It is via the facebook page of Toys R Us (Hong Kong) that the rumor of a LEGO Star Wars bag bearing the reference 5004406 and containing a minifig identified as a First Order General is confirmed.

With such a low resolution, it's hard to determine if this is a new version of General Hux or a more generic character wearing the uniform of the First Order officers.

The bag will be offered (A polybag offered at random among two bags including the polybag 5003084 HULK) to the first 200 customers of the brand who will spend a minimum amount on January 3. It will therefore logically make its appearance on eBay et bricklink in the hours / days that follow ...

No information for the moment on the future availability of this polybag in other brands or on the occasion of other promotional offers.

Looks like someone at LEGO has decided to put things back in order around the LEGO Ideas concept.

Long since become a simple outlet for fans in need of 10.000-piece UCS or improbable licenses, LEGO Ideas no longer serves only to flatter the ego of more or less talented creators.

They take advantage of the maximum visibility offered by the concept and sometimes try to prove that they have the necessary resources to gather the 10.000 supports required, forcing LEGO to accept in its laborious process of review creations which we know in advance will never be marketed.

I obviously blacken the table and I will admit that a few beautiful boxes have come out of the LEGO Ideas mess, but I have long since lost the habit of going to see regularly on the platform that brings together thousands of projects more or less successful put online what is happening there.

In short, LEGO is therefore launching an awareness campaign inviting creatives of all kinds to come and offer their truly original ideas and incidentally which do not rely on yet another license on LEGO Ideas:

It's obvious, the wave of LEGO Star Wars sets from the second semester 2016 will include a few boxes based on the film. Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Today we are discovering the names of two of these boxes in System : The first one should be titled "Encounter on Jakku"and the second"X-Wing Resistance".

If you haven't seen the movie yet, don't read on.

Regarding the first set, which should therefore contain enough to reconstitute an "Ragainst on Jakku", we can without getting too wet hope for Finn, Rey, BB-8 with a few tents and possibly two Stormtroopers who will hunt down the three new friends.

I can't see LEGO offering us a box containing Kylo Ren, Captain Phasma and enough to massacre an entire village ...

The "X-Wing Resistance"will logically be the model seen in the film, gray and blue, which is also available in a version Chibi in the set  75125 Resistance X-Wing Fighter from the Microfighters range.

The vessel is accompanied in this Microfighters box by a generic minifig (Resistance X-Wing Pilot ...) but it is obviously the pilot of the Blue squadron, Snap Wexley, played on screen by comedian Greg Grunberg.

So in my opinion there is a good chance that the same character will accompany the S versionystem of the Resistance X-Wing, removing the character's exclusivity from a small set of the Microfighters range.

(seen on Youtube)

It's still very calm at the end of the year and I think we must now wait for the next ones Toy Fair international London (from January 24 to 26, 2016), Nuremberg (from January 27 to February 1, 2016), and New York (February 13-16, 2016) to get some info on what's new in LEGO for the second half of 2016.

In the meantime, here are some toys below for boys, with the official visuals of the Speed ​​Champions sets for the first half of 2016 (except set 75870):

And toys for girls with the visuals of the Elves sets also expected in 2016:

So as not to attract the wrath of certain lobbies, I would point out that if the boys want to play with the multicolored dragons and the mini-dolls, they can obviously do so.

Besides, if the girls want to complete their collection of American racing cars and supercars, they can do it too.

Let's see the bright side of things: With LEGO, we immediately know that in Billund we are not encumbered with considerations on sexism in the world of toys, a subject that comes up regularly, especially in times of holidays.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm more attracted to the Chevrolet Camaro from set 75874 than to the school of dragons, but hey, you know the adage: Tastes and colors, that is not debatable ...

After the never-before-seen 42-piece Millennium Falcon delivered with # 7 (January 2016), here is the exclusive gift that will come with # 8 (February 2016) of the official LEGO Star Wars magazine.

It is therefore Luke's Landspeeder, here in a new version. I have not found anything equivalent in the list of the different versions of this machine already on the market and the closest model remains that of the LEGO Star Wars Advent calendar released in 2014 (LEGO reference 75056).

For anyone who wants to have fun replicating the Millennium Falcon offered with issue 7 of the magazine, assembly instructions are below (Click on the image to view a large version)

(Thanks to Brick & Comics for the pictures and info)