You know what I think of Jabba's palace in the set 9516 Jabba's Palace : The palace looks more like a maid's room in the 12th arrondissement than the den of the foul villain whose figurine is otherwise exceptional.

LEGO may have come to the same conclusion and is running a contest where participants can win gift cards worth $ 100. You just have to build an extension to this palace, take a picture of it and mail it back to the address given. Don't get carried away, the contest seems open only to Americans.

Evil tongues will join me in thinking that LEGO has held back the complaints of some fans about the stingy side of this palace, and wants to know what fans are dreaming of to expand it a bit via a complementary set, or two ... The others will see it only as a lambda competition intended for the youngest. Everyone has his point of view.

Hopefully an inspired fan will suggest a pit at Rancor, just to send a subliminal request to LEGO on the expectations of some of us ...

The scan of the LEGO magazine page was provided by AC pin, that he be thanked.

No surprise with the arrival of the LEGO Lord of the Rings range on the French Lego Shop : The prices are very high ... It's nonsense, all those who already regretted the disappearance of the Kingdoms range in favor of this new license have only their eyes to cry.

Public prices are excessive, judge instead:

9469 Gandalf Arrives €14.99
9470 Shelob Attacks €26.99
9471 Uruk-Hai Army €39.99
9472 Attack on Weathertop €62.99
9473 The Mines of Moria €84.99
9474 The Battle Of Helm's Deep 149.99 €
9476 The Orc Forge €49.99

Obviously, it's not LEGO's role to devalue its product by slashing the prices, but what image do these prices convey to fans? 

In short, you will therefore understand that it is better to get these sets elsewhere than at LEGO, the VIP program will not help pass the pill ... You can alwayss you decide to order your sets in Germany where the prices are still much more realistic with regard to the number of mnifigs / pieces per set ...

We already know almost everything about this set scheduled for August 2012 and which will allow us to add three very successful minifigs to our superhero collections. Here are some official visuals offered by GRogall.

And apart from the minifigs, the rest of the (play) set doesn't get me too excited. Another lab, with a small vehicle equipped with flick fire missiles and two or three functions to ensure the playability alibi.

But LEGO must have achieved excellent results with previous playsets in the Super Heroes range like the 6860 The Batcave or 6868 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout, to insist and offer us exactly the same type of set ...

Side minifigs, nothing to say, I love the Spider-Man in Ultimate version, Iron Fist will go very well with his other a little more famous friends, and even if Doc Ock looks fake Harry Potter with his glasses, I m 'would be satisfied.

Confirmation just arrived via Brickset and Kevin Hinkle: There will be many exclusive minifigs at San Diego Comic Con 2012 (SDCC) and New York Comic Con 2012 (NYCC), as was the case last year with Batman, Green Lantern and Superman minifigs. This also confirms the presence of LEGO on these two events.

And the first exclusive 2012 minifigure we know of is Shazam's unveiled by   ksitetv.com :  ... Join ever-informed, fancentric WAC Podcast hosts George Feltenstein, Matthew Patterson, and DW Ferranti as they give fans a look at the upcoming DVD release of the popular 1970s series Shazam! The series' own Billy Batson, Michael Gray, will be on hand, and an exclusive, limited-edition Shazam! Lego figure will be awarded to a lucky number of fans in attendance ...

Kevin Hinkle (North American Community Coordinator for LEGO Group) explicitly posted on the Brickset forum : ... There will be exclusive! 🙂 The LEGO Group will have an official presence at both San Diego and New York Comic Con this year ...

Like last year, these minifigs will apparently be distributed randomly via a raffle. We will have to wait for their availability on eBay or Bricklink to get them at an undoubtedly unreasonable price ...

Summer has barely started that we find already on eBay the much overrated R2-D2 in snowman mode (Snowman) which will be delivered in the next Advent calendar: LEGO Star Wars 9509 Advent Calendar 2012.

Available between 10 and 20 €, this droid still looks a bit tart with its two carrots ... But as this will certainly be the only opportunity to get this version, it will absolutely be necessary to offer yourself (or to be offered ) this set to make sure you have a complete collection of astromech droids ...

If you are allergic to carrots, you can always treat yourself to the totally white version below pompously called prototype and currently offered by a german seller for € 7 ...