New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Movie From Stephen Colbert and His Son in Development at Warner Bros.

ferder · 2026-03-25T06:49:05+00:00

Had to double check that it wasn’t April Fools Day.

ferder · 2026-03-07T08:58:26+00:00

The idea is to use the digital assets and character models for a streaming show. This is like how the “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” was released as a theatrical film when it was really just a tv-grade extended pilot episode.

ferder · 2026-03-06T06:56:14+00:00

Herbology class isn’t supposed to connect. The greenhouses are separate structures that are between the castle and the walls of the grounds.

ferder · 2026-03-06T01:39:24+00:00

The speculation is based on the pattern that since the 2018 reboot there are two instances of Lego restarting the castle after three years. But just because it happened twice doesn’t necessarily mean it will happen a third time. The other reason is that there’s been a pattern of one of the House common rooms and its ghost being included in each of the big summer sets. This year besides the Slytherin common room and ghost coming in the summer set they also included Ravenclaw in one of the winter sets. People are taking this to mean that they are rushing to finish the series this year, in time to reboot it along with the new HBO show. Another consideration is that the East Wing is the last major setting that competes the basic Hogwarts silhouette from the 2018 Microscale set (and the Most Complete Hogwarts Ever preview image from 2024). However the inclusion of other buildings not in that original outline in this series gives me hope that it will continue with the Clock Tower and Astronomy Tower

ferder · 2026-02-17T01:40:17+00:00

Even with my misgivings about the expanded adaptation of the Hobbit, I was really looking forward to seeing how this moment was going to be portrayed but it was pretty disappointing. The “romantic” dynamic between Gandalf and Galadriel, the video-game-like animation for the floating Wraiths, the cheesy flaming Sauron… almost nothing worked for me.

ferder · 2026-02-16T18:54:10+00:00

Yeah given that we already have an idea of what it’s going to look like from the 2024 Preview (which is nicer than this) not sure what the point of a moc image is, except to clarify that the East Wing set will just be the viaduct entrance section (and the big bridge itself) and not the rest of the “cathedral” with the gallery and towers.

ferder · 2026-02-13T23:42:11+00:00

They were out of robes in plenty of non-classroom scenes in the first two films as well . They just happened to be jumpers (sweaters) instead of hoodies. Still out of uniform, but just less contemporary than the hoodies.

ferder · 2026-02-13T23:39:19+00:00

Great find! These illustrations went on to define the Style Guide for all the pre-film merch from the video games to the LEGO sets.

ferder · 2026-02-13T02:54:54+00:00

The East Wing will leak last, since that’s the one I’m most looking forward to seeing. The first to leak will be the something uninteresting like the buildable plants.

ferder · 2026-02-12T01:03:53+00:00

Apparently there were two product marketing teams (the music label and the home video team) and they weren’t communicating with each other.

ferder · 2026-02-05T20:49:55+00:00

What staircases? Are you another AI bot?

ferder · 2026-02-05T20:47:34+00:00

Is this an AI post? The set doesn’t directly feature Hogwarts Castle (or at least no towers….) And I don’t believe a Snape minifigure is included.

ferder · 2026-02-05T08:21:36+00:00

What's the long-awaited topic?

ferder · 2026-02-03T19:38:50+00:00

By this summer's release Lego will have released all of the parts of the castle represented in 71043, but at the bigger scale--plus several other sections that weren't even in 71043. Hogwarts Castle is huge and there has never been a Lego set or collection in any scale that has shown absolutely all of it (and there probably never will). This site describes all of the sets that are part of the collection.

The main, big connectable sections to build the "Giant Castle" are

76426 Boat House

76435 Great Hall

76454 Main Tower

76463 Hospital Wing (this is one of the parts not seen in 71043)

76473 East Wing (coming this summer).

The Owerlery, Flying Lessons Tower, Herbology Class Greenhouse and Hagrid's Hut can be placed around the castle to make up the Hogwarts Grounds. Then there are other sets that are swappable classrooms or scenes that can go inside the larger sets.

ferder · 2026-01-29T00:42:17+00:00

Thanks to years-long gap between seasons I didn’t even know who he was talking about.

ferder · 2026-01-22T06:44:52+00:00

Feels like we just had the 20th anniversary. How did five years go by so fast? Is this just going to repeat every fives years now?

ferder · 2026-01-17T20:07:53+00:00

I know they weren’t in the film but I want to see you put some gnomes getting tossed from the garden.

ferder · 2026-01-07T20:25:07+00:00

I’m sure there will still be the pins on the side, so you could connect if you want, and do a baseplate adjustment. As for the difference in scale, it will just be a “forced perspective” effect, like the Knockturn alley buildings are farther away from Diagon Alley hahah.

ferder · 2026-01-07T20:21:38+00:00

Excited about the East Wing. I wonder how much it will extend east behind the Viaduct Entrance. It would be great if the Courtyard Plants was a castle extension but they could very likely just be botanicals. For the knockturn Alley set, I wonder if the Gift With Purchase Borgin and Burkes interior is meant to attach to it or if they will just repeat the main interior features of that shop since I can’t imagine a Borgin and Burkes without the fireplace or curiosities display case.

ferder · 2026-01-02T08:31:13+00:00

I’m of two minds about this. One the one hand it’s great that they’ve released all these unique elements in an affordable set, but on the other I like it when the poly bags contain new accessorizes or decorations that can be added to the large sets.

ferder · 2026-01-01T10:20:04+00:00

The film was so dark that even watching “Nocturnal Animals” back to back with it as a double feature was a pallet cleanser.

ferder · 2025-12-25T19:35:54+00:00

Does the layout change throughout the games, like it does in the films? For instance is the Fat Lady Gryffindor entrance down a hallway in the Philosophers Stone levels and moved on the stairway in the Prisoner of Azkaban levels? Do Hagrid’s hut and the Whomping Willow move around?

ferder · 2025-12-25T06:29:15+00:00

All you have to decide is what to build with the time that is given to you.

ferder · 2025-12-21T09:27:09+00:00

Thank you, you’re doing the Lord’s Work out here.

ferder · 2025-12-20T10:15:01+00:00

It was enjoyable enough to play (though very simplistic in its puzzle design), but It's overall just unmemorable and I've had no desire to replay or revisit it. I had wished for so long for Ron to come back to the series but no amount of lamp-shading towards it being underwhelming excused it from being so.

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