Huigberts Builds

Oh idk, I kinda hope they'll do a couple sets anyway. Lego has always been weird when it comes to games. I feel like if they're not doing a set for the game alongside or soon after the release, they won't do one at all. So I don't really want them to wait for it too long. Especially if the game gets sequels, they would rather cash in on the new game than the old one by that point. Making us miss out on quite some stuff. I'm really saddened by this news, this really came out of nowhere to me. It's a shame how many great actors this franchise has already lost. But like he said himself, Hagrid will always be here. May he rest in peace. Raise your wands (or umbrellas) /*

Uhm, the leaked Brickheadz description literally name Oswald to be in the big Disney100 celebration brickheadz set, alongside Steamboat Willie (Mickey I assume), Snow White and Tinkerbell. So if anything he has the biggest chance to appear in the cmf series of the same name. He's nowadays mostly known for his Epic Mickey appearance, and I'm sure he will be pushed to the forefront even more by disney in 2023 with their entire anniversary campaign.

But isn't Tarzan from like 1912? Shouldn't he be in the public domain by now? I'm really confused by all this. Either way looking at their use (or lack there of) of Tarzan in merchandise as of lately, I guess it's indeed pretty much a given he won't be in this series then, whether they're legally allowed to or not. That's a real shame. Oh well, plenty of other choices.

Hey, I was just thinking how similar the lego Boutique Hotel actually is in shape to Gringotts. Has anyone ever tried modding it to be Gringotts? That could look pretty cool. It also made me wonder if that set is the reason why we haven't seen Gringotts yet. Maybe lego tries to avoid putting 2 sets that are too similar on the shelves?

I think that's mostly for disney original ips. So Marvel and the Muppets weren't affected by it. While the non disney ip for dc and batman was (still sad we didn't get the monkey with the wonder twins.) And most likely the Looney Tunes as well (otherwise they could've included Tweety with Sylvester.) So I think this time around the series will be affected by it again. It really depends on each series.

Oke I'm gonna give this a go: 1. Sorcerer Mickey: Probably the most likely figure to show up, and the necessary Mickey of the Series. 2. Oswald: To represent Disney's early years. 3. Pete: To represent the first big bad guy for disney and to represent Steamboat Willie. Not sure about the variant as they'll likely wanna reuse this head. Also this ends the Mickey and Friends representation for the series. I think 3 is fair for a 12 figures series compared to how they handled the previous 2. 4. Snow White: First Feature Length animation and upcoming live action make her a must for an anniversary series. 5. Pinocchio: Fun fact, originally this was supposed to be the first feature length animated movie for disney, it really deserves a spot on here, especially with the live action remake for disney+. 6. Cruelly DeVille: Trully iconic disney character, also the one with not 1 but 2 different live action adaptations (1 even with a sequel). Not to mention (as Accio Lego already explained in finer detail) that her movie introduced new technique which basically defined disney animations for decades. 7. Mary Poppins: Perhaps the most well known Disney live action movie, at least from the classics. Also very well known for combining animation with live action (not a first, but still very impressive) 8. Bo Beep: The least likely choice on this list, as I feel like they will be focusing more on main disney, but if they want to represent pixar in there anyway, it has got to be toy story again. And I feel like Toy Story 1 Bo Beep is kinda missing from the figures we've gotten so far and unlikely to get sets anytime soon. So if there's pixar, I bet on classic Bo Beep. 9. Tarzan: To represent the disney renaissance, ofcourse not the one who kickstarted it, but the one that ended it. Other options were either already done or kind of come in a pair. 10. Rapunzel: For the movie that basically started the modern computer animated Disney era (after about a decade of trial and error). Not to mention the animated hair. 11. Mirabel: To represent the new disney movies obviously. 12. Walt Disney: I think it makes sense for a 100th year anniversary series to include Walt himself. Plus funko did it, so it's not beyond the realm of possibilities. Not to mention he's what started it all, the one that makes most sense to put at the beginning of the timeline in 1923. Way more sense than the long forgotten Alice.

So this sounds very exciting. I expect figures for characters that meant something important in those 100 years, like a milestone or just something iconic. Like Sorcerer Mickey, Tarzan for the Renaisance, Rapunzel for the 3d era etc. Maybe even Walt Disney Himself, if not Yen Sid. And ofcourse Snow White and Pinochio (especially with the upcoming remakes). But what I don't get is why 100 years now? In 2023? Correct me if I'm wrong, but it all started with a mouse, and that mouse is from 1928. So if they celebrate 100 years in 2023, so a history from 1923 and onwards they'll have to include stuff from before mickey right? So Oswald and Pete specifically come to mind. But even those don't go as far back as 1923, that would be Alice, which would be a very odd choice. Really curious what to expect.

I was just thinking. With the AC this year we got Sirius from the wanted poster, something only really appearing in the background. This might open up the possibilities of more figures exclusive to pictures, like Charles Weasley from the Egypt Trip for example.

