08/03/2012 - 11:12 Lego news

Marcos Bessa - LEGO Designer

He is the type to whom we must complain or congratulate depending on the case because he is the origin of several sets of the LEGO Super Heroes 2012 range (DC Universe & Marvel).

To his credit : 6858 Catwoman Catcycle City Chase6860 The Batcave, 6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City or the latest news from the Marvel range with sets 6865 Captain America's Avenging Cycle et 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle.

Originally from Portugal and member of LUG Lusitanien 0937 Community since 2008 he joined Billund in October 2010 as a Designer.

Do not hesitate to visit his flickr gallery, he presents his work and comments on each image with some behind-the-scenes information on the design of these sets he worked on.

His blog: http://marcosbessa.blogspot.com/
His space MOCpages
Sa flickr gallery 

 

07/03/2012 - 15:51 Lego news

Tested.com: LEGO Super Star Destroyer VS. Lego death star

There are guys who spend their time as best they can and others who watch them ... tested.com, the brilliant idea that came to the two friends of the video is the following: Et si on balait un SSD (10221 Super Star Destroyer) against the Death Star (10188 Death Star) just to see ? (and to create some buzz)

The experience is not really conclusive especially when the guy who aims the Death Star with the SSD is a stick ... I'll let you watch, it's edifying ...

Well, after all, there is no breakage, it's LEGO ...

06/03/2012 - 22:23 MOCs

Star Wars Lightsabers (LDD) by Scott Peterson

I'm not always a fan of LDD (LEGO Digital Designer) creations ... But this time, I'm amazed.

These lightsabers are beautiful and I tell myself that LEGO would do better to offer us this kind of product in the form of a set in a special UCS range with presentation sticker and all the tintouin rather than certain sets seen and reviewed ...

A saber handle, a support, the minifigure that goes with it, a presentation sticker with some technical characteristics to do well and presto, packed it's weighed. The AFOLs would be happy and that would change us a bit from the Jedi Starfighters in the chain ...

Okay, no more dreaming, go to the flickr gallery of Scott Peterson to admire his (digital) work, you might have a dream tonight in which you will find these sabers in the toy department of your favorite store ...

 Star Wars Lightsabers (LDD) by Scott Peterson

06/03/2012 - 22:07 MOCs

4500 Rebel Snowspeeder Alternate Model 01 by Nicholas Foo

You are bored while waiting for the next stamped photos Confidential ? Going around in circles wondering if you're going to spend your vacation savings on the next wave of Star Wars sets?

So I have something to occupy you ... with the creations of Nicholas foo, a guy who has the privilege of being a LEGO® Certified Professional and who had fun a few years ago creating alternative models on the basis of official LEGO sets. 

So get out your bricks and get started with these models based on the sets below, the links of which will take you to the Brickshlef gallery of Nicholas foo where the photos and instructions are.

Not all in the best taste, but if you have some time to spare instead of watching TV, it's always a winner ... or not.

7250 Clone Scout Walker Alternate Model 01

7250 Clone Scout Walker Alternate Model 02 

7256 Jedi Star Fighter & Vulture Droid Alternate Model 01

4500 Rebel Snowspeeder Alternate Model 01

6205 V-Wing Fighter Alternate Model 01

7656 General Grievous Starfighter Alternate Model 01

7656 General Grievous Starfighter Alternate Model 02

 LEGO Star Wars Alternate Models by Nicholas Foo

06/03/2012 - 19:41 LEGO LOTR & The Hobbit Lego news

thelordoftherings.lego.com - Uruk-Hai, Gollum & Ringwraith

LEGO continues relentlessly uploading presentations long awaited minifigs from the Lord of the Rings range. On the menu these days, Gollum, that I had shamefully forgotten, a Nazgal ou ringwraith and Uruk-hai

The more I see these 3D renderings, the more I tell myself that in the end, all this teasing is very well organized to make customers' mouths water. Between the mini sites, video animations, 3D renderings, catalogs and box design, LEGO knows how to highlight its products, at the risk of creating a kind of general mini-disappointment when unpacking the set.  

If we look in detail at the visuals of the boxes of the Lord of the Rings range (This is also valid for the other ranges), we quickly realize that the substance of the staging has a lot to do with the staging. value of plastic. Once on the shelves of your favorite stores, attracted by these ultra-luscious visuals, you buy a staging, with all its possibilities, and its part of dreams ...

But admit that the Mines of Moria on the living room table with its pretty red and white checkered tablecloth or Helm's Deep on the blue low-pile carpet in the bedroom, it immediately makes you feel worse ...

In short, marketing is obviously king, and over the months of cleverly conducted teasing, a product is visually printed in its most idealized form.

Unpacking the long-awaited set is a bit like a hangover after an evening of drunkenness: It's hard and sometimes we regret having committed some excess ....

Moreover, this is my question of the day: Have you ever been frankly disappointed after buying a set and waiting for more, without really knowing what, than the few bits of plastic it contains?