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I'm guessing the side section will be Fluffy's chamber with the harp. There should be a trapdoor there leading to the Devil's Snare in the rock foundation underneath. And the rest of the challenges will all be in the interior of the rock foundation. Since the base is similar to the Great Hall one, there should be space for three chambers, two large ones and one small one like the hallway in the Great Hall. There will probably be a staircase in the tower leading to the Gryffindor common room. I'm not sure if the dorms will be included. And above the Gryffindor common room will probably be Dumbledore's office but not sure if they'll include the griffin statue entrance or not. Hopefully they do.

The sketch looks good. Dumbledore's inclusion implies his office will be included after all. People were right about Percy being included. I wonder if Neville will come in his pajamas. Quirrell seems to be missing though. We saw him in the pics so wonder what set he'll show up in then. Seems like the Herbology classroom won't be an actual greenhouse which is a pity. Glad that's confirmed.

That makes sense. Such a minor background character wouldn't be used as the sole minifigure of a set. So far all the background professors are only showing up in the big Hogwarts sets, surrounded by more iconic characters.

Do we know if this is a minifigure set or a minidoll set?

101 Dalmatians is the second-highest grossing Disney movie of all time when you account for inflation, after Snow White. There's a reason it got a TV series, live-action remake and a sequel back in the 90s. I remember it was one of the most promoted Disney movies back then, constantly getting merchandise on the puppies. Cruella was also considered Disney's most popular villain in the 90s, with only Ursula coming in as a close second. I think now Maleficent has eclipsed her but Cruella is probably still a close second or third.

Luna wouldn't work here if the set is based on the first film, since she's a year younger than the trio and wouldn't have started school yet. Unless in the movies the idea is that she's a contemporary of Harry, Hermione, and Ron like presumably Cho is. Divination would be tricky to make as one of the swappable sections because it's not an underground or ground level classroom but located at the top of a tower. I do hope when we get a Divination classroom that they actually implement the trapdoor entrance and maybe staircase as well leading to it.

I'm excited for the Pearl but the rumored minifigure list is disappointing. Nobody cares about the Anna Maria character, especially if they're snubbing Barbossa, Ragetti and Pintel for her. I'm not sure they'd be a more natural fit for a future Flying Dutchman set either. If we ever do get a Flying Dutchman set, besides these obvious minifigure omissions, I'd also like to see Tia Dalma and Elizabeth in her Pirate King outfit. I would have preferred the Pearl be based on the third movie so we could get the full cast.

Would Patrick Stewart's role in MoM be considered a cameo or small role? I feel the length of the roles of the Illuminati in that movie is more or less what we could expect from the FoX-Men in Doomsday. Another comparison would be the original FoX-Men cast in DOFP. Most of them, outside of Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen, didn't have much screentime there either. Either they were just around to get killed off or they only popped up in the final scene.

The Divination classroom would be the obvious choice outside of the Clock Tower, Hospital Wing, and Prison Tower for a PoA Hogwarts set. Maybe also Lupin's classroom since we haven't gotten a DADA classroom in the new Hogwarts system yet. It would be nice to see a Sir Cadogan portrait as well. I wonder if we might ever get the Frog Choir in minifigure form. That's what I assumed, that this Tower set would be based on CoS because of Dumbledore's office. Now I wonder if there's even room for it between the Gryffindor common room and all the challenge rooms featuring Fluffy and the other stuff.

I would like to see those movies represented as well., I think Mary Poppins minifigures are a possibility. For Mary Poppins and Bert anyway. The Ideas set has been rejected over and over which doesn't bode well for an actual set though. Lego's never even made a set for The Wizard of Oz, which would hold even more commercial appeal, so it doesn't seem they have much faith in a Mary Poppins set either.

Those are a few years old now and from the previous modular castle. It'll be interesting to see if the Clock Tower does get redone to be a part of this new castle. The emphasis on the common rooms and house ghosts makes me hope that we'll get a Ravenclaw common room sooner rather than later. And a Grey Lady minifigure based on her design from the first two movies where she has a more ornate gown. I enjoyed the Kelly Macdonald portrayal from Deathly Hallows but her outfit was very simplified and made for a boring minifigure. I'm assuming the flagship Hogwarts set for 2026 will be Chamber of Secrets themed and feature the Slytherin common room and Bloody Baron. Could they possibly be waiting to include Dumbledore's office then?

