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The thing is I'd rather spend 15 EUR on four minifigs to get the uniforms than 8 EUR on a book I don't want (let alone multiples of) to get just one. And I would expect the AP would come with other parts I'm sure I could use as well. The Quidditch sets unfortunately never have much House representation. I really need that mix and match your own Death Eaters pack, because it's difficult to make the War seem threatening when you only have a very small handful of the opposition. Bring on the baddies! Plus the scene with Hermione setting Snape on fire is one of my favourites in the films. It really helps explain why the swotty little thing is a Gryffindor, as that wasn't clear in the beginning. I was so glad they included it in the last Quidditch set. I find the podrace hands down the most boring scene in any film I've ever owned; along similar lines, the Quidditch matches themselves rarely interested me. That said, if they put out a Quidditch AP, I'm still buying multiples to flesh out my student body. Want. But they took they exclusive Mugglewear Harry torso and put it in the 2021 AC while DA was still on the shelves, and we've seen Cedric released in the Hufflepuff robes "affordably", and even Draco's heretofore exclusive Slytherin firstie robes were put out cheaply (and in multiples) in the PPM, so I am hopeful. I'd love to see them skip Harry. Give us Keeper Ron in kit we can reuse on the other teams to flesh them out. Or any of the Gryffindor ladies, for that matter. Zabini for diversity, maybe Zacharias Smith for Hufflepuff and literally anyone but Cho for Ravenclaw. Roger Davies, maybe, as he was the only date missing from the Yule Ball. Just, please, no more Chos and no more Cedrics, we've hit saturation. OMG YES! Right up there with elf heads mounted on plaques in Grimmauld, and Draco the ferret for things I now need in my life. Is there a wild hair piece that would suit for a MOC?

Couldn't they use the pirate's peg leg? I think that would be cooler. I'm looking forward to the Moment sets, too, in addition to the Hospital wing. The trunk has left me indifferent so far, but I'm reserving judgment until we see some pictures of the set.

Wait wait... You're leaving the house??? lol I think I've completely forgotten how that goes. Enjoy it. But this is a great idea. I might pull out the old dvds for atmosphere; I was trying to make some HP / lego halloween decor...

No, but you can get the misc witchards AP with Borgin. Even if it's an extra one for you, it's expected to go EOL this year, so it's price should go up soon for resale. Discovered belatedly that if you hit the minimum purchase price required for the car GWP you get that, too. Maybe that will help, someone else here. It was 120 EUR in Germany, fwiw.

GWP available in the German S@H. (Side note: if you're interested in getting the Icons set as part of the promotion, you might want to pick it up as soon as you're able this week. Anything Halloween-y seems to be flying off the shelves in some regions, and that's how they're marketing the Icons set beyond just HP.)

Eventually, they most likely will. But when you need eight and they only come in a GWP or one a pop in a regular set, that gets expensive fast. It's still affordable now, but the GWP hasn't released yet, so people haven't missed it yet and started to panic buy the parts. I'd expect the price to rise until they include them in some other sets / it hits the B&P. ETA: November VIP weekend announced. https://www.lego.com/de-de/page/black-friday-cyber-monday-toy-deals (Not sure if that's double VIP points again or not.) GWPs and specials TBA on the 15th.

So far the Modified Plate 1 x 2 with Bar Handles in pearl gold only shows up in this year's Friends AC. So they've used that part again there, but there's only one of them in the set, and you'd need eight of them for the beds. (The lightsabre handle in pearl gold is in lots of sets. The eight required wouldn't be particularly expensive.)

Oh, yes, that sealed box that I am going to tear into seconds later. But absolutely: same. I want that boxed set.

If they want to award that massive golden Harry, I will be forced to revise how I feel about contests...

Agree with @BrickFunatic that the disclaimer (or whatever it's called) occasionally appears on material without the car. It's like their standard boilerplate. Something dear to our hearts hidden... Well that's at least two deer references by means of homonyms (deer, hart), three / four if hidden (hide) counts and it's more oblique. But it also sounds like the second task when Ron was hidden. "We've taken what you'll sorely miss..." We could do with a Ron maxifigure, but after Target reduced the prices on Harry and Hermione that severely, I'm not sure we'll be seeing more.

