It is Warner Bros. officially announcing that a license agreement for the two films The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey et The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was signed with the toy maker The Bridge Direct which will be able to launch its range of derivative products in the fall of 2012 pending the official release of the first film scheduled for December 14, 2012.

LEGO must still have a stock of these two minifigs of Batman and Green Lantern (Distributed in 2500 copies during the SDCC 2011) and after Brickset and Eurobricks, it is logically FBTB that benefits from the generosity and generosity of the manufacturer .... I know, I'm exaggerating ...

Between two sponsored ads for Toys R Us and an analysis of the next episode of Clone Wars, FBTB which is slowly losing its soul to my taste, offers you a contest entitled wheels of justice.

The goal: Build a BatMobile or a GreenLanternMobile and upload it to the official website Lego superheroes to hope to win one of the two minifigs put into play by LEGO.
As usual with this type of competition, the rule is full bodied with loose:
- The BatMobile must be black, have four wheels, and not be closely or remotely inspired by models already known.
- The GreenLanternMobile must be green.
- You need an account on FBTB to participate and post your photos.
- Deadline: November 30, 2011 at 23pm ....

In short, if you have a good idea, the time to realize it and the desire to participate in this contest, hurry up.
Otherwise buy your minifigs on eBay and move on, after all I find that these contests of MOCs sponsored by LEGO on Eurobricks where FBTB could benefit from a slightly more substantial endowment than these two minifigs ultimately not as exclusive as what the 'we are willing to believe .....

The press release is dated November 4, 2011 and informs us in all sobriety that the LEGO Universe joke will permanently shut down its servers on January 31, 2012.

I announced the end of this online game from February 2011, by slightly mistaking the date ..... You didn't have to be a guesser to imagine that this MMOG (massively-multiplayer online game) was not going to go the distance. Too expensive, at least initially, ugly, slow, boring, full of activities all more infantilizing than the others, this universe could not seduce many people, even when it became free ....

LEGO claims to have been able to bring together 2 million players (registered?, Active?) And to have decided to close because of the non-profitability of the whole. There is a paradox here: How can a game that has become free be profitable? Why make it free if it is necessary to invest elsewhere to welcome all the players who come to register because of this same free? Are there enough MMOG AND LEGO fans? Wasn't the game just way below the current standard when compared to other online games of the same type?

But it is not the end of the game that bothers me the most: LEGO is laying off 115 people in the process, who were employees of "Play Well Studios" in the United States and the marketing department of Billund (Denmark) and simply announces them to be insured. reclassification assistance at LEGO or elsewhere .....

A great mess, which will not mark the spirits, and which sets the limits of what can be done by trying to follow too closely and too opportunistically current trends in leisure and entertainment.

 The official press release:

LEGO® Universe to close in 2012

Christo and Calin alias CAB & Tiler offer a Han Solo whose particularity is not to have the endless piece Minifig Headgear Hair Male (3901) on the head....

Here Han Solo is wearing a hairstyle made in "CAB & Tiler" which still looks more like Harrison Ford's hairstyle in theEpisode IV... And just for that, this custom has its effect.

Speaking of Christo, come and fight over his eBay store, there is something very very heavy currently being auctioned .....

Finally, here is the list of the winners of one of the 5 copies of the book LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia among fans as of 31/10/2011.
The drawing of lots was carried out by my son in a totally random manner and I would ask each of you whose name is in the list below to kindly give me your postal details when I contact you via the Message function of Facebook.

I will ship and ask you to kindly confirm receipt of your lot on the page Hoth Bricks in order to guarantee a certain transparency.

The list of winners:

1. Maxime Soler

2. Mico Hien

3. Med Drouillon

4. Aurelien Blondel

5. Stephanie Miatello

Well done to the winners, and sorry to the others. Don't go yet, another draw is planned soon with other equally nice prizes ....