Here is the gift given this year to all employees at LEGO: The 4000007 Ole Kirk's House set that some of you must have already seen somewhere: It was given in 2009 to those who could afford a "Inside Tour"from the manufacturer.

The brick-walled house in this 910-room set, built in 1932 and located in the center of Billund is also known as "Lion house".

This is the place where the first ABS plastic bricks were produced by Ole Kirk Christiansen, the founder of the LEGO company.

LEGO has just communicated the results of the traditional "AFOL Survey" from the third quarter of 2012.

In summary and to keep it simple:

2500 answers (only) AFOLs over the age of 13 were registered in this survey.

Most of the participants are in the age group 25 44-years. 8% of the people who answered the questions (in English, this is important to understand these statistics) were women's.

Present in several = 58% of people who took the time to answer the questions are members of a LUG and report spending more than $ 100 per month on LEGOs.

Two thirds of participants say they are active in online communities (forums, facebook) at least once a week.

Present in several = 59% go to Forums spent on LEGO at least once a day.
Present in several = 33% visit one or more blogs on a daily basis.
Present in several = 31% are active on social networks on a daily basis.

Present in several = 85% of participants say they regularly visit Eurobricks and Brickset, 65% claim to be active there by participating in the exchanges.

Present in several = 90% of participants say they regularly visit YouTube to view LEGO content.

FBTB, 1000Steine ​​and MOCpages are also frequently visited by AFOLs according to their regional affinities. Brickshelf is lagging behind.

8 out of 10 participants say they regularly visit Lego cuusoo, On 4 10 only say they frequent Rebrick.

The number of survey participants is relatively low compared to the community concerned.

However, each announcement of a new survey is generally widely relayed on all blogs or forums in the LEGO galaxy, which attract tens of thousands of visitors. This low response rate therefore shows the lack of interest on the part of the fans for these austere, repetitive and laborious questionnaires.

Not surprisingly, Eurobricks and Brickset are to date the two largest communities in the world.
Rebrick is not celebrating with lower attendance, no doubt because of the redundancy of this site with flickr, MOCpages or Brickshelf.
Brickshelf which undoubtedly suffers from its obsolete interface, its validation processes for galleries from another time and its many technical problems.

The result of the Cuusoo review phase (See the official press release) has just been unveiled and there is a surprise: The DeLorean will be released in 2013.

For the rest, it's as planned: At the trap without qualms.

The Rifter because nobody cares and it won't sell, the Modular Western Town because in direct conflict with the new range The Lone Ranger and Zelda because it would take new molds that are too expensive , etc ...

Regarding the Back to the Future project, the model presented by m.togami and Sakuretsu is already very close to LEGO standards which will simplify the design and production phase, Universal agrees and the final product will be available in mid- 2013.

The AFOLs, often motivated by the intense lobbying put in place by the most influential sites, forums or blogs and which had massively supported the Modular Western Town project, are at their expense ...

No, it's not about Gordon's official minifigure which is available in the set 76001 The Bat vs. Bane - Tumbler Chase with Bane and Batman in version "The Dark Knight Rises".

This is the custom minifig of this character, sold by Christo and that I have just found wisely stored in its small round plastic box (Those who have already ordered from Christo will understand me).

The similarities between the two minifigs are obvious which reduces a little the interest of this type of alternative version too similar to the version "opening"LEGO.

Okay, I did my best with the mic Neimoidian Shuttle for the Federation of Commerce found in the box of the day.
This stuff isn't shiny, but it's still a few Tan pieces.

For those who have read elsewhere that LEGO should have put a Cheese Slope transparent instead of a Tan piece for the cockpit, good people know that there is a fully automated cockpitless version of this ship.

Below, I put you a picture of the Naboo N-1 Starfighter and the Royal Starship from the previous days, both reproduced by OB1 KnoB in Chrome Silver version who kindly sent me this picture.

Admit that it's still nicer and it probably wouldn't have cost LEGO much more ... We'll talk about it again tomorrow.