It is thanks to someone who has the reseller catalog for the second semester that we were able to discover yesterday some preliminary visuals of the new lego star wars expected in mid-2014.

Here's another photo from one of the pages in this toy pro-only document confirming that the X-Men and Guardians of the Galaxy sets will be releasing this year. We see Magneto and Storm (obviously preliminary versions) and we can see a piece of the GotG franchise logo on the right page. On the complete image, we can see Wolverine on the right corner of the box and a piece of what could be the Blackbird at the top of the image.

No other information for the moment, the teasing is laborious and the images are distilled drop by drop by the person in possession of this catalog on his Statigram account...

Update 05/01: An online merchant (http://shop.kiddiwinks.co.za) reference 4 upcoming Marvel sets: 76022 for the X-Men franchise and 76019, 76020 and 76021 under the generic Marvel label.

Less exciting, after the 30300 The Batman Tumbler As seen on eBay, a new LEGO Super Heroes polybag with a bat-vehicle was referenced by Brickset: 30301 Bat Wing.

Do not waste your time watching YouTube videos that take up the preliminary visuals of the 2014 novelties above, go directly to the source at this address ou at this address...

We discover the minifigs of the set 75051 Jedi Hunter (including JEK-14), as well as an overview of the sets 75052 Mos Eisley Winery, 75054AT-AT et 75055 Imperial Star Destroyer. Also see the series 3 of bags from the LEGO Mixels range and in a corner on the AT-AT page, the Ghost of the set 75053.

Three new LEGO Star Wars polybags have also appeared at brick set : 30244 Anakin's Jedi Intercept, 30246 Imperial Shuttle, 30247 ARC-170 Starfighter. The visuals below are taken from the instruction files in pdf format. These sachets will join 2012 Star Wars polybags, which were very successful.

For visuals relating to the LEGO Super Heroes range, see on Brick Heroes.

Boat lovers, you will be served with this new set from The LEGO Movie range: Metalbeard's Sea Cow (LEGO reference 70810) whose original image was posted on Eurobricks, and retouched by me for more readability.

2741 pieces for this huge pirate ship whose sails are made up of Technic panels, five minifigs: Emmet, Wyldstyle, Metalbeard, Vitruvius and Benny and a flying cow ...

No idea for the moment of the public price of this box which could be exclusive to the Lego shop.

Update: The US public price will be $ 249.

Happy New Year to everyone on January 1, 2014.

This is thanks to a Hungarian merchant site (legomarkabolt.hu) that the list below of the novelties of the second half of 2014 could be established on Eurobricks. It's not officially confirmed, but it's a good start.

We will obviously remember the return of the range Agents, the remake of the Mos Eisley Winery (Finally with a new Dewback?), At least one Star Wars Rebels themed set with the iconic ship from this new series: The Ghost (Visual above), a AT-AT of more than 1000 pieces or several remakes to scale System : B-Wing, ISD and Snowspeeder.

As for the LEGO City range, no fire trucks but a polar theme with arctic vehicles and stations and two trains.

The merchant site also lists three new products in the LEGO range. The Hobbit : 79015, 79017 and 79018, without however indicating the names of these boxes. Two new LEGO features Technic are also listed without further details: 42029 and 42030 (1626 p.).

Funny situation on the market for counterfeit products, some manufacturers are now inspired by customs offered by some sellers. Obviously, it is difficult to claim ownership of a design used by a Chinese manufacturer specializing in counterfeit LEGO products. No one will therefore legally prevent the Decool brand from supplying itself without notice or contract with original designs to offer, as is the case here, new products.

With this batch ofIron men, Decool was therefore "inspired" by the creations of HJ Media Studios, some of which are printed and marketed by Minifigs4u. The designs are almost identical, and the final rendering is in any case much superior to a good part of the customs currently circulating on the parallel market, whether they are made in pad printing or digital printing. And for 9 € the 6 minifigs, delivered in an attractive packaging and accompanied by a few parts and a mini-comic, I think the calculation is very quickly done ...

Print quality is uneven on the legs and torsos where the alignments are sometimes very correct but often rough. The helmets are even less successful, with some burrs and other tasks that spoil the final rendering. The minifig is of fairly good quality, unlike what I had observed on counterfeit TMNT (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) products from the same manufacturer: Even if the minifig itself is overall of lower quality than the version official LEGO, I do not notice any transparency effect on the plastic, the torso does not crush under the pressure of the fingers and the helmet fits perfectly on the head with double impression of the face. Looks like the manufacturer has made really big progress in a few months, except for faces that have very poor print quality (burrs, off-center, misalignments).

I am far from the idea of ​​making the apology for these poor quality products, but I just underline the fact that sellers of custom minifigs are going to have to improve their printing techniques even further in order to hope to compete with these products sold for a handful of euros. We can always take comfort in thinking that the minifig sold by Decool is not an official LEGO product, but I'm not sure that the argument will hold up for long with fans in the face of the ridiculous price asked for these minifigs. There are already many collectors on flickr who have fallen for these minifigs.

Decool, by marketing certain products whose versions Mark 39 Gemini (3rd from the left) and Mark 41 Bones (4th from the left) of the Iron Man armor that LEGO does not produce, therefore becomes a seller of custom minifigs like any other, who produces his own minifigs ...