Leaderboard

Agreed. Or they should have just given us Gringotts Bank with a dragon on top (from HP7), around the 300$ mark. That would have been an almost guaranteed hit. Everyone who owns Diagon Alley would want it, and if the building was modular (either on 32x32 studs or on 32x48 studs like Assembly Square), they could also target that AFOL audience who collect modular buildings.

For those that can use the Military Exchange, two retired sets are now listed. MSRP. No limits displayed. DB5 (10262) - https://www.shopmyexchange.com/lego-creator-expert-james-bond-aston-martin-db5-model-10262/1796429?_requestid=1276793 Corner Garage (10264) - https://www.shopmyexchange.com/lego-expert-corner-garage-playset/1796419

Tells you what the audience is. Gringotts, MoM etc would be 2nd or 3rd sets. The train will be appealing to first time customers and well-off parents looking for a big present. I

As Design Lead heading into fulltime Design Master. He is still working at LEGO which is nice.

I think honestly they could have cut the "station" entirely to make the train more impressive. I actually think the biggest mistake they made was including so many lame mini-figs and not including more of the book 7 epilogue mini figs. Going for scenes rather one common thread was stupid imo. I'm an avid HP collector, and own most modern HP sets, and even I'm having a tough time justifying $500 on this one. Be damned the piece count - It's 100$ too much given what we got.

Walmart has LEGO Luke Skywalker's Landspeeder 75341 for pre 8/1/22 price of $199.99