Harry Potter Advent Calendar - Day 4

Why the long face?

Cornish Pixie has found the Elder Present, and wields unimaginable power!

Maybe an optical illusion, but her hands seem to be a different colour than her face.

"A little more Ravenclaw character variety would be great..." Yeah, let the smart house get more love!

@jkb said:
"Why the long face?"

Don't you mean "Why the long(er) legs?

I like the Gremlins sweater.

What about Luna Lovegood? A fan's favourite and definitely a less common entry in Advent calendar sets.

She looks like she regrets being part of this franchise.

@PurpleDave said:
"Cornish Pixie has found the Elder Present, and wields unimaginable power!"

I first read that as "unimaginative power"

The sweater and character look great.

I wonder what year she's supposed to be in here. And didn't she get a slightly darker skintone lately? Is that the case here or didn't they do it?

@AustinPowers said:
"Maybe an optical illusion, but her hands seem to be a different colour than her face. "

Hands are likely polyethylene, and do sometimes have a slight color mismatch.

@TheOtherMike:
You’ve got four Houses. Gryffindor has a “main character” problem, so most instances tend to focus on one or more of the core trio, but they also got the most screen time by far, so there’s a metric crapton of secondary characters who got real dialogue. Slytherin also has a “main character” problem, but it mostly focuses on a single individual, and they still have a moderate bench to draw from. Hufflepuff has a “main character” problem only in that the one time they got one, he died. So they never even got a minifig at all prior to 2018, but now that there’s a push to give more equitable representation to each House, _all_ they have are minor background characters, and there isn’t a single one that stands out above the rest. Ravenclaw…has two main characters, and suffers for it. It gives enough pretense of options that they’ve rarely dipped into the rest of the pool.

Still, the new Hogwarts megabuild seems to be making a point of adding a bunch of new background characters (on a guess, once this entire castle is complete, the main trio might be the only repeated characters). Penelope Clearwater will soon join Lisa Turpin and Terry Boot in the megabuild roster, and Michael Corner was kinda forced to exist because the House Banner sets all had to include three named students from each House. Ironically, this will mean Ravenclaw finally catches up to Hufflepuff, the only House that never got a single student minifig during the original run.

@Binnekamp:
No, they lightened her skintone from the way-too-dark nougat to the more appropriate warm-tan in 30651. Katie Leung didn’t have the same skin color as the white cast members, but it wasn’t really very dark, either. The problem with the realistic skintones was that they always made non-white minifigs quite a bit darker, and it just fed into itself. If you make Chang nougat, then you have to make the twins even darker, and they would have been more accurate in nougat.

Well, according to Ron Harry is also kind of short. He makes some snide comment in book three or afterwards about “a midget in glasses.”