Confusion around rumoured LEGO Harry Potter 2025 sets could go either way

31/07/202431/07/2024 Chris Wharfe 410 Views 0 Comments

The latest list of LEGO Harry Potter sets rumoured for 2025 includes two models that could each occupy one of two different price points – and there’s a fair argument to be made for both outcomes.

While the initial list of Wizarding World 2025 sets included 76442 Hogwarts Castle: Charms Class and 76443 Hagrid & Harry’s Motorcycle, a subsequent list of prices and piece counts from YouTuber JediJACPenguin has now suggested that either set number could belong to either model. That matters because there’s a pretty big gulf in size between the two rumoured LEGO Harry Potter sets.

76442 is said to include 204 pieces for $19.99, while 76443 is believed to come with 617 pieces for $49.99. That means we could be looking at a $20 motorcycle and $50 classroom, or a $20 classroom and a $50 motorcycle. At this stage and with one eye on the wider Wizarding World line-up, both of those alternate universes stand a reasonable chance of coming to pass.

$20 motorcycle, $50 classroom

Let’s start with what feels at face value like the most obvious direction for the LEGO Harry Potter theme. We’ve already seen the line deliver small vehicle sets at pocket-money prices in this year’s 76424 Flying Ford Anglia, so taking advantage of a smaller and cheaper set to do the same thing for Hagrid’s motorcycle seems like an easy win.

But given the bike is smaller than the Anglia, which the LEGO Group achieved well with only 165 pieces for $14.99, we’d surely need some sort of additional build to make up the shortfall. Maybe a small street build of Privet Drive? Or how about an extra couple of Harry minifigures on brooms to recreate the opening scene of the Deathly Hallows?

There are options to run with for sure, but let’s put a pin in the bike and move on to the classroom. LEGO Harry Potter has this year relaunched its modular Hogwarts yet again, starting with 76426 Hogwarts Castle Boathouse, 76430 Hogwarts Castle Owlery, 76431 Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class and 76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall. Check out all four of these sets in the table below.

LEGO set	Price	Pieces	Price-per-piece
76426 Hogwarts Castle Boathouse	$37.99	350	10.9 cents
76430 Hogwarts Castle Owlery	$44.99	364	12.4 cents
76431 Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class	$39.99	397	10.1 cents
76435 Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall	$199.99	1,732	11.5 cents

We’ve included their US price-per-piece ratios there for a significant reason: they are all relatively expensive, each and every one coming in at more than 10 cents per piece. On the other hand, 76443 currently has a price-per-piece ratio of around 8.1 cents per piece. That seems suspiciously cheap for a new addition to the LEGO Hogwarts system compared to the rest.

But stranger things have happened, and perhaps a Charms class wouldn’t need or use anywhere near as many new pieces as (for example) 76431 Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class, which has allowed the LEGO Group to keep the price a little more reasonable. Maybe it only includes a handful of minifigures. Who knows? Again, there are ways that this configuration could work.

It’s also worth noting that the current Hogwarts setup is built on a rocky foundation in a way the previous two modular systems weren’t, or at least to a greater extent than the 2021 format, which means we’re going to need more of that terrain built out across subsequent sets. Devoting a bunch of smaller pieces to a platform on which the classroom sits could be a good way to bulk things out without increasing the price too drastically.

And with another small Hogwarts Castle section apparently already on the way in 76441 Hogwarts Castle: The Dueling Club, it would make sense for this classroom to set its sights a little higher, slotting between The Dueling Club and 76447 Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lesson. But even in the writing of this argument, it does feel like the other scenario is perhaps a little more likely overall.

$20 classroom, $50 motorcycle

2021’s 76385 Hogwarts Moment: Charms Class.

“Okay,” we hear you say, “if the LEGO Group needs to conjure up some magic to make a motorcycle work at $20, how is it going to justify a $50 set?” And to you we say: remember that the LEGO Harry Potter theme is more than just minifigures. For the past few years, almost every wave of Wizarding World sets has included at least one model that jettisons minifigure scale in favour of a buildable character or object.

January 2025 is already said to be breaking from the mould with a large microscale Diagon Alley, but beyond that every other set will apparently revolve around minifigures. Except… what if Hagrid’s motorcycle is actually a mid-range display piece, fulfilling a similar purpose to 76427 Buckbeak and 76433 Mandrake?

That would explain the relatively generous price-to-piece ratio for 76433, given brick-built characters and objects generally have a more favourable number of elements for the price (especially when those parts are pretty small, as in 76427 Buckbeak, which includes 723 pieces for just $59.99). Whether the LEGO Group can pull off a reasonable recreation of Hagrid’s motorbike and sidecar with 617 pieces is a trickier question to answer.

There’s also the question of whether such a set might include brick-built versions of Hagrid and Harry, or whether the LEGO Harry Potter team thinks an unmanned motorbike is iconic enough to sell all on its own. But we wouldn’t be surprised to see Hagrid’s magical motorcycle filling the slot it was originally rumoured to, even with a heftier price tag than you might first have expected.

This scenario would leave the door open to a $20 Charms classroom, which would be relatively straightforward for the designers to pull off – if a little unambitious in size and scope. But it would likely need to fit into the wider Hogwarts system in a way that none of the current sets do, so exactly what it might look like is anyone’s guess for now.

On balance, the possibility of a brick-built motorcycle feels like a stronger fit for the rumoured price and piece count of 76433, but a $50 classroom also feels easier to imagine than a $20 classroom, so… this really could go either way. Sound off your predictions for these two rumoured LEGO Harry Potter sets in the comments, and check out the table below for a full round-up of next year’s slate as things stand. (Remember that nothing here is confirmed until officially revealed, though.)

LEGO Harry Potter sets rumoured for 2025

LEGO set	Price	Pieces	Release date
76441 Hogwarts Castle: The Dueling Club	$24.99	158	January 1, 2025
76442 Hogwarts Castle: Charms Class / Hagrid’s Bike & Sidecar	$19.99	204	January 1, 2025
76443 Hogwarts Castle: Charms Class / Hagrid’s Bike & Sidecar	$49.99	617	January 1, 2025
76444 Diagon Alley: Wizarding Shops	$199.99	2,750	January 1, 2025
76446 The Knight Bus	$49.99	499	January 1, 2025
76447 Hogwarts Castle: Flying Lesson	$79.99	651	January 1, 2025
76453 Malfoy Manor	$149.99	1,601	January 1, 2025

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I like to think of myself as a journalist first, LEGO fan second, but we all know that’s not really the case. Journalism does run through my veins, though, like some kind of weird literary blood – the sort that will no doubt one day lead to a stress-induced heart malfunction. It’s like smoking, only worse. Thankfully, I get to write about LEGO until then.