If you follow, you probably remember this competition organized by LEGO in 2012 and whose objective was to market the model designed by a MOCeur on the basis of the frame of the set 9398 4x4 Crawler.

The winner, rm88, had won with almost 50% of the vote during the vote organized to determine the creation which would be published in 20.000 copies and put on sale on the LEGO Shop as of August 1st (US price announced: $ 199.99 ).

To be honest, I'm not a big fan of the Technic range: Excavators or trucks, very little for me.

But this variant of the set 9398 4x4 Crawler, motorized, equipped with LEDs for the headlights, new really successful rims and an original look will undoubtedly encourage me to make a foray into this range.

The MOCeur winner of the competition offers exclusively, and this is quite normal, the first review of this set of 1585 pieces which will be marketed under the reference 41999.

Spin on his website discover his first impressions as well as the many photos he offers and you will no doubt be conquered as I am by this exclusive edition.

Reception of the exclusive Yoda minifigure printed in 1000 copies and distributed at the Toys R Us store in Times Square during the presentation of the giant X-Wing which took place at the end of May. The minifig accompanied the set 9493 X-Wing Starfighter (Of which the giant model is the replica) covered with a cardboard insert in the colors of the saga The Yoda Chronicles

This is the opportunity to take a small photo of this minifig and the two polybags that I brought from the LEGO Store located near the Rockefeller Center during my last trip to attend New York Comic Con 2012 (40025 NYC City Cab & 40026 Statue of Liberty).

I was wondering what to do with these two polybags, Yoda gave me the answer ... Patient you had to be to use these three elements wisely ...

To download the instructions for the 40025 NYC City Cab polybag, click here (3MB).

It has become so rare that when a LEGO product comes out in French, I have to mention it: The LEGO Batman movie Super Heroes Unit and the illustrated encyclopedia accompanied by the Batman minifig in version Electro Suit are finally available in French at amazon.

The cover visual presented above is a preliminary version, the final product will be identical to the English version (See here).

No Clark Kent minifigure with the DVD, but it's still better than nothing.

To pre-order the LEGO Batman Super Heroes Unity Movie DVD (€ 9.99) click here.

The DVD, which will be released for July 3, is also available for pre-order, still without a collector's minifig, for € 10 on fnac.com (Click here).

To pre-order the LEGO Batman illustrated encyclopedia (€ 20.86) click here.

(Thanks to norton for his email alert)

A few pieces, a nice staging and voila: Orthanc (from set 10237) becomes Barad-tough the fortress of Sauron surmounted by the eye of the villain who scans Middle-earth.

Nice and simple idea of lego gel which has its effect.

Meeting on his flickr gallery to discover a view of the assembly of the Eye of Sauron before shooting and staging in Mordor sauce with two light bricks from sets of the LEGO Lord of the Rings range.

Some info on the two new upcoming LEGO Minecraft sets that I told you about a few weeks ago (See this article).

We therefore learn that the next two sets of what thus becomes a mini-range would be identified under the following names: 21105 LEGO Minecraft: The Nether (Game Hell with lava and dark rocks) and 21106 LEGO Minecraft: The Village (A set of Tan colored dwellings occupied by the NPCs in the game).

It will probably be two boxes of the same size as the set 21102 LEGO Minecraft Micro World released in 2012 and then sold at the public price of 34.99 €.

LEGO has yet to officially confirm a release date or retail price for these two sets.