You'll have to get used to it, with the San Diego Comic Con opening its doors next week and the hundred or so characters announced, the LEGO Super Heroes video game will be talked about a lot.

I am not looking forward to this game as much as the possible minifigs of the characters that LEGO will deign to market. Whatever technical innovations the game will benefit from, we can already predict that it will be about beating baddies / collecting coins / opening doors / turning cranks / building bridges / solving simplistic puzzles, etc. All the usual ingredients which make the success of these games but which I nevertheless got a little bored with the different versions released in recent years. Destroying everything with the Hulk or making Iron Man fly won't be enough to stand in front of my console for very long this fall, but I will.

It is via the official LEGO blog from the section dedicated to video games we learn that Victor Creed alias Sabretooth (The other mutant with claws brilliantly embodied by Liev Schreiber in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and also present in the first installment of the X-Men saga under traits of Tyler Mane) will be one of the countless playable characters (in free play) of the game. The mutant, whose only image available is the visual above, will be one of the villains to beat in the last level of the game. 

Granted, this isn't the scoop of the century or the most essential character on our minifig displays, but it's a good start.

The pace of announcing the various playable characters is expected to pick up next week at the Marvel panel at San Diego Comic Con where the game will take pride of place.

For lack of anything better at the moment, here is the final design of the cover of the highly anticipated video game LEGO Marvel Super Heroes. Part of the Avengers tribe (Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk and Black Widow), Wolverine, Spider-Man, The Silver Surfer as well as three of the Fantastic 4 team members (The Thing, Human Torch and Mr Fantastic ) are present on this visual.

To be honest, I have a bad feeling about the exclusive minifigs for the next two Comic Con (San Diego and New York) ...

The game is currently on preorder from amazon (Click here) with a release date in France set for November 20, 2013.

At Marvel, we are already preparing the onlooker for the next episode of Captain America, soberly titled "The Winter Soldier"and whose theatrical release is scheduled for April 4, 2014. The film should logically hit the mark with the help of Chris Evans in the title role.

So here is a little poster that puts us (or not) in the mood with this shield which obviously served to gut the villain by buckets and which in the process lost its colors.

Hopefully the LEGO designers have had access to some artworks of the film, even preliminary, and a few boards from storyboard to prepare us one or two boxes.

I know that consistency between the contents of the LEGO boxes and the movies they are inspired by isn't the top priority for most fans, but if the manufacturer could avoid straying too far from benchmark material like this? is the case with the Iron Man 3 range, I would very much appreciate it. Especially since LEGO has shown with the Man of Steel mini-range its ability to respect the universe of the films concerned. I know this consistency doesn't just depend on LEGO, but an effort would be welcome.

At the moment, nothing indicates that the film will be translated into minifigs accompanied by a few pieces, but with Disney at the helm, I dare to believe that LEGO will be in the loop ... Cape Town's new outfit will not be available as an exclusive limited edition minifigure at an upcoming Comic Con. The character deserves better than that.

We take more and we start again: After Prince of Persia (John Carter was not declined in LEGO sauce ...), here is the other cinematic fiasco that should delight LEGO fans concerned about reducing their budget devoted to ABS plastic products: The Lone Ranger, a film by Gore Verbinski, with Johnny Depp as headliner and with a pharaonic budget of $ 250 million, does not fill theaters and only displays just over 48 million dollars in first week revenue where Despicable Me 2 grossed over $ 140 million over the same period.

Disney will recover from this failure, no doubt about it. LEGO too, of course. On the other hand, it is now almost certain that The Lone Ranger will not benefit from a sequel and by extension we can guess that LEGO will stop the production of products derived from the film.

Sales figures six LEGO boxes inspired by The Lone Ranger universe will inevitably be impacted by the film's commercial fiasco. Some argue that this impact will be lessened by the film's western theme, whose return to a LEGO version was eagerly awaited by fans and which still works with the youngest if we are to believe the sales figures of equivalent products developed by Playmobil. . It is possible, but it will not be enough to make the LEGO The Lone Ranger range commercial success.

Two immediate consequences for LEGO fans: A very correct availability of boxes already on sale and a guarantee of long-term sales on the remaining stocks in the weeks and months to come, reactivity being required when the risk of slump occurs. profile on the horizon.

LEGO had obviously bet on the success of the film and had launched this mini-range with great fanfare with expertly distilled teasers, reviews ordered on the most influential sites, etc ... But the main sales medium of these six LEGO boxes remains unquestionably the film. And if it does not fill the rooms, the alert is raised.

If you are fans of the western theme, be patient, we should quickly see clearance offers at knockdown prices on the six boxes concerned, as was the case in the past with boxes from the Prince of Persia range.

Disney may not win every time, but between Avengers 2 & 3 and the restart of the Star Wars saga, the accounts should very quickly be rebalanced. For their part, LEGO fans can rub their hands while waiting to be able to afford the products of The Lone Ranger range. The money saved will be used to pay for the Star Wars licensed boxes to come ...

You can find the entire LEGO The Lone Ranger range on pricevortex.com, amazon Spain currently practices very attractive prices on these boxes ...

79106 Cavalry Builder Set	-	-	-	-	-	14.99 €
79107 Comanche Camp	-	-	-	-	-	29.99 €
79108 Stagecoach Escape	-	-	-	-	-	49.99 €
79109 Colby City Showdown	-	-	-	-	-	59.99 €
79110 Silver Mine Shootout	-	-	-	-	-	79.99 €
79111 Constitution Train Chase	-	-	-	-	-	99.99 €

Below, the next custom minifig Super Heroes proposed by David Hall alias Solid Brix Studios : Green Arrow.

The minifigure, created by HJ Media Studios, is really successful and the 3D rendering presented is simply superb.

But, because there is a but, I bought a minifigure in the past in the shop of Solid Brix Studios, in this case his Iron Patriot (See this article), and I was a little disappointed with the final rendering because of the printing technique used (Digital printing) which gives a result which is absolutely not comparable with that obtained in pad printing (Pad printing).

I will therefore wait to see the first pictures of the future buyers of this new custom to decide whether or not I spend a few tens of dollars to add this visually very attractive minifig to my collection.