Way back in August, I talked about a rumor that LEGO Harry Potter may be coming back in 2018. It looks like there are some new rumors the past few days that have popped up regarding LEGO Harry Potter. It seems that we’ll be getting five sets in total, three for the Harry Potter franchise and two for Fantastic Beasts. There’s no details whether it will be for Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald or not but it seems that would be logical since it will be in theaters in November.
I’ve also talked about a LEGO Harry Potter Collectible Minifigures line a few months ago and I’ve heard rumblings that it might be an August 2018 release. Supposedly this CMF line encapsulates The Wizarding World of Harry Potter which basically means that everyone and everything is game. Who doesn’t want a Dudley Dursley minifigure?
As always, none of the above is confirmed until they are officially announced by LEGO but the rumors seem to gain steam with every passing day.
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Depending on what happens in FB2, it could very well be a split between the two movies (face it, FB1 desperately needs more than what it got from Dimensions, even if it’s but a single set), or one set could be something that fits into both movies. You know, like the inside of Newt’s bag, which I’m certain will feature in any film that the character does too.
As for the minifigs, they’re already so far behind at this point that they could easily burn through three sets of 20 and still have a pile characters and outfits that people would consider “must-haves”. There are so many students missing that they still don’t have a single Ravenclaw, and the only Hufflepuff they ever made was the impending corpse from GoF. There are still Weasleys who haven’t been released, there are characters who were dead when the story started (like the Potters), there are the Three Brothers and Death, some of the characters from the decoy scene can only be counted as existing because they polyjuiced into Harry Potter. And, of course, there are only two minifigs from FB1, which doesn’t even cover the main characters.
Luna Lovegood is a Ravenclaw
Is she? Huh. I’ve watched all the movies but never read any of the books, so I doubt I ever knew she was. It’s been a few years since I ran through all the minifigs, so maybe she wasn’t out yet when I made that observation, or I may have checked to see which house she belonged to. Regardless, she’s not wearing Ravenclaw colors. Also, I thought Cedric Diggory was the sole Hufflepuff, but it turns out he’s not even in any sets. Unless he’s the black skeleton or something (but again, no house colors if he is). I think about half of the minifigs are Harry/Hermione/Ron, and out of the students it looks like Neville might be the only other supporting protagonist (with two minifigs, no less). Most of the run was from back in the days when they still packed all of the SW sets with Luke/Han, Qui-Gon/Obi-Wan, or Obi-Wan/Anakin, depending on exactly which film the set was based on, so variety was largely just a new Gryffindor house torso, and the occasional matching Slytherin house torso, because they were firmly convinced at the time that they needed to have the main characters in _every_ set to the near-exclusion of anyone else.
What they really need to do is release either one unisex torso for each house in a similar style, or both genders for each house (if they do female shading), between the handful of sets and the CMF wave. That way at least fans who care to can cobble together whatever obscure student characters they feel like, and they can put themselves in house colors too. Of course, I think the odds of seeing the same for any of the other schools is a little shy of zero, but most fans seem to care more about the Hogwarts houses than whatever would be geographically appropriate for them.
And we’re just not going to discuss the fact that as Harry advanced through the school years they went from having everyone wearing full robes, to everyone wearing more traditional British boarding school uniforms, to just about doing away with uniforms altogether.
Just give me my darn book five Sirius Black figure and I’ll be happy! Well, him and Percival Graves… and Fantastic Beasts Dumbledore… Who am I kidding, I need them all! LEGO had better not waste this opportunity.
On the subject of Harry Potter, did anyone ever find Harry’s Lego hair piece to be strange? It fits for the first couple of films/books, but for the rest…