Since we are in the LEGO catalogs for 2013, you can also download german version, the one that allowed us a few weeks ago to obtain the first images of the sets of The Lone Ranger range.

We learn that the two series (3 and 4) of the Planet Sets range will be available in May 2013, in Germany anyway.
And as for the Italian catalog, no trace of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles range ...

Note that the series 3 of the Planet Sets range is already listed at amazon since mid-December but without sale price or availability date.

It is thanks to a link posted by GRogall allowing to download the LEGO catalog (in Italian version) for the first half of 2013 we discover the first image of the next LEGO Architecture set: 21017 Imperial Hotel.

As some had rightly assumed when the name of the set leaked a few weeks ago, this is a reproduction of the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo built in 1890 and modified by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1923.

It is probably not what we call a monument or a "popular" building, but as often in the Architecture range with one or two failures, it still throws a lot.

Note the absence in this Italian catalog from the first half of 2013 the absence of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles range ...

I know, my title is a bit like false advertising (uh the ugly one).

But the information, if it is incomplete, is true: By purchasing the set 76001 The Bat vs. Bane - Tumbler Chase, you will get inside the box a (unique?) code in the format XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX which will allow you to obtain for free the lego batman pc game (The one released in 2008) via the Steam platform (see this link).

This is not the gift of the century, but we'll be satisfied with it. A code to unlock some bonuses and other characters in LEGO Batman 2 DC Super Heroes would have been more appropriate, however.

Yoda just announced on his blog (!) an official launch date for The Yoda Chronicles: It will be January 5, 2013.

The Jedi master, however, is stingy with information and gives no further details.

Below is the trailer for this animated series again.

Here is the first image of the next Modular set in the Creator Expert range unveiled by GRogall on Eurobricks (probably with the agreement of LEGO ...): The 10232 Palace Cinema set obviously (vaguely) inspired by Grauman's Chinese Theater from Hollywood.

I'm not a huge fan of this line of buildings, but I have to admit that this one is, visually anyway, quite nice. Tan, Dark Red, nice curves, a nice roof, a limousine, projectors, 6 minifigs: Another top sales in perspective.

Edit: Grogall just sent me the French version of the image above.