Not to mention Dumbledore's office would also need a staircase leading up to it, although the last set with his office skipped that. If they can't do it justice in this set with the full revolving staircase, I'd rather they just skip it for now. I'm also assuming they'll skip the Gryffindor dorms. I don't know if they'd include the potions challenge since that was in the books only. So far, the main Hogwarts castle sets tend to always include some of the more obscure professors so Kettleburn is probably in the Staircase set. And we know it's themed to Sorcerer's Stone so that fits Kettleburn. I really hope one day a future Hogwarts set will feature Professor Binns, since he at least appeared in Hogwarts Legacy.

I didn't know about the Book Nook. I was confused as to why the challenges would be included in the Staircase set but I guess Fluffy was located in the staircase's third floor. It also makes sense that the previous year's Great Hall would include the troll so this year's main Hogwarts set would include Fluffy. If they're including Fluffy, they have to include the devil's snare room underneath the trap door. And as you pointed out, the inclusion of the key and Sorcerer's stone means the room of winged keys and the final chamber with Quirrell would be included too. The chess room will likely be heavily downsized if it's included. The Gryffindor common room will obviously be included, especially with Nearly Headless Neck here. Just like the Fat Friar in the Great Hall set with the Hufflepuff common room. I have no idea how they'll be able to fit the Gryffindor common room and all the aforementioned challenge rooms while still including Dumbledore's office, especially if this is based on the first movie instead of the second one. Wonder if they might skip Dumbledore's office.

What set features Harry and Ron in their Hogwarts Express clothes from Sorcerer's Stone? I'm glad we're finally getting Nearly Headless Neck with a collar. Does this mean the Grand Staircase Tower will feature all the trials/challenges?

The only other thing I can think of is that alongside the Shrieking Shack, they might include another shop or so. Maybe they'd save the Hog's Head for this set instead. Or Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop since that's not in the movies so that probably wouldn't be in the main Hogsmeade set. But it could work as an extra building in an extension set, especially since apparently it's included in the Hogwarts Mystery app. They could also potentially merge the PoA Shrieking Shack with COS's Whomping Willow to include the car and maybe a wall of the castle. Like the previous Whomping Willow set from the 2018 Hogwarts castle wave had a castle wall section.

That's what I think, that the Shrieking Shack will be kept as a future D2C extension set. Like Gringotts for Diagon Alley. Maybe they'd pair it with the Whomping Willow since they're both connected.

With the X-Men, I would say most of us are cautious because we've seen the state of the MCU and the lackluster sets we've been getting for the last few years. For characters who are probably just going to be cameos, I don't see the point in getting my hopes up that we'll get so and so FoX-Men characters as minifigures when they probably won't even have major roles in the movie. And as pointed out, there's so many minifigs from Endgame we still haven't gotten years later (despite some sets getting remade over and over), so is it really unjustified to expect that we'll be missing loads of Doomsday minifigures? And the X-Mansion and X-Men sets in general have gotten pretty mixed reception. Cyclops was messed up twice with no leg printing/dual molded legs or the worst leg printing I've ever seen. I don't think this is just a Marvel thing. I think it's a Disney thing because in the Disney thread, characters like Nani and David have the same lack of quality applied to their legs with the abysmal printing. But it's no secret that characters like Professor X, Cyclops, Rogue, and Magneto were badly depicted as minifigures and short of another CMF series, it's unlikely they'll be upgraded anytime soon. That's not even getting into the various X-Men characters from '97 we're still missing like Jubilee, Nightcrawler, Morph, Sunspot, Forge, Cable, Mr. Sinister, Bastion, the Goblin Queen, or any other classic X-Men villain like Mystique, Sabretooth, and Juggernaut. Most of the Marvel Lego sets are based on the MCU so hence the emphasis on discussing the MCU here. Several of us would prefer more sets based on the comics or other forms of media instead, like the references some have made to Marvel Rivals.

It's cute but I'd rather see minifigure scale versions of Lucky and Penny to match the Patch that came with Cruella.

