Some information gleaned from Eurobricks, where a forumer contacted the LEGO sales department and got details on the highly anticipated set 10225 R2-D2 whose upcoming release has been the subject of more or less confirmed rumors for several months. This set as well as the 10227 B-Wing Starfighter had made a brief appearance in the catalog of the brickshop.nl merchant site in August before the reference 10227 was withdrawn (See this article from 24/08/2011 and this other article of 30/10/2011).

So today we learn that the 10225 set will consist of 2127 pieces. Its official release is scheduled for March 2012 and its retail price will be £ 149.99 or around € 175. The price remains to be confirmed for France, however, due to the differences between the prices charged by LEGO depending on the marketing zone and VAT in particular.

No information on the possible engine of this model which could probably resemble those presented on the visual above.  

The Eurobricks forumer in question has also obtained confirmation of the presence of the 10227 B-Wing Starfighter set in the internal LEGO system, but without being entitled to more details.

Brickdoctor continues its momentum and therefore offers us its version in Midi Scale format of Slave I. For the grumpy, this is not a UCS, nor an ultra-detailed MOC, but a style exercise within the framework of the engagement from Brickdoctor to reproduce the Star Wars Advent Calendar template every day ...

The final rendering is very honest and the color scheme well respected. I really like the wings and the lower part of this ship. So I am waiting, like many of you, to see what Brickdoctor will offer concerning the X-Wing and the A-Wing, two models that we will discover in the coming days in the boxes of this Advent Calendar. very uneven,

For those who would like to see this MOC from every angle or simply reproduce it, Brickdoctor provides the .lxf file: 2011SWAdventDay5.lxf .

I have put the two models of the System range produced by LEGO on the visual: the 6209 released in 2006 and 8097 released in 2010.

You thought I had dropped the Advent Calendar ... Lost ...

Today we are entitled to a mini version of Slave I rather successful if we take into account the mini format of the machine.

What's more fun is that if you look on flickr, nobody builds it in the same way in the cockpit (Cheese Slope clear or not), and I had to refer to the official LEGO visual on the LEGO Shop to get a picture of the correct version ...

I suddenly took a shot of the OG-9 Homing Spider Droid yesterday, shame on me and my problems understanding the instructions ....

I was talking to you ten days ago of the evolution of the Minecraft project on Cuusoo which has since exceeded 5000 supporters.
LEGO intervened on the project sheet to inform supporters that contacts were in progress with Mojang the publisher of the game. 

But Mojang has just surprised his world by taking the initiative to create his own project on Cuusoo, a project which therefore becomes a space for communication between the publisher, LEGO and Minecraft fans.

Mojang therefore confirms its growing interest in this project and also undertakes to donate to a charity the 1% of royalties provided for by the Cuusoo concept in the event of the project's success.
The instigators of the first Minecraft project were invited by Mojang to take part in the development of this partnership. We find among others suparMacho and koalaexpert, two MOCeurs at the origin of many achievements on the Minecraft theme including the visual above.

What more can be said ? I understand the enthusiasm of a whole community around these virtual bricks which would become very real with the realization of this project. I'm less a fan of Minecraft as such. No doubt I did not understand the whole point of the game ...

 I still think that we should be entitled to one or two thematic sets, a sort of tribute to the success of Minecraft and reserved for the most hardcore fans.

The general public will probably not be sensitive to this plastic adaptation of this game which is currently fashionable but of which even the players, even the most assiduous, will end up getting bored in favor of another online game.

On the AFOL side, reactions are mixed: Some welcome this project and support it while others express their annoyance at what they consider to be a betrayal on the part of LEGO, which gives in to the sirens of marketing and considers an alliance , even temporary with a concept that takes up the object of all covetousness: The brick.

So goes digital life ....

Going forward for a small update on the prices of the products in the LEGO Star Wars range currently on sale at Amazon, keep in mind that the prices are fluctuating wildly at the moment and the best deal is the one you make at the. instant when you validate your order ....:

LEGO Star Wars 7869 Battle for Geonosis - € 79.95
LEGO Star Wars 7877 Naboo Starfighter - € 60.38
LEGO Star Wars 7913 Clone Trooper Battle Pack- € 11.69
LEGO Star Wars 7914 Mandalorians Battle Pack - € 12.49
LEGO Star Wars 7915 Imperial V-Wing Starfighter - € 19.99
LEGO Star Wars 7929 The Battle Of Naboo  - € 19.11
LEGO Star Wars 7930 Bounty Hunter Assault Gunship - € 43.89
LEGO Star Wars 7931 T-6 Jedi Shuttle - € 54.99
LEGO Star Wars 7956 Ewok Attack - € 20.23
LEGO Star Wars 7957 Sith Nightspeeder- € 19.99
LEGO Star Wars 7959 Geonosian Starfighter - € 27.88
LEGO Star Wars 7961 Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator - € 49.99
LEGO Star Wars 7962 Anakin's & Sebulba's Podracers - € 63.90
LEGO Star Wars 7964 Republic Frigate - € 114.90
LEGO Star Wars 7965 Millennium Falcon - € 109.99 
LEGO Star Wars 10215 Obi-Wan's Jedi Starfighter - € 65.71
LEGO Star Wars 10188 Death Star - € 369.00
LEGO Star Wars 10198 Tantive IV - € 147.90 

Amazon also offers good other lego products currently on sale. Do not hesitate to visit the specialized LEGO stores by theme:

LEGO Star Wars
LEGO Technic
Lego cars
LEGO City
Lego creator
Lego harry potter
Lego pirates of the caribbean
Lego ninjago