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Also connection points for Knockturn Alley (Borgin Burkes)

Quidditch robes for Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff!!

It's on the sticker sheet

And it is so lazy that they only include one leg print (which appears in every other HP Set)

Are the suits of the twin brown? Or dark orange? Why didn't they use this opportunity to bring back Sand Red as a colour like they did with teal?

What if the leaked Harry is a GWP exclusive? Also why does it always have to be a potato camera...

Where's the leaked year one Harry?

Hermione wouldn't settle for a measly "exceeds expectations". It should be an "outstanding" minifigure line-up

Could be the resolution, which is not great in the Burrow pic. Here's another Arthur costume (however with a tie, not a bow tie, but the pin stripes on dark green) https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d1/60/40/d16040f04ddc101de96f45062f4ebb0c.jpg You are right it could also be the photographer but then the head should have visible beard printing (which it has not). Or we get a completely new hat, hair + beard mould

No it is this costume. Look at the bow tie

A dark green torso (jacket) leaked, could be Arthur Weasley I think Edit: It's a bit weird that they chose the costume he wears at the Burrow breakfast (second movie) and not the on with the tie he wears in Flourish and Blotts

Since dvt brought up the fitting comparison between the Star Wars brand and Wizarding World/Harry Potter, I realized how similar the successes and mistakes in the handling of both brands are: 1. The prequels The succesful creator (JK, George) decides it's time for some prequels a few years after the original story is finished. They get complete creative freedom from the Studios and get on working. Both write their scripts completely alone. The first installment focuses on a young British protagonist (Obi-Wan, Newt). It introduces also a young boy who learns he has superpowers like no one before him yet he has problems controlling these powers and his emotions (Credence, Anakin). He is later on seduced by the dark side (Grindelwald, Palpatine) but there are also good forces who try to save him (Yoda, Dumbledore). Both prequels suffer from similar problems like pacing, character development, unneccessary side characters... I think Harry Potter is where Star Wars was 15 years ago and they are making the same mistake Star Wars did. Can't wait for old Harry throwing the Elder Wand away over his shoulder (that fell down a pit in the original movies just to magically reappear in the sequels) in ten years 2. The cursed child is the equivalent of the Star Wars Holiday Special ;)

They do also come in trans-green which would fit better for Avada Kedavra

I agree to some extent with both of your views, but this policy has also major disadvantages that you are glossing over. Let`s take Hidden Side, Star Wars (waves 2018-2020) or Monkie Kid as an example. They are developing a "big bang" theme quietly and secretly for years. We get some rumours like the name etc. . Then one day, when the stars align, they rush the reveal and ... it flops. Why you ask? Because they thought they knew exactly what the consumer wants. When in reality their little play-tests with ten kids and "extensive" market research didn`t actually represent the market at large. Or other factors that they didn`t anticipate are affecting sales. Like an app feature or box design their marketing decided looked "amazing", is actually complete rubbish. While a set the Star Wars community has been asking literally for years (501st Battle pack) sells like crazy and they can`t meet the demand. Because why the f*** would we listen or share our release plans with the consumer. They are our sheep and we lead them to the "General Grievous Starfighter"-pasture and "profit" by wasting shelf space on a product so ridiculously overpriced. So please tell me, how playing by business 102 is saving them from wasting millions of DKK/dollars on a product only a handful of people will buy (e.g. 75201 - First Order AT-ST) Another point regarding corporate espionage and knockoffs: TLG themselves decided to actively move a large part of their production capacities next door to the Chinese competitors. This time take Monkie Kid as an example. Some pictures did leak before the reveal, but not much more than a month before the official reveal. Yet the Chinese companies still were able to put out sets with similar minifig designs and so on, almost at the same time the TLG products did reach the consumer. They had to have seen those figs before the pictures leaked and might even had the figs in hand to make the copies that fast and in such quantities. Or the sticker sheet that we saw for Diagon Alley: Even if we see the official pics only 2 days before the reveal I guarantee you that there will be knockoffs sold even before that magical date. That sticker sheet has already found it`s way to them... Also the TLG did change their approach to set development and revealing D2C sets years before their release in advance and over official channels: the Lego Ideas Star Wars D2C survey (which the Republic gunship won). Because especially the Star Wars team seems to have realized that playing things too close to the chest can go terribly wrong (e.g. Assault on Hoth and other sets I mentioned that didn`t sell)

