LEGO Harry Potter fans are convinced they know what’s coming next for Hogwarts
The latest additions to the most detailed Hogwarts ever have only just arrived on shelves, but LEGO Harry Potter fans are convinced they know what’s coming next.
The LEGO Group is showing it means business this month with 76454 Hogwarts Castle: The Main Tower, the single biggest (and most expensive) Hogwarts playset released since the Wizarding World theme returned in 2018. The 2,135-piece model connects to last summer’s 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall, making for a two-set collection that already costs just shy of the retail price of 71043 Hogwarts Castle.
There are more sets than just those two to assemble in this new modular Hogwarts range, of course – check out the full list so far here – and there will surely be more to come, too. Over on reddit, a subset of LEGO Harry Potter fans are convinced that we need only look to the evergreen microscale set that is 71043 Hogwarts Castle to see where the LEGO Group is planning to take this theme next.
Redditor DisasterousWalrus posted a highlighted image of the 2018 flagship set that points out the LEGO Group is slowly progressing through the same sections of the castle in its new minifigure-scale range. 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall, 76454 Hogwarts Castle: The Main Tower and 76426 Hogwarts Castle Boathouse have between them covered around two-thirds of the castle represented in 71043.
That just leaves the viaduct bridge and library annex at the far end of the build to be recreated within this new modular system, and it will match 71043 Hogwarts Castle in scope and scale. But the new range has already gone beyond the walls of its 2018 predecessor to encompass the owlery, greenhouses and the west tower, so there’s also nothing to say it would stop there.
Some fans have already started brainstorming what could follow the viaduct and library annex, and one redditor has a vision for where the LEGO Harry Potter team might ultimately take this version of Hogwarts that doesn’t sound too outlandish.
“I think this will be met, with the exception being they add the astronomy tower as the fourth piece,” 73028194 said. “Each piece will see a common room and custom big-fig mould, making a perfect four large sections to the castle. Viaduct will almost certainly be the most expensive as it has to cover all the bridges and will be the most pieces, but they’ll 100% make that the Chamber of Secrets building so I don’t mind.”
The previous two modular Hogwarts systems ran for three years each, from 2018 to 2020 and 2021 to 2023 respectively, so if the LEGO Group follows that pattern we may see this range wrap up in 2026. But for it to truly fulfil its promise of ‘the most detailed Hogwarts ever’, as the marketing pitches it, some fans say this system needs to break out of the current schedule.
“I am really holding out hope for a complete castle rather than just another three-year cycle,” said Outrageous_Ice_9145. “But, that would mean at least: a build for the library annex and viaduct (obviously the most likely next step); south wing and clocktower; bell tower wing; and astronomy tower.
“The greenhouses are adjacent to the library annex, so maybe that is where the herbology class could connect. The flying class lawn is behind the bell tower. And the owlery (while not connected obviously) is between the astronomy tower and main tower.”
This map of Hogwarts Castle from the Hogwarts Legacy video game gives an idea of what a fully-fleshed out LEGO take on the wizarding school could cover, and given some of the disconnected locations the theme has already visited, it’s not too unreasonable to think that this could be what’s on the cards in the years ahead. This is all just speculation at this stage, of course.
All that said: the wrinkle in the ointment may ultimately be the price. You’re already talking around £725 to pick up every set released in this system so far at RRP, and a roadmap akin to the one outlined above could easily push the total cost up to and even beyond £2,000. Even purchased one piece at a time, that’s still a lot of cash to spend (and a lot of display space to conjure up).
There are no guarantees that all those sets would be available concurrently, either: the earliest may have already retired by the time the last debut in order to make room on shelves, so anyone jumping aboard at that point may struggle to catch up (which could be one reason the LEGO Group has refreshed the system so frequently).
Whatever comes next for this version of Hogwarts, the sets released so far already make for a pretty magical display. Check out the layouts below for a glimpse of what’s possible from this range so far, and let us know in the comments where you think (or hope!) it might go next.
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