04/02/2012 - 20:32 Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair - 9516 Jabba's Palace

Here is another video shot on the grounds of the Nuremberg Toy Fair by the guys from spieletest.at. From 1.0 minute, you will be able to see some images of the 2012 novelties and especially of some novelties scheduled for summer 2012. We briefly discover what could possibly be the roof of Jabba's palace from the set 9516 Jabba's Palace.

But we especially notice that the video does not dwell on the novelties that have not yet been officially announced and for which no official visual has been published.  

As with the photos published so far and which remain taken at a certain distance, with a resolution that does not allow you to zoom in to detect certain details, I think that LEGO has visualized all these pictures and has authorized or not their publication by selected sites like Slovene kocke.si or the Austrian spielestest.at, by leaving them a certain form of exclusivity on this European show and by imposing a reduced resolution and only wide shots.

This is how LEGO is creating the buzz, without offering too much to impatient AFOLs, but enough to allow them to generate hundreds of internet threads and keep the pressure on these new things.

03/02/2012 - 23:04 Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair - Quinjet - 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle

It's not really a detailed view of the set in question, but as Baal pointed out in the previous post, we can see a part of the Quinjet behind the two maxifigs and I zoomed in slightly on that portion of the image.

This gear, which will be available in the set 6869 Quinjet Aerial Battle including the minifigs of Black Widow, Iron Man, Thor & Loki, appears here by revealing a cockpit occupied by Black Widow, some flick-fire missiles, a piece of the fuselage and wings and probably some stickers. Difficult to deduce the general shape of the vessel, but what we see seems interesting.

 

03/02/2012 - 21:22 Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair 2012 - Iron Man & Thor maxifigs

For lack of minifigs, we are entitled to a photo, proposed by the site spieletest.at, Maxifigs of Thor and Iron Man exhibited during the Nuremberg Toy Fair. 

If this Iron Man maxifig represents on a larger scale the minifig that we will find in the sets of the second wave 2012, we will therefore not be entitled to the version that was presented in the catalog page of which i was talking to you three weeks ago. Yet the film trailer does indeed present Iron Man in his Mark VI armor ...

Regarding Thor, the maxifig is a carbon copy of the prototype presented in July 2011 at San Diego Comic Con.

 

03/02/2012 - 09:06 Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair: LEGO Star Wars 2012

Finally a visual of the Star Wars novelties of the second wave 2012 presented at the Toy Fair in Nuremberg with this photo published by the site kocke.si.

We discover on the left the set  9497 Republic Striker-Class Starfighter,  9515 Malevolence on the right and the two Planet Sets of the second series at the top right: 9678 Twin-pod Cloud Car & Bespin et 9679 AT-ST & Endor with a piece of the set above 9677 X-Wing Starfighter & Yavin 4.

At the far right at the bottom we see the nose of the Starfighter from the set  9498 Saesee Tiin's Starfighter.

The resolution of the photo is not very high, let's hope that the photographer will have taken a few more shots despite the ban on taking photos imposed by LEGO. 

 

03/02/2012 - 08:54 LEGO LOTR & The Hobbit Lego news

Nuremberg Toy Fair: LEGO Lord of the Rings 2012 

Here is the second photo from the Nuremberg Toy Fair and which was published by the site kocke.si.

We discover the sets of the first wave LEGO Lord of the Rings rather well presented. No close-up for the moment, but we hope that the brave photographer who dared to defy the ban imposed by LEGO will have zoomed in on a few sets ....