Gorilla94

Hm... Minifig-wise that is - except for the bloody baron - extremely underwhelming. Glad I have Pomfrey and Pince. Hospital wing and library without them has something of a big middle-finger towards new collectors. I wish we get at least Myrtle with printed medium legs in grey.

Glad to hear the Bloody baron being confirmed at least. I think, we will see some form of Quidditch set. Maybe a half field, so you can put it against the wall next to the castle and have a complete looking silhouette. Maybe not in this wave but still while the "most detailed castle"-sets are on shelves. Dont forget the golden minifigures required to make a fountain that does not suck. And there would still be complaints about all the stuff not included like polyjuced characters from the infiltration or Harrys trial. Another possibility would be a haunted Hut with with whomping willow... I'd really like to have a good whomping willow in my castle. Special selling point could be crookshanks with the new mould. I think maybe - just maybe - they will expand the castle with an astronomy tower, if the series should get delayed. I surely hope so.

Yeah... If I go nuts I'll moc Springfield one day owning all 3 official buildings as well as a Moc of Moe's and the Androids dungeon already^^' I limited my lotr purchases to bag end... Was really tempted by Barad Dur. If they ever do the Erebor I'll have to get it. At this point I just hope we will get Crookshanks and the Bloody Baron minifigwise and an Astrology Tower besides the east wing, who's siluette is already shown in the instructions. In the best case scenario another lesser known teacher.

Jup. I have a shelf full of Simpsons modulars (the 3 originals plus 2 mocs), a Display case with all lotr characters, one with all gotham characters, some outstanding sets like Wall-E... with the Hogwarts castle filling a living room table my collection is pretty close to the limit spacewise.

Yeah, I really like how they realised it. If I didn't limit myself to Howgarts for space reasons I would 100% get it^^'

Is there a reason why it's important? Would anyone be interested in working together on modifications/expansions of the castle?

Because I get worried we won´t get a good Crookshanks before the fluffy cat mould retires.

I am afraid you are right... to be honest I think the last one is perfectly fine and I wish the new fluffy cat would be used for Crookahanks but I guess it is likely part of the interior will be a big sticker with the writing on the wall an Mrs. Norris. The Kids love animals, new collectors do not have her, the sceene would fit perfectly with the chamber, girls bathroom and Slytherin Common room...

@Black Falcon thanks for the advice :)

I already moced a massive Hufflepuff and Slytherin one to pull out. I really hope I can just use those and they will make the official one just as bad as the Hufflepuff room. What do you guys think? Amazon has pivet diverse escape for about 13€ now. I think that is a good price. I am not sure about the hospital wing for 77€. Do you expect much higher sales?

Probably... it would need a real intention to make the customers angry at this point to come up with the idea to skip him.

Well... the idea of the Windows being used for the desk is cute.

What do you guys think? Would it work to add an additional level in the castle? I can't stand the Gryffindor common room or ravenclaw common room not being a pullout room. The main tower needs fluffy above devil's snare. I have to rebuild the terrible great hall from scratch anyways and it has to be taller, so it stays in proportion, when i make it wider for a satisfying interior.... one question would be how to fill the roofs with something nicht that does not Requiem a pullout room.

I completely forgot about that... ^^' I'd like to see Grawp once more but with prints instead of stickers.

I could see a raven in a set with buckbeak and some pumpkins. We didn't have a buckbeak in this castles Iteration yet. Throw in Malfoy and it is a neat remake of the first buckbeak set perfectly compatible with the Hut.

Wasn't Simpsons 2014/15?

What do you think about the chances of a pet shop? I loved it at the Universal Studios and it would appeal to kids. It could include Hermoine and Crookshanks.

I guess it will be in 3 years. In a year the official sets will likely be done. Replacing all stickers with custom prints, making my own pull out rooms to replace poorly done ones like the Hufflepuff common room and so on takes it's time... the great hall has to be completely redesigned.^^' but it should be really cool in the end :3 I have to say i enjoy mocing Hogwarts very much. It is really cool how relatively cheap and uncomplicated it is to build with tan bricks. It was a pain to get what i needed for my Simpsons mocs with so many uncommon colours and very little colours where all parts I need were made in the same colour... Not even speaking about the availability on bricklink. The only issue i have now is that i need certain new tiles in dark tan that did not appear in thag colour until now.

I will build a custom living room table with glass top and sides similar to what some people did with the UCS Milenium Falcon :)

My dream Lizenzen is and always will be the Simpsons. I'd love to get a school.

I could imagine the hospital wing being planned exactly like this in the beginning but then being slightly changed. If there was a 4.th large expansion, I am pretty sure it would have the Ravenclaw common room and house ghost... to me it looks like they put those in the hospital wing replacing Pomfrey so there are at least all of those in the final castle

As far as I can tell the astronomy tower is rectangular. if they just make the flying lesson tower higher with another roof and a sidebuilding for the viaduct entrance, the set shouldn´t need more parts than the main tower. I could see the viaduct itself be a little expansion set you have to buy seperately. The chamber of secrets has basically 3 relevant parts. The sliding entrance with the iconic door, the long corridor with snake heads and the statue with the basilisk coming out of the mouth. The corridor isn´t that relevant. I´d say, it should be easy to put the girls bathroom with a slide down to the underground section, the door and the statue in the entrance building and rockwork and still have space for an underground pullout Slytherin common room. They can save parts, if a portion of the entrance building is empty with a sticker in the backround showing the red writing on the wall. We didn´t have Mrs. Norris in this system until now. Add the Bloody Baron and it should be a very popular set that makes most fans happy and finish the castle okay-ish. I just hope we get another new teacher... It would suck for old collectors, if they remade Sinistra for the Astronomy tower, which would be the case, i guess. Lego wants new customers and for those she would be cool to get. I am sure we won´t get the clocktower. It makes no sense with the open-back-concept of the castle to give us another entrance that is placed in front of the open backside and has his open backside aimed towards the fassade the other sets give us. It would look bad from both sides. The whomping willow connected to the hut would make sence to me. Crookshanks ist the only relevant "character" missing from the first movies and would fit in. You could then play all the relevant sceenes from prisoner of Askaban in the new castle, too. It would also drive some AFOLs to expand their castle with Hogsmead.

I gues at this point we can hope for the viaduct and at least a gate between two small towers as the last big expansion - probably including Myrtles Bathroom and the chamber beneath as well as Slytherin common room with the bloody baron. Then there will probably be an exchangable classroom for Trelawney. I could see them giving us a womping willow (maybe with crookshanks?). The flying leason still needs a place to be put... I could imagine it being connected right to the viaduct entrance to surround the Whoming willow and the greenhouse. I guess, if we are really, really, really lucky we will see a last 100€-expansion. Maybe really just clocktower or astronomy tower with plates instead of rooms like the flying lesson, so Trelawneys room can be inserted.

Well... the Legoland Günzburg gets expanded with a Potter World until 2027. I guess we can tell for sure it at least won't be over after this wave.

I am quite confused abaut it's position. If we look at it will see the inside of the great hall behind it to no need to expand. The fassade there. Do you think it will be Expander even more? The connection on the other side is interesting. For my part I have Pomfrey and the superior Scelegrow from the last system, but it sucks for people who don't. The cabinet being a sticker is a shame. The Ravenclaw common room is probably the worst room in the new system... i like the fassade per se and love the grey lady. Otherwise I find it very dissapointing. All in all i think it is a solid foundation for a Labor intensive moc, if I get it on sale.