divination Class (purple or lilac), with 297 pieces; Trelawney, Harry and Parvati Patil; expected to retail for €29.99, ca. £27.99 75397 Hogwarts Moment: Defense Against the Dark Arts Class (black), with 257 pieces; Moody, Neville, Hermione; expected to retail for €29.99, ca. £27.99 75398 Hospital Wing, with 510 pieces; Pomfrey (!), Harry, Hermione, Ron; expected to retail for € 39.99. It sounds like the scene with the TIme-Turner, especially as a Clock comes on the exterior. The Infirmary continues the 2021 modular Hogwarts design and should have the same footprint as the Great Hall from 2021's CoS set to make it stackable. 75399 Hogwarts Suitcase (or Trunk; there's been some discussion), 603 pieces, expected to retail for €59.99. The details are a little confusing here. It's supposed to be a buildable, lockable trunk, able to be customisable to the builder's House of choice by means of different coloured tiles and stickers, and allow for various scenes to be built from the Sorting Ceremony to the different Houses' common rooms. Includes customisable minifigs.

Does anyone know off the top of their heads how often they've made sets that diverged clearly from book canon? (As far as I recall, movies always take precedent, or were there exceptions to that as well?) I had the sense that they often try to duck scenes that commit to one version or the other, though, Attack on the Burrow notwithstanding. No matter how iconic, we just don't see something like the movie scene with Snape throwing himself in front of werewolf!Lupin. (20 EUR set, Snape, Lupin with alt head / hairpiece, Black's animagus form, and maybe Harry, a tree or two, some grass, a full moon?) Instead we get the Whomping Willow from the scene in CoS instead, and can piece it together from other sets if we like. (Along those lines, lego, please give us new versions of the dog and werewolf, cheers.) ETA: @Textorix Nice job! You might want to add that to the thread. This one gets locked at the end of the year, and there's no way anyone is going skimming through 400+ pages to find that in a locked thread, which would be a pity. (It also has the additional advantage of keeping that thread from disappearing into obscurity. Win win. )

The new Trelawney will have legs so she can sit in her chair. The Moment Snape was a little different to the 2018+ Snape, he has a collar, but the change was so trivial it was disappointing.

But we're still getting Dobby's Sock, though, right? I couldn't help noticing that we don't even have a stocking in the AC this year, so surely they're trying to generate some excitement for the official sock set. Keeping us lean to keep us keen and all that...

That was my reaction, too. Do we have any idea how the global supply chain issues are impacting lego's production? I know a lot of the sets often seem to be more difficult to get in the US, which I assumed was part of the reason the Great Hall's run was extended last year to run through this past summer.

I'm hoping the suitcase / trunk contains parts that might address that? I found it difficult to understand what they meant about the customisation, more along the lines of different sigfigs with hair / skin / face variants like in the build your own brickheadz or a variety of torsos to represent the different houses? At some point it sounds more like a collection of minifigs...

(emphasis mine) I'm really enjoying the Moment sets, too, and have them permanently on my desk, my mini Hogwarts at my fingertips. (Love that! ) I've been able to snag them for 30% off, but you need to know your local market, and it depends how you feel about risk, I guess. (25% off sounds pretty good to me, too.) Potions and Transfiguration are expected to stick around, but there aren't any guarantees as to how long. If you think about it, though, it would make sense that they would. There's no Snape in the rest of the 2021 line, and McGonagall only appears in the Hogsmeade set, so she's not part of the castle if that's where your focus lies. There are also no Draco (or Slytherin uniforms), Hermione or Ron in the Chamber of Secrets set, all five of whom are stalwarts of the series (and even Seamus from Potions isn't a repeat in that constellation). Now Hermione and Ron appear in enough other sets that Transifg's future seems less certain (particularly as they were with Harry in Fluffy Encounter, the Polyjuice Potion Mistake, the GWP/polybag, *and* the chess set, where the trio were basically the only minifigs (ignoring the golden anniversary ones, and the alts from PPM notwithstanding) which was both repetitive and over-saturation for a single year), but you literally can't re-create either duel from the duelling club scene with CoS's Lockhart and Justin Finch-Fletchley with the 2021 line without using the Potions Moment set. So until the summer sets give us a Snape and Draco, at the very least, I'd expect Potions to stick around. Plus it probably doesn't hurt chances that they're continuing the Moment series this winter with DADA and Divination. You can contact lego's customer service and they'll send you missing parts, btw. They're really good about that.

Took them a while to acclimate?

And then there's the elephants' appendage. It was even a new part this summer. Element ID: 6346331 The Charms and Herbology Hogwarts Moment sets are slated to go EOL this year. Pick those two up sooner rather than later or you'll see their price jump.

No one. In fact it apparently wasn't even a possible result on the Pottermore Patronus quiz. How strange. But it sounds like something they could work into a Frozen set somehow at some point in the future?

Yeah, I got "View it on the Map" or "Back" neither of which yielded the end result I was expecting. ("See a team member", which came next for me, was highly unexpected.) No button to win tickets and definitely no building of a Snitch, and not even a trace of the (elusive) exclusive content. I'm hoping the in person experience is a better game and makes people feel it was worthwhile. It was definitely glitchy at the end on the at home version.

Stupid question, I'm sure, but if anyone is playing the Mystery Hunt at home, once you answer the questions (and if you can't, I'm not sure we can continue interacting... ) it says: Or did you get something else? Because that hardly seems the proper play-at-home result... (Although it probably doesn't help that my screen is too small and truncated things.) I was at a bit of a loss what to do next (particularly when none of their team members apparated into our home, but then I may have forgotten to lower the wards) and I finally used the form for when all else fails. (See menu, "Having issues?" at the bottom of that menu point there's a button "enter competition") Just so you know that's an option.

Thanks. I'd checked amazon NL proper and spotted the raised price, so I was hoping you'd picked it up in one of the marketplace shops I overlooked... Perhaps they'll offer it reduced sometime again, though. I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for it. @drewdotexe thanks for the reminder.

Holy cow, where? (I'm banking that shipping from the Netherlands would still be cheaper than the price difference...)