These look great!

Some pretty sweet sets; always nice to see more characters get physical minifigures.

Fingers crossed that the new Ninjago wave gets an official reveal soon...

Horntail set is pretty awesome and I'm not a Harry Potter collector.

Pretty good wave, almost makes me wish I still cared about the series

Grimmauld Place looks great. Kids and adults will enjoy.
Ministry of Magic looks cheap and childish, it could be 2000+ pieces expensive set with fountain, lobby, offices...

Shrieking Shack biggest disappointment because it was so simple to make set which will be added to Hogsmead. So unnecessary tree and pieces. Totally overpriced set!

Does anyone know if the wizard cards that are included in these sets are the same ones from last year, or if Lego are releasing new characters?

These all look incredible! I am so surprised with Grimmauld Place and all the new characters/variations of characters we’ve had, wishing the dark tower was a little more fleshed out for that price but I’ll just wait for a discount.

Sooooo many great figures!

Some really nice designs here!

These sets look awesome! I'll definitely get most of them for Christmas even though I'm kinda running out of space to display my Harry Potter lego sets at the moment. I'll probably be skipping Dumbledore's Office (76402) and Hungarian Horntail (76406)

Overall, this is a better wave than the 2021 offering. We’re finally getting curved corners for the Hogwarts expansions! I still can’t stand the monotonous blocky layout last year, so when I read from previous reports that there would be new angled Hogwarts sets this year, I got really excited!

The Hungarian Horntail set is a waste of space in the lineup in my opinion. They should’ve just made another Hogwarts expansion or probably the Malfoy Manor.

Most of the non-Hogwarts sets look half-finished and uninspired. The Shrieking Shack from 2004 looked a lot better even though this 2022 edition is more movie accurate.

The Ministry of Magic looks like a collection of vignettes that seem unfinished, and I understand that LEGO is trying to encourage customers to buy multiples of this in order to create one big Ministry. I do hope we get printed tiles instead of stickers.

Right now, the Hogwarts sets would probably be my Day 1 purchase since they offer better value than the rest. Understandably, the minifigures will again be the main selling point of this wave (and I’m not complaining!) but I hope we get more substantially designed sets.

Didn’t expect so many new HP sets coming at once! I’m surprised there wasn’t any sets to tie in with the new Fantadtic Beasts movie released today, but maybe they’ll arrive later.

Madame Pince, really? Of all the characters to appear in the film-based sets I wouldn’t have guessed at one who doesn’t really appear in the films

I wonder if they accomplished the Grimmauld Place movement like they did on the Regana's Castle set from Elves (I miss Elves).

Definitely will purchase these eventually. Will likely wait for a sale. Once added up it's a bit rich for my blood.

I'm disappointed that they put another PoA Dementor in the ministry set instead of making the OotP/DH version...

These are brilliant, definitely on the must purchase list, despite my wallet's protests

These all look amazing! The prices though...oof. I've been looking for a nice companion for 76108: Sanctum Sanctorum Showdown though, and 76408: 12 Grimmauld Place really looks like it could do the trick...

12 Grimmauld Place looks great. Good building parts pack if on sale.

Really cool wave!

My enthusiasm for this year’s HP is palpable.

Let’s see, how much am I gonna be set back by HP this year (so far that I know of?)…grabs calculator…looks at article and at 2022 HP Brickset…

First wave of stuff I haven’t picked up yet…then add this new wave…hmm, now just for these 11 sets, it’s $680.00 US (a total of 6,308 pieces if you’re curious). It also includes, I think, 48 total minifigures. And a few creatures/animals for good measure. One is huge, no matter what it’s based on.

Interesting. And there are still HP slots to fill. Gotta be honest, I thought the Ministry was gonna be a huge set, something in the 250-400 dollar range. Oh well, shows you what I know…maybe they’ll do a large set of Gringott’s.

12 Grimmauld Place is actually €129.99 .

@Sethro3 said:
"I wonder if they accomplished the Grimmauld Place movement like they did on the Regana's Castle set from Elves (I miss Elves).

