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Given the 2019 lineup contained no sets outside of PoA and GoF except the advent calendar, I'm thinking 2022 will be narrow in its focus as well. If it is, the Leaky with some stores from the other side of the street would make more sense than Gringotts, as the Leaky plays a role in PoA. Not that the D2Cs have major tie ins, but there are some. (As for price, the Leaky would need to include the wall and would be a tick larger than the other store fronts, so the higher price would be justified.) Gringotts fits with DH better, so maybe latter? And I still think we're more likely to get the dragon in a small set so the kids don't miss out. They did the ninjago city things bit by bit as well, so I could see them doing the same here. Have to disagree with @Micmac on that count, knowing there's more out there may increase sales. You don't "have to" get them, it's a question of knowing your options while they're still available at RRP. The nanoscale DA included Gringotts, which was part of what was so frustrating that the minifig scale version didn't.

For that price, I hope it's the Knockturn Alley shops as well.

The amazon link hothbricks provided listed the book at 19 EUR. lol @ the several stern ginger faces

I'd love to see it when you're finished. Same, although I suspect he'd be the Fang I'd like for one scene but then not the Fang I'd like for another... Dogs are tricky like that. Thanks for the reminder about positivity. Dead chuffed about Pomfrey, rather pleased about Percy, too (even at the book's nearly 20 EUR price point... ). Unfortunately I won't be sourcing more prefects' robes that way, but then that's how I was using the Moments' torsos anyhow, and I'll definitely enjoy fleshing out my Weasley clan, regardless. I'm enjoying the AC so much again as well. It's nice to have a little bit of HP lego to look forward to every day, and I love being able to add printed tiles to my extant builds to make them better. Thanks @Yope for posting that list again. I thought that was a very a helpful way to represent it.

But it is a DK book.

I'm betting no more anniversary boxes and that they'll focus mostly on PoA and GoF this summer. 1) Shrieking Shack was missing from the 2018+ series, and it would expand on the Hogsmeade set up. We need a Snape because there was none in the 2021 summer sets (besides the golden one anyway), and fan favourites Lupin (we still haven't had a Werewolf!Lupin since the reboot) and Black are obvious choices with Scabbers / Pettigrew and the trio. Depending on the scale, it could include some of the earth mound that goes at the base of Whomping Willow or the WW itself. It would be about the size of the current Hogsmeade set with seven minifigs. Second Task. Hagrid and Buckbeak. Maybe the CMC class this time instead of the hut again? Quidditch... Either we get a set with the Weasley twins (and Lee is a CMF) or Harry meets the Dementors or they wait until Weasley is our King in HBP. I think they'll hold off till next year and release the long dreamt of Quidditch Pack. 2) Modular boxes... One with a sloped roof to do Lupin's DADA with Boggart Cupboard (with Neville's and Boggart!Snape; coupled with the SS Snape, we could do the scene and have more reason to get both sets) and skeleton hanging from the ceiling. Another box and a half for the Gryffindor common room and Fat Lady entrance with a shredded portrait option. The Hufflepuff basement seems likelier here than elsewhere between the Cedric focus in GoF and Newt being a 'Puff. Minifigs Ernie and Hannah and "Potter Stinks" badges. Plus we need some height. (I don't think the suitcase will matter.) They could put it all together in "Bell Towers" we'd complain about and yet still purchase. If they were ever going to squeeze a library in, maybe here with Pince, Hermione and Krum? 3) I got nothing as I wouldn't have guessed the things they've done as is. Dobby's sock? It's as likely as anything else I'd come up with. 4) Durmstrang ship on the other hand seems likely. (I'll BL the minifigs.) 5) The last Hogwarts Express was PoA, so I think it might get put off until fifth or sixth year, either with the Hogsmeade Station (to expand our Hogsmeades) & thestral carriage or the Draco punching Harry scene. But they can't seem to do without the Knight Bus, so a version with Padfoot and Aunt Marge and her dog might get people to buy it despite owning the last version. They don't have anywhere else sensible to put it in the series, so this summer seems likely, and a Padfoot fig lets us complete the SS scene and would tie back in to the Fat Lady's portrait. And we haven't seen the Weasleys' Ford Anglia lately, another staple, so I'm thinking a call back to second year and a beat up version that rescues the boys from the spiders? It would let us flesh out our Forbidden Forests and give us more creatures. We really need a tree in here somewhere... No, we only see Burbage's death in DH 1 no MS itself.

