The February 2023 issue of the Official LEGO Star Wars Magazine is now available on newsstands for €6.99 and it allows us as expected to get a minifig of Bo-Katan Kryze, a minifigure so far exclusive to the LEGO Star Wars set 75316 Mandalorian Starfighter marketed in 2021, delivered here without the character's additional hair.

In the pages of this magazine, we discover the minifig that will accompany the next issue announced for March 8, 2023: it is a 212th Clone Trooper seen identically in three copies in the set 75337 AT-TE Walker (139.99 €) marketed since 2022.

For those who are interested, I remind you that the instructions of the different mini-models delivered with this magazine are available in PDF format on the publisher's website. All you have to do is enter the code on the back of the bag to obtain the file.

Finally, be aware that it is always possible to subscribe for a period of six months or a year to the official LEGO Star Wars magazine via the abo-online.fr platform. The 12-month subscription (13 issues) costs € 76.50.

LEGO today officially unveils the ICONS set 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell, a box stamped ICONS which will be available at the retail price of €499.99 in a VIP preview from March 5, 2023 before global availability scheduled for March 8.

In the box, 6167 pieces to assemble Imladris (or Rivendell or Rivendell or Fendeval) and 15 minifigs: Gandalf le Gris, Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Merriadoc “Merry” brandybuck, Peregrine“Pippin” Tooke, Legolas, Gimli, Gloin, Boromir, Aragorn, Elrond, Peredhel, Arwen, Bilbo Baggins and some generic elves.

As you can see from the visuals, the 72cm long and 39cm high construction is divided into three sections: the tower, the Council table and the Gazebo with the Bruinen river and the bridge. The construction is obviously more ambitious than that of the set 79006 Council of Elrond marketed in 2014.

Members of the VIP program who acquire this big box when it launches will also receive a copy of the LEGO BrickHeadz The Lord of the Rings set. 40630 Frodo & Gollum (184 pieces - 14.99 €) which I spoke to you about recently to thank them for their selflessness. The offer will be valid until March 7, 2023.

We will quickly talk in more detail about the contents of this big box.

10316 THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RIVENDELL ON THE LEGO SHOP >>

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

This is confirmed via the page dedicated to promotional offers on the official online store LEGO: VIP points will be doubled from February 10 to 16, 2023.

Those who have had the patience to wait until then can therefore accumulate double points on their purchases and use them later to obtain a small reduction on their future orders. You can obviously combine this offer with those currently in progress (see the Good Deals page).

When it comes to converting your points via the rewards center and generate the code to be used on a future order, you no longer risk making mistakes because the interface that allows you to generate these codes has been modified for several months and they are valid both online and in LEGO Stores .

750 accumulated VIP points give the right to a reduction of €5 to be used on a future purchase on the official online store or in a LEGO Store. The coupon generated will be valid for 60 days from the date of issue.

It's a revolution! The world has been waiting impatiently for this product and it is finally available: the LEGO reference 5007289 Brick Scooper Set is on sale on the official online store for the modest sum of 17.99 € and it allows according to the official description to win "up to 40% less time compared to storing by hand".

In the box, two storage shovels and a brick separator, nothing more, but there is therefore in principle enough to pick up bricks without getting tired and optimizing the time devoted to this tedious task. The larger of the two, the blue one, measures 19 cm long by 13 cm wide. The smallest, the red one, measures 12.5 cm long by 9 cm wide.

In use, we cannot really say that it is convincing: the lip which should in principle pass under the bricks that we are trying to pick up is too thick and not beveled enough. It is therefore necessary to constantly "help" the bricks to fit into the space provided by pushing them by hand. The only significant gain in productivity is linked to the possibility of picking up more bricks at the same time than by taking them by hand and watching the smaller ones fall which will then have to be picked up.

It also lacks an important element directly related to the principle of the product but the visual on the packaging does not lie about it: something to gently push the bricks towards the container, like a small brush. Even if it means innovating in such a disruptive way, I would also have added a handle to the bottom of the shovels to be able to hold them properly.

But the experienced designers behind it will no doubt have imagined that it would then be impossible to use these two shovels as lockers for storing pens and mail. The secondary use of the product following the disappointment linked to its manifest ineffectiveness was planned from the start, it is well seen.

It is clearly indicated on the packaging, it is not a product manufactured directly by LEGO, it is the company Room Copenhagen which is responsible for producing these shovels under official license and everything is made in China. note that the name of the product on the box indicates that three "pieces" are present in the packaging, there are actually only two shovels and the separator counts as an element in its own right of the product. The public price pill of this box, 18 €, will therefore probably go a little better this way.

In short, it is in my opinion a product whose usefulness is frankly questionable, but the presence of the LEGO brand logo on the packaging will be enough to make it an original gift when it comes to pleasing a fan. unconditional who considers that because it's LEGO, it's necessarily the most beautiful thing he's seen in his life. Otherwise, with 18 € on hand, there is still enough to buy a real set which will undoubtedly also be very pleasant.

Note: The product shown here, provided by LEGO, is as usual involved. Deadline fixed at February 16, 2023 next at 23:59 p.m. Just post a comment under the article to participate. Your participation is taken into account regardless of your opinion. Bricks and other accessories used for the test are not provided.

Update : The winner was drawn and notified by email, his nickname is indicated below.

Let's pretend we haven't seen anything so far and enjoy the short teaser sequence that LEGO is offering us today around a box which should therefore be officially unveiled very quickly.

We distinguish very well the subject treated in this box via the reflection in the ring, it is about Rivendell, and we know that it is about a product including minifigs of which at least a hobbit. For the rest, we will have to wait for the official announcement of the product concerned.