Looks like either human error while preparing the packaging machine or programming error. Two lots of Hermione instead of Ron and Hermione. Since these machines run a few hours there are propably a few boxes from that specific day with that mistake

I`m not offended. I just tried to show you that you are paying 90$ for that convenience. Instead of paying the next 100$ you could educate yourself and learn a new skill for free on the internet. Or ask people who don`t want to profit from your ingnorance which components you should buy. You can even buy them at a local electronics retailer in California, support a local American shop and still save a lot of money (even though the components will still come from China).

Use the front edge of the brick seperator to apply the stickers. Fold the edge of the sticker slightly downwards so that it starts to peel of from the sheet. Then take the brick seperator and use the sharp front and put it under the peeled of edge of the sticker you want to apply. Only 2-3 mm of the tip of the brick seperator should suffice to lift the sticker safely up. Hold it in one hand and with the other position your piece. That way you don't have to touch the stickers with your fingers and you can control your motions more easily. Also use a sheet of white paper on a clean and flat surface to press them against once you applied them. And make sure to use something like a compressed air can to clean the parts before applying the stickers from small dust particles

So you paid 100 $ for electrical components that you can get for less than 10 $ (including shipping) from Chinese online shops, like Aliexpress. From where they most likely buy them also but directly from the Chinese manufacturer with the printing "Light my Bricks" on them. And you even have to do most of the wiring and connecting still yourself. Those boards and LED strips are nothing special.

Yeah buy the LEDs, cables and power supply from an electronics retailer and not in prepackaged sets. They are really overpriced. You can find some good tutorials on the web and save a lot of dollars that way. Other advantages are that you can choose the light temperature and you can even get some with flickering effect

Blurry close-ups are often fake because it`s easier to hide obvious Photoshop edits that way. A mobile camera would auto-focus on something, not just blur the table and the tile. Well someone invested/wasted a few hours to create a fake print, kudos to them

Are you sure you're still having freedom pulsating in your veins? Maybe the evil metric demons got you in your sleep and have secretly infiltrated your mind Or is one of your parents or grandparents, for example, Canadian?

Ah sry I haven`t watched a lot of his latest videos. I just remembered his little feud with Solid Brix from a while ago. Well he is playing with fire and they might skip over him the next time they select LAN members. I know that Hachiroku92 did get in this year and he is making really good content. Someone didn`t convert their freedom units correctly

"Roads!!! Where we`re going, we don't need roads!" I don't think there will be a lot of pavement, maybe in front of some buildings like the Daily Prophet office or Florean Fortescue a few studs (3-5) deep but not more to accomodate a sitting area. However not in front of larger shops with a big interior like WWW or F&B

Don`t be too hard on him. Justin, MandR and others were doing exactly that for years and some of their videos were actually good. During that time the leaks weren`t distributed as fast over the interwaves as they are now. Though once they get into the Ambassador program and are getting actual info from Lego early, they tend to not report on it in their videos and wait to get the green light from Lego. Because they would loose their ambassador status and the chance to get early review copies sent by Lego. That`s why MandR is still making more leak videos than Just2good because he didn`t get in (Solid brix studios did) The problem nowadays is filtering out the noise from fake leakers.

How could you have access to an exclusive designer software and not remember the name of it? Most Lego employees would know the software. A member on this forum posted an unfinished mockup of a possible Diagon Alley set (made in LDD or stud.io) a few months ago on Instagram and someone reposted it on the #legoleaks thread. But it was made by him not a Lego designer. Maybe that is what you saw