General Harry Potter Discussion

adiemc · August 2018

darthdc said:

LuLego said:

Woa - you should see the mark-up here in Harry Potter Studios...
Aragog’s Lair is £16
CMFs are £3.50

Lucky for me no one was interested in the CMFs so managed to find Percival Graves.

£2.99 each is pricey enough, though I've seen CMFs on sale for £3.99 at motorway services (WH Smith).

They are £4.50 in Hamleys!

r_icke · August 2018

For the Swedes in here, I just got a confirmation from Swedish TrU CS that they will have the bricktober sets. No info on release dates, though.

khmellymel · August 2018

^ Maybe it's travel shops, I've seen the same price (£3.99) at the WHSmith in Edinburgh Airport

Brickfan50 · August 2018

darthdc said:

I'm still collecting the HP CMF set (I've got Graves, so the hardest is done), and I've noticed that Hermione's cat doesn't hold to the display stand well - it just pops off, even when placed on 2 studs. My brother has the same issue with his copy. It's mainly the front legs of the cat.

My cat does this too! Each time when I try to nail him on his stand, he jumps off of it and runs away.

stlux · August 2018

Bumblepants said:

Huh. Well I guess it is real. If those 2*4 tiles making the pavement are printed those will be in high demand!

And those 6 tiles are indeed printed, as confirmed in the Promobricks article here.

GWP at the Lego Certified Store in Ljubljana. According to the article, Promobricks has been told it will also be GWP at [email protected] Time an how much you'll have to spend TBC.

CCC · August 2018

To annoy the HP completists ... 6268521 6868522 1x1 plate mosaics only available in Singapore by the looks of things

Image: http://img.bricklink.com/myImg/469240.jpg

Image: http://img.bricklink.com/myImg/469242.jpg

(Source: seller on BL)

https://store.bricklink.com/Alan1976SG&utm_content=globalnav#/shop?o={"itemType":"S","catID":"227","showHomeItems":0}

stlux · August 2018

Nice. Looks like the Lego Certified Store is giving those away Aug 27 - Sept 09 when you spend SGD 649 or more on Harry Potter sets. (Basically the price of #71043 Hogwarts Castle).

For forum members in Singapore: more details here, including a link to the event's FB page.

Gooker1 · August 2018

wow. That's really cool! I sure hope you get both with that and not just one or the other. That's not a cheap GWP at all.

Shib · August 2018

I've just been looking back through some of the older Harry Potter sets and I've realised that there are actually a lot of remakes I would like to see. Mainly sets specific to the earlier books/films that really look dated now, and particularly those with interesting creatures that would look great with new, updated moulds.

E.g - Fluffy in #4706 or buckbeak in #4750 & #4753 look really dated next to the Threstral in #75951. And both are significant to the stories in their own way.

Thinking about this made me realise that for the most part the new sets are less specific to individual books/films and more general locations to the series in general. If you take the figures out then most could be used for almost all the films. Hogwarts Express and Great Hall are very general (if you take away the figs and basilisk/mirror of erised)

Whomping Willow is only made specific to Chamber of Secrets by the inclusion of the Ford Anglia, otherwise its just more general Hogwarts scenery.

Quiddich is only made specific to Philosophers Stone by the figs and Snape on fire feature, he bulk of the set is made even more general by adding the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw score cards.

To my mind Aragog's Lair is the only set that is completely specific in its entire content to only one of the stories.

Given that the implication has been that the focus of these sets is the early years it does make me wonder what set ideas were passed on. I'd like to think there's enough content missing from the earlier stories that they aren't done with them yet but maybe it's just wishful thinking in wanting more moulded fantastic beasts ;-)

pharmjod · August 2018

I think it's probably safe to assume we will see another couple of years of Harry Potter sets. I'd be shocked if we don't honestly.

Shib · August 2018

Indeed, I just found it interesting to consider the implication of more sets being more general and fewer specific ones - a trend that could be argued was already showing with the last couple of waves of Harry Potter before it went on hiatus when compared to earlier waves.