Same here. I'm not invested in Tom's Peter Parker at all. Easily the weakest of the three Spider-Mans. Don't care for his friends, particularly the personality-less Michelle Jones who always looks like she's just woken up. Strange was treated like a joke in order to prop up Tom's Spidey. I don't think a film like No Way Home will age well. That box office success was entirely built on the nostalgia of seeing the characters from the original movies again, but there's only so many times you can keep doing that. NWH also had the advantage that it had a relatively small cast of characters so it can give enough time to all three Spider-Mans. Just from Doomsday alone, we've got a cast full of Thunderbolts, the FF, the new "Avengers" characters, Doom, plus all these cameo X-Men. Infinity War was able to grapple a huge cast but most of those characters we had regularly seen for years, usually within the last year or two. Right now we haven't seen most of the core MCU characters for years so there's a lot of catching up on. Only the Thunderbolts and FF will be fresh. The movie also has to establish Doom as a new big bad from scratch whereas Thanos at least existed in the MCU before Infinity War. The X-Men characters will probably be no more than the cameos we see in Deadpool & Wolverine or MoM. Just mindless fanservice for the heck of it because the MCU is in dire straits right now and thinks doubling down on fanservice will save it. I think to see all those characters back, fans won't be satisfied with just a few seconds of cameos or a battle scene with them all grouped together. The Flash did something similar where we got brief glimpses of different actors and it was heavily lambasted because it was just blatant fanservice with no substance or any genuine screentime. So I personally wouldn't want a cameo fest where we only get a few seconds of Wesley Snipes as Blade fighting alongside Ben Affleck's Daredevil, just to claim that both were in the movie after all. Apparently Photon was supposed to lead to a spinoff with the X-Men universe but the failure of the character plus The Marvels seems to indicate that's no longer the case. I would be shocked if we see her back or in anything larger than establishing the X-Men. The MCU was heavily hinging the future of the franchise on Captain Marvel, Ms. Marvel, Photon, and Falcon as the new Cap but it's clear that none of these characters can lead a franchise. Brie Larson apparently is done with Marvel and wants to be written out. Ms. Marvel I've heard is being relegated to Disney+ shows now instead of any movies. Falcon definitely won't be leading the Avengers anymore. Photon doesn't even have the name recognition the other three have to warrant bringing back. Elizabeth Olsen did claim she's not coming back to the MCU anytime soon, although we know the actors are told to lie about reprisals. I think the cast is currently filming in London and she clarified that she won't be sticking around in London to film anything Marvel related as she's got a new project. I might believe her in this case because I know she was upset about the treatment of her character. Famke Janssen also said she wasn't going to be in Deadpool & Wolverine, which many people assumed was the typical coached lines all the Marvel actors say because leaks indicated Jean was in the movie, but that turned out to be true as well.

A lot of these characters probably won't even have much screentime. Especially the more that get announced. Some of them will probably get more screentime from their casting announcements than they'll actually get in the final film so I don't even think this means we should expect about a dozen or so characters getting the Lego minifigure treatment necessarily.

