Do you want to measure yourself against other MOCeurs? Are you tired of the endless MOCs of ships and looking for an original theme to express your creativity?

Then you have to participate in the competition organized on SeTechnic with the winner of the set 7879 Hoth Echo Base, set released in 2011 and which contains 773 pieces, 8 minifigs and a Tauntaun.

The object of the contest is very simple: To recreate a scene which features a creature from the Star Wars universe.

Dewback, Tauntaun, Wampa, Rancor or Saarlac, Star Wars has no shortage of creatures, each stranger than the next. The whole must be carried out on a maximum surface of 48x48 tenons without limit of height and must be presented before January 15th, 2012 midnight.

To find out more about this original themed competition, visit the dedicated topic at SeTechnic.

For information, the photo illustrating this article comes from Christo and Calin's flickr gallery and presents a Dewback (Original LEGO), a Kaadu (Original LEGO) and a custom Tauntaun of which I was able to get a copy and which I tell you about in this article.

Contest winners MOC Madness 2011 at FBTB were nominated, and four creations were therefore awarded: the top 3 of the general classification and the special jury prize.

The big winner is Zane “zhouston” with his Bounty Hunter Niobrara shaar and his ship the Arkosius VII (Flickr gallery). The special jury prize was awarded to Jack “madLEGOman” and his Hand of fate (Flickr gallery), Bounty Hunter ship Constable Drex.

In second place in the general classification we find Tyler “Legohaulic” with his Bounty Hunter Vet Steele accompanied by his ship Avid steele (Flickr gallery), and third place goes to Joel “JD4M” Baker and his Soul Snatcher (Flickr gallery), bounty hunter's ship Raesha Ka Lia.

All these creations amply deserve their prices with a preference for my part for the Hand of fate, with its pirate ship side straight out of the universe of Albator. 

You can find these two MOCs, close-up shots, and many comments on their functionality in their respective flickr galleries.

The English are now accustomed: Periodically the tabloid The Sun offers an offer to exchange a coupon to cut from the newspaper for several LEGO sets in polybags (sets in bags) in the WH Smiths and Toys R Us stores.

This Saturday, December 3, 2011, the readers of the newspaper will be able to be offered the set 30055 Droid Fighter (45 pieces) sold from 3.37 € on Bricklink.

Wait until Sunday or Monday and its price will surely have fallen further with English sellers ...

The MOC of the day is exceptional, I have no other word.

erth & fiya signs here a very high level achievement, intended to compete on FBTB as part of Wheels of Justice. The result is breathtaking creativity and finish. We never tire of looking at the superb photos presented on the dedicated flickr gallery which allow you to discover this incredible machine from every angle.

Take a few minutes of your time, you won't regret it, this MOC is really one of the ones that has impressed me the most lately. And remember that photos do half the job when it comes to presenting an MOC ....

You should know, and it's always good for our personal culture, that between 1962 and 1988 it was Samsonite who manufactured the bricks under license and distributed the LEGO brand in Canada and the USA. Manufacturing stopped in the United States in 1973, when LEGO moved to the United States. TLC then moved to Canada in 1988 when the first brick separator was released, but that's another story.

From this time, rillette11 posted on his flickr gallery photos of original boxes or scans of catalogs. Something to impress, and if you understand English, linger on the comments of each photo, you will learn many things about this LEGO by Samsonite era. You will find other visuals on the same theme at this address.

To go even further in the discovery of the LEGO company and the evolution of the visual identity of its products over the years, visit the reference site: Brickfetish.com.

Be careful, we quickly spend a few hours without realizing it. There is so much to see on this very well documented site.