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Looks like Targets exclusive windows for the June sets is ending, my retailer just got Dobby The quidditch Trunk and battle for hogwarts. But they are still unlisted on our website. Nothing is stopping us at POS but I’m guessing they are officially Aug 1 street dates

Universal project code. The barcode on the package for North America. i could use it to check my companies inventory for my store, and see if it’s arriving next week.

Does anyone have a upc for the battle for hogwarts set? does brick set list UPCs?

Wasn’t the death eater in The Battle of Hogwarts set also the DaD professor for years 7 ? So at least we now have all 7 of them. But now I doubt we’ll get all four house ghosts.

Now that the Battle of Hogwarts set is on the Lego site, where can I find the official image of the combined castle that leak a few weeks ago?

I wonder if there is a retailer exclusive contract putting some roadblocks in the way of the reveal. Haven't we had in the US both Barnes & Noble and Kohls have retail exclusives on some of the Harry Potter Lego sets?

Because it’s all so bland and each set is still in the shadows of the 2018 sets. The 2018 quidditch set is by far the better play set compared to the quidditch trunk. The Battle of Hogwarts on its own is flat and odd. At first it’s really exciting to see the combined set you can make if you turn it into the viaduct, but it breaks several of the display and play features of the sets. as much as I want to set up a giant display like the one they have pictures of, the 2018-2020 sets are still better looking, the great hall is better, the clock tower is better, the Astronomy tower is better. I feel like if I use the chamber of secrets to lift up the 2018 great hall sand use the BoH s as a via duct I can skip most of the 2021-23 castle sets.

That targets collectors, people wanting a play set will want to set up a team against a team, so three from one house three from another.

That's the point where it's best to stop buying the releasing and MOC those last two rooms. Hermoine's Polyjuice Mistake can be found for $15 two of those plus a troll you're good to go on the Troll in the Bathroom.

Am I crazy to want a few more visible studs on the train? It's awesome they were able to tile everything, but I like my lego sets to look like Legos. That's the same reason the BTTF Delorean was an easy skip for me, If I want a screen accurate Delorean or HE I'd buy a scale model.

In the past decade there has been a new genre in collectables. It's the "single purchase collection piece" and it's right around $500. This is the 25 year old who puts the UCS falcon on his wedding registry, and has no other sets. This is the 45 year old who buys a single transformer, master piece Optimus Prime and puts it on a shelf in his office. I've seen families who picked up the microscale Hogwarts as their only HP set when it came out. Voltron has had multiple $500 editions in the past few years. There is an upcoming $500 diecast star ship enterprise that serves the same purpose. As odd as it seems $500 is a price point that people are willing to spend on a single item, and often it's not the people who collect those items it's people looking for a single item from that genre. I think this set will pretty well, but it will be mostly to people outside of the HP Lego fanbase.

It seemed pretty big in the rumor. The rumor was that the train could be opened to show four different scenes. I thought it was going to be an engine and a train car, but twice as big in both dimensions. So you up up the front left half of the train car to see one scene, the back half for another, then turn the entire thing around and open up the other side to see the others.

Was Voldamort ever at 9 3/4?

I would love that, my family just saw the play and it was a fantastic experience. But there seems to be a wall between the play and the WB movies. Nothing could be from the movies, House crests had to be different, even the sorting hat had to be a bowler hat rather than the pointy witch hat from the movies. Lego's license for Harry Potter is through Warner Brothers so I'd guess Cursed Child is a no go.

Start with the Disney Train and Station that sold for $330 and start looking at what could add $100 Inflation from precovid to post can cover part. A second station build could cover it as well. So Train, 9 3/4 and a Hogsmead station would do it.

The oddest feeling I have about these kits, is that I want the Shrieking Shack less now that I see it has the womping willow. I mean, including it makes so much sense for the story and for play value. And the older womping willow set has been retired for a while so every who missed out on it will be excited to get a womping willow. But I look at that set, and I see the tree and I just think, I have that already.

Which set has the new invisibility cloak?

The box art shows Tonks with very red hair, the product pictures come with purple, might the set have both hair pieces? Oh and the back of the box shows her with a pig nose!!

Probably a lot of votes were split between what "castle build" people liked, I'd imagine Attack on the Burrow would lose in a head to head vote with any of the popular castle builds, Great Hall, Astronomy Tower, Chamber of secrets etc.

A Death Star situation, where the micro-fig Hogwarts is retired just to be replaced with an updated microfig Hogwarts?

Motorized Hogwarts Express. Feasability... Disney Train and Station is the proof of feasibility. Yes it's only $300 but it shows that it's the type of set they'd make. a 9 3/4 station with a gimick opening or a second platform could cover that price. Disirability.... There were six? Hogwarts Express trains in the original run for the theme, and was one of the show case pieces of the theme's relaunch four years ago. Iconicity.... It's the Hogwarts Express.

I didn't know about that Voldamort, Bellatrix and Nagini set, when was that one announced?

The Hogwarts Express had five version in the original run, it's one of the most iconic parts of the franchise. I'm always surprised that people don't think of it more often. I would not be surprised if gets a big redesign soon. And if I were to put on my tin foil hat, there was a Hogwarts Express set that didn't have Platform 9 3/4 for the side build, it had the Hogsmeade station as the side build. A D2C set that was a motorized train, and fit with the hogsmeade summer sets, that could also make use of the accessory pack to help fill Hogsmeade with witches and wizards would be very welcome.

Could it be , https://harrypotter.fandom.com/wiki/Boomslang_skin the ingrediant that Hermoine has to steal from Snape's office?

I find the most interesting part is how they really focus on rearranging the flying lesson sections. I like this new method of having a modular castle. Those sections could clearly be stacked and combined with the other castle parts.