I was telling you a few days ago about Operation Santa Yoda which took place in San Francisco and which aimed to allow the public to participate in the construction of a giant maxifig of the Santa Yoda from the set 7958 LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar.

The 3.60m high Santa Yoda is therefore finished and the least we can say is that the result is ... impressive. 

Note that the site  https://www.legosantayoda.com is officially open. You will find virtual greeting cards to send to your friends, but also and above all a richly endowed competition, once again reserved for Americans.

What you won't be able to earn:

Grand Prize: A unique 60cm tall Santa Yoda model built by a LEGO Master Builder
First Weekly Prize:  LEGO® Star Wars ™ Super Star Destroyer (10221), LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon ™ (7965), LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (7958) and Blu-ray The Padawan Threat
Second Weekly Prize: LEGO Star Wars Millennium Falcon ™ (7965), LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (7958) and Blu-ray The Padawan Threat
Third Weekly Prize: LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (7958) and Blu-ray The Padawan Threat

You can console yourself by sending e-cards to all your friends, and for each card sent, LEGO will give away a toy in the program. Toys for tots.

Well, the title could have misled some of you ... This X-Wing is not modular or transformable into anything else.

In presenting this new image, I wanted to emphasize a somewhat special aspect of this X-Wing: It can be either Luke & R2-D2 (Red Five) or Jek Porkins and R5-D8 ( Red Six). The purchase of two sets will therefore allow to have the two X-Wings of the Red Squadron, their pilots and their respective astromech droids.

The idea is good, and deserves to be renewed with other Red Squadron pilots such as Wedges Antilles and Biggs Darklighter for example ....

Here a set which seems a priori without real interest, but whose minifigs are already essential. The two Geonosiens and Barriss Offee, revisited, are very good.

But it is especially Commander Gree that is eagerly awaited by all those who despaired of seeing this minifigure one day arrive. Gree is an important figure in my eyes: He was not only the commander of the 41st Elite Corps under the orders of Barriss Offee, but he was mainly involved in the treason operation Order 66 while attempting to assassinate Yoda on Kashyyyk. Yoda was stronger ...

After all, LEGO has already pulled us out of the hat of characters or devices vaguely seen in the movies or the animated series, and Commander Gree himself, deserved to be entitled to a quality minifigure.

A new image for a set which rightly impressed many people when it was presented to the San Diego Comic Con in July 2011.

LEGO loves the Tie Fighter and it was time to revisit this must-have starship from the Star Wars universe since the last set released in 2005 7263 Tie Fighter. It is therefore done with a well balanced set, and which with a correct price should generate multiple purchases in order to constitute a small fleet of Tie Fighters.

I definitely like this machine, the design of the wings exudes solidity and the finish makes them more visually believable than what has been done so far. The cockpit is represented by the usual screen printed screen, hard to beat. 

The minifigs are well chosen, with a very marked Original Trilogy side. A good set for the most fundamentalists among us. Hoping that the whole is more solid than the catastrophic Vader tie from set 8017...

Finally, we are entitled to Battle Packs mixing two enemy factions. I know many of you are disappointed with this change in content from LEGO in these affordable sets that allow you to build up a few armies without leaving a kidney there.

But I think the manufacturer's decision is the right one. Say goodbye to the frustration for children of having only one side and having to wait for the other, explaining to parents that both sets are needed to be able to have a little fun.

The playability is limited, but immediate and it is priceless to bring back to the LEGO world the AFOLs lost on other passions, or to allow the youngest to discover the world of minifigs in the best conditions.

With these new images, I tell myself that the 9489 Endor Rebel Trooper & Imperial Trooper Battle Pack is Really Cool: Endor Rebels in a Battle Pack? A brilliant idea which should make this set one of the bestsellers of 2012. Small downside, one day LEGO will have to finally produce real trees like on Endor and stop selling us this shapeless stuff. 

Concerning 9488 Elite Clone Trooper & Commando Droid Battle Pack, the fundamentalists of the Original Trilogy will not necessarily be convinced by these minifigs with Clone Wars sauce. Children who follow the animated series will already be more. For my part I appreciate that these minifigs are new and very detailed. Once again, the blasters deserve to be refreshed.