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Goodness knows I've tried, and I say that as someone who hates shopping. The lego store didn't have it when I was there. Smyths didn't, nor did the other department stores... One of the local drugstores theoretically does, but never when I'm there. They've had (at least) two shipments of them, and been completely cleaned out both times I arrived not long after. It's been frustrating. They have tons of Harry polybags though. They seem to be having trouble communicating to their person in charge of ordering that Hermione is the queen (yaaass), and for once they need to keep more of her in stock than St. Potter. (Tbf, he's been around for over a year, eventually the market is saturated.)

And the great thing is when Gringotts inevitably comes, and it will, it won't matter at all what style their Hogwarts has. It just needs to fit in with their Diagon Alley street view. It sounds sort of like that "Build Your Own Adventure" book. If they offer build suggestions, too, that could be cool. Thanks, @BrickFunatic.

Who says they couldn't repeat colours though? They have a 2x2 tile with a symbol to distinguish the books from one another.

That's interesting, because when you look at what they include in the classroom builds (both 2018/20 & 2021) vs the Moment sets, we tend to see more actual stuff for, more fleshing out of the classroom in the Moment sets. The regular builds are more pared back by contrast. I noticed I tend to need more studs on a baseplate to display the books' contents sensibly than the other classrooms have. That said, I'm all in favour of the pitched roof to display Lupin's DADA classroom skeleton. Not at all. I'm pleased as punch.

Pro: None of the early press mentioned the devil's snare, nor the weird little potions thing under the roof, and while the harp was mentioned, it wasn't in the context of filling an empty room. (I was thinking along the same lines, so I double checked.) Fluffy himself has a high piece count freed up for the Infirmary. Contra: the Fluffy set is practically empty (turkey leg, harp, and potions camp), and has effectively only 4 of the 8x8 modules (or five in a pinch if you count the tower), so three filled ones probably kind of tracks. Fluffy Encounter also squeezed in one pitched and one tower roof, so perhaps they can make something reminiscent of the clock tower instead for the same price, but six modules while including the clock face feels like something of a stretch, especially when they'd really need to put something in those lower modules to give them a little context. One possibility if a lower level were included, they could mix eras in the set and give us the flying keys or one of the other challenges, like how the 2018 Great Hall has the basilisk and Fawkes, while also having the boat the firsties arrive in, Sorting Hat, Quirrell and Mirror of Erised.

I like you already. Welcome to de-lurkdom. (Also thanks @lego_guyon02 and @THELEGOBATMAN for the tent responses.)

Yeah, I'd mentioned Burbage's line more as a joke (as if a single sentence justified a fig...) and then went back and watched the scene and no longer felt like kidding. It's easy having not seen it in... what's it been, ten, fifteen years? to reduce it to her getting gobbled by a snake, which in the abstract seems comical; in the presentation, not so much. (Side note, they really did a great job conveying everyone's fear of Voldemort in that scene, Lucius' in particular. *brrr*) I very much want to see more ghosts in the future. Like many of us here I live in Europe. I was wandering around a castle just last week, and there are several very close by; for me (ymmv) the castle wasn't what made Hogwarts special. It was things like the floating candles, the owls and especially the ghosts drifting around that made it something truly different and magical. For atmosphere it really doesn't matter so much if they never spoke, just that they were there. It often feels like that goes under-appreciated by some of the decision makers. (But then I'd also prefer some random suits of armour now and again to yet another Harry, Hermione and Ron in still more Gryffindor robes, so we're clearly not on the same page...) Pince I want need for that magnificent hat. (emphasis mine) I've asked before, but don't think anyone answered: has there ever been a (lego) tent you lot liked as a set?

