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Could they just use a recoloured Bambi (from the Walt Disney tribute) for the doe, or would it strike people as too small? I don't think I'd mind it being visibly smaller than the stag, and I'd certainly prefer having one to not regardless of size.(https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?P=104729pb01)

Aside from the fact that the castle layout morphed from film to film, we didn't have many dungeon locations in the stories - Slytherin, Potions Classroom, Chamber of Secrets, the PS tasks, Hufflepuff - and that last one we never even saw in the films. I figure it was a given if they made a set with cliffs, which I appreciated, they would need to stuff things in there that didn't actually belong. As long as the sets look ok, I'm satisfied.

So if you don't count the grounds sets (although I'd be inclined to include Hagrid's), there are ten total "Hogwarts Castle" sets so far, with another due in January. One of those ten was a Gift With Purchase (GWP), which kind of sucks, because it's unavailable except for ebay or bricklink etc. Of the rest, six are castle buildings (two of which are retiring - Owlery and Boathouse), three are modules (1 GWP retired, 1 retiring - Potions classroom), and 1 is a sort of swappable piece of furnishing (the duelling club, which goes into the Great Hall) and also retiring. With retiring sets, I'd recommend picking them up this year if possible, but also holding out for sales as those prices really drop on sets going end of life (EOL). You can check a site like brickmerge.de to see how the prices evolve historically over time to get a feel for when you're better off buying, but ideally you'd want to pick a site like that that reflects your local prices. Brickmerge happens to reflect mine. If it were me, I'd skip the GWP Room of Requirement because you're going to get soaked, pick up the Owlery, Hagrid's, Potions Classroom, the Duelling Club and probably Aragog, all on sale and only if on sale, but then I also watch those sales like a hawk.... NOTE: with the "EOL" it's expected, but not guaranteed to retire. Every now and again they change their minds, but if you want it, don't count on it being available after December.

Ok, so the castle builds themselves are as follows (two are already retiring this year): 76430: Hogwarts Castle Owlery (2024) - RETIRING 12/2025 76426: Hogwarts Castle Boathouse (2024) - RETIRING 12/2025 76447: Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lessons (2025) 76445: Hogwarts Castle: Herbology Class (2025) 76435: Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall (2024) 76454: Hogwarts Castle: The Main Tower (2025) the swappable module builds 40770: Hogwarts Castle: Room of Requirement (2025) - GWP (gift with purchase) - RETIRED - only available on the aftermarket 76431: Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class (2024) - RETIRING 12/2025 76442: Hogwarts Castle: Charms Class (2025) the extra and grounds builds 76428: Hagrid's Hut: An Unexpected Visit (2024) - RETIRING 12/2025 76432: Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures (2024) - RETIRED 30677: Draco in the Forbidden Forest POLYBAG (2024) - RETIRED 76424: Flying Ford Anglia (2024) 30706: Quidditch Lesson POLYBAG (2025) - RETIRING 12/2025 76434: Aragog in the Forbidden Forest (2024) - RETIRING 12/2025 76440: Triwizard Tournament: The Arrival (2024) - RETIRING 12/2025 the extra furnishings and knick knacks builds 76438: LEGO Harry Potter 2024 Advent Calendar (2024) - RETIRED 76441: Hogwarts Castle: Dueling Club (2025) - RETIRING 12/2025

How wide or narrow in scope do you want the list? Like just the castle bones, the swappable classrooms, sets that could be on Hogwarts grounds... If you look at the nano-scale Hogwarts castle and grounds set, it includes things like the Ford Anglia and the Durmstrang Ship, both of which exist as sets. If you're being generous in the definition, that's up to about 19 sets in the 2024+ system.

Exacerbated by the Wibbly Wobbly bridge. Millennium Bridge. It's in the name. Would it have been too hard to not focus a scene on it?

That's ok, she's white. If you've seen the pictures I did, the one with the direct side view and what appears to be a grey Hedwig also has a dividing line on it and the view above the line is a slightly off centre frontal shot. Between the boys' shoulders, Hedwig is visible and you can see she's white plus her face print. But I did say you weren't going to like her... * can't fly without brooms

A buildable Hedwig is included, she can be seen in the rear of the car. I can confidently say you're not going to like her though. She appears to have a printed dome piece for a head and from the angles pictured looks like a Star Wars droid.

Oooo, with a Grim just sort of discernible in the ball on the rear side, and a class with poufs, low tables, tassels, curtains, and teacups in the interior. Yes, I can see the potential there. Great idea.

