Small editorial digression (although ...), to tell you about the new project initiated by Nicolas Forsans (Muttpop) the French publisher of our favorite LEGO books (LEGO Culture, LEGOramart, De Brique en Brique) which puts the cover back with a concept even more ambitious: The launch of a magazine aimed at geeks of all stripes (parents and children).

The support is logically (or not) called BREEKS and the fundraising campaign has already started on ulule.com with different levels, bonuses, pagination that increases with the amount collected, etc ...

It's too complicated to detail everything here, but I would like to inform you all the same that if you choose to participate in this operation by subscribing to the highest tier, you will get as a bonus one of the 200 exclusive and unseen minifigs of the "mascot" of the magazine: Super BREEKS!

I encourage you to take a walk on the page dedicated to the project, you will find all the useful information on this new medium, which promises to be rich in quality content. The AFOLs will obviously not be forgotten by Nicolas and his collaborators, specialists in geek culture: the gentleman is himself a big fan of LEGO ...

To get a better idea of ​​the type of editorial content that will be offered in this magazine, you can consult a few pages taken from issue 0 at this address.

Currently on newsstands, the January / February 2014 issue of the magazine Gulli Hero Special LEGO (5.50 €), with which is offered a Legends of Chima polybag.

At least two different polybags released in 2013 are inserted with the magazine: 30252 Crug's Swamp Jet or 30253 Leonidas' Jungle Dragster. If you find this magazine with another polybag (Le 30251 Winzar's Pack Patrol for example ...) do not hesitate to point it out in the comments.

As for the editorial content of this special issue, LEGO, Chima, more LEGO and even a competition to win many prizes.

Since we are on the subject, I remind you that there is also a magazine entirely dedicated to the Legends of Chima range which also includes an exclusive gift (Ewar and his Eagle Cannon with number 1).

(Thanks to Eithelval for the info and the photo)

Like some of you, I just received my copy of LEGO Club Magazine for January / February 2013. And I am both happy and disappointed.

Glad to see that LEGO has slipped between the pages the poster gathering the minifigs of the LEGO Star Wars 2013 range and that it is thus accessible to the greatest number without having to order with a minimum purchase to obtain it.

But I am a little disappointed (obviously, I always have a complaint under my elbow ...) to obtain this magnificent poster on such thin magazine paper. I would still have preferred to get it through the LEGO Shop for example, and on better quality coated paper. 

For the rest, this latest LEGO Club Magazine is pretty cool, given the audience it is aimed at, obviously with Legends of Chima everywhere (With tips and tactics for Speedorz in pdf), a little City comic book (And a pdf on fire safety), Technic (With instructions to assemble a dragster with parts from sets 42010 and 42011 in pdf format) of Ninjago (With a pdf on the Golden Dragon), the announcement of the arrival of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles range for April 2013 (The sets of the range had made a brief appearance on the LEGO Shop before being retired), and a really nice bonus with the instructions for LEGO Star Wars mobile repair shop. Click the image below to download it in pdf format.

If you haven't received this magazine yet, register quickly at this address, it will be sent to you free of charge.

Some of you already know this magazine published by the Spanish AFOLs ofHispaBrick. If the paper version is sold at a prohibitive price (on sale at this address but at more than 17 € ...), however, most issues can be downloaded free of charge. at this address in pdf format for offline consultation.

Lots of interesting content for this n ° 14 with in particular on page 95 an interview with Andrew Becraft, founder of The Brothers Brick, who looks back on the origins of the blog, its evolution, its functioning, its past conflicts with LEGO, its mode of financing via advertising, etc ...

Over the hundred pages of this issue, you will also discover many thematic articles: MOCs (Battlestar Galactica), technical tutorials (creation of mosaic), reviews of sets (10225 UCS R2-D2), reports of exhibitions or conventions, etc ... Everything is in the spirit of what we know with the reference magazine BrickJournal and can be read endlessly. The photos don't cannibalize the content and the text is well written.

If you read English and want to dig deeper into certain topics, this magazine is a great addition to your daily LEGO-style internet surfing.

Received today the January / February 2012 issue of LEGO Magazine. Nothing very exciting for AFOLs, but we are not the target of this support.

However, I note the presence of a short but nice 4-page comic strip on the Star Wars theme (of which I put a photo above) and in which we find the X-Wing of the set 9493 X-Wing Starfighter, the Tie Fighter of the set 9492 Tie Fighter as well as the minifigs of Luke and Jek Porkins.

This allows me to bounce back on the news of brick set about the release of a specific LEGO Magazine for girls highlighting the new range LEGO Friends.

I'm not sure what to think of this new range, but LEGO's strategic choice to divide the communication media according to the type of target does not seem to me to be wise. Bringing girls into the world of LEGO involves integration into the community of children who are LEGO fans, not by sectoring them into a pink universe populated by ice cream, puppies and pretty sports coupes.

You will tell me that the border between the two universes is porous and that the girls will be able to interact with the boys in the City universe for example. But I don't believe it, and the choice to design minifigs that are completely different from the ones we know may frustrate girls who show interest in classic LEGOs.

The future will tell if LEGO made the right choice, but as we have seen with other projects in fields such as video games, for example, LEGO is testing many concepts and will ultimately only keep those that are prove profitable over time.

The Friends range comes up against Petshops, PollyPockets, Zhu Zhu Pets and other Barbie dolls in a market that has its own codes and trends. The success of the range will largely depend on the possible contagion effect in schoolyards.