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The list is rubbish, but I think we'll eventually see one of these Boggart / DADA classroom sets anyway because it fits neatly in the new modular size and doesn't take a lot of minifigs. We'd get a cabinet, the Snape Boggart, Lupin and Neville. They might count on us having the gramophone from the AC, and apply the pieces to something else, if they make it a slightly larger set, maybe Ron, his spider and roller skates for it. If we're lucky, a skeleton to hang from the ceiling of a pitched roofed room. I wouldn't mind a jack in the box and whichever twin, either, but that quickly becomes a more expensive set than it's worth for the scene. Basilisk doesn't track either after the CoS this summer. Ironbelly... maybe '23? No, the list really doesn't make any sense at all, even as a wild guess. Looking forward to seeing it, BrickMatit. I think MicMac had made one with photoshop when the pictures first leaked that was really good, too. Immediately improved the whole street. There's a lot that can be done there just by changing that segment. Guesses for the future... I imagine they'll move on to focus primarily on PoA and GoF. Aside from all the obvious ones we'll surely see eventually (Hagrid's Hut (we're overdue for a Fang), Hogwarts Express, Knight Bus, Ford Anglia in some combination or another, perhaps with Aragog this time?), the Durmstrang Ship and Second Task both seem likely to happen again. Lupin's Classroom. Moody in some set or another. (Anyone have any ideas as to what scene?) They've never done the third task (mazes, hmm), but maybe a sphinx build? I can also see them going back to the troll from PS, because that could easily fit in the new format, and they had no issues mixing years / books / films in the past.

Thanks. (When you translate back and forth, things sometimes get morphed.)

@El Primo to the best of my knowledge, none yet for 2022, and the designers had indicated DH wasn't a priority [<- can someone use a better word for that?] as it didn't seem to lend itself to toy making as well as the earlier films / books. My completely uniformed bet would be that they'll do something in 2023 to mark the 25th 'anniversary' of the Battle of Hogwarts, and when the inevitable Gringotts comes, I'm pretty sure we'll see the dragon in a set (hopefully something separate, like the Horntail) that allows the trio to escape from the bank. ETA: oh, but they've also confirmed that the 2021 style is to be seen as a soft reboot of the series, so presumably any future sets will be in that style. Troll in the Bathroom, Second Task, and Durmstrang Ship are still missing from the earlier book sets, so maybe those if you're looking for guesses.

OT = Off topic, as a generic GWP isn't HP lego. (Still, it looked boring in the little thumbnail online, it was nicely done IRL.) An HP but not lego mad friend of mine said the same. She's seriously considering it, so while I'd have preferred a Gringotts, I don't mind them spacing them out, and it might have been a clever choice for gaining new fans for the theme.

(emphasis mine) Not at all, RBR. I appreciated your take. I'm definitely in camp 2018, and the sets I have from the 2021 Hogwarts line (Fluffy, PPM, and FFL) have been extremely frustrating in their propensity to fall apart, but I haven't got the CoS yet either. I find the different views and reviews helpful, particularly as I'm only reacting to the set pics. Between what you and a few others have said, the CoS's minifigs I really want, and the MOC idea Modal shared, I can absolutely see myself ordering the CoS when the autumn GWPs go live. (And thanks for sharing that @Modal. It really helps knowing there's a good plan B if the set doesn't quite appeal.) (OT Was at the local lego store yesterday, the GWP sailboat (which I didn't get) is very cute. I wish they'd post better pics of GWPs online.) @Salix Hey there, next country over. I ordered mine a few weeks ago at amazon. It wasn't terrible in price, 8 EUR, and if I'd gone for a different source, albeit as a pre-order, then I could even have saved 2 EUR. (Instant gratification scotched that... )

They were sort of trending in that direction though. The Great Hall and Clock Tower both had some generous spaces for some of the scenes likely to play out there. By the Astronomy Tower, however, it was mostly this series of bitty spaces that were basically good for static minifig display and that was that. (It was frustrating enough that I made it part of my nanoscale Hogwarts display instead.) But at least the exterior still looked good. And of course now the 2021 system is both too small and has a rubbish exterior. It's not that you can't make a nice vignette in an 8x8 space (although it's unnecessarily more challenging than a less cramped space), but it isn't particularly suited for interaction once it's finished. You think the 2021 CoS Great Hall was an improvement over the 2018 GH or the original CoS?

