Metanoios

Looking at the micro-scale one and the first three stickers on sheet A, I think the first building you have to build is actually Gringotts (pergament scrolls for the goblins). Followed by Scribbulus and Ollivanders as one module. Then 2 seperate modules: first one with QQS and Daily Prophet, second one with Flourish and Blotts and Fortescue. Last module is WWW. There is no Leaky cauldron. Just a larger and exdpanded version of the microscale one. I think the micro-scale set was a teaser for the setup of the system scale set

The 3D puzzle has Ollivander and Scribbulus together as one module

Leaky Cauldron is definitely included because of stickers 2-4 on Sheet B (interior with wanted posters on columns and the door to the outside of the "Muggle world")

First two buildings are Scribbulus and Olivander (sheet A). Sticker sheet B is for Leaky Cauldron, QQS and Daily Prophet. Sheet C includes Flourish and Blotts and Florian Fortescue' ice cream parlor. Sheet D is only WWW with a Knockturn Alley sign

Sticker sheet A has the Ollivander logo

Multiple stickers of Lockhart's autobiography

I think the Gringotts logo might be a print

Fortescue's has a ice cream menu sticker

One of the Daily Prophet stickers is in dark blueish gray and looks like stonework. I don't think that would work as a newsstand

Sticker sheet leaked. Quality Quidditch Supplies and Scribbulus are definitely shops that we will get. Multiple stickers with "Daily Prophet" suggest the Daily Prophet Office and Ollivander's is also included. WWW and Flourish and Blotts are on seperate sticker sheets

I think the reveal for Diagon Alley will be on August 1st (date of Harry's first visit to Diagon Alley). The CMF could be revealed sooner

Why? It does have three exclusive minifigs (8 exclusive prints). The last one only had two * new torso prints (Flitwick and Hermione), 1 "1/2" new face prints (Flitwick and technically McGonagall) + the beard recolour (rest of the architect were all existing pieces) Edit: * Forgot the two new torso print for the chrsitmas sweaters. = 4 new torso prints

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The second face would be visible on the back of the helmet (the AT-AT driver helmet doesn't cover much). I think the budget for that print comes from the Star Wars team because they didn't use a lot of new parts or recolours in the new Lego SW wave, but they introduce new face prints for the clones and in the case of Riddle the Empire

Had some time during the weekend to build some more Harry Potter MOCs and Mods: Grawp mod (fixed the shoulders, leg and back issues I had with the official version):

Some of the heads from the new Burrow (75980) were available but are not there anymore

As far as I understood the message, it will only affect the release and marketing in the United States.

D2C Spinner's End and the rest of London in micro scale with spare room to add the micro scale Diagon Alley set we got 2 years ago There are only a few logical possibilites for a Harry Potter D2C: minifig-scale Diagon Alley, Hogsmeade or (more unlikely) motorised Hogwarts Express (multiple waggons) with Hogsmeade station

With bigger builds you run out of display space pretty fast. So I personally choose detail over size.

Does Padma in the AC use the Centaur/Dumbledore hair piece in black or the one from the new Hogwarts student pack (Cho)? Printed coral 1x2 brick for the dress and her skin colour is most likely nougat (although the saturation in the pic is a little off)

That would also explain why the leaks take so long to appear...

Or an oil painting of the catalogue and the artist is slowly losing his eye sight

Regardless of the colour the shape of the hair piece doesn't fit the one used for Hermione in the Clock Tower

Does the firebolt use a new piece for the straw at the broom end? I don't recall Advent Calendars ever introducing new pieces?

When you watch the Yule Ball scenes, at the start there is no piano in the Flitwick shot of him directing the orchestra (I realise now after seeing set photos that the grand piano is outiside of the shot on the right), and after the dance there is a rather quick transition to the Weird Sisters scene that features a lot of guitars, drums and bagpipes prominently for more than a few seconds of screen time. So when I rewatched the scene I thought the designers would include something you can actually see on-screen and not something that can only be seen on the studio tour. The piano at Grimmauld Place is featured even more prominently and is actually used for character development to showcase the Ron and Hermione romance