Definitely will purchase these eventually. Will likely wait for a sale. Once added up it's a bit rich for my blood."

My guess is that they used the movement from the volcano from the Jurassic World set 75938. At least it looks very similar from what I can tell. I also have Ragana's castle and miss Elves dearly! I was lucky enough to snag 2 of 41196 when they were clearance and made a massive Elvenstar Tree :)

Grimmauld Place is definitely my number one from these sets. Excellent fig selection and a superb mechanism. I don’t collect HP but i might pick this one up just because it’s probably great in a city lay-out as well.
Shrieking Shack looks awesome as well. I just want it for the werewolves. Werewolves are cool!
And i really like the Ministry too for some reason. It’s odd and it has so much thingies were you can recreate scenes. And also great figs.
The Hogwarts sets remind me of Fabuland for some reason

Btw is that piece on their brooms new, because they flew with Fabuland brooms earlier

76406 Hungarian Horntail

671 pieces
£44.99, $49.99, €49.99

seems 10$ too high

Although they are all ridiculously overpriced, there's some really great sets here! Even as a non-HP fan I'm excited!

The Ministry has some awesome suit prints (great for my 1950s city) and lots of useful pieces, as well as that very cool telephone box.

12 Grimmald place will be a nice facade. I like the library in Dumbledore's Office, and the staircase in the Sirius rescue. Even the carriage is just a nice regular carriage (just need to replace the thestral thing with a horse)

@Brickchap said:
"Although they are all ridiculously overpriced, there's some really great sets here! Even as a non-HP fan I'm excited!

The Ministry has some awesome suit prints (great for my 1950s city) and lots of useful pieces, as well as that very cool telephone box.

12 Grimmald place will be a nice facade. I like the library in Dumbledore's Office, and the staircase in the Sirius rescue. Even the carriage is just a nice regular carriage (just need to replace the thestral thing with a horse)"

Agree on the vintage-suit minifig prints (my town is set in the early roaring twenties), but don't forget 12 Grimmauld Place also has one for Sirius Black!

These are for most part pretty cool. Clever builds and details on these. To me, strange that Cornelius Fudge is not in the set of the Ministry of Magic (but I understand it's based on Deathly Hallows).

Dumbledork’s Office looks tempting.

@eth6113 said:
"I'm disappointed that the gray roofed castle line seems to be done because I think those sets were much better. Though I believe they captured most of the important Hogwarts areas. However, the not Hogwarts sets look fantastic. "

Seeing as Lego experimented with offering other sets in different palettes (dinosaurs, Fiatt etc) would it have been impossible for them to offer the new castle sets with the grey roof pieces via a limited D2C option on their site? Or even a cheaper parts pack each time, that gave you the pieces to fix the colour.

Because as it is I stopped buying when the roof went green, when they would have all been an instant purchase if the colour was correct.

I want them all. Amazing sets!

A major improvement over last years, and I love how we’re getting another Deathly Hallows set. Grimauld Place and the Shrieking Shack are my two main highlights.

A little surprised by the lack of Secrets of Dumbledore sets though. I quite enjoyed the film.

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"These are for most part pretty cool. Clever builds and details on these. To me, strange that Cornelius Fudge is not in the set of the Ministry of Magic (but I understand it's based on Deathly Hallows)."

It's actually a combination of Order of the Phoenix (Room of Mysteries, with all the crystal balls, and Visitor Entrance red phone booth) and the Deathly Hallows 1 (the minifigs, patronus, Dementor, etc.).

Fudge is thankfully not duplicated in favor of previously unrepresented characters as he just appeared in 75947. Although it would have been awesome to get him in his prosecutorial robes!

* BTW earlier comment should have read 'preceded' instead of 'proceeded'. A rookie mistake and one that only diminished my point as it is even closer to cedere. Sigh! :(

@Padraig

Inthert's design was what I thought of when I first saw the images of 76408. Both are awesome.

