Who has never railed against the LEGO instructions on which it is often difficult to distinguish the Black du Dark Grey ? On the small sets, we can still get by with a little sorting and deduction, but on the bigger ones, how many of us have reversed two parts only to realize it much later and have to take everything apart? to restore it ...

After a long test phase with the little ones, LEGO has finally responded to the many complaints of its customers on this subject by finding a solution that seems satisfactory: the black parts will now be darker and surrounded by a pale gray border on the instruction booklets.

This new signage was offered for the first time with the set 2506 Ninjago Skull Truck before being officially set up with the set 4184 Black Pearl (above). It will be present across the entire LEGO range from January 1, 2012.

A good initiative that will save us a few precious minutes in the assembly of our sets and which solves a problem that has become really annoying on the most complex sets. Below is a page of the set instruction booklet 7915 Imperial V-Wing Starfighter with the old signage.

The Internet will always amaze me ...

The video below is from a certain tehrulate who films his army of clones and who claims to have more than 1800, more than the record of Legoboy12345678 whose army has 1712.

You did not understand the sentence above. It's normal. I'm finding out that we are fighting on Youtube to get the title of the one with the biggest army of clones and I don't really know what to think about it.

The worst part is that the two fanatics harangue each other via the comments of their respective videos and each has its fans and supporters. And if you look a little further, dozens of similar videos are posted on Youtube.

A little surprising, pathetic, but so many clones, it's still very cool actually ....

It's on the Youtube channel of HKTOYSRUS (Toys R Us Hong Kong) that this new advertisement for the LEGO Super Heroes DC Universe range is being broadcast.

We see in detail 3 sets in a humorous staging.

We discover the mechanism for transforming Bruce Wayne into Batman in the Batcave and the stop motion montage of the Batmobile from set 6864.

A very well done video to discover urgently !!!

6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City
6860 The Batcave
6864 Batmobile and the Two-Face Chase

I have been talking to you about Star Wars The Old Republic, the MMORPG or massively multiplayer online role-playing game, which officially launched on December 20.

You will have to get started, to better understand this universe, its characters and its ships, two of which will be offered by LEGO in the second wave 2012 with the following two sets: 9500 Fury Class Interceptor et 9497 Republic Striker Starfighter.

This type of game, extremely time-consuming, deserves that we look at it a little. He is developing a particular universe which will not please all Star Wars fans, but which will have an obvious influence on derivative products and probably also on future comics or books relating to the Extended Universe.

Note that the game is increasingly cited using its acronym SWTOR. So you'll also see it on Hoth Bricks.

Two editions are offered for sale:

Star Wars: The Old Republic Standard Edition (45.00 €)

Star Wars: The Old Republic Collector's Edition (129.90 €)

The Limited Collector's Edition includes in addition to the game:
An exclusive 23.5 cm statuette of Dark Malgus, produced by Gentle Giant
Master Gnost-Dural's diary annotated by Satele Chan 
The galaxy map. Dimensions 35.5 x 50.8 cm
A secure authentication keychain 
A CD of the Star Wars: The Old Republic soundtrack

It is with a little delay that I offer you these visuals of the contents of the last 3 boxes of the LEGO Star Wars 2011 Advent Calendar.

We start with the Tie Defender Pilot below (sw268), nice minifigure in my opinion, already seen in the set 8087 Tie Defender released in 2010 and from the Extended Universe. I finally see it as a nod to the 2012 range which will include sets based on video games. Star Wars The Old Republic... A good surprise that this minifig well screen printed and that not everyone has already 50 times in their collection.

We continue with a Tie Fighter which is more of a joke than anything else. Difficult to do more conceptual than this assembly of a few parts. Some will say that the result is effective: we recognize this vessel immediately. I agree with that, of course. But we shouldn't be taken for fools either. This Advent Calendar is not free, we are entitled to expect a minimum of it and there, with my microscopic Tie Fighter, I have the unpleasant feeling that I am being laughed at .... At worst , LEGO could have put enough to build several, just to get a mini fleet and to give a little density to this box ....

Finally, we end with another mini-micro-ship that borders on correctional with this monochrome Millennium Falcon that could have been about correct if LEGO had split a dish screen printed on the top. I don't mind being told about technical, financial, margin, profitability constraints, etc. But we must not exaggerate either. How can you hope to convince a kid that LEGO is better than Kre-O or Playmobil with this type of assembly? 

So, I summarize: I keep my Kinder advent calendar with its good chocolate and I quickly move on. Next year, the Star Wars Advent Calendar will end up in the back of the closet, I probably wouldn't bother to open the boxes and the bags. Except maybe the last box to see this Darth Maul all dressed in red.

Once again, this LEGO Star Wars 2011 Advent Calendar could have been of real interest if all of the parts provided had ultimately made it possible to build a larger machine. that would have given it meaning, and would have excused the micro things that we must be satisfied with, for lack of anything better ...