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I was thinking Shrek? That would make a good CMF series or maybe The Chronicles of Narnia.

It is kind of insane how we’ve only had two figures of Gambon’s Dumbledore and the last one was 7(?) years ago. I would like to see a Clocktower (mainly because I didn’t get the last two!) but with two main POA scenes appearing in the Hospital Wing I’m not sure if they will do one. Obviously they could just put other scenes/rooms in the set but it would be a little odd given it’s mostly associated with POA. I also think what @RODDY said about the silhouette makes sense too.

Yeah there’s nothing really amazing about these sets. Nothing that makes you look at them and think “wow! I have to get that on Day 1”. I’ve been thinking back to sets like the Vader/Anakin transformation chamber, the carbonate freezing chamber, the old Desert Skiff or the Grievous wheel bike. They were all small sets but they were just so much better.

Love these. Really good work!

Yeah, I’m sure the set will be good but it’s just not the most interesting choice for a UCS set. I like Vanth’s speeder but Mando’s speeder isn’t great. I’m not really sure what they were thinking with that one, it reminds me of one of those “build your own xyz at the LEGO store to take home” promos. The speeder in the battle pack looks good but what on earth happened to the barricade?! I think there were battle packs from 2011/12 that had better side builds.

Yeah I really liked that they’ve done that. I’m excited to see the pics for this one as it does seem to be part of the Quad.

All the steps look pretty good. The Ford Anglia has some cursed faces though! Yeah thinking about it would have been cooler if they’d done some slides from the animation in Lego form. I think my favourite set of the lot might be the Sorting Ceremony. It’s obviously a nice tribute to the original set but I really like the addition of the house points system too.

I’m going to say Secret. I did really like the TIE Crawler Lego released ages ago.

Yeah I like those ideas. You could do maybe a bludger or a golden snitch for Quidditch, a large book for Charms (since Flitwick uses them as stand), maybe a goblet for transfiguration. Spitballing here but looking forward they could even do stuff like a Philosopher’s Stone that opens up to reveal the fight between Harry and Quirrel and the mirror or Riddle’s Diary that opens up to reveal Harry fighting the Basilisk or a the Goblet of Fire that opens up to show one of the tasks or something.

It looks good. Not quite as detailed as it could have been but there’s some nice parts like the various jars and the blackboard recipe that you could add to the existing classroom. Plus the cauldron on its own makes a nice display piece.

So it sounds like the Ford Anglia is similar to Hagrid’s Motorbike as it mentions brick built characters. The Sorting hat set sounds fun and comes with type a house point counters - have we ever had those before?

Yeah the DADA being in the basement makes it sound like it’ll be a ‘pull out’ room as oppose to being built into the set like the Gryffindor Common Room or Dumbledore’s office. Odd that we don’t have Pomfrey in the hospital wing. I’m not really sure what other set she should come in unless they do another standalone hospital wing set or something. Since they’re depicting the boggart lesson it’s a shame they didn’t include Neville and Snape in his Grandma’s clothes.

An Eddie GWP would be really cool. I also would mind seeing a ‘Running up that Hill’ vignette with Max and Veccna or something in the mindscape. If they’re sticking with the Season 5 theme though maybe they might do something like the Demogorgan attaching the military base or something.

But I think even without the outfits the head and hair combo should be enough to be recognisable. Like if you looked at Dustin's head and hairpiece you can still tell its him. I'm not sure you could say the same about Robin and Jonathan.

Rey’s Speeder and Captain Rex’s BARC speeder with a sidecar maybe?

Mixed thoughts on the set. I think the way it can come apart to replicate the gate splitting it in half is really cool. But I agree with the above that it doesn’t feel like a 300$ set. Some of the figures are really good but Jonathan, Steve, Robin and to an extent Nancy, just look way too generic. Jonathan and Robin especially look a little fan made? Agreed. Aside from the splitting apart feature there’s nothing truly special about this set. Nothing that says I have to buy it on Day 1.

That’s what’s kind of bugging me. Something like the light-up lightsabers (there were only 5 of them I think?), appeared in regular/normal sets that were reasonably priced like the Wookie Catamaran or the 2005 Clone Turbo Tank. Whereas here the design of the X-Wing has been compromised to accommodate the smart brick. If you didn’t like the light-up lightsabers you could just toss the figure aside and you still had a really cool set to play with but here once you lose the smart brick you’re kind of left with an empty shell of a set.

The Collection set sounds fine but also a little dull since it’s mostly an amalgamation of things we’ve seen before. It’s a shame they didn’t include a new figure like Nicholas Flamel or something.

Really not sure about this whole Smart Brick thing. It is impressive that they’ve managed to get a large amount of stuff inside the figure and I suppose if I was a young kid having a figure that could make all sorts of sounds or quote dialogue from the films or whatever could be pretty cool but I just think with the prices and the excess printing I’ll probably pass up on these. Yeah I guess the good thing here is that they’ve chosen characters that we’ve seen many times before (some of which are still on shelves). I think what would kind of suck is if a character like say Episode 2 Anakin or Han in his Endor outfit or Phase 1 Captain Rex got the same treatment. Given all the sets seemed to be OT themed I’m assuming Palpatine would then come in a Final Duel set? Which would include Luke and Vader too. The other sets are from ANH/ESB so I’m assuming they’d want to do something ROTJ based as well.

Sounds like a fairly solid lineup. Bit of a shame they’ve left Ron out of the Lovegood House and the three brothers as well. I feel like the Fat Friar may turn out to be another ghost since we’ve already got him in the Great Hall set.

Agree with all of this. I feel like Starcourt Mall would be the most likely as the main cast are all present. But on the other hand Creel House is going to be present in Season 5 so I feel like they could do something similar to the 2019 but with Creel House and include characters from both Seasons 4 and 5 maybe? Plus it would give us a Veccna figure which we wouldn’t get if we got the Mall.

The Potions Classroom seems like a bit of a gimmick set but looks as though it could also be a good parts pack if you wanted to expand the existing potions classroom. I wonder if they might do more these with other classrooms. Like I could see them doing a Mandrake that reveals a Greenhouse or a Goblet that reveals a Transfiguration classroom or something like that.

Yeah, the price is the probably my main barrier here. I might wait until it’s discounted at some point to get it. Yes, quite a few of the rooms were done as dioramas. Part of me wonders how the set would have turned out if they’d taken an approach similar to the current Hogwarts by releasing different sections of the DS. Yeah if it was a lot cheaper it might have been more acceptable but for 1000 dollars this needs to be THE Lego Star Wars set. It should stand head and shoulders above the rest and be truly awe inspiring in some way like the Falcon was. I like the figure changes you made. I think it’s still insane they had a perfect C-3PO waiting to be used and threw in an inferior version. Good to see that the backdrop can be removed easily. There’s a lot more depth to the set than I expected. The leaks made it look really thin but there is a good level of detail in there. I also want to keep an open mind but that smart brick set doesn’t look great. If it looked like some of the previous X-Wing sets I suppose that would have been ok but this one looks more like the 4+ version. It feels like this smart brick thing might go the same way as Lego Dimensions - the sets will just be too expensive and not many people will buy them. The theme has survived for 25 years without needing light or sound bricks so I’m not sure why they suddenly need them now.

What are people’s thoughts on the Death Star now that it’s out? I saw the set in person today and I must admit it’s kind of growing on me. I would have preferred it if they stuck to the spherical shape and too many of the figures need more detail but I don’t think it’s awful either.

The helmet from the Mandalorian Battle pack has leaked. Looks like we could be getting Fives as well next year though I’m not sure where he would fit. Maybe the Clone Trooper Shock mech might actually be Fives?