SumoLego · August 2018

Maybe we'll get a Harry Potter modular-style house.

kbw · August 2018

^Weasley House. Would be kind of fun imo

Odeinoichus · August 2018

So, anybody got a Percival Graves for sale at reasonable cost? Hunting through cases for a figure that should not be 1 per but is because reasons is beginning to get depressing.

J0rgen · August 2018

@Shib I've noticed that too, and its the main counter argument to me about seeing «obvious» sets like tidlighe Shrieking Shack, the First Task, or the Chamber of Secrets. I'm pretty sure a Shrieking Shack is on the way, as that's a natural place to include Sirius, but we could also see another part of Hogwarts, including the tower were he is imprisoned as well. Apart from the new Aragog, and arguably The Forbidden Forest from 2011, there haven't been any completely film specific sets* since 2005.

*Counting locations such as Hogwarts and the Burrow as general despite the minifig selection.

madforLEGO · August 2018

pharmjod said:

I think it's probably safe to assume we will see another couple of years of Harry Potter sets. I'd be shocked if we don't honestly.

I dunno, with the introduction of miniscale Diagon Alley, this strikes me as a one and done kind of line. Especially since it is not like Potter movies are being put back into theaters and no new Potter specific movies are being made.

vvmilan · August 2018

SumoLego said:

Maybe we'll get a Harry Potter modular-style house.

Vote for the Sirius family house, but obviously the burrow is more likely.

pharmjod · August 2018

madforLEGO said:
I dunno, with the introduction of miniscale Diagon Alley, this strikes me as a one and done kind of line. Especially since it is not like Potter movies are being put back into theaters and no new Potter specific movies are being made.

There are going to be 4 more fantastic beast movies supposedly. Universal is gonna milk it for all it's worth and LEGO will want to as well if sales are strong enough. I suspect this Christmas HP will be a strong line for LEGO. I would be willing to bet actual money we will see several more waves. Hopefully for the next 4 movies, which could be another 6 years or more.

I think the Diagon Alley was just conceived along side the Hogwarts castle in the same scale more or less.

Switchfoot55 · August 2018

It's not just Lego on the HP bandwagon. I've seen numerous magazines highlighting the HP universe. 20 years since the first book, a spinoff storyline, a generation that grew up with the series now having kids to share it with as well.

I imagine it'll be around in Lego form for at least the foreseeable future.

madforLEGO · August 2018

Fantastic Beasts movies are not Harry Potter movies. Based on the thinking here, one would think that LEGO would have pumped out more than just two sets for the next movie released if it was going to do so well, right? I get the whole 'well common sense says..' lines with LEGO, except LEGO does not think that way all the time.

You are right about one thing though, I shorted the timeline by a year...LEGO typically thinks two lines, so this year and maybe next year, so they can give the standard Hagrid hut and Knight bus, maybe a CMF series 2, maybe a set like shrieking shack (which would be nice), maybe graveyard duel (?) next year (more likely sets like Freeing Dobby or Forbidden forest) and could be done with the theme.

The reason I say this is what we have seen so far:

-I do not see a Hogwarts castle type set other than 'Grand Hall' in regular scale; I do not see them doing multiple Hogwart Castle sets (roughly one for each movie like in the first line)

-I doubt you would see dementors in the Hogwarts express set or a CMF set that shoehorned 6 Fantastic Beasts figures in them (as there are a heck of a lot more Potter characters to add to a CMF set-heck 5 dementors in the CMF box would have been a heck of a lot nicer IMO) unless LEGO is trying to jam as much as they can into these sets to encompass multiple movie elements into each set because they do not have grand schemes to have this go on forever.

-The miniscale Hogwarts and Diagon Alley also show me that LEGO is not planning to do either set in a Minifigure scale set, particularly with the mini figures already in the miniscale sets.

Could they do a multiple wave (3 or greater) line? Sure, and they probably should, but

I'm just saying.. do not be surprised if LEGO cuts it short and it is only 1-2 years run.

Shib · August 2018

I get what you’re saying but I disagree. I don’t see something being made in microscale meaning it won’t get made in minifigure scale.

