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They weren't all, though. For example, the Disney Maleficient Dragon set was pictured as a diorama with minifigures, and ended up as a playset with minidolls. The Medieval Market Square had way more animals in the survey than the finished product has (which seems comparable to complaints about missing X-Men figures to me). They might also have taken the survey results into account - for example, @JeanGreyForever told us that he complained about the lack of Jean Grey in the X-Men set. If enough people did, that might have convinced them to change the line-up. (Though I'm half convinced that most of the survey users had to have been trolling them - I mean would you really get a bunch of random people who aren't even necessarily into LEGO to go "Buildable Sorting Hat that looks like a turd and squeaks out 'Gryffindor'? Yeah, I'd totally pay EUR 100 for that!") Also, the usual place currently has a leak up of cancelled sets. Some of them were cancelled completely and at least one was cancelled, then released under a different set number. So there's clearly a lot going on behind the scenes that we can't even guess at.

Regarding the construction figures: Harry Potter reportedly gets a buildable Hagrid and Harry with a motorbike in January. That sounds like an awful idea to me on so many levels (HP is heavily tending towards builable crap over minifigure playsets anyway, and apart from the very high-priced ones they are mostly very badly designed; Hagrid is half-giant with a very bulky stature, while Harry's a slender teenager or possibly a baby in this scenario; and the figs have to be poseable enough to sit on the motorbike/in the sidecar) but it seems that they're trying to do more with buildable figures instead of less. Of course, they also seem to be trying to shove Dreamzzz down our throats lately (Dreamzzz minifigure parts in BAM, Dreamzzz taking up excessive space in the catalogue including the front cover ...) and I've heard people say that Dreamzzz isn't doing all that well. I certainly see their sets warming the shelves often enough. So it could be a last-ditch effort to recoup their investment in both cases. We just don't know.

Maybe they've realized that plenty of people will buy any set for the figs as long as they are new variants?

This! Captain Marvel's one of my favourite Marvel characters and I might well be the only person here who genuinely liked "The Marvels", but I didn't even consider getting the set. Not only was it absurdly priced, but also Yet Another Space Ship just didn't appeal to me. If they had to go that route with just a single set for the movie - and I can see why they did, given the current state of the MCU -, they should have put in one or two figs (say, a new Captain Marvel plus Kamala or even Dar-Benn) with a cheap, small build for the Hoopty, since I strongly suspect that no-one bought the set for the ship build anyway. That could have been EUR 20-30 or so and would surely have found some takers.

Yeah, but there's also a reason why Spider-Man does very, very well. Obviously there's a target group for both. The thing is, Deadpool is not representative of the MCU as a whole. No-one I know was looking forward to Deadpool & Wolverine for the story, characterisation, or anything like that - they wanted stupid one-liners and senseless violence. It's a one-off thing that somehow works, but you can't build an entire cinematic universe on it. And the same is true for Spider-Man, in a way - you cannot build an entire cinematic universe on Peter's juvenile problems along the lines of "OMG! The girl I like is sitting next to a guy who might also like her!". Previously, the MCU used to have a balance where both of these were outliers, and the actual backbone of the universe were people like Tony Stark and Doctor Strange who had adult lives and adult problems. I think that this would still work now, post-Endgame - except Marvel Studios seems to be systematically replacing the remaining adults (like Dr Strange, Captain Marvel, Ant-Man, Hawkeye) with teenagers (like America, Ms Marvel, Cassie Lang, Kate Bishop). The problem is not that most of them are female. The MCU definitely needs more female characters! It's that they're very underdeveloped characters (America especially could have easily been replaced with a literal silver suitcase in Dr Strange 2) with juvenile problems (like an army of Spider-Men, if you want) and that Marvel's preferred way of introducing them seems to consist of their berating and being at odds with the more established characters (which doesn't endear them to the audience either). Honestly, as an adult viewer the only one I find remotely tolerable is Kamala, and I wouldn't want to see an entire movie about her either. I'm here for what remains of my favourites - that is Dr Strange, Star-Lord, and Captain Marvel. If those three aren't in the next Avengers movie I might not even bother going. But for me that's not about PG-13 humor and violence. For me it's about the lack of characterisation. Making everything grittier and more violent won't help at all, in my opinion.

Not really? Just take a look at the leak for Malfoy Manor (76453). That set's EUR 150! Yet you can already see from the leak that probably only one figure (Dobby the elf) has dual-molded (apparently unprinted) legs and everyone else seems to have plain unprinted ones. Besides, I own quite a few HP sets and unprinted legs have definitely been the norm there recently. So while I agree that LEGO's skipping corners with Marvel that's not to say they don't do the same with HP.

German LEGO News Blog zusammengebaut has a review up of the Wednesday dorm set. In case anyone wants to get a look at the gargoyles that will also be used for Malfoy Manor:

Oh, absolutely! But it still looks like a better deal to me than that Manor, so that should tell you something. ;-)

That! I was questioning before how you could make a modular of a mansion that was 1.000 pieces less than the museum and somehow also included a large side build (the Sentinel). Now we know the answer is "You can, but it won't look good" :-( .