We can't seriously run around complaining there aren't enough girls on the one hand (which I definitely do; the Main Tower was absurd) and then insist they have a Victorian chaperone not even vaguely provided for in the source material, and frankly I'm a little out-McGonagalled. She pops up in far more sets than I think her screentime / scenes warrant, and will be there again in the Sorting set. When I think Hogwarts classes, it's mostly Snape and Hagrid, some Slughorn, some Trelawney with a side of Flitwick's Wingardium Leviosa and Sprout's earmuffs, plus the periodical DADA lesson. McGonagall's class for me is mostly just an unspectacular "you're late." This winter required a Snape, and if the set had been with Draco, or Seamus or whomever, I for one would have screamed about the ongoing lack of female character representation. Plus everything you're picturing isn't canon, in a series that has Harry alone with Umbridge in her office with the canonical torture quill (I still want that set...) and which - in contrast to days past when Myrtle died - blithely kills Cedric off and petrifies several students all while school remains open, NBD, both of which exist in sets. An instructor hired by Dumbledore - fully cognisant that he's a fraud - literally hospitalises Harry with his poor magic (Lockhart) and ultimately attempts to memory wipe him, to say nothing of Harry's home life he can thank Dumbledore for. Also: the TriWiz as a whole (dragons? kidnapping??) and Quidditch. Abuse, physical and mental, runs riot in the series, often played for comedy; we really needn't invent extra. Considering the Polly Pocket Hogwarts goes for EUR 65 when not reduced , I guess they've positioned themselves alright price-wise. It still feels like the interior / playability is a good deal less in the cauldron set though, and I'm not sure a better exterior sufficiently compensates. That said, the Polly Pockets wouldn't tempt me, but the cauldron does. Is the drip on the cauldron's side iridescent?

@BacktoBricks thanks! It sounded like they may have made a new motorcycle mould? I guess we'll have to wait and see. For a line aimed nontrivially at children, though, I don't think they can afford to never revisit things just because they've done it well in the past. It seems like, given time, it will be released again at some point or another.

The absence of Pomfrey and Boggart Snape have me hoping we might see another collectible minifig run. Have they done that before, paused and then resumed again later? I don't think it matters so much because the extra units they sell are all closed. If I can't see it anyway... It's basically just storage with extra steps, and the location becomes irrelevant. At this point I'm happy when the Slytherin common room isn't at the top of a tower, and Dumbledore's office isn't in the dungeons. I'm hoping for a Ravenclaw Prefect outfit... Aren't the minifigs always just standing on the motorcycle though? I figured they'd make it like one of those very low entry bikes for seniors. They have done the short legs for the beginning of year three in the past, shifting to midi legs by the end of the year, at least in the 2018+ series, so maybe that'll be the solution? It would be very cool to have a Penelope who could be petrified CoS and a regular Prefect in PoA, plus the extra head piece for Hermione to be a cat person. She spent a lot of time in CoS in the Infirmary really... And how about a tile with 'pipes' on it?

@Accio Lego Yes, I thought Padma out of uniform was sneaky (or clever) of lego. The movies also had classes with older or younger students mistakenly in them. I'm assuming the television series will correct these things, no guarantees obviously. But I can't imagine lego would release a DADA classroom set this summer either way, and that gives the television series a chance to influence a classroom set, plus at least one of the video games got the mummy right. Or perhaps they'll wimp out and use Parvati-the-otherwise-identical-Gryffindor, but I'd rather another Ravenclaw uniform. Beyond the timing, iirc, we've only had one GoF castle set (Owlery), nothing from the tournaments, none from OotP or HBP, and the only DH castle set is the GWP RoR, which was too fleeting, and we haven't done the Chamber of Secrets yet, which seems like a lock. Even the non-castle sets (aside from Malfoy Manor and the Durmstrang Ship / Beauxbatons carriage) - Knight Bus, Privet Drive, Hagrid's Hut, Ford, Aragog, Forbidden Forest, the polybags, even the Book Nook - have been PoA or earlier. It really feels like the current series must continue past 2026 to begin to cover the missing material at all, never mind satisfactorily. Or maybe that's wishful thinking.

Neville is so popular and Boggart Snape in his great aunt's clothes is such a favourite, I could absolutely see them releasing a more fleshed out DADA lesson like they did with the Potions class. That's two minifigs, then maybe Padma in an extra Ravenclaw uniform and the Jack-in-the-Box, and Lupin is the only repeat, giving us a chance at a different suit. Four, maybe four and a half, minifigs there. Or Ron and another spider, because they've been keen on them for CoS I assume, but then it's all Gryffindors and no girls, so Padma would be better. @Gorilla94 placement hasn't really mattered yet, they just stick them somewhere and call it a plan. *shrug*

CET here, so midnight is 25+ minutes passed... I don't know if I was interested in a new set before, but I'm used to the GWPs going live at midnight, and they aren't showing in my cart yet either. Or is this a daylight savings issue? (I'm definitely not staying up till 2am. ) 10 HP sets are presently showing up as 2x Insider points and there are five sets with their prices reduced. If anyone stateside is interested, change your zone for a sneak preview.