To my mind #71043 Hogwarts Castle being available along side #75954 Great Hall and #75953 Whomping Willow proves that. No matter what people who were disappointed with #71043 say, LEGO could never do a full minifigure scale Hogwarts justice without charging at least double the UCS Falcon - another example of LEGO having no problem with multiple sets of the same content at different scales on the shelf at the same time.

Like many I get the feeling that we will probably see the Wizarding World theme continue alongside the Fantastic Beasts film, but admittedly I also wouldn’t be surprised if the theme is done next year - I always find with LEGO it’s best to expect the worst and be surprised when anything better happens.

My theory on the strange CMF series numbers is that LEGO might have been avoiding a Series 2 until they were absolutely certain it was worth it - with slow Simpsons series 2 and LEGO Batman Movie series 2 triggering the caution. Also LEGO has frequently made army builder type figs harder to get in greater numbers, so having one Dementor in a set makes perfect sense as they’d rather people shell out more to get multiple sets than make it easy to get loads from CMFs. Dementors are an easy villain to add to a lot of possible sets to increase playability for kids and desirability for collectors - I wouldn’t be at all surprised to see dementors included in future sets for this reason.
the inclusion of Fantastic Beasts in the CMF night also have been from a condition of the licensing agreement, but that’s something we’ll likely never know.

J0rgen · August 2018

I think they know that Fantastic Beasts is not as popular as HP, so they make less merch for it. The lack of iconic locations in those films so far also makes HP a more natural source for sets. I think there wasn't enough to build a stand alone theme on from the first FB film, so now they're making up for that by giving us the main characters as they appeared in the first film, and a set depicting the most iconic and play friendly scene. They have two years to give us stuff from FB2, before the third film, so they're probably not in a hurry.

Baby_Yoda · August 2018

^ I'd argue that they'd like to get Fantastic Beasts over and done with, and just did the two sets purely as movie tie-ins. I know I don't speak for the entire Lego community, but I'd much sooner buy a Harry Potter set than a Fantastic Beasts set at the same price point. For example, if the horse and carriage set (what's it called again?) from Fantastic Beasts was actually a set of Harry and Luna on one of those similar thingies that takes the students to Hogwarts, I reckon it'd sell better.

CCC · August 2018

I think doing HP alongside FB is a great way to test the water for FB popularity for LEGO. If they don't sell well, they don't lose face. If they do well, they produce more in future. HP's popularity will mask performance.

And I don't think Harry Potter will be a top seller this year, but I imagine Wizarding World will be - and I think that is how LEGO will report it. That way, even if FB is not strong, the popularity of Harry Potter will hide it.

mdtvandy · August 2018

Based on rumors, it sounds like there is at least one more line coming in winter/spring 2019. That said, I imagine we'll keep seeing Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts sets throughout the length of the FB movie franchise. Based on browsing Amazon/Hot Topic/Barnes & Noble, there's more HP merchandise available now than there was when the films were released. Additionally, with the return to Hogwarts in Crimes of Grindlewald, I'd be willing to bet we'll see a couple sets from 1920s Hogwarts--perhaps the DADA(?) classroom with Dumbledore.

playwell · August 2018

Could the size of legs on the kids in next sets tell us anything about how long Lego expect it to run? Medium legs might mean it is wave 2 of 3 with each having different size legs.

It looks like the sets are selling well and Lego have put a lot into the line with a CMF line and a very big D2C. On the other hand the sets do look like greatest hits and you would think if the line was meant to last for years and years they would have held some things back.

In other words its really hard to tell what Lego are planning and even then there plans could change depending on the sale figures.

natro220 · August 2018

I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we get further additions to Hogwarts. The 2010 line had a more complete version of Hogwarts than the two current combined sets equal, plus we got the Hogwarts addition with the 2nd wave of sets. There’s a lot of locations within the castle that could be added on.

snowhitie · August 2018

@Baby_Yoda a thestral ;)

I'm convinced there will be more, maybe some extensions to the castle but I wish people would stop asking for an actual minifig scaled full Hogwarts,I read this comment a while ago from jangbricks:

The world's largest Hogwarts MOC used ~400,000 pieces & was 13 feet long per side, but wasn't even 1/2 minifig scale!

Now who could pay for that?

