A quick note to tell you about the 1st "LEGO Brick Fans" exhibition which will take place on December 1st and 2nd in Talence in Gironde.

Christophe "Bordolego", who is organizing this, needs you. So if you have something interesting to exhibit, that you want to share your passion and that you can consider moving to the South-West, hurry up to register to participate in this great premiere.

The organizing team will take care of making your life easier: Parking available, accommodation facilities, meal tickets, VIP invitations to the exhibitors' dinner organized by the town hall of Talence at the Château de Thouars, Talence souvenir brick 2012 and a few other surprises.

Places are limited, time flies and you have to decide quickly if you want to participate in this adventure where everything has been planned to welcome you in the best conditions. For more information, contact Christophe "Bordolego" by email at the following address: kitobenauge (at) hotmail.fr or via his site Brick firefighters.

(Click on the image above to access the entire poster)

The 3920 The Hobbit board game is officially available and while most of you are more interested in the coin inventory than the premise of the game itself, any fan of the Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit saga must have this box on a shelf ...

There are therefore 394 pieces, 4 microfigs (Gandalf the gray, Kili, Fili and Dwalin) and a classic LEGO dice. The public price of the box on the Lego shop is 34.99 € but you can quickly find this set a little cheaper on the different versions of Amazon in Europe. This reference has also been added to pricevortex.com, To Compare...

Do you dream of seeing one of your creations marketed as an exclusive set? Would you be proud to see that 20.000 LEGO customers will be able to afford the result of your efforts and assemble the 4x4 Crawler you designed? Then this contest is made for you ...

I was talking to you a few days ago of this new LEGO Technic challenge which will allow a talented MOCeur to become rich famous, at least the time of the marketing of this special set.

In summary, you need to create a skin for the chassis of the all-terrain vehicle in the set. 9398 4x4 Crawler. You have until December 31, 2012 to submit your project and a jury will establish a list of 10 finalists selected from all the proposed projects which will be unveiled on January 9, 2013. Then, you will have to vote, and that promises us a few weeks of intensive lobbying on the various forums specialized in the Technic universe, before the big winner is revealed on February 22, 2013. The final set will be officially launched and marketed on August 1, 2013.

I forgot, the 10 finalists will have to transfer all their intellectual property rights to LEGO. No matter how much I look, no royalties in sight, just the right to proclaim himself LEGO Designer of a jour set.

If this challenge interests you, go on the space dedicated to this competition.

Iron Man 3 is on track for a release in May 2013 and looking at this photo shoot I can't help but imagine the minifig version of these two characters: Iron Man with his armor in Mark XLVII and Iron Patriot version ... 

And if some LEGO adventure does not bring us these two versions, I would go to Christo which should not ignore these two armors and offer us two customs of his own ... In the meantime, I bring you a photo taken by myself (with a pseudo artistic effect) with the first customs that I had bought from Christo a few months ago ....

Since we are forced to wait patiently for LEGO to deign to show us something concrete about the continuation of the LEGO Super Heroes range, we have time to watch some brickfilms and savor the adventures of our favorite heroes brilliantly staged by a whole bunch of talented directors ....

Below are two brickfilms, the first one directed by Keshen8 (Custard Productions) and the second by Forrest Whaley alias forestfire101. To look at in order ...

(thanks to TheLegoAdrian in the comments)