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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

Okay now I’m sold…

For me I would personally love The Supremacy for $160, a Crait showdown set for $30 with Crait Luke, Crait Leia, and Kylo, and anything on Canto Bight Fatheir whatever. I really want a Lego Canto Bight Police Officer, I really loved that design.

IT’S FINALLY HAPPENING, SECOND TASK LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I haven’t spent a lot of money on Lego Star Wars the last couple of years but this wave is going to break me. Seeing ROTJ get all this love for the 40th anniversary is making me squeal. Speeder bike remake means we’ll finally get an Endor Luke remake. Always can never get enough of the Final Duel as it’s my favorite scene in all of cinema. And more Mandalorian on the way…Pinch me I’m dreaming

After sleeping it on, think I’ll buy this once I get $200 stored up in VIP, I’m at $100 at the moment. Good set but $500 is not it. While it’s an improvement of the 2018 version, it’s not x6 better. I think at $300 I can pull the pin on it.

I don’t care for the train much at all and getting so little of King’s Crossing is pretty disappointing. But those mini figs are to die for, there’s so many exclusive variants. HBP Draco, Lupin, PS Ron, and the epilogue Potter family. Man I really don’t want to buy this set, I really don’t but those figs man…

We got March sets: 76409: $34.99 76411: $34.99 76420: $44.99 76413: $49.99 76412: $34.99 76413: $34.99 So 4 book sets including recent price increases and probably more Hogwarts extensions

Most of my wishlist must haves are complete but there’s still one set I’m waiting for and it’s the Second Task. Gimme Grindylows and Shark Krum ASAP

It’s not extremely pointless at all, it’s a useful tool to seeing Indiana’s longevity as a theme. Indy and HP are both beloved licensed themes that were both prematurely ended and are now being rebooted with a new movie in the works. Indy 5 for Indy, FB for HP. Same strategy as well, some new sets for the new film and a couple of classics as well. The only difference and this is my biggest reason why I don’t think Indy won’t pass the three year threshold is that Indy is less popular than HP. Maybe I’ll be wrong, who knows for sure. And no, they’ve been sets from 7 of the 8 movies in the franchise. And I’m not going to get into the whole JK Rowling thing since this is an Indy thread, but shutting down one of Lego’s best selling themes because of the author’s issues, a theme based on a world that has become more than its author due to the millions of fans around the globe is pretty boneheaded.