While the board games released by LEGO usually go almost unnoticed by AFOLs, it is one that many are eagerly awaiting. My little finger tells me that it's not necessarily to spend long hours around frenzied games, but rather to get my hands on the series of microfigs than the game 3866 Battle of Hoth will contain.

I'm not a fan of these games offered by LEGO even if they have the merit of allowing quick games with relatively simple rules. This set 3866 Battle of Hoth I'm obviously interested in the ten or so miniatures provided, and I think we should see many mini / micro scale MOCs featuring these characters when the game is released, scheduled for February.

So a question torments me: Are you going to buy this game? if so, will you buy it to play with or just get the microfigs? I think I know the answer but I only ask to be surprised by your comments ...

There is the set tree 9489 - Endor Rebel Trooper & Imperial Trooper, some will be satisfied with it, and others like HohesC prefer to build a real Ewok hut with its platform perched on top of a tree in the forest of Endor.

The result is really interesting, the SNOT platform wonderfully reproduces the wooden floor and allows to exhibit many minifigs, and the slope en Trans Green do not shock me: they make a credible foliage on this scale.

To see more, visit the topic dedicated to this MOC at Eurobricks.

It's Samuel, a young and loyal reader of this blog, who points out to me this once again disturbing and disappointing detail: The box and all the official visuals of the set 6864 Batmobile and the Two-Face Chase presented Two-Face and his two henchmen with a colored hand Light Flesh and the other Dark Bluish Gray.

Everyone who has received the set so far has obtained minifigs with two hands in Light Flesh.

This type of error, no matter how small, should not happen. The consequences are minimal for consumers, but again this error will fuel a hypothetical speculation on the exit of the set with the hands in. Flesh et Dark Bluish Gray as presented on the box.

Thanks to eric_maniac for permission to use his photo below.

For this first MOC of the year, Omar Ovalle offers us a beautiful creation with this very ingenious Dewback. The creature's head may be lacking in bulk, but overall the result is convincing.

This MOC is the first in a new series announced by Omar Ovalle on his flickr gallery and which will include in particular creations of the Action Figures... To be continued.

LEGO regularly adds instructions in pdf format to its database, and often this allows us to discover some new features even before they are actually marketed.

We had already obtained some information on the existence of sets 30056 Star Destroyer et 30058 STAP a few days ago.

Two new polybag sets have thus appeared in this database: the set 30057 Anakin's Pordracer and the set 30059 MTT.

To the question you will not fail to ask yourself: Where to get these very nice sets ?, I would answer you that we will have to wait and see how they will be distributed, but that inevitably we will have to buy them on Bricklink from sellers with could benefit from a promotion across the Channel or across the Atlantic ....

Download the instructions in pdf format:

30056 Star Destroyer

30057 Anakin's Podracer

30058 STAP

30059 MTT