There are some very interesting rumors coming out of Eurobricks of a theme that has sort of ended but may be coming back in 2018. The reliable Sir von Lego has said that LEGO Harry Potter will be sets coming next year and there’s also a hint from rob-ot5000 saying there might also be a Collectible Minifigure Series coming out of Harry Potter as well. There was also mentioning of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter but how that ties in to this whole thread remains a mystery. It is worth noting that The Wizarding World of Harry Potter encapsulates everything from the films and the books by J.K. Rowling and Fantastic Beasts 2 will be coming out next year as well so there might be sets and/or minifigures for both the original Harry Potter series and Fantastic Beasts.
The return of LEGO Harry Potter is some very exciting news since the last time we had official LEGO sets, besides LEGO Dimensions, was in 2011 which is the time I returned to LEGO. Keep in mind that these are just rumors and are not confirmed until LEGO announces it.
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Please, please, please, please, please be true. Especially the mini figure series.
That’s actually the best thing they could do right now. They were still stuck on putting the main characters into everything when the bulk of the HP theme was released so the range of characters is abysmal compared to what SW has done since the last non-Dimensions HP release. Rather than trying to release a bajillion remakes of the various existing sets, doing at least one CMF series would allow them to fill in a ton of gaps in the lineup alongside a more manageable array of sets. And keep in mind that if this happens, and it does well enough, they’d probably consider doing more of this tied into future FB movies.
Yes, Yes, YES! I have been hoping this would happen for so long! And a Minifigure series would be perfect… Please LEGO, I still need my proper Sirius Black figure…
I wasn’t an AFOL until last year so I missed the first Harry Potter range. I cannot wait for this. Like everyone else the CM series is a must have
Sounds neat. I own most of the 2010-11 Harry Potter sets, but they are falling apart and collecting dust. I really need to rebuild them.
Even if Lego releases more HP sets, Star Wars will still have my heart…
I bought some of the early sets as they released for my oldest son when he was growing up. I then fell out of it for a while and missed a lot of the sets until my younger children started to get into Lego. We finally went back and slowly obtained all the missing sets. It was brutal on the wallet, especially the Goblet of Fire series and the castle from Order of the Phoenix. Those things cost a small fortune.
Hey, at least you didn’t have to buy the old Lego Batman sets! xD
I did buy all the old Batman stuff. But I think the only time I ever paid more than MSRP for anything from the original run was when I bought a second or third copy of 2008’s Tumbler at a Brickworld charity auction. But I also built at least two Batman MOCs that slightly predate the announcement of a Batman theme, so I was primed to start buying as soon as they hit the shelves. As I recall, I bought one copy of every set to build, plus doubles of all the minifig sets except for Arkham, the Batcave, and the Penguin sub. I picked up two extra copies of the UCS Batmobile for 75% off (marked on clearance plus I got additional markdown for applying for a TRU card). One has been raided for a lot of parts, but the value on the third is high enough that I haven’t been able to bring myself to break the seals yet.
Some years back, I had a conversation about this sort of thing with…I actually can’t remember if it was Steve Witt or Kevin Hinkle, but I’m pretty sure it was one of them. We look at stuff like Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, PotC, and LotR, and think there are tons of things they haven’t made sets for, and that it makes no sense that they shut all of those themes down, especially if they’re still under an active licensing deal. What I was told is that TLC has discovered that even their stuff only sells really well when there are related movies out. SW lucked out because it launched along with the first prequel and sold well enough in the gap years to justify an unbroken stream of sets until Clone Wars kicked off and they now had a multi-season TV series to ride with all the way up until Disney killed any original SW projects to make way for Disney Wars stuff that wouldn’t be beholden to any outside companies (compare Cartoon Network’s Yoda Chronicles with Disney’s totally unrelated New Yoda Chronicles).
Now, as long as Disney can actually figure out how to make some decent SW movies before the adoring public realizes the Emperor has no clothes (SW Rebels is actually fairly decent, and even better than the early Clone Wars eps, so I still have hope), the simple fact that Disney seems intent on churning out at least one movie per year, combined with any forthcoming TV series, means there will never be a gap that’s long enough to justify shelving the SW theme.
The same thing is basically happening with the Marvel sets. DC is a bit different early on. Where Marvel got its start with a tie-in to a Spiderman movie, and didn’t come back until they had MCU movies to latch onto, DC got their start in the gap between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. That gap was enough to convince them to retire the Batman theme ahead of the release of the final wave in 2008, and then the massive success of TDK caused those sets to be almost impossible to find at retail. DC didn’t relaunch until TDKR was being marketed and Man of Steel was in production, but the next DC movie didn’t come out for another three years. DC Superheroes therefore survived largely on the shoulders of Batman, with significant assist from Superman, and a large stable of characters that didn’t need to feature in a movie to become household names.
Harry Potter sales declined as the series of movies turned darker, just because their original market base started moving on from toys while the back half of the series had grown dark enough that parents of young kids probably weren’t as likely to buy them HP merch. Once the movies ended, that pretty much killed the viability of reviving the HP theme, up until Fantastic Beasts came out. In my opinion, they missed a huge opportunity to fill in some HP gaps, and to do much of anything with FB1, but if they learned from that mistake, riding the next FB movie is pretty much the best time to correct it.