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So it's weird that the Infirmary bends the wrong way around right? Or is that just me? I don't understand why they didn't go with hinge plates on the interior to make it bend the other way.

I think it's on the little cart beside Pomfrey. I find it a little worrisome that the Potions Moment set isn't in the picture. I wonder if that's getting cancelled sooner than expected? Along similar lines, someone upthread had mentioned Charms was getting a reprieve, but the German S@H site at least lists it as sold out, which usually means it isn't returning. I'm not the biggest fan of the 2021 modular box style, but I like the look of the Infirmary a lot more than most of the sets. While the lighter windows probably capture the Infirmary's feel better, I wish they'd be more consistent because that just helps make the exteriors look more of a hodge podge.

Damn, right you are. (Two guesses who doesn't put her stickers on most of her builds... ) I thought "Moody" and the spider were a sure bet for fourth year DADA.

Lego.larry's vignette, Harry and Ron practise potions.

Spotted the use of one of the DADA stickers in a MOC on IG. Have we seen the stickers before? Also re: Marcos, I've looked for a lego organigram before to no avail. Do they have somewhere you can see who leads/led a line from / till? That really doesn't seem like it shouldn't be more well known.

I think if they're going to re-cover ground (Great Hall, presumptive "Clock Tower" in the Infirmary set) in this short of a cycle, they need to do something substantially different, and whatever else, they succeeded in that. The 2018-20 style is lovely, but it does sprawl, and not everyone has the space. The new line does almost the opposite. Additionally missing a set in the new line doesn't invalidate your Not!warts like it would have done in the 2018+ system. (The Astronomy and Clock Towers without the Great Hall just don't look like Hogwarts to me.) So the new system fills substantially different needs, which is smart. The exteriors are too discordant for my tastes, but it also isn't a major revamp to make them work better. Given you're meant to build the different locations with the set, does the trunk seem like a one off to anyone else? If not, any ideas how they would expand it (like Fawkes following Hedwig)? I'm also wondering if the different styles of sets (Moment, trunk, art, minifig scale, flying creatures...) will ultimately stretch the run of the 2021 series until they cycle back to the beginning? So maybe four or five years this time? I guess four is more likely. As for Hogsmeade, right now I'm eyeing J.L.Bricks' Hog's Head & Scrivenshaft's Quill Shop if lego doesn't come out with a Hogsmeade Village expansion of their own next summer. Anyone else planning something similar? If so, which shops? (I guess the Hog's Head would be more likely to put in an appearance in 2023.)

Yeah that sounds about right.

Alrighty... If you could choose, which would you rather have, pictures from the other three sets of the winter line or the set numbers and prices from the 2HY? Obviously we can speculate more with the latter, but do people find that more satisfying than the set pix or not?

I built my Hedwig to break dance. I found that more satisfying. (And yes, @BacktoBricks, I had to rebuild it to do so. Eh, my fingers survived. Although with all the disinfecting these days, I do notice the wear more.) I have hope they'll go back to the darker tones for the house colours as soon as they no longer need the mittens. If you look at the colours in the Gryffindor dorm / common room on the box, they've used the darker brick red for the duvet. The colour on the pennants on the stickers appears to be an in between thing though...

Come on, that's like two sets for the price of one. Clever.

Cool! Thanks for chasing that info down.

