We finally discover the visuals of the first sets of the Marvel Avengers 2012 range with these three UltraBuild sets:

4597 Captain America : Quite successful in the end, the Bionicle style suits this character with a very cartoonish face. The shield looks nice, and I can't help it anyway, I love the Cape shield ....

4529 Iron Man : This one is missed: The armor side is completely squeezed out by the rickety aspect of the figurine. The shoulder pads make it look more like a Power ranger than in Iron Man.

4530 Hulk : Difficult to represent this mastodon with poorly adapted pieces. The breastplate gives a certain volume effect but which is not sufficient to make the figurine credible. I really like big oversized hands though ...

Note that these figurines will be marketed in May 2012 at around € 14.50

Unless you live in a cave deep in Eastern Siberia, you probably know that one of the movie events of the coming year is the next Peter Jackson film: The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey whose official release is scheduled for December 14, 2012.

Here is the trailer for this two-part adaptation of Tolkien's work, the second part of which is scheduled for late 2013.

If you still haven't seen the trilogy Lord of the Rings, give yourself the pack Blu-ray Limited Edition with all long versions in 15 discs (!) for Christmas, you will not regret it ....

http://youtu.be/UGM1RB73Zso

TheLegoAdrian has a good memory and he is right.

If you remember the Queen Amidala prototype shown at San Diego Comic Con in July 2011 (see this article), so maybe you noticed that this minifigure was announced as present in the reference set 9499...

We now know this set since it is the Gungan Sub in which is precisely planned a minifig of Amidala announced as unpublished.

The visual presented is a provisional illustration and we should therefore be entitled to Queen Amidala in ceremonial dress in this set, which suddenly becomes much more interesting to me ... and probably to yours.

End of the Eurobricks LEGO Batman Contest and Batman Returns de Legomaniac finished 3rd in category 1 behind the winner: The Dark Knight by Skrytsson and the 2nd: Joker makes a withdrawal by TooMuchCaffeine.

A well-deserved place for this technical and creative MOC which once again demonstrates that the work of the French MOCeurs is largely at the level of what can be seen on the most famous English-speaking blogs or sites.

So if you are a little creative, risk yourself in one of the many contests organized on the web. You will probably not always win, but you will have the opportunity to rub shoulders with the cream of the MOCeurs and benefit from the opinion of a whole community about your works. With a little patience and humility you will progress and you will be able to have the satisfaction of having been able to show your work to many AFOLs across the planet.

In the meantime, you can find out the full ranking of the competition on the dedicated topic at Eurobricks. Also come congratulate LEGOmaniac on the topic dedicated to its MOC at Brickpirate.

Nothing transcendent with these first visuals of series 2 of Planet Sets with from left to right:

9679 AT-ST & Endor
9677 X-Wing Starfighter & Yavin 4
9678 Twin-pod Cloud Car & Bespin

Not enough to see much in these images, except that the three machines seem successful. Endor displays beautiful colors, the other two planets, Yavin4 and Bespin, are more uniform.

Minifig side, an Imperial AT-ST Pilot, a Rebel Pilot, and (finally) a Lobot.