Happy New Year 2018 to all!

Here we are: goodbye 2017, hello 2018. Another year has passed, with its batch of LEGO news, sometimes heated discussions on many themes, various and varied competitions and tests.

In 2017, more and more of you came to the blog, for one reason or another, and stopped by to chat with other fans and share your experience, knowledge or good for this community. plans. Over 180.000 comments have been posted since the blog was created seven years ago. This constant increase in attendance has also imposed this year a major resizing of accommodation resources.

My mailbox is more than ever filled with various and varied messages, often benevolent. I try to respond on time to all requests. If yours has unfortunately gone by the wayside, don't be too angry with me. I'm lucky to be able to devote time to running this blog, but I also have a (real) job and I do my best to combine it all.

I repeat the same thing every year, but I would like to sincerely thank all those who bring this space to life through their interventions, whether regular or more punctual. Without you, Hoth Bricks would ultimately be of little interest and just one more blog in the already crowded little world of LEGO.

You know, I like to point out that before being fans of LEGO, we are above all consumers. As such, I will continue to allow all those who wish to express basely material considerations relating to the cost of our passion. This perspective is important to me and it therefore has its place here.

The usual advice: don't sacrifice anything for a LEGO box. Don't go into debt to buy LEGOs. Plastic cannot be eaten, and it does not sell for as expensive as some people would like to believe, especially when it is necessary to act in an emergency.

I hope that 2018 will be better than 2017 and a little worse than 2019 for all of you, with or without LEGO bricks, with a phase of Dark Age or personal constraints that force you to temporarily or permanently put this overwhelming passion aside.

I wish you all a Happy New Year 2018.

Note: Tradition obliges, I am bringing five copies of the "exclusive" Hoth Bricks minifigure into play. To participate, all you have to do is post a comment (you should find what to say without too much problem ...) and you have until January 4, 2018 at 23:59 p.m. to act.

Update : The winners have (finally) been drawn and have been notified by email, their nicknames are indicated below. Without a response from them to my request for contact details within 5 days, new winners will be drawn.