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I really want to like these, but the only one I really do love is the Citroen/Fighter chase. Time to bricklink some pigeons to uhmmm… maim. The Temple of Doom feels very cartoony for a bloody sacrifice, the statue especially, I much prefer the grounded look of the old one. The one thing this one does better though is the track layout going around instead of straight, doesn’t take up as much space. Very glad to be getting the Maharaja too. The Escape of Lost Tomb kinda feels barren but finally getting Sallah, I can forgive it. Fingers crossed for an epic Temple Escape and better photos. So far not the best impression.

Personally feel like a Hogwarts Grounds set would focus on more Forbidden Forest type stuff and there’s only two memorable scenes left. Imo it’s either going to be a Hagrid’s Hut remake this type focusing on Philosophers Stone and the first year detention. OR it could be focused on the Deathly Hallows and basically be a remake of the 2011 set, maybe with a Boathouse or Bridge.

Whomping Willow and Astronomy Tower

Durmstang Ship confirmed? Be still my beating heart

Hmmm good point I wonder then if there is a system scale Sail Barge to precede the 2024 one in this upcoming wave, just like the AT-AT

UCS JABBA’S SAIL BARGE LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I think this is a rough model as not only the fins are missing but it’s at 6,500 pieces as well, so this feels like a placeholder. And I got money it’s coming out this year, no way they don’t have the Barge come out on the 40th Anniversary. I’m SOOO excited, the barge is my favorite Star Wars vehicle and it’s about time it gets the royal treatment it so rightfully deserves.

Crystal Skull had the right inspiration and ideas, just the execution was not that great imo. Easily the worst of the four but it’s not the dumpster fire some people make it out to be. Only set I would consider buying from the film would be an Arnie’s Diner with the car and motorcycle chase with a statue of Marcus Brody. I just don’t think the locations of the film aren’t the greatest to lend themselves to cool Lego sets.

Would love a full blown interior as well especially the kitchen area would be nice alongside a bunch of aliens to fill the barge. My biggest hope is that they fix the nose of the Barge and not make it so slanted and make it a bit more round like the 2006 one. The 2006 Barge is probably in my top five favorite Lego sets I just love the design so much, so a full blown $500 UCS Sail Barge with all the bells and whistles could be my new favorite.

I just found out about it watching Brick Clicker’s latest video.

I love that Han Solo carbonite is going back to being brick built. The original carbonite piece has to be one of my all time favorite Lego pieces. Accurate? Not quite but god am I being blinded by nostalgia. Hopefully the Rebo means UCS Sail Barge, though my wallet would beg for mercy after all these leaks over the last week.

Mini figs are Indiana Jones, Hovito, Belloq and Satipo according to Promobricks

My hope for Indy is that it doesn’t become evergreen but it stays around for a couple more years after this initial wave, that we can get most of the key scenes and vehicles made available.

If they are going the Star Wars route then the smaller D2C would be released first in this case the Knight Bus, probably with the rest of the wave on June 1st. Then Gringotts would release in September.

I think the only two sets that I’m 100% buying is the buildable Dobby and Gringotts. It’s confirmed that it’s compatible with DA so I’m very curious how they pull off the underground track portion. Bet it comes with the dragon and Leaky Cauldron for that price tag which would be perfect. Still think that the $130 is the Lovegood home, feels like the same price range as Grimmauld and Burrow sets. The $90 set I’m putting money on it being the bridge that Neville collapses.

I feel like with such a big piece count, I think it’s going to be another item like Sword of Gryffindor or a buildable creature. I’m putting my money on a Buildable Dobby with you called it, socks and Tom’s Riddle Diary.

1) Gringotts 2) First Year Detention with new fang and unicorn mold 3) Inferi Cave 4) Durmstrang Ship 5) Lovegood Home (With a similar feature as the Temple of Airjitzu where you can reenact the Tale of the Three Brothers) Bonus: MORE LOCKHART VARIANTS NEED GOLD AND BLUE AND GREEN AND RED LOCKHARTS!!!! And Narcissa of course. But yeah I think these are the five sets that I see myself buying before I hang it up for HP. Don’t have anymore room for more Hogwarts add ons so I stopped buying those and every other major location has been pretty much done and I’m not buying remakes or items.

1) Diagon Alley 2) 12 Grimmauld Place 3) Rise of Voldemort 4) Astronomy Tower 5) Attack on The Burrow 6) The Shrieking Shack 7) Clock Tower 8) Great Hall 9) Hogwarts Express 2018 (have the big boi but haven’t built him yet so he’s unranked) 10) Expecto Patronum 11) Beauxbaton’s Carriage 12) Umbridge’s Forbidden Forest Encounter 13) Hagrid’s Hut 14) Knight Bus 15) Advent Calendar 2019 Wow this was a hard list to make, it just shows how phenomenal the Harry Potter reboot has been. I could probably tell you my least favorite sets like Sirius Black’s Escape or Fluffy Encounter, but ranking these was quite the task. Here’s to 2023 being another banger year!

