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 ... 

If M6 tells us all day long that the six films of the Star Wars saga will be (re) broadcast from Tuesday, January 7, 2014, starting, and it is logical, with Episode I The Phantom Menace, another saga will also be broadcast in full tomorrow January 1, 2014 on France 4.

The channel will offer a 100% LEGO Star Wars matinee with the broadcast of LEGO Star Wars from 11:35 am: The Padawan Threat, followed at 12:00 by LEGO Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Ort then at 12:25 p.m. of the first episode of the LEGO Star Wars trilogy The Yoda Chronicles : The Phantom Clone, followed at 12:50 p.m. and 13:10 p.m. by the other two sections: Threat of the Sith et Attack of the Jedi.

The third part of this animated mini-series, Attack of the Jedi, is still unpublished in France, the other two have already been broadcast on France 3 in the youth program LUDO in early November and are already available on DVD.

The Padawan Threat et The Empire Strikes Out are also available in Blu-ray DVD editions with exclusive minifig offered.

Un "Triple Pack" DVD that The Padawan Threat, The Empire Strikes Out and the first two episodes of The Yoda Chronicles is announced for February 3, 2014.

(See the Blu-ray / DVD section on pricevortex.com).

History to get out of the marketing overdose of The LEGO Movie with which LEGO is flooding us via infomercials disguised as reviews aimed at convincing us to buy sets that we do not understand anything before even seeing the film of which they are drawn, here is the first figurine (Hasbro) inspired by the universe of the animated series Star Wars Rebels whose release will begin in the fall of 2014 and unveiled by the official site StarWars.com : The Inquisitor, in short the villain of the story recruited by Darth Vader to hunt down the Jedi.

LEGO should soon unveil its products derived from the future animated series, probably at one of the next Toy Fair which will take place in January and February 2014 in London (January 21-23), Nuremberg (January 29-February 3) and New York (February 16-19) and the character above will inevitably be entitled to his minifigure.

Note that in previous editions, photos were prohibited on the LEGO stand during the Toy Fair from London. If this is still the case this year, we will therefore have to wait for that of Nuremberg to have the first images of the novelties of the second half of 2014.

Minecraft fans, here's something to take stock of the ongoing development of sets in the format System based on your preferred license.

As you probably already know, LEGO has asked fans to get actively involved in the choices made for the development of this range, in particular by asking them to vote or to choose from the prototypes proposed by the team in charge. of this range.

You can participate by following in particular the dedicated facebook page.

The video below provides an overview of the progress of the project.