I think the sets are great, nice to have it split in pieces so kids could buy one of them off their budget isn't too great or afols can decide to get more of one than the other to MOC. The prices seem okay, I've now build them all and only the Grindelwald escape was built too quickly for how much it cost, but even then you get nice big wheels,a molded thestral and a carriage. Think Lego did a very very good job.

pharmjod · August 2018

I think having 8 to 10 sets (or more) from $30-$120 that are all able to connect with pins to make a massive Hogwarts playset would be excellent. And it's the most logical way to get a "minifigure scale" set. Some will buy them all, but most will get a smattering. That's what I'm expecting anyway.

tamamahm · August 2018

Switchfoot55 said:

It's not just Lego on the HP bandwagon. I've seen numerous magazines highlighting the HP universe. 20 years since the first book, a spinoff storyline, a generation that grew up with the series now having kids to share it with as well.

I imagine it'll be around in Lego form for at least the foreseeable future.

Not just magazines either..

I have had kids obsessed with HP for the past...mmmm.. eight or so years.
I have never ever seen as much HP merchandise as there is this year. Ever.

Target has toddler/pre-K clothes, girl clothes, bedding and room decoration supplies. There are purses, and pins, stuffed animals and talking hats.
Kohls has HP clothes... sweats, shirts, hoodies, sweaters, hats, etc.
PotteryBarn Teen has backpacks,lunch boxes, bedding, mirrors.

It really is crazy.

Bumblepants · August 2018

I wouldn't be surprised if superhero merch is tailing off from oversaturation. Especially for WB with their DC films struggling so badly. Switching gears and pushing Potter hard is a smart strategy especially since it has no direct competition from Disney etc.

gratefulnat · August 2018

snowhitie said:
The world's largest Hogwarts MOC used ~400,000 pieces & was 13 feet long per side, but wasn't even 1/2 minifig scale!

That would Alice Finch's amazing build!
Most of you have probably seen it before, but here's a link to her flickr album for those who haven't.

CCC · August 2018

snowhitie said:

I'm convinced there will be more, maybe some extensions to the castle but I wish people would stop asking for an actual minifig scaled full Hogwarts,I read this comment a while ago from jangbricks:

The world's largest Hogwarts MOC used ~400,000 pieces & was 13 feet long per side, but wasn't even 1/2 minifig scale!

Now who could pay for that?

I don't think that is what people mean when they use the term minifigure scale, but instead mean a set that has minifigures in which the minifigures can be played with. Very little done by LEGO is really minifigure scale. A standard intercity train, for example, takes about 70 people per carriage and has maybe ten carriages. London to Edinburgh is 400 miles, so about 640000m or about 366000 people laying head to toe, which corresponds to about 14640m of lego track at minifigure scale. Would lego ever do a minifigure scale version of the Flying Scotsman route with 700 minifigures and 14km of track? I doubt it. But it doesn't stop them doing perfectly good train playsets with minifigures in. The same argument can be applied to modulars, most cars that come with minifigures, etc.

datsunrobbie · August 2018

^ I just figure that minifigures are not proportioned quite like most homo sapiens, because physics is a bit different in the LEGO universe. Heavier gravity, which is why minifigs are short and wide, and a thicker atmosphere to provide lift for those tiny helicopter blades. Licensed themes are like Hollywood in my LEGO realm.

560Heliport · August 2018

^Maybe the thicker atmosphere also has a higher concentration of oxygen, so fires are more common, and that's why LEGO city needs so many fire stations, fire trucks, fire helicopters...

Brainslugged · August 2018

^ Also nitrous oxide. That would explain why all the minifigs are so damn happy all the time.

BrickByBrick · September 2018

^a thicker atmosphere would also make it harder to see over long distances hence the need for so many lighthouses.

SumoLego · September 2018

SMC said:

Medium legs might mean it is wave 2 of 3 with each having different size legs.

Wave 4 we get Toy Story Woody/Jessie super-elongated legs...
Wave 5 we get springy NBA player legs?!?!

SumoLego · September 2018

BrickByBrick said:

^a thicker atmosphere would also make it harder to see over long distances hence the need for so many lighthouses.

