LEGO has revealed (by mistake, it seems ...) the first image of the Rancor Pit on its ow.ly account.

And it is rather a good surprise. It's clean, it fits under the Jabba's Palace of set 9516 and the Rancor is really a success. Bravo LEGO on this one.

Afterwards, depending on the price, we can ask ourselves whether such a set makes sense without the 9516. But in the meantime, the more I look at this Rancor, the more I tell myself that it is better than a figurine. of bricks.

As announced in the Comic Con festivities program by LEGO, the first set of the LEGO The Hobbit range is unveiled on the facebook page from the manufacturer.

It is undeniably very successful, well in the spirit of what many MOCeurs are offering on this type of topic currently. Suddenly, we appreciate the level of detail and the ingenious use of certain parts. After that, of course, you have to love green ...

I am obviously joking with this title which does not pay tribute to the gift that has just given us _Tile with the instructions of his Tumbler.

Throughout this post, I never stopped praising _Tiler for his impeccable work, and you will now be able to reproduce this MOC, inspired by the work of ZetoVince (whose instructions you will find on this post), but improved in particular as regards the solidity of the machine.

You can download the instructions I compiled for you in pdf format here: Custom Tumbler - _Tiler (13.5 MB)

If you are not (yet) familiar with the work of _Tiler have a look his flickr gallery, and take the opportunity to thank him if like me you were waiting for these instructions. It will undoubtedly please him ...

 I specify that the pdf file was posted here with his agreement.

We continue with the exclusive San Diego Comic Con minifigs. So here's Shazam and Venom revealed a few moments ago on CNN website.

Well, Venom is not that successful. I prefer Christo's custom. Shazam, blah, this character doesn't attract me more than that, I don't really know him that well in the DC Universe.

I put below the photo I took of my custom Christo for comparison.

(Thanks to Derek and Eric for their emails)

A list of sets for the range LEGO The Hobbit is already listed on a German online sales site (spielwaren-kontor24.de) and even if we can still doubt the reality of the thing, we can legitimately think that we are getting closer to what will be the first wave of sets scheduled for December 2012. We therefore find:

79000 - Mystery of the Ring
79001 - Fleeing from the Mirkwood Spiders
79002 - Attack of the Wargs
79003 - Bag End
79004 - Barrel Escape
79010 - Cave of the Orc King 

Little or no details on the content of these sets for the moment, except that it is probably the set 79003 Bag End which will be unveiled today at Comic Con in San Diego ....