I'm betting 2023 for a tie in to the in-story fifteenth anniversary of the Battle of Hogwarts, or 2024 for the more probable time the theme would reach DH (if you figure 2022 for PoA and GoF, 2023 OotP and HBP). And it would help nudge sales of DA back up at a time when interest might otherwise be waning. I still don't think we'll see waves that are exclusive to the books / movies those years, but I'd expect them to dominate the sets released in those years. I'd also bet the 2021 advent calendar reduces the chances the Gringotts will be PS-centric, and focus more on DH so they can get us off their backs. (Plus a substantial portion of lego fandom seems to think dragons and such are cool.)

To be fair, the issue here is a blog / fan site says something, and we so want it to be a thing, get excited and almost inevitably are then disappointed. The fault doesn't lie entirely with lego here (if at all), but (also) with the "super fan"'s constant need for new information and the fan world's need to hype content to get those hits. If we took the initial report that something "big" was coming out of the equation, how would you (plural) have responded to word of a new contest? Indifferent at worst, but I doubt anyone would have been disappointed.

I still don't have Gringotts (also budget, exacerbated by an abiding hatred of pink which would need replacing; but who knows, some day maybe), but in many ways it was a bit of a relief the DA set didn't contain the bank as it was almost sure to come eventually, whereas the stores we got weren't. (Also, we have a number of talented people floating around here who've made more stores, and I love the way they're expanding the street.) I'm hoping for two or even three sets. The above ground bank, the vaults, the Horcrux scene, the dragon, the track... There's a bit of mixing and matching that can take place, some of those things I really want, and some of those things I haven't the space for and would prefer to spend the money on something else. And I'd also really like to some day have some small official Horcrux builds, I'd love Bellatrix' vault and Geminio curse, the Slytherin locket in the Forest of Dean with Snape's patronus, the frozen lake and the boys, the Room of Hidden things and the Diadem... So I'm really hoping Bellatrix' vault won't ultimately be part of some extremely expensive set, but remain more affordable.

Not if it's a participation prize... And Gobby, too, please and thank you. If you haven't seen it, Lego has posted a new video with Neville (Matthew Lewis) presenting his 20 favourite scenes with lego.

The people reading those teasers also aren't going to win those prizes. How many do they end up awarding? While it gives us some nice builds to look at, you could browse flickr or IG or some of the digital platforms and see plenty of those anyway. I think if they really want to do something special for the fans, HP centric GWPs make more of a real difference.

A list (with links) of all the Harry Potter lego content that's been active on eurobricks within the last two years. Premise: there's a lot of Harry Potter content strewn about the "licensed themes" forum, but too much of it goes unseen by too many who'd probably be interested in the material. Far from everyone uses tags on their posts, those tags aren't normed, and many of the titles of the posts don't necessarily lead to them being found in your typical forum search for HP material. Further premises: we'd have even more material here if there were more "reward" (positive feedback) for posting here; too often those posts languish, largely uncommented, and there's no system for otherwise liking or upvoting the contribution, which in combination can be demoralising. We'd also have happier users if they had an easier time finding the content they like. It sounds almost like a match made in heaven... What I'm trying to do about that... Well, in the absence of subforums, I'm attempting to create a somewhat sorted and curated list of the HP content. I've worked my way through over an eighth of the forum scouring for HP material, indexing whatever was last commented on within the past two years, and I think I got most of what was there. (If I missed something, please let me know. If this is an acceptable format (fingers crossed it's allowed as it was a *lot* of work... lol), I'll eventually work my way through the rest and then start tidying this entry. (The quality of the curation will improve as I add more content to link to.) Ideally I'll also add a listing of the MOCs from the MOC Megapost, otherwise folks like our @Micmac and a few others will go seriously underrepresented, which won't do at all. Table Of Contents of the Categories Below Very active Harry Potter threads (comparatively, lots of replies, particularly recent ones) Older / Inactive / Locked (but possibly of interest due to volume) [placeholder] Recent Additions things added in the last month (Coming Soon) MOCs / SECs / MODs The Wizarding World - Hogsmeade The Wizarding World - Diagon Alley Hogwarts 2018/20 Hogwarts System Scale Set Arrangements Specific Scenes Misc Items / Locations Art Nanoscale Misc Minifigs Things / Creatures Brickheadz - official, MOCs / SECs / MODs Reviews News Misc HP lego stuff Prolific Eurobricks' Designers' MOCs and MODs from the MOC Mega-thread: Bugbot20082 Metanoios Micmac part 1 - Hogwarts Locations, Diagon Alley Micmac part 2 - other locations, creatures and minifigs Seaber Whovastron

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Full marks for initiative! Thanks! This does matter though, because some people are still trying to decide if they should order now and take advantage of the double VIP points if there's no GWP coming.

