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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.

Random question: Why does Catwoman have a hole in her head?

I know I keep harping on this, but I really don't understand the pricing for the Harry Potter theme. As I've said, the cheapest set of the ENTIRE YEAR (!) is the EUR 30 Dobby figure. The cheapest actual playsets are EUR 35 (if you count the banners) or EUR 45 (if you don't). And that's in a theme heavily marketed towards kids with all the various Ameet books, plushie toys, and boxes of puzzles and stickers with a single minifigure in them. Again, the only two sets with a list price of LESS than EUR 30 are the Thestral Carriage from 2022 and the Polyjuice Potions Mistake from 2021 (which I think has gone EOL already)? And Dots, but again that's not playsets. Just - WHY???? How does this make any sense at all? Why can, say, Marvel make a licenced Guardians of the Galaxy set with two desirable minifigures and a build for EUR 10, and Star Wars all those microfighters, and don't even get me started on Friends and City - but Harry Potter only STARTS at EUR 30? And let's face it, just how many kids will want a buildable figure of a non-action character with no minifig included? And it's not like they'd run out of ideas for smaller playsets because they can just remake stuff that's long overdue like the Troll on the Loose or the Final Challenge or whatnot. I just don't get that at all.

Second that: The movie is awesome and the larger sets don''t do it justice. I think the smallest is the best in terms of value for money (and I sorta want that GotG sticker after watching the movie :-)). Also, the cinema I went to showed the trailers for both The Marvels and The Flash. I hadn't seen either before. And while I cannot even remember the last DC movie I liked, plus there's the Ezra controversy, plus I could not even stand the Flash when he guest-starred on Arrow, plus I like Captain Marvel a lot and I loved her movie - I still have to say that the trailer made me not wamt to watch The Marvels, and that The Flash looks a million times better. Which makes me sad.

@Lego126Does that mean the Batcave would not actually include a Batmobile, just a platform or something where you can put one from another set? There has been some discussion regarding this point before, but no definite result, I think. For that price, frankly I'd expect a set to be complete without the need for the customer to buy others as well. But one just has to look at the EUR 500 Hulkbuster to see that LEGO think differently.

Quoting myself again because now there's a pic of the set available from JB Spielwaren: https://www.jb-spielwaren.de/en/lego-71797-destiny-s-bounty-race-against-time/a-71797/ Something must have got lost in translation during the initial Promobricks description. There is a dragon prow - actually it's the new Ninjago baby dragon - and there also is an azure dragon, but those are not the same thing.

Just noticed I hadn't commented on the revealed sets for 2023 so far ... EP: I actually really like the colour sand blue, but the combination between that and some random trans-blue elements is, yeah, not great. Also I'm surprised no-one has commented on just how bad the wolf build's snout looks. The secondary build definitely should have been Snape’s doe with a Snape minifigure and an optional „Always“ sticker for the plaque. :-) An easy pass for me. BoH: All that set has going for itself is minifigures (which I'm not interested in) and being part of the giant rendered display (which I don't have the room or the budget for). So, another easy pass. Also, as someone has pointed out, sticking this "entrance" in front of the modular series' "Great" Hall would not work at all - anyone who enters would find himself right in the mouth of the Salazar Slytherin statue, wouldn't they? Dobby: looks bad to me, but then I hate Dobby as a character and thus might be biased. It's pretty sad for the theme as a whole that the "cheapest" set of THE ENTIRE YEAR (not counting Dots) has a list price of EUR 30 (!!!) AND looks like this, though. Quidditch: I really don't get the point of including only four torsos, one for each House, and then a ton of heads and hairstyles. Given that Quidditch is a team sport and all. Yeah, let's just put Draco in Slytherin robes and Harry in Gryffindor robes on the same team, that's going to end well and won't be at all confusing! I mean I can see the set's appeal for kids, but I bet it would be a lot more popular with adults if it included some extra torsos (and capes I guess) for Quidditch army building. Also I'm baffled by how many different Quidditch outfits LEGO think we need in a single year. Between the Quidditch jumpers in the banners, Cho from the polybag and now this set, everyone's Quidditch teams are going to look horribly inconsistent. (The fact that for Ravenclaw all three versions involve Cho, makes it even funnier.) WWW and HE look to be the best ones of this wave, so of course those are the partially exclusive ones. :-( And I called it that the HE would have 1-2 minifigure slots going to personnel. Still, even for someone who cares about minifigures as little as I do, the selections don't seem particularly exciting. As for WWW, I'm at least looking forward to what they do with the new modular DA in the next few years. Hopefully we'll get some lesser known shops, some like the Leaky Cauldron that have been long overdue, and of course Knockturn Alley.