I think Lupin's room makes more sense as one of the new modules instead of the Moment books. That way it can have a skeleton suspended from the ceiling. It would be nice to get another dementor, but the scene with Boggart Snape was so much better, so now I'm torn. I think someone here had done a nice MOC of that skeleton, does anyone remember who / where? Speaking roles: Didn't Burbage have that one line? "Severus, please..." (far too dark, I know) [ETA: Well, I've checked. There was moaning and a second line: We're friends. A very atmospherically dark scene. (I haven't watched those films often.)] The trunk is sounding a little like the "Build Your Own Adventure" book set. I've mixed feelings there if it's too stingy in the parts offered I could see them revisiting Moments in the future with the four Houses as common rooms, then a few years later perhaps as their dorms. There was plenty of source material available to create the rooms in the various video games, but I'm not sure how the rights issues play out. Thanks for the answer on the scene with Pince. Yes, where she accuses him of writing in the textbook and completely loses the plot. (I like people who take the care of their books seriously. ) Yes, but the portraits are animated, so that makes some sense, I think. There've been several MOCs that way, and I think it suits nicely. *I* want Marge. (And her pesky pup, too) There's a nice MOC on rebrickable that captures her well.

I was pleased to hear they're continuing the Moment series, and am looking forward to Divination in particular. I really wish we'd get Padma in a Ravenclaw uniform, because I could use more House diversity, but as even the films didn't bother with that little detail, it seems unlikely. DADA will be a more difficult sell for me. (Not one of my favourite scenes, but I'm sure I'll pick it up on sale eventually. I'm a sucker that way.) I'm still hoping there's a ferret included, but perhaps we'll see that in a CMF down the line... Also very pleased to finally be getting a Poppy Pomfrey. (And Skele-grow? Pretty please and thank you.) Given the piece count, I think it must be larger, at least vertically, than the Fluffy set, so I'm reserving judgment until I see it. Encounter with Fluffy was a little difficult to describe as well, because it was so empty, so perhaps this is just one of those things. (I mean, how many pieces can they use just to make beds and medical supplies??) The inclusion of Moody's DADA also has me hopeful we'll see Lupin in a Shrieking Shack this summer, which would be a nice extension of the Hogsmeade set started this year. Then perhaps the next year (2023) we could see a Hogsmeade Station and a Thestral carriage (was that scene OotP or HBP?) with the inevitable Hogwarts Express re-make. That would be a way to keep fans of the 2018 design sweet, including things that aren't limited to the one Hogwarts style or the other, and cover some ground the 2018 series didn't. (And 2023 I'd like the scene with the HBP text in the library with Irma Pince, but I fear that was only in the books... Does anyone recall?) Pfft. Have you seen our want lists? And that right there is why it would make a rotten book set (and I say that as a fan of the series). Neither creature fits well in the book format with much of anything else.

Sounds like there might be something in the suitcase to allow you to make your own common room, so maybe there's a hufflepuff uniform after all?

A sticker sheet as a selling point??

I was thinking maybe a thestral drawn carriage as a small set, but I guess that's OotP. Second task could be small enough, I guess. The 2005 version only had 154 pieces. Or if they're sticking with moments or the H2021 modules, I still think a third year DADA with Lupin and Boggart Snape is likely sooner or later, and sooner seems to make sense... Or maybe Ferret Draco and Moody... Ten more minutes? Other guesses, anyone? edit: Okay, no Ferret. But! Pomfrey! Finally!

Meh, please not another Cho or Cedric (unless he's in his bathing suit for the second task). Other than that, it sounded pretty good, but I've pretty much hit the saturation point on both of those minifigs. There were members of Dumbledore's Army that would be so easy to make with existing pieces even. Michael Corner, Terry Boot, Anthony Goldstein, Ernie MacMillan, a younger version of Hannah Abbott, an older version of Susan Bones, oh, and while we're at it, Blaise Zabini, Millicent Bulstrode, and Lee Jordan... And while I'm wishing, an Accessory Pack of the missing House ghosts (Bloody Baron, Grey Lady, the Fat Friar) and Peeves to round out the collection, please and cheers. And yes, I know the designers have already kibboshed my dreams of Peeves. (Too cruel by half. ) I assume the same arguments apply to the Friar at least. But if they can make such a specific set like this year's Accessory Pack, you'd think ghosts would be possible. The parts could substitute as statues if they were mixed and matched, too.

Oo! Sign me up! In a perfect world, maybe a regular house uniform, a house robe and and quidditch uniform? Unless they start offering more accessory packs (I'm still hoping for a quidditch version), then I guess they could do one of the famous alumni as one of the figs (Rita or Kings, Pomfrey, Scrimgeour and maybe Merlin or Tom Riddle?), but that gets repetitive sooner. Statues of the founders sounds interesting, too, but both they and alums are fundamentally less useful than a variety of student uniforms would be.

