You want to know what LEGO has in store for us the lego shop in 2015 ? Here is the almost complete calendar of offers that will be offered each month in the LEGO Shop during the coming year.

Please note, these offers are those planned in the USA, but apart from a few polybags (!), We should be entitled to the same promotions. The marketing dates for the exclusive sets will probably be identical in the USA and in France.

Here is what to organize for the year to come ...

(seen on Eurobricks)

The official LEGO calendar 2018 with its 11 vouchers (coupons) should soon arrive in the LEGO Stores. It will be given to you from 20 € of purchase and it will allow you to benefit from some promotional offers during the coming year.

This calendar is not available online, you must go to a LEGO Store to obtain it.

At first glance, nothing very exciting in 2018, especially if you have to take the highway and drive a few hundred miles to find a LEGO Store ...

Today we're quickly talking about the product unveiled yesterday by LEGO, the LEGO House Limited Edition set. 40505 LEGO Building System which pays homage to different worlds of the manufacturer via a display in three sections decorated on the back with an exhibition space bringing together around twenty micro-constructions.

I'm not going to lie to you, I'm not particularly enthusiastic about the contents of this box. The idea of ​​offering a museum-style setting is good, but the execution here seems a little too cheesy to convince me. it was undoubtedly possible to reproduce the atmosphere of the museum installed in the LEGO House in Billund without being satisfied with the gray walls visible here, the latter not really highlighting the overall diorama even if they fade visually to so that we can concentrate on the three modules offered.

I really think that the idea of ​​paying homage to three of the manufacturer's emblematic universes is excellent, that is also what this range of exclusive limited edition products should be used for, which only those who make the trip to Billund can afford. , but it should be kept in mind that LEGO asks us to pay for purely self-promotional products and that as such we can hope to obtain successful and convincing sets.

Highlight the first DUPLO train, the modular concept Town Map and the Technic ecosystem is a fairly coherent summary of what allowed the LEGO brand to exist and develop, it would simply have been necessary to stage all of this in a slightly less academic manner and free itself from classicism of this product with slightly sad colors

The niches placed at the back of the gray walls bring together around twenty micro-constructions which hover over numerous ranges and universes, it is rather well seen even if this micro-exhibition is hidden as if the designer had simply wanted to make one easter egg discreet which in my opinion deserved much better than being an accessory element of the product. These micro-constructions are individually probably no better than the content of an uninspired Advent calendar, but taken as a whole they constitute a real timeline of the history of the brand and I find it almost a shame that this visual summary interesting is relegated to the background.

LEGO has even provided a few additional pieces in addition to the elements usually provided in addition in its boxes to allow you to fill the space deliberately left empty at the end of the timeline with a creation from your imagination. It's up to you to complete this Hall of Fame discreet with a model of your own that will embody the way you imagine the LEGO “legend”.

On a more technical level, the three modules are quickly assembled, the supports are not very inspired but the constructions they house offer some interesting techniques, whether it is the DUPLO train faithful to the first model of the range marketed in the 80s right down to the colors used, the modular platform Town Map launched in 1955 which offers an assembly experience similar to what this range offered in its time with its modules which form a city made up of its micro buildings, vegetation and other vehicles or the reproduction of the LEGO Technic Chassis coach from 1977 which remains symbolic but relatively faithful even if the micro-model only uses classic bricks.

No stickers in this box of just over 1200 pieces, both Tiles specifying the subject covered and placed at the front of the construction as well as pedestrian crossings are therefore pad printed. We will also note that the three modules are not joined together, they are not clipped and are simply nested.

The result is an exhibition model around forty centimeters long which will struggle, in my opinion, to fully find its place alongside the other volumes of a collection (the references 40501 The Wooden Duck (2020) 40502 The Brick Molding Machine (2021) 40503 Dagny Holm - Master Builder (2022) et 40504 A Minifigure Tribute (2023)) which nevertheless offers attractive and successful products.

LEGO will have wanted to cultivate the vintage side of this homage but, as is sometimes the case, in my opinion we are more inclined here to clumsy old-fashionedness than to pure nostalgia. It's a shame, knowing that it will also be necessary to make the effort to fill the pockets of resellers on the secondary market to avoid traveling to Billund and complete a collection which seemed interesting to follow given the products already on the market. As usual, it's up to you.

