It's off again for a few days of speculation before the list of Star Wars 2013 sets is officially revealed during Celebration VI (23 - 26 August 2012).

And it's on RebelScum forum that things take shape with burnsnet who will host a Star Wars panel at the convention with Duncan Jenkins and who has already seen the sets for the next wave. Everyone has their own speculations, and Burnsnet confirms that one of these three assumptions is a priori correct: Ewok Village, Yoda's Hut or A-Wing ...

In addition, the LEGO catalog intended for resellers and which allows them to position their orders for 2013 has just been released (the one with the images crossed out with a mention Preliminary & Confidential) and the usual leaks are long overdue. No one has dared to publish scans of this catalog yet, but I think it won't be long ...

And it's very refreshing ... The presentation of this MOC is worth by itself that we linger. Praiter Yed presented his entry to the competition Eurobricks Astromech Workplace Contest whose voting sequence is also open like a page in the book LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia.

It's very creative, it's neatly done with beautiful photos coated in their descriptions and just for the originality of the thing, this MOCeur deserves in my eyes to win.

Take a look at the other pages presented by Praiter Yed on her flickr gallery, they are from the same barrel and it is a visual treat. If you master English, focus on the texts, you will see that Praiter Yed knows how to show a lot of humor ...

In recent times, Star Wars MOCs are becoming a little scarce, no doubt the fault of the arrival in force of the DC and Marvel Super Heroes as well as the Lord of the Rings range at LEGO.

We still find from time to time a few diehard MOCeurs to offer us nice creations, even if we have the impression of going around in circles with the remakes of remakes of the same ships or the same machines. Let us add to this that the Star Wars range seems to attract more collectors and speculators than the average and that the few usual MOCeurs have slowed down and we have no doubt the beginnings of an explanation ...

To compensate, I offer you this Millennium Falcon, creation of Captainfinity recently exhibited during the Brickfair 2012 event. As usual, we can always discuss the proportions or the size of the mandibles (subjects which often give rise to many debates which sometimes turn a little to the ridiculous ...) but above all I underline here the audacious intention to reproduce on a large scale an emblematic vessel of the saga that we have however already seen and reviewed in all sauces and in all sizes ...

One of the attractions of Brickfair 2012, an event that just took place at the beginning of August in the USA, was undoubtedly this reconstruction of Rivendell (FondCombe by us), a valley that is difficult to access where the elves live (have Elrond) and that we see notably in the Peter Jackson trilogy.

At the origin of this creation, Blake Baer, ​​better known under the nickname of Blake's Baericks, a young 16-year-old MOCeur full of talent and who seems to have a bright future at LEGO if I believe my little finger. I have already presented several of his creations to you on this blog.

You can see more on this diorama on flickr and discover the work of this MOCeur on his flickr gallery, its MOCpages space ou his Brickshelf gallery.

In order to celebrate its 80th birthday with dignity by sharing this event with all its client-fans (note the touch of irony in this sentence), LEGO offers us a small animated film that will at least have the merit of avoiding all those who do not yet know the history of the brick to avoid spending hours on Wikipedia to return to the sources of the mark at the studs.

17 minutes for 80 years, with a few shortcuts and a few omissions, but the essentials are there.