Yeah, that's a really weird choice imo. I mean it could've been an easy repeat and no one would bat an eye, but they did an entirely new print for the torso. I don't get why they wouldn't just give us the POA one then and keep the other one exclusive (but tbf, the original one should've been the POA to begin with)

Honestly, it looks good. I think the scale works pretty good next to the minifigures, definitely shouldn't have been bigger though, real shame it doesn't fit on regular tracks. I'm still upset we didn't get the entire epilogue cast though. I really hope they'll fix that sooner rather than later via a cmf series, advent calendar or whatever. Although in the end the pricing is really what's going to make or break my decision to buy it or not.

Is that a new cat piece? It looks so tiny. Or has it been used before? Either way great looking set. Will definitely have to pick this one up.

Wow, this is a huge disappointment. Reading the description it feels like they had a lot of different things they wanted this set to be. But rather than picking one of them and doing it well, they picked all of them and were only able to give us a taste of each. Like first of all we didn't get a motorised Hogwarts Express by the sounds of it, which is already disappointing considering how great the city trains are this year. Instead we get more of a ucs train, totally different scale than anything Harry Potter we've gotten before I imagine. Which would be fine, a cool display piece, but it only has 1 passenger car because they also wanted to include interior scenes of the movies and an entire station. They should've just focused on the train if they went this big, now it sounds incomplete. Then the minifigure selection. That's just all over the place. They wanted something from many different movies. They basically give us all the figures from the previous Hogwarts Express again. Then year 1 trio, again. A few random students, yeah this is really the set you want to get your army builder characters from. CMF Luna, another Harry. Draco in his hbp outfit is nice, I must admit, but I would've preferred him in a regular set. The conductor is a welcome addition as well. But then there's only half of the epilogue cast. They could've gone either way and I would've been happy. A train just full of students plus a conductor or 2 and the trolley witch. Just to populate the train. It could've represented any setting, great for display. Lupin, Dementors or Hagrid would've been a nice extra but not even necessary. But instead we get 4 different Harry's. 2 Ron's, 2 Hermione's, not even the ones we wanted I might add. That's really not fun to display. A set completely centered around the epilogue would've been great as well. We could've basically gotten the entire cursed child cast. Especially Albus and Scorpius would've sold this set to me. But we have only gotten the Potters. Why? It will take ages for another opportunity to get those characters again, if ever. (TLTR) So long story short, the set feels incomplete, rather than going all in on 1 idea, they half-baked a ton of them. Not a motorised system scale train with a full track and stations to pass by, nor a full, big UCS like Train, but only half of one so they can add an interior and a station. Not a full cast of students to populate the display, nor a full cast of epilogue characters but just about half of each. Mostly consisting of Harry's and repeats or remakes of figures we've already gotten the past few years. There's a lot of cool stuff in this set and I'm sure it looks great either way, but it would've been so much better if the set was more focused on one specific thing rather than so many. I'm really not sure if I'll buy this one.

Two figures I would still love to see in an advent calendar are Christmas Sweater Fred and George, with the big F and G on the torsos. Mostly because it's the closest movie outfit we have to how they looked in the games, their looks there are so iconic to me. But also because it's the best outfit to tell them apart.

An image of the advent calendar just leaked on Instagram confirming Tonks is definitely from there.

Yes, it looks great. I think I might just try to get 8. It's probably the most complete Hogwarts we've ever gotten in Lego form. Imagine if they did a D2C like this in sytem or minifig scale or somewhere in between, if not just 8 separate sets. Probably unlikely, but it's interesting to speculate how they will portray Hogwarts after the anniversary style. They'll have to keep it interesting.

Ah I didn't know that. Never really payed too much attention to city. Although it's interesting that 2018 is also the year the previous Hogwarts Express came out. Maybe that one will be on a 4 year cycle as well if the theme stays around? Ofcourse previous one wasn't exactly motorised, but it's a nice coincidence nonetheless.

I believe its called "pop-up". I think it's interesting how there's a heavy focus on trains and trains racks in the new lego city sets. Like there are 2 train sets, each with a controller thingy rather than having to use an app on your phone (hopefully that will be the case with the Hogwarts Express as well). And they have a separate train station set as well. If that tells us anything it's that LEGO is going all in on trains this year That's a shame, I'm still waiting for a Dutch version of the Quidditch Cedric book. I mean it doesn't really matter too much, I know English, but still, a Dutch one would be preferred. Which variants?

The new helmets look great, although I hope they'll still use the other 2 every now and then, just whatever works best for the suit they're trying to make. Not too sure if I'll buy it though as other than the new and updated figures, the set itself isn't really all too interesting, for that price at least. I kinda want a new malibu mansion rather than another hall of armor every year or two. This Nick Fury is also getting very repetitive, there are way cheaper ways to get him.

