The LEGO Harry Potter Collector's Edition Burrow leak
It seems the LEGO House Instagram account briefly posted promotional material today for an upcoming event celebrating the release of the LEGO Harry Potter 76437 the Burrow - Collector's Edition (2405 pieces, 10 minifigures, 259,99 Euro (expected retail price)), as the post has since been removed. Fortunately Jay's Brick Blog snagged the photo, and the ever lovely people at StoneWars.de have signal boosted appropriately. Shout outs to both, woohoo! 😘
Luckily, this little oopsie doozy gives us our first good look at the Burrow Direct to Customer (D2C) set since the leak from the Chilean lego dealer inadvertently provided us with a small peek a few weeks ago.
Here we see set designer George Gilliatt holding up his beautiful work product, a result I think he can rightly be proud of. As I've said in the past, I don't think I'll end up buying it, both because of budget and space constraints, but I love that they're designing sets to appeal to a wide range of fans. Rather than being overwhelmed with FOMO (fear of missing out), doesn't it make more sense to be happy that this approach is the best chance we have to all eventually get just the set we've always wanted?
Some of George's recent Harry Potter theme successes include 76408 12 Grimmauld Place, 76421 Dobby the house Elf, 76423 Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station, he co-designed 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors' Edition, the accompanying GWP 40598 Gringotts Vault, 76432 Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures, 76429 Talking Sorting Hat, 30677 Draco in the Forbidden Forest Polybag, 76427 Buckbeak, and what may be one of my all time favourites in the theme, 76420 Triwizard Tournament: the Black Lake. That's just an all around lovely piece of design. It ticks all the boxes, fortunately including a sensitivity to both budget and space while about it. 🥰
The LEGO House IG post was made (albeit a little early) to promote an upcoming Signing-Event event on the 5th of September, from 3 to 5 pm, in the LEGO House, during which designers George Gilliatt, Santiago Carillo and either Peter Carmichael or Peter Kjærgaard (reports varied, but evidently it's one of the Peters 😆) will be present to sign fans' lego sets. I know there's little chance we'll be able to take advantage of that, but I still think it's a lovely idea.
The official presentation of the set, slated for release 01 September, is expected to come early this week, Wednesday at the latest, so I'll keep my eyes peeled and let you know when they release more pictures.
Luckily, this little oopsie doozy gives us our first good look at the Burrow Direct to Customer (D2C) set since the leak from the Chilean lego dealer inadvertently provided us with a small peek a few weeks ago.
Here we see set designer George Gilliatt holding up his beautiful work product, a result I think he can rightly be proud of. As I've said in the past, I don't think I'll end up buying it, both because of budget and space constraints, but I love that they're designing sets to appeal to a wide range of fans. Rather than being overwhelmed with FOMO (fear of missing out), doesn't it make more sense to be happy that this approach is the best chance we have to all eventually get just the set we've always wanted?
Some of George's recent Harry Potter theme successes include 76408 12 Grimmauld Place, 76421 Dobby the house Elf, 76423 Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station, he co-designed 76417 Gringotts Wizarding Bank Collectors' Edition, the accompanying GWP 40598 Gringotts Vault, 76432 Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures, 76429 Talking Sorting Hat, 30677 Draco in the Forbidden Forest Polybag, 76427 Buckbeak, and what may be one of my all time favourites in the theme, 76420 Triwizard Tournament: the Black Lake. That's just an all around lovely piece of design. It ticks all the boxes, fortunately including a sensitivity to both budget and space while about it. 🥰
The LEGO House IG post was made (albeit a little early) to promote an upcoming Signing-Event event on the 5th of September, from 3 to 5 pm, in the LEGO House, during which designers George Gilliatt, Santiago Carillo and either Peter Carmichael or Peter Kjærgaard (reports varied, but evidently it's one of the Peters 😆) will be present to sign fans' lego sets. I know there's little chance we'll be able to take advantage of that, but I still think it's a lovely idea.
The official presentation of the set, slated for release 01 September, is expected to come early this week, Wednesday at the latest, so I'll keep my eyes peeled and let you know when they release more pictures.