Publisher DK (Dorling Kindersley) will update its flagship LEGO book in 2025 with a new version of the encyclopedia of characters from the Star Wars license. As usual, this 224-page book will bring together a non-exhaustive list of the different minifigs marketed in the LEGO Star Wars range over the years with for each of the characters concerned a few facts and other anecdotes.

The work will once again be accompanied by a new and exclusive minifigure which has not yet been revealed. This book is already up for pre-order at Amazon with delivery announced for early April 2025:

LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia Updated Edition

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Last May, LEGO launched pre-orders for a box set containing a book celebrating 25 years of the LEGO Star Wars range accompanied by a time capsule promising us some high-end goodies. Everything is sold for €149,99 and this box set is now available on the official online store:

5008878 THE FORCE OF CREATIVITY ON THE LEGO SHOP >>

If you want to know more about the contents of this box before getting started, know that I spoke to you in more detail about it a few months ago. So don't hesitate to consult my review from which the photos below are taken to find out if this product really deserves the honors in your portfolio.

Today we are quickly interested in the LEGO Star Wars book 5008878 The Force of Creativity, a derivative product sold on the official online store since May 1, 2024 at the public price of €149.99.

The price charged suggests an exceptional product intended for the fans most committed to the Star Wars universe, it is therefore advisable to check if the promise is kept before committing to a pre-order with delivery scheduled for July 2024 .

It is difficult to criticize the packaging of the product, the work of just over 300 pages is delivered in a high-end box which suggests that we are dealing with something exceptional and new.

The box set is indeed magnificent, it is almost too much for a simple book but LEGO specifies that the work is accompanied by an "exclusive" time capsule described as a treasure made up of collector's items and which one could legitimately imagine filled with exceptional products.

Worse, this product is excluded from current promotional offers, its exceptional character probably placing it above the lot of boxes containing common plastic bricks. I reassure you right away, this is not the case.

First observation, not a LEGO brick on the horizon. Not even a pad-printed collector's brick, let alone a copy of the brick celebrating the 25th anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars range that we find in many boxes. There is only cardboard and paper here, a lot of paper.

Concerning the work itself, the most dedicated fans will not learn much from the pages. It is more of a collection of information available for a long time in other books or quite simply online and even if the quotes from the many speakers remain interesting, there is nothing to make it a real investigative work. and journalism. This book at least has the merit of approaching the LEGO Star Wars universe from all angles, including through fan work.

It is therefore a somewhat lazy summary of fan service printed on glossy paper and certainly richly illustrated which focuses everything on its appearance to the detriment of its content and we are left wanting more while having the impression of having already heard or read the information distilled throughout the pages. I would point out for those who do not understand, this book is only available in English and it is necessary to master the language of Shakespeare to really benefit from it.

We could say that the 25th anniversary of the LEGO Star Wars range needed to be celebrated with this beautiful book, but at €150 per item and promised delivery on the Greek calendar, I think we have the right to hope for a little more than visuals already seen elsewhere and anecdotes worn to the core.

This book being a pure product to glorify the manufacturer, do not expect to find any perspective on the work of designers or marketing people. It's advertising, certainly well packaged, but it's advertising above all.

As for the promised "time capsule", that's also the disappointment: The box contains some reproductions of documents relating to the launch of the LEGO Star Wars range in 1999 but you also have to make do with a postcard, instructions for products offered in LEGO Stores (without the bricks) and a few boards of little historical interest.

Still no plastic in sight but a mini diorama in low-end corrugated cardboard to assemble yourself which is unspeakably sad and whose manufacturing quality leaves something to be desired. It's definitely very meager for a "treasure" made up of collector's items.

I am not going to do more about this product, you will have understood that I am frankly doubtful about its interest and its price. In form, it is very well executed with a pretty box containing a book with careful layout and very clean visuals, but the substance is not there. In any case no more than in many other books which deal with the same subject and which present us with the same anecdotes for ten times less expensive. The time capsule, for its part, is a huge joke. This is obviously only my opinion and you will be able to form your own when the book is actually available.

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The book's details LEGO Marvel Character Encyclopedia to be published next October has been updated at Amazon and we now know the new and exclusive minifig which will be inserted in the cover of this new 176-page book which brings together many characters from the Marvel universe with visuals, anecdotes and others facts : it will be Captain America with Sam Wilson in the costume.

The book is already up for pre-order at Amazon, delivery from October 3, 2024:

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LEGO Marvel Character Encyclopedia

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Notice to all LEGO and Minecraft fans, the very prolific publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK for short) will be offering a book from June 2024 that will highlight the LEGO Minecraft license. The program includes 80 pages bringing together around fifty construction ideas without instructions but with sufficiently detailed visuals allowing the models presented to be reproduced and a construction exclusive to this product with a small aquatic scene and a diver.

The most assiduous collectors will certainly want to add this to their collection, others may find something to please a young fan without breaking the bank. The book is currently available for pre-order on Amazon where you will find a few pages taken from this book to give you a better idea of ​​its content:

LEGO Minecraft Ideas

12.14 €

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