And now I've completed the provisional model of the new Diagon Alley set on Mecabricks. It's a cute build. 76439 Lego Harry Potter Diagon Alley: Ollivanders™ & Madam Malkin's Robes and once yet again, they've changed the naming conventions in contrast to last year's set, eliminating the 'Diagon Alley' bit and including the second shop in the ( Read more... )

Probably in response to the leaked WWW photos, we now have an official reveal of 76422 Diagon Alley: Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes $89.99 / £84.99 / 84.99 EUR | 834 pieces (8+) | 7 minifigs. (HBP). Pictures below the fold. ( Read more... )

76422 Weasleys Wizard Wheezes $89.99 | 834 pieces (8+) | 7 minifigs! (HBP) We now have a soft focus shot of the set, and some answers to the question of what we saw in the super fuzzy picture of the summer line-up that I'm attaching below. Spoil yourself at your own discretion.( Read more... )

Lego has posted pictures of 2023's 1st half year's sets on the S@H due March 1st, 2023, and they're... interesting.

The 76420 Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake (the Second Task) is more successful than I could have hoped and feels like a design triumph at the price point. Well done! The 76413 Hogwarts™: Room of Requirement (the Room of Hidden ( Read more... )

Just in time for the new school year, lego has released the new D2C (direct to customer) Hogwarts Express, and it's a cracker. It's one of the last sets Marcos Bessa has designed for the theme (the other being the Harry Potter 2022 Advent Calendar), and the most expensive the line has ever seen. Technically it's also the widest / longest set in the ( Read more... )

New Harry Potter collector's model for 500 euros to be released in autumn!

Some highlights from the promobricks article by Max Börnicke.

Max reports that the rumours are true, later this year lego will release 76405 Hogwarts Express, a collector's edition version of the Wizarding World's iconic train to Hogwarts. It'll run a gobsmacking cost of ( Read more... )

I've made a new "set" on mecabricks. It's public, so anyone can play with it.


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So, fangirling took place, because I'm me and fundamentally can't help it, and MicMacPadWac took another crack at it and redesigned the build as what it might look like if it were a Hogwarts Moments set, and now the world has this, which is too cool for words:


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A decade or so ago, there was a bit of official concept artwork for a potential Malfoy Manor set that unfortunately was never realised. Here that excerpt from the 'Lego Harry Potter - Building the Magical World' book:


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Given the Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales and Christmas shopping, this seems a useful list to cobble together. This is an attempt to list all the sets from the current series of Harry Potter lego, by year of release, with notes as to which sets are officially retired already or should retire soon, the books / movies they represent, and the ( Read more... )