Ranking every new playset in the LEGO Harry Potter January 2026 wave
The LEGO Harry Potter January 2026 wave debuts five new minifigure-scale playsets – but which one comes out on top?
Come January 1, LEGO Harry Potter fans will be able to pick up no fewer than five new minifigure-scale sets geared towards play. The wave expands on the ever-growing Hogwarts Castle with 76450 Hogwarts Castle: Sorting Hat Ceremony and 76463 Hogwarts Castle: Hospital Wing, as well as some standalone locations with 76459 Hagrid & Harry’s Privet Drive Escape and 76467 Luna Lovegood’s House.
There’s also an attempt at something entirely new with 76464 Cauldron: Secret Potions Classroom, carving out a little piece of wizarding school life, tucked away inside a brick-built cauldron. But with an influx of new play-ready models, which ones should be at the top of your wishlist? Using advance review copies courtesy of the LEGO Group, we’ve ranked each and every one ahead of the new year.
5 – 76464 Cauldron: Secret Potions Classroom
76464 Cauldron: Secret Potions Classroom comes in at the bottom end – and it’s disappointing to see. There’s a lot of potential in these hinged sets, with past examples in the LEGO Wednesday theme nailing a perfect balance between play and display. Here, the interiors are too cramped and the hinge function feels flimsy and unstable when in motion. Priced at £54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99, there are better places to spend your money within this wave.
4 – 76459 Hagrid & Harry’s Privet Drive Escape
Speaking of spending your money, next on this list comes 76459 Hagrid & Harry’s Privet Drive Escape, an affordable and engaging model with a price of just £17.99 / $19.99 / €19.99. Included in that relatively low price are four minifigures, a brick-built bike, a lamppost, and a surprisingly effective play feature.
A row of plants can be knocked back with a light tap, making it appear like Hagrid’s unstable magical motorbike has knocked them flying. With a transparent element that also makes it look like one of the Death Eaters is flying, you can create some surprisingly dynamic scenes from this compact set.
3 – 76460 Hogwarts Castle: Sorting Hat Ceremony
Despite being impressed by 76459 Hagrid & Harry’s Privet Drive Escape for its size, 76460 Hogwarts Castle: Sorting Hat Ceremony edges it ever so slightly, once again offering a pretty dense number of minifigures for its price of £12.99 / $14.99 / €14.99.
The spinning, house-sorting build is also pretty engaging. Writing as someone who also owns 76429 Talking Sorting Hat and has sorted a fair number of friends into their Hogwarts house, I’m sure this smaller counterpart will also do a similar amount of interactive legwork.
The other builds are ideal for fleshing out any existing Hogwarts Castle builds, especially 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall, including the colourful house gemstones that are used to track points.
2 – 76463 Hogwarts Castle: Hospital Wing
Coming in second place is the next major instalment of the most detailed LEGO Hogwarts Castle ever: 76463 Hogwarts Castle: Hospital Wing. From the outside, it looks much like any other part of the modern minifigure-scale castle (although the open balcony space helps break up the expanding building), but the interior touches on some rarely-seen locations.
This is the most detailed brick-built version we’ve ever had of the Ravenclaw common room, complete with the Grey Lady and a hiding place for the Diadem, as seen in the seventh book and eighth movie.
Down in the basement, you can visit Professor Lupin’s Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, complete with various beasts and creatures. The whole room slides out, so you can switch it out with other scenes as you prefer, as well as offering more access to act out some high-octane Boggart scenes.
All in all, it’s a worthy entry in the current LEGO Hogwarts Castle collection, but not quite as good a standalone set as…
1 – 76467 Luna Lovegood’s House
…76467 Luna Lovegood’s House, a location visited for the very first time in LEGO bricks in 2026. Populated with five minifigures – one of which is a Death Eater to recreate some combat scenes – the 764-piece set capitalises on the unusual and obscure location by leaning into creative building techniques.
Some special features of note include the vibrancy and colour of the magical plants dotted throughout the house, the stickered references bringing the Lovegood home to life, and the leaning stairs that wind around the outside of the house.
All these LEGO Harry Potter sets will be available to add to your own Wizarding World collection from January 1, alongside other display-focused models. Check out full details in the table below.
LEGO Harry Potter January 2026 sets
| LEGO set | Price | Pieces | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 76459 Hagrid & Harry’s Privet Drive Escape | £17.99 / $19.99 / €19.99 | 124 | January 1, 2026 |
| 76460 Hogwarts Castle: Sorting Hat Ceremony | £12.99 / $14.99 / €14.99 | 124 | January 1, 2026 |
| 76461 Cornish Pixie | £24.99 / $29.99 / €29.99 | 320 | January 1, 2026 |
| 76463 Hogwarts Castle: Hospital Wing | £89.99 / $99.99 / €99.99 | 907 | January 1, 2026 |
| 76464 Cauldron: Secret Potions Classroom | £54.99 / $59.99 / €59.99 | 652 | January 1, 2026 |
| 76466 Philosopher’s Stone Collectors’ Edition | £139.99 / $169.99 / €159.99 | 1,571 | January 1, 2026 |
| 76467 Luna Lovegood’s House | £89.99 / $89.99 / €99.99 | 764 | January 1, 2026 |
| 76470 Enchanted Flying Ford Anglia | £69.99 / $79.99 / €79.99 | 868 | January 1, 2026 |
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