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Interesting, the Star Wars advent calendar isn't listed on the Dutch S@H yet, but I did notice the other new 2020 Star Wars are now listed as coming soon. I checked HP, but no AC yet.

Yeah, what @Guyon2002 said.

Yes, in Europe and partially in Australia. Australia for some reason didn't get the full wave at the same time as Europe (1 June), but part of the wave is now released in Australia. However the US currently only has the students pack. They're getting the full wave in August I believe, if they're lucky maybe in July.

Same, I assume they really want that huge chunk of London with it? :P Assembly Square is 4002 pieces and costs €260 so a DA of €400 ought to be more pieces even if you consider the license.

It's also gone on the Dutch S@H site, so I assume it's sold out.

On the Dutch shop.lego.com it still can be pre ordered with a release date of 1 September.

I do actually use brickwatch, so not all my sets are from brickshop. Of this HP wave, 3 sets I got at brickshop, 1 at brickfever, 2 from LEGO, and 1 from bol.com. Same on the choice thing, case and point, I got the students pack from LEGO.com as it's an exclusive and wasn't at the store when I was there. Although RoR is cheaper elsewhere, I got it from the LEGO store in Utrecht to get past the €85 threshold for the hot rod.

Brickshop usually has the lowest LEGO prices in the Netherlands, which might be a reason why I don't have that many VIP points.

I wonder if LEGO's soon is actually soon and not like Jagex's soon™. ;)

That theme is being retired, yes. However the products of that theme will still exist, e.g. the new Haunted House is listed under the Creator Expert theme on the LEGO website. But on the box it doesn't say Creator Expert anymore. So Modulars will still exist, just without having the theme Creator Expert on the box. Perhaps it'll say something like 'The Modulars Collection' like they put 'The Fairground Collection' on the Haunted House.

I just received the students pack and I compared Cho from the pack with the one from the 1st CMF and I can confirm that their skin colour is identical. As for the wands, all 4 students from the pack use the same dark brown wand. While Cho from the CMF uses a reddish brown wand.

Falcon mentioned that we're getting something we're expecting and also proofing something else wrong that King No Know claimed.

Just finished building the sets a couple of hours ago. I'm expecting the Students pack to come next week. - RoR is a nice little build. - Hedwig has a nice realistic flying motion. And while it's not system scale, I like it as a nice display piece. But normally I only prefer system scale sets. - The Forbidden Forest set has nice looking tree where you can store some loose items like the bicycle steer. Grawp looks nice except for his back indeed. - Attack on the Burrow is really nice and detailed. I don't really see what's wrong with the stickers, they seem fine to me. I think this is my favourite in this wave. - Astronomy Tower looks nice too. I don't really mind the white frames, but I do agree I'd prefer them to be tan or brown. I found it odd though that according to the instructions Luna and Draco don't have a wand, so I just gave them spares. Also Luna is missing on the final page (before the piece inventory) where the whole set and all minifigures are shown. - 4 Privet Drive also look nice with all its details.

I ordered the sets yesterday, they'll be arriving tonight. However the Burrow is arriving tomorrow. Once I finish the Astronomy Tower tonight/tomorrow then I'll make a display with all Hogwarts castle pieces together and link to the photo's on here. :) Not sure how I'll arrange them. Currently I got it exterior facing from left to right: GH, CT, and WW with RoR standing unconnected behind the Great Hall due to how it's being displayed at the moment. Have fun! =D

Nice! They remind me of the Old Fishing Store.

Apparently some people got Harry's torso twice instead of getting one Harry and one Hermoine torso.

Oh yeah... Mine also had Hermoine's torso. I also checked once I opened it.

*Puts on tin foil hat* What if the rumoured set by King No Know is Borgin and Burke's.

You could also settle on blueish gray. ;)

I don't have it either. So can't confirm. EDIT: I checked the LEGO site (https://www.lego.com/nl-nl/product/diagon-alley-40289) and looks like it's just a facade with no interior space at all.

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Yeah, I calculated it a bit, the GWP DA has 374 pieces and 5 shops/buildings. Meaning the €400 set would have at least 65 buildings if we assume 5000 pieces. So I checked and apparently there are only 30ish known buildings in DA according to the HP wiki. So hello London! ;) At least Hogwarts as a whole is interesting to see, a shopping street probably not.

No confirmation for the other CMF minifigures so far beyond what can be seen on the leaked package afaik. As for DA, only thing we know is it's €400.

I got the RoR today from the LEGO store in Utrecht, the Netherlands. They had all sets in store except for the students pack. Luckily RoR did include Hermoine's torso. :) EDIT: The student pack is also out of stock on the Dutch LEGO S@H. :(

Yeah, if a microscale Diagon Alley is gonna cost €400 we'd get a huge chunk of London with it as well so that seems very unlikely to me.