chris6507

Is there a reason people are particularly dissappointed by the lack of animals? I agree it would be nice, but I don't think last year really set a precedent to expect them this year unless i'm mistaken? Are the micro or mini builds (whatever they are called) such as the ship and carriage useful to people with the D2C castle? Or are they a bit out of scale with it?

Well I'm definitely agree that the new minifigures are 100x better than last years. To be honest, last years figures were particularly boring. Flitwick took his jacket off. Hermione had a slightly shorter scarf than CMF dean thomas and Harry and Ron just had torsos with a big letter on them. So to get two completely exclusive, don't exist in any other form characters and another in a fully printed new outfit is amazing. Builds are all a bit meh! But when does an advent calendar ever have an exciting build? Looking at the builds, 50%-60% of them are actually just slight variations on builds from last years advent calendar.

Oh, awesome. Thanks for the clarification. :-)

Not sure if it was on here or somewhere else. But I thought LEGO wasn't going to be participating in the online SDCC. Am I the only one that read that (could be mistaken)? Found it: https://www.thebrickfan.com/no-lego-panels-at-san-diego-comic-con-2020-home/

I know it's not a very exciting minifigure to leak. But i'm really happy with it as a leak. Basically between these two leaks it's given absolute certainty that the DA set is coming and the combination of the two figures basically squashes any notions of it being microscale or anything of the like as I cannot see Harry Potter and the Ice Cream guy being on some special stand in the likes of the Hogwarts Founders! :-D I know people have been confirming things. But these two figures have given me certainty! :-D

Wait... so it's Philosophers Stone outfit with Chamber of Secrets face?

That would be Knockturn Alley Harry right?

Ohh... you have to click on the profile picture to see the story! :-) I'm an absolute Instagram noob. Lol.

Where do you even see this?

Just wondering... is it just me or is the printing on the CMF figures printed at a slightly larger scale? Eyes look bigger and more spread apart from each other and their mouths to me.

Can you really not go to your local Kmart or Target and feel for the ones you need? Are you in Victoria? Just wondering because I had no problems going down and feeling the previous CMF series while we were still in lockdown. Not really seeing any reason i'm not going to be able to do the same again for the Harry Potter wave in Tassie. Honestly if you are seriously stuck. i'm happy to feel a second set out for you if you were just wanting to pay the retail price plus postage.

Can those pieces be attached directly to the torso rather than to legs? Also am I the only one that feels like I die a little inside every day I wake up and there's still no news on the CMF or D2C? Lol. I think i'm just bursting with anticipation in regards to the D2C as I have never bought a large D2C set before. Really, really excited at the prospect.

It doesn't look great. But I personally prefer having things feel a bit more complete even with the style conflict rather than the long very incorrect layout that LEGO proposes. I unfortunately don't have the creativity or money to complete my sets as amazing as @Whovastron (very jealous by the way). But yeah, basically I've just been trying to make a complete as possible castle with existing LEGO sets. :-) Hoping when I can be bothered that I can replace some of the sand green parts with dark bluish gray in the future, but Bricklink is a bit dicey at the minute due to all the shipping prices and issues. May I ask just out of curiosity what aspect you specifically don't think looks good? Is it the overall style difference? Or is it mainly the mismatch of colours? Genuinely curious! :-D

I'd love to see your arrangement too if you get the chance! :-)

Just thought I'd share for those who don't have any MOC"Ability" like myself how the current Hogwarts sets plus the 4th Edition Hogwarts (4842), Hogwarts (4867) and Freeing Dobby (4736) can actually come together to make a pretty decent imaginging of the original Hogwarts Castle. Other than moving segments around, the only points that have had adjustments are connection points to either add or adjust connections to match up. :-) https://ibb.co/CtBJpcF https://ibb.co/Xkytr6k The room of requerment even connected everything quite nicely into a neat little courtyard. :-)

Yeah, I got a lot of money tied up in LEGO I don't have right now. Lol. Surprisingly we had most of the Harry Potter sets here in Burnie, Tasmania on the 1st or 2nd of July. And I got a bit peed off with Amazon listing the sets 1st June and not sending them til July. So I went ahead and bought all my Amazon sets again and i'm just going to return the sets straight bay to Amazon with the free returns. I actually requested to have two of the sets cancelled 4 days ago and they still sent it yesterday. So I don't feel bad. I've also got my Burrow order same as you with LEGO. I put in a cancellation request several days ago and haven't heard anything. I wanted to have a Harry Potter build party with my wife last night so I drove 40km to Devonport to pick up the Burrow! :-) So at this stage I figure if LEGO cancels the order then I get my money back and it's all easy, but if they send it... I might naughtily return the set to Kmart! :-) I don't feel bad as Kmart has just got $500 off me in the last day or so, so they can do me a small favour! :-D But yay!!! Finally got to build them all last night! :-D Bit bummed I missed the $109 at Kmart for the Burrow. Thought that was their price, didn't realise it was going to change. Lol.

I wish I had waited. It's been 6 days and LEGO still hasn't shipped my Burrow yet. And they seem to use notoriously slow postage in Australia. It will probably be down the road for $40 cheaper at Kmart before it gets here! Lol. I also ordered the other 4 I wanted from Amazon 4 weeks ago and they are only just shipping them now. Would have saved another $30-$40 at Kmart if i'd waited. But I thought when Amazon listed them, it meant they had them! :-/

Just a PSA for any Aussies... It appears that the burrow is not actually a LEGO store exclusive here. Unfortunately i've already ordered it for $150 from the LEGO website, but i've just realised that as of this morning, Kmart has the Burrow listed as coming soon for only $109.

I was approaching the $30 off mark, but I asked LEGO what was going on with the sets and stated my concern about missing out on the hotrod and they game me like 3000 vip points. So with purchasing the burrow, I should just be passing the $75 off mark which will be nice! :-D

Thanks I ordered it. Still really bummed I got a crappy micro lambourghini or whatever it was instead of the Cool Hot Rod with 2 minifigures! :'( Guess student pack will have to wait to be ordered with the D2C now, as postage on it's own is 50% of the student packs cost. Lol.

Well, LEGO Australia has officially missed their due date for the Burrow and Student packs by 3 weeks now!

I reckon 2 stickers sheets should be the standard. It would cost them basically nothing to add an extra sticker sheet, and it would be so useful for replacing, worn, damaged or misplaced stickers. :-)

Everything is back in stock on the AUS website except burrow and student pack for any Aussies needing to know! :-)

Good point! :-D

Being a bit lazy, hoping someone remembers off the top of their head... What was the general consensus on schools years and legs? Was it 1-2 Short, 3-4 Mid and 5-7 Long? Just trying to figure out if it will be much effort getting them all to the right sizes! :-) Also, does anyone have any particular educated guesses based on experience how many pieces the D2C might be? I tried working it out, but looking at past sets The Joker Manor is 3.4k pieces and was $400 AUD But the Death Star is $800 AUD (double the price) for 3.6k pieces. The Microscale Hogwarts is I think about the price of what the Diagon Alley will be, and that has 6,000 pieces. Although I assume pretty small pieces. Lol. I'm thinking maybe 4,500 to 5,000, but wondering if anyone more clued on has a better estimate! :-D