BrickBob Studpants

He does Remember the CA:CW Scarlet Witch minifig he posted a couple of weeks ago?

I‘m not saying that pricing isn‘t a valid topic to discuss, HOWEVER, it usually gets out of hand easily. This isn‘t a new thing either, especially for the SW threads, where it‘s been a prevalent topic ever since EB started. I just don‘t want this thread to drift off the same way Besides, price discussions tend to be a bit pointless in the end, not sure what they’re trying to accomplish apart from letting off some steam. Don‘t like the RRP? Wait for a discount or don‘t buy the set, simple as that. TLG won‘t adjust prices just because of a couple of AFOLs on the Internet. Vote with your wallet instead

I hope this thread doesn't turn into endless price discussions too I only very rarely visit the SW thread any more since that seems to be the only topic left I'm here to discuss news and rumours, not price policies. Aren't there specific threads for that?

You‘re getting ahead of yourselves again As others have pointed out, not everything @Falconfan1414 posts has to be a hint. And even if he was hinting at a Darkseid figure, there‘s currently no way to tell what it‘d be based on

Jumping to conclusions again, huh? I fail to see how a reveal event AR gimmick equals digital instructions Like the ones Hidden Side famously had?

Ollivander‘s, WWW, and Gringotts The problem with the Leaky Cauldron is the lack of a recognisable exterior. The iconic part about is undoubtedly the interior. One entry is a regular-Muggle pub and the other is a back alley that connects to DA via the brick wall. I mean, do we even see the LC‘s exterior (especially the upper floors, if there are any) in the films? I‘m not scoffing at the idea any more after seeing how well the modular design of DA works, but I still have some issues with that idea: They should‘ve started a lot earlier with it. We have no idea how long the theme will continue and a somewhat complete DA would take at last 4 more years This sort of flies in the face of a potential Hogsmeade set. I‘m not sure they would want to have two shopping streets compete like that That‘s a 100$ spot each year that could easily go to other (and dare I say, more deserving) sets Minifig-wise, those sets would be snoozefests I wouldn‘t mind it, but I‘d much prefer to get Gringotts and B&B as individual sets, and then move on to Hogsmeade

The Frankenstein‘s Monster Brickheadz has leaked on IG and surprisingly, it‘s based on the Universal version Let‘s hope there are more coming

I don‘t think so. Complementary D2C sets usually aren‘t a thing, unless they get released in quick succession like the Ninjago City ones. Moreover, Gringotts will most likely be a standalone set in the DH wave, leaving no prominent shops for a potential follow-up set since 75978 already has 2 of top 3 most iconic ones. And this set is called „Diagon Alley“. What would they call an add-on? „More Diagon Alley“? „Diagon Alley II: Electric Boogaloo“? The way I see it, smaller add-on sets would make more sense, but even then I think there‘s a lot of other locations people want to see first before additional DA shops that don‘t have any screentime or important characters associated with them

I think the minifigs were supposed to be timeless and thus interchangeable between scenarios, which is also why they never used short legs, even well after their introduction in 2002. Just look at the 2010/2011 sets: with a few exceptions, they’re not based on a single movie, often including elements from multiple ones (CoS Hogwarts Express scene + HBP Luna in the same set anyone?). Also, screen accuracy was apparently far less important than in the reboot

So was I, and I‘ve also switched sides immediatedly after having seen the leaks They would‘ve had to exclude A LOT of stuff to fit Gringotts in there or increase the price by quite a bit. This will undoubtedly sell out within a few hours, mark my words

Which all goes back to the same unreliable attention-grabby source We did have names, the list they were part of was first posted more than a year ago:

These are the exact same three sets that were on the cancelled 2020 set list I think someone stumbled upon that list and is now trying to pass it as their own „leak“

Can we please wait for a reputable leaker to confirm this alleged set before discussing it further? I don‘t trust lego_fake_news unless another source corrobrates their „info“

Hasn‘t that „rumour“ been shot down already? Lego_fans_news is really starting to get on my nerves They repost anything they find without giving credit and don’t even check if what they’re posting has been debunked already. They also just reheated the list of cancelled Overwatch sets

Okay then, the Tri-Wizard Cup has definitely appeared each year in the reboot (CMF S1, Rise of Voldy, 2020 Advent Calendar) while the Goblet of Fire is debatable I thought the cup in the microscale RoR was just a random trinket, I mean why would the GoF even be there? The Diadem at least was hidden in there on purpose

Don’t you mean the Tri-Wizard Cup? Unless the GoF is hidden somewhere within the Room of Requirement in the microscale Hogwarts Does the “The Boy who Lived” newspaper count? That one appears in quite a lot of sets

Happy birthday @Modal! Speaking of Ginny: Am I the only one who finds it hilarious that after lamenting the lack of Weasleys for two years we’re now being bombarded with them? 3 Ginnys, 2 Freds, 2 Georges, 2 Mollys and 1 Arthur in the same year is really impressive! I hope they do the same thing next year with something else that has been sorely lacking thus far

Of course it doesn‘t show up in the top 5 list, how is a theme with 6-7 sets a year supposed to compete with themes that encompass 20+ yearly sets? Even if every HP set manages to outsell, say every single Ninjago set, the latter will still prevail just based on sheer set numbers alone Their metric is total sales, not relative sales. If it was the latter, HP might crack the top 5 easily, perhaps the top 3 even

Yeah, no matter how much we’d all want the Penguin or Catwoman, the minifigs most likely won’t be based on anything but the original Batman. My minifig choices would thus be Beret Joker, Batsy, and of course, the one and only, Bob „Number One Guy“ the Goon We even already have a suitable hat/hair combo piece for him:

That would only make sense if a set gets postponed We‘ve had early leaks before (e.g. last year, when Trudgen‘s head leaked along with the first wave of TROS sets in July while the sets the minifig belonged to was released in January), but not THIS early. I don‘t think they’ll suddenly start to release HP sets in 1HY either, so it has to be from an unknown polybag or GWP set We would‘ve heard about it if that was the case because they wouldn‘t be exclusives and thus retailers would have known about them Besides, the only year so far to get an additional wave was 2019, presumably to make up for the lack of a CMF series and a D2C

Convention exclusives are exempt from that rule, as stated in the original announcement And even if they wanted to, they couldn’t just sell the Bespin Duel set worldwide because it was produced in a limited capacity. Based on what we know about the production cycle, the set was already firmly in production when the conventions were cancelled, so different packaging is pretty much all they could do at that point

Looks legit to me I wonder why there weren’t any rumours though... Sure, we’ve only just recently learned about this years Winter Village set and the Collosseum, but at least we knew about their set numbers beforehand! This one completely comes out of the blue, even more so than the NES which we at least had heard some VERY vague rumours about. If this is real, it might help explain why we got less regular sets this year compared to Marvel, just to balance things out between them I guess. Two D2Cs in the span of a year plus a CMF is worth replacing multiple regular sets in my book Personally, I’m hoping for two things with this: A display stand, otherwise this is gonna be a nightmare to display Some minifigs from Batman Returns

There are some nanofigs on the topmost floor of WWW, so maybe there’s one hidden up there? Not counting on it, but it would be hilarious if they did that.

Has anyone else noticed how similar Lockhart’s new face is to the original one, with the necessary updates of course? Raised eye-brow, prominent cheek lines, open-mouth smile with visible perly whites

@chris6507: You’re right, I must’ve overlooked it Makes a lot more sense this way