Great idea, I love it! We have all four of the Disney version of these books and they were a lot of fun to build and see come together.

Doesn't this early version of Flitwick wear a cap? I'm curious to see if the Series 2 CMF Dumbledore piece can work with Flitwick's beard.

Legoleaks, the naked truth : Cho is an other Patil sister !

Probably getting Potions & Herbology for the parts.

"Collect all four to create a 360° play experience!"
I can only see three in those images...

@parsom said:
"Stickers or not?"

Looks like both printed and stickers.

@fulcrumbop said:
"$40 each - $160 total?"

Is that right? Ooooof. What’s the piece count on the sets?

Excellent! Don't give two warts about HP but I am digging this idea

Have got most of the HP sets so far and I have to say I am impressed with these, My daughter is starting to grow out of HP and Lego but I will be more then willing to continue collecting them im sure.

How much? 40 dollars for less than 200 pieces?

I was expecting these to use the same "book" pieces as the Disney Princess line. I don't know if these are any better or worse, but it seems odd to produce two entirely different big new molds for essentially the same purpose. Perhaps these new book covers will be used as roof parts (or something else) in the future? They do seem more versatile than the previous mold.

Lovely sets! Also very reasonable that these can be bought separately, instead of one expensive set (a HP equivalent of a Death Star/Cloud-City playset)

Surprised nobody has mentioned the new style uniform sweater torso that has the house emblem and different styling for the neck/tie.

This wave gives Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin so hopefully Hufflepuff isn’t far behind

Do they fold up into... books?

Looking at the high res images it seems the minifigs won't fit inside while closed. Kind of misleading then in that video when the kids put the books in their bags.

That potion bottle in the Transfiguration room is reminding me a lot of LEGO Dimension's cliffhanger cutscene. I won't spoil that for ya'll who haven't played it, but let's just hope the Hogwarts students don't accidentally re-summon him!

As for these sets, I think they're great! I hope they aren't over $20 each because this is an excellent alternative if one can't quite afford the Hogwarts buildings yet. You get a pretty reasonably sized room, some characters, and plenty of neat parts to boot.

Whilst these look great it does seem to be a cunning way to make structures even shallower. They have height but little depth. The inability to add classrooms on to existing hogwarts buildings is a major miss.

Maybe just take a plastic bag for the figures? That's what I used to do as a kid.

Just seen all four on Instagram... I look forward to buying them!! Ado hope this isn't it for HP in 2021 I wanna see a few more sets, I,e Gringotts and an updated shrieking shack!

76384 Herbology Class looks like a nice parts pack. Im gonna buy this one asap!

Could that book cover not have been made with just ordinary plates and hinges? I don't see the need for new molds like that. Although, to be fair, I guess they have flat surfaces on the underside for stickers/prints that would have been difficult to create otherwise.

Thanks to Hidden Side and Monkie Kid I haven't collected a lot of Harry Potter this last year. These might just change that...

I like the way they have included some Lego with the stickers. They look great until you realise a lot of detail isn’t brick built, but I suppose they need to keep the costs down as Harry Potter is a niche market and won’t sell by the bucket load.

I wish these where in the same scale and style as this years Disney ones, these are cool but tbh I think I prefer the Disney ones. Would have loved to had seen a Harry Potter fig in that mini-mini fig style.

These are great! Great pieces, usefull stickers and good minifig pieces!

Is there something wrong with the dark-tan wand sprue that they’ve accumulated enough that are missing a wand that they could work them into a set!

There are clips showing being advertised for 30 euros and 19 Jan release in Europe. So would assume $30 in US. Interesting idea, to use the four books to create four adjoining classrooms, although the lack any base plates is a shame and the main walls are really large tiles with stickers rather than the Hogworth arches and brick work we enjoy so much in the current sets. Looking at the previous classrooms, 4721 seems a rather simple accessory set but was only $10, whereas slightly more building structure was present in 4752 for $20. Maybe I’m missing the novelty angle of using books, but it makes me wonder could 4 adjacent classrooms be created for $120 with traditional Hogworth brick walls, windows and door arches all on a large baseplate as I don't see my kids tidying up all the pieces every evening!

@nhgonz said:
"I was surprised that the Seamus in 75953 didn't have a sooty face. Nice to see that here. :)"

Seamus has a sooty face as the alternate face. You can see it one of the images on lego shop :)

@The_Fiery_Rooster said:
" @lynels said:
"How much? 40 dollars for less than 200 pieces?"

Huh? I’m not sure where you got either of those, they’re $30, not $40, and they all have greater than 230 parts, so it’s not that bad, especially considering the massive plates for the covers.

Beyond that, I like how these look, but I also like that LEGO is doing sudden reveals like this more often. We don’t have to depend on low quality accidental postings on random shops as often as before! I hope they do this kind of thing for every theme, it makes things much better."

