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Thanks. I mean it is not that unrealistic considering my model has something like 10 000 pieces in total (including full Quidditch Pitch, Hagrid's Hut, few trees and huge rock base). I would be probably pissed if Lego did that, because the whole point of my MOC was to get simillar castle silhouette as microscale Hogwarts castle but in playscale, so if there was suddently official set like that I would feel like my work was waste of time :DDD

Bell Towers version that I have in my castle is a MOC that I bought from JL Bricks (super talented guy) on Rebrickable. Honestly it is the best version I have seen, because it respects the original design of 2018-2020 Hogwarts sets. Thank you so much. It was very diffucult to connect all these sets in the most accurate way, and yet keep them in their official form for the most part.

Everything seems to take more time to leak than it used to I think. The sets are coming in June right, so that gives us just something over 2 and half months for potential leaks.

Any prediction on when should we get first pictures of summer sets? I can't wait to add 2 new Hogwarts sets into my MOC.

1) Diagon Alley 2) Hagrid's Hut 3) Clock Tower 4) Privet Drive 5) Great Hall 6) Knight Bus 7) Astronomy Tower 8) Hogsmeade 9) Burrow 10) Rise of Voldemort ....Microscale castle would probably be in top 3, but I don't have it as I don't collect non playscale sets.

Yeah because if it sells well we can expect more DH sets in near future or maybe they are already planned.

That or maybe Indy could replace this theme. Promobricks is going to reveal something big today, it isn’t HP related right?

FB franchise not being successful enough for Lego to make sets means that this theme won't last forever like Star Wars or Superheroes, for that you need constant flow of new content. So once they run out of ideas and remake every set, give us all possible characters, this theme will likely end, which is actually a good thing, because then these sets will remain very special and we won't end up with like 5 versions of Hagrid's Hut, Hogwarts Express, Great Hall etc. :D

Yeah, but if it is rly Gringotts this time, I think we will immediatelly know it once the name drops, even if it will be called something like Diagon Alley 2 lol... which brings me to question how would they even call such a set if it wasn't just Gringotts, but also 2-3 other DA buildings?

Isn't August just too pesimistic? When did Icons D2C name leaked last year? I don't think it was that late

Most of this is very likely now imo. I think the D2C mystery will torture us for few more months, but we could get other info soon I hope.

Same here, depending on what the final products will actually look like, this might be the best wave for me even though I still don't like the new Hogwarts system :D

Yeah, piece count could immediately tell us if it is play set or not. Because for that price playeset would have something like 1000-1200 pieces and if it was a couple hundreds more then I would assume it is buildable figures set.

Yeah them guessing that it is maybe Ron and Dumbledore figs has same value as us guessing it is Durmstrang ship or whatever. They clearly have no source on this so it is a pure tip.

I hope it really looks like POA variant that has longer and much thinner branches... I can’t wait to have 2 Whomping Willows in my Hogwarts display (maybe even 2 Hagrids Huts in the future) where each would represent different movie period jn the saga

Description of Dumbledores office set by Stonewars: "This tower is modeled after the part of the castle where the headmaster's office is located in the film, because it has the typical small mini-towers that rise up from the sides." - Damn does this mean we are actually getting more movie accurate representation of Grand Staircase Tower than 2018-2020 system (from Great Hall set)? :D I am suprised, because this sounds like they will try not not make generic random looking towers anymore like they did with previous sets, but they actually care about accuracy now (or I should say again since most of 2018-2020 sets were very accurate).

Quidditch pitch or whatever would be an insult as D2C set... even Icons set is more worthy as it really looks like it is paying tribute to HP franchise which giant stadium wouldn’t do for me. Also can you imagine how boring the actual build would be? You would have to build mostly same generic tower like 12 or 16 times? Heck no pls. I am getting Colosseum vibes from it, aka set that looks great when it is finally built and displayed somewhere, but that is everything good about it.

But that is not the same case as cabinet/office for reasons I mentioned earlier (same with DADA classroom).

Yeah I guess, but Hospital Wing isn’t something like her personal room, not the same category if you know what I mean. It can still work without her as Hospital Wing for students, but you can’t say the same about cabinet which would be just pointless empty room without professor who could sit there.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love if it included her office, but if the set doesn’t have her as minifigure, then there is close to zero chance that it will happen. I don’t remember any Hogwarts set since 2018 that had certain professor’s office, but not have him as minifigure. Dumbledore, Snape, Slughorn, Lockhart had their offices in previous sets, but were also present as minifigs. Although early minifigure lists from Promobricks could be wrong in some places I doubt they wouldn’t notice Umbridge minifigure if she was there.

Great points here, this is exactly why I think there are only 2 likely options. Few people suggested UCS Quidditch pitch or even Quidditch World Cup, which would be a big risk at this price.

For me it’s 70% chance for Gringotts DA expansion, 20% for big UCS Hogwarts Express with Hogsmeade Station (still wouldn’t be enough for €470 imo) and 10% chance for something completely different and unexpected.

Good point, but the lack of GoF sets (except Horntail) in this wave still make me think that it is based on that movie. I mean it’s not like I care about it as long as it will include some new minifigure variants and the build is decent.

It was discussed here earlier that €119.99 set should be a playset according to previous info from Promobricks (or Brick Clicker? not sure rn)

Yes, unlike most people, I am not even suprised anymore when they throw a random character into set that is not supposed to be there like Ginny