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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

It is, but not so much because it is a switchable module, I think, but rather because it only has a few dedicated parts.

Not that there's so much missing, isn't My guess is that if this castle line will last until summer 2027 we could have a Clock Tower - also if it's not properly right having it directly attached to the Hospital Wing - with the entrance at the dungeons level, like Flying Lessons set - in January 2027 and Astronomy Tower in summer 2027. A remake of 2005 Harry and the Hungarian Horntail could satisfy people wanting a Hungarian Horntail to attach it at the Main Tower, people wanting Gambon Dumbledore and people wanting Moody. While Trelawney could appear in Clock Tower with her classroom.

Slytherin would likely be in the dungeon, as well as Hufflepuff, so I doubt it won't be switchable. Until now the only not switchable dungeon location is Devil Snare, but in this case due to functional necessity. Well, I would consider a strange choice not having a Chamber of Secrets in this castle. And considering that a future supposed Astronomy Tower would more likely be based on HPB, there isn't a lot of space where to put a CoS Chamber of Secrets (I know this location appeared also in DH, but an alive basilisk is better than a basilisk skeleton). So a CoS based East Wing is, in my opinion, really likely. Once made this choice, everything else likely follows both as minifigures and as locations and scenes.

For what we've seen until now, 14+ is really hard to be a playset. In all the Harry Potter theme - from 2018 - the only sets with more than 14 years old target are: sets 18+ targeted at adult (black box sets); sets 16+ targeted at nearly adult before LEGO discovered is better to targeted them to adult (Diagon Alley and microfigure Hogwarts Castle); and sets 14+, which are only Enchanted Flying Ford Anglia (2026) and Expecto Patronum (2023) and they're both not playset. 76462_Hogwarts House Symbol (14+, 542 pcs): LEGO already produced a set like this in 2021 - 31201_Harry Potter Hogwarts Crests - but that was an art set and targeted at adults. Surely the new set will be a lot simpler, but in any case likely not a playset. 76474_Hogwarts Courtyard Plants (14+, 817 pcs): as already stated, this is a strange name, but the age rating suggests it would not be a playset too. The past Mandrake set had 579 pieces and a 10+ age range so the new set should be a bit more complex than Mandrake. The very iconic plant in HP is the Whomping Willow, but it's not properly in a courtyard and it's just a single plant. There are other plants, however, that can be put together in a botanical set: Mandrake (it was retired on 31 december 2025), Mimbulus mimbletonia and Devil Snare. 76469_Dobby the Free Elf (8+, 379 pcs) could likely be a remake of the 2002 Dobby's release and 2010 Freeing Dobby, but there's also the fact that Dobby the House-Elf sculpture was retired on 31 december 2025. I can see some issues with this set being a swithcable playset, but also for this being a model. The main location for a playset set should be the cloister, with Harry, Dobby and Lucius as characters: here the problem is, for me, that 379 pieces are too much - it's the same number of pieces of Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class. Another option could be putting the scene in Dumbledore's Office: here the problem is even bigger, because it senseless to have this location as a switchable set - it's already inside the Main Tower. There's also the fact that the next polybag already has all of Dumbledore's Office objects - Sorting Hat, Gryffindor Sword, Pensieve and Fawkes. Would be this set a model of Dobby, after being freed? It would be really similar to the previous one - in DH movie Dobby continue wearing the pillowcase, but has shoes - but maybe Dobby is so is so succesfull boy to need another model on shelves. 76473_Hogwarts East Wing (10+, 2164 pcs): this would likely complete the right section of Hogwarts. The fact it's not name Viaduct Entrance can be due to different reasons: 1) it's a temporay or erronous name; 2) it contains more than the Viaduct Entrance; 3) LEGO won't produce the Viaduct, so will avoid any reference to it. My idea is that this set will have the Viaduct Entrance and the Library section, eventually with the Viaduct. Inside there will be Slyterhin Common Room (1 big switchable module, like Hufflepuff), Chamber of Secrets (1 big switchable module for Slytherin statue + 1 little switchable module for CoS corridor), Library (1 big switchable module), Myrtle's Bathroom, CoS corridor, maybe something else (fixed sections). Characters could be: Harry, Ron, Hermione, Ginny, Draco, Dumbledore, Bloody Baron, Tom Riddle, 1 minor Slytherin student (Millocent Bullstrode), 1 minor Hufflepuff student, 1 minor Ravenclaw student plus the basilisk and adult Fawkes. There's space, likely, for a 12th minifigure, but I don't know if there's some minor professors to fill this space or maybe there will be Lockhart or Filch. 76471_Knockturn Alley Shops (8+, 788 pcs): of course, this set will continue the Diagon Alley shops models, shifting to Knockturn Alley, something I didn't expect. As already said, this could be a CoS or HBP based set. Until now, summer sets didn't go beyond Goblet of Fire and all DH sets were/are in winter wave, so I'm thinking more something more related to CoS, but we'll see. 76475 (7+, 244 pcs): this is really likely the Advent Calendar. 76477 (10+, 477 pcs): no ideas on what this could be.

In CoS case I'd expect Hagrid, instead of a death eater

Mr Borgin already appeared in Wizarding World minifigure pack from 2021. I think it could be based on HBP, just to avoid to repeat Borgin and Burkes: Floo Network set.

It's usually put there.

Interestin enough, admitting the names of the sets are not so different from the real ones, is that East Wing not necessarily contain the Viaduct Entrance section. In Hogwarts Castle and Grounds set we have two different bags and writings for these sections: for Viadcut Entrance we can read "The girl's lavatories are located in this part of the castle. Maybe Moaning Myrtle will stop by as you build. Just watch out for trolls" while for East Wing - all the section behind the Viaduct Entrance (Central Tower, Library, Long Gallery, Bell Towers) we can read "No matter what a Hogwarts student's favourite subjects are, they will likely spend a great deal of their time in the East Wing, where many of the classrooms are located". I'm very curious to see what this set will contain.

Yes, you're likely right. I was confused by the fact the Ford Anglia pass on a paved section before going into the Forbidden Forest.

Hogwarts East Wing shouldn't be Hogwarts Castle: East Wing, following the scheme we've seen until now? Could be a working temporary name? And Hogwarts Courtyard Plants is a strange name too. What plant are there in the Courtyard? Whomping Willow is, at least in CoS movie, in courtyard, while in PoA is in the grounds, but I don't remember anything else so iconic - in GoF there's a tree in the Courtyard, but well it's not something you can consider iconic.