Definitely looking forward to the Trolls skirt piece, the Marauder's Map and the owl. Agree, the trunk lid is nice, too. I can see myself getting one, but not more of these. It's also really nice that we'll be able to reuse all those extra minifig bodies from the trio. China and India together make up more than a third of the world population, and Nougat is the colour they use in this theme to represent the Chinese or Indian skin tones. And of course they also use it for other ethnicities, so 40% representation doesn't seem off (especially as you really have to count McGonagall and Harry in which case it's only a third). JKR did a pretty good job of reflecting the ethnicities in the UK at the time she wrote the books, but this is a toy trying to appeal to a global market to make your own sigfigs. It's a clever move. Thanks for placing them side by side. The dark green was so much better. I get why they made the switch, to be able to use mittens and thus avoid the issue of skin tone and having to swap hands, but I hope they return to the darker colours for the rest of the 2022 series.

The problem with the "interview" quoted is the individual supposedly managed to lose the recording of the interview itself and is apparently paraphrasing from memory / notes. So it's an indication, but nothing more as the responses have already been watered down by the filter of the youtuber's understanding / recollection of what was said. If you're going to take the designers' responses with a grain of salt, that video should be taken with a whole salt cellar.

Stonewars says it's only Herbology and Charms going EOL 2021, Promobricks still lists Potions as joining them. I've seen "merchants" claim Potions and Transfiguration will be around for 2022, but I'm inclined to believe them as it makes sense. There was no other (non-golden) Snape in the 2021 sets, he and Draco complete the duelling minifigs from 2021's CoS, and CoS also doesn't include McGonagall, Hermione or Ron, so those two Moment sets help complete CoS while giving you props to swap in and out of the castle's rooms. Additionally, lego clearly isn't abandoning the line as they're bring out two new Moment sets next winter (DADA / Divination). At least until we see another Snape / McGonagall (earliest opportunity summer 2022), I'd expect Transfiguration and Potions to remain on the shelves.

Hey, a friend was asking me about finding a good price on the Great Hall in the US, something I know next to nothing about. Do you folks have something like brickwatch or brickmerge? @Prometheus87 more Ninjago City Gardens, but yes it definitely has similarities.

75396 Hogwarts Moment: Divination Class (purple or lilac), with 297 pieces; Trelawney, Harry and Parvati Patil; expected to retail for €29.99, ca. £27.99 75397 Hogwarts Moment: Defense Against the Dark Arts Class (black), with 257 pieces; Moody, Neville, Hermione; expected to retail for €29.99, ca. £27.99 75398 Hospital Wing, with 510 pieces; Pomfrey (!), Harry, Hermione, Ron; expected to retail for € 39.99. It sounds like the scene with the TIme-Turner, especially as a Clock comes on the exterior. The Infirmary continues the 2021 modular Hogwarts design and should have the same footprint as the Great Hall from 2021's CoS set to make it stackable. 75399 Hogwarts Suitcase (or Trunk; there's been some discussion), 603 pieces, expected to retail for €59.99. The details are a little confusing here. It's supposed to be a buildable, lockable trunk, able to be customisable to the builder's House of choice by means of different coloured tiles and stickers, and allow for various scenes to be built from the Sorting Ceremony to the different Houses' common rooms. Includes customisable minifigs.

Does anyone know off the top of their heads how often they've made sets that diverged clearly from book canon? (As far as I recall, movies always take precedent, or were there exceptions to that as well?) I had the sense that they often try to duck scenes that commit to one version or the other, though, Attack on the Burrow notwithstanding. No matter how iconic, we just don't see something like the movie scene with Snape throwing himself in front of werewolf!Lupin. (20 EUR set, Snape, Lupin with alt head / hairpiece, Black's animagus form, and maybe Harry, a tree or two, some grass, a full moon?) Instead we get the Whomping Willow from the scene in CoS instead, and can piece it together from other sets if we like. (Along those lines, lego, please give us new versions of the dog and werewolf, cheers.) ETA: @Textorix Nice job! You might want to add that to the thread. This one gets locked at the end of the year, and there's no way anyone is going skimming through 400+ pages to find that in a locked thread, which would be a pity. (It also has the additional advantage of keeping that thread from disappearing into obscurity. Win win. )

The new Trelawney will have legs so she can sit in her chair. The Moment Snape was a little different to the 2018+ Snape, he has a collar, but the change was so trivial it was disappointing.