At Marvel, we have a sense of marketing: The countdown to October 22, the date of the official release of the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes video game in the USA, has been launched.

Each day, Marvel will unveil the visual of a new character from the game among the 140 announced.

It's Black Bolt (or Black Arrow), the electron manipulator created by Stan Lee & Jack Kirby, that opens the festivities with the visual above. The minifigure is simply superb ...

Note that the game will not be released in France until November 15. You can still pre-order the special version accompanied by the Iron Patriot polybag on amazon uk (Click here).

For fans of the Ninjgao range, here are some new official images of the following 2014 sets:

70720 Hover Hunter (incl. Cole, Nindroid)

70724 Ninja Copter (incl. Zane, Pixal, 2 x Nindroids)

70725 Nindroid MechDragon (incl. Sensei Garmadon, Evil Wu, Lloyd, 2 x Nindroids).

As is already the case for the other sets of the range announced for 2014 (70721 Kai Fighter, 70722 OverBorg Attack et 70723 Thunder Raider), it's colorful and it should appeal to fans of the range and to the youngest.

We had already been able to discover the set 79013 Lake Town Chase of the next wave of the LEGO The Hobbit range last July during the San Diego Comic Con : 334 pieces and 5 minifigs (Bilbo Baggins, Thorin Oakenshield, Bard, The Master of Lake Town and a Lake Town Guard).

Here are the official visuals of this set above and even if the size of the images is modest, we discover the splendid dressing of the boxes of this second wave of The Hobbit sets.

Otherwise, speculation is rife about the content of the other three sets. Someone saw the preliminary images, they were blurry, and he gives some leads:

79011 Dol Guldur Ambush : 3 minifigs including 2 orcs and a red haired soldier (Beorn?), Accompanied by what appears to be a gray "rock".

79012 Mirkwood Elf Army : 442 pieces and 6 minifigs: 2 orcs, 3 elves and a "king" of the elves (Thranduil?). The whole is accompanied by a tree in Tan, Dark Tan et Brown.

79014 Dol Guldur Battle : 6 minifigs and a construction that looks like the door of the set 79007 Battle at the Black Gate : Gandalf is confirmed, the rest is only the fruit of guesses (Radagast, Azog, Bolg, Necromancer, Witch King, etc ...).

In bulk, the latest info about the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes game:

- Following the publication of the movie poster in LEGO style, Warner Bros. has confirmed the existence of a DLC Pack "Asgard"which will allow the incarnation of 8 characters present in the film Thor: The Dark World. The list of characters concerned has not been communicated.

- It's confirmed, there will be no Wii version of the game, only the following platforms will have this title: PC, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Wii U, PS3, PS4, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Vita . 

- It will not be possible to play three on the Wii U version (two players in split screen and one on the gamepad) contrary to the rumors which announced this possibility.

- The maxifig of Venom has finally been integrated into the game following the urgent demand of the fans, some of whom have even launched an online petition on change.org in an attempt to convince Arthur Parsons, the Game Manager at TT Games, to add this figurine to the game.

Below is a new gameplay video from the game around Times Square and the Baxter Building.

here's one microphone-MOC which deserves a wink here. Found on Brickshelf (In Gallery de YU, but I am not sure that he is the author of this MOC), this reproduction of Pillars of the Kings or Gates of Argonath seen in the first installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, immediately caught my eye of fans of compact but detailed MOCs ...

Well done to the creator, it's brilliant.