Winter*

Thank you, @StyleCounselor. Yeah, I thought of Order of Phoenix because, well, the location was featured more heavily in that film. I see what you mean about Fudge.

All of these are incredible sets. The triumphant return of cool Potter sets! Kreeture!!!!

Looking at the set photos again, I agree that Dumbledore’s office failed to utilise the available spaces. Surely we can get more details than just bookshelves? There’s a lot to unpack from his circular office in the films, yet here we get three levels of nearly empty rooms. I’d still buy it for the parts though, but maybe not as a day one purchase.

It’s a ‘Yes’ from me… They all look amazing!

Honestly, a little tame. Very few new elements or prints to get excited about, and with the exception of the Ministry of Magic, rather colourless. I do admit after the excellent sets from 2020, 2021, it's hard to stay on the same level of quality.

I'm mostly curious about the mysterious 2x1 tile on top of the Ministry of Magic, which, in both the front view of the set and the rear view, only shows the back side. A mystery!

bricks_and_boxes said "Looking at the set photos again, I agree that Dumbledore’s office failed to utilise the available spaces. Surely we can get more details than just bookshelves? There’s a lot to unpack from his circular office in the films, yet here we get three levels of nearly empty rooms. I’d still buy it for the parts though, but maybe not as a day one purchase."

We get Dumbledore's sitting room, main office and pensieve.

Adding those extra details would double the size and the cost of the set.
I think the designers reduced this to the absolute minimum to give us a set below £50.

Adding three stairways, a telescope, a fireplace and many printed paintings would be great but costly. I also think we can easily do that by adding other sets from the theme. As perhaps TLG would expect us to do, during creative play and building with our sets?

I'll be using the Sirius set and the Office set alongside several others to make a bigger Hogwarts display.

shame 7640 is open at the back, it would make for an excellent modular. Not a HP fan, so I don't have an opinion on the rest.

Baby Fawkes!

The 2 sets that have been produced for fantastic beasts were not exactly encouraging people to buy them. The prisoner carriage was missing guard figures, it doesn't work at all with just the american wizard president or whatever the character is called. On top of that the figure of Grindelwald was bad with the grey pants instead of just making him a black coat guy which he obviously was in the movie. And all of those issues can't stem from concept art being withheld, it's the basis of the entire scene.
The suitcase actually had a play environment but it had no ties to any other sets and the figures included were inferior versions of figures released in the CMF line. Obviously anyone who cared about the movie just got the main characters figures from the CMFs and disregarded the suitcase set because it only had brickbuilt creatures and a strange display base, so nothing really exclusive or hard to build yourself and better.

It's obvious they should have made sets based on the american ministry or any of the action set pieces. But I guess it will take them 10 years, like it not took for us to get a HP5-7 ministry set, which I wanted but I am still not happy with because I imagined mostly the shelves with the prophecies, the death portal and figures from HP5. The huge structure is not so great for display and definitely awkward for play when you have disjointed cabins and no real rooms. HP7 figures are fine but I already made customs since I didn't expect them to acknowledge that movie at all anymore. I guess there is the Order of the Phoenix base at least.

The hogwarts sets are designed like Star Wars sets. Only draw are the exclusive minifigs or the character variants if you really care about Filch having a brown coat instead of grey. The hippogriff set is especially sad, just filler for the castle structure like the whomping willow from wave 1 that most people skipped. Hope they overhaul the hogwarts castle design again next year back to less blocky rooms. This extension gimmick completely ruins the room layout with everything only being possible to be arranged in a line or on top of each other. The 2018 range looked far more organic and better, even if it was tiny. Places like the great hall need more space and that is apparently too costly when the biggest baseplate allowed is 8x16.

I will only get Grimmauld Place. Maybe the Ministry in a year or two if they release something that adds to it and make it look less janky.

@Yooha said:
"Baby Fawkes!"

Good eye! Didn't notice that. Very cool.

