17/02/2012 - 11:16 LEGO LOTR & The Hobbit Lego news

9470 Shelob Attacks

I'm doing what you are right now, past the excitement of the announcement, I spend my time scrutinizing the hundreds of images of the sets taken by the lucky ones who were able to attend the New York Toy Fair 2012 and I just saw myself. realize a little late that the set 9470 Shelob Attacks will have a nice functionality. No, it's not flick-fire missiles for once, but Shelob's ability to weave his web to imprison Frodo.

The box of the set presented shows a white canvas, but the real model exhibited at the show has a black thread coming out of Shelob's abdomen.

In fact this set still brings together a good number of essential elements: The ring, Gollum, Frodo and Samwise; and it guarantees good playability for the youngest who will be able to replay the film scene endlessly. The red grapple which a priori represents Shelob's sting (????) would deserve at least one other color ...

We can clearly see this feature in the photos taken by FBTB during the show, and you can see more in the flickr gallery dedicated to this set.

9470 Shelob Attacks

16/02/2012 - 23:31 Lego news

It's nice to see, MED offers an excellent brickfilm with a complicated story of a machine that assembles a Y-Wing (9495 Gold Leader's Y-wing Starfighter) in the presence of Han Solo, Luke and Leia, all three in uniform Celebration, with flashing diodes, and a ship taking shape before your eyes.

Didn't you understand anything? So, watch this video, it's excellent (and reassuring) to see that here too we have brickfilm directors who know how to do something other than battles between clones and droids ...

MED, if you read me, will have to do the rest of the range now ... just to amortize the machine.

 

16/02/2012 - 20:09 Lego news

Darth Vader Desk Lamp

We no longer stop Georges Lucas and his band of marketing kings. Here are a few more LEGO Star Wars themed merchandise to add to the long list of lamps, key chains, and other clothing already available.

So on the menu: Darth Vader Desk Lamp (pre-order in the USA for $ 59.99), the     Stormtrooper Key Light ($ 11.99) or the Darth Vader Head Lamp (17.99 $).

With all this, you will be sure to have light on all floors ...

Stormtrooper Key Light & Darth Vader Head Lamp

16/02/2012 - 19:46 Lego news

New official Star Wars 2013 packaging

I told you about it in December 2011, Yoda was tipped to appear on official Star Wars merchandise packaging in 2013.

The site yakface.com confirms the rumor today with this official visual Lucas Licensing. It must be admitted that it has the mouth. We can't wait for 2013 ...

 

16/02/2012 - 19:40 Lego news

10225 SCU R2-D2

It is in this image that what appears to be the set 10225 SCU R2-D2 makes his first unofficial appearance. Nothing foolish, we do not see much and we will have to wait to see if this R2-D2 is really a good UCS well in the spirit of the range by its design and its level of detail ...

The designer of this set could be the friend Kurt (see the 10221 presentation video), who has already offered us the very good 10215 Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter and 10221 Super Star Destroyer

Note that this image was unearthed by Dar2k, bravo to him, it was necessary to find it .... 

The video presenting the set 10224 Town Hall in which this image appears in the very first seconds was passed in private mode on YouTube, probably as a result of this communication ball ... but it was re-uploaded by a YouTube user:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDj_zA1v450