I agree, I don't think a show being on HBO would be a problem. Just like how being a Disney+ show doesn't automatically mean Lego will be okay making sets, if those shows are too mature like Echo and now Daredevil. The new HP show being on HBO doesn't mean it'll be as mature as Game of Thrones. I mean there are, but how many of them are going to be interested in this show. Based on the casting so far, the fact that we're not getting any of them implies they're not interested after all. The British thespian crowd is very interconnected. Many of the ones who weren't in the movies are probably friends with several actors who actually were. Honestly, based on JKR even today using Twitter to call out the main trio actors from the movies, it's very clear to me that this show is being greenlighted for very few legitimate reasons and the main one coming from the author herself is just to try and wipe away the movies. Since in her latest Tweet, she flat out admits the movies are ruined for her now because of Daniel, Emma, and Rupert not supporting her bigotry. So there's a thousand reasons to dislike this show already, but the very fact that JKR only gave it a stamp of approval for such a petty reason like this already tells me it won't be good. RoP has unlimited money behind it with Jeff Bezos. That show was super hyped up but the lack of respect for the source material and the miscastings made that show DOA. Between JKR clearly just wanting to churn out a new show to erase the movies, some of the show writers bragging about never reading the books, and the casting news so far, I don't think it's implausible to believe this could be another RoP. And based on how most "big-budget" shows look nowadays, I really doubt they'll compare to the visuals of the movies either, in terms of effects or production design. And that's assuming we ever do get another HP CMF series. I'm surprised we didn't, since the first two seemed successful enough, but I guess Lego feels there's not a need for another. That's true about Indiana Jones. Although Temple of Doom is technically a prequel and was considered the weakest of the three original films. So much so, that The Last Crusade was designed to essentially be a remake of Raiders rather than be as different as Temple was. And I think the lack of discussion on liking the ST is just because that generation hasn't grown up to fill those spaces on the Internet yet. The same was true for the PT when they came out. You wouldn't have found people discussing those movies in the 2000s and talking about how much they loved them. All that discourse was strictly about how hated they were. They weren't rehabilitated until around the 2010s, with the rise of Internet culture like memes. Spider-Man 3 is another good example of a film that got rehabilitated because of memes and taking humor from what was once the most derided moments. I was introduced to SW through the PT, so growing up, I had no idea they were even hated, because that wasn't the case for my generation which was the target demographic for George Lucas, children. Sorry, yeah I meant Bilbo not Frodo. Since WB can't get away with making sequels for LOTR, a midquel like The Hunt for Gollum is as close as they can get to reuniting the original cast. I do like the castle interior in the game and some of the differences. I wouldn't mind seeing Lego sets based on this version of the castle. It would be nice if Lego made actual sets for Hogwarts Legacy, rather than us getting a show remake version of the castle that may be tied to the castle from the game's sequel. Some of the characters from the game, like Sebastian, Natsai, Poppy, and the professors would be fun to get as minifigures as well. Especially someone like Peeves or Professor Binns. Since they've never appeared in the movies and the sets don't include characters from the books alone (minus that original Peeves minifig), we wouldn't be able to get a minifigure for characters like that unless the game (or show) got sets.

I hope they at least include the Clock Tower and Astronomy Tower. They're so central to the movies that skipping them would feel really off. And if the show really is keeping the same castle as in the movies, I wonder if Lego would continue this current iteration of the castle but with minifigures and interiors based on the show. Basically forcing fans to collect show sets in order to complete the castle, so we can't skip out.

I would still consider it mostly a PBS show since for most of its history it aired on PBS. I don't think Lego would have rejected Sesame Street just because HBO started showing it. Most of the famous British actors were in the movies though. It was a who's who lineup. The few who weren't in it, like Vanessa Redgrave or Judi Dench, would be too old now. There's a reason all the actors being cast are either American or much lesser known. In the movies, the reason so many famous faces were cast were to give the series credibility. That this wasn't just a kids series with a bunch of unknown kids, but featured the top talent of the British industry to legitimize it. It can be argued that the HBO series has its own uphill battle to win, namely that it needs to prove it has a legitimate reason to exist and that the talent is on par with the film series cast. Otherwise it'll always be living in its shadow. There are mostly just rumors now. I think John Lithgow is the only one officially confirmed, but his name was also rumored before it was official. We'll have to see if they do make money with it or not. The remake was controversial even when it was announced and with every new casting, it seems more and more likely it'll just upset people more. Even for a CMF series, I'd imagine that we could maybe get adult Hermione and Ron but I don't think there would be much appeal for their kids. Flop was maybe the wrong word. I meant more critical flop rather than commercial flop. The Hobbit films were successful at the box office but critically lambasted, especially by audiences. FB2 did underperform drastically though, especially in the US. The reason it wasn't considered an outright flop was because it did well enough internationally but the lack of domestic success was enough for WB to realize that they needed to step in. Hence why the movie was delayed and JKR wasn't the sole screenwriter because there wasn't enough confidence in her for the third movie. This is also why FB2 is the only David Yates HP movie to get an official extended edition released, because WB realized the final cut of the film did not work. My point about the prequel trilogies for all these three major franchises is that the very term "prequel" has been stigmatized for general audiences because in all cases, whether SW, LOTR, or HP, the prequel movies were not warmly received. There's a pushback on prequels now. And I don't think you can really objectively claim that most Star Wars fans think the ST is worse than the PT. Even defining what a Star Wars fan is would need to be considered because do Star Wars fans include casual fans? Are you a Star Wars fan if you only watch the movies but don't engage with the rest of the media? If you only like the OT, are you a Star Wars fan, or if you only like the PT and TCW, are you a Star Wars fan? The SW fandom is so splintered because there's so much media out there that you can't really group them all into one entity and claim that they all unanimously hate the ST. As I said before, if you're seeing a preference for the SW PT, it's because the generation that grew up with them is of the age that they can talk about those movies on the Internet and buy the merchandise. What I've seen with SW is that it's very much a cycle. Whatever's new and comes out is hated until a generation or so later when it's accepted and whatever the new SW media is gets attacked instead. I look at the treatment of the female characters. When Rey came out, her haters said she was a Mary Sue and paled in comparison to Leia and Ahsoka. But Ahsoka was completely hated when TCW came out. People called her a Mary Sue as well, along with being juvenile and whiney. She didn't really get love until many years after her debut, particularly when the kids growing up with her were now older. And even Leia gets brought up as a female character who ALL SW fans love and never had problems with. But Carrie Fisher herself admitted in an interview in the 80s that she got a lot of hate from SW fans. That they think she's an ice queen and too b*tchy. So she wasn't universally loved as a character either, even if generations later, she's used as the barometer to measure all future SW female characters with. Isn't the upcoming movie supposed to play after Gandalf finds out about Frodo having the ring? After the opening scenes of the first movie.

