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So it is a minifig flying lesson?

By the way, stonewars have slightly edited the D2C description (propably as a result of our discussion here): "Das LEGO Harry Potter 76391 D2C Set ist das Set, das bis vor kurzem fälschlicherweise von vielen für das Schachspiel gehalten wurde und 249,99 US-Dollar kosten soll. Tatsächlich soll es sich dabei aber um ein anderes D2C Set handeln. Was es nun genau wird, ist leider noch nicht öffentlich bekannt, allerdings hörten wir zumindest, dass es etwas völlig anderes werden soll, als viele Fans erwarten. Es ist also leider vermutlich nicht mit einer Erweiterung für Schloss Hogwarts oder der Bank Gringotts für die Winkelgasse zu rechnen. Stattdessen hält sich aktuell das Gerücht, es könnte sich um verschiedene baubare Objekte handeln… Ob das wirklich glaubwürdig ist, können wir derzeit nicht bestätigen. Sobald wir hier konkretere Details für euch haben, stellen wir euch das LEGO Harry Potter 76391 D2C Set nochmal im Detail vor!" https://www.stonewars.de/geruechte/lego-harry-potter-2021-neuheiten-2-halbjahr/ In the first paragraph they are reiterating the chess set mixup and then go on to transcribe Guyons and Falconfans comments (the lower your expectations and different from what we expect kind of comments) leading up to the rumour about the buildable objects. Then the important sentence "If this is really believable, we can currently not confirm." ("Ob das wirklich glaubwürdig ist, können wir derzeit nicht bestätigen."). In other words they have clarified that they can not verify the rumour of the buildable objects and that they are just reporting on the rumour (which has originated most likely on this forum). So we are trapped in a loop where the rumour's believability is self-sustaining

Take into account the latest naming conventions in the HP series: Official title of the January classroom books 76382: Hogwarts Moment: Transfiguration Class 76384: Hogwarts Moment: Herbology Class Now lets say the title of the Harry and Hermione set is "76393 Hogwarts Icon Collection: Harry Potter and Hermione Granger". You see how my post with the subtheme name makes sense now and the term "collection" in the title indicates that it there is possibly more than one to collect in the future Furthermore the word "icon" derives from early christian iconography of Jesus Christ but is nowadays used in the context of brands. There are sports icons (e.g. Ronaldo, Messi) and fashion icons (various models). The word icon in its definition refers to well known persons much less objects. "Hogwarts Icons" would therefore (if they used the word correctly) refer to famous persons in Hogwarts. If it were your point 1. and it were objects, then it would have to be famous objects. The 4 founding members and their trinkets (sword, locket, cup and diadem) could be considered iconographic objects in addition to the sorting hat, but a regular cauldron or a school book are not "iconic" objects.

They said a few pages ago that they have a list. If they had a picture of both the chess set and the real D2C, the mistake with the 250 $ chess set would have never happened, because noone would pay 250 $ for that amount of pieces. Theoretically both sets are D2C and it is harder to get pictures for them because they have to come from Lego themselves or that one exclusive retailer (in the case of the chess set). The fact that the supposed "hacker" had them, makes him more believable than those that read of a list. I had a similar thought regarding the Harry and Hermione figure set. TLG would not just call that set "Harry and Hermione". If the 120 $ Harry and Hermione set does well, the plan could be to release more sets under the "Hogwarts Icons Collection" title as a subtheme name with further releases for Ron, Dumbledore, Hagrid or other characters in a similar scale

It is new

What happened to the Polybag?

They won't break constantly. What are you talking about? A complete chess set is the play feature and faithful recreation of the scene. If it were only a queen like in the first rendition 20 years ago you would he right however. Much more interesting about the article is the flying lesson set, which they say is minifig scale which is opposed to what falconfan and guyon said. The information about the D2C is worded like they have no information themselves and are just reporting what we have discussed on here

Inofficial list from Brick Fanatics (plans might change, like with the Great Hall): Charms and Herbology December 2021, Transfiguration and Potions Dec 2022 A year of shelf life/restocking time is not really an early retirement (compared with the 3 months of the last Hidden Side wave). And Transfig and Potions get 2 years.

