I don't even know why I'm bothering to talk about it here because it's been a long time since I decided to spend my money on the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit ranges exclusively for minifigs. The walls, the spiders and the boats that do not float do not excite me for a second ...

In short, all this to tell you that LEGO is continuing its teasing on the mini-site dedicated to The Hobbit range with the set 79001 Escape from Mirkwood Spiders.

To hell with spiders and mushrooms, all that interests me here are the 4 minifigs of this set sold 29.99 € at amazon.de : Fili, Kili, Legolas Greenleaf and Tauriel.

I wonder what Legolas is doing in the middle of this set, but this brave Peter Jackson has decided so and LEGO must join the cause.

Orlando Bloom will undoubtedly ensure brilliantly the quota "Handsome kid to attract young girls who adore the young blond boy with pointy earss ".

I am obviously the first to take advantage of the good deals or promotional operations that I publish here.

But I do little infidelity to amazon, and I'm starting to believe that I had better continue to stick with the online sales giant that has never let me down.

The LEGO Star Wars 3in1 Super Pack reference 66431 is available at the rather decent price of 39.99 € on auchan.fr. So I relay the info on the blog and I place my order on the site of the French merchant, telling me that everything should be fine.

43.99 € later (including 4 € for shipping), everything is fine. I await the delivery.

A few days later, the package arrives. And it doesn't contain the right product. Instead of my long-awaited Super Pack, I am stuck with a 9493 X-Wing Starfighter which I don't really need. Full of good feelings, I tell myself that the error is human and that it is enough to know how to repair it. I therefore contacted the after-sales service.

And here is the drama. The Auchan.fr after-sales service does not seem to understand that I received the wrong product and that I would like to receive the correct one. I am asked to return the product I no longer want at my expense, promising me a refund by check within three weeks. I insist, I call back, I explain, I explain again and I call back, and I end up telling me that the redelivery of the good product is not possible and that the shipping costs will be reimbursed to me if I return an original proof of the return shipping cost paid by me by separate mail.

However, it is not for lack of having explained to Hortense, Mélanie and their customer service friends that I am the victim of an error on their part and that I just want to get my Super Pack. Nothing will do. The procedure is inflexible. At auchan.fr we do not know how to replace a product. It is up to the customer to return his box and wait for his money. As in the good old days of La Redoute.

In short, amazon has nothing to worry about, the French merchants (I assure you, auchan.fr is not the only one to manage its after-sales service in such an archaic way, I gave elsewhere ...) and their procedures from another time can not compete.

For comparison, my last concern with amazon goes back a few weeks, when after having received a package containing encylopédies LEGO Batman The Visual Dictionary who had taken a little water, amazon immediately proceeded to a new dispatch without even waiting for the return of the damaged works, carried out at their expense.

You've had issues with an online merchant while shopping for LEGO, feel free to share your experiences in the comments.

Ah, I forgot, if someone comes across this Super pack reference 66431 in an Auchan store near his home, let him contact me, I pay him the product, the shipping costs, the box and all with smile....

Since we are talking about advertising for derivative products, the channel Gulli announces the release of a new LEGO Friends cartoon tomorrow, November 7 at 10:40 am.

The opportunity for all those who love this range and its universe to discover the adventures of Olivia and her friends.

Here is the promising pitch of this cartoon:
"The day before the Festiv'Animal, a dog, Scarlet, arrives at the veterinary clinic of Olivia's aunt. The dog runs away and ruins all the preparations. Olivia would like to make new friends but with the stupid things of this dog, it's not won!
Find out how Olivia will befriend Stéphanie, Emma, ​​Mia & Andréa…"

The end of the year will be eventful: Since the takeover of Lucasfilm by Disney, rumors are rife and in all areas.

What is glaring is that the announcement of a new trilogy has just revived for many years the industry of rumor, of declaration "off", mysterious tweet or a priori secret projects whose leaks are cleverly organized.

First rumor: Harrisson ford would be open to the idea of ​​reprising Han Solo in the next trilogy, sources say "well placed"and more or less well informed. 

Probably not during the three films, but a small role with a big check in the company of Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher could certainly suit him.

Obviously, Ford will wait to have the script in his hands and to know the name of the director chosen by Disney before getting more involved in the project and reincarnating on the screen a character who has not necessarily marked him in his acting career: He admitted in 2010 that he had no particular affection for this role of smuggler of the galaxy.

At the rate things are going, the idea that Hamill, Fisher and Ford resume their roles, even for a few minutes as the introduction of a new saga, is no longer so absurd ...
(Source: EW.com)

The other rumor of the day concerns the discussions that are said to be currently underway between Disney et Hasbro for a possible takeover of the toy maker by the entertainment giant.

Nothing is done, but this merger would allow Disney to have access to very profitable licenses like Transformers, Beyblade or GI Joe.

This operation would once again feed the theory to which I adhere and which wants films and other TV series to be nothing more than gigantic advertisements promoting the ranges of products derived from these universes.

Not that this systematically devalues ​​all the works in question, but it necessarily impacts their creative process depending on the projects of the toy manufacturer concerned. More than ever, the life and profitability of a movie is no longer just about cinema admissions and Blu-ray sales.

Georges Lucas had already understood several decades ago that this process was going to be reversed: Han Solo could have died at the end of the saga, but it was too difficult to sell figurines of a dead character ...

(Source: mtv geek)

It seems that the list of the series 9 minifigs released a few days ago by The Daily Brick is confirmed: The visual above appears on one of the pages of the Polish LEGO Club Magazine (published by Noriart on his flickr gallery) and we can think that it is the minifig of Dr. Splitz present in this list ...

As a reminder, here is the list of minifigs announced by the site in question: