LEGO has just announced the result of the second phase of LEGO Ideas evaluation for the year 2020, a batch which brought together 35 more or less successful ideas but which had all been able to gather the 10.000 necessary supports. This is the project Vincent van Gogh: The Starry Night submitted by legotruman (Truman Cheng) who is the only one to be definitively validated.

For those who do not know, the proposed project is a relief interpretation of the famous painting The Starry Night painted in 1889 by Van Gogh during his visit to the asylum of Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. Under the starry sky, we therefore find the Provencal village, a cypress and the Alpilles in the background. Even if the subject is the fruit of a tormented mind, the official product that will be inspired by this project will undoubtedly offer a new "relaxing" lifestyle experience for stressed adults. All that will be missing is the soundtrack with the cicadas to accompany the assembly.

Everything else goes directly by the wayside, for undoubtedly various and varied reasons which are not officially communicated by LEGO. Exit Ratatouille, Night at the Museum, Portal, Community, Animal Crossing, Naruto, Avatar and company, the message is clear. If these licenses, series, films or characters are ever to arrive at LEGO, it will most likely not be through the LEGO Ideas range. Too bad for the Trabant, for once we could have gotten a square LEGO car that's like the real one ...

The real good news of the day for me: The project Sonic Mania - Green Hill Zone by Viv Grannell, which was still under review since the first phase of the 2020 review, the result of which was announced in September of last year, is also definitively validated. LEGO confirms that the project is now in the adaptation phase to become an official product and that SEGA is in the game. I remind you that Sonic is not a stranger at LEGO, the character was the star of one of the extensions of the late concept LEGO Dimensions (71244 Sonic The Hedgehog Level Pack).

If you have time to spare, you can always try to guess who will be the winner of the next review phase, the results of which will be revealed next summer. We can already eliminate at least the Colosseum (already done), the Boeing 737 (too many crashes), the game that we do not understand (we understand nothing), Fall Guys (the hype has fallen), Avatar The Last Airbender ( license already rejected today), the Bag End (already done), the MRI scanner (too depressing), the garbage truck (too CITY) and the Modulars (preserve).

As planned, LEGO is launching today the second phase of the vote imagined to designate the theme of the set which will have the honor of celebrating the brand's 90th anniversary in 2022.

LEGO had announced that the three most popular themes would be retained following the first phase of the vote, but ultimately four themes are in the running. Among the thirty themes listed during the first step, LEGO had proposed many sub-ranges of the Castle universe which had obviously led to a fragmentation of the votes. To save the furniture, LEGO is therefore reintegrating the universe in question in the MCQ put online today under the global name Castle. So you have to choose between four themes instead of three: Bionicle, Classic Space, Pirates and Castle.

For those interested, in the initial vote it was the Bionicle universe that won with 24.799 votes. The Classic Space universe finished in second place with 18171 votes and the Pirates theme finished third with 15884 votes. By grouping together the votes directed to the different subcategories of the Castle universe, the theme would have won the day with 33489 votes out of the 77000 votes cast ... (see the summary of votes on the LEGO Ideas site)

The result of this new stage of the consultation carried out by the manufacturer with the fans will not be made public before the announcement of the commemorative set, which is obviously not for now.

If you want to make your voice heard, it's at this address it happens. You have until February 10 to come forward.

If you like small seasonal LEGO sets, the Easter one, the reference 40463 Easter bunny (293) is now available on the official online store at the public price of 14.99 € /18.90 CHF.

As for the teddy bear in the set 40462 Valentine's Brown Bear (245 - € 14.99), the bunny is placed on a buildable base and is here accompanied by two colored Easter eggs. Under the plates that close the support, you will find a slightly coarse carrot that you can possibly remove to hide a few small chocolate eggs. Nothing crazy, but the bunny is pretty cute.

It is one of the most coveted boxes of the beginning of the year 2021: After being out of stock almost from its launch, the LEGO set 80107 Spring Lantern Festival (99.99 €) can be ordered again with a shipping date announced for February 10th.

If you plan to add to your collection this beautiful box of 1793 pieces that I told you about last December on the occasion of a "Review ", now is probably the time to take action.

If you fall for it now, know that you get a copy of the LEGO set 40417 Year of the Ox (167) which is offered from € 85 purchase without range restriction and the LEGO Friends polybag 30411 Chocolate Box & Flower (75) offered from 40 € of purchase without restriction of range. These two products will be available until February 14 if stocks are not exhausted before that date.

Update : shipping date now announced for March 3, 2021.

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THE SET IN BELGIUM >> THE SET IN SWITZERLAND >>

Today we discover one of the next sets offered by LEGO on the official online store and in the LEGO Stores with the visual of the reference 40450 Amelia Earhart Tribute briefly put online then withdrawn by the South African brand Great Yellow Brick which manages several LEGO Certified Stores.

As for the set 40410 Charles Dickens Tribute, this new box pays tribute to a historical figure and it is the turn of the aviator Amelia Earhart to pass into posterity at LEGO. She was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane in 1928, a feat she repeated alone in 1932 aboard her red Lockheed Vega 5B.

The aviator disappeared in 1937 during an attempt to travel around the world via the equator. Since its disappearance in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, several hypotheses have circulated and some even claim that the crew engaged in espionage activities on behalf of the American government by photographing Japanese military installations. Following a fuel exhaustion and ditching near Saipan Island, Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan were reportedly captured by the Japanese and executed.

LEGO therefore pays tribute to this aviation pioneer by reproducing the Lockheed Vega 5B used for her solo Atlantic crossing in May 1932. The set will be offered by LEGO under the condition of purchase, we do not yet know how much minimum it will be necessary to spend in France to obtain this small box. We do know, however, that we had to spend at least 150 € to be offered the set. 40410 Charles Dickens Tribute during Black Friday 2020.

This is not the first tribute to this aviator, one of the 21 series collectible minifigs (ref. 71029) already featured the red plane and its pilot, difficult not to make the connection: