Alexandrina

Maybe it's my eyes, but that looks like a bigger box to me. It's possible that I'm influenced by the fact I've seen that set's box in the flesh, but the Winnie the Pooh box looks very much like the Ship in a Bottle, at least from the picture.

That's some impressive work - were there really so many bananas at Scoops Ahoy? Do I need to rewatch already? I spy with my little eye a yellow-skinned minidoll. That's a clever way to have two figures standing at different heights - good one!

That's genuinely a good shout. Simple enough to not take up a big set slot, with opportunity for any or all of the trio, plus the two aforementioned Death Eaters. It would double up as a useful set for City fans as well, if the café was well-designed. If that's the sort of set we're getting I'll be dead chuffed, so I hope you saying that hasn't got my hopes up for nothing!

£30 - Dobby and the Message, containing Dobby, Mr Mason and Mrs Mason £40 - Dobby's corpse, complete with knife in the throat £70 - Dobby's sock, but BIG £130 - Malfoy Manor, with Dobby, Scabior and Ollivander

Am I right in thinking that Lego have a trademark on the specific design of the minifigure that prevents other companies from directly copying? As long as a protection like that is in effect, Lego won't fall behind the pack imo.

I couldn't agree more. That skirt piece somehow looked worse than Marvin with nothing at all.

Speak for yourself!

Until you build the sequel!

Why? Eddie Redmayne is a bigger draw nowadays anyway, and if they get Colin Darrell back it will be like Depp was never there at all. If the film is good, it will do just fine.

Alternatively, it might get more love without Johnny Depp as the lightning rod for standout performance.

For a good hair piece? That's a bargain in my book.

I'll be Bricklinking me one of them I think. The hair compatibility is I think the saving grace of the Friends figures - it's essentially double the variety of hairstyles. And even some system hair pieces have holes in, so it's not a catastrophe anyway!

Nice work! Is that miniature shields I spy above the portcullis? They look wonderful! The mix of yellowed/old grey and the new bluish grey works to sell the castle as an aged titan. You mention that the blue semicircles were not easy - do share the technique with us!

Even that won't save a film adaptation. Going to the theatre is an experience: you go out for the evening, have a meal at a pub somewhere, watch the show, enjoy yourself the whole time. A film doesn't have that. Given that the core audience for the Cursed Child is people who are at best apathetic towards it, I just don't see who's going to go to the cinema to see it when there are better options. And once it gets to streaming? When you have a choice between the actual Harry Potter films and the Cursed Child, it's a no-brainer which you pick. I feel safe in predicting that we will never get Cursed Child Lego.

It is indeed. But then, the pieces you get as extras tend to be the pieces you don't need, because you already have a dozen as extras from other sets. A whisk is much more useful!

I genuinely don't ever remember seeing that before. I certainly never picked up on there being a Michael!

I had to look him up myself! Michael is a random Gryffindor who turns up twice in Order of the Phoenix - once as an extra at Kings Cross, and later apparently being consoled by Fred and George. I don't remember that happening though - maybe it's a deleted scene?

It's been a little while since I bought a whole set, but in the name of completing a set I found in a job lot, I recently bought one of the original Phase II clone troopers with the dark red circles on the armour. It's a beautiful figure! Now I only need the green clone and I have the set.

You'll just have to buy a bigger house for all your Harry Potter Lego!

You could get the Gungan Sub for less then than Amidala alone now. I hope Harry Potter inflation never gets to that extent!

It's going back a while, but the Mandalorian Battle Pack (the one with four blue Mandalorians, not the recent one). At that point Lego had a 100% hit rate with battle packs, but that was a huge disappointment. The build was so forgettable I genuinely don't remember what it was, but the figures? Ugly heads, ugly helmets and no real variety meant it fell way short of expectations. Lego never really recovered what a Battle Pack should be, imo.

Early hours of Friday morning UK time, as far as I can tell (so Thursday evening in the US I presume). I don't actually know if they were ever back in stock worldwide - by the time I woke up Friday morning, the torsos were gone, though there were still legs in stock as of yesterday.

I have to say, I would be pretty miffed if I spent a hundred and got that. Yes, the box is heaving - but it looks like a £70 box to me. I doubt I would buy a Harry Potter set with the same price to size ratio unless the minifigures were excellent.

And Cho, for some reason.

Too many Gryffindors! Though there's a risk Lego see it differently - "not enough Gryffindors" - and give us Bem, Nigel, Michael and another Harry.