Virginia_Bricks

Star Wars got two Jango Fett’s Slave 1s in a year (a UCS and a playset). Nothing clearly is off the table for repeats.

The Gryffindor side of the main tower’s middle floor was empty so that would work size wise still. I partially believe it will be this size to match it neatly and not include the Clocktower. If they add the Slytherin Common Room that necessitates probably 2 Slytherin based characters. Which would make too many if you include the trio, Dumbledore and Pomfrey.

I’m guessing the Hospital Wing will connect to the Main Tower at the Devil’s Snare challenge and be about as long and tall as the Gyfinndor portion of the Main Tower. Include the trio, Pomfrey and Dumbledore from POA. But I’m scratching my head on what they put in the first level and underground chambers.

Could the PS set be a Quidditch set based off the first movie? With last years troll and this years challenges it seems the only remaining key scene. And at $170 would be plenty of pieces for the stadium

I haven't finished it 100% yet, but from what I've done so far, no. It is a tad bit more than one semi-circle. The sides of the tower are a full 6 studs versus the curve sections being 4 studs each so to make it complete you only need to add the curves (and remove 2 studs from each side). But that does mean 2 you can MOC it to make up a closed one since you actually have more pieces than you will need.

Got my first misprint (maybe ever) in the Main Tower set. Harry's scar is on the inside of his eyebrows instead of the outside, but only on the scared face side. Wouldn't have noticed except that his hairpiece is designed to show the scar and it doesn't with this misprint.

We kind of already knew it was minifigure/playscale size given the leaked piece count and price.

The modularity is done completely different than the 2021 line. There it was done so you could swap facade sections in and out and create a unique custom facade. In the 2024 line it is done primarily to make sets easier to build for young audiences and in groups. Its not like in the final result that the Great Hall piece is going to go anywhere but where it is already and the same for each portion of the Main Tower. The only swappable parts are the slide in and slide out scenes.

So I'm bored waiting for a good GWP or 2x VIP event to buy the main tower and deciding to speculate on the Hogsmeade mini-figure list. Besides the Burrow, all D2C mini-fig scale sets have focused on multiple movies. DA (PS and COS), Gringotts (PS and DH), Hogwarts Express (POA, HBP, and DH). So I see it likely they follow suit and that likely means POA and HBP. I'm also assuming 14 mini-figures. - Mr and Mrs. Flume because they have to include Honeydukes (2) - Golden trio from POA that includes Harry's invisibility cloak (3) - Madam Rosmerta from POA (1) - McGonagall from POA (1) - Minister of Magic from POA (1) - Golden trio from HBP (3) - Slughorn from HBP (1) - Dean and Ginny from the Hogs Head Scene (2) - Katie Bell and Draco from HBP if they go to 16 mini-figures - And maybe an Aberforth/Hog's Head GWP since otherwise I don't see any major scenes worth recreating from DH

Lego is still mainly for kids, its just that Star Wars Lego is mainly for adults now.

Its Lego's most expensive playset by $40 USD or ~20% (defining playset as a non-18+ set and sold in retail stores) which creates mixed expectations. Some want D2C level detail and others want play set play ability. Tiago's review compared it briefly to the Burrow, which in the US is the same price, and that makes it easier to see the difference. The Main Tower is substantially taller and and the same width when opening the Burrow, but is missing the level of detail shown in the Burrow. I don't expect Lego to make another $250+ playset during this modular wave or even longer than that, but thankful they did at least one.

Do you mean for 2026? Hogsmeade is this year. I would appreciate a new Grimmauld Place so I can stop thinking about buying the old playset, but not sure it is iconic/featured in the films enough.

See I think the main disagreement with the new modular wave is the cost, not the detail/minifigs/scope and your comments seem to agree with that. The last 2 waves were affordable to collect the entire wave, this wave is clearly stretching even the most diehard/wealthy fans pockets. That is a fair complaint. If they made the interiors more detailed it would only increase the prices further.

Boring compared to 2018? Really? 2018 you could only display 2 of the house banners at once in the Great Hall, the fireplace was incorrectly placed, there was basically nothing on the Great Hall tables in terms of food (sure the repeated salad and cupcakes gets boring, but better than nothing), the floating candles were all boringly at the same height, and the tower interiors were 1 or 2 things on basic plates and no moving staircases. And the price per piece ratio after inflation only makes it worse. 2018 was 14.2 cents per piece and 2024 was 11.5 cents per piece.

Austrian Brick Fan has the first review of the Main Tower up.

Retailers only have so much shelf and warehouse space they can dedicate to Lego, so sets have to retire and I'm sure Lego and its retail partners know when sales start dropping off for certain set sizes and $s. With any type of wave of sets that can be combined that will inevitably lead to all the sets not being available at once. The last modular wave even had sets in the wave that were time limited promotional sets, so be happy all sets so far have gotten at least 1 year. First Flying Lesson lasted roughly 1 year, as did Fluffy's encounter. Only the flagship sets last 2-3 years because Lego knows consumers have to budget/save for those.

Everyone's aware here that Lego is making less per $ of revenue now than a few years ago, right? Like these price hikes are because cost of production and design has gone up and up more than the prices per set have. Be frustrated all you want, but Lego isn't making an "inferior" product to profit more than it used to.

The Main Tower is not optimized towards display-ability. 71043 and 76419 include a main tower geared towards display value and there is a huge difference between those sets and the Main Tower.

Wasn't that the only set with an increase over ~10%? Rumored price points are not always correct like the first rumored price on the Shire was $200 but it ended up $260. So I'd take more weight that the Battle Droid price rumored was incorrect than they increased it 40% because of tariffs.

Lego’s profit margins (the percentage of profit over revenue) have actually been declining. So as you asked, Lego is eating some of the increased costs to retain customers. The US tariffs are another good example of Lego not passing on the full cost on increase in production costs. That is why I hate the Lego is purely greedy and decreasing quality for costs sake thought process. Because the evidence says otherwise.

For another $10 with an extra figure and a new cloth accessory, you are getting maybe 50 extra pieces which wouldn't add any noticeable extra volume. So that is not viable. To make it actually bigger you would probably need 300+ more pieces because volume is cubed and dimensions need to be consistent for stability purposes so you can't just easily add 1-2 studs of length. So you end up with a ~$200 set and maybe they add another minifigure repeat and people still complain.

Watched Rogue One again today and now really want Lego to release a Hammerhead Corvette. Its a deep cut but pretty unique vehicle

Any day at this point. Jun 1 Star Wars set reviews are already out, but they clearly get priority

For those in camp 4 years, what goes under the flagship set in Year 4? I expect the Viaduct Entrance to include the Slytherin Common Room and Chamber of Secrets but struggling to think of a memorable enough scene(s) that takes place in the Dungeons to go under an Astronomy Tower or Long Gallery.

The show gives them a way out if it succeeds. New casts for minifigs and more locations not shown (or in not as great detail) in the movies. Otherwise even though sales a strong on this theme currently it will die hard when it does. Personally I think Lego Harry Potter is done by the end of the decade, but I don't believe the show will succeed.