The main transformation function for Grimmaud Place is pretty cool. I remember seeing a MOC that did that a little while ago

@LukeSkywalker agreeded, the third film is by far the best. Alfonso Cuarón is by far the best director to have ever worked on a Potter film and its a shame he only gave us just one; but boy its a doozy!

@lego4vs said:
"Wanting to put the spiral staircase from Sirius' Rescue to Dumbledore's Office already.

& want to get Umbridge's office & put in Hogwarts."

Also looking at 76401 Hogwarts Sirius' Rescue, is there going to be a new Support 1 x 1 x 7 1/3 Spiral Staircase Axle? (I think used to be 5 1/3)

The new brooms look great. My only hesitation is that they look like the ends may get knocked off easily. But perhaps the connection is more than a simple stud if the end of that rod allows.

@Brickalili said:
"Madame Pince, really? Of all the characters to appear in the film-based sets I wouldn’t have guessed at one who doesn’t really appear in the films "

She does appear briefly, and even somewhat obscure characters are undoubtedly welcome. She also appeared in the Lego video games, and it’s always nice when Lego chips away at the lengthy list of characters without physical Minifigures.

@Zander said:
"I’m not into HP, but 76400 looks great as a generic gothic fantasy carriage! I’m delighted the thestrals are in an affordable set. I’ll definitely be getting it.

Can someone familiar with the franchise please explain why Luna Lovegood is holding a document upside down in the picture on the back of the box?"

Of course she is reading it upside down like seen in the movie. :)

Just noticed that the back of the thestral set shows Harry feeding raw meat to the baby thestral. Is this a first for Lego to represent raw meat or blood?

I know there were old yellow minifig heads that seemed to have a bloody head injury. Yet, I can't think of another 'bloody' example. ;)

Also, just noticed that Buckbeak is white with darker wings than the variant included with Hagrid's Hut.

The wizards cards are series 1 or will get a new series?

Yes please all of them. Great to see the chocolate frog cards continuing in some sets

@StyleCounselor 8827-14 Butcher has a specialised piece of raw meat. Also, 75956 The Rise of Voldemort has a transparent red piece representing blood. Kylo Ren has an open cut on his face in 75236 and Anakin is bleeding all over in 7251.

@elfe I imagine (and hope) that it's the same series of Wizard cards. I imagine most kids only got 2-8 cards total from last year's cheapest sets, and some of them might be duplicats, so spreading them out over more sets is a very good idea.

@Venunder said:
"bricks_and_boxes said "Looking at the set photos again, I agree that Dumbledore’s office failed to utilise the available spaces. Surely we can get more details than just bookshelves? There’s a lot to unpack from his circular office in the films, yet here we get three levels of nearly empty rooms. I’d still buy it for the parts though, but maybe not as a day one purchase."

We get Dumbledore's sitting room, main office and pensieve.

Adding those extra details would double the size and the cost of the set.
I think the designers reduced this to the absolute minimum to give us a set below £50.

Adding three stairways, a telescope, a fireplace and many printed paintings would be great but costly. I also think we can easily do that by adding other sets from the theme. As perhaps TLG would expect us to do, during creative play and building with our sets?

I'll be using the Sirius set and the Office set alongside several others to make a bigger Hogwarts display."

Yes, but that kinda defeats the purpose of buying the set. Collectors would want to make the most out of what they’re actually buying and not just rely on constant MOC-ing. These sets are getting quite expensive over the years, but the quality of the designs seems to be plateauing.

The Great Hall (2018) and the Clock Tower (2019) are my least modified sets, owing to the fact that they were truly very well designed, with only a few flaws.

The Pensive and the Sword of Gryffindor in this wave could have just been added to the headmaster’s actual office rather than put them on two separate levels that barely have anything going. The version of Dumbledore’s office from the 2019 Clock Tower set managed to squeeze in some really good details, despite the limited floor space. I see no reason why they can’t do the same here.

I’m not saying though that these sets are awful. It’s just that they leave a lot to be desired.

