Now that the Max Rebo case is about to be settled, let's get back to serious business with one of the pleasant surprises among the minifigs of the second wave of LEGO Star Wars sets for 2013: Padme Amidala in her Episode II outfit (Attack of the Clones).

And LEGO didn't skimp on signs of femininity with this reproduction of Natalie Portman: Lipstick (pink), very drawn shapes, LEGO has gone all out without forgetting the three lacerations left by the nexu on his back. This minifigure which will be available this summer in the set 75021 Republic Gunship is a beautiful tribute to the character and the actress.

In fact, the more I think about it, the more I tell myself that this injury gives Episode II a little series B side ... In short, the minifigure is very correct, it may be missing some details including a belt and a Armband on Padme's right arm to be totally faithful to the outfit of the film, but it's already very good like that, especially after the two calamitous versions released in 1999 and 2011.

The visual above is a montage shamefully made by me from photos of FBTB and a capture taken on the site Massassi Order.

The reveal was terrible: I'm not one of those Star Wars fans who know every detail, every line of dialogue, and every creature that crosses the screen for half a second, and so I was shocked to learn that Max Rebo, the musician blue elephant, will be entitled to a more than approximate minifig ... And for good reason, Max Rebo has no legs (or arms, it's up to you) .

Some of you probably already knew this, but as far as I'm concerned, it's from reading this article on Starwars.com that I realized: LEGO has done anything with this character that will be delivered to us in the next set 75020 Jabba's Sail Barge. I add more, of course, but it has to be admitted once and for all: Max Rebo has only two members.

LEGO is not the first (nor the last) to give Max Rebo 4four members when he only has two. Kenner already took liberties with this character in the 80s by marketing a figure with legs. 

After reading this interesting article on Starwars.com Proving that the creature in question was designed with two limbs and not four, I told myself that LEGO was no longer an approximation of the Star Wars universe and therefore I had to make myself a reason.

After all, it will be enough to remove his two dwarf legs to Max Rebo for him to be finally faithful to the model of the film. He'll look (silly) half a minifigure, but he'll finally look like the character as Phil Tippet imagined him to be.

Sorry to all those who are exasperated by this Harlem Shake fad, but as for the video I posted on Brick Heroes I thought that this one deserved a passage on this blog so it is successful ...

Unless you live in a basement with no internet access, you know the Harlem Shake.

Everyone is currently going for their two-step streak with a few seconds of big nonsense.

Sorry to pollute you with that here, but this SpastikChuwawa brickfilm deserves its 40 seconds of fame. It's so well staged that I couldn't resist ...

When discovering the first visuals of the Iron Man 3 sets, we could legitimately have some doubts about the minifig representation of the character of the Mandarin, played on the screen by Ben Kingsley.

Un new "teaser" poster for the movie just unveiled and it stars the villain of Iron Man 3.

We can therefore even better assess the minifig version of the character and it is still very approximate: The beard is a little exaggerated, the face very generic, and the costume a little too simplified especially at the level of the legs.

I expected better for a key character in the Iron Man universe played by a famous actor.