Those came from a survey (@JeanGreyForever leaked them) and are unlikely to refer to 2023, though an earlier release would make some sense for the two you mentioned for reasons outlined below. Promobricks covered them here: https://www.promobricks.de/lego-leak-umfrage-2023/157463/ Google translation of the parts of the article referring to Disney: Snow White House As we speculated in our article on the LEGO 71038 Disney Minifigures leased list, there is indeed a Snow White house (or rather the house of the 7 dwarfs) in development at LEGO. The house is similar to the rejected LEGO Ideas design, but is slightly more compact at 25cm high, 20cm wide and 30cm deep. In contrast to the Ideas design, the roof is not yellow, but dark orange. Next to the house there is a small sidebuild with a fountain and three birch trees. Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs are of course included as minifigures and thus perfectly complement the Evil Queen from the Disney Collectible Figures Series 3. For this reason, the Snow White house is also our favorite when it comes to an early release. We can well imagine that the set will also be released to celebrate Disney's 100th anniversary in the coming months. Parts: 2500 Price range: $200 to $325 Most Likely Price: $250 Maleficent & the Dragon A set based on the Disney classic Sleeping Beauty from 1959 also made it into this LEGO leak. Taking the form of one of the dioramas with a black border and a tile printed with a quote, the battle between Prince Phillip and the evil fairy Maleficent is depicted in her dragon form on the bridge. The dragon is built from different LEGO bricks and does not consist of large molded parts. The wings are pieces of fabric. A greenish flame shoots out of the dragon's mouth. Both Prince Phillip and his white horse minifigure are included, as well as Maleficent himself again. The dragon is fully articulated and can also be removed from the diorama for play. We can also imagine an early release for this set, because Princess Aurora (Sleeping Beauty) should also be part of the Disney minifigure series for the 100th anniversary in May. Parts: 1250 Price range: $80 to $130 Most Likely Price: $100 Simba from The Lion King One of the most famous Disney characters is the young lion Simba from the movie The Lion King. Simba is also implemented in the form of a separate set in the latest LEGO Leak. The little lion is built from LEGO bricks in a sitting form, the head can apparently be moved and the mouth can be opened. A brown LEGO bush is installed as the tail tip, which was first released in January in 76243 Rocket Mech. Simba is 30 cm high, 16 cm wide and 25 cm deep. Parts: 1353 Price range: $80 to $130 Most Likely Price: $100 Donald Duck Another built Disney character is Donald Duck in this LEGO leak. Donald is standing on a built base wearing his blue sailor suit. The figure is 30 cm high, 16 cm wide and 19 cm deep. Parts: 1000 Price range: $80 to $130 Most Likely Price: $100

Here's a pic courtesy of StoneWars. The ship does look pretty cool, but I'm not sure how much use it'll be for a pirates display, unless your pirates really embrace the supernatural. The "teeth" decoration on the bow is neat. I expect it to be a sticker, though. EDIT: Set number is 71469 (Nightmare Shark Ship).

Yes. If you have that kind of space and if you're willing to spend that kind of money, for like 500+ EUR you'd get a pretty impressive display that way. It certainly looks to be better value for money in terms of footprint and minifigures than, say, the EUR 500 Hogwarts Express. Only those are some serious constraints! I really cannot imagine many people having the space to display the sets like this (I certainly don't), and LEGO ought to know it. And strangely enough, it does seem easier to get people to buy a single EUR 500 set these days than to get them to shell out the same total amount for like eight or so individual sets, especially given that many of those look sort of poorly made, individually. So I'm really wondering if that plan can work. I guess it also depends on whether they come out with a new modular Hogwarts system next year, as has been speculated, since that might lead to the old one being forgotten rather quickly.

@MaxHeadroomI think the designers of WWW heard you about the wedge plates. "No more 8x8 wedges from now on, we're going big!" Do you all think the shape of WWW is due to its being a corner location, or is that going to be a new thing?

New ship set :-) Source: Brickmerge 10786 Gabby's and MerCat's Ship & Spa

Honestly, the sets I dislike the most are probably the new Dumbledore's Office and the Hospital Wing. While the Fluffy Encounter and Sirius Black's Rescue are simply bad, that makes them easy to ignore - there's nothing here that I want. However, I really like the library part of Dumbledore's Office, and I really like the clock part of the Hospital Wing. Only the rest of each set does absolutely nothing for me. So I'm kinda annoyed that they had to package them together instead of selling them on their own. I probably would have bought the libary level if it came without another three levels of badly designed DO, and I definitely would have bought the clock part without the HW - in fact I ended up bricklinking it, though I had to make a couple of part substitutions.