Friends who are collectors of LEGO books and exclusive minifigs, know that a new updated version of the Character Encyclopedia LEGO Star Wars is announced at Amazon for April 2, 2020.

As with every update of the LEGO books published by Dorling Kindersley, this new edition will integrate the minifigs marketed since the release of the previous volume in 2015, including the different minifigs based on the film. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.

As usual, the 224-page book will be accompanied by an exclusive minifigure of which nothing is known yet.

This will be the third version of the encyclopedia of LEGO Star Wars characters, the first edition released in 2011 with an exclusive Han Solo minifig in "Celebration" version was followed in 2015 of a second volume with an exclusive Boba Fett minifigure.

Small update for those who prefer the French versions of LEGO books: the publisher Qilinn, which markets the localized versions in French, has put two eagerly awaited titles online at Amazon.

Build Your LEGO Harry Potter Adventure will be available on October 25, 2019 for € 28.95. As for the other volumes of the same collection, this is a collection of construction ideas (without instructions) accompanied by a set of parts.

The one provided here allows you to assemble a 2-in-1 model that features the Sorting Hat ceremony (Sorting Hat), a ritual that determines the home of all new students at Hogwarts. The minifigure delivered with this book is that of Harry Potter already seen in the set 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall and in the polybag 30407 Harry's Journey to Hogwarts, currently offered by LEGO.

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LEGO Ninjago Revised and Augmented Encyclopedia will also be available from October 25, 2019 at a price of € 21.95. On the menu for this update of the 2014 version, 128 pages gathering most of what the LEGO Ninjago range has been offering since its launch in 2011 and a (really) exclusive minifig: Sensei Wu in his younger years.

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I would point it out for those who are content to buy the cheapest version, whatever the language of the book: the English versions generally end up on sale for a few euros at Amazon, the price of the French versions remains stable even after several months of marketing. It's up to you. Up to you.

Each year, we are entitled to several activity books based on different licenses including the "Annual XXX"which are above all an opportunity to obtain some minifigs. The publisher Ameet has put the 2020 editions of these works under license online Star Wars et Harry Potter, which will be available from the start of the next school year.

In 2020, the Star Wars edition will allow us to obtain Biggs Darklighter in a version identical to the one seen in the set 75218 X-Wing Starfighter (2018) but without his helmet. Nothing exclusive, but collectors will console themselves with this "variant" of a character who is rather discreet in the LEGO Star Wars range.

The other Biggs Darklighter minifig available from LEGO was delivered in 1999 as a set 7140 X-Wing Fighter then in 2002 in the reissue of this box under the reference 7142.

The Harry Potter version will for its part be delivered with a Ron Weasley minifigure, here accompanied by Croutard, already seen in the set 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall (2018). This activity book, which will be available from September 1st, is already referenced at amazon at this address.

End of speculation around the buildable mini-model and the minifig that will accompany the book LEGO Harry Potter Build Your Own Adventure to be published on July 4th.

This is, as some had guessed based on the design of the temporary cover unveiled in October 2018, a 2-in-1 construction that allows you to stage the Sorting Hat ceremony (Sorting Hat), a ritual that determines the home of all new students at Hogwarts.

The minifigure delivered here is that of Harry Potter already seen in the set 75954 Hogwarts Great Hall and in the polybag 30407 Harry's Journey to Hogwarts, offered by LEGO in October 2018.

For those who do not know the principle of this collection of books accompanied by a few bricks, they are collections of construction ideas gathered with a more or less interesting story in common thread.

No explicit instructions, it's up to you to do some reverse engineering in order to reconstruct the proposed models. The inventory provided only allows the assembly of the * exclusive model. "For other models, make do with your stock of parts.

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We now know with certainty the "exclusive" model and the minifigure that will accompany the LEGO Star Wars book. Build Your Own Adventure: Galactic Missions to be published next August: it is a Cloud Car and a Bespin Guard. This is the sign Penguin random house who posted the final version of the cover.

We suspected that it was a Cloud Car since the presentation in November 2018 of the provisional visual of the book cover but it seemed logical to get the driver to go with it. Unfortunately, here it is a Bespin Guard who is in control of the Cloud Car ...

The 65-piece machine is designed in the spirit of the Microfighters range and is therefore logically less successful than the one delivered in the set 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City. The minifigure is the one already seen in the sets 75146 Star Wars Advent Calendar 2016 et 75222 Betrayal at Cloud City.

Those who were counting on the publication of this book to afford a Cloud Car Pilot at a lower cost for the moment only available in set 75222 sold € 349.99 will no doubt be disappointed. At the same time, the desire to protect the exclusivity of this Cloud Car Pilot probably explains the presence of a more common Bespin Guard with this book ...

Note that a Cloud Car Pilot is provided in the set 75245 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar 2019 (34.99 €) expected for the next school year.

For those who do not know the principle of this collection of books accompanied by a few bricks, they are collections of construction ideas gathered with a more or less interesting story in common thread. No explicit instructions, it's up to you to do some reverse engineering in order to reconstruct the proposed models. The inventory provided only allows the assembly of the * exclusive model. "For other models, make do with your stock of parts.

Availability of the English version announced for August 1, 2019. The previous volume of the collection Build Your Own Adventure on the LEGO Star Wars theme having been localized in French, there is a good chance that this new book will also be localized in the months following the availability of the original version:

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