Something tells me it won’t fit my head well.

Wow! Didn't even know sound bricks existed

So glad they fixed the brittle brown issue. Can you imagine this coming out in 2018 or early 2019? It would have been an impossible to build mess.

That pile of poop looks like it's as disgusted as I am.

That looks very small, maybe they shouldn't show that advertising picture of a woman trying it on.

As to sound bricks returning, I'm not that interested. They seem to have increased the price of this by about £25 compared to the £50 or so it should be without one.

Hmm, difficult. Very difficult. Where to put you? I sense design, yes. But, expense, too. Hmm, sound brick... Slytherin!!!

Kudos to anyone who can reprogram the sound brick into the Guidance Counselor Hat. (Warning, NSFW language.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cij4K33zjXg

Sorting hat, eh? So does this keep my LEGO collection organized for me? Or do I wear it while I’m sorting? What is this?

If the Hat doesn't say "Bee in your bonnet, Potter?" then we're all wasting our time here.

More Voice Boxes please!!! Having them in the helmet sets would be so cool, or even star wars ships to make blaster fire sounds?

I am curious if they used the voice of the late Leslie Phillips..0

I commend the effort and it seems like a very cool design, but I’d estimate it will take about five minutes after release day before the Poop Emoji modification of this goes up on Rebrickable. :-)

Rumour has it that it comes with a free doggy bag GWP.

In the immortal words of LEGO Ian Malcolm: "That is one big pile of brown bricks"

@Murdoch17 said:
"So glad they fixed the brittle brown issue. Can you imagine this coming out in 2018 or early 2019? It would have been an impossible to build mess."

Those bricks were fine while they came out, that's the insidious part. Only after a couple years, as people were disassembling sets again, did their flaws reveal themselves.

Yeah, so that sorting hat is another 1:1 match of the image that surfaced in the survey leak last year...looks like I'll be getting a lot of D2C sets this year (Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Zelda, Gotham City, the Burrow, and Medieval Markets).

The large brown curved pieces at the very bottom mean people can finally make custom Trade Federation AAT's, based on the bigger and more accurate 2009 Clone Wars version. If you know what I'm talking about you'll know how long people have been waiting for that piece to come out in brown or tan, lol.

31 phrases,
Not divisable by 4.
Therefore, assuming each phrase is giving a house, not all of them are equal.

Or probably some phrases not giving a house.
Wonder if they are quotes from the film or newly recorded sounds, does the hat even have 31 lines?

Don't care much for the hat, it looks rather crude and the size seems a bit weird.

I do very much like the idea of the sound brick though. But I guess it can only say the pre-programmed phrases at random? Now if only you could change those with an app, and have control over which one it would play....that would be the coolest thing ever!

Finally, a device that will tell me if I’m a main character, if I’m intelligent, if I’m racist, or if I’m cannon fodder!

@Scott1 said:
"The large brown curved pieces at the very bottom mean people can finally make custom Trade Federation AAT's, based on the bigger and more accurate 2009 Clone Wars version. If you know what I'm talking about you'll know how long people have been waiting for that piece to come out in brown or tan, lol. "

But Trade Federation AAT's are tan, not brown.

Holy crap. 40 bucks for a basic sound module? Must be made by Apple or military grade.

P.S. You know that the set is listed at 100€ and 79€ is the pre-order discount, right?

The set you didn't know you needed and now you know you still don't.

@SinKiller_Nick said:
"Is that sound brick new? Don't remember ever seeing it."

Yes. There have been previous ones, but they are all new for each new brick. They are just pre-recorded sounds on a chip. You can buy cheap modules with ~10 sounds for under a dollar. Add a battery, a small speaker and the casing, and these are quite expensive for the cost of similar components.

Or if you mean the shape of the brick, then I think yes. I don't think I have seen that format before.

Reminds me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqCJiUoxeUg

(Bernard the singing poo)

Is one of the phrases 'Please kill me and end my torment!' ??

There’s only one use of that sound brick that’s right for me

?? Doofenshmirtz evil incorporated ??

Is this part of the helmet collection?

Like a beautiful dog shit... :D

Out of my respect to HP fans I'm not gonna make comment on the color and the shape combination.

@WemWem said:
"Finally, a device that will tell me if I’m a main character, if I’m intelligent, if I’m racist, or if I’m cannon fodder!"

Can't wait for the upcoming camera addon to judge and class me solely by my birth genitals! Yay brand values!!

Would be funny if they added a phrase in "never sort by color alone".

@Ayliffe said:
" @WemWem said:
"Finally, a device that will tell me if I’m a main character, if I’m intelligent, if I’m racist, or if I’m cannon fodder!"

Can't wait for the upcoming camera addon to judge and class me solely by my birth genitals! Yay brand values!!"

Your comment will sadly soon be deleted, but I just want to let you know that it has been seen & appreciated.

@TheOtherMike said:
" @AverageChimaEnjoyer said:
" @AverageChimaEnjoyer said:
"That's an interesting new sound brick design! I'm assuming that you place the model above your jeans and it will randomly shout a Hogwarts house for you (I am Hufflepuff all the way)"

Aaahh how the heck did autocorrect change "head" to "jeans?"
(I meant to say place above your head)"
I wondered what you were on about!"

Sorry about that! But with everyone comparing this hat to a turd, it really should go under your jeans...

@Wrecknbuild said:
" @Zink said:
"I'm not gonna say what it looks like. Just not saying it. Not saying it."

It's a hat and a B-model in one!

I like the sound brick."

And you just wait until the batteries are drained and that sound brick sounds like a long drawn-out fart.

Putting aside the politics (which we shouldn't), putting aside the unfortunate color and shape (which we can't), why is this set actually a thing? I get that it's a thing from the first movie/book and "omg it's the thing everyone has to wear to be inducted into a house and my personal fantasy is being in my zodiac-like Hogwarts house" but it's an evil-looking uninviting mean brown hat that's practically unlikable. Is it because it's the closest thing Lego can do to a Helmet Collection set for Harry Potter? Just because something is memorable doesn't mean it's welcoming.

@Alia_of_AGL:
The hat _does_ announce Houses triumphantly. And we did a display at a Harry Potter convention nearly a decade ago, where people were lined up all weekend to be Sorted (many would just say which House they belonged to, but you could also do the questionnaire if you’d never done so before). Keeping in mind there are still tons of HP superfans, this is exactly the sort of thing many might like to have on display.

I think, the saddest part of the whole thing is the full-grown adult woman giggling as she tries to wear a clearly under-sized plastic hat.

I assume the four empty cocktail glasses are just out of sight.

All I can say is that I can't wait to see what else gets to use the sound brick. Hoping that, eventually, some City sets see light and sound modules (like Bruder and Playmobil still have, but LEGO hasn't since what, the 1990s?).