When you're done hiding your Easter eggs, you can use your weekend to go to a LEGO event.

If you are in the Rhône Alpes region, do not miss the Briqu'Convention 2015 which will take place in the premises of INSA in Villeurbanne. I'll be there Saturday and Sunday.

The convention will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday from 12 noon with as usual an exhibition of various and varied creations, a brickfilm workshop, a giant mosaic to assemble in the company of other visitors, a raffle, games for the youngest. , shops.

The final of Lego robot challenge will take place on Saturday from 18 p.m.

On the sidelines of the exhibition, the organizers have planned a special AFOLs program with different presentations and activities which will start at 10:00 am Saturday to Sunday. If you wish to participate in these activities, you must register at this address.

Antoine "brick fan"will be present this year and he will perform the show from 10:15 am on Saturday morning with a presentation of his work on the show.

Another event planned this weekend, the Power Brick 100% LEGO convention which takes place in Montereau. On the program for three days: LEGO, animations, contests, etc ... More info on the facebook page of the event.

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Happy New Year everyone ! I wish you all the best to yourselves and to your loved ones, may this year 2015 be one of the success of all your projects and the fulfillment of all your wishes.

Let's go for a full year of LEGO and we start on the hats of wheels with the availability on the LEGO Shop of sets 75060 LEGO Star Wars UCS Slave I (219.99 €) and LEGO Creator Expert 10246 Detective's Office (159.99 €).

LEGO Star Wars novelties for the first half of 2015 are also online at this address.

The 2015 novelties are gradually being put online: The set LEGO Ideas 21301 Birds (44.99 €), The series 13 of collectible minifigs (2.59 € the bag), etc ...

For any purchase of at least € 55 between January 1 and 31, 2015, LEGO is offering us the LEGO Creator 40140 Flower Cart polybag. No Star Wars 30274 AT-DP polybag or Friends 30203 Mini Golf polybag on the French LEGO Shop, two bags however offered to customers of the LEGO Shop US.

More information on the current promotion at this address.

Finally, if you are a member of the VIP program and you place an order on the LEGO Shop between January 1 and 21, 2015, you will automatically participate in a raffle that may allow you to win a stay of 4 people from June 9 to 12, 2015 to visit the premises of the LEGO group in Billund.

The conditions for participating in this draw are detailed at this address.

To part with your New Year's gifts or your savings, it's this way:

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The VIP newsletter received today does not fail to remind us that registrations for the next cycle of the LEGO Inside Tour will be open on November 3 ... and undoubtedly completed in the seconds following the posting of the form allowing you to register. to register.

For those who do not yet know, the LEGO Inside Tour is the trip that will cost you nearly € 2000 (excluding plane tickets) and which will allow you in three days to visit the premises and the manufacturer's factory. in Billund, Denmark, take a trip to the local LEGOLAND park, meet some designers, and take home an exclusive set.

Opinions on the content / sum to be paid for this "experience" are very divided and it is understandable but all those who managed to register and finance this trip came back conquered if we are to believe the many reports published on the internet.

And if many fans are not ready to "invest" more than 3000 € to be part of the adventure, especially if it is a question of sacrificing something else to finance this pilgrimage to the land of ABS plastic, each year the server LEGO is taken by storm as soon as online registrations open and the case is settled within seconds ...

Magnanimously, LEGO however specifies that members of the LEGO VIP program who succeed in registering will be entitled to a small compensation in VIP points for the purchase of their Inside Tour ticket.

It's up to you: If you have the required budget without having to eat pasta for six months after your return or call Cofidis to get a 19% loan, this once-in-the-life experience of a fan of LEGO is for you! But, also know that for the same amount, you can offer yourself a superb vacation on the other side of the world ...

As you will have understood, I would like to have your opinion on the interest of this certainly interesting experience for the LEGO fans that we are all here, but which requires a very substantial financial investment.

To register, meet on November 3 at 13:00 p.m. at this address.

Several of you have pointed out to me the very short article posted by Courrier International regarding the pressure that LEGO employees face at work. The article is succinct and it refers to a more substantial dossier published yesterday on the front page of the Danish daily Western-