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The prototype is the background image LEGO use in instructions to show where to put sets. The "usual place" is likely Reddit. Just write "Reddit Hogwarts East Wing prototype" into your browser bar and you should easily find the thread @brickbride refered to.

Agree. At the moment we don't even know how large it will be and so how much locations could accomodate in it.

Maybe in US and UK, but in EU the last Advent Calendar was available also after Christmas, with a 50% discount.

@Virginia_Bricks that's a nice guess. And I think the best thing for us would be having the East Wing underground only for Chamber of Secrets and a further set with Slytherin Common Room.

But wasn't she a substitute? Maybe in that period Kettleburn was in hospital recovering for losing one of his limb

@Accio Lego agree to disagree, but for me we're talking about a non issue. Only someone who knows nothing about Harry Potter, but really nothing, would have a problem, but I doubt it would be someone who could spend $250 on a Harry Potter playset. Wilhelmina Grubbly-Plank enter the chat yes, that would be a very creative choice.

I agree with the first part, but, really, who could be confused by having the Slytherin Common Room near the Slytherin Chamber of Secrets Anyway, it would be better than having a Mirror of Erised under the roof while all of the path bringing to it is in the dungeons. That was confusing

@Gryffindor I suppose any of us can open a new thread for 2026, but it's up to an administrator to pin it in the upper part of forum and transfer the last 6 pages messages from here to there. Or maybe it's just better to modify the title of this thread into 2025/2026. This thread was opened by @Clone OPatra but maybe in these days he is busy in other things.

@sebastian666 Well, but it's one year that there's the Flying Lessons set on shelves. And it's hard to tell, at the moment, if it will ever be shown connected. If they wanted to create something to be connected to East Wing, they would have simply called it Library Annex or Long Gallery and fan would have immediately understood that there will be an East Wing set. They're trying to make a castle that's faithful in its exterior appearance to the movie material and it's hard to believe they can act in that way. Hospital Wing is too different from Library Annex, Long Gallery or Bell Towers - the latter are square tower, the one in Hospital Wing is round.

@sebastian666 Why even showing the set connected? If you look at instructions of the set (6621417.pdf) you can see that LEGO show with no problem Flying Lessons set, not connected to anything else (page 112-113). It would have been so easy for LEGO showing the Hospital Wing on the right of the layout on its own. The most logical thing is that the set is meant - and LEGO considered and showed it in this way - to be the right side of the Quad.

I don't know how much it's likely. I imagine there will be also a function to make the basilisk coming out from Slytherin statue mouth, likely entering from the rock side.

Supposing LEGO will put Slytherin Common Room in the dungeons - as should be - it all depends on the size of the set, I imagine. The Viaduct Entrance building is similar in dimension to Great Hall, so it should accomodate in the underground only one module and half or a little more. In this case, I agree with you: Chamber of Secrets need all of this space. The only way to have also Slytherin is, in my opinion, to have a side building, in what is the Library Annex. Now, while it's true East Wing is massive, having a little more pieces than Main Tower, I fear a lot of them could serve for the Viaduct. In the end, we could have a Viaduct + Viaduct Entrance set, without Slytherin Common Room. At this point Slytherin could be - as Ravenclaw is - in a future winter set.

Well, leaks - particularly the first ones - have to be taken with a pinch of salt. It's not impossible that the list is not completed. Surely an Expecto Patronum scene with no Sirius as little sense, especially considering the previous one has less pieces but both Harry, Sirius, 2 dementors and the stag patronus. Time has changed and prices too, unfortunately, so it's even possible that LEGO won't put Sirius in this set, but I'd wait before worrying about it

Considering I always avoid not playset, I can exclude half of the sets: Hogwarts Crest, Dobby the Free Elf and Herbology Class Plants Interested to see the others.

Nice to see that we guessed a lot