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Good to know, thank you!

Does anyone know when the gift with purchases usually go live? I want to get Diagon Alley ASAP but I also want the Brickheadz... I am worried if I order shortly before midnight when it goes on sale I will miss the Brickheadz. But, if I wait for the Brickheadz to go live, DA may get sold out. Hmm... I do still have over $100 of the new HP sets I have yet to buy though so maybe I will just have to make another order after the Brickheadz GWP goes live. But I have been trying to pace myself!

This looks amazing! I have created a Mountain Troll minifigure to go with the Microscale Hogwarts castle. (So he appears in roughly the right scale compared to the microfigures!)

If anyone is still wondering why the photographer has short legs, it may be because the actor (Peter O'Farrell) is literally credited as "Short man- Daily Prophet" in the film! https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0640990/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t25

Is there actually any point (besides fun!) to build the QR code? Can't I just use the QR code in the instructions? Also, does anyone know if there is s reason the last Ollivander figure can't be re-used? It seems a shame to allocate resources to a new shirt print for him when it looks just about the same as the last one. (Although I am the rare LEGO enthusiastic who loves when parts are re-used and dislikes unnecessary exclusivity!)

Has anyone else noticed that in the interior picture of QQS, with Lucius and Draco, on the left there is a display with what appear to be some Beaters' clubs. However, the clubs seem to be simply floating in the air unattached to the display. Can anyone figure out how they are attached or is this a rendering blunder?

Since we have been recently discussing that the Harry Potter brand has additional appeal to girls compared to other themes such as Star Wars, I wonder if we could eventually get Harry Potter characters in Mini-doll form. Do you think that will ever happen?

Started working on some microscale magical creatures to go with the D2C Hogwarts, and eventually decided to go for a full Forbidden Forest display. Enjoy!

I'll add: Neville: Battle of Hogwarts w/ sword and sorting hat Luna: Battle of hogwarts w... Ravenclaw diadem? She doesn't encounter it in the movie but it is her idea. I would love detailed CMF version of it. Dumbledore: Chamber of Secrets flashback

I turned the minifigure frame gift with purchase into a kinda 2-D Hogwarts to display mine. I'm currently working on designing two more elaborate frames to replace this one when I get the new CMFs. For now I will just get another of the same frame, but I also think the new frames from the LEGO Art theme could be a good fit, so I might explore those in the future.

Does Kingsley have the same old broom? I have hoped for sometime we could get a better "ridable" broom for the minifigs, and even if it isn't ridable, I think that mold looks a bit oversized and outdated at this point.

Given the recent proliferation of 18+ sets, including licensed sets like Star Wars Bespin Duel and Mario SNES, does anyone think Diagon Alley will be 18+? What 18+ Harry Potter sets do you think we could eventually get? Although it seems like if they wanted to go that direction with Harry Potter, the buildable Hedwig would have ready been a good 18+ candidate.

In response to Hannah Abbott and other minifigures reusing a head: I understand people want to get new exclusive parts with every expensive LEGO purchase - but isn't the whole fun of LEGO that the same parts can be reused in tons of different ways? Aside from iconic features like a lightning-scar and circilar glasses, I don't think most LEGO heads for normal people with eyes and a mouth capture enough detail that they shouldn't be reused often. My view has always been that unnecessary exclusive prints are just a tool to increase sales to collectors. More exclusives mean it's harder to collect everything and figures/sets more expensive on the resale market. So I would honestly prefer less exclusive figures/parts across sets. But despite that general opinion, overall I am thrilled with the variety of minifigures this wave. I think we could do well to reflect on even 2018, but especially 2011 and earlier when a large proportion of the figures for each wave wore the same exact Gryffindor uniform! I have been recently reassembling loose Harry Potter minifigures from all my scattered parts of 2001-2011 and I can't imagine the nightmare this would be if every character had had a slightly differently worn sweater, cloak, and/or scarf as they do now.

I totally agree. Although I am guilty of wanting to collect a lot of the Harry Potter sets and keep them as close to the instructions as possible, I find joy and creativity in setting the up together and placing minifigures in interesting places. I especially don't understand when I see people who have dozens or hundreds of minifigures standing static in a glass case - where is the joy in that? I made one general minifigure display that is a house where I can at least pose them all. For my Harry Potter CMF I tricked out one of those display frames to look like a flat Hogwarts. I agree but I have found some joy in placing the microfigures in various places around Hogwarts. I only wish I had more microfigures so they could belong in multiple scenes. And of course, you can't really tell where many are since I have the front of the castle on display... but I know. And it has inspired me to build some microscale additions that weren't in the set, like Hogwarts Express, Fluffy, and a thestral.

This may be a little off topic, but I discovered a weird bit of trivia today while trying to sort out my Harry Potter minifigure collection. Hermione did not appear in any of the 11 sets released in 2002! Seems very odd since she should be one of the three most prominent characters. I guess it makes sense when you realize she was absent (or petrified) for many of the major sequences of Chamber of Secrets - Privet Drive escape, Polyjuice scene in Slytherin, Aragog, and the Chamber of Secrets... They did release a set of the troll scene from Sorcerer's Stone in 2002 too though where she could have fit in if they went for an extra minifigure.