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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.

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They just did that for three years...

I have no connection with the source material but I love these very expressive characters you've built.

I could've sworn it was, but actually I have the second Rocket Racer head with the open mouth smile. Are you sure it wasn't just listed earlier on since that head actually released in 2021?

I think you missed my point. What I'm saying is, if the Potions set truly is an interior that can be swapped into another set, will LEGO continue putting out swappable interior sets or drop it after this Potions class? In the 2021-23 Hogwarts we also saw a concept that was never carried further, with the Polyjuice Potion set. That set led many of us to believe we'd see more single-module interior-focussed sets in the new system, but Polyjuice Potion turned out to be the only one, with the rest in the line being mixes of trying to do interior and exterior. So I'm wondering if the Potions class will be a sign of what's to come, or a one-and-done released alongside the Great Hall that it's compatible with.

If the potions set is truly a swap-in module, it will be interesting to see if LEGO continues with the concept for future waves or drops it immediately, kind of like they did with the previous modular iteration. On reflection, the Polyjuice Potion set was more of an add-on to the Chamber of Secrets than a sign of what was to come, given it was the sole interior-only focused set of the whole 2021-23 Hogwarts line. This Potions set could be similar - something to get along with the Great Hall set, and then future sets in this Hogwarts line will all be distinct buildings.

There are five numbered bags, two instruction booklets and a sticker sheet in that set. You can always google a set number and "instructions" and you'll find it on LEGO's site, which will at least show you how many bag numbers there are.

Thanks for sharing! Some cool new tidbits in there: I'm glad they're doing "troll..... in the dungeon!" Even if I wish it was its own set because I have no interest in getting another Great Hall, I'm happy it will exist. New flasks and parts for potions in the Potions set sound cool. Overall a sensible sounding set. The Durmstrang Ship and Beauxbatons Carriage will still surely be one of the most interesting ones to long time collectors, but it's interesting to hear that both models might be on the small size, including just one horse for the carriage. I'm curious to see which ghosts they'll be doing in the Great Hall and the Advent Calendar - I'm sure one will be Nick, but hopefully the other will be new! Also curious to see if they do a new take on Years 1 and 2 Flitwick.

Linking to leaked images is not allowed, thanks. Plus we have no idea how the final thing will compare. It could be similar, or could have changed quite a bit.

It just hasn't been active for a while: