We continue with our mexican sellers which offer us beautiful photos of the minifigs that have not yet been officially released on the market and that are already flooding Free market, sort of Mexican eBay.

Today it's Harley Quinn's turn to make her appearance. the minifig is successful, and we have no idea what set it will be in. The look on the new double-sided face has been improved compared to the one on the minifigure of the set 7886 The Batcycle: Harley Quinn's Hammer Truck released in 2008.

We also find on this Mexican site an announcement with the minifigs below, most of which we already know. In the center, the minifigure of Lex Luthor which will be delivered in the set 6862 Superman vs. Lex Luthor.

This invasion of minifigs is still suspicious. Some people talk about the possibility of counterfeits, which I doubt, and I would rather go for employees of the new LEGO factory in Monterey who supplement their end of the month with these sales. After all, Mexico is not known to be a country where the rules are strictly followed ....

Another high class MOC on the theme of super heroes by Mr Xenomurphy which I introduced to you Spiderman vs sandman in August 2011.
The announcement of the launch of the LEGO Superheroes range in 2012 has awakened the creative spirit of many MOCeurs, and we are finally rediscovering something other than Star Wars in every way ... Even if I love Star Wars, let's not get angry. not....

Here we are entitled to the very "Art Deco" building of the Daily Planet, a newspaper published in the city of Metropolis, and where Clark Kent alias Superman works in the company of Lois Lane and under the orders of the editor in chief Perry White.

And here, Superman does not face Lex Luthor or Bizzaro but a small army of robots in the pay of Brainiac, nemesis of Superman who bottled the city of Kandor, capital of Krypton. The end of this sentence doesn't mean anything if you didn't know Brainiac. Go see here to know more.

The staging is breathtaking and teeming with incredible detail. Traffic lights, manhole covers, road signs, telephone booth, everything is reconstructed and with very original techniques.

We also find two of the heroes of Young Justice, Aqualad and Superboy. 
As a reminder, we will soon be entitled to the animated series Young Justice (Season 1 available on DVD) whose first season is already being broadcast in the USA since the beginning of the year and that we will discover in France at the beginning of 2012. It features Robin, Aqualad, Kid Flash, Superboy, Artemis and Miss Martian, young super heroes in the making and seeking recognition from their Justice League elders Batman, Aquaman, Flash and Green Arrow. 

To see the impressive photo gallery of this MOC with close-ups and diagrams of its design, go to the MOCpages gallery de Mr Xenomurphy.

He is in his superhero period, and more particularly Batman, and he presents a new MOC very successful both technically and creatively in the dark universe of the vigilante of Gotham City.

Legomaniac was inspired here by the 1992 film Batman Returns starring Michael Keaton (Batman / Bruce Wayne), Danny DeVito (Penguin / Oswald Cobblepot) and Michelle Pfeiffer (Catwoman / Selina Kyle).

The result is up to the task, with this recreation of Tim Burton's snowy Gotham City and its disturbing but so surreal atmosphere.

Small parenthesis, my favorite Batman obviously remains the Batman from 1989 with a Michael Keaton in a state of grace in what will remain in my eyes his best role, a Jack Nicholson at the top of the cabotinerie and a vaporous and sublime Kim Basinger. All on a high-flying Prince soundtrack and in a crazy, dark atmosphere, but so special that it sticks to the image we had as a kid in Gotham City. And this MOC brings me back to that movie followed by Batman Returns. 

On the MOC itself, nothing to say, it is the paw of Legomaniac found there. A maximum of details, a snow very well reproduced on the sidewalks of Gotham, a convoluted layout which obviously poses problems of shooting, but a skilfully distributed lighting and a Penguin perched on his duck, quite simply brilliant.

I forgot, if you are looking for Catwoman, she is present, but discreet as usual.

To see more, know all the details of the creation of this MOC and discover it from every angle, go to the dedicated topic at BrickpirateOn legomaniac blog or on his flickr gallery.

The X-Wing remains without a doubt the most fan-replicated ship and Mike "Psiaki" takes it even further with this achievement.

However, I do not share the usual ambient enthusiasm, inevitable as soon as some little-known MOCeurs lay a realization, concerning the realism of this MOC. If it has the merit of being well built and using interesting techniques, some details are far from the original models used in the films of the Star Wars saga. The cockpit for example is not really alike, even if the nose of the device is one of the most ingenious among the many MOCs that I have seen of this device so far.

But as the American AFOLs say in their comments of Psiaki's flickr gallery, this MOC is "stunning", "cool", "so accurate, so thing, so thing" ..... So I leave you to make up your own mind by going to admire it from every angle.

While we are all hoping to get a UCS Tumbler in this new 2012 LEGO Superheroes range, here I bring you a creation from 2007: The Technic Tumbler by Mike Loh.

I am not a Technic specialist and I would be careful not to judge the relevance of using parts from this range for this Tumbler. What matters to me here is that the MOCeur tried to proceed in a methodical and documented manner to arrive at this rather convincing result.

The overall proportions of the machine are respected to the letter and this construction work spread over a year and a half is bearing fruit. Mike loh explains having gathered the sets, trucks and Formula 1, allowing him to obtain the parts necessary for this MOC, and to have gathered more than 1000 photos and videos of the original Tumbler to obtain a substantial documentation allowing him to reproduce the machine in the best conditions. He even got his hands on schematic blueprints of the Tumbler from the Batman Begins movie so he could coordinate the scale of this MOC with the original model. both front and rear suspensions work, and the engine is a V8.

This Tumbler would perhaps be the only set that would push me to buy Technic, not being a fan of the usual trucks, excavators and other backhoe loaders, or supercars of all kinds ....

To see more go to the MOCpages gallery by Mike loh.