It was while going through a gallery of photos relating to the New York Toy Fair 2012 that I came across this general view of part of the LEGO stand.

And in the foreground on the left, we can clearly see that LEGO presented the series 7 (red box) and 8 (black box) of minifigs to collect in the form of neutral boxes crossed out with the mention Confidential.

However, we already know the series 7 minifigs (8831) which is advertised by the merchant Spielwaren Hegmann for May 2012.

To see more photos of the impressive LEGO stand, go to the flickr gallery from Creatacor make it happen.

A little break in this riot of photos of the Marvel 2012 novelties with this superb staging of Xenomurphy that you already know if you follow Brick Heroes. Indeed, I had already introduced you two of his most impressive accomplishments.

He's back with this extremely well-thought-out scene for which he used a fog generator and some LEDs which give this photo an incredible effect. The feeling of movement is made thanks to a clever placement of the minifigs.

To see more and discover this scene from another angle, it's on the flickr gallery from Xenomurphy that it's happening.

Come on, for fun, a close-up photo of the Troll from the set 9473 The Mines of Moria. Which brings me to a highly philosophical reflection on these figurines that are not minifigs. I really like big minifigures with LEGO sauce, even that of the Hulk about which I had some prejudices during the first presentation of the prototype. The Wampa, Tauntaun, Dewback, etc ... are all very successful. Paradoxically, I already like smaller or more compact minifigures less than classic minifigs like Sebulba, Gollum or Salacious Crumb.

On the other hand, the swimming pool blue color of this troll is a little weird. It seems to me that this critter is rather gray in the film and that it is the ambient lighting that gives it this bluish tint. But maybe I'm wrong ...

The news is significant, and paradoxically it is not commented more than that, or at least not as much as it deserves.

The LEGO Lord of the Rings range introduces a new horse model including the set 10223 Kingdoms Joust yet recently released does not benefit. This model is articulated at the rear end and will allow your valiant riders to take more realistic poses.

Beautiful technical innovation which brings real added value in terms of visual rendering but also playability on these sets. Nothing beats a prancing horse to give dynamics and a beautiful effect of movement to your dioramas.

I don't deny it: I like this Planet Series mini-range. It's cute, compact, it's collectable, it lands on a shelf without disfiguring the living room and it takes up the emblematic machines of the saga. But make no mistake, with this range, LEGO organizes and organizes what we already know with the range of mini sets in boxes or bags that can be obtained on Bricklink or eBay because we do not see them never arrive in France. We add the ball-planet plastic, a minifigure and presto it's done.

Where I'm going to complain again is when I realize that the set 9677 X-Wing Starfighter & Yavin 4 is none other than a vulgar repackage of the X-Wing of the set 30051 X-Wing Fighter released in bag in 2010, and reissued in 2011 with the new official look. An effort would have been desirable: change a few parts, change a color ... just to convince us that this model is the latest to date, and that it is better than all the others.

The and 9678 Twin-pod Cloud Car & Bespin is already much more interesting: I am not a Lobot fetishist as there are on various forums, but the unique minifigure of this character dating from 2002 (7119 Twin-Pod Cloud Car) deserved a new version. The machine is successful, as far as possible with as a reference the model of the film seen in theEpisode V The Empire Strikes Back which is awful all the same. Orange, red ... I prefer orange.

We will not dwell on the 9679 AT-ST & Endor. We no longer know what to do with all these AT-STs at all levels and at all levels.

Regarding the planets, I'm not sure what to tell you. It is a nice storage for the rooms. And maybe a nice Christmas decoration to put on the tree ...
Roughly speaking, if I listened to myself I would only buy the 9678. But that's without counting on the collection virus ... Well, at € 9 at P&P, we will survive ...