The market for LEGO licensed activity books is not weakening and it is the turn of the publisher Buster Books to offer two books to be published in October 2021. Each of these two books imagined by the very prolific Polish publisher AMEET is accompanied a handful of bricks that allow you to assemble a few more or less inspired models.

The reference Build and Stick Custom Cars is only spread over 48 pages but it puts the stickers in the spotlight with no less than 260 stickers to use to decorate the different models of vehicles to build using the inventory provided. Judging by the visuals above, the vehicles are not the best barrel and probably only serve as a pretext to sell us the pretty stickers presented as reusable.

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The reference 5 Minute Builds In turn, promises us more than a hundred construction ideas, spread over 96 pages, some of which can be implemented thanks to the small batch of about fifty bricks provided.

These two books are already on pre-order from Amazon, availability announced for October 14, 2021. No information for the moment on possible French versions of these two books.

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I received my copy of the book LEGO Star Wars Yoda's Galaxy Atlas, pre-ordered a few months ago from Amazon with the goal of adding Yoda's exclusive space traveler minifig to my collection. Unsurprisingly, the book itself is uninspiring with a few dozen pages filled with very large illustrations and a few lines of English text. I will give you photos of the proposed editorial content, you will find examples of pages on the product sheet at Amazon.

It is obviously for the Yoda minifigure that I agreed to spend around fifteen euros, it is presented as exclusive and there will therefore in principle be no other opportunity to review this torso later in a set or a polybag from the LEGO Star Wars range. The map of the Exterior Border is also supposed to be exclusive to this book, time will tell if this is the case or if this nicely pad-printed piece will one day make a new appearance.

The torso is very successful with its straps which match the backpack delivered with the figurine and its logo of the Rebel Alliance in the form of a badge. We wonder a little why there are two straps in the back of the character but we are ultimately not going to complain about having a pad printed element on both sides. Publisher Dorling Kindersley is not stingy with accessories, we even get a camera in addition to the stick, map and backpack.
The character's head is not exclusive or unseen, it is the one already seen in 2013 in the set 75017 Duel on Geonosis then in a handful of boxes including the set 75255 Yoda marketed since 2019.

at 15 euros per minifigure, it is obviously my collector's soul that takes over and pushes me to invest in this version of Yoda which is inspired by nothing other than the story presented in the associated book . The character will remain anecdotal and a little off-topic, but at least it has the merit of being new and sufficiently accomplished for me to be satisfied.

The book itself will end up at the bottom of a drawer, it doesn't add anything and in this precise case it's almost more a waste of paper than anything else.

Keep in mind that these books usually end up in clearance at Amazon and its subsidiary Book Depository for a few euros after several months of marketing, if this version of Yoda tempts you but you can sleep until you have it. not, wait.

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At least four new books around the LEGO theme are announced by publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK) in 2021: Minifigure Mission, How to Build LEGO Cars, How to Build LEGO Houses et Mighty LEGO Mechs.

Minifigure Mission is a 128-page book that takes on a Toy Story-style adventure with a minifigure that must reach its shelf via an obstacle course to be built in different rooms of the house. The editor does not provide the parts necessary for the realization of the various ideas proposed but the main character is included with some accessories.

How to Build LEGO Cars et How to Build LEGO Houses are 96-page, more didactic books with around thirty examples and ideas for learning how to build cars and houses. An interesting detail for those who have followed the LEGO Masters UK show: Nathan Dias, one of the members of the winning pair of the show's first season, is the co-author of these two books. No bricks with these two books, it will be necessary to call on your personal inventory to reproduce the proposed examples.

Mighty LEGO Mechs is a 96-page book about which not much is known yet. Judging by the cover featuring two mechs from the LEGO Ninjago sets 71720 Fire Stone Mech (2020) et 71738 Zane's Titan Mech Battle (2021), it should be a simple collection of what LEGO has been able to offer so far in terms of robots and mechs, without instructions or new creations.

You will find a few pages above from two of these forthcoming books, the texts are in English but the visuals seem explicit enough to me that a young fan lacking inspiration will find some interesting leads.

We do not know for the moment whether these different books will one day be translated into French by the publisher who usually takes care of the localization of most of the books offered by Dorling Kindersley.

These four books are currently on pre-order from Amazon with availability announced for October 2021:

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Publisher Dorling Kindersley (DK) announces the release in September 2021 of a new LEGO Harry Potter book oddly titled "Hogwarts at Christmas"and accompanied by a minifigure. This 80-page book will offer a retrospective of what the LEGO Harry Potter range has to offer and you will have recognized the Harry Potter minifig already seen in ballroom this year in the sets 75948 Hogwarts Clocktower et 75981 Advent Calendar 2020.
Nothing crazy then, but there will be a few ultra-complete collectors to add this book to their library.

Below, the pitch of the thing:

The book is already on pre-order at Amazon:

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