Second Task: I love and I mean love the new Krum, it’s such a huge improvement. And finally getting Grindylows is absolutely fantastic. The builds are both okay, nothing jaw dropping but I do love the stackability of the two portions. My one main gripe is I feel this set doesn’t feel like a $45 set but who really cares I’m still buying it anyways. Room of Requirements: This one is a huge surprise for me, was not expecting this to be as good as it is. The diadem, DH Harry and Hermoine, Helena, this set is jam packed. Love the play feature that the door disappears and reappears as you please. And the snake is a great build as well. Nice to see the pixies and phonograph as well. Way better than last years extensions and the $50 feels justified.

Hyped I cannot and I mean cannot wait to see the Second Task set! Sure it maybe a bit small but they did the Graveyard Duel justice with $20, got full faith they do Blackwater well with $45.

The four remakes will be out April 1st according to BrickClicker. Can not wait!

Just a heads up, the new Hogwarts Express has 5x VIP Points in store purchase, which means you get a $100 off. Feeling really tempted to splurge ngl.

Oh dang I never knew that, thank you very much for pointing it out! Now I got a brand new excuse to watch my favorite Harry Potter film yet again. I take back everything I said about accuracy before and sorry for the mess up. And yeah I 100% agree the last two D2Cs have not been up to snuff so fingers crossed for something great this year.

Yeah I agree. Like at least Scribulus looks kinda cool with the grey/blue color scheme but I’m not a huge fan of Florian’s because of the bottom half being that Easter Egg Yellow and top half being tan. But if I was designing it, I’d definitely take out those two and WWW (I absolutely adore the building it’s fantastic but it’s a better standalone set and doesn’t fit the Year 1-2 theme the rest have) and have Gringotts, Leaky Cauldron and Borgin & Burkes. It’s always been wild to me how you can make DA without Gringotts unless there’s another addition. Like for $400 you would want the most essential version of the street with the most important shops. But with that being said, I still very much enjoy it and consider it the best Harry Potter D2C to this point. Dude why are trying to mini mod the thread? Of course we’re speculating, the original question was a hypothetical and there’s no new leaks to talk about so might as well. I can wishlist for what I want and you’re not going to tell me otherwise. The Hogwarts Express is a perfect example of a D2C set that didn’t need to be $500 but was and I’m afraid we will see the same with Gringotts. They made the set incompatible with other Lego trains and we only got a small fraction of King’s Cross Station. And the special track is a huge chunk of the set which imo is the definition of a padded set. The set is 5,000 pieces large and it feels like you are getting not much for $500, just a waste of pieces. If Lego made the set compatible with the other trains, I feel like a lot of the complaints would just vanish. The set would be cheaper and probably have more of the station. So I’m not buying the argument that a $500 Gringotts is ruled out because Lego has shown that they are fine adding useless stuff to their HP D2C. They just design at what price point they are given and if they are given a $500 point for Gringotts then it will be padded out and not DA compatible Also what’s wrong with the Leaky Cauldron and Burgin & Burkes being in the same set of Gringotts? Sure Leaky Cauldron is on the opposite end of the street but these are modular sets, you can rearrange them as you please. Flourish and Blotts is technically before QQS and Florean’s is on the opposite side of the street, so Lego doesn’t care too much about their placement and I honestly don’t blame them. And it didn’t stop Lego in 2011 from including Borgin and Burkes in the same set as Gringotts. So that’s not really an argument either, Lego took creative freedom with their Diagon Alley and honestly it’s not a bad thing.

I won’t buy a Gringott’s that’s not compatible with DA. I personally don’t really care for the tracks though an Ironbelly would be cool. DA needs its centerpiece. My ideal take on the set would be Gringotts, Leaky Cauldron, and Borgin and Burkes to round off the major locations of Diagon Alley. Essentially a remake of the 2011 Diagon Alley but swap out Ollivanders for the Leaky Cauldron. Minfigs would be 2x Goblins, Griphook, Bellatrix/Hermoine, Harry Deathly Hallows, Dragomir/Ron, Borgin, Quirrell, Tom, Cornelius Fudge, POA Fred Weasley, POA George Weasley, POA Molly Weasley, POA Ron, POA Hermoine, POA Harry, HBP Draco, Fenrir Greyback.

Not a big fan of Jabba’s Palace as a diorama set to be quite honest. As much as i want a new Jabba’s Palace I feel like by making a diorama set you’re only focusing on only one scene when there’s so many great scenes and characters we would missing out on. MBS style would do it true justice imo