LEGO Harry Potter sets launching in June 2024
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on Alley, and Hagrid’s Hut, to beloved characters, creatures, and magical scenes that define the series. With a focus on both playability, displayability and some good LEGO investment potential, Harry Potter LEGOs continues to captivate and inspire, blending the lasting appeal of LEGO building with the attraction of the Harry Potter universe.
The 4 LEGO Harry Potter LEGO sets launching on the 1st of June 2024 that we are going to take an initial look at are; LEGO Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall (76435), LEGO Triwizard Tournament: The Arrival (76440), LEGO Ollivanders & Madam Malkin’s Robes (76439) and LEGO Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class (76431).
76435 LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall
The LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle: The Great Hall (76435) is the largest and most detailed LEGO brick model of the iconic Hogwarts Great Hall ever created with 1732 pieces. This set is packed with authentic details, including floating candles and an illusion of the enchanted sky. It also features a courtyard and a dungeon with a secret entrance, along with three detailed rooms – a bathroom, a corridor, and the Hufflepuff common room, each designed to slide out for easy play. The set includes 11 characters such as Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, Albus Dumbledore, and a mountain troll, plus 5 out of 14 collectible Hogwarts portraits for display. As part of a modular collection, this playset can connect with other LEGO Harry Potter sets to create the most detailed brick-built Hogwarts Castle scene ever.
76440 LEGO Harry Potter Triwizard Tournament: The Arrival
The LEGO Harry Potter Triwizard Tournament: The Arrival (76440) set features intricate models of the Durmstrang Ship and Beauxbatons Carriage, allowing fans to recreate the dramatic arrival of the tournament competitors at Hogwarts™. The ship includes a living area and sleeping quarters below deck for minifigures, while the 'flying' carriage, led by a stunning Abraxan figure, has space for two minifigures and a trunk at the back. This set includes five minifigures—Viktor Krum, Igor Karkaroff, Barty Crouch Sr., Madame Maxime, and Fleur Delacour—along with accessory elements like the Goblet of Fire™, Triwizard Cup, wands, and Igor’s sceptre.
76439 LEGO Harry Potter Ollivanders & Madam Malkin’s Robes
With 74 pieces, the LEGO Harry Potter Ollivanders & Madam Malkin's Robes set (76439) offers intricately detailed brick models of two famous Diagon Alley shops. Ollivanders includes wand racks, a ladder, and a removable box with Harry Potter's wand among 26 wands. Madam Malkin's features mannequins, hats, and cloak elements. The set comes with six minifigures: Harry Potter, Garrick Ollivander, Madam Malkin, Padma Patil, a wizard student, and a witch with a flower barrow.
76431 LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class
The LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Castle: Potions Class (76431) set features a detailed buildable classroom filled with authentic details. As part of a modular collection, this set can connect with other LEGO Harry Potter kits to create an expansive, detailed brick-built Hogwarts Castle scene. The set includes a blackboard with potion instructions, potion bottles, a cauldron, and other equipment to inspire creativity. The set also includes two collectible Hogwarts portraits and minifigures of Professor Severus Snape, Hermione Granger, Pansy Parkinson, and Seamus Finnigan.
Theme Analysis
The LEGO Harry Potter theme has been a very successful one, with over 150 sets having been released over the last 20+ years. From a LEGO investment perspective, it has been solid without being spectacular, delivering average LEGO investment returns of 10% a year, but within that there have been lots of successful LEGO investment sets that have produced solid returns over a long period, as well as some more recent sets that are showing encouraging signs having just retired. We took a look at some sets below.
LEGO Hagrids Hut (4754) retired nearly 20 years ago at the end of 2005 and has seen over 700% growth in that period, equating to annual average LEGO investment returns of 12%. LEGO Diagon Alley (10217) has more than doubled its RRP of $150 from when it retired at the end of 2012 (8% annualised growth).
LEGO Hogwarts has trebled in value since retiring at the end of 2012 from its $50 RRP to its current value at just over $150 (10% annualised growth) whilst more recently LEGO Quidditch Match (75956) has already had an uplift in value of 75% since retiring at the end of 2020 (18% annualised growth).
Conclusion
Whilst there are some great sets included in these launches, which look like they will make excellent builds, none of them are sets we would be recommending investing in currently. Despite LEGO Harry Potter being a solid LEGO investment theme, we are looking for blockbuster sets within this theme that are far closer to their retirement date than these newly launched LEGO Harry Potter sets. If you do want to buy to build then they are now available at LEGO.com.
Other LEGO Harry Potter Investment Sets
Whilst none of the new launches appeal as LEGO investments yet, there are plenty of LEGO Harry Potter sets retiring this year which you could consider as LEGO investments.
The LEGO Harry Potter sets retiring this year are:
Retiring in July
75969 LEGO Harry Potter Hogwarts Astronomy Tower
76388 LEGO Harry Potter Hogsmeade Village Visit
Retiring in December
40616 LEGO Harry Potter & Cho Chang
40617 LEGO Draco Malfoy & Cedric Diggory
40618 LEGO Kingsley Shacklebolt & Nymphadora Tonks
76389 LEGO Hogwarts Chamber of Secrets
76402 LEGO Hogwarts: Dumbledore’s Office
76405 LEGO Hogwarts Express – Collectors’ Edition
76407 LEGO The Shrieking Shack & Whomping Willow
76413 LEGO Hogwarts: Room of Requirement
76415 LEGO The Battle of Hogwarts
76420 LEGO Triwizard Tournament: The Black Lake
76422 LEGO Diagon Alley: Weasley’s Wizard Wheezes
76432 LEGO Forbidden Forest: Magical Creatures
