As is often the case with the release of new sets, Amazon UK is the first to stick to it by offering the new June 2011 sets for pre-order.

Personally, I will still wait for them to arrive at the LEGO Shop or at a specialized French online merchant whose Club Card I hold, to try to get these sets at the best possible price.

We therefore find the following sets with an availability date of June 1, 2011:

7956 Ewok Attack at a rate of £ 25.99 or approximately € 29.50

7957 Sith NightSpeeder at a rate of £ 25.99 or approximately € 29.50

7961 Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator at a rate of £ 61.99 or approximately € 70

7962 Anakin's & Sebulba's Podracers at a rate of £ 81.99 or approximately € 92

7964 Republic Frigate at a rate of £ 81.99 or approximately € 92

7965 Millennium Falcon at a rate of £ 132.99 or approximately € 150

The set is missing for the moment 7959 Geonosian Starfighter .

Be careful, there will be sports on May 3 and 4 on the LEGO Shop (pray that France is concerned).

To sum up, some customers have received the postcard that you see in the picture. It details on the back the entire promotion during these two days of May 2011, namely:

1. For a purchase of $ 75 (€ 55), the customer will be offered a Shadow ARF Trooper in polybag.

2. For all orders placed during these two days, each customer will receive an exclusive poster showing 10 years of "Ultimate" sets (UCS) from the LEGO Star Wars range.

3. Each customer will automatically participate in a raffle to win a 10179 Ultimate Collector's Millennium Falcon (2007) in its first edition with certificate of authenticity.

It goes without saying that I will be online on May 2 at midnight just to check that we are not once again the stuffing turkeys, and if the promotion is effective with us, to order a few bricks so, for once , to benefit from an interesting promotion ....

Click on the image below to see the details of the operation:

It's certain Imperium der Steine ​​forum that appeared the first photos of the minifig currently offered from a purchase amount of 55 euros.

It is indeed a Shadow ARF Trooper. The minifigure is black, the viewfinder silver and the helmet dressed in Light Blue keys.

Apparently, it will be possible to get this exclusive minifig via a purchase from the LEGO Shop on May 3 and 4, for a minimum amount of 55 euros as well.

Hopefully this offer will be valid in France, it will be an opportunity to get this unique minifigure for the moment, but which will undoubtedly make its appearance in future sets.

In any case, do not miss this opportunity, where you will have to resign yourself to paying a high price for this minifigure on eBay or Bricklink within a few weeks ...

This is the site Amazon.de which gives a clue on the exclusive minifig that would be delivered with this edition scheduled for October 2011 of the book LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia.

As indicated in English in the description below:
"... More, there's even more. An exclusive Han Solo minifigure, receiving a medal in the same scene from a New Hope as our Luke Skywalker minifigure, not available anywhere else. Grab one before it's gone ..."

Looks like we're getting a Han Solo minifig that was medaled along with Luke Skywalker in Episode IV's A New Hope scene.
This minifig suddenly seems obvious in the logic of the editor, and seems satisfactory to me by allowing to obtain a duo of original and unpublished characters.

The information seems plausible, but as usual it is advisable to be careful, the time of exit of this work being still long, the choice of the minifigure can change.

An image from the cache of the LEGO site and visible at this address http://cache.lego.com/images/shop/prod/10221-0000-xx-12-1.jpg currently circulating and provoking heated debates.

So it looks like the next UCS set carries the reference 10221 and we get an ultra-detailed Executor accompanied by a slew of minifigs and a scale Star Destroyer.

If criticisms are already pointing to the design of the craft, everyone agrees on the choice of this vessel for a self-respecting UCS set. It remains to know the price and the date of availability (October 2011?) .....