You might as well tell you right away, this contest is reserved as usual for Americans and Canadians (except Quebecers ...). Sisi, it's written very small at the bottom of the presentation page.

In short, this contest aims to motivate LEGO fans by offering them a reward of $ 1000 to create a vehicle, submit their photo, get the maximum number of votes, win the competition and see their creation appear in the film soberly. titled LEGO The Motion Picture which will be released on February 28, 2014 in theaters (see this article).

As much to say to you that the photo gallery already looks like the big nonsense, and it will not go smoothly ...

If you want to know more, go to this facebook page dedicated to the event.

Star Wars Celebration (VI) is the annual must-see event for Star Wars fans, taking place this year from August 23 to 26. And it looks like LEGO wanted to be (very) present with a rather imposing stand ...

No doubt about it, LEGO will unveil some novelties for 2013 during this event. We have acquired via JediNews a pre-list of what should be on the program and we still have to discover all this in pictures from tomorrow.

ToyArk.com (which could avoid the filthy watermarks placed right in the middle of the photos ...) is on site and already offers a photo gallery preparations for the fair, including the LEGO stand and the sculptures on display.

Well, I waited to have a little perspective on the thing before writing here and I want to be precise not to say anything ...

As some of you already know, the set 10228 Haunted Houses of the Monster Fighters range has suddenly seen its price increased by 40 € on the official LEGO site to go from 139.99 € to 179.99 €.

Recall the facts:

The Haunted House set 10228 went online in early July 2012 on the LEGO Shop UK at the attractive price of 139.99 €, with the impossibility of ordering it due to its availability date fixed on September 1, 2012.

The version of the set page still present at this time in the Google cache is dated August 17 and still displays the price of 139.99 €.

As soon as the price changed to 179.99 € (i.e. 40 € difference) by LEGO on the night of August 20 to 21, 2012, the AFOLs realized this significant upward price change and decided to request an explanation from the manufacturer via the contact form on the official website.

Un Brickpirate forum member got a response from LEGO to "explain this rate change".
The customer service person responsible for responding to the query includes this sentence in their response: "... I was amazed to read that the price had changed, so I checked with our product specialist and she confirmed to me that the price in Euros was posted at € 179.99 on our site from the start. .."

However, on August 17, 2012, the product page displayed the price of 139.99 € as I indicated to you above.

It therefore emerges that the person who answered gave false information. Blatant lie or incompetence? At this stage, difficult to judge, only one response of this type has been sent for the moment. Others who also contacted customer service by email have yet to receive a response.

What to think of this price change made long after the product was put online and just before its actual availability?

Error when uploading? It's hard to believe. This set has fueled all conversations and the price difference seen with other countries has been mentioned often on the forums. Someone at LEGO should have known this long before.

Rate change planned in advance? I find it hard to admit that LEGO uses this type of marketing technique to create demand and buzz around an upcoming product and then reindex its price discreetly overnight.

Note that the official LEGO press release, extensively relayed by the various sites dealing with the latest news from the manufacturer and sent for the launch of the product in early June 2012 mentioned the following prices:

"... US $ 179.99 CA $ 199.99 FROM 149.99 € UK 119.99 £ DK 1499 DKK ..."

It clearly contained an error because the price of the set on the German site is currently 179.99 €.

Anyway, it's bad publicity for the manufacturer with French AFOLs who are already some to have expressed their dissatisfaction by email. A gesture on the part of LEGO would be appreciated.

Error is human, correcting it is legitimate, recognizing it would be honest, compensating for it would be smart ...

Small quick clarification, following comments and emails received mentioning the above image found by some in Google images.

These are NOT the official minifigs planned for 2013. The symbol used for the packaging comes from a creation proposed by a fan (see this article).

The real 2013 packaging with the official illustration is presented in this article.

ALL visuals currently circulating with these minifigs of Clones Phase 2 in The Clone Wars sauce (Season 4) are fromone and the same project presented on Cuusoo by ZSpace.

Don't be fooled, the official images have yet to be shown, and the reseller catalog pages that a Eurobricks forumer may have discovered, appear to contain only preview minifigs.

Well, I agree, the image above is not exceptional at first glance.

Although if you take a closer look, you will see that it is a presentation of an MOC of mmccooey which details all the points of articulation of the Spider-Man figurine he presents.

And there are no less than 48 points of articulation that open up multiple possibilities that I let you discover on the flickr gallery of the MOCeur through the many photos that are there ...

We reach new heights when it comes to playability with this type of Action Figures, and LEGO should think about taking an idea or two to mmccooey for his next figurines.

The man is not at his first attempt and you can also go admire Dead Pool et Batman, both designed in the same spirit and presented in detail in their dedicated spaces.