The last LEGO Ideas Book dates from 1997, and since nothing ... Except that DK Publishing has just announced a new opus of the same name, scheduled for August 2011.

 

 

Knowing that the publisher has accustomed us to pretty cool things, like the famous "LEGO Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary", the sympathetic"LEGO Star Wars Brickmaster"or the cult"THE LEGO Book", we can only welcome this upcoming release, like that of the highly anticipated" LEGO Star Wars Character Encyclopedia ".

 

 

 Announced with 200 pages, this book will undoubtedly be part of my summer purchases.

 

 

Nothing more for now, the publisher has not yet officially communicated about this work.

A point on the minifigs that will contain the next sets Star Wars sets of June 2011 (Subject to modification).

In all, no less than 29 minifigs will join our collection, with a few new characters from the Clone Wars universe, some revisited classics, and the essential minifigs that we already have in our collection by the dozen.

Note the new design of Sebulba which should make us forget the scam of the set 7171, and a new minifigure of Padme, too underexploited so far.

In addition, the new Watto should significantly lower the indecent asking price on eBay or Bricklink for the minifig set 7186.

7956 - Ewok Attack :
Ewok, Logray, Scout Trooper

7957 - Dathomir Speeder :
Savage Opress, Anakin Skywalker, Asajj Ventress

7959 - Geonosian Starfighter :
Geonosian (New design), Ki-Adi-Mundi, Commander Cody

7961 - Darth Maul's Sith Infiltrator :
Darth Maul (New design), Qui-Gon Jinn (New design), Padme Naberrie (New design), Captain Panaka

7962 - Anakin's and Sebulba's Podracers :
Anakin Skywalker (Boy), Sebulba (New design), Wald, Obi-Wan Kenobi (Padawan) (New design), Watto (New design)

7964 - Republic Frigate :
Clone Troopers (x2), Yoda, Eeth Koth, Quinlan Vos

7965 - Millennium Falcon :
Obi-Wan Kenobi, Chewbacca, Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Darth Vader

Click on the image to access the visual in large format. (It's forbidden but we never tire of it ...)

A member of FreeLUG went to the trouble of grouping the pouches of his Series 3 minifigs together, and clearly marking the location of the dots on the bottom of the pouch.

Click on the image to have a global view of what it gives, however, they are not all there.

Be careful, it seems that the latest series delivered by LEGO, especially in Northern Europe for the moment, no longer include these mysterious point-based markings. We must therefore "feel" the bag to try to guess its content.

In this regard, beware if you go to toy stores, many people have had the unpleasant surprise, after spending time looking through the series 3 bags, to find broken accessories in the bags.

Other buyers had to handle the bags without necessarily using gloves .....

Well, it's Sunday and you don't know what to do other than watch Téléfoot and Turbo.

Here is an activity that you will enjoy and that you can do with your children: Learn to draw a minfig.

In just a few steps, you can easily draw any minifigure, and the result is stunning.

To find out more, visit StarWars.com which offers you a space dedicated to drawing, with tutorials for Han Solo, a Stormtrooper, Lando and Chewbacca.

You can also practice with the 8-step example given below.

I was in the process of updating my collection on Brickset with my latest acquisitions, when I came across the set 8029 Mini Snowspeeder.

No special mention on this set as indicated for example for the Set Mini 6968-1: Wookie Attack set.

After some research, it looks like this set was never actually marketed, despite the fact that we find the assembly instructions at LEGO in PDF format.

No trace on Bricklink either.

I find this snowspeeder quite successful, and if you have a few minutes, dig into your rooms and build this gear that is worth checking out.

Then you can add it shamefully to your Brickset collection, as 90 people have already done, which had also misled me, on the reality of the marketing of this set.

However, if you got your hands on this set with its original packaging, let me know and I will apologize to you ......