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I also think it is a Durmstrang ship. Given the popularlity of Modulars, and that they are two modulars have been made in Marvel sets, I can definitely see a $200 Grimmauld Place set being very popular with non HP fans. Add the Christmas element and boom - instant money machine. $120 probably can't do it justice and would be at best a dollhouse-style set.

I don't particularly like this style and would have much preferred minifigures that were opaque. Doesn't look all that great to me AND doesn't seem to have much playability. Though, if this piece is real, I am looking forward to the inevitable 501st Force Ghost Army.

How many did you originally order?

If it is a placeholder, I'd imagine it's the one from the 2019 advent calendar.

Anyone know why the Throne Room was removed from the US store?

I just got an email that my first sets I've ordered have shipped! In the US. Only the first order is shipping. Other 2 orders I have are still backordered.

I'd suspect a change in management or the team changed the goals. Based on what i've seen for the coming sets, I'm excited!

I got out of my dark ages when i searched if Lego was making any Mandalorian sets and found the Razer Crest existed for pre-sale. This has what I would call the "popular" tax.

Anyone else find it ironic that for the HP theme, they say Deathly Hallow sets are too dark and mature, but the Boba Fett's Throne Room set literally has Boba coming in and murdering Bib Fortuna to take over?

This makes me wonder if the Grevious Fighter was priced higher for "real-time market research"

Would the Kaminoan be a brand new mold? I'd suspect we'd get other Kamino sets then someday

I think a good business argument could be made for this exact situation - they've saturated the market of HP with hogwart expansions and for the past 2 years it's been mostly ONLY that. Some are retiring and adding non-Hogwart expansions could make a nice focus for the current ones still on the market.

I still believe (based on nothing but gut instinct) that the rumored price for this set is a typo and it is not $530, but $350, which is exactly the price of the Cantina.

I just got an update that all my orders went to "Backorder" and will ship early February.

I'd recommend contacting their customer support and they can reverse it. I did this once in 2020 when I bought, accidentally, the in-store one vs. the online one. They gave it back to me without a problem.

I just saw that. D'oh!

So glad we are getting more cards. I didn't get a complete set. So many Snapes, it could fill a room!

I would expect the graveyard duel to get remade at some point, But It wouldn't be for a number of years. The gap between the first and second one was 14 YEARS. As to the others, they may but probably for a long time. If I were you, I'd try to buy them somewhere soon before their price goes up.

I can just imagine - an 8 or 12 part miniseries called Wizarding World: Vignettes, that centers on certain parts of the world, including where are they now.

If that's the case, what do you suspect it could be? Nimbus 2000?

Originally, I didn't like the rumors of this set when I heard it, then I saw it and moved to a "meh, but that's cool", but then....I found myself going back to the pictures and now it's one I'm DEFINITLEY planning on buying. I'd buy it now but I need to recovery financially from this years sets already! I live in a tiny apartment for having this hobby so have to rotate my sets but i'd keep this one a permanent display in my office. I'd recommend it.

I think Grimmauld Place would make a great Advent Calendar.

I'd say HP got 2.5 vs. Marvel's 1. That first one was a huge amount of figures compared to now.

I can attest to this. I felt similar to the Marvel CMF, having difficulty finding it in stores. Found some of the Boxes of 6 on Target.com but didn't get the entire set. The instant I saw them show "sold out" on Lego.com I knew it was only a matter of time before it became even more difficult and just bought an entire series on bricklink. If you still find them in the wild @therealwalkers i'd recommend getting them.

I can attest to this in a non-Lego way. One of my friends is a designer at an international company, and they sent everyone home. They began having serious quality control issues PRECISELY because they were working only in software and didn't have access to not only their 3-D Printer but their normal physical models. I'd imagine this is the same case for these sets as we'd expect some sets (Especially smaller ones) to have a 1 year development time. Given my friend's company, they couldn't just send them home with "parts", but I would have thought LEGO would have sent them a bunch of lego pieces for home use. I agree, at this point, I wouldn't be surprised of more flaws and sudden gaps in #'s if they caught them in time before announced.