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Minifigure trainers and brick built pokemon would be the perfect compromise.

Are you trying to use Star Wars to say that sequels are better? Pretty sure the sequels are universally hated and while the prequels weren't loved, the Clone Wars helped rectify them. And speaking of Lego sets, Clone Wars has been a boom for Lego. To the point there is a lot of commentators complaining over on that thread about how there is aren't enough OT sets this year. The issue with Harry Potter is JK has held such strong control over the world, that fan fiction hasn't been able to be properly developed which has given Star Wars and Disney plenty of proven content to modify and turn into canon.

How can Snape be African American??? Its Hogwarts not Ilvermorny. But I don't want a new Snape regardless of his race (which to my understanding was never defined in the books as with most characters) and the same for every other actor. Harry Potter will always be the movies to me.

Its being built and said to be opening in 2027.

I'm hoping so, but $75-90 is the same price range as Flying Lesson which means I don't know what part of the castle they could do with that budget. But maybe, a Chamber of Secrets set of modules? One can dream, right?

4 lines up with the Arc-170 which was the same price

Any wishlist that includes empty spaces for the extra interior sets is just dreaming. Lego won't do empty interiors as every set needs to stand on its own

I'm hoping for Hogsmeade and some boring exclusive GWP (like last year's clock). The D2C is not in this year's budget so don't want to feel like the GWP is necessary, but want a Hogsmeade like Diagon Alley longterm. I'd even take just three half baseplates if they don't think $400-500 is going to sell.

Maybe just a production issue with the new windows or the pieces they needed to recolor in purple.

Its never going to happen, but I wish they would bring back figure polybags for the mid threshold. Even simple figures like a new imperial officer with reused prints so it won't skyrocket on the secondary market. But I was easily able to sell my 2 "coins" from last year, so better than nothing.

A lot of us here were kids 10-20 years ago. And Lego made an explicit choice to target us with Star Wars sets. Lego is explicitly using other themes to target kids now (Bluey, Animal Crossings, etc…) And now as adults finally with disposable income Lego knows we still want to buy Star Wars sets and therefor shifts that more to 14-18+ sets. As much as I enjoy 6-10+ sets, I can’t build those forever and need the more complex, more detailed sets to keep me buying.

While it would be a nice new scene, that area is technically where the Great Hall courtyard is (changed during the movies).

Sure, but at least a set number exists and the last 4 years the D2C and Advent calendar have been right next to each other for set numbers.

So I went to Brickset and they have a set number #76456 at 278 pieces which could be the Advent Calendar and then set number #76455 remains unaccounted for (but not on Brickset). They did skip 76436 last year though.

I asked ChatGPT (so don't trust this fully) about screen time for each movie in the castle and here were the results: PS: 90% COS: 85% POA: 80% GOF: 75% HBP: 70% OOTP: 60% DH2: 50% Honestly we were pretty lucky to get 2 Deathly Hallows castle sets in the last modular wave.

A UCS Jango's Slave 1 and playset Jango's Slave 1 in the same year is basically a 0% chance.

Maybe... But they could do a $120 set of the tower next to the Grand Staircase and a $160/80 set for the Viaduct entrance and one swappable interior module and call it complete. While most of here would love an updated Clock Tower set or Astronomy Tower set, they could easily be excluded from the silhouette. What are people's opinions of exclusive minifigures in books? Picked up the Cedric Diggory second task figure with the book, but really don't care for the book.

I display my favorite scenes from each movie, so having duplicates is wonderful so every room can be full of activity. Like right now Lockhart is in my Great Hall and Quirrell is in the dungeons. Canonical? Absolutely not, but I prefer mini-figure scale sets so I can effectively play with it like a dollhouse.

Finally saw a comparison of the 2024 Great Hall to the Great Hall portion of the D2C Hogwarts. Roughly the same length, but 2 studs wider and ~6 studs taller. If these expanded dimensions hold for the Main Tower, we should be able to expect 14-16 studs wide and 70-76 studs tall. Given the interior modules height of 12 studs, I am predicting two swappable modules (12 studs high each), 30 studs high for the staircase, and whatever remains for Dumbledore's Office. If you use approximate brick volume the Great Hall is 9,088 bricks, so the Main Tower should be roughly 11,360 given a roughly 25% higher price and piece count. That makes the dimensions of 13 (depth) x 14 (width) x 70 (height) somewhat reasonable as 12,740 bricks of volume. That gives me hope the tower next to the Main Tower will be excluded and a standalone set. Otherwise they would need to seriously limit the size of the Main Tower itself.

It would have required a new mold and they already did that for Neel so a second new mold was probably not in the budget.

4 vs 3 minifigures and especially 1 professor minifigure vs 2 professor minifgures. Common interpretation is a minifigure reflects $5 in value for Lego pricing

Because is its gritty and dark. It doesn't lend itself well to toys.

I didn't pace myself well and all three new Castle sets were built in 3 days. But here are my short thoughts: Dueling Club: Compact build and good minifigures. Looks very good in the Great Hall. But probably my least favorite of the 3 Charms Class: Comparing to Potions, feels less crowded and more refined. My favorite set of the wave and I really hope we get at least 2 more classrooms in that style. Flying Lesson: Solid exterior build and I like the modules. Personally I don't think Transfiguration could be done much better (granted the same could be said for Charms) so I'm happy to see it included. Nice volume to the silhouette also.

It was a month delayed then because of when they reviewed the rest of the Jan 1 wave. Maybe Lego just didn't want to release it in February.

Maybe, but I feel like we might get 2 medium sets next year each with a Common Room. Like take the Malfoy Manor price point for a Castle Set and exchange it with the Flying Lesson set's price point. I'm also trying to manifest they will do 4 years for this modular wave and then each year will need the flagship modular set.