As expected, the September LEGO Shop promotion gets you the polybag 40076 Zombie Car as soon as your order reaches 55 € (The bag is automatically added to your basket). The shipping costs remain chargeable.

the and 10228 Haunted Houses should also become available for purchase in the next few hours, it is also presented on the home page of the LEGO Shop, even if the product sheet does not allow to add it to the cart for the moment. Its price is therefore € 179.99.

Nothing very exciting so save your money and quickly treat yourself to the 3316 LEGO Friends Advent Calendar 2012 available in stock at amazon.it before it runs out of stock worldwide ...

LEGO wants you to dream, guess, envision, hope ...

It is with this visual present on the back of the LEGO Club magazine from September-December 2012 (proposed by The Brick Life) that LEGO seems to announce the birth of something. But what ?

A new theme? Polar Xpress on the arctic exploration theme? Speedorz with futuristic racing gear? A new board game? who knows .... I'll leave you racking your brains and in the meantime I'm going back to work.

The title is the right one. So as not to reverse the roles ...
In short, LEGO has just published an official press release  to gargle its financial results for the first half of 2012.

Roughly speaking, the brand's turnover increased by 24% compared to 2011 with an increase in its Gross Operating Surplus of 41.7%. Paradoxically, the toy market suffered in early 2012 with an overall decline of around 4%. Mattel, the world's leading manufacturer of toys, admits a decline of 1.2% in sales for early 2012 while Hasbro is down 7.6%.

Group CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp attributes these exceptional results to the successful launch of the Friends range with sales that exceeded all expectations. The Ninjago range is also mentioned as a significant source of profit for the brand in 2012.

Sales in Europe grew 23% and Asia also grew significantly. LEGO now represents 8% of the global toy market globally, one point more than in 2011. To meet this increase in demand, LEGO is expected to create nearly 1000 additional jobs in 2012. The Monterey factories in Mexico and Kladno in the Czech Republic are already helping to improve production capacities. A new factory replacing the existing production structure will soon open in Nyíregyháza in Hungary. The Billund plant will also see its production capacity increased in autumn 2012.

Thanks WHO ?

South Korea is offering us some great things right now and it's not just PSY and its Gangnam Style...

Do-Hyun Kim aka stick_kim has just offered for download the pdf file of instructions to reproduce his Tumbler MOC. Everything is detailed, explained and illustrated in this 7.0 MB file that you can download directly from Brick Heroes at this address: Tumbler by stick_kim (PDF, 7.0MB).

One more Tumbler then, while waiting for the official camouflage version promised by LEGO in an upcoming set based on the blockbuster The Dark Knight Rises ...

To start the day off right, here is a little gem of animation with this brickfilm offered by BrotherhoodWorkshop and which shows us that orcs are not what we think.

The fluidity is perfect, the humor well balanced and the staging excellent. But make no mistake, this is a job done by a team of professionals with the right equipment to achieve this level of quality and rendering.

BrotherhoodWorkshop promises more videos to follow and you can follow their current projects on Facebook page.