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Here is a new opportunity to reduce the cost of your end-of-year purchases a little by offering a Cultura gift card worth €100. The winner will be able to spend the amount as they wish and buy LEGO products or something else. the participation mechanic is based on the LEGO CITY set 60381 Advent Calendar 2024, a box currently sold by the brand for €19.99.

Please note that the brand is currently offering an offer until November 5 to obtain an immediate reduction of 25% of the price on a selection of LEGO products.

To validate your participation, as always, simply identify yourself via the interface below and follow the instructions provided. As usual, it is a question of finding information on the official online store and then answering the question correctly. At the end of the participation phase, the winner will be chosen by lot from the correct answers. Participation is free and without obligation to purchase.

Your details (name/pseudo, email address, IP address, postal address and phone number of the winner) are only used in the context of this competition and will not be kept beyond the draw which will designate the winner. As usual, this competition without obligation to purchase is open to all residents of metropolitan France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

The prize at stake is generously provided by Cultura, it will be sent to the winner by me and electronically upon confirmation of their contact details by return email.

As always, I reserve the right to disqualify any entrant who has attempted to defraud or hijack the entry system in order to increase their chances of winning. Grumpers and bad losers abstain, the others will have a better chance of winning.

For information: the name / nickname of the winner is displayed in the participation interface once the draw has been made. I also notify the winners by email, but remember to check anyway.

Today we are very quickly interested in the content of the LEGO Star Wars set 40658 Millennium Falcon Holiday Diorama, a small box of 282 pieces which will be available at the retail price of €29.99 from October 1, 2023.

We're not going to lie to each other, this little product vaguely derived from the animated film LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special available on the Disney + platform since 2020 should have been a promotional set offered subject to purchase and it does not really deserve that we have to go to the cash register to afford it.

LEGO has recently been able to please fans of the Harry Potter range with the very successful promotional set 40598 Gringotts Vault, this new box could have suffered the same fate and be offered for example on the occasion of the launch of the next (very) large set of the Star Wars range.

That being said, the proposed staging still allows for a nicely executed piece of the Millennium Falcon's interior that, once stripped of its festive decorations, can potentially serve as the backdrop for a more "serious" diorama.

This is the only advantage of the product, the rest being made up of a few festive decorations without much interest worthy of a bad Advent calendar. It will eventually be necessary to recover the pretty tile which covers Dejarik's table in three versions of the Millennium Falcon since 2015 or buy a retail copy to give this interior a bit of character but the construction offered here seems to me to be a good start overall.

We will also and above all note the presence of a manual of the perfect Jedi with a nicely pad-printed cover but with the Tile interior without pattern, it is the only really interesting accessory of the product.

As for the various characters provided, only Rey Skywalker and Finn are worth seeing with their ugly Star Wars-themed Christmas sweaters.

It's always that extra to come and feed an already well-filled collection of Star Wars figurines in festive outfits and these two minifigs which join those already delivered in the past in various Advent calendars such as Darth Vader and Poe Dameron (75279 Advent Calendar 2020), the Mandalorian and Grogu (75307 Advent Calendar 2021), C-3PO and R2-D2 (75340 Advent Calendar 2022), Palpatine and an Ewok (75366 Advent Calendar 2023 ) have at least the merit of being original with pretty pad printing on their respective torsos.

We get in passing Chewbacca, BB-8 and a Porg, no particular effort has been made on the aesthetic level for the three characters to participate more actively in the party.

30 € for a box of this caliber is obviously a bit expensive knowing that there are only two new characters on arrival and that the staging is rather minimalist. We are not going to complain about being entitled from time to time to a product a little more second degree than usual in a range that often purrs with great fanfare of reissues and products without real flavor.

Anyway, in my opinion, there is more interesting content here with 282 pieces than in an Advent calendar of 320 pieces filled with uninteresting mini-things and sold for 37.99 € and the scene could easily end up on the corner of the convenient during the holiday season.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at September 16, 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Simply post a comment below the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. Avoid “I’m participating” or “I’m trying my luck”, we suspect that this is the case.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.