No, I'm not going to do like the LEGO blogs which all offered you the same thing today, namely the "new" MOC photos of Brandon Griffith aka icgetaway I was telling you about over a year ago in this article.

Obviously, the series of Star Wars chess games offered by this MOCeur is sublime in every way, but I told myself that I was not going to add a layer and bring out the same thing as all my neighbors. His flickr gallery can be found here if you want to jog your memory and enjoy some close-ups.

Instead, I offer you this X-Wing proposed by sok117. It's less repetitive, although you will surely see it elsewhere in the next few hours as well, but it allows me to offer you something fresh.

This X-Wing won't appeal to everyone, guaranteed. Moreover, the X-Wing is one of the rare vessels from the Star Wars universe around which an almost systematic discussion takes place between the fundamentalists of design and proportions and all those who sometimes prefer a little fantasy. to change the usual MOCs. Personally, I am always pleasantly surprised when a MOCeur attempts an original approach to the X-Wing, even if it is often at the expense of realism (I will not launch this debate between LEGO and realism, no I will not. ...) and the work of sok117 deserves your full attention.

So let's forget, the "too short","too long","too thick","not wide enough", to savor this MOC by telling himself that for each MOCeur who tries to reproduce the X-Wing and who publishes the photos of the result, there are many others who can improve theirs ...

The sok117 flickr gallery is here.

It is from readinga news published today on Brickset that I asked myself the following question (and my wallet too for that matter ...): Is it still worth trying to collect minifigs from the LEGO Super Heroes range when you see that some of them between them are difficult to obtain and that others are absolutely overpriced?

Many fans have gone head-to-head in purchasing LEGO Super Heroes sets as soon as they were released in 2012, and this range is obviously focused exclusively on the different characters that make it up, the rest of the sets being in the end only marketing packaging ensuring the filling of boxes containing the coveted minifigs. Accumulating the different heroes from the Marvel or DC universes remains the main motivation of many fans and we already know that if LEGO persists beyond a few waves of sets, it will be very difficult to obtain all the minifigs created by the manufacturer at unless you have the financial means to obtain supplies on the secondary market at indecent prices.

Huw Millington also asks himself the question of whether the frustration of not being able to complete a collection started at great expense will not encourage him to abandon altogether the idea of ​​having one day in his possession all of this collection. that LEGO was able to produce. LEGO seems to have decided to occupy the media space thanks to multiple exclusive products reserved for a tiny part of collectors, Americans moreover, and also seems to ignore the speculation inherent in the exclusive character of the collector's products offered. 

It is a strategic choice that is defended, and LEGO is not the only manufacturer to promote its products by the production of limited series accessible to a minority. But too much exclusivity risks tiring all those who are fond of derivative products of all kinds and who make the effort to put together a collection as complete as possible. The collector's sheet above, a single sheet signed by Daniel Lipkowitz, the author of the book LEGO Batman The Visual Dictionary, is for example sold on eBay for a few tens of euros.

And you what do you think ? Do you feel some frustration in front of these minifigs sold at a high price and which however will perhaps one day be essential for you to complete your collection? Do you regret having to ignore these products because of their price? Will you be able to settle for some super heroes and do without others?

Another summer review of a polybag, and this time it's 30162 Quinjet that it is. It is a good idea for LEGO to reproduce in mini size or tiny or micro (It's as you want ...) this machine seen in The Avengers and which was entitled to its LEGO System version in the set 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle (available for 62 € on amazon.it).

For once, the transition to the mini format is quite successful, the lines of the ship are there, and we really have the impression of being entitled to a miniature version of the System version.

This polybag is not yet available for sale on Bricklink or eBay, so we will have to wait to get it. It makes you wonder where Artifex gets all these exclusives now ... I see you coming, don't make me say what I didn't say ....

For the more daring or the impatient, the instructions for this polybag can be downloaded here: 30162 Quinjet.

(Thanks to Valentin for his email)

The Tumbler Madness doesn't seem ready to end, and ZetoVince responds to _Tiler's creations with its version of the well-named Tiny Tumbler.

Let's not forget that ZetoVince is a bit at the origin of this whole series of brilliant Tumblers with the one he proposed at the end of 2011 (see this article). Since then, the different versions of each other inspired by his work have followed one another. _Tiler also presented some mini tumblers of his own and ZetoVince has just made his counter-proposal with the model above.

Let's hope that this (almost) collaborative work will continue for our greatest pleasure and that LEGO is monitoring all this very closely in order to draw some good ideas that would please the fans that we all are ...

If you want to follow the constructive exchanges of the different MOCeurs around these mini Tumblers it is on flickr that it's happening.

We are starting to get used to these exclusive minifigs that LEGO sows everywhere: In video games (LEGO Batman II DC Super Heroes with Lex Luthor), in the books (Batman Electro-Suit in the encyclopedia LEGO Batman The Visual Dictionary), in the Blu-rays (Young Han Solo in the Blu-ray The Padawan Menace) ... And it seems that the video game LEGO Lord of the Rings whose release is announced for the end of October 2012 is no exception to this fashion.

Indeed, a guy who knows a guy who works at Gamestop could have obtained the still unconfirmed official information that the video game would soon be offered for pre-order in a limited edition accompanied by an exclusive Gandalf The White minifigure.

No trace for the moment of this offer on the site in question, but we still have time to see it appear. As usual, if you want to acquire the minifig on its own, you will have to turn to eBay or Bricklink.