Alexandrina

Commander Cody is a popular character in Star Wars who has never been released in his Phase 2 armour despite frequent rumours to that effect!

For that price, it could well be both!

I have to say, this would be a very bold figure line-up. I'd be surprised to see a D2C without Harry - but I'd be down for it.

To go with our UCS Dobby's Sock of course! Nah, I'm just being sarcastic and wryly speculating on what this set may contain

Plot twist: it's the Express from Chamber of Secrets; the only minifigures are Harry and Ron, and most of the parts are devoted to building the viaduct, the Ford Anglia and the Whomping Willow!

They literally only appear in one scene, right? If a big D2C doesn't have them, we're never going to get them. Incidentally that would make this a set I'm happy to skip. I never liked the epilogue anyway, and I have 95% of the original Hogwarts Express from a joblot so another train is not in my priorities! That frees up some budget for other sets.

I'm of an age where I had the books right from the start but by the time I was old enough to really pay attention the films were already out - so I had no idea there was art released before the films! I always thought we'd only ever seen official images of the trio and Dumbledore (from the book covers). I wondered where the glow in the dark Snape came from...

Totally agree, a set that price on one raised baseplate would be an odd tall tower. Clearly we need FOUR raised baseplates for each corner of the castle!

If you meant that as a range of dates specifically rather than just conversational examples (which was my interpretation) then apologies as I did indeed misread your original comment. However the point does stand: Lego don't necessarily release all the parts from a set at the same time. Maybe that's a bad decision on their part, I don't know, but it's the way they work. I was merely saying that giving estimated release dates in this scenario is just going to lead to complaints anyway when some parts in a set are released much later than the rest of the set. There's really no need to start accusing people of logical fallacies because they engaged with your comments and had different views. Is there a problem? Lego presumably have reasons internally for working the way they do, which none of us here know. I'm personally not sure giving estimated release periods (beyond the general 'three months' thrown around) and posted a comment to say as much. Where is the problem there?

True! I would make the case that the old Marcus Flint face was better than the new one. Odd, since everything else has been a win - but imo the newer Flint print seems more like a Neville Longbottom prototype.

And here's the optimist in me hoping for the triumphant return of the raised baseplate Now that would be something worthy of the anniversary.

In fairness that part's true to the films! I'd actually never seen the 2010/11 Flitwick before so I looked him up, and... wow. Is it my imagination or are the eyes out of scale too?

Perhaps the real theme was the friends we made along the way! But it is odd that nothing at all has emerged, for something ostensibly scheduled for April

It doesn't help that licensed minifigures in general were falling off the rails at this point. Harry Potter 2.0 came just after Indiana Jones (and some of those minifigures are ugly as sin! *cough* Else *cough*) and around the same time we had the Toy Story long-leg abominations and the ugly Clone Wars minifigure faces - not to mention the odd decisions of Ben10. Definitely a great deal better this time around!

I've always seen BURPs as a way of building bulk quickly while also giving you stability to have play-room beneath the rock. For all they get maligned, I'd imagine people would like it less if every set with a BURP in it had instead devoted twenty or thirty bricks to building the rock, at the cost of as many pieces elsewhere in the build. How could Rocky River Retreat, for instance, be made at the same pricepoint without BURPs? Of course, I'm a bit of a BURP-gremlin so I'd be happy with twenty or thirty BURPs - I suspect most here would blanche at that amount!

As long as it includes the original Belville dog, for nostalgia's sake (and also because who doesn't want a giant dog terrorising their minifigures? )

They really weren't in the old days! Ron with a blue sweater over a grey shirt appears in three Philosopher's Stone sets (it's the only non-uniform Ron from the first film's sets in the original run) yet he only wears blue in one scene in the entire film - and then, he's got a brown jacket in the film which isn't present on the minifig. In fact, I don't believe any Hogwarts student's representation in the original wave is movie-accurate.

Given the lead times for sets, they might not have had the actual movie to go off - and so it could have been a scene that was later deleted. Lego do have form for this: the original run back in the day included Peeves, who was cut out of the first film during production and never included in the later films.

The trouble with that is that not all parts are going to be available at the same time, or for the same time. Imagine the uproar if Lego said "parts from X set will be available three months after release" and some parts were scheduled for months later.

Clearly we just need more dogs in general. D2C Paul O'Grady's For The Love Of Dogs when?

Long haired cat would be great, but we REALLY need a Chow Chow mould

Ooh I love it! Big fan of the log protrusions from the walls. Is that light nougat I spy on the floor?

Could be worse, I suppose - could be Aquaraiders 2007! But it's odd, especially since the minifigures prove that there's plenty of care going into the theme

More than that, it's not like Lego don't make enough for everyone who wants them. People buying a licensed set for the license is just more profit for TLG, and therefore more chance they'll make other cool sets.

It's about time they resurrected the cypress - still the best looking tree in Lego history