@BigHobbit already discredited that. As they pointed out, the three golden minifigs are shown on the rear of the D2C box, so not a GWP.

'mileage may vary'. Dipping into imperial units for the sake of the expression. (We should probably just translate it 'metre-age may vary'... )

Very much this. I don't need to like every set in a series. If the new sets help ensure the sets I want can eventually get made, then I'm all mostly for it. I would hope, however, that they keep the Second Task and the ship separate, as they did originally. The ship appeared for moments in the film and I'd happily skip it (plus ships themselves don't interest me in the least), but a remake of the Second Task, on the other hand, was actually a set I've been looking forward to. Not large, not hugely expensive, but very key to the film, so almost a diametric opposite to the ship. Given Hedwig's prominence, 'fowl swoop', surely? Not swayed in the least. I will say it looks much better than I expected, they've done a good job on that front, but it isn't worth the money or the space to me. (imho, mmv, obvs.) Extremely annoyed about the three golden figures, although it solves the issue I had with sourcing sparkly!Snape or buying the chess set I have no love for. I had been so pleased, too, with lego leaving off the chase figures in the last CMF and with the chocolate frog tiles, and now this. A solid 'T'. Boo. Pretty much my sentiments. I can easily ignore chess sets or art sets, but when it comes to the minifig scale, the biggest disappointment for me with the 2021 line is that the box units are just that touch too small to display things well (at the least, they really needed a little more depth), and that no matter how you try to configure them, they look disjointed from the other side. That said, the 2018-2020 line was growing increasingly large in its footprint, and this could have been a good way to rein that back in, a build that stood in the back facing outwards, had they only addressed those two issues. (Even if it's not the side on display, that exterior face mattered. But it's lego, so MOCcing it is.) I will say I was very pleasantly surprised by the Moment sets, and I hope to see more in that line. (I'm not sure how the rest of you are fixed for space, but even if we take lego budget out of the equation, display space is at a real premium for me, and I'd expect for many europeans.) Along the same lines, I hope that others have found things to like that they hadn't expected in 2021's unusual line-up, and that that helps pull new fans and keep the series alive. I could absolutely see them doing some DH sets in 2023 as part of a 25 year 'anniversary' of the Battle of Hogwarts. It could also make sense from the standpoint that the second generation HP fans who started as kids with the 2018 lego series will have grown into the more mature source material much as the original generation of young fans did at the time with the books and films. There are no further sets expected in the HP line-up this year than the ones already known (D2C, polybag and advent calendar are the known but as yet unreleased sets). The polybag is not expected to be included as a GWP. Obviously that's the sort of thing they can change with little notice, but that's what's known at present.

@Textorix , thanks. They look great. As a design choice (if one doesn't consider the source material) the sand green isn't so bad because it provides a good contrast to the rock base (we really should have more of). That said, it was still a disappointment after they'd gone grey in 2018...

Nice job, Textorix. I rather like the CoS Great Hall back there. When it's not on top of the base, it doesn't really look that much like the Great Hall. What did you use to render them?

Brilliant, cheers. You lot are the best , even if it's not an actual tease.

lol @BacktoBricks squib round describes it. I thought they could give up the polybag at least... @Metanoios did you happen to get a screenshot of the flowerpot / possible cauldron? We're about to do dinner, is anyone else going to stick with it and let us know if anything else comes up?

Well if they'd made a bridge for the 2018 sets it would have had to have stairs going up and down again because they were flat at ground level, so maybe we'll see one for the 2021 redesign? It would make more "sense" as objects go given the dungeons / rock base have been built into these sets, and maybe that increases the likelihood of such a set? (On the other hand, now we need to accommodate that height all the way across the bridge, and I'd have been happy with only a few bricks symbolically representing it instead...) Considering how early it is in the summer, the amount of material they want to cover, and the hype Star Wars is getting vs HP? I doubt it's likely. Maybe the polybag though?

