08/09/2012 - 16:08 Shopping

You just saved 40 € on the set 10228 Haunted Houses thanks to the generosity (or incompetence, it depends) of LEGO?

So you have enough to offer yourself a few sets to complete your collection. Small recap of the best deals of the moment. Click on the name of the set to view the item at the relevant merchant:

8833 Minifigures Series 8 (Box of 60) 100.30€ amazon.fr
9525 Pre Vizsla's Mandalorian Fighter 39.89€ amazon.de
9498 Saesee Tiin's Starfighter 30.36€ amazon.es
9500 Sith Fury-Class Interceptor 70.19€ amazon.es
9516 Jabba's Palace 102.60€ amazon.es
6868 Hulk's Helicarrier Breakout 39.55€ amazon.it
6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle 61.50€ amazon.it
6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City 28.19€ amazon.es
9473 The Mines of Moria 68.98€ amazon.de
9471 Uruk-Hai Army 28.31€ amazon.es
3316 LEGO Friends Advent Calendar 2012 18.50€ amazon.it
6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City 28.19€ amazon.es
9396 Helicopter 62.76€ amazon.es
 
This list is not exhaustive, and to check if the set you are looking for has dropped or is currently on sale, go to pricevortex.com.
 
(Shipping costs to France:   amazon.es: €6.99 + €0.59 / kg - amazon.it: 7.00 € - amazon.de: €3.25 + €0.50 / kg - amazon.co.uk: £ 4.99 + £ 0.59 / kg- amazon.com: $ 6.99 + $ 1.99 / lb)
08/09/2012 - 14:48 Rumors

Small compilation of the weekend rumors gleaned from various forums (EB, Brickset, etc.), you can do what you want with it, it's a gift, it makes me happy:

- Lego tmnt : My source had told the truth, an Australian who works in a toy store had a visit from his LEGO salesperson and confirms on Brickset that this theme will come out well and that it is indeed based on the animated series which will be broadcast at the end of the month on Nickelodeon.

- LEGO City (Undercover?) : This same guy saw preliminary images of a set which could represent a robbery in a museum, with maybe a helicopter.

- Lego legends of chima : It will be a priori a theme with animals with a humanoid appearance (!) Brought to replace the Ninjago range. No more spinning tops, make way for a sort of flying propeller (Speedorz?) And Hero Factory type characters.

- Lego super heroes : Iron Man 3 and Man of Steel sets are on the program. The TDKR set with Batman at the controls of The Bat chasing Bane in his Tumbler is well confirmed once again.

- Lego galaxy : It seems that LEGO is going back to basics with a space theme. The person giving the info would have seen (or thought they saw) a "Galaxy Quest" style title for this range.

07/09/2012 - 16:06 LEGO LOTR & The Hobbit Lego news

Let's be clear from the outset: These aren't the MOCs of the century and Harry Russell aka Karrde isn't claiming they are, but there is a certain freshness to these three Lord of the Rings themed MOCs. It's simple, beautifully executed, perfectly photographed, with some great building ideas, and visually it works. I ask no more.

The purists will always be able to find some reproaches to make, but these achievements are not perfect reproductions of events or places of the universe Lord of the Rings, they do not have any more the pretension as the MOCeur says it. himself.
So let yourself go, take a look at his flickr gallery and you will discover some interesting details like the wall demolished by an angry Ent or the waterfall coming out of the rocks ...

07/09/2012 - 15:52 MOCs

Not much to eat at the moment: On the news side, it's stalled with a rumor from time to time and resellers who still hesitate to secretly publish the photos of the catalog intended for them. We are satisfied with very little, with a few set numbers and still no preliminary visual. If now retailers start respecting the privacy rules imposed by LEGO, where is the world going?

On the Star Wars MOC side, it's also a bit of a shortage. So to end the week before a beautiful weekend announced as very sunny and which already invites us to take the air rather than stay locked up in the haunted house of set 10228 acquired at a low price, I offer you this Beautifully crafted Cad Bane's Swoop Bike proposed by Omar Ovalle, which I would also have the opportunity to meet in the flesh during my trip to New York Comic Con.

07/09/2012 - 15:20 MOCs

I know, I know, we're only talking about Tumbler, Batpod and other Bat right now. The fault with The Dark Knight Rises which inspires the MOCeurs while waiting for another film to take up the torch. The Avengers has also inspired some MOCeurs, but it's not the Quinjet and Helicarrier overdose that one might have expected ...

In short, here are two MOCeurs which offer interesting things: j7boy shows us the total: The Bat, Tumbler and Batpod. It is very detailed, the three devices are very consistent with each other and on his flickr gallery you can admire them in detail. Special mention for The Bat, which here is as messy as the one in the film, and that's not a review. The complex side of the machine is very well rendered.

Jared Chan offers us an original and well thought out Batpod. but I'm going to tell you the truth, what I like most about this MOC is the support ... To see it from other angles go to on his flickr gallery.