There's your LEGO crane. What do you mean it shouldn't cost EUR 680??? I think that might well be the first thing on this forum that we both agree on. ;-)

Hey! God Loki is not Disney+ trash. Well he's Disney+ but certainly not trash. (As for the rest I couldn't care less.)

If you like your LEGO sets as facades, that's of course fine. I personally don't. But I also don't see how what we get here is worth EUR 150 or 1.600 pieces. In my mind I compare it to, say, the 2021 Chamber of Secrets, Grimmauld Place, or the Hidden Side Haunted High School. All of those were cheaper (at least originally) and had fewer pieces, in some cases considerably fewer (and both Grimmauld Place and the High School had in-built mechanisms that needed extra pieces/space) but still looked at least as impressive. That's what I really mean by LEGO being cheap - I don't so much mind the price point but I just don't see the value here.

Grimmauld Place at least had a good excuse since the mechanism to hide the house required a certain room layout. This here just feels like LEGO being cheap. But like I've said, really shallow facades are the new normal. Just look at Gru's House from Minions (75583) from the back!

StoneWars did a slider comparison of the Mansion with the Natural History Museum for anyone who's interested. Both have two storeys but the Mansion is a lot shorter (and when the Museum came out there were some complaints that it didn't look imposing enough!). I don't think the Mansion woild look all that good in a city setting and it's not meant to be located in one anyway, so why did they even bother to make it compatible at this size/piece count?

Well, that's LEGO for you. They also changed the Bricklink Designer Programme rules so cruelty against animals (including caging or chaining them) can no longer be depicted. Then gave us a EUR 550 Star Wars set with a bunch of male characters and a chained Sex Slave Leia as the only female character. But then they made her wear a miniskirt over her golden bikini, so it's okay again./s I could come up with some other recent examples, but the basic takeaway is always "It's the LEGO version of morality, don't think about it too hard".

Where did you see those? EDIT: found them. Not my kind of thing but they might give us some idea about which stores we can expect next. Also, where is the pink building from the old DA set (QQS, I think)? Shouldn't that be next to Ollivander's or something?

Might just be a budget thing. Unprinted dress slopes look bad and no-one but Dobby and possibly Bella seems to have leg printing. Have you seen Gru's house from Minions? Or the Emerald City leak from Wicked? Paper-thin facades are LEGO 's new thing.

I've heard quite a few sellers complain about them as well, since they're basically subpar action figures at a too-high price point and therefore don't sell. They also would not lend themselves to representing Hagrid's bulky figure (the Green Goblin that supposedly represented the Willem Dafoe version was bad enough). Still, they're the most poseable kind of buildable (human) figure we've got so far. The Wednesday and Wicked ones wouldn't exactly lend themselves to sitting on a motorbike! The Harry & Hermione ones were at a completely different price point, so I think we can rule those out. Honestly, now I expect the entire thing (minus Harry) to look much like this:

Re: brick-built Motorbike with brick-built Hagrid and Harry: Rumour has it that the Marvel subtheme will scrap the buildable figures by the end of 2025 because they don't sell. Given that, I find it baffling that they are only just now introducing them here! At least many Marvel characters wear helmets or cowls that partly cover their heads. After the atrocity that was the buildable Chewbacca over at Star Wars, I really don't want to know how the designers'll attempt to recreate Hagrid's shaggy hair and beard.

Do you mean the one they've used for the Dementors here? Honestly, I was never a fan of the movies' tendency to have people who Apparate turn into mist, so it doesn't bother me at all. Most people seem to think it's the latter, since the set is apparently known as "Motorbike and Sidecar" and the sidecar only appears in DH1. Also I'm not sure who this set is meant for in the first place, but assuming that kids like this kind of stuff, an adult Harry probably has more play value than a baby. In 2021, the EUR 20 set for the modular Hogwarts gave us a really neat and complex build as well as four figures (with extra hair-/headpieces for three of them!). Just saying! That said, I fully agree that the most we're likely to get now are three figs and one of those crappily designed so-called modules reminiscent of the Hufflepuff Common Room in the Great Hall set. Lockhart and Harry for the Dueling Club are a given - the 2021 Chamber of Secrets also did the Dueling Club and somehow left out both Draco and Snape. I also suspect that for the new series of playset Diagon Alley stores we'll get Flourish and Blotts next, and for the modular Hogwarts we'll get the Chamber of Secrets soon. Both would have to involve Lockhart so if they invest in a new minifig for the Dueling Club they can then easily reuse parts of it.

I agree 100%. The gray pieces are ugly, the "bursting out" effect doesn't really work when they burst out above the logo. And the worst thing? No Clint! Honestly, with that figure selection there is no excuse at all for leaving him out. He's a founding member of the Avengers just like the rest of them.

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You forgot at least one "Venomized", possibly more. Quoting myself because of a thought I've just had: What if the fifth minifig for the logo is Clint (not Fury or Banner), and the Hulk's an extra (big)fig the leaker just hasn't seen?

It makes sense that they would pick the MCU's founding Avengers after all (they'd have been my pick, too), and I guess someone who's not into Marvel might mistake red-headed Nat for Wanda. But where is Clint and why wouldn't it be the Hulk instead of Bruce?

There's minifigs. The line-up has been leaked earlier. One's Scarlet Witch, I don't remember the others right now. If you go back in this thread far enough, you should find the full line-up.