Almost every single LEGO Harry Potter set released since 2001 has had a remake in some capacity – except for these eight, which are still ripe and ready to be hit with the Geminio charm.
The LEGO Group’s reboot of the Wizarding World theme in 2018 saw the design team return to familiar staples from the magical franchise, from Hogwarts Castle and the Flying Ford Anglia to the Quidditch pitch and Aragog. But while some subjects have received multiple sets even in the five years since – we’re looking at you, Hogwarts Express – others from that original 2000s run are still patiently awaiting an update.
Some, such as 4705 Snape’s Class, have enjoyed a brief nod within a larger Hogwarts set, while others have had spiritual successors (the Hogwarts Banners don’t feel too far removed from the old classroom models). Yet there are at least eight (and possibly only eight) sets from the original theme that the LEGO Group has somehow never revisited – and almost all of which are now long overdue for a remake…
8 – 4701 Sorting Hat
We say ‘almost all’ up there because 4701 Sorting Hat is the kind of set that would be difficult to see return in 2024 or beyond. It’s very much of its time, playing fast and loose with screen accuracy to deliver something that’s a toy first and foremost. And that was great for 2001, allowing Potterheads everywhere to sort Harry into a house – any house – by spinning the 8x8 disc. Don’t want to end up in Slytherin, eh? The magical roulette wheel will decide your fate…
7 – 4704 The Room of the Winged Keys
The LEGO Group has technically revisited 4704 The Room of the Winged Keys in microscale in 71043 Hogwarts Castle, but while other perilous moments from the trio’s journey to find the Philosopher’s Stone have had the playset treatment – in sets such as 76837 Fluffy Encounter – we’re yet to see a fully-fledged remake of this room. It feels like an obvious candidate, too: a modular piece of Hogwarts, a couple of broomsticks and maybe a function to shoot winged keys everywhere. Job done.
6 – 4712 Troll on the Loose
You might be able to chalk this one up to the need to create a new element for the troll – the standard bigfig mould used for Hulk, Thanos and so on probably wouldn’t cut it – but the LEGO Harry Potter team really needs to find space in its budget for a 4712 Troll on the Loose remake sometime soon. And once 76386 Polyjuice Potion Mistake retires at the end of this year, the designers won’t have to worry about having two bathrooms on shelves, either…
5 – 4733 The Dueling Club
Another premise that seems ripe for a remake for being so action-oriented, 4733 The Dueling Club was already one of the most fun (and functional) LEGO Harry Potter sets of its day. A remake could fit into the modular Hogwarts system while replicating the original set’s tipping minifigure functions, sprucing up the aesthetics with the spell elements included in models like 76415 The Battle of Hogwarts.
4 – 4735 Slytherin
4735 Slytherin has had a sort of proto-nod in 2021’s 76386 Polyjuice Potion Mistake, which includes the same characters from the same sequence in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, only in the bathroom before they head to Slytherin common room. While we’re unlikely to see a direct remake of this one any time soon, then, the LEGO Group could still revisit Slytherin common room at a different moment in the series.
3 – 4751 Harry and the Marauder's Map
At face value, 4751 Harry and the Marauder’s Map looks like such a generic set that it doesn’t really need a specific remake. But veteran fans of the franchise will remember that this set actually depicts the moment Professor Snape catches Harry wandering the corridors of Hogwarts while following mysterious footsteps on the Marauder’s Map. If the designers are looking for an excuse to deliver a tiny module for their current Hogwarts system, they could do worse than this. Bonus points for giving Snape back his glow-in-the-dark head…
2 – 4752 Professor Lupin's Classroom
Other Defence Against the Dark Arts classrooms have had direct or quasi-remakes in the modern Harry Potter theme – see Gilderoy Lockhart’s in 76389 Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets, for example – but 4752 Professor Lupin’s classroom is the rare exception. That’s odd only for the play potential it presents: imagine how well a transforming Boggart function could work, switching from a tap-dancing spider to Snape dressed as Neville’s grandmother.
1 – 4768 The Durmstrang Ship
Perhaps one of the biggest omissions from the modern Wizarding World theme is a fresh take on 4768 The Durmstrang Ship, which felt like an obvious contender among 2019’s Goblet of Fire sets. 75958 Beauxbatons' Carriage: Arrival at Hogwarts brought Fleur Delacour to the school of witchcraft and wizardry, but Viktor Krum and co. are still waiting for their ship to depart.
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