Actually the descriptions were leaked over a month ago, we had prototype images leak a few weeks ago and we also had McGonnagall leak :P

@sammy_zammy said:
"Actually the descriptions were leaked over a month ago, we had prototype images leak a few weeks ago and we also had McGonnagall leak :P"
Oh, I know, but I mean the official images that usually leak this time of year. Instead of getting 2 crappy pics for each, we can get these high-quality press releases that include all the information and details that we want.

If I had to guess, the plan is to eventually make this a much more common practice, and hope that the early official reveals will slowly kill of the want for leaks as time goes on.

I love that Herbology class.

Flitwick looks almost like a cheap kitbash. McGonnagall's new hat is nice, but Flitwick needed the new hair/beard/hat mold more.

I know that a lot of people on the internet don’t like Harry Potter (and I’m not the hugest fan of the author) but I’m still kind of confused by the mixed reaction to these. Maybe the builds are a bit shallow inside, but they could serve as pretty good display pieces when closed up. That’s not really my shtick, though, I’m just happy that we’re getting more complete and affordable builds for the classrooms. If these go on discount I’m probably getting all of these but Transfiguration, that one doesn’t interest me that much honestly.

A small gripe but I kinda wish they had used the opportunity to make Professor Sprout without her earmuffs and given her removable round-the-neck muffs like the two students, to have an alternative mould from the Collectible Minifigures version and it would make the hat-and-hair piece more versatile as well.

@CopperTablet said:
"Are those back wall pieces the new road plates? "

Nothing I've seen regarding the new road plates involves clips or bars so I don't think so

A bit of Lego and a huge sticker sheet. £35.

Nice.

Not interested in Harry Potter, so I doubt I will pick these up, but these are still really good interesting parts. My brother used to have the some of the original HP sets and I still find myself using the classroom pieces in my MOCs.

Reddish brown hinge plates in 76384!

These don’t look bad, I’ll see if I can pick one or two up.

I'm very pleased they brought back the chests to the uniform sweaters, but I'd have liked if they had added the house Sigills on them as well, like the original 2001 ones.

Boy, these are GREAT!
And awesome to have to customize too. Very nice!

GIANT Sticker sheet! outside that i like it

Thanks wallet is safe!

Skip... I like these sets but I don't think they're very displayable. It's interesting how varied the figures are, not sure I like the updated Severus or Philosopher's Stone Flitwick but McGonagall looks so much better with the new skirt piece and hair/hat combo. Overall, will probably bricklink the figures like I did with some of the Star Wars sets this year.

Very disappointed but at least I will save money on LEGO Harry Potter next year.

They look fantastic as closed-up books. If you haven’t seen the other pictures, do yourself a favor!

Didn’t think I’d like these, but I was wrong!!! Going to have to look at the Disney ones with fresh eyes!!!

Love them as books, hate them as playsets. Look terrible open. Maybe as a $10 set I’ll pick them up as a curiosity, but otherwise an easy pass.

@CCC said:
" @djcbs said:
"I'm very pleased they brought back the chests to the uniform sweaters, but I'd have liked if they had added the house Sigills on them as well, like the original 2001 ones."

They are a bit young for visible chests on the torsos."

I think it was meant to be Crests

Wow, dodged the bullet there... Times like these I'm thankful that I'm not a Harry Potter fan. Because, you cannot just buy one of them, you have to buy all of them.

are those duel molded wands? Rad!

They look amazing! Love how they fold up into books, very clever. My daughter is a huge Harry Potter fan, and she definitely wants all four!

I like the design of the books. They are brilliant in their own right (mini-)series.

That said, I hope Lego does still provide expansions to the big castle sets.

I'll be very disappointed if this is all we get in the Harry Potter theme next year. I'm hoping for more sets that fit in with the rest of the regular sets (Hogwarts, Diagon Ally, etc). I was hoping we'd get a new Shrieking Shack, Gringotts or Hogsmeade.

Just because these are the only sets that have been announced, so far, is it likely that more won't be announced later?

Quite expensive for HP sets.
But at a discount they will make nice parts packs.

@Graupensuppe said:
"McGonnagall's new hat is nice, but Flitwick needed the new hair/beard/hat mold more."

I do agree, but McGonagall is a more integral and popular character, which means they'll reuse that piece more and it'll be a better investment

Who asked for more Harry Potterf sets?

In the window of the herbology classroom, we have a new ghost. Can anyone identify
it?

These are fantastic and I don't even collect Potter sets! Further proof that the LEGO Star Wars theme, that I do collect, is almost devoid of creativity.

The link doesn't work. It should be https://brickset.com/sets/theme-Harry-Potter/subtheme-Hogwarts-Moments

Oh! That new 1x6x7 light gray arch piece in the Potions set is going to be so useful! Here's hoping for lots of color variations!