I don't really mind the unprinted legs, I like some variety, even if it's a downgrade, rather than getting the exact same Dumbledore again. BTW, love the brickheadz, especially Moody, although as I don't really collect them it's still gonna be a skip.

Ooh I love the new polybag, it's great to get Dumbledore this easily. The build looks very nice, it looks like 3 polybags will make the entire castle.

Love the medieval Mickey Set, especially jester Donald, with a new facial expression. Although I would've preferred it if goofy was in the camper van considering he is sometimes portrayed as living in one. I wonder what 10779 will contain as we still don't have the keychain goofy. I'm mostly hoping for a Pete figure, but that's probably too much to ask for.

I wonder if it will include goofy with his black jacket rather than the yellow disney parks one from the train d2c, as I noticed that the lego stores were selling keychains of that variant (maybe that's old news, haven't really been following this topic) while he doesn't have that in any of the sets.

Didn't they reveal the Star Wars Razor Crest really early as well a few years ago? Just to let the fans know Grogu stuff was in fact coming. It's been a while so maybe I got the timeframe wrong of reveal and release, but it doesn't sound to crazy if something like that would happen for spider-man or something similar.

I could also see them do a mix of both, like how they included a hbp WWW in a PS/CoS style diagon alley. It's also worth noting that WB brought back the red bridge for Hogwarts Legacy.

But aren't these 2 things kinda contradicting one another? Like on one hand you're saying LEGO is in the middle of transitioning the theme from short-term to evergreen, thus holding onto a few key sets to keep us around wanting more. Which honestly makes sense. But on the other hand you're also saying they're holding onto the sets to go out with a bang. While the entire point of going evergreen is that it doesn't go out, it stays around. Or, if it's goes evergreen, and looking at the sales it might as well, do you really think they'll keep holding onto a Gringotts until the theme eventually dies a slow death just to give it one last bang? When the original diagon alley has already left the shelves and new fans have no way to complete the street now without paying ridiculous prices on the aftermarket, I'll doubt that bang will be even that big. They're remaking many sets already, Great Hall, Clock Tower, Whomping Willow. So why would Gringotts (and to an extension Diagon Alley) be the one set we can only get once, and with that also being the last. That would mean that however long the theme will go on, they'll have to hold out on Gringotts. In an interview a while back the designers have said they already finished the original plan, that ended with 2020's wave. Ofcourse, after the original plan proved to be a huge success, HP got a soft reboot to keep the theme around. In another interview they said they currently didn't have any plans for Gringotts. I think it might have gone a little bit like this: The designers planned for the 2018-2020 waves we got and nothing beyond that. Ofcourse Diagon Alley was part of that wave, but they knew they couldn't just make regular sets on those locations as the average buyer wouldn't be interested in most of the buildings on their own. Only Ollivanders and Gringotts would work on their own. But then again, it wouldn't really be an alley with just 1 building. So it obviously needed to be a D2C to justify releasing the other buildings. The problem is, it's hard to do Gringotts justice as part of such a set. (Sure it's been done before, but we must keep the quality of modern lego sets in mind. ) I mean it isn't just the facade of the building itself. There's an entire system of minecarts, vaults and a dragon underneath. So if you want to include Gringotts AND make it count, it will take away from what they can do to the rest of the street. Not to mention most interesting Gringotts stuff is from DH, and their original plan was mostly based on the more kid friendly earlier movies, with things like the cmf series to fill in the bigger gaps. With what the designer told us, the most simple explanation is that for their original plan, Gringotts simply didn't make the cut. So why didn't it make the cut since then? Well, I assume they first wanted to see how well Diagon Alley would sell before making an extension. And considering the sets are likely designed about a year prior to release, the 2021 set would have been designed around when diagon alley released, so back when the numbers weren't in yet, plus it wouldn't really fit in with the anniversary sets anyway. Then this year's set would have been designed around 2021. But the thing to keep in mind is that people have been asking for a motorised Hogwarts Express since the 2018 one released, 2 years before a D2C Gringotts extension would even cross our mind. I especially seem to recall one of the most asked questions to the designers in 2018 was if the Express that year was designed with motorisation in mind/whether it would be easy to motorise the thing. Not to mention the many videos made on the topic. So the designers were probably thinking about that set before thinking of a Gringotts. Also it's only this year LEGO starts finally dipping their toes in DH sets, so they're probably holding off onto that for a bit. So tldr, while your theory is interesting, I don't think it would make sense for LEGO to do. I think it simply didn't make the cut for the original plan and now must fit into the new plan, for which it might simply not be a priority yet. With that being said, I think 2023 is the perfect year for Gringotts, if not then 2024, which really would be stretching. If we still haven't got it then I think it should be time to worry. On a sidenote, if LEGO wants Harry Potter to go evergreen they really should start diving into other stuff than the main movies at some point. Sure FB might not sell as well, but at some point they need something new. So hopefully they'll start looking at things like Hogwarts Legacy.