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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.

didn´t purist mean only using original pieces not keeping minifigures 100% like in the sets? xD

Well, that's what bricklink is for... at least it exists unlike a proper recolour of the new cat for Crockshanks^^'

I think it is partly a matter of taste. The original building is in fact pretty high, which makes it look quite slim. In that regard lego did a good job with the proportions of the new one and the clock section above the door was ignored in the 2018 model. For the very steep price it would have been in my opinion absolutely fair to make the whole building a bit higher and the wider, so the proportional are still intact but they can have more space inside. The supermarket doors in brown at the entrance look just cheep. The spear tips looked so much better in the 2018 model than the 1x1 cone pieces now. The really terrible part is in my opinion the sky inside the roof. I wasn't able to recognise what it is supposed to be until someone said it in a review.

I agree. My main issue is that while some sets are really great (like potions class room) some just suck at least in part. I like the rock foundation of the new great hall - especially the troll -, but the hall itself is in every way inferior compared to the 2018 one. I´ll have to expand the rock foundation and rebuild the whole thing to make it acceptable.

I hate to be that guy, but they call it the most detailed not most complete or most accurate. We won't get everything that should be in there. At best it is a solid foundation to moc the perfect castle (with severe mocing required)

The great hall and main tower Connecticut in a way that gives you a pretty facade from one ancle and an open side for playability everywhere else. I assume we will get a pretty front view. Everything that goes towards the opposide direction will probably be skipped. It does not make sense to give us a pretty clock tower Front that stands next to the main towers open backside for example.

Probably.

I guess we will get a last big expansion with viaduct, a gate and 1 tower... the hospital wing could connect to it giving us the second tower next to the gate. If it goes well we maybe get a switchable room for Trelawneys class. I would not expect more than that.