chris6507

Just saw in my sons Book Club catalogue from school the "LEGO Harry Potter Ideas" book which i'd never heard of before. Just wondering if anyone has bought this and what it's like?

If I had to have one pick it would be Bill and Fleur's wedding. I'd imagine the wedding tent done in a similiar style to Avatar's Metkyana Reef set (however it's spelt) with minifigures of Bill, Fleur, Trio, Luna and Xenophilius. If I had a second (more unrealistic choice) it would be a Bourgin and Burke's set to connect to the back of the Diagon Alley Weasley Wizard Wheezes. I could imagine this one with Lucius, Draco, Narcissa, Hagrid and Harry. For a smaller set I wouldn't mind as people have suggested before a camping set from Deathly Hallows with the trio and Doe patronus. Personally though, after Gringott's and Rita Skeeter this year I am feeling actually pretty satisfied with my LEGO Harry Potter collection. I do have some past regrets such as buying the whole modular castle and the book playsets as I really, really don't like them. At least I wisened up with the Hogwarts banners. Getting really over Hogwarts castle at the minute. I would love in general to see a wave without any castle scenes and a whole bunch of random other sets. And please keep up the gimmicks such as buildable creatures, micro scale Hogwarts and such so I can keep saving a bit of money! :-D

Does anyone know who players B and E are in this picture? I think E is Katie Bell, but no idea who the other is supposed to be? https://ibb.co/y6B30DK

I started building Gringott's with the Mrs last night and after a random draw I ended up with the box building the Gringott's itself. My first thought having starting with book 3 page 1 was... Well this kind of makes the whole Silencio thing from the Diagon Alley irrelevant now. Not sure if anyone else had a similiar thought, but seriously, the exact same Hagrid and Harry? Why bother putting them in Diagon Alley at all if they were just going to be her fulfilling the same role again?

Well you're lucky! Mine spent all day saying "out for delivery" only for them to decide at 4:30pm they weren't going to bother! People complain here about Australia Post, but it's the bloody courier companies i can't stand!

Amidst all this talk about Gringott's, slight subject change. Has anyone either themselves or seen somewhere else online any MOCs combining the 2023 Weasley Wizard Weezes and the original Diagon alley into one? The mrs is trying to find a fathers day present for me for tomorrow, and considering suggesting it if it's any use to upgrading Diagon Alley, but have no interest in it as it's own set. Had a google myself, but coming up short so far.

Successfully ordered here in Eastern Australia. So happy, been a long time coming!!! Set showed up at 11:59 and was showing old gift with purchases. Waited 1 more minute for 12:00 and it changed to the Quidditch Polybag and Gringotts vault. Hope this helps anyone that's wondering after it apparently didn't appear on time for New Zealand.

Well that sucks. Not sure how things normally are in NZ, but the couple of sets i've waited on relase for have always been midnight. What gives? Why would this be any different? So weird. Thanks for reporting.

I really hope they aren't done with Hogsmeade sets. The Hogsmeade station i suppose is supposed to be this years one I guess, but a bit bland and boring compared to the previous two.

I'm in the same boat as you. Except it Was Grintoss and Rita Skeeter that were the last things I was missing. Only thing left that isn't necessary to me, but would be the icing on the cake is the wedding dress Hermione. I made a MOC with Decals and I love it, but a genuine one would be even better.

Gringott's releases in 5 days, how do we seriously still not have any official confirmation of the GWP release date? For anyone who has a good memory, is this normal?

Well this whole change to LEGO Insider came out the perfect time. Managed to rack up another $60 worth of discount towards my Diagon Alley by scanning all our families LEGO instructions.

Anyone else feel quite dissapointed after the GWP leak? Was really expecting a more detailed vault along the lines of how the eiffel office felt like a zoomed in part of the Eiffel tower. Instead we got a small box with a minecart parked out front? At least we are getting Gringotts though. Thats all that matters really!

While I completely understand that none of the previous Harry Potter GWPs came out at the same time as the D2C's, to be honest not a single one of them really goes along with the sets. They were just random Harry Potter GWPs. This is the first time the GWP has directly related to the D2C and it reminds me more than anything of the Eiffel's Apartment GWP that was released alongside the Eiffel tower. So i'm with Brickbob. I'm holding out hope that the GWP is releasing in two weeks to coincide with Gringott's. Also, looking back at news articles on it, i'm not sure about the leaks, but the Eiffel Apartment was revealed approximately 10 days before the release of the Eiffel tower. So hopefully early next week at the latest.

Yeah, personally I think the figures in that set were terrible. Well, nothing new and exciting to me anyway. I was 100% not getting that set initially. The ONLY reason I bought it was to complete the "modular Hogwarts". Needed something to make that horrible modular system look like something decent. In saying that though, I do completely agree with brickbride in that I also strongly disagree with HP having strong builds in every set. Personally I only feel like there's been a half dozen "good" sets in the last 3 years.