No, the Brickmaster license is not dead and buried, and even if no set is released under this label anymore, we still have the books / sets edited by Dorling Kindersley.
Two new Brickmaster products are expected for 2013 with:

LEGO Star Wars Brickmaster: Battle for the Stolen Crystals
The pitch: "Clone Commander Gree is on a mission to recapture the stolen lightsaber crystals by Commando Droid. Join the fight and build weapons and vehicles to help Gree with his chase.
Includes Clone Commander Gree and Commando Droid minifigures to bring the excitement to life."
In summary, two minifigs: Commander Gree and a Commando Droid as well as an assortment of parts to reproduce various transport vehicles.
Release scheduled for September 2013.

LEGO Legends of Chima Brickmaster: The Quest for Chi
The pitch: "Read photo-story adventures about the animal tribes of Chima, build the models from the story, then take the bricks apart to build the next adventure. Comes with 187 LEGO® bricks and building instructions for 16 models, plus two amazing minifigures."
In summary: Two minifigs and 187 parts to assemble 16 different models.
Expected release in May 2013.

Find these two books for pre-order on pricevortex.com by clicking on their respective names above.

You may have already seen this image (I received 72 emails to inform me of its existence ....), it obviously comes from from eBay where a vendor is offering the 2013 War Machine minifig for sale for just over $ 60.

I remain in my position as for the Iron Man helmet and now for War Machine: It's much too big, especially since in The Avengers for example, we can see that Iron Man's helmet is more of the type "second skin"than motorcycle helmet. And this helmet with removable face is not a sufficient element of playability which in my opinion justifies this aesthetic massacre.

On this new minifigure, the serigraphs are nice without being exceptional except perhaps those on the tiptoes which are simply ugly and unnecessary.

Watch the eBay seller in question, it regularly offers minifigs for sale that have not yet been marketed.

Miguel is writing to me this morning to point out a problem that may seem trivial to some but which may prove annoying for others who consider that at the price or we pay for our sets, we have the right to be demanding.

It turns out that the set from the LEGO The Hobbit range 79003 An Unexpected Gathering is delivered according to the boxes with two types of arches (Tan Brick, Arch 1 x 6 x 2 - 4114073 on the instructions of the set) different intended for the assembly of the window of the house of Bilbo: Some of these arches are indeed equipped with a plastic stopper making it possible to maintain the elements locked between two of these parts and others have just an empty groove there. The absence of this stop induces a floating of a few millimeters of the elements of the window which is for some quite unpleasant.

Unfortunately, it seems that the distribution of the parts concerned is random according to the boxes. Some buyers get the parts with the stopper pin, others get the parts fully hollowed out.

A dedicated topic was opened by Miguel on Eurobricks to try to determine the importance of the problem that several buyers of this box have already come forward to confirm.

The instruction booklet clearly shows this stopper in the center of the part's groove.

LEGO has been contacted regarding this issue, I will keep you informed of the response.

Here is the first episode of what was to be announced as an event and which has been the subject of a major teasing from LEGO in recent weeks.

In view of the first images, it looks more like advertising than a real animated series.

No line of dialogue, no scenario, just action scenes with the latest novelties from the LEGO Star Wars range ...

I'll let you judge with the video of the first part of the first episode below:

http://youtu.be/dGdhWDEAmvc

Come on, to complete this series of MOCs on Helm's Deep and because I know that there are a lot of Hungarian readers who visit the blog, here is a nice thumbnail offered by one of their compatriots Mihaly Toth aka Majkol, a freelance designer (see his website) LEGO fan.

The absurd but nonetheless epic scene in which Theoden, Legolas, Aragorn and the others come out of the fortress of Hornburg to go subdue the orc while awaiting Gandalf's arrival is interpreted here rather well.