JK Rowling had a really weird tendency to kill off children in her last two FB movies. First with the switcheroo with Leta Lestrange's brother drowning as an infant and also Grindelwald and his followers killing that Parisian baby and parents so they could take over their house. Then the magical deer, who's newly born but killed almost instantly and reanimated as a zombie. I know death was always part of Harry Potter, but JKR at least didn't go around killing off babies and children in those books. I don't know what was up with her during the FB movies but the way she kept doing it made me very uncomfortable and I remember reading other people felt similarly. There were other issues as well. Leta Lestrange is teased as a major character in the first movie but then killed off in the finale of the second. Her character's motivations are too vague. Is she in love with Newt or Theseus? She did something in Hogwarts that Newt took the blame for which got him expelled, but we don't know what or why. Did their relationship break down because of that? Was Newt in love with Leta and she preferred his brother or did she move onto his brother because Newt didn't reciprocate her feelings? We don't even know which brother she's saying she's in love with at the end. So much of the second film's plot and tensions revolve around her but she's such a cipher of a character. Then the third movie barely addresses her and the brothers don't seem to have any tension at all. Another issue was the fact that basically every movie had a different villain. It's Grindelwald but played by a different actor each time. Tina basically has no scenes with her sister after the first film. She's supposed to be the female lead of the series but she's really only in the second half of the second movie, and only a cameo at the end of the third movie. People said she was written out because she had COVID but is it a coincidence that she was the only actor from the FB movies to call out JKR's bigotry? Eddie Redmayne did but he also defended JKR at the same time. Nagina was also retconned into the movies as a human but because of COVID, never appeared again after the second movie.

And considering how the average season comes out every 1.5-2 years after the last now, that 7-year commitment could easily be a 10-year commitment or longer. That's a long time for any actor to not be able to accept any other roles. Game of Thrones lasted almost a decade and needed more seasons to really flesh out the story, but they knew the actors were getting tired of being unable to do other projects. Most actors who do one big franchise admit they don't want to do another one because it's so many years of their lives. Then to be signed onto a controversial reboot by a controversial author doesn't make this a prime choice for any established actors. It'll probably just be unknown actors willing to make a name for themselves, like with RoP. And RoP has Amazon's unlimited funds to sustain itself, even as a flop show. HBO doesn't have that. If they fail to stick the landing, they won't be able to keep HP going. I've heard Cillian Murphy is being considered for the Voldemort role. Ralph Fiennes was also asked about him as a possible successor. But I don't see Cillian Murphy being all that interested in being tied to this series. Although his role would be easier to schedule around since Voldemort doesn't have much screentime until the end of the series.