Ugh, no more Fords. A lot of people have mentioned wanting either the tent from Bill's & Fleur's wedding or the Quidditch World Cup. Has there ever been a tent set you guys have liked that would serve as an example?

For me, that made the CoS even worse. I can skip remakes, but when they cover something new, then it becomes more difficult. Hogwarts Express? I don't need another. But they'll do something cynical like including Hogsmeade Station, and then it won't be quite such an easy pass anymore.

I guess the question is are you trying to limit your all-time investment / expenditure, or just what you spend now? If you like the look of the 2018 Hogwarts architecture, I agree I'd purchase the Astronomy Tower to try to complete the castle as much as budget permits. As long as there are Harry Potter sets, there's sure to be a Hogwarts Express, so I wouldn't make that a priority, just pick up Lupin off Bricklink/ebay/etc, because the next Express will probably shift the focus of the scene again. (Hogsmeade Station? Maybe the scene where Hagrid picks them up with Thestrals, because we haven't had a Thestral in an actual Harry Potter set yet this series (it was FB)...) Likewise, I'd bet the Knight Bus and some version of Hagrid's hut will also be reissued sooner as opposed to later. They've improved with every iteration, and it doesn't matter if their style changes for your overall HP display, so waiting is almost an advantage. The Burrow, on the other hand, is less likely to appear again soon, so if you really like it... The positive spin for you from what the designers have said is that they're 1) soft rebooting the series, and 2) more focused on the early films, which should mean any eventual DH sets they sneak in there are unlikely to be very expensive. The Bell Towers seem very unlikely (not "iconic" enough), at best maybe we'd see something like the Battle of Hogwarts set 4867 Hogwarts from 2011 (and even then, I'd expect it to fit in with their new design scheme more than the 2018 one). So what does that leave? Mostly small sets. Forest of Dean wouldn't be expensive, a new take on the scene with Narcissa Malfoy and Harry in the Forbidden Forest also isn't pricey, and both are independent of the castle design. The only thing I think is both probable and pricey is a Gringotts orientated towards first year Harry's visit, with a small extra set of the Trio from DH with a dragon. While the DH set likely wouldn't be a major budgetary commitment, it wouldn't make sense without the PS Gringotts.

Thanks for answering. Yeah, Star Wars has Watto's Junkyard and Factions as sub-forums, and Pirates has Pirate MOCs and Brethren of the Brick Seas, so I assumed (multiple) sub-forums were technically possible. Somebody had asked a question recently about modded HP minifigs, and I knew I'd seen a thread dedicated to it, searched and in the process discovered new HP content I'd overlooked because most of the licensed lego posts just don't interest me, and I assume I'm not the only one (if only because the other user hadn't seen that thread either ). Compounding the problem, if you display forum results by recent activity and there isn't much going on in those threads, they quickly move back to later pages, and sort of disappear from sight, and moving through them irregularly tends to show you active things you've already seen, not necessarily the content you've missed. And on the flip side, if there isn't much response, people usually don't continue to bother posting things which reduces the overall content as a result. Anyway, that was my thinking on it (my two Knuts, if you will), but if you guys don't see much point, then clearly it's moot. Thanks again for taking the time to explain.

I think it will help flesh out Gringotts builds, because (speaking as a Muggle, obviously) the goblins looked mostly alike, just a little different, so a number of Griphooks with different expressions is probably the least expensive option they could have come up with to achieve the best results. They were hardly going to give us a bunch of head moulds, and I think this is more satisfying than the previous versions which basically swapped out the torsos or legs, although I won't mind some options there, too, when the set inevitably comes. hp078/hp079 or hp117/hp118 (where they even share a torso with Flitwick (nice way to suggest a tie in to the Goblin blood, though)) @Clone OPatra, sorry if this isn't the place to ask, but is there any chance of getting a subforum for Harry Potter material in the LEGO licensed forum like the pirates and Star Wars themes have in theirs? I feel like a bunch of neat content often gets overlooked buried as it is amongst other themes, and that that in turn may discourage people from posting content, both of which seem like a shame.