@vexorian said:
"Who asked for more Harry Potterf sets? "

Alot of people, judging by the quite good prior sales history. The Hogwarts sets also currently are the only castleish things and work quite well as "Real Life castles" if you rebuild them. Also the only REALLY sucessful theme right now that isnt Star Wars

Not a fan of HP, but I am tempted by the book design as I love books. The two Disney friends sets that I had this year were good, if a little quick to build. Its nice that they use stickers as it allows for customisation into themes that lego don't cover.

Might pick these up on a discount as £30 x 4 is too much of a spend for a non HP fan. Much like the castle being too pricy for the same reason, though I'd consider it on discount because I would really like another lego castle.

Hope this branches out into other lego themes and they explore other authors.

@CCC said:
" @fakespacesquid said:
" @OttoT said:
"Looks fun but I hope LEGO will stop putting stickers in their products, there are "other brands" who are cheaper and have all printed bricks and no stickers. There is no reason the top brand should have them."

Since we're going to drag this horse out and beat it again, I'll say the same thing that I usually do

If we had the option for every design ever to be either a sticker or a print, I'd choose sticker hands down. It makes pieces so much more versatile when you don't have a super specific design that you can't remove. It helps to think outside of the (set) box. If every stickered piece here was printed, the pieces would be so much more limited in their use. Having designs as stickers enables you to apply them if you want, or apply them to a different piece outside of this set, or not apply them at all and just build it clean. So much more freedom and potential for creativity. "

So every torso, face and legs would be stickered instead of printed? I'd stop buying LEGO.
"

Alright then, every non-minifigure design ever

Very cool idea and execution

@FlyingAardvark said:
"are those duel molded wands? Rad!"

I know! Surprised it has slipped through with so little mention so far

@billyaplin77 said:
"I'll be very disappointed if this is all we get in the Harry Potter theme next year. I'm hoping for more sets that fit in with the rest of the regular sets (Hogwarts, Diagon Ally, etc). I was hoping we'd get a new Shrieking Shack, Gringotts or Hogsmeade.

Just because these are the only sets that have been announced, so far, is it likely that more won't be announced later? "

I may be mistaken, but it looks like Brickset has placeholder numbers for at least 11 more HP sets in 2021.

Small vignettes with an interesting feature that are nicely evocative of their subject matter. I think this is a great way to add classrooms to Harry Potter while keeping costs down.

Also, TWO of these sets don't have main characters in them. That's GREAT!!! Now if you get multiple sets you can have full classrooms with different characters.

@FlyingAardvark said:
"are those duel molded wands? Rad!"

No, looks like a weird lighting or photoshop effect. In other images they don’t look dual modules.

@StarNinja said:
"In the window of the herbology classroom, we have a new ghost. Can anyone identify
it? "

Looks like the Fat Friar to me, the Hufflepuff ghost.

I'm suspecting the portraits in Transfiguration are the design team - top one is definitely Marco Bessa.

Also, a shame they don't repeat the house logos in the same style as Griffyndor over the whole range.

I like the Ghostbusters /Pumpkin one best. I think it's a brilliant crossover to have the Ghostbusters crash into Hogwarts and trash the place. "Muggle this, you old witch!"

@StarNinja said:
"In the window of the herbology classroom, we have a new ghost. Can anyone identify
it? "

That is the Fat Friar I believe, Ghost of Hufflepuff House if I remember correctly

I really find the gimmick delightful here - the idea of unfolding a brick built book is adorable and very fitting for the "LEGO Harry Potter" theme, and it's a nice way to keep the sets compact for storage, which is a good concern to have.

That said, my inner collector is mildly annoyed that Transfiguration and Charms' classrooms haven't been represented in the Castle sets to my knowledge (I'm behind collecting them) and would have loved to see a few bigger classrooms that attached in a modular fashion to the main castle, and this feels like a confirmation those sorts of sets won't happen. The Greenhouse and Potions are accounted for, but it'd be nice to have a space like that there. I do wish LEGO would return to the 2001-04 formula of building Hogwarts classrooms and buildings that can be 'stacked' and not merely the connectible towers.

I'm also excited to see a classic Flitwick, something I was certain we'd never see, an improved McGonagall... it's a shame the kids are all faces we already have though. I understand making sure each set has a keystone character like Draco, Harry or Hermione, but Seamus, Cho and Cedric are already out there and it might've been nice to see a few more unique students.

...but the new uniforms with the crests/badges back are the most mixed of mixed blessings. I've always preferred that design, harkening to the 2001-02 and 2010-11 incarnations of the theme, and was disappointed they dropped it in the revival... but ugh, I don't want to have to buy fifty of these now to retrofit all the characters again, especially not until we see a Hufflepuff torso to fit. I hope they stop introducing new uniform variations for a while and try to include some more unique characters.

I sound complainey but I'm overall actually rather happy with this range and look forward to collecting them.

for someone who doesnt buy lego harry potter sets these are great fun sets and im tempted to get the slytherin one

WOW. They look way better than the Disney Books sets.

Not a huge Harry Potter fan, but I am a big fan of the Castlevania franchise. I wonder if I could use some of these sets as castle corridors.