And probably the increased need for helicopters to get places quicker? But there really should be a ridiculous smog problem, given the sheer number of vehicles. And the Octan is 74% of the LEGO City economy.

Odeinoichus · September 2018

SumoLego said:

BrickByBrick said:

^a thicker atmosphere would also make it harder to see over long distances hence the need for so many lighthouses.

And probably the increased need for helicopters to get places quicker? But there really should be a ridiculous smog problem, given the sheer number of vehicles. And the Octan is 74% of the LEGO City economy.

Since Dinosaurs still exist alongside people in the LEGO world I don't think the use fossil fuels for their vehicles so smog is right out. Considering the numerous compact models and tiny polybagged sized vehicles I'd imagine they're very efficient fuel users, probably relying on methane from all the dino fecal matter they have to deal with, or possibly a combination of methane fuel sources and electric.

Jurassic World in the LEGO universe didn't create extinct creatures, they just rounded them all up into a convenient place for a zoo/theme park to avoid all the complaints of public roadways needing to be cleaned from roaming wildlife.

BrickByBrick · September 2018

This is great, but it doesn't explain the size of Lego city's police force and the number of rampant criminals

Odeinoichus · September 2018

That's easy. With so few pass times LEGO People have begun to seek greater thrills in life and so LARP a lot of Cops vs Robbers. They see if they can outwit their friends in jolly sport The Who Dunnit crowd has quite a massive following and is a very profitable industry, they charge at least 200 LEGO Dollars a person to get them into the fanciest of accommodations.

Either that or Voldemort and the Wicked Witch are brainwashing hoards of LEGO citizens to sow panic amongst the masses.

SumoLego · September 2018

In LEGO City, I'm pretty sure if you don't shave for a day or two, you are immediately drafted into a life of crime.

kbw · September 2018

I’d love to get my hands on the minifigures in the castle set but I don’t have much interest in the actual castle. A quick look on Bricklink makes me wonder if I’d be better off buying the thing and selling everything but the minifigures.

milamber · September 2018

kbw said:

I’d love to get my hands on the minifigures in the castle set but I don’t have much interest in the actual castle. A quick look on Bricklink makes me wonder if I’d be better off buying the thing and selling everything but the minifigures.

Try looking at Ebay :) Really silly prices, but might drop as time goes on.

The minifigs from 75954/75955 started really high and have dropped quite a bit, though they weren't ever in the realms of stupidity like the castle set ones. It subsidises the castle set quite nicely if you want it, but not by enough to make me want it. Castle on it's own doesn't go for enough to buy it just for the minifigs though.

dannyrww · September 2018

BrickByBrick said:

This is great, but it doesn't explain the size of Lego city's police force and the number of rampant criminals

Poor education...when is the last time Lego City had a school....Things are much better in Heartlake city as they have schools and devote their freetime to activities such as go carts and resort hotels. No crime there or need for a police force.

HugeYellowBrick · September 2018

^And lots of foodstuffs

Baby_Yoda · September 2018

Theory: Lego City and Heartlake City had a huge war many years ago, and because Heartlake won (because minidolls are bigger than minifigs) they got a heap of Lego City's land (which explains the dense nature of the city) and resources. Now, Heartlake is a rich, happy place full of laughter and cheer, whereas Lego City is barely keeping itself from collapse. The overwhelming number of police is actually the City's way of rebuilding their army while adhering to the anti-military laws of their tyrannical overlord Ole Kirk Christiansen, until they can finally exact revenge upon Heartlake...

TL;DR: The plot of The Lego Movie 2

Jern92 · September 2018

stlux said:

Nice. Looks like the Lego Certified Store is giving those away Aug 27 - Sept 09 when you spend SGD 649 or more on Harry Potter sets. (Basically the price of #71043 Hogwarts Castle).

For forum members in Singapore: more details here, including a link to the event's FB page.

It's available in Malaysia too

Onebricktoomany · September 2018

Wanting to get all the new sets with at least a small discount on price. So I'm on Amazon. No Quidditch set available. Walmart, none available. Target, none available. Barnes and noble, none available. Was able to find all the others except the Quidditch set. Is available on shop at home and I ordered from there but was wondering if anyone new something about production for the set...

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