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I would absolutely love to see a ministry of magic in the form of a D2C set. It would be great to get the department of mysteries, the battle with voldy & Dumbledore, the arch where series dies. None of those scenes have ever been touched and it would be very cool to see in a creative format.

Yeah to your comment and the one you quoted. Really hoping the main tower depicts OotP or a movie that isn’t PS or CoS. Would love to maybe see an Umbridges office too with cat plates and stickers like where it is on the microscale. Would be great for Dumbledore office too.

Can anyone tell how the first flying lesson connects to the larger Hogwarts? Or is it still unclear?

Honestly it looks pretty great. New Harry face print, new belletrix face print, new Voldemort face print?, new Luna faceprint. All new outs on everyone. still don’t love the legs instead of dress pieces, but it makes sense in context now seeing they are remaking the table scene. Also explains voldamorts presence in the set. I endevour to say that this is some welcome variety into the line. New scene we’ve never had before (one we thought we wouldn’t get because it was cancelled in the last), 9 unique minifigures, and it acturately captures the facade, and the few scenes that take place inside within the set. Really just could’ve used a DH1 Ron here.

With back to Hogwarts coming up. What sets do people plan on purchasing to get the GWP? Anyone have a back log or have been waiting to buy?

I sincerely hope you’re right, and it’s not another year of PS and CoS tiny figures. I’m getting fatigued of everything being the first couple movies. I hope approach them staggered like how you’re suggesting.

I’m going to back this up too. I keep seeing comments where people suggest this new system is going to stop at the general outline of the 2018 micro-scale version. I see what people are getting at with the picture on the box. I just think the “3 year launch window” for every castle set isn’t a given. They might have set themselves up now to actually keep this version of the castle going longer since they have a plan in place now, and the theme has proven to be a big hit the last 5 years. It was still getting its footing again in 2018-2020, and the 21-23 version was a 20 year celebration, which they limited themselves a bit with the modular style. I think the Owlery alone is an indication they’ll do other areas. I think the clock tower and astronomy tower will be later on down the line. Take a look at the Hogwarts castle and grounds set, it’s quite possible they might even use that model as inspiration for the layout of this new minifigure scale system.

Interestingly enough- on the front of the box for the new great hall set, the castle image set in the back behind it looks much more like the full scale layout. Similar to the 2023 micro build one. With a clear astronomy tower in the silhouette .

I’m genuinely torn on if the picture in the book confirms that the future expansions will be a minifig version of the nanoscale castle. It’s looking like it might be, but there’s part of me that believes that is just a placeholder image, and we will get a proper astronomy tower, bell tower, clock tower, and they might milk this set out for more than 3 years. The modular aspect about the new greta hall gives me the impression some mixing and matching might be required by the end of the final product.

I think this summer wave is very strong. Frankly all of 2024 has been. They’re breathing some fresh life into this theme. Lots of unique mini-figures. My only qualm with this year is that it’s 90% sets from the first two movies. Given there’s some mini-figure variety some of it is welcome. I’m just a little fatigued of all the short legged figures. I really hope as they continue this Hogwarts theme we begin to see more scenes from movies past HP3. That said, the Ship / carriage set fleshed out GOF nicely, and so did the Owlery.

Can someone DM me the Instagram address for the leaks as well I can’t seem to find it

I’m also incredibly excited to see what the new Great Hall will look like. I’m a little bummed it was already indicated to be PS themed, however they said “it can also be other movies”? Interesting. I’m assuming the mini-figure will all be PS stone based. I’m a bit tired of getting so many of the little figures. I hope during the rest of the castle relaunch they work in some of the later movies.

It’s interesting they’re labelling the series “triwizard tournament:” it gives the impression now that after last years black lake + the arrival set, maybe this is a little sub theme in a similar vain to “Diagon alley:”. Maybe we can anticipate a third task set eventually.

Totally! I didn’t know this style guide existed, and when you compared to the original mini-figures, they’re beat for beat taken from this book. So interesting!

I’m curious if the castle will be built up on a rock base

Finally some dress printing on Bellatrix!!!!

It’s suppose to be a “Gringotts vault” GWP. It’s unknown when it will be released, but the running assumptions is alongside the Gringotts D2C set later this year. Presently we don’t have any info about a GWP accompanying the summer wave.

Someone posted a picture of WWW set on Reddit. Don’t see any other leaks atm.

Shucks. The naming convention of Diagon Alley: “shop name”, definitely gives the impression they’re “soft re-launching” DA like they did Hogwarts. That’s really annoying because I just invested in DA, and it’s a really beautiful set. Definitely makes me think Gringotts scale is going to be fitted for the new relaunch. On the bright side, this perhaps opens up the door for new DA builds we don’t have yet down the road.

This is what I was also curious about. Seems odd they’re building an expansion onto an existing set from a D2C from 3 years ago? I mean, I’ll be pleased if they do, but it gets me wondering if it’s a re-boot / different scale. Which makes me think Gringotts bank might be in scale with this new one instead of DA.

I’m curious about Expecto Patronum too. I think what’s interesting about the Expecto Patronum set is that it has a slightly higher age recommendation on it which makes me think it’s something a little different than a play set? Not sure if there are any play-sets that are 14+?

Yes, the leakers who confirmed it on Instagram have enough credibility that it seems quite likely.

Yes. 76422 ???? $89.99 | 834 pieces  76423 ???? $129.99 | 1074 pieces Pasted this from the beginning of this thread. No indication of what they might be. Both decently sized though.

I’m glad you said this and others agree. I was turned away from this set because the reviews were tarnishing it. Maybe people expected more? I picked mine up at Costco on sale so the price didn’t put me off. Truly an underrated set. I enjoyed the diversity in building something other than one of the castles, the colouring of this set is unique, it captures many of the rooms from the movies (although admittedly tiny), has great mini figures, finally gives up a DH prt. 1 set. Although some say it’s small, it’s a good medium to large sized set. It was enough to capture what was necessary. I have mine displayed out on my desk and change the configurations from tall to short from time to time. When I see people complain- I get it, it’s good to be critical and not overhype lego when they cut corners, but some of the sets in these new waves have become quite creative in giving us new scenes. I’m overall happy they attempted it. It was a fun build at the end of the day too.

This is such a shame. Was really hoping we were getting a castle and grounds play set sized set for the last few days. I’m sure it will be cool, but yeah, probably a skip for me.