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I’d be more interested in seeing the big belly torso that’s been floating around in concept art form for years. (It would make up for not giving us a pregnant belly in the Spiderverse series like they should have)

I mean, can we entirely rule out that none of these are K-Pop Demon Hunters, and whatever sets that franchise is getting aren’t coming later than these and haven’t gotten leaks yet?

Personally, it’s a ‘finding things later’ thing for me. Year long threads are easier to look through and reference than multiple-year ones, and if nothing else, a change in name to accurately reflect the time period covered would be preferred.

Possibly, but a moot point for this thread since the September CMF is apparently an IP that’s never had sets before, so if P, B, or Lollipop is connected to the CMF it can’t also be the one that’s a returning theme.

I suppose that could still theoretically work in conjunction with the CMF if the license in question is Street Fighter. We still don’t know if any of these are connected to the CMF though, it’s all just a ‘what if’ to keep in mind while we wait for more info.

Finally got my back ordered Lovegood house this week. A couple of fun things I noticed: We’ve finally got a new Quibbler cover print. It’s not super obvious since it’s tucked away in the printing press when the set is built, but there’s a 2x3 tile with a print of the unnumbered edition featuring a large multiheaded caricature (previous Quibbler tiles were always the iconic no. 240274 with the spectraspecs). It gets zero attention in the shop@home set photos, but there is a specialized tile+sticker to recreate Luna’s painting of her friends on her bedroom ceiling. This was a lovely detail from the books that never made it to the movies since they decided to cut out the part where Luna’s room is visited, so I’m really happy to see it on Lego form. The clear parts used for the projector feature are printed with the Deathly Hallows symbols, not stickers. It seems like a good fact to put out there since some people were probably worried about how well that play feature would work with their sticker applying abilities (or just stickers in general).

I think ‘B’ is probably the rumored K-Pop Demon Hunters sets – in part because there are two 12+ sets there and experience says that’s more likely to be because they’re buildable objects rather than playsets for a more mature theme (examples: the Wednesday playsets are 10+ despite the show being very dark. Harry Potter playsets are between 7-10+ but several of the buildable objects/animals are 14+). A buildable Derpy Tiger is an obvious choice for a set (there have been multiple Ideas submissions), so I could easily see him being 72421 or 72422, the other one being a buildable Huntr/x logo with a trio of minidolls or minifigs, and 72423 being a big stage playset with plenty of characters. The leak didn’t specify if we were looking at two returning themes and one new, or one returning theme and two new, so ‘P’ and ‘Lollipop’ are really up in the air. Personally, I think ATLA has a stronger chance of getting new sets than TMNT or SpongeBob simply because Legend of Aang is coming out this year and the theme has definitely seems more popular than the other two as far as Lego Ideas submissions go.

Latest leaks name three code-named themes that are ‘new IP and returning’: - P (one set: 72306 $160) - B (three sets: 72421 [12+], 72422 [12+], 72423 $120) - Lollipop (one set: 72537 $70) And I’m dropping the info here because conceivably one of these could be a tie in set for the September CMF since new IP is mentioned. (I suspect B is the rumored K-Pop Demon Hunters sets and one of the others is supposedly a returning theme, but that still leaves a medium or large sized set) It seems prudent to bring up the possibility, since the biggest sticking point for IPs like Shrek and Narnia is “majorly important quadrupedal characters are too large to be a Minifigure accessory”, which having a tie in set would fix.

At the end of the day, both Star Wars and GotG have both gotten Christmas specials (even if the holiday was renamed in the rather infamous Star Wars offering). Ninjago hasn’t, and after so many years as one of LEGO’s in-house evergreen themes, I’m assuming there’s multiple reasons why it’s never had an advent calendar before. (One of those reasons probably has to do with the fact that none of LEGO’s more specialized in house themes have gotten advent calendars since they started doing them regularly.) And none of this really has anything to do with the rumors that Harry Potter won’t have an advent calendar this year.

Bring back the trans clear and trans green mug (from the Harry Potter polyjuice set) as green beer? Although the issue there might be Lego’s ‘no realistic/contemporary alcohol’ rule

Uh… because the ninjas are culturally Japanese, Christianity is practiced by less than 1% of Japan’s population, and Christmas officially doesn’t exist in the Ninjago universe?

They used the same buildable props gimmick in the 2018 Friends calendar, which was similarly unpopular, so I’m not sure why they’d repeat that known mistake with Harry Potter years later (or why it would kill the theme’s annual advent calendar).

That can’t be right. The Harry Potter advent calendar always sells out before most of the others on Lego shop@home. But has there ever been a Lego or retailer exclusive advent calendar before?

The series 17 chef (who is much more similar to a chocolatier than any of the other professions you listed) didn’t though. So it’s not like there’s any hard precedent.

The problem is exactly that they’re both obviously Slytherin rooms so it might be hard to immediately recognize that they aren’t part of the same complex of rooms. The Grand Staircase Tower had only the first three stone challenges (all connected) in the underground section while the Great Hall featured two distinct locations separated by an obvious plain corridor module to make it obvious they’re not connected.