Gorilla94

And they gave him no print on his hoves, so he is inferior xD https://www.stonewars.de/news/lego-icons-mayor-manor-11383/ What do you guys think about the medium nougat cat? Crookshanks material?

I highly doubt the Astronomy tower would match the required scale to fit the current system, if the new one is classic play scale. I think the most we can not really "expect" but at least not rule out is finally a propper crookshanks and maybe a new lesser known teacher.

I never understood why people expected the clock tower. It would be on the backside of the main tower with a completely open inside left and right from it, if it was connected in the right place. The fact we didn't get the astronomy tower is really dissapointong. It is desperately missing in the silhouette. Skipping it while giving us 2 non-connected sets and the poorly done hospital wing that doesn't add to the silhouette at all is such a stupid decision.

So... time to moc the Astronomy tower then xD

3 (owlery, flying lesson greenhouses)... to be honest i really don't get what they were thinking giving us unconnectable (not just unconnected) stuff in a modular system again while skipping the Astronomy tower :/ that being said I am looking forward finishing my last lego project (rebuildimg the (not so ) great hall, fixing the connection to the main tower, mocing a bunch of Insert rooms, adding the astronomy tower and an underground section for the green house.... and of course replacing every sticker by custom prints. The only thing I want at this point from Lego is a solid Crookshanks.

I really don't get why lego is again and again releasing non-integrated sets into their modular lines. They could have at least skipped the flying lesson and instead given us something like the hospital wing nonnectable to the east wing to complete the siluette. Then there would really just be the astronomy tower missing.

Another question: do you guys use custom prints and pieces? I like Brickwarrior's wizard sleeves upgrade for robes and got a bunch of different printed potions for example.

You were misunderstanding. I said as an adult collector I am also fine with certain things being a huge downgrade because I have the superior things already and get a few new things like a more accurate Mrs. Norris. I just think it sucks for the newcomers to get an ugly face print instead of the old moulded headgear. Leaving out the core characters was a exaggeration of the point "I own the good old one. I'm fine". Of course they have to be included, because not everyone already has a dozen of Harries...

Me too, but to be honest i'dd be fine with them not including Harry, Ron, Hermione, Hagrid and Dumbledore in the whole system owning superior versions already. For new buyers it is pretty bad in my opinion.

Well, to be fair the faceprint looks severly inferior and her cat head was a headgear piece. They could have easily given her both with pretty much all car sets I ever had came with a driver's helmet and hairpiece. Glad I'm owning the old version.

I have to say I am happy to have all the House Ghosts and even 2 unexpected teachers now. Additions like printed arms for McGonnagal and Snape are neat. I can moc the Astronomy tower myself using Sinistra from the last castle and upgrade all of the interiors besides the allready 100% perfect portions classroom.... The only 2 official things desperately missing by now in my opinion are Crookshanks and printed medium legs for Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff. Guess it's time for my next custom printing project... If they are casting a cat at least somewhat similar to the books there might be a slight chance we get it with the series sets.

I think the largest issue for Superheroes is the lego batman movie and the treatment of it's moulds. They were pretty much all great interpretations by Lego. Poison Ivy is one of the most gorgeous minifigs ever done. Twoface's boxershorts visible through a hole in his molten pants are hilarious. Their later versions were all severe downgrades with standard hairpiece for poison ivy and so on. Catwoman is as far as I know the only character that reused the perfect cowl mould (which made her the perfect arkham city catwoman). The few new moulds were often wasted like the ugly new hairpiece of the Twoface in red jacket or completely useless new bat-cowl-moulds. HP canibalises on other themes budget like Hermiones Hair in the cmf sleepy girl or lupins Wolf in a cmf. It gives us rarely something specific like the hat of mcgonnagal, but if they do, they keep those moulds llng term instead of just devolving.

On top of that I am sure we would never have gotten Kettleburn and Vector in one set. They are both the kind of character, that catches hardcore fans/collectors but does pretty much nothing for the average comsumer besides "oh, no idea who that is but the torso print is neat"... If there wasn't Kettleburn the minifig selection of the main tower would have been very weak for collectors.

I want a little history classroom-set woth the playfeature of students leaning more and more forward until they are sleeping on the desk xD

I doubt anyone knew before the last chamber set that the black lady was professor Sinistra when the box art told us the name. 99,9% of people have probably never heared of Professor vector being the witch with the red hat mentioned only in the lego videogame once. I do not see any issue for Lego choosing the most interesting looking background wizard asking Rowling for a name... I will have all the Teachers in their classrooms, so I'll gladly take any new staff member for the teachers table in the great hall.