23/12/2011 - 17:33 Minifigure Series

Minifigures Series 6 Box

I wonder sometimes.

Since the launch of this range at LEGO, I got caught up in the game: 16 characters, varied, equipped, colored, in their opaque bags, it's tempting.

I had overlooked the first two series, with a little contempt I must admit for these characters, neither heroes, nor known, nor licensed. And then with the arrival of series 3 (8803), I changed my mind.
I don't know why anymore, maybe because of the elf or the color of the bag. Series 4 (8804) did not disappoint me with its hazmat guy. series 5 (8805) neither with his Gladiator and his Evil Dwarf.

So I caught up my delay by getting the first two series released in 2010 (8683 & 8684) and since I am addicted. Addicted to these bags each containing a character with his accessories, his story, his possibilities. My only concern, to be honest, is to keep up with the pace. We are already in the 6th series and we already know that there will be at least 2 more. And I know that I will continue to buy these characters ...

I have just pre-ordered my box of 60 sachets of the 6 series (8827). And I'm already looking forward to receiving her especially for Lady Liberty and  Roman Soldier, and buy the series 7 (8831), and the 8 series ... Often I tell myself that the space and the budget that I allocate to this range would be worth being allocated to something else. But no, the collectible is a disease that pushes you to complete series, ranges, families ... so I surrender and I continue.

If you haven't bought at least one of these minifigs, you can't figure it out ...

Visit: http://minifigures.lego.com/

 

23/12/2011 - 09:48 Lego news

4184 Black Pearl

Who has never railed against the LEGO instructions on which it is often difficult to distinguish the Black du Dark Grey ? On the small sets, we can still get by with a little sorting and deduction, but on the bigger ones, how many of us have reversed two parts only to realize it much later and have to take everything apart? to restore it ...

After a long test phase with the little ones, LEGO has finally responded to the many complaints of its customers on this subject by finding a solution that seems satisfactory: the black parts will now be darker and surrounded by a pale gray border on the instruction booklets.

This new signage was offered for the first time with the set 2506 Ninjago Skull Truck before being officially set up with the set 4184 Black Pearl (above). It will be present across the entire LEGO range from January 1, 2012.

A good initiative that will save us a few precious minutes in the assembly of our sets and which solves a problem that has become really annoying on the most complex sets. Below is a page of the set instruction booklet 7915 Imperial V-Wing Starfighter with the old signage.

7915 Imperial V-Wing Starfighter

23/12/2011 - 01:38 MOCs

Omar Ovalle - Impulse Sets

We continue with Omar ovalle who offers a mini-series of impulse sets with a minifigure, his weapon, and a piece of land to stage it.

We thus find a Snowtrooper, a Stormtrooper and a Scouttrooper, each in their environment and all equipped with a rocket launcher.  

Joli the packaging and an interesting format to build armies of minifigs, Omar Ovalle finally offers something here that could very well be marketed with real marketing logic ...

I say that 6.90 €, it can even sell ...

To see more click on the image or go to Omar Ovalle's flickr gallery.

 

22/12/2011 - 23:36 Lego news

Who has the biggest one?

The Internet will always amaze me ...

The video below is from a certain tehrulate who films his army of clones and who claims to have more than 1800, more than the record of Legoboy12345678 whose army has 1712.

You did not understand the sentence above. It's normal. I'm finding out that we are fighting on Youtube to get the title of the one with the biggest army of clones and I don't really know what to think about it.

The worst part is that the two fanatics harangue each other via the comments of their respective videos and each has its fans and supporters. And if you look a little further, dozens of similar videos are posted on Youtube.

A little surprising, pathetic, but so many clones, it's still very cool actually ....

22/12/2011 - 19:17 Lego news

2012 LEGO Superheroes Batman

It's on the Youtube channel of HKTOYSRUS (Toys R Us Hong Kong) that this new advertisement for the LEGO Super Heroes DC Universe range is being broadcast.

We see in detail 3 sets in a humorous staging.

We discover the mechanism for transforming Bruce Wayne into Batman in the Batcave and the stop motion montage of the Batmobile from set 6864.

A very well done video to discover urgently !!!

6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City
6860 The Batcave
6864 Batmobile and the Two-Face Chase