No Harry is in his Diagon Alley Muggle clothes

These are preliminiary pictures that got leaked in February through an Italian retailer and have been around for a few weeks. They are legit, but they do not show 100 % finalized products (mainly the minifigs and some part recolours).

That would fit for the season 7 theme. But maybe they are mixing it up from later seasons and we get Ross with glow-in-the-dark teeth from Season 6

The mask is in the trailer. It is the Star-Lord mask. In this what if episode T'Challa never becomes the Black panther. He is abducted by Yondu (like it is shown in the trailer) as a child and is raised just like Peter. The title could be "What if Yondu's space GPS messed up and he took the wrong kid". You are right that they technically haven't shown a clear shot of the legs. But in this article is some official photos of T'Challa Star-Lord https://comicbook.com/marvel/news/marvel-what-if-disney-plus-black-panther-star-lord/ The What if series is an episodic retelling of each of the MCU films. So one episode is the "what if Peggy Carter was injected with the super soldier serum because Steve failed to pass Erskine's last morality test" version of the first Captain America movie and so on.

How would the T'Challa Star-Lord leg printing fit the normal Black Panther printing? Have you even seen his What if costume? He is wearing a purple version of the Star-Lord leather jacket in the What if trailer. It isn't a Black Panther costume in space but just a stylized recolour of Star-Lord's costume with T'Challa in it. This is a render of a Lego version of the trailer costume. The legs are just black combat trousers with yellow highlights (no purple energy effects whatsoever).

Monica is from Season 7 as well. Although in her case episode 9

The torso is a slight improvement, but the head with the printing and the unprinted "ear" piece clashes to much. It would have looked better if either the ear piece was also printed (like they did once in the past) or if the printing on the head was toned down, so that it doesn't have this abrupt change between ear piece and head. Or even better give us a mask like they did for Captain America and Cap Marvel alongside a Chadwick Boseman head print. Lego is severly lacking in good and easy to get head prints for POC

On a positive note: Captain America with shield, hair piece and printed helmet is coming in the Lego Marvel magazine issue after Thor. That is even cheaper than the small mech set

A "lower your expectations" with the Black Panther minifigure upfront would have been more helpful, just saying

Yes the hair is trans light blue with a dark blue head band. We will get the same hair piece also in her regular black with medium azure headband

A minifigure of Janice in this outfit has leaked:

Complete minifigure of the water spirit form of Nya has leaked

Lady Loki would also be a likely candidate since they are trying to include more female characters in the cmf these days.

I think you misunderstood @Lego-Freak : the first wave of HP anniversary sets (Polyjuice set, Chamber of secrets, Hogsmeade, Third floor corridor) are still scheduled for a June release (according to newest table published in this Promobricks article today https://www.promobricks.de/goldene-lego-harry-potter-minifiguren/120582/ ). They just updated the Fawkes buildabe creature set, 76392 Wizard Chess and the rest of the third wave in their table to August "8/2021" now (which was previously June in their table from an article published in February). The Advent Calendar is releasing in September. So we are getting 3 waves this year: 1st wave: Hogwarts Moments (January 21) 2nd wave: Anniversary sets 76386-76389 (June 21) 3rd wave: Rest of anniversary sets and buildable creations 76392-76395 (August 21) Advent calendar and D2C are seperate releases

IMO Draco has the highest chance to be in a polybag like Obi-Wan

Lego was always a luxury product and can be considered, like all toys, a "cash grab". Humans and primates survived for thousands of years without anything but sticks amd stones. So you are free to play with those if you think this wave is a cash grab.

Those pictures have the actual box backgrounds behind them. Your list is not entirely accurate, it seems. Snape has the chess box background and Quirrel the Quidditch training grounds.