Because here we are talking above all about the LEGO Star Wars range, but I can not help digress from time to time depending on the news, return to the main topic with this commissioning work carried out by Omar Ovalle for the next New York Honey Day (The day of honey ...).

This event will take place on July 31 in the New York park to visit absolutely if you go to the USA known as "The High Line".

We therefore obtain an improbable mix between R2-D2 (The model that served as a reference for this creation is that of our Frenchie DanSto I was telling you about in this article a few months ago) and Maya the bee ...

The concept is fun, the mix of colors fits the theme and the execution is impeccable.

For the anecdote, Omar raises bees on the roof of his house located in the heart of Queens. When I met him in New York I was surprised to discover the two huge beehives on the roof in the middle of the other buildings.

Two new products have already been announced for 2014 with a set of LEGO Creator Expert 10243 (formerly Modular) on the menu, the name of which reveals the contents of the box, the "Parisian-Restaurant", and a new cargo ship from the Danish company Maersk with which LEGO has had a partnership for many years.

The first sets resulting from the partnership between the two companies date back to 1974 with the first container ship (1650), followed in 1980 by the first truck also dressed in the Maersk colors. Other sets were subsequently marketed including the train set 10219 (2011) and the cargo boat set 10155 (2010) which is itself a reissue of set 10152 released in 2004.

These sets have become very popular with MOCeurs mainly because of the presence of an exclusive color used only for sets in the range, The "Maersk Blue", with however some slight variations in color due to the two production waves, the first dating from 1974 to 2006, the second from 2006 to the present day.

The news of the company Maersk could be at the origin of the contents of the box: The first cargo boat of the new fleet Triple-E just launched in South Korea in June 2013 and LEGO could immortalize the event with this set. Maersk has ordered twenty of these boats, the largest container ships in the world, slower but more economical and environmentally friendly than their predecessors.

As for the "Parisian" restaurant, I'm waiting to see what LEGO will offer us. Undoubtedly a building with a terrace, awnings on the windows and glazed frontage, to stick to the typical design of the restaurants of the capital. But the term "Parisian" is so overused that it is better to be careful ...

The LEGO Creator Expert Parisian Restaurant set (LEGO reference 10243) is expected to retail for around € 149 and the Maersk cargo ship (LEGO reference 10241) is expected to retail for around € 129.

This information is distilled in a dropper on the various forums of AFOLs, inevitably with the complicity of LEGO, and I will not fail to post you here the future details which will be revealed gradually to fuel the buzz ...

Amazon has just put in pre-order the 5th and final season of the animated saga The Clone Wars as well as a box set comprising the complete 5 existing seasons.

Release date announced in France: October 16, 2013.

No information for the moment on the bonuses provided, and in particular on the presence or not of unpublished episodes of the 6th season never broadcast on TV.

We will certainly know more about this during Celebration Europe II which takes place at the end of July in Germany.

In the meantime, you can pre-order the editions below with guaranteed price adjustment in the event of a drop before the effective availability of the boxes:

The Clone Wars Season 5 (DVD) 39.99 €: Click here
The Clone Wars Season 5 (Blu-ray) € 44.99: Click here
The Clone Wars The Complete Seasons 1 to 5 (DVD) 124.99 €: Click here
The Clone Wars The Complete Seasons 1 to 5 (Blu-ray) 159.99 €: Click here

(Thanks to Venator for his email alert)

It's the funny story of the day, and better to laugh about it than start arguing about it: John St-Onge, 63-year-old Canadian retiree and LEGO fan wanted to go to LEGOLAND.

But the AFOL in question is very ill and therefore limits the risks to his health by going to the LEGOLAND Discovery Center in Toronto (CA) instead of attempting the expedition to Billund.

So far all is well, the gentleman arrives at the entrance of the park accompanied by his (older) daughter. And there is the drama: Impossible for the fan of LEGO to access the park, it is imperative to be accompanied by a child.

It is also written in full on the park's website: "... Adults must be accompanied by a child to visit the LEGOLAND Discovery Center ... "See at this address). The management of the park does not let go and AFOL turns around. End of the story. Or not...

The grandpa fan of small bricks tells all the media about the insult he suffered, talks about his immense disappointment, and the anecdote spreads dazzlingly on social networks and news or geek sites with many details on the state of health of the gentleman, his shattered dream, the absurd nature of this rule, etc ... and where those who find this rule of admission scandalous and those who hide behind the protection are gnawing at each other of children: A single adult in a children's amusement park may be a sexual predator, you never know.

On the LEGO side, let's calm things down, the man will be able to attend one of these evenings specially organized in the park for adult LEGO fans. And we maintain that this rule cannot be broken regardless of the (good) reasons. A single incident would be enough to ruin the reputation of the park and the image of the brand would inevitably suffer. Visitors would no longer be confident, and the snowball effect fueled by the same media that now cry injustice would end up transforming LEGO parks into haunts for pedophiles.

As far as I'm concerned, I agree with the firm position of the park management. And even if the sick grandpa is a priori a good true LEGO fan, the conditions of access to the park are clear and accessible and they must be respected, for the good of all and the safety of our children.

Just a note, let's avoid gutting ourselves in the comments ;-).

You'll have to get used to it, with the San Diego Comic Con opening its doors next week and the hundred or so characters announced, the LEGO Super Heroes video game will be talked about a lot.

I am not looking forward to this game as much as the possible minifigs of the characters that LEGO will deign to market. Whatever technical innovations the game will benefit from, we can already predict that it will be about beating baddies / collecting coins / opening doors / turning cranks / building bridges / solving simplistic puzzles, etc. All the usual ingredients which make the success of these games but which I nevertheless got a little bored with the different versions released in recent years. Destroying everything with the Hulk or making Iron Man fly won't be enough to stand in front of my console for very long this fall, but I will.

It is via the official LEGO blog from the section dedicated to video games we learn that Victor Creed alias Sabretooth (The other mutant with claws brilliantly embodied by Liev Schreiber in X-Men Origins: Wolverine and also present in the first installment of the X-Men saga under traits of Tyler Mane) will be one of the countless playable characters (in free play) of the game. The mutant, whose only image available is the visual above, will be one of the villains to beat in the last level of the game. 

Granted, this isn't the scoop of the century or the most essential character on our minifig displays, but it's a good start.

The pace of announcing the various playable characters is expected to pick up next week at the Marvel panel at San Diego Comic Con where the game will take pride of place.