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So random body parts made out of LEGO are a thing now? Helmets, fine. At least they, as the recent Star-Lord version proved, only include the artificial parts when the helmet doesn't cover the entire head. Thanos' gauntlet, fine. Ironman's gauntlet, fine. Black Panther's whatever, fine. But unless I'm mistaken, Wolverine's claws are actually a permanent part of his body, so what's next? Looking forward to Spiderman's toenails and similar sets ...

I think @Clone OPatra referred to the fact that Stuntz motorcycles have an in-built friction motor (I think, I've never actually used one) and so might not be included in regular sets because of that feature, not because of "exclusivity".

Adding "Eternals" to the first category. The movie is the second-lowest grossing one in the MCU and the sets were marked down like everywhere. Also, "Fantastic Beasts".

Also, Indy isn't LotR. LotR is like the bestselling fantasy novel (well, trilogy) of all time, never even mind the movies and streaming series. I see Indy more along the lines of, say, the A-Team - something with it's beloved place in pop culture but nowhere near the universal appeal. And something that, again like the A-Team, hasn't aged all that well. Honestly a D2C would surprise me.

Hp231 (Ron from the Astronomy Tower set) also seems to have some sort of knit(?) pattern on his shirt, if that helps.

Oh, yeah, I don't have the DA set and forgot that QQS was in it. When I made my list, I did notice that most of the old sets have been redone in some fashion. The ones that to the best of my knowledge haven't been (the ones I marked with ???) are mostly smaller sets - Draco's Encounter with Buckbeak had like 30 pieces - and we all know that LEGO HP simply doesn't go in for small sets anymore because clearly a theme marketed primarily to kids needs LOTS of DC2s and not a SINGLE set per year in the allowance/small gift range /sarcasmoff. But the Durmstrang ship is the notable exception in that it's the only one on the list that has never been redone AND is big enough to easily carry a set. So I'd be really surprised if they did't remake it soon.

That said, personally I'd expect a Durmstrang ship within the next few years. Reasoning: 1) LEGO does seem much more comfortable retreading well-worn paths than giving us actual new content. It's worth noting that of the old 2001 to 2010 sets, most have been remade in some fashion, excluding by my count: - The Final Challenge (but we did get Quirrell, Harry, and the Mirror of Erised in the Great Hall set) - The Sorting Hat (but there's a buildable Sorting Hat rumoured) - Chamber of Winged Keys (???) - Troll on the Loose (but we did get a stand-alone bathroom set) - Dobby's Release (but we did get that awful buildable figure) - Slytherin (but we did get the polyjuice scene with Ron/Crabbe and Harry/Goyle instead) - Dueling Club (but that scene was sort of included in the new Chamber of Secrets) - Draco's Encounter with Buckbeak (???) - Harry and the Marauders' Map (???) - Quality Quidditch Supplies, Knockturn Alley (but both are possible candidates for a Diagon Alley expansion) - Lupin's Class (but we did get Moody's class in a Moments book instead) - Durmstrang Ship (???) So the Durmstrang ship is one of the more noteworthy omissions. 2) It would make a good stand-alone set. Within the last years, LEGO has done stand-alones based on the Triwizard Tournament (the Beauxbatons Carriage some time ago, the Hungarian Horntail last year, this year the Lake Task), so they might well continue with it. 3) The Karkaroff head as described above 4) LEGO could offer the large group of AFOL pirate fans a pirate ship without actually having to revive the Pirates theme. ;-) 5) Apart from Krum, who already exists in LEGO form, we don't really know any of the Durmstrang students. So - put in Karkaroff's existing head, Krum's existing head and hair, some uniform and some random re-used heads and hair pieces, and you can include a fairly large minifigure selection fairly cheap. 6) I guess you could argue that the ship doesn't really feature in the story, but that didn't stop them when they made the Beauxbatons Carriage. All you really can play with that is "The guests arrive and have tea". (While standing, 'cause three out of four characters in this set are incapable of sitting.) Really, the main draw in that set was the winged horses (and the carriage itself with its suspiciously princess-y colours, but it's not like LEGO have a lack of princess carriages in their portfolio). I have no doubt a pirate ship - branded Harry Potter or not - would sell much better.

I'm speculating that 76277 might be a mech (based purely on pricing). Also wondering how come Super Heroes still gets EUR 10 and EUR 15 sets, whereas the cheapest (!!!) Harry Potter set in 2023 was EUR 30 (and that didn't even have a single minifigure!).

I'm not really into DCU, but I agree. From the MCU perspective, I roughly followed the story till Endgame. I did skip some movies, but I had enough context that it didn't matter. But now with most every incoming movie based on at least one - possibly more - Disney+ series that I don't follow, I've lost interest. GotG 3 was a must-see for me because I like the Guardians and it was easy to get up to speed (I was only missing the holiday special). But for my part, I want character-driven superhero movies, not just special effects. If I don't know who the heck half these people ARE going in, the movie is automatically less appealing to me. Plus, and I think that's a big factor as well, movie ticket prices (and concession prices) have skyrocketed within the last few years, at least in my country. And that's during a time when even basic living expenses are going through the roof. Which means that the bar for movies has been raised significantly. Before, people would go to the cinema for the experience, and if the movie wasn't all that great, so what? But now, people think twice about shelling out that kind of money for a movie that's only "meh" to them. They expect something extraordinary. I hear more and more people say "Things have gotten so expensive! We just stay home as a family, make popcorn, and watch our streaming service." Which might or might not be Disney+.

I saw a trailer at the cinema when watching GotG 3. So they did advertise it, at least here.

Meh. With the exception of the Astronomy Tower (which we won't get, because there's an Astronomy "tower" on top of the Chamber of Secrets set, and it even includes the professor for the subject), none of these are iconic enough locations to carry a set. LEGO don't even think that something like the library (where many scenes happen) can attract buyers on its own, it had to be paired with Dumbledore's Office - so I'm pretty sure we won't get a stand-alone Owlry. If buyers want another courtyard they can buy another copy of Sirus' Rescue. If they want small room modules, well, they can buy multiples of PPM and start MOCing, I guess? Like I've said many times before, while I think there would be a market for smaller modular sets, LEGO clearly doesn't want to go in that direction. And anything "big" that's actually part of the castle (so not Hagrid's Hut or the Quidditch Pitch) has been covered - not very well in many instances, but it has been covered.

Several reasons actually: - We've had several modular sets per wave initially but are now down to one per wave in 2023, they've slowed down. - Both of the 2023 sets were based on DH. I don't really see them starting anew with the older books in the same system. - The older system ran from 2018 to 2020 so three years seems par for the course. - The Hogwarts silhouette as apparently intended is now complete. - Who's going to buy any further expansions? Given both the pricing and the sizes of previous sets, people are ging to run out of money and space eventually (since the sets are meant to be displayed all together). Whereas you could convince them to invest both money and space in something fresh and new. What do you mean "more modular than ever"? The build is pretty lacking, but so were several others (Fluffy Encounter, Sirius' Rescue ...). I think most buyers just got it either for the figs or under the assumption that they'd have the complete castle now and be done with it, see above.

Since I guess LEGO is done with the modular castle system, and in any case I've given up hoping for any more small and affordable modular sets, I decided to give my modular castle at least another bathroom based on "Troll on the Loose'". I used a spare Polyjuice Potions Mistake set (without the figs), MIkita's free "76386 Troll Attack" instructions on rebrickable with some small modifications of my own, and stuck a Hermione with short legs and a scared face (from a Moments book I think?) into it. The result's pretty cool! For anyone who has a spare PPM set or can pick one up cheap, I definitely recommend it.

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.