This is not an info that will prevent you from sleeping, but since it is calm on the Star Wars front, we put our teeth into a bit of everything we find ...

In summary, Shell signs partnership with Ferrari and LEGO to allow you to get these Racers / Ferrari mini-sets for a full tank and a few extra tickets, it will change you stainless steel cutlery or comics ...

A choice :

30190 150 Ferrari Italia
30191 Scuderia Ferrari Truck
30192 Ferrari F40
30193 Ferrari 250GT Berlinetta
30194 458 Ferrari Italia
30195 Ferrari FXX 

The promotion is currently starting in Hong Kong (from August 1 to September 30, 2012) and should reach our regions shortly. Hopefully it arrives in France one day, many enthusiasts of the brand with the prancing horse will not fail to rush on these mini-sets which seem rather successful.

Interesting exercise from ZetoVince which offers in the form of an animated GIF the assembly instructions of his version of the Tiny Tumbler inspired by that of _Tiler that he presented to us a few days ago.

Click on the image above, and the animation will start with 46 steps taken from views obtained in LEGO Digital Designer (LDD) which should allow you to reproduce the machine without too many problems. The concept is interesting, but it has its limits: As this is a reduced size MOC, the 46 steps can be merged into an animated GIF without weighing down the final image too much.  

But a larger MOC could not benefit from this processing without seeing the final image reach a size that would no longer allow it to be displayed online without too long a loading time. It would then be necessary to turn to a classic video animation to keep an exploitable result.

I hesitated to post this video here, I am usually very critical of the mass of very average brickfilms that flood YouTube ... But this one is a bit peculiar, it was shot as part of the competition Super Hero Stop Motion Cinema Contest hosted on FBTB using the app LEGO® Super Heroes MovieMaker available on the App Store which I told you the greatest good (or not) in this article.

And Zane Houston, the director of this brickfilm, proves us here that this application allows us with a little talent and a lot of patience to achieve beautiful things. His film is superbly staged, lots of action, smooth movements (as much as possible with this Stop-Motion editing app) and a tracking system for his iPhone worthy of the LEGOllywood studios .....

And have you tried this application?

We will not all agree on this creation of Omar Ovalle. Some will find it too simplistic, but remember, however, that the man's objective is not to create UCS of 5000 pieces but rather to offer sets in the spirit System of the brand. 

Here, Omar Ovalle revisits Cad Bane's speeder from the set 8128 Cad Bane's Speeder released in 2010. After all why not, this alternative speeder is quite convincing, and you can see many other creations of the same style in the flickr gallery from Omar. The photos are sublime and the visual of the fictitious box that accompanies each MOC is a real added value to better appreciate the whole.

Nuju Metru (see these articles about him) went to the end of his project which aims to create a parallel range of sets inspired by the trilogy Lord of the Rings.

Here is the result of his work on the third part The Return of the King culminating in the recreation of the siege of Minas Tirith. It's beautiful, it's clean, it's designed as official sets with the right ratio of parts / minifigs / price / playability / etc ... We would gladly buy this type of set and we hope that LEGO lags behind. other on the flickr gallery of this gentleman to catch some good ideas ...

I probably get a little carried away, but when I see what LEGO has presented us with Bag End at the last San Diego Comic Con, first set of the range The Hobbit, I can't help but think that the manufacturer takes the work of the fans on this line and is inspired by it to come up with something attractive, well finished and original.

The future will tell us if LEGO keeps an eye on the most interesting MOCs on offer lately, and if collectors will be able to afford sets that really meet their expectations and requirements ... 

(Thanks to mandrakesarecool2 in the comments)