The always eagerly awaited newsletter intended for VIP customers (pretty much everyone ...) has just arrived and LEGO is really going all out to spoil us from September 1 to 30, judge instead:

50 VIP points are offered as a bonus for the purchase of sets 6868 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout (59.99 €) and 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle (84.99 €) ... Not 45, not 47 but 50 points! Or 2.50 € on each set to be used on a next order ...

Fortunately, it is possible to find these sets much cheaper elsewhere on the internet (the 6868 is at 43.60 € on amazon.it, and 6869 is at 62.19 € on amazon.es) ...

And that's all. You can therefore put away your VIP card and go back to your usual activities.

Those who have received their copy of the book LEGO Batman: The Visual Dictionary were able to discover these photos of prototypes of machines intended for superheroes. I'm still waiting for mine, amazon promises delivery for ... soon.

We discover over the pages a section devoted to the prototypes made by the designers of the range, with the Bane mount, before it was modified to give the machine that we know delivered in the set. 6860 The Batcave, a vehicle model for Mr Freeze made by Marcos Bessa (Designer who has worked on the entire DC Super Heroes range) but above all a version of the Invisible Jet of Wonder Woman, a ship difficult to reproduce anyway, since it is normally ... invisible.

It is not known if this jet will ever be available as a set in the Super Heroes range, or if Mr Freeze will be delivered with a supercharged snowmobile type machine in the next wave of DC Universe sets, but these prototypes are still very interesting to discover ...

(The photo comes from Eurobricks, I just cut out the gear to make them more presentable).

Always in line to offer its reviews of the latest novelties, Artifex presents the mini Slave I accompanied by the Boba Fett manifig of the exclusive Celebration VI set.

It's folded in 1 minute and 40 seconds, and it's the time you have to be convinced to spend a hundred euros in this set printed in 1000 copies and numbered available from many sellers on eBay.

If you have friends in Belgium, get back in touch with them right away by pretending to check in with them, you are going to need them ...

Indeed, the Belgian newspaper The Latest News  launches from September 15, 2012 a cycle of 10 weeks during which the newspaper will be sold (1.95 €) accompanied by LEGO polybags (City & Friends). Each polybag will contain a unique code that must be entered on the operation site and which will allow you to win a trip to LEGOland or one of the 100 LEGO City boxes in play.

The list of polybags:

Week of 15/09: 30019 Fire Helicopter
Week of 22/09: 30100 Andrea on the Beach 
Week of 29/09: 30018 Police Microlight 
Week of 06/10: 30100 XNUMX Mia & Skateboard
Week of 13/10: 30017 Police Boat 
Week of 20/10: 30102 Olivia & Desk
Week of 27/10: 30152 Mining Quad
Week of 03/11: 30103 Emma & Car
Week of 10/11: 30010 Fire Chief
Week of 17/11: 30105 Stephanie & Mailbox

Certainly, the Monster Fighters range is talking about it at the moment (not that in good elsewhere ...) and Brickset unveils a new (again!) Polybag of the range with the reference 5000644 distributed during the FanExpo which was taking place in Toronto this past weekend.

Nothing very attractive in this bag: 12 pieces, including a skeleton, a bat, a fluorescent spider, two crystals and a spider web, and a sheet of stickers ...

These polybags are used more and more by LEGO which declines them in all the sauces and for many ranges (Star Wars, Super Heroes, Lord of the Rings, etc ...). And if (European) collectors are tearing their hair out to bring them together, their usefulness in the promotion of LEGO products to potential customers clearly no longer seems to be demonstrated ...