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Looks great indeed! When you're going for accuracy, you might also want to switch the legs from short to medium, as Lee was (I think) a third-year by the time Harry & Co. started school.

German youtuber Held der Steine has done a review of the Expecto Patronum set. He pointed out that despite what many people (including myself) thought, the main colour is not sand blue but bright light blue. Frankly, that make the set even less appealing to me. I still think trans-light blue would have been preferrable. Even medium azure (which LEGO Hidden Side used to use for otherworldly landscapes such as the ones in Welcome to the Hidden Side and J.B.'s Submarine) might have worked better than bright light blue.

Adult Ron and Hermione have never ever been made, so I very much doubt anyone would have enough of them to build a coffee table out of. Their omission in the Hogwarts Express set was widely complained about. And some people care less about collecting minifigs that have never before been included and more about whether the set (referring to both play functions and story) makes sense with the ones included. There is nothing Professor Sinistra adds to the story or playability of CoS. Meanwhile, Draco is a huge omission both because the set has a play function for the dueling club, and even includes the snake from Draco's spell, and because his "Heir of Slytherin" antics are what sets the entire polyjuice plot in motion. Snape, meanwhile, really should be there as a foil for Lockhart in the dueling club.

Makes about as much sense as including Professor Sinistra in the HP Chamber of Secrets over Draco or Snape, or two random unnamed Hogwarts students over adult Ron and Hermione in the HP Collectors Edition Hogwarts Express, and for much the same reason I'd guess (hint: diversity).

They're from Brick Clicker, though they match, so I don't know if one of them got them from the other. For what it's worth, Nicky in the video says she cannot wait to see pictures. Implying that everything up till now is just hearsay.

No, we haven't so far, unfortunately.

Some further information from the video in case anyone can't access it: - Gringotts includes the bank, the mine cart system (with rollercoaster tracks and carts), and the Ukrainian Ironbelly, so basically three builds in one set. - The vault promo being rated 8+ is significant because Brick Clicker speculates that it might be available with all HP purchases (not just Gringotts); the reason being that if it were tied exclusively to Gringotts it would likely be 18+.

To be fair, dinos a) aren't politically fraught and b) have worldwide appeal. Whereas the entire "Caucasian male adventurer travels to stereotypical exotic locations, meets exotic local stereotypes, and steals their cultural treasures" genre is pretty much limited to Western audiences and even then hasn't aged particularly well. I very much doubt that LEGO would want to risk their reputation in their non-European markets with any set of that sort (instead of giving us Westerners themes like Monkie Kid and Ninjago which focus on the Asian or Asian-inspired characters). So I'm not so much shocked that there won't be any further Indy or Adventurer sets as I'm surprised that even this handful of Indy sets got approved in the first place. This is also why I'd be surprised if we saw a revival of the Cowboys/Wild West theme. What I cannot understand, meanwhile, is why LEGO is so reluctant to give us more Knights/Castles and Pirates, since those seem to be in huge demand and appear to be much less politically fraught (apart from the issue of islanders in the pirates theme, but I think the theme would work just as well without that aspect, focussing on pirates vs. soldiers). EDIT: Just for curiosity's sake, everyone here seems to be of the opinion that the Indy sets sell really well - but like I've said, this is a theme that would seem to appeal mainly to Westerners. Do we know anything about sales on other continents? Do we even know if the Indy sets were released worldwide?

His latest video confirms 4804 pc for Gringotts and 212 pc for the vault promo, did we know that already?

Brick Clicker's latest video (the 18+ set one from two days ago) confirms the Avengers' Tower for this year (76269, 5261 pc, 525 dollars, 24 November 2023) and also Wolverine's helmet (76250, 596 pc, 70 dollars, 1 August 2023). Though the only truly new info here seems to be the helmet's release date.

@FerderLockhart taught DADA, not Potions. Also the Chamber of Secrets modular set features what I have to assume is an Astronomy Classroom (in the top of the tower), probably in order to justify Professor Sinistra's inclusion.

YMMV is all I'm saying.

Really? I only own CoS and PPM and even though I do like them they look completely crowded. You can barely fit in the figs. Thanks, effing studless lattice plates! It's made worse by the short legs. In both sets together, only 3 out of 15 (!!!) figs have posable legs that would allow them to run or fly or sit. And you can't exactly have Nick and Tom Riddle sitting at breakfast or in class, either.

