Exactly $ 2.161.000 ... This is the astronomical amount for which auctioned a copy in perfect condition of N ° 1 of Action comics dating from June 1938 and sold at the time for 10 cents.

Another copy of this comic had already been sold last year for around $ 1.000.000. For the record, the copy sold this Wednesday in New York was perfectly preserved because it was stuck between the pages of a magazine for many years.

These amounts are well beyond us and we will therefore be satisfied with the Levork MOC reproducing the cover of this overpriced comic created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster considered by some to be the most important in the history of comics because he was the first to develop the theme of the superhero and he was inspired by following all the production of superhero comics that we all know. 

If you surf on flickr you have probably understood that it is December 1st and that everyone has opened their 7958 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar.

Just run a search with the keyword LEGO and you will be inundated with pictures of the first gear out of box 1 of the calendar. Nothing fancy, the ship is simple, the instructions are inside the cover of the box and it's fun three minutes before moving on. 

I promise, I'm not going to put it in the blog every day, I just wanted to mark the launch of the hundreds of photos that we will be entitled to daily. Here is mine, not very good, but I am progressing slowly ....

Do you want to measure yourself against other MOCeurs? Are you tired of the endless MOCs of ships and looking for an original theme to express your creativity?

Then you have to participate in the competition organized on SeTechnic with the winner of the set 7879 Hoth Echo Base, set released in 2011 and which contains 773 pieces, 8 minifigs and a Tauntaun.

The object of the contest is very simple: To recreate a scene which features a creature from the Star Wars universe.

Dewback, Tauntaun, Wampa, Rancor or Saarlac, Star Wars has no shortage of creatures, each stranger than the next. The whole must be carried out on a maximum surface of 48x48 tenons without limit of height and must be presented before January 15th, 2012 midnight.

To find out more about this original themed competition, visit the dedicated topic at SeTechnic.

For information, the photo illustrating this article comes from Christo and Calin's flickr gallery and presents a Dewback (Original LEGO), a Kaadu (Original LEGO) and a custom Tauntaun of which I was able to get a copy and which I tell you about in this article.

The English are now accustomed: Periodically the tabloid The Sun offers an offer to exchange a coupon to cut from the newspaper for several LEGO sets in polybags (sets in bags) in the WH Smiths and Toys R Us stores.

This Saturday, December 3, 2011, the readers of the newspaper will be able to be offered the set 30055 Droid Fighter (45 pieces) sold from 3.37 € on Bricklink.

Wait until Sunday or Monday and its price will surely have fallen further with English sellers ...

You should know, and it's always good for our personal culture, that between 1962 and 1988 it was Samsonite who manufactured the bricks under license and distributed the LEGO brand in Canada and the USA. Manufacturing stopped in the United States in 1973, when LEGO moved to the United States. TLC then moved to Canada in 1988 when the first brick separator was released, but that's another story.

From this time, rillette11 posted on his flickr gallery photos of original boxes or scans of catalogs. Something to impress, and if you understand English, linger on the comments of each photo, you will learn many things about this LEGO by Samsonite era. You will find other visuals on the same theme at this address.

To go even further in the discovery of the LEGO company and the evolution of the visual identity of its products over the years, visit the reference site: Brickfetish.com.

Be careful, we quickly spend a few hours without realizing it. There is so much to see on this very well documented site.