I think we have a tendency to see it that way, that the earlier films have so many more sets, without it being completely accurate. If you bought the 2018 Great Hall, I think the only things making it a first / second year set (PS, CoS) were the basilisk, Quirrel, Mirror of Erised and the short minifig legs, which isn't a substantial investment in parts, and yet the GH is a much needed starting point for your Hogwarts build. Any sets from subsequent years allow you to easily fix the leg and face issues, and just like that, it's updated. Likewise, Hagrid's hut and the Hogwarts Express wouldn't require much to change to update them, and even Privet Drive only suffers from the lack of an older Dudley that makes it a poorer stand in for later years. We don't really see much change in the adult characters. So I don't see the sets so much as PS & CoS builds as a Wizarding World starter kit. Moving forward, I'd appreciate more small sets that permitted us to update the existing sets on our own. For instance I'd much rather have a Forbidden Forest set with Fang, Harry and Malfoy and some trees than yet another Hagrid's hut (bonus points if they throw in a dead unicorn...) any time soon. A single car from the Express with Harry under his cloak and Luna coming to his rescue would extend our trains, as many have asked, without requiring a substantial investment. (And if they really want to make it larger, include the Hogsmeade Station, just don't needlessly keep covering the same ground.) Or instead of revisiting the Hogsmeade builds, how about some planks to shutter the windows and more wanted posters with grubby fugitive Harry, Hermione and Ron? (Or better yet, extending them with a couple more shops and extra planks.)

There's a thread dedicated to HP minifig mods,

No, @chris6507 is right. According to Stonewars, it and the other Accessory Pack are both expected to retire at the end of the year. Also of note, the Bellatrix / Voldemort / Nagini set is going EOL, which also won't have been around long, and both the Charms and Herbology Moment sets released last January (not Transfig or Potions, though). I noticed they aren't even listing the Great Hall anymore, so I assume that's already EOL for us at the S@H.

It did mine as well. But! Then we had Umbridge in a 30 EUR set just two years after the Bricktober pack, got Sluggy that same year, and Hooch in another 30 EUR set just a year later. The Boggart!Snape is the only one who hasn't been re-released, so I'm presently rather hopeful actually, especially as the set was still TRU, iirc, at a time when they were in the process of shuttering their doors, so I think it was even less well distributed than the Bricktober sets usually were. I'd love more of the Moment sets (they could easily get away with making a DADA set for each year, really), although I wouldn't mind seeing the DADA in the Fluffy format so we could squeeze in a suspended skeleton build as opposed to just getting a sticker. Moody is the only DADA instructor except Carrow (who was technically Dark Arts anyway) not to appear in a regular set since the 2018 theme revival, so I think he's overdue, especially as he plays a key role in the Order. He Imperiuses Viktor in the maze, so perhaps a small set with him, Krum, Harry and some beast? We've had Voldemort's rise twice, but never the actual task... (Alright, so I'm a book person and have played some of the HP video games over the years and have some fixed ideas as to the events that took place in the third task. I just rewatched the scene on youtube for the first time in well over a decade, and I can't believe there were no creatures. I'd remembered they'd remove the Skrewts from the films, but none at all? Hmpf. It makes Krum and Moody more important, so I guess there's that, but no wonder there's no set, though. Here! Build a menacing hedge! ) Well, fine, I want Ferret!Draco anyway. A D2C Quidditch Pitch leaves me cold. Too boring, too expensive, too large a footprint to do properly, I find the Icons more charming (and yet won't be buying that either (too expensive / large)). That said, if a pitch helps anyone else complete their builds, I'll be only too happy for them if they get it eventually. (Unless it comes at the cost of a Borgin and Burkes or Gringotts; then I'll be properly petulant.)

Ferret! Yes! I want the Draco!Ferret!

Great job, BrickMatit! That definitely improves the front and makes better sense of the interior space. I like it. Nice Zonko's, @thenightman89. Fits in perfectly in Hogsmeade by dint of the starting point obviously, but the scale is just right, too. A worthy expansion. The list of needed parts is always helpful, as well. @Micmac, your ship is gorgeous! I've never once been tempted by a ship, but your build is something else. Well done you!