18/12/2013 - 11:45 Lego news

LEGO Minifigures: The Online Game

We're talking about the next LEGO-style MMO again with this new video presentation of the game uploaded by Funcom and which illustrates the words of Lawrence Poe, executive producer of the game.

With the ghost of the late LEGO Universe MMO hovering over this new online-exclusively game which will be available on PCs and tablets in mid-2014, the development studio Funcom is doing everything to explain that the accessibility of this new online game will be optimized for young players, under the control of their parents, and that the game will obviously be centered on minifigs but also on the construction of elements allowing to progress in the game, that there will be many worlds to visit, etc. .

It is still planned to be able to use codes available in the sachets of minifigs of the series 12 available in the fall of 2014 to unlock the digital version of the character contained in the sachet (Thanks to the Skylanders concept of Activision, which told me. 'elsewhere very expensive in figurines ...). Access to the game will be free, with no doubt the possibility of purchases in-game without which I don't see how the development studio is going to make it profitable.

Un site dedicated to the game has been put online with the possibility of unlocking minifigs by collecting the stars scattered in the different sections, forcing you to visit all the pages and click on all the links. Attention, these minifigs unlocked in your profile on this site will not be unlocked in the game, it is written in very small. On the other hand, it is indicated that if you reach level 30 on the site, you will be able to unlock an exclusive minifig in the game.

It will not be possible to customize the characters in the game, their skills and appearance will be defined and frozen. On the other hand, it will be possible to make them progress to increase their capacities. 

Note that you can also identify yourself on the site with your LEGO profile (that of the LEGO Shop) and sign up for the next phase of beta testing.

17/12/2013 - 18:08 Lego news

Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu

Here are nearly five minutes of never-before-seen footage from season 3 of the animated series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu whose broadcast will begin in 2014 in the USA, and no doubt in the aftermath with us.

For the record, this video (in English) can be unlocked on the channel's website cartoon network using a unique code that is on a poster distributed at Toys R Us (USA) that we will probably never see reach our regions. So here it is in full below.

You can repack Chima, Ninjago is back in force ...

Note that a film is also in preparation, with production Chris Miller and Phil Lord, the two directors of the next film The LEGO Movie. While writing the scenario, we find the brothers Dan and Kevin Hageman, already authors on the animated series Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu et The LEGO Movie.

To accompany everything, a few boxes are obviously planned. The visuals of the new sets are in the dedicated album of my flickr gallery.

16/12/2013 - 22:47 Lego news Lego stores

LEGO Store @Disney Village

The soap opera has never ended since the construction accident which saw the false ceiling of the future LEGO Store in Disney Village collapse last September.

Several times postponed, the opening is now scheduled for the end of December (the 30th normally).

As stated on the forum Disney central plaza, Store employees will begin training on December 20 and then set up the store as of December 23.

The photo of the progress of the work above was published on facebook on December 3 by InsideDLParis

I'll be at Disneyland right after Christmas, but a priori too early to be able to go for a walk in this LEGO Store that we are promised as the largest in Europe.

If you have any other information to share on the topic, feel free to comment.

76014 Spider-Trike vs. Electro

View for sale on eBay, Electro minifig from the LEGO Marvel set 76014 Spider-Trike vs. Electro that we have already discovered on the official visuals.

We can see better in these images the head and the translucent polycarbonate arms of the minifigure.

I would have preferred the whole minifig to be polycarbonate, but LEGO apparently does not use configurations where polycarbonate parts are connected together due to the very high coefficient of friction of this material which makes it difficult to take two parts apart.

This would explain, apart from any artistic choice, that the minifigure is in ABS plastic for the torso and legs and in polycarbonate for the arms and head.

The design of the minifig is directly inspired by the Ultimate version of the character as he appears in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man.

16/12/2013 - 15:56 LEGO LOTR & The Hobbit Lego news

LEGO The Hobbit

Warner has just uploaded the trailer for the LEGO The Hobbit video game which includes the content of the first two films of the Peter Jackson cinematographic saga: An Unexpected Journey et Desolation of Smaug.

The characteristic atmosphere of the films and the epic side are there, no doubt ...

The LEGO The Hobbit game will be available in 2014 on Xbox One, Xbox 360, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Wii U, Nintendo 3DS, PC and Mac.