What's with the fascination for half buildings?
In the olden days, sets were made in a way that were both complete AND playable, e.g. 6048. Ah, well...

Ohhh, a TAN BAT!

Grimmauld place's mechanism looks very interesting.

@J0rgen said:
" @StyleCounselor 8827-14 Butcher has a specialised piece of raw meat. Also, 75956 The Rise of Voldemort has a transparent red piece representing blood. Kylo Ren has an open cut on his face in 75236 and Anakin is bleeding all over in 7251.

@elfe I imagine (and hope) that it's the same series of Wizard cards. I imagine most kids only got 2-8 cards total from last year's cheapest sets, and some of them might be duplicats, so spreading them out over more sets is a very good idea."

That's some raw meaty goodness! Thanks for reminding me of those instances.

Now that you mentioned it, I think the old Voldemort set 4766 also has a similar red piece. Likewise, 8096 includes Vader with a lot of red. I think it's interesting that the newer variant of damaged Vader 75183 is much more crispy than bloody. I suppose that's more accurate.

Don't know how I could have forgotten the butcher. Well-done!

I also find it interesting that there's no red in the Jurassic Park/World sets... unless you count the brown arm in 75936.

@StyleCounselor For extra raw meaty goodness, there's always Davy Jones' heart in 4183 ...

Dark green masonry bricks now. I don't know how useful they will be, but still neat to get a new color. And the Horntail set shows really nice printed arms on Harry.

The new broom piece...I'm not sure. It looks to be connected by the bar and a stud/anti-stud, so might be a little flimsy, at least on the stud part with the bar. But I guess it isn't as comically oversized (yet still seem to be a bit big for the figure scale). Either way, I have dozens upon dozens of the old style, so I'll continue to use them I guess if I ever need to for a MOC.

Thought we might have got Mad Eye Moody in the 12 Grimmauld Place set, especially considering the figure is in production

@sipuss said:
" @StyleCounselor For extra raw meaty goodness, there's always Davy Jones' heart in 4183 ..."

That's got to be one of, if not the, best! Nice job. Thanks.

Kind of want that part, now... to feed it to my new baby thestral! ××

Why do almost all of these look like glorified minifig packages? Those buildings that are actually just a front are so uninteresting.

@jkb said:
"Grimmault Place 12 won't only excite HP fans; it look very versatile!"

I'm already trying to figure out how to make it work in a Modular Display? Figure it will end up next door to Dr Strange's Sanctorum, because them Wizards stick together. But how to incorporate that shift in the block. Hmmm?

For those wondering about the stairs to Dumbledore's Office. I think those are actually in the Courtyard Sirius Rescue set. Remember these newer Green Roofed Hogwarts sets are all modular, and go together in wildly diferent ways depending on which ones you have.

@Faefrost said:
"I'm already trying to figure out how to make it work in a Modular Display? Figure it will end up next door to Dr Strange's Sanctorum, because them Wizards stick together. But how to incorporate that shift in the block. Hmmm? "

Are you sure about the wizard thing? According to Terry Pratchett, the plural of "wizard" is "war" ;)

I don't like Creature

@jkb said:
" @Faefrost said:
"I'm already trying to figure out how to make it work in a Modular Display? Figure it will end up next door to Dr Strange's Sanctorum, because them Wizards stick together. But how to incorporate that shift in the block. Hmmm? "

Are you sure about the wizard thing? According to Terry Pratchett, the plural of "wizard" is "war" ;)"

which book is that?

Each one of these is fantastic... I would have thought they had run the course with HP sets, but all of these are really fun and exciting. Hope my kids are still into them for one more year and holiday season...

Might have to actually start on this theme at the cost of my wallet's well being.

@empire0 said:
"I know nothing about Harry Potter, haven't seen any of the movies, but these sets are awesome. I really like the Horntail in particular, and the shack with the killer tree"

The movies are great, you're really missing out. I saw them as an adult and it really captured my imagination.