Walmart will not have waited for the date set by Disney for the official announcement of the LEGO Star Wars sets 75304 Darth Vader Helmet (834 - € 69.99), 75305 Scout Trooper Helmet (471 - 49.99 €) and 75306 Imperial Probe Droid (683 - € 74.99) and these three new features are already online on the brand's website.

On the menu, two new helmets that will join the references 75274 Tie Fighter Pilot Helmet (€ 59.99), 75276 Stormtrooper Helmet (59.99 €) and 75277 Boba Fett Helmet (59.99 €) already on the market and a reproduction of the Probe Droid with its snow-covered display and its small presentation plate.

We will talk about these three sets in more detail in a few days.

(Seen at Walmart: the set 75304 Darth Vader Helmet here, the and 75305 Scout Trooper Helmet there and the set 75306 Imperial Probe Droid here)

The March 2021 issue of the official LEGO Batman magazine is available at newsstands and allows you to get a Batman minifig with its buildable jetpack. The minifigure is the one seen in many sets in the LEGO DC Comics range since 2019, so there is little more than the bag that is unheard of here. For € 6.50, it's meager. Too bad the publisher of this magazine is not a little more daring on the choice of minifigs provided, there is however plenty to do in the DC Comics universe.

If you absolutely want to replicate the supplied jetpack and bat grapple, I've scanned the instructions below for you:

To be continued in June 2021, Robin who will be included with the next issue of this magazine and the minifigure announced is the one already seen in 2020 in the set 76159 Joker's Trike Chase. Not sure that the bat-surfboard provided is enough to justify the purchase of the next issue. It's up to you.

LEGO today unveils the set 10283 NASA Space Shuttle Discovery, a large box of 2354 pieces designed in partnership with NASA which makes it possible to assemble the Discovery orbiter and the Hubble space telescope put into orbit during the STS-31 mission launched on April 24, 1990. Discovery has been retired since 2011, the orbiter is now on display at the Udvar-Hazy Center at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.

LEGO had the choice between the five variants of the shuttle used for the 135 missions of the Space Shuttle Program from 1981 to 2011: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavor, and some rumors that circulated on social networks at the beginning of the year evoked Columbia in this box. LEGO obviously does not market an orbiter that disintegrated on its return to the atmosphere and focuses on an event that also marked the history of the conquest of space, but in a less tragic way.

This exhibition product which ignores the rest of the elements of the shuttle, the tank and the two lateral thrusters, offers some refinements that should delight fans of the space conquest with the possibility of inserting Hubble in the hold of the l orbiter, to stage the extraction of the thing via the remote manipulator arm and to store the two elements side by side on a shelf, all embellished with relatively elegant supports and two presentation plates highlighting some facts.

The landing gears are retractable, the extractable cockpit well integrates the crew seats with a realistic layout, the balance between visible tenons and smooth surfaces is fairly homogeneous and the finish of the tanks is very correct. There are three barrels at the rear at the level of the reactors, I am not a big fan of this solution, but we will do with it. Dimensions of the object: 55 cm long, 34 cm wide and 21 cm high.

To install Hubble in the hold, it will first be necessary to remove the two solar panels in the deployed version and replace them with the extensions supplied which embody the "rolled" panels visible on one of the official visuals.

Big handful of stickers on the program with enough to dress the outside of the orbiter and above all a whole layer of shiny stickers which reproduce the cooling panels installed on the interior surface of the two cargo bay doors. The Hubble telescope is covered with elements in metallic Silver and the two solar panels are flexible pad-printed parts on one side which must be taken great care to prevent them from deforming.

This set will be available on the official online store from April 1, 2021 at the public price of € 179.99. Members of the VIP program will also be able to afford a reproduction of the Ulysses space probe launched by the same orbiter in October 1990. This bonus will not be offered, it will be necessary to sacrifice 1800 VIP points to obtain the code to enter in the basket during the checkout. 'an order, i.e. the equivalent of around € 12 reduction on a future purchase.

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(The link to the shop redirects to the version of the official shop for your country of connection)

Amazon is currently offering a flash sale with an immediate reduction of up to 35% on a selection of sets including some LEGO Harry Potter, Star Wars, Marvel, Technic, CITY, Ninjago or Architecture references.

Some examples: The LEGO Harry Potter set 75948 Hogwarts Clocktower is 64.99 € instead of 99.99 €, the set 75969 Hogwarts Astronomy Tower goes to 73.99 € instead of 109.99 €, the LEGO ART set 31200 Star Wars The Sith is 79.90 € instead of 119.99 €, the set LEGO Marvel 76166 Avengers Tower Battle goes to € 68.99 instead of € 94, the LEGO Star Wars set 75284 Knights of Ren Transport Ship is € 47.90 instead of € 69.99, etc.

The proposed reduction sometimes even exceeds the 35% announced if we take into account the official public price and not the price usually charged by the brand which is already well below the LEGO price.

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The rumor of the opening of a fourth European LEGOLAND park located in Belgium had already been circulating for many months, but no official statement from the main party had so far really formalized the existence and progress of this project.

This is now the case with a press release published by the company Merlin Entertainments which confirms that the group is seeking to expand its European presence and is very interested in setting up in Belgium a few kilometers from Charleroi.

Merlin also confirms that the project has received a favorable reception from the various regional managers and that negotiations will begin with the Walloon investment fund SOGEPA specializing in the reconversion of former industrial sites and owner of the land on which the park would be. implanted.

The park would initially occupy only part of the land of Gosselies used in the past by the Caterpillar company and the unused area could possibly be used for a future extension or more simply be converted into green spaces.

Nothing has yet been signed, the Gosselies area near Charleroi is the one that remains a priority on this issue, but it will be necessary to wait for the various stakeholders to come to an agreement, in particular on the financing of the project. Merlin Entertainments announces that the final decision will be made when the health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting restrictions are behind us.

If this new LEGOLAND park were to open one day, it would be the fourth in Europe after Billund (Denmark), Windsor (UK) and Günzburg (Germany). Elsewhere in the world, the opening of the new New York park is expected to take place within the year and locations are planned in South Korea and China by 2023.