There are the MOCeurs who create according to their inspiration, their budget and their attention to detail without taking into account the technical and commercial constraints that LEGO imposes on itself to design its official sets and there are the others ... Those who try to produce MOCs by trying to respect the usual codes of the manufacturer in terms of price / content ratio, finish and marketing / financial compromise ...

Nuju Metru has embarked on an ambitious project that began long before the official announcement of the LOTR range by LEGO: To propose a series of MOCs, or rather alternative sets, which could form a range of products marketed by the manufacturer. The result is astonishing: We find the spirit of the sets in the range System, with its ends of walls, its pieces of places and its functionalities intended to bring the essential playability to the whole.

Each of the six sets is skillfully thought out and very well done. We find there the usual techniques of the manufacturer with the obvious choices that must be made to ensure a certain commercial realism.

Some will find these MOCs disappointing because of their simplicity, but this style exercise should not be viewed as a simple attempt to create micro scenes in the universe of Lord of the Rings. The sacrifices that are made here have obviously been well thought out.

To discover all the sets of this parallel range, go to the flickr gallery by Nuju Metru. It's full of great shots featuring these mini scenes that all compare to the official LEGO Lord of the Rings range.

He is the type to whom we must complain or congratulate depending on the case because he is the origin of several sets of the LEGO Super Heroes 2012 range (DC Universe & Marvel).

To his credit : 6858 Catwoman Catcycle City Chase, 6860 The Batcave, 6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City or the latest news from the Marvel range with sets 6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle et 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle.

Originally from Portugal and member of LUG Lusitanien 0937 Community since 2008 he joined Billund in October 2010 as a Designer.

Do not hesitate to visit his flickr gallery, he presents his work and comments on each image with some behind-the-scenes information on the design of these sets he worked on.

His blog: http://marcosbessa.blogspot.com/
His space MOCpages
Sa flickr gallery 

There are guys who spend their time as best they can and others who watch them ... tested.com, the brilliant idea that came to the two friends of the video is the following: Et si on balait un SSD (10221 Super Star Destroyer) against the Death Star (10188 Death Star) just to see ? (and to create some buzz)

The experience is not really conclusive especially when the guy who aims the Death Star with the SSD is a stick ... I'll let you watch, it's edifying ...

Well, after all, there is no breakage, it's LEGO ...

LEGO continues relentlessly uploading presentations long awaited minifigs from the Lord of the Rings range. On the menu these days, Gollum, that I had shamefully forgotten, a Nazgal ou ringwraith and Uruk-hai. 

The more I see these 3D renderings, the more I tell myself that in the end, all this teasing is very well organized to make customers' mouths water. Between the mini sites, video animations, 3D renderings, catalogs and box design, LEGO knows how to highlight its products, at the risk of creating a kind of general mini-disappointment when unpacking the set.  

If we look in detail at the visuals of the boxes of the Lord of the Rings range (This is also valid for the other ranges), we quickly realize that the substance of the staging has a lot to do with the staging. value of plastic. Once on the shelves of your favorite stores, attracted by these ultra-luscious visuals, you buy a staging, with all its possibilities, and its part of dreams ...

But admit that the Mines of Moria on the living room table with its pretty red and white checkered tablecloth or Helm's Deep on the blue low-pile carpet in the bedroom, it immediately makes you feel worse ...

In short, marketing is obviously king, and over the months of cleverly conducted teasing, a product is visually printed in its most idealized form.

Unpacking the long-awaited set is a bit like a hangover after an evening of drunkenness: It's hard and sometimes we regret having committed some excess ....

Moreover, this is my question of the day: Have you ever been frankly disappointed after buying a set and waiting for more, without really knowing what, than the few bits of plastic it contains?

Let's go for a new series of very good quality visuals of minifigs and sets from the next wave of LEGO Super Heroes Marvel.

The whole gets better at the rate of the publication of images and Iron Man could even manage to convince me ....

On the other hand, it is also confirmed that I will save myself space by buying only the minifigs of this range .... I would gladly do without this helicopter, this pick-up and this pseudo-base of Hulk .... and I'm not even talking about motorcycles ....

Special mention for Black Widow who is beautiful ...

6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle

6868 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout

6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle

6867 Loki's Cosmic Cube Escape

6866 Wolverine's Chopper Showdown