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Quickly I’ll also show what the three existing sets look in my ‘prototype’ style, so you get an idea of what I’m showing with the other buildings. Here they are: The Great Hall (75954), the first set and the largest so far. Connected to it is the big tower containing the moving marble staircase, although in the official set it seems rather undersized compared to the movies. The story’ you play with this is the first years’ arrival and the sorting ceremony. It has some extra items such as the mirror of Erised.

I used this model to get the proportions right and decide where I made my divisions between sets (shown by the different colours in the lower image, see below). As you can see, so far LEGO has not yet covered even half of the potential castle structure! I have continued in principle with the ‘doll house’ design rules established by the existing sets: • Each set is presentable individually • Where possible individual sets may be composed of a series of separate modules that can be rearranged and intermixed with each other • Each building module can only connect to its neighbour at the sides; sets do not stack on top of each other • Each module has a fully detailed ‘front’ and an open ‘back’, like a dolls house. • Buildings may be angled to each other but the joint is rigid (no hinges, for either posing or opening interiors) • Each set ‘tells a story’, focusing on a particular theme or event sequence from the movies. • All the rooms/scenes detailed take place inside the castle in the movies. • Extra ‘random’ castle rooms etc from the films may be included to fill spaces, even if not directly relevant to the main set theme (example: Moody’s office in the Clock Tower). • Some rooms with a known specific location may be relocated to other random parts of the castle if they fit there better (Dumbledore’s office as example). • Dungeons and other underground rooms are incorporated into ‘single floor’ castle sections (example: Snape’s office and classroom). • Minimal duplication of rooms/details across the complete collection.

[warning: this is very long and wordy] Hi everyone, like the rest of you I am very excited for the revived Harry Potter theme and look forward to seeing more sets next year! After the release of the Clock Tower this year I wanted to have some fun and experiment to see how LEGO could try to complete the entire Hogwarts castle, accurate to the movies with more similar modular buildings. In this thread I’m going to show and tell what I have come up with :) These are all just sketches/prototypes, and I do not plan to design full size versions (that’s for LEGO to do ?). The models I have made are all ‘microscale’ sized and very simplified, with the ‘trophy’ figures representing minifigures, the ‘heroica’ figure representing bigfigs etc, and the 4x4 round plate representing the large hexagonal plate (89523) etc Preview examples: Firstly to get familiar with the layout and design of the castle itself I recommend watching this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIdYn3L2_0U. I also go by the harry potter wiki for identifying the towers etc. Firstly I decided on the scope of the ‘full castle’ when complete; LEGO for example has already excluded the large courtyards in front of the Great Hall and Clock tower, and also seems to be excluding bridges, overpasses and viaducts etc, as well as outer walls and some of the smaller buildings such as the ‘pepperpot’. So I will be doing the same, which does mean that technically not all of the final castle actually connects together… The first image shows a tiny build of Hogwarts I started with.

Hay guys check out his video on IG showing an epic expansion of the UCS Hogwarts, complete with the Clock and Astronomy Towers I hope in a few years the Hogwarts castle set range gets close to as complete as this :D

It would have to have a bigger footprint than 2x2 to fit an owl inside, maybe 3x3 would be enough. Hollow stud in the top, the base could be the round plate with bars all round or the one with 4 tow bars or some other solution

Keeping on the subject of owls another new mould I would expect Lego to do is a proper specialised birdcage. They appear all over the video game (see below), and could appear in many sets across the theme I hope that is the case :) Marge specifically is not that important to me but if it is true that Lego is going to be this thorough and is planning it out long term to give us great new moulds then we have lots to look forward to :)

I Hope we get more too :), owls are quite special for HP I remember the old original sets had an owl in almost every box (but they were the less nice unprinted versions) LEGO was also fond of putting a spider in almost every set...they have not done that so much this time thankfully. Maybe we could see more nifflers or even pixies show up as random animals in future sets too :D

I saw the leaks too, the new white bulldog is in the big police station set

Thank you that means a lot :) There are some more small ‘accessory’ builds like these on my Flikr page, more to be added soon...

Another small build to compliment the sets: Dumbledore’s memory cabinet. Showing how it is constructed: It’s a bit fragile at first but holds together well when compete by using the stud with a hole in it to clamp down on the cylinders.

Hay guys I have a small MOC to share, an improved build for the Goblet of Fire to replace the rather disappointing one in the clock tower set:

Hay guys for anyone in the U.K. John Lewis now has the Harry Potter advent Callander for a reduced price of only £17.50 in store!

It’s looks really nice, a large ‘Hogsmeade winter village’ set of this style would no doubt be a best seller :D LEGO would be fools to not do something like that!

Some more light minifigure customising: Professor Lupin gets the new large briefcase which conveniently can carry a chocolate bar! To compliment the Hagrid’s Hut Set even further the Minister gets a black briefcase and Dumbledore gets his walking stick. Lastly Dobby gets the hand power blast part, which is perfect for the House Elf’s wandless magic attack against Malfoy at the end of the Chamber of Secrets Movie. Next up two more minifigures which make use of several parts from the Cowardly Lion from the lego Movie 2 series: Luna Lovegood gets the Lion’s mane to replicate her Gryffindor Quidditch Team outfit. Hermione gets the lion’s face and tail to replicate her accidental transformation from drinking the polyjuice potion. Sadly though no cat ears.

Thank you, they are only just crude ‘sketches’ of sets, i’ll get on with the detail soon..

This is another purist Hogwarts house Ghost: The Grey Lady. She uses the body of the Weeping Angel from Doctor Who.

Wow thanks for the heads up! I checked just now and they still have it in stock and got one :) being in the U.K. this is the cheapest it’s ever been for me

I could see Fang being the accessory to a CMF Harry, wearing a ‘Detention in the dark forest’ cloak and carrying a lantern (one of my favourite new moulds from this theme)

I recently finished building the Hagrid's hut set. While I love the details I was saddened that there was no Fang or Norbert included, so I picked up some of the old animals from the earlier versions of the theme. Also the set didn't include a crossbow! :O Also the T-bone steak element makes a great substitute for dead ferrets :)

Hi guys, I just wanted to give a heads up on a project I have been working on... I'm so exited for the new revamped theme I have gone ahead and done some experimental work on what I imagine some future sets might look like. Specifically how the rest of the complete and film-accurate Hogwarts castle structure might be built. I'm working on the basis of the new system style: 'modules' of castle sets combining with each other, and each individually being a stand-alone 'dolls-house' in build style. The image below is of some 'microscale' prototypes showing what some of the future castle building sections might look. They are the Astronomy Tower, the Long Gallery (two sets combined), the Training grounds Tower, and two bits of castle winch combine to form the 'Quad'. When I'm ready I will create a new thread and post the full details :)

Ooo, another guessing game! My guesses: James Potter or old Harry

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Also I’m a big fan of the new little dove which is coming in the Aladdin sets, it is quite versatile: if they colour it brown and give it new paint it would make an excellent European robin

The new Harry Potter patronus stag has a slot in the back to enable a saddle etc to fit. I would expect at least it to be used in a Christmas Santa sled set :)

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