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Here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C6cg4-qLeaz/?igsh=MWx5ejFhbGV2bno3Yg== There is also a photo on the back of the Great Hall box kind of showing it with the boat house. My gosh that's a lot of wands in Ollivander's!!

Oh wow. With more pics of the ship, I just love it. Great to see they've crammed in interior where they could, and the building techniques will surely be fun to see. The Minifigures are just stunning too. So detailed, so many new prints, well chosen parts, and hilariously, not a major character in sight for a large set! I don't even feel compelled to complain that there only five because the set is just doing it for me! I never would've thought the two standout sets of a year for me would've been a Hagrid's Hut and a Durmstrang Ship.

The extra photos of the Potions class showing it closed up are quite cool - but dang that set seems way too expensive. It looks like $25, maybe $30 USD MAX. I also have to feel like, while the system is cool - at what cost? Are they going to do further sets with rock shells? Will they use this system for above ground rooms in the castle as well? Or, will these two sets really be the only ones with this type of compatibility, and future sets in "this" system be just standalone things like the Owlery. You can't see the interior when it's folded up and placed into the Great Hall set.

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Pic is out! That's a lot of sails! I'm not into ships but I like it. Sure it's perhaps on the small side, but no action takes place on the ship or the carriage, so their size makes good sense to me.

I recall it also being a friction issue, that translucent arms wouldn't play well with a translucent torso, but that might have been with the old translucent formulation and not the newer one. They could absolutely come up with a decent solution for force ghosts. Personally I think the face print on trans heads don't tend to show up so well, so a light blue solid colour head, torso and hips with trans arms and legs could be better.

Totally agree and I popped into the City discussion to share a similar sentiment. I was ok with the balance for the Africa subtheme since those builds made enough sense for the terrain, but I was really hoping we'd see more jungly builds leaning into ruins and things like the last jungle subtheme. Johnny seems out of his element without much to actually explore!

I think that's reading too much into it and LEGO is instead experimenting with having many options at their disposal to use whichever one they see fit in any particular instance. The lack of waistcapes on clones also would've signalled that "LEGO doesn't do cloth waistcapes any more" - and then LEGO proceeds to bust them out for Dreamzzz. For sure there are some types of things that will never return, but I don't think the existence of several rubber capes in Superheroes spells the end of cloth elements at large.

Perhaps because designer insights are novel and fun, whereas your tired point about these Space sets happening to be under the City brand is neither novel nor fun.

Cool ghost and new house scarf variant! That Flitwick looks even less like himself now that they've gone for the generic Santa beard. The Hobbit beard was already a little bit of a stretch. I'm really not seeing how those statues or really much from the Advent Calendar could be crammed into the new Great Hall, but we'll see.

What about it is a must have to you? Genuinely curious.

It had two rows but it had four separate tables (two rows of two). Again, not a perfectly accurate representation of the film, but a playable one. The new one looks to just have two long tables. The new Snape and accessories look awesome. One thing consistent with the Harry Potter line since 2018 is that they always manage to deliver cool new complimentary stuff within sets, even if the sets themselves aren't so desirable to everyone. Even the new Great Hall has the awesome troll and dark brown Quirrel for instance, which was a major point of contention when the first Quirrel came out in 2018.

This discussion has lost its way a bit away from LEGO. When it's solely on the properties and not LEGO, the connections become very tenuous. Please get it back to LEGO now.

The 2018 Great Hall took the cake for me and hasn't been topped. Yeah it has its negatives - the proportions are obviously all wrong, the tower interior is weak (though I like its exterior personally), that Basilisk is laughable - but as a toy it really had what counts. Four tables. Enough room for staff. A ton of minifigures. A fair price. The sliding rooms look quite weird at the moment and not what I had in mind. The concept of exchangeable interiors without walls is intriguing actually, but the execution looks dubious from the one picture we have. That could change with better pictures. In any event, I'm not even sad I won't be buying this, though I would of course like the troll.

This thread is locked until I can clean out the political discussion that doesn't belong. Doesn't matter that it's adjacent to a Marvel movie, and tangentially to a figure in a LEGO set. It doesn't belong here on Eurobricks. Back open for business. anyone carrying on further political discussion is on notice and will have a timeout.

Yes Series 26 has large codes so far in Europe and the US. Australia got exclusively small codes for Series 25.

I hope the larger, useful codes make their way to Australia this time. It will be interesting to see if people still find a mix of large and small codes elsewhere as these start to pop up. Our releases down under have been a month later ever since 2020.

I'm definitely most curious to see the style and system of the Great Hall, and what's included, though it's too expensive for me. Also looking forward to seeing the new potions parts, and I wish they take a stab at overhauling the design of Snape, who is just getting overdone at this point and needs a shakeup. I really like elements of the 2007 one with the printed hair strands and sinister look. While I don't care much for ships, I'm curious to see the scale of both the Durmstrang Ship and the Beauxbatons Carriage, and to see the new/redone Minifigures in that one. Everything else, not too jazzed about, but it's always fun poring over new HP set pictures when they come out.

I explained already. See quoted post above.

The black headwrap doesn't show up as the newest. It's back a bit, and out of stock last I checked, but it hadn't been there before at all from what I remember.

I see the black headwrap from the Orient Express has shown up! Still no sign of the hat-hair from "Pippin" though.

Pics of the gorilla and red panda parts are out! They all look pretty great. Of course it would be nicer if LEGO could develop a system to give larger animals more articulation, but it's good that the adult gorilla's arms can move at least, and the overall walking pose is more dynamic than a sitting one would have been. The red panda is adorable.

They do have an internally consistent thought process behind it. When it's representing a baby, like here and the blue one from Series 24 (reused in a set), it has eye gleam and the more cartoony mouth. In the GWP, the idea was to use the baby mould not as a baby but as a micro version of the figures, hence the classic smile print.

Oh I've seen the leaflet pic but couldn't tell there were screwheads. That would make sense.

Like for a lot of people it seems, this series isn't really doing it for me. I suppose it's better than a costume series for instance and I like seeing zany and different ideas (like the UFO head guy, the robot chef, Orion) - but most of them just don't appeal to me personally. I do like the Alien Tourist, and the M-Tron and Ice Planet ones are pretty good, though I think M-Tron needs a little something red on the arms to balance with the detailed legs. Of course I'd like the pink space baby too, but there's nothing else about that figure that I like. They could've at least done a new colour for that bottle, which has still only ever been available in light aqua! Why does the Human Imposter have odd little toe printing? Seems like an unnecessary print.