Canada as well, and the Aussie one didn't even have a calendar to download (just the place for it) when I checked this morning. The German one is largely blank, but it was probably largely blank to begin with. (We usually get our news from the US one.)

Does anyone know anything about the HP GWP being removed from the US store calendar? A friend just asked me about it, and she's right, it isn't on the calendar available via https://www.lego.com/en-us/stores anymore, although it still turns up via google on their site: Current version via /stores with no HP GWP: https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/blt9b1344d72ba59799/10_October_Calendar_US.pdf Previous version with Dorm GWP: https://www.lego.com/cdn/cs/set/assets/bltae7c7c556e7aabe8/10_October_Calendar_US.pdf But none of the usual suspects have mentioned it... @Legoman123 https://www.promobricks.de/lego-harry-potter-2022/130217/ and click your browser's translate button or use the keywords to google for a different source. (Promobricks were the original source of the info.)

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Prolific Eurobricks' Designers' MOCs and MODs from the MOC Mega-thread Seaber Harry at night in the Gryffindor Dorm Meeting the Fat Lady Smaller then Nanoscale Hogwarts Nanoscale Beauxbatons Carriage with Abraxans and Durmstrang ship Smaller than Nanoscale Hogwarts Express Sconce Experiments Flying Keys Pygmy Puffs Pygmy Puffs 2 Centaur Whovastron Hogwarts 2018/20 setup, elevated, with Viaduct and Courtyard entrance Hogwarts 2018/20 setup, elevated, with Viaduct and Courtyard entrance; updated with better photos

Prolific Eurobricks' Designers' MOCs and MODs from the MOC Mega-thread Micmac part 2 - other locations, creatures and minifigs Three Broomsticks MOD Burrow MOD Bellatrix MOD / Attack on the Burrow 4 Privet Drive MOD Skirmish at Malfoy Manner Skirmish at Malfoy Manner 2 - in Hogwarts Moment format Graveyard Duel CREATURES Dragon Grawp Baby Thestrals (see also hogwartsprof's Baby Thestrals mod) the Castle Ghosts

Prolific Eurobricks' Designers' MOCs and MODs from the MOC Mega-thread Micmac part 1 - Hogwarts locations and Diagon Alley Hogwarts castle MOC Battle of Hogwarts in the older colour scheme and style Hogwarts Bell Towers MOC Bell Towers Interior MOC Bell Towers MOC, Battle of Hogwarts version Great Hall Umbridge's Office Death Day Feast Hagrid's Hut Durmstrang Ship (Mario Airship MOD) MICMAC's DIAGON ALLEY MOCs and MODs Super massive Diagon Alley Mega-MOD (Flourish and Blotts, Quality Quidditch Supplies, Florian Fortescue's Ice Cream Parlour, Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes, Scrivenshaft's, Ollivander's and the Daily Prophet) Even more massive Diagon Alley MOD, Knocturn Alley MOC, Gringotts MOC, Broomstix MOC, Zonko's MOC, Leaky Cauldron MOC Gringotts MOC Gringotts Interior Gringotts' Dome MODs Smaller Gringotts and Broomstix MOC Broomstix MOC Flourish and Blotts mega-MOD Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes MOD

Prolific Eurobricks' Designers' MOCs and MODs from the MOC Mega-thread Bugbot20082 Candleholders Scarecrow, Goblet of Fire, Memory Cabinet, Pensieve, Griffin Statue Hogwarts towers Blast-ended Skrewt Animal perches Troll MOC Link to Bugbot's HP builds on IG Metanoios Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes Mascot MOD Hagrid's Motorcycle with Sidecar Grawp MOD Firenze, OG Flitwick, Fluffy MOD, Butter Beer Bottle, Wine Bottle, Three Broomsticks MOD