Promobricks has reported the Great Hall as retiring this summer, not end of the year like the ones @lego_guyon02 listed. (That was new info added to the old.) The 2018 Great Hall is already gone from the S@H in Germany and the UK. ("Sold out" in May, as opposed to "temporarily unavailable".) It's safe to assume the US will follow suit in the foreseeable future. Sometimes they extend the run on one continent but not the others, however, and it had originally been expected to retire at the end of last year but was continued due to demand (caused in part by availability issues for many of the sets last year). As long as the sets are sold via retailers, we usually get some warning when they go EOL. It's S@H exclusive sets like DA and the AP we'll need to worry about.

I'm taking a little consolation from the fact that castles rarely match unless it's something fake castle-ish like Neuschwanstein, but then again they also tend not to change too radically within the same wall segment, so... (But even the bell towers and the Great Hall at Hogwarts are very different architecturally.) Mixing and matching the sets so they look anything like right is definitely proving something of a challenge, however. Looking forward to seeing what you lot do with them. (I'm already leaning towards a layout like @Clone OPatra's dollhouse variation and am determined to steal @Vorkosigan's Prefect's Bath. Thanks for the inspiration. )

They are advertising Harry Potter related content as part of the 90 minute lego con livestream event. Maybe we'll learn more there?

Confirmation bias? If the tiles are truly random and equally distributed, one in sixteen of us would have done so without there being anything odd about it.

I agree, it's a question of scale. I think I may have been the only person here hoping for not one but two lavatory sets (I still want the scene with the troll ) and not even I wanted to see Myrtle's lav much larger. I mean, do we really want it larger than Dumbledore's office? And look at the size of the niches we've crammed Snape and Slughorn into... (I still think that's meant to be Flitwick's office for the scene in HBP...) I love the sound of that, in part because we have a store not too far away, but I can't see how they could do that. If you aren't a completionist, then some tiles are worth less than others. (I'm happier with any of the Hogwarts teachers than even Newt, for example, and I can't imagine anyone had Mme. Sykes on their shortlist.) If they did that and didn't mean to turn people away empty-handed, they'd have to produce more of some and would soon have the rare tiles they seem to be trying to avoid. (Love the absence of chase figures and tiles &c. I think those only serve investors, not fun.) @Metanoios91 Thanks so much for the link to brickhunter, I've now disappeared down that rabbit hole. (The app isn't remotely intuitive (I get the feeling it wasn't really developed to be used without a pc/laptop), but the stonewars guide helps a lot.) Solid tip. Much appreciated.

@eldiano thanks, you're very encouraging. I appreciate that. @Metanoios91 you are the absolute bomb. Thank you very much for the work you put in and for sharing it. If you don't mind my asking, what did you do to list the parts with pictures (bricklink looks very different for me, for example), or was that on the lego site itself? Also, I was one of the people who had asked, and your Fluffy mod is great. I love the way it incorporates the collars, and it's amazing how much more robust the build works visually just by getting rid of those light grey neck pieces. That really makes such a difference. (I also enjoyed your witchard figbarfs on IG. ~~Which torso / skirt did you use for Karkaroff?~~ EDIT: I think it's Sensei Wu's.)

Oof. Substantial part of the price on top of what the set costs, but still... so worth it. I love the result. (I look at it and think 'yes!', I look at the original and always think 'why?')

Nice. Definite improvement. I think I'd use the sand green for accents, but this will look so much better with the 2018+ sets. If you don't mind my asking, what did it cost you to make the swap? For our running totals, I'm now up to 9/10 original chocolate frog cards; Hogsmeade, Flying Lesson, Encounter with Fluffy, Polyjuice Mishap.

I've gotten lucky so far, 6 / 6 distinct cards. Have to see how long that keeps up, only two more and then it's more likely to be a duplicate than a new tile.

It does look excellent, but it also uses a lot of extra coloured pieces to make it more cliff-like and less as though it were sitting on a dune or something. Now, now, Sirius wasn't that bad. (Autocorrect does that to me all the time...)

I think (aside from nostalgia) part of the reason for the green roofs is the inclusion of the rock base, which we unfortunately didn't have in the 2018+ sets. With all that grey, the green roofs lend the sets more contrast. Taken individually, I like the grey better, but viewed on that base, I can understand why they did it.