PPM was necessary, if for nothing else then to correct the intentional design flaw in the CoS (slide with no trap door). The alternative would have been the CoS costing EUR 20 more with three Harry figs. (And the HP theme getting only one somewhat affordable EUR 20 set in three years instead of a whopping two.) But yeah, it made us expect the wrong things. Initially it looked like "The modular system will have sets ranging from the small PPM to the middling FE to the big CoS". When really it was "We split the CoS into two sets and aren't planning on doing any other small sets in the modular system." The modular system could have been so much better than it was/is.

I think it is, but we've never gotten Snape's doe even when it would have made a ton of sense (such as in the EP Set over fricking Lupin's wolf) and I definitely wouldn't expect it to debut in a Dumbledore's Office set of all things when there are more iconic scenes with it, such as the Forest of Dean one. They also tend to leave Snape out of sets where he really should be present, like the HBP themed Astronomy Tower. So I wouldn't expect him in a Dumbledore's Office set either.

Even if it made sense to show the doe patronus in Dumbledore's Office, I'm pretty sure by now that both Snape and the doe would be on stickers. Sorry. ;-)

Meh. YMMV but I think it's kind of a mess. As others have pointed out, there doesn't seem to be much of a common line regarding design choices (i. e. the Hospital Wing has white windows and other sets have black ones). Plus many of the interior spaces are "customizable" only in terms of being underdesigned and empty (Fluffy Encounter and Sirius Black's Rescue are particularly bad offenders but the three office levels from Dumbledore's Office are hardly much better). I do like the Chamber of Secrets and the Polyjuice Potion Mistake a lot, but I think the quality went down after the first wave. I'm actually looking forward to what new system they'll come up with. Even though I won't buy it because my shelves are full as it is.

Not a "bro" :-), but you're welcome! As far as I know, @JeanGreyForever took screenshots and showed them to Promobricks, but they could not show them because the images were watermarked. So Promobricks described the sets based on the pictures they saw. It's not an official description but it is based on the "official" pictures.

There is, from the same Promobricks article linked above (Google translation again): X Mansion X-Men Headquarters measures over 10” (25cm) high, 21” (53cm) wide and 6” (17cm) deep. The two-story building is tan and dark-tan in color and has a gray roof. In front of the house is an entrance gate with a suggested fence. Nothing can be said about the interior of the property, but the back wall seems to be open so that you can play inside. At least 9 minifigures are included with Professor X, Magneto, Wolverine, Storm, Cyclops, Beast, Mystique, Sabretooth and Emma Frost. Others are imaginable. Cerebro or the X-Men's jet don't appear to be in this set. Parts: 3122 Pricing range: up to $390 Most Likely Price: $300 /OT

It's from the survey that @JeanGreyForever leaked. Here's the pertinent part from the Promobricks article (Google translation): https://www.promobricks.de/lego-leak-umfrage-2023/157463/ Gotham City The next set on our list goes in the LEGO art direction. Measuring 32 cm high and 77 cm wide, it depicts the skyline of Batman's Gotham City. The set has the Goth Deco style of the animated series and shows the city at night with a full moon and a red sky with a large Batman logo and three police airships with searchlights. As with the LEGO Ideas 21333 Vincent van Gogh - Starry Night set, the buildings and skyscrapers emerge from the picture in 3D. The set should also contain the following minifigures: Batman, Joker, Harley, Mr. Freeze and Phantasm. Parts: 3238 Price range: $240 to $390 Most Likely Price: $300 Since the survey was in 2023, it's likely that the sets won't show up before 2024. We haven't even heard anything of the two which Promobricks considered likely for late 2023 (both of them Disney sets that'd compliment the anniversary minifigure series). Some of them might not ever show up if, for example, the survey results are discouraging to LEGO. (There was a buildable Sorting Hat for HP. I cannot imagine ANYONE wanting that.)

I'd expect us to get the Hog's Head next year or so anyway. I very much doubt that they'd make an Aberforth minifig just for use in the advent calendar, and with the Hogsmeade village visit and the Shrieking Shack and now Hogsmeade Station plus an advent calendar, another Hogsmeade Expansion seems likely.

I think it's the actual uniform of the actual Owl Post Office in the Orlando theme park? So not from the movies, but not invented by LEGO either? EDIT: Here's a picture. https://orlandoinformer.com/universal/owl-post/

StoneWars did a breakdown in their recent article, look under the "Minifiguren" heading. Though when they say that, for example, Catwoman is exclusive, that likely only refers to the torso and head so you might get away with buying individual parts.

That makes sense. Except for how she's still happily swinging her whip! For some reason I cannot link the picture from the StoneWars page, but there's definitely a hole on top of the minifigure's head.