If you're disappointed with the Star Wars 2011 Advent Calendar, and you're already fed up with opening a box every day for a handful of pieces that, put together, will look like a familiar contraption from a distance, here's what you need: Brickdoctor decided to reproduce the Star Wars Advent Calendar with creations under LDD reproducing on a more attractive scale the real content discovered each day.

Today, he therefore offers us a Radiant VII Republic Cruiser in Midi Scale quite successful and partly inspired by iomedes work on this ship.

Brickdoctor also provides the file in .lxf format of this MOC if you want to reproduce it.

To follow this challenge, go to this dedicated topic at Eurobricks and bookmark it.

The Toys R Us brand references the set 6864 Batmobile and the Two-Face Chase on its US site with a sale price set at $ 49.99.

It is better not to draw a hasty conclusion on the basis of this price, too many parameters come into play and LEGO openly admits to adapting its prices according to the marketing area, the competition and the standard of living of the country concerned ....

Regarding availability, nothing specific, the set is announced as "out of stock for shipping" but like "Sold in stores"... provided you find it.

In short, not much to eat while waiting to see if an American actually finds it in stores in the hours or days to come ....

If you surf on flickr you have probably understood that it is December 1st and that everyone has opened their 7958 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar.

Just run a search with the keyword LEGO and you will be inundated with pictures of the first gear out of box 1 of the calendar. Nothing fancy, the ship is simple, the instructions are inside the cover of the box and it's fun three minutes before moving on. 

I promise, I'm not going to put it in the blog every day, I just wanted to mark the launch of the hundreds of photos that we will be entitled to daily. Here is mine, not very good, but I am progressing slowly ....

Do you want to measure yourself against other MOCeurs? Are you tired of the endless MOCs of ships and looking for an original theme to express your creativity?

Then you have to participate in the competition organized on SeTechnic with the winner of the set 7879 Hoth Echo Base, set released in 2011 and which contains 773 pieces, 8 minifigs and a Tauntaun.

The object of the contest is very simple: To recreate a scene which features a creature from the Star Wars universe.

Dewback, Tauntaun, Wampa, Rancor or Saarlac, Star Wars has no shortage of creatures, each stranger than the next. The whole must be carried out on a maximum surface of 48x48 tenons without limit of height and must be presented before January 15th, 2012 midnight.

To find out more about this original themed competition, visit the dedicated topic at SeTechnic.

For information, the photo illustrating this article comes from Christo and Calin's flickr gallery and presents a Dewback (Original LEGO), a Kaadu (Original LEGO) and a custom Tauntaun of which I was able to get a copy and which I tell you about in this article.

Contest winners MOC Madness 2011 at FBTB were nominated, and four creations were therefore awarded: the top 3 of the general classification and the special jury prize.

The big winner is Zane “zhouston” with his Bounty Hunter Niobrara shaar and his ship the Arkosius VII (Flickr gallery). The special jury prize was awarded to Jack “madLEGOman” and his Hand of fate (Flickr gallery), Bounty Hunter ship Constable Drex.

In second place in the general classification we find Tyler “Legohaulic” with his Bounty Hunter Vet Steele accompanied by his ship Avid steele (Flickr gallery), and third place goes to Joel “JD4M” Baker and his Soul Snatcher (Flickr gallery), bounty hunter's ship Raesha Ka Lia.

All these creations amply deserve their prices with a preference for my part for the Hand of fate, with its pirate ship side straight out of the universe of Albator. 

You can find these two MOCs, close-up shots, and many comments on their functionality in their respective flickr galleries.