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I sure hope so! This has been the most agonizing wait I can remember. I keep manically refreshing this page and #legoleaks

The 1920s football helmet from the Jacob Kowalsky CMF figure would be perfect

I didn’t know Katie Bell was Greek! Now I like her even more 🧿💙🇬🇷. If I had a choice, I’d like the possessed Katie Bell in Hogsmeade. Complete with cursed necklace accessory.

Right. I still think it’s the most obvious choice though. What else could LEGO do as an accessory pack that lots of kids would buy? I could maybe see a Death Eater pack with Voldy, three death eaters, and a new Nagini. I would LOVE a witches and wizards of Diagon Alley, but I find that highly unlikely.

And he admitted to being Kingnono before deleting it? I’m feeling a serious case of dejavu... Thanks @Guyon2002 for confirming that his Hogwarts Moments flying lesson leak was fake. I was really starting to get concerned at LEGO’s judgement. And I hope to God that the minifig lineup for the Quidditch Accessory pack is wrong too. We need a Black Quidditch player. I’m so sick of LEGO using Cho as their token POC minifig.

I can’t find Pawnyeye on Instagram... could someone please share his handle? Did he delete his account? Just want to see these so-called “leaks” for myself. Thanks

My ROR wraps around the back of my display. It connects to the greenhouse technic pins and creates a nice little semienclosed space behind the Astronomy Tower. I never thought we would be getting more big Hogwarts sets in this style because this display already takes up so much space, but I was hopeful that we would get more ROR sized sets that I could continue to wrap around the back of my display to create a fully enclosed circle.

I would actually be 100% here for a beautifully designed chocolate frog box that opens up and reveals a brick-built chocolate frog. I’ve wanted one ever since I saw this piece on LEGO Ideas: https://ideas.lego.com/challenges/642ce72d-0872-48ef-a27b-a6bbeecc9027/application/d4aa3d87-f18d-40b5-a5ea-8a66fbc9b29d I could actually see a nice little display set focused on the sweets of Honeydukes. Buildable chocolate frogs box, buildable Bertie’s Bott’s box, maybe a buildable swirly lollipop 🍭 like the one invisible Harry snatches from Neville in POA.

He didn’t. That’s bad info. He’s starring in a new show by M. Night Shamalan called Servant on Apple+ and was recently spotted at an abandoned mansion down the road from me where they are filming it.

Here’s some interesting news to discuss. It’s just been leaked that the upcoming LEGO Marvel set #76191 will be a brick-built Infinity Gauntlet with all the Infinity Stones. It will be 590 pieces for $69.99. Getting similar items for LEGO Harry Potter would be disappointing and require some severely lowered expectations for me, per @Guyon2002’s hints. If this is the case, what brick-built items (not creatures) do you think we could get? I think some serious contenders could be the Sword of Gryffindor, the Horcruxes, the Elder Wand (maybe a whole series of Wizarding World wands), or even (gag) the Sorting Hat 💩.

Ugh. Can we please not do this? At least hide things like this behind a spoiler window. Not all of us have seen Cursed Child yet. My family had tickets for us to see it on Broadway before the pandemic, which obviously were cancelled. I’d like to reserve judgement for myself on the quality of the story. It’s obviously not mean to be enjoyed as a book - it’s the script to a theatrical production for God’s sake. Anyway, I know we don’t have many new LEGO leaks to discuss, but I’m sure @Clone OPatra would agree that discussing spoilers from the Cursed Child has no place - even tangentially - on the 2021 LEGO Harry Potter forum. Let’s get back on topic please.

Could someone please share where they are seeing the Mattel leaks? Is it an Instagram user or hashtag? I’m having some trouble finding it. Thanks in advance

Agreed. This chess set is probably one of the most iconic chess sets in cinematic history. The queen’s armor, the turtleish pawns, the knight piece that Ron rides. I imagine the pieces would all be brick built, but maybe they would come with Harry, Ron, and Hermione minifigs that you could use to recreate the scene from the movie.

I guess I’m in the minority of people who would actually love a LEGO Harry Potter Chess Set. I think this would be a really smart move on LEGO’s part too - chess set sales have increased exponentially following the success of Netflix’s Queen’s Gambit. And LEGO would be the perfect medium for Wizard’s Chess - it allows you to “destroy” the pieces you defeat (“barbaric” as Hermione would say but oh so fun) and rebuild them. It would make for a beautiful display piece, too. I’d also love to see a Dejarik board for LEGO Star Wars but that’s a story for another forum.

Bruh... let it go. We’re going to get shut down again. It’s not good to obsess over what you can’t control. We have plenty of information now, thanks to promobricks and @Guyon2002 (love the new avatar btw) and @Falconfan1414. Wouldn’t it be more fun to try to theorize on what the sets in the August wave could possibly be? I think @Falconfan1414 said something about the $250 set including a golden Dumbledore minifig. I wonder what clue that could give about the set, if any?

Yesterday, the official LEGO Instagram account shared a video of a fan-made kinetic sculpture of Hogwarts with a tiny Ford Anglia that “flies” above the school and a super-micro Hogwarts Express that moves around Hogwarts in circles. I have a sneaking suspicion that, in addition to a big brick built item or two (eg the Sword of Gryffindor or the Sorting Hat) we could be getting some kinetic sculptures (after all that’s what Hedwig was and she appears to have sold well) like this that are targeted at AFOLs who want an interesting display piece - not a play set. This would be a big shift for LEGO in this license. The 2018-2020 HP sets were so great because they were both beautiful for adults to display and fun for kids to play with. If this is the strategy LEGO goes with, the June wave will be made for kids to play with (but also weirdly nostalgic for 25+ year old adults) and the August wave will be made for adults to display. And it would indeed be disappointing to me. https://www.instagram.com/p/CL1xM_dsA1g/

I have no evidence to back this up, but I have a feeling that the $120 set with the high piece count is going to be something like the Sword of Gryffindor. It could be mounted on a wall for display by AFOLs, or used by kids for role play. The other thought that came to me for this set... and I’m struggling not to vomit as I type this... is a brick built Sorting Hat. I imagine it would just look like a giant poo emoji in LEGO bricks 💩. Both of these would surely be disappointing to most of us and would require much lowered expectations from those of us who were anticipating a Gringott’s / Diagon Alley expansion set (which @Falconfan1414 and @Guyon2002 have all but confirmed we will not be getting) or an epic Deathly Hallows final battle set.

This is interesting news. We weren’t expecting a golden Draco or a golden Snape so these must be from the second wave. I wonder what set each of them will come with.... I could see Snape being part of a (please God no) Cursed Quidditch Match set from Sorcerer’s Stone. Maybe Draco is in a Forbidden Forest Detention set? My expectations are so low, but if we get Fang and a Unicorn in the second wave I will be a happy camper.

So every one of these is wrong? Which really just means no Gringott’s (as many of us predicted after @Guyon2002’s info), as the rest of the list never sounded disappointing or plausible frankly.

💯 agreed - on both counts. I’m not an expert on video game production, but I don’t believe the lead designer oversees messaging and story elements - just design - right? Either way, there is a massive team behind this project and I am still very much looking forward to it. He said “passive aggressive” - not “aggressive.” While we all appreciate any new leaks our fellow members provide, the comment about their sources’ strictness read (to me at least) as a bit of a sideways swipe at @Guyon2002 and @Falconfan1414 who have been sharing what they can with us when they can. We don’t want sources to be put at risk of losing their ability to share information.

https://kotaku.com/hogwarts-legacy-lead-designer-used-to-run-anti-social-j-1846316222

I also hope the LEGO Harry Potter line lasts for a long time, but I think this logic is off. There is no guarantee that there will be a constant supply of new children who like Harry Potter. Unlike Star Wars (or even Jurassic Park for that matter - see Camp Cretaceous), the Wizarding World franchise is not doing much to get new generations of kids excited about Harry Potter. There are no new shows, books, comics, or other content targeted at kids. Just merchandise and a theme park and an increasingly controversial matriarch. That will only take the franchise so far. What was interesting about the LEGO Harry Potter reboot is that it really came about because of Fantastic Beasts - a new film series targeted at adult fans of Harry Potter. The LEGO sets, too, seemed targeted at adults with their beautiful and movie-accurate designs and a focus on “displayability” - not playability. I can’t tell you how many interior design sites I have seen the 2018-2020 sets featured in. That’s why this new wave is so baffling to me... LEGO is clearly trying to monetize the nostalgia of people ages 25-35+ who had the original LEGO Harry Potter sets 20 years ago. But instead of focusing on beautiful, displayable builds in retro color palettes (which I would have been totally here for) they made boxy play sets for kids that won’t even understand or appreciate the 20 year old references. I feel like LEGO must have put a new team of designers (this definitely doesn’t feel like Marcos’ work) on the Harry Potter line who took their project briefing a little too literally: “Give the adult fans sets and pieces they have been asking for - like the Chamber and a new Basilisk and Fluffy - and add a “collect them all” gimmick for the 20th anniversary but also make the sets something little kids will want to play with.” The problem is that instead of appealing to a broad audience, LEGO has really narrowed the target audience to little kids with parents that remember the 2001 sets and want to relive them together. Some diehard fans will buy these sets anyway (myself included), but I think LEGO will quickly realize their mistake when sales from adult collectors (especially adult women collectors - which seemed to be a target demographic from 2018-2020) dip. Because, without new content, Harry Potter does not have a constantly regenerating audience of little kids that love the franchise and will go out of their way to ask their parents for a random line of LEGO play sets that feature early 00s nostalgia. Hopefully, LEGO will realize their mistake and recalibrate for 2022.

Praise be! Thanks for settling my nerves. Just to be safe, I will say an extra prayer tonight for no more microscales and no more Quidditch pitches.

Haha yes. That is a set I can imagine wanting less. For me, it’s more about the microscale factor and less about the setting. I would love a $80-$120 minifig scale Ministry of Magic.

The Instagram poster responded to me and said the “evidence” he mentioned in the original post was partly based on rumors he had heard and partly based on his own theories. I highly doubt any of these will be true. I cannot imagine a set I would want less than a $250 microscale Ministry of Magic or another Quidditch set.