If you do not follow the animated series, take a few minutes to read these few lines about the panel The Clone Wars which took place during the Comic Con in San Diego, the next sets based on this universe will follow without any doubt the scenarios and the characters that will be developed there.

First of all, we learn that the first episode of season 5 will be previewed during the Celebration VI. Season 5 will pick up where Season 4 left off: With Darth Maul.

Dave Filoni, the director of the series, announces that Darth Maul will not remain the berserk we saw in the last episodes of season 4. His exorcism by Mother talzin, leader of the clan of Nightsisters on Dathomir, will allow him to regain his senses and especially to become Darth Maul again the war machine that we all know.

During season 5, Darth Maul will prove to be a Sith aware of his powers and capable of the worst tactics. Savage opress will be around and will have a hard time understanding his brother's intentions.

On season 5, many screenwriters already known for their work on various series will be at work: Chris Collins (The Wire, Sons of Anarchy), Christian Taylor (Six Feet Under, Lost), Brent Friedman (Gemini Division, Dark Skies), Charles Murray (Castle, V, Criminal Minds) and Matt Michnovetz (24, Star Wars 1313).

Season 5 will also explore the tumultuous relationship between Anakin et padme. Anakin is younger than her, brash, and sometimes displays a very childish demeanor. Padme is more mature, more thoughtful. After all, she is a Senator.

Obi-Wan will take a break this season, but we are promised to explain to us why he lives alone in the desert. Ahsoka will be very present during season 5, his character will expand further. lux bonteri will also be very present.

Pre Vizsla will get closer to its origins and its warrior culture during this season 5 and bo-katan will also return after his brief appearance in season 4. Dave Filoni denied Fett's presence in season 5 and confirmed that Bo-Katan was created to satisfy the female community of fans of the series.

Matt Michnovetz writes an episode centered around a Clone Commando, which will also be the only Clone Commando present this season. During this 5th season, little new armor will be present.

Grand Moff Tarkin will also be very present during this new season, and we will see him gradually take control of the military forces of the Republic, leaving the Jedi to their role of peacekeepers. 

This is what came out of this panel The Clone Wars, summarized by Pablo Hidalgo for the official Star Wars blog, and of which I have taken the most striking elements here.

So this San Diego Comic Con 2012 comes to an end and it's time to take stock of what LEGO has offered us so we can salivate and start saving for 2013.

First of all, we must recognize in LEGO its ability to maintain the buzz. Each piece of information, no matter how small, has been the subject of dozens of articles on various blogs or sites dealing with LEGO news, including my own blogs of course. The smallest bit of minifig, exclusive poster or tin can generated reports throughout the LEGOsphere. FBTB was the main actor in the media coverage of the event. All the information, exclusives, images were provided by them, almost in real time. Everyone else, including myself, was suspended from their reports to relay the information in our turn. It's very frustrating, but it's better than nothing.

To remember this year:

About the range LEGO Star Wars, a little disappointment. We had to be content with Rancor Pit, modular addition to the set 9516 Jabba's Palace released this year. The Rancor figurine is nice, the idea of ​​completing Jabba's palace is great. And that's all. The exclusive set Darth Maul's Mini Sith Infiltrator in the form of a metal box sold for $ 40 at Comic Con including some parts and the Darth Maul The Clone Wars in polybag was enough to fuel the buzz and fill the home pages.

Range Lego super heroes also benefited from minimum service. No sets, no shattering announcement, just twenty minifigs, successful certainly, but which confirm that LEGO is betting on the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, and which seem to indicate that we will perhaps be entitled to some tasty sets in the universe The Dark Knight (Bane) or Arkham Asylum. but nothing officially confirmed. It took 4 exclusive minifigs (Bizarro, Phoenix, Shazam, Black spidey) to stir up spirits around their ultra-limited mintage, the possibility that these minifigs will never be released in volume in future sets, and the exorbitant price tag asked on eBay by the luckiest visitors to the show.

On the side of the range Lord of the Rings / The Hobbit, only one set was officially presented: The Hobbit: Bag End. We also discovered some minifigs from The Hobbit range scheduled for December 2012. No additional information regarding a second Lord of the Rings wave. I think LEGO is going to switch to the universe of The Hobbit, and that the sets based on the LOTR trilogy were just an introduction that will not be followed by new references. But I could be wrong. Here again the buzz has been expertly maintained with a minifigure delivered in a collector's version in a mini jute bag.

On the side of the range Ninjago, nothing very exciting, except a preview of the second season from the animated series based on this universe.

In the end, we talked a lot about LEGO, from 2013, but we didn't necessarily discover much concrete. Apart from the pieces of plastic presented, everything else is pure speculation on the part of the community. Everyone has their own predictions, with The Dark Knight sets in spades or an Arkham UCS asylum ...

Next step, Celebration VI which will take place August 23-26, 2012 in Orlando, Florida. LEGO is expected to unveil other 2013 novelties there. New York Comic-Con 2012 from October 11 to 14, 2012 (I will be there in the flesh, but I will talk to you about it again) with there also new revelations expected on the manufacturer's flagship ranges.

More and more of you are coming to the blog via Google looking for information about the LEGO Store in Saarbrücken (or Saarbrücken). It is indeed the closest official store for us French (and again, not for everyone ...) and the ninth opened in Germany.

So, to summarize, it has been open since February 24, 2012, you will also find photos of the inauguration on the website of the Fanabriques association.

The exact address of the store located in a pedestrian area is as follows: Bahnhofstraße 77 66111 Saarbrücken. The nearest car park is located at Sulzbachstrasse. If you can't find it, see the storefront photo above.

The opening hours indicated on the dedicated page of the official LEGO website are as follows: Monday to Saturday 10am to 00pm.

Do not expect aggressive prices, the store mainly charges the brand's public prices, except for special promotions.

FBTB has also published its photos of the LEGO Star Wars Rancor Pit set unveiled at Comic Con.

I have chosen two for you, the first shows us the Rancor from a closer perspective and the second reveals the mechanism that allows you to drop the gate of the Rancor lair.

No idea of ​​the price yet, FBTB is putting a price up to $ 59 but not officially confirmed, and the release date is set for January 2013. 

For the rest, go to the FBTB flickr gallery. 

And someone at YodaNews.com had to say to himself that we had to stop massacring photos with a terrible watermark in the middle.
So, yes the photos do come from their homes, yes we quote them, yes we thank them. But there is no need to add more by embedding their watermark anywhere. 

So here are a few more views of the Rancor Pit, which don't tell us much more. I'm amazed that LEGO didn't stage this set with the 9516 Jabba's Palace on the show. Maybe that will be the case during the official presentation with the press release presenting the "many" features of the set.