The actual availability date of the LEGO SuperHeroes set 10937 Arkham Asylum Breakout on the LEGO Shop has been brought forward to December 18, 2012 instead of the January 1, 2013 date originally indicated.

LEGO promises that any order placed as standard shipping on the LEGO Shop before December 19, 2012 at midnight will be delivered before December 24th.

But it should also be noted that for any order over 55 € placed before December 18, 2012 at midnight, shipping costs are free.

The calculation is quickly done, you have until December 18 to resign yourself to spending € 159.99 in this box of 1619 pieces and 8 minifigs.

I've seen it all: I want this set under the tree.

I warn you, I don't want to hear anyone complain in a few weeks about the difficulty in obtaining certain sets removed from the LEGO offer and whose prices will obviously skyrocket on the secondary market.

LEGO has updated its page "Retiring Soon"(Soon to be retired, if you prefer) dedicated to the sets which will soon be withdrawn from its catalog and we find there in particular the UCS 10212 Imperial Shuttle set.

If you had decided to wait a bit longer to offer it to yourself at a discounted price, it is almost already too late ...

All the speculators who follow the manufacturer's announcements very closely will be able to raise their prices on this set which remains undoubtedly one of the finest achievements of the Ultimate Collector Series range.

Below you will find the list of the sets announced as soon to be withdrawn from the LEGO catalog with the prices (updated in real time) currently charged on the various Amazon sites.

The official LEGO retail price is shown to the right.

10212 UCS Imperial Shuttle	-	-	-	-	-	259.99 €
7869 Battle for Geonosis	-	-	-	-	-	39.99 €
7877 Naboo Starfighter	-	-	-	-	-	49.99 €
9674 Naboo Starfighter and Naboo	-	-	-	-	-	11.99 €
3677 Red Cargo Train	-	-	-	-	-	149.99 €
10193 Medieval Market Village	-	-	-	-	-	99.99 €
10217 Diagon Alley	-	-	-	-	-	159.99 €
8043 Motorized Excavator	-	-	-	-	-	189.99 €
3182 Airport	-	-	-	-	-	86.99 €
3661 Bank & Money Transfer	-	-	-	-	-	49.99 €
3937 Olivia's Speedboat	-	-	-	-	-	10.49 €
3841 Minautorus	-	-	-	-	-	-
3856 Ninjago	-	-	-	-	-	24.99 €
3858 HEROICA Waldurk	-	-	-	-	-	19.99 €
4642 fishing boat	-	-	-	-	-	14.49 €
6228 THORNRAXX	-	-	-	-	-	9.49 €
6229 XT4	-	-	-	-	-	9.49 €
9483 Agent Mater's Escape	-	-	-	-	-	15.99 €
3178 seaplane	-	-	-	-	-	11.99 €
9441 Kai's Blade Cycle	-	-	-	-	-	15.49 €
9558 training set	-	-	-	-	-	19.99 €

The info comes to us this time from the Spanish forum of HispaLUG on which a user, who assures that his source is reliable, posted a list of LEGO Star Wars sets a priori planned for the second half of 2013 with their respective references:

75015 Corporate Alliance Droid
75016 Homing Spider Droid
75017 Yoda vs Count Dooku (Duel on Geonosis at Brickipedia)
75018 Yoda Chronicle (JEK-14's Stealth Starfighter at Brickipedia)
75019 AT-TE
75020 Jabba's Sail Barge
75021 Republic Gunship
75022 Mandalorian Speeder

These references further confirm the rumors circulating about a Swedish forum with in particular the possible remakes of the AT-TE, the Jabba's Sail Barge and the Republic Gunship.

It's on the forum of the Swedish site swebrick.se that a user who had access to the second half of 2013 retailer catalog posted some information about the sets from the second wave of LEGO Star Wars in 2013 (see here on Hoth Bricks) as well as the LEGO Lord of the Rings range scheduled for next year.

As for the new Lord of the Rings, he indicates that one of the sets would be based on the sequence "Battle of the Black Gate"from the Return of the King.

The set would contain Gandalf the White minifigs, a Witch-king of Angmar as well as 3 other unidentified minifigs.

The second set would be a boat, probably that of the Ghost Army delivered with 10 or 12 minifigs, some of which would be "immortals", probably the ghost pirates.

We will probably find Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli, all three protagonists of the landing scene seen in the Return of the King.

This information partly overlaps with what we had so far with 4 sets announced for 2013:

LEGO 79005 The Wizard Battle
LEGO 79006 The Council of Elrond
LEGO 79007 Battle at the Black Gate
LEGO 79008 Pirate Ship Ambush

I remind you that all these rumors have to be taken with great care.

Those who follow Hoth Bricks know my passion for the Midi-Scale which I talk to you regularly here on the occasion of the presentation of an MOC in this format which is perfectly suited to LEGO models.

If the manufacturer seems to have definitely abandoned the idea of ​​offering us a few ships from the Star Wars universe on this scale following the mixed success of the two excellent sets released in 2009 (7778 Midi-Scale Millennium Falcon - 50 € on Bricklink) and 2010 (8099 Midi-Scale Imperial Star Destroyer - 20 € on Bricklink), Brickdoctor persists and signs by reproducing daily under LDD (LEGO Digital Designer) the content of the Advent calendar but with a little more ambition.

The result is really convincing, as you can see with these three achievements already presented by this MOCeur capable of renewing itself every day and of offering high quality creations.

Brickdoctor also provides .lxf files which will be useful to all those who wish to be able to reproduce these MOCs. You can download them via the links below:

- Midi-Scale MTT
- Midi-Scale Star Destroyer
- Midi-Scale Gungan Sub

In 2011, Brickdoctor had already reproduced the Star Wars Advent Calendar with some superb MOCs whose .lxf files were also available (See these articles).

I will do a regular update on Brickdoctor's creations related to the content of the Star Wars Advent calendar, but you can also follow directly the dedicated topic at Eurobricks.