A quick reminder for those interested: the new edition of the LEGO Harry Potter Character Encyclopedia with the exclusive Rita Skeeter minifigure is now available.

The supplied minifig will allow you to populate the aisles of your set a little more 75978 Diagon Alley, a diorama that incorporates the entrance door to the premises of the Daily Prophet and which already allows to obtain the photographer of the newspaper.

This 200-page book which includes more than 200 minifigs from the LEGO Harry Potter range is currently in stock at Amazon, the French version will only hit the shelves on September 8:

LEGO Harry Potter Character Encyclopedia New Editi

20.60 €

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Lego Harry Potter, the Character Encyclopedia

24.95 €

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Forward for a new contest that will allow the luckiest of you to win a copy of the set 76423 Hogwarts Express & Hogsmeade Station (129.99 €) put into play for this time. On the program, 1074 parts to assemble a train with its locomotive, its coal wagon and its two passenger cars, a station, and a large handful of minifigs.

To validate your participation, as always, simply identify yourself via the interface below and follow the instructions provided. As usual, it is a question of finding information on the official online store and then answering the question correctly. At the end of the participation phase, the winner will be chosen by lot from the correct answers. Participation is free and without obligation to purchase.

Your contact details (name / nickname, email address, IP) are only used within the framework of this competition and will not be kept beyond the drawing of lots which will designate the winner. As usual, this no-obligation competition is open to all residents of mainland France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

The prize in play is generously provided by LEGO through the annual endowment allocated to all members of the LAN (LEGO Ambassador Network), it will be sent to the winner by me as soon as his contact details are confirmed by return email.

As always, I reserve the right to disqualify any participant who has attempted to defraud or hijack the entry system in order to increase their chances of winning. Hateful and bad losers to abstain, the others will have more chances to win.

For information: the name / nickname of the winner is displayed in the participation interface once the draw has been made. I also notify the winners by email, but remember to check anyway.

The LEGO Harry Potter set 76419 Hogwarts Castle & Grounds is now online at several retailers and it is therefore an opportunity to discover a little closer this new interpretation of Hogwarts whose inventory brings together 2660 pieces and which will be available from September 1, 2023 at the public price of 169.99 € .

The 35 cm long, 25 cm wide and 21 cm high model could have joined the LEGO Architecture range if it were not officially licensed by Harry Potter and it should easily find its audience among all those who do not want to encumber neither the modular playset composed of several boxes of the range currently available nor the imposing and much more expensive construction of the set 71043 Hogwarts Castle (469.99 €).

Update : the set is now online on the Shop.

76419 HOGWARTS CASTLE AND GROUNDS ON THE LEGO SHOP >>

It's June 1, 2023 and today LEGO is launching a very large handful of new products spread across many ranges. There is something for everyone and for all budgets with many sets, licensed or not. No promotional offer specific to this launch of new products, but you can still take advantage of the two offers currently in progress and valid at best until June 3:

From June 4, 2023, the LEGO theme bag 40607 Summer Fun VIP Add-On Pack will be offered to members of the VIP program from a purchase of €50.

Finally, be aware that a doubled VIP Points operation is scheduled for June 9 to 13, 2023, it is up to you whether it is better to obtain a small promotional product offered under condition of purchase or whether it is better to accumulate more. points to use a discount on a subsequent purchase.

As usual, it is therefore up to you to decide whether to crack without waiting by paying the full price for these boxes or whether to show a little patience and wait for the inevitable reductions that will be offered in the weeks and months to come at Amazon, on FNAC.com and at a few other resellers.

ALL NEWS FOR JUNE 2023 ON THE LEGO SHOP >>

(All links to the shop redirect to the version of the official shop for your country of connection)

The Japanese version of the official LEGO catalog for the second half of 2023 is available online at this address and it allows us to get some interesting visuals of new features planned for the second half of the year that still haven't been "officially" announced.

There will be something for everyone with new releases planned in the licensed LEGO ranges of Harry Potter, Marvel, Star Wars, Sonic the Hedgehog and Minecraft.

There will also be some new features in the Technic, CITY and Friends universes, not forgetting the traditional Advent calendars in the 2023 version.

For those who are reluctant to download the entire catalog in PDF format, I have extracted for you the best pages of this catalog which gather all these novelties. The visuals offered are only illustrations that do not reveal the full content of these products, but they are sufficient to get a first idea of ​​the content of these boxes to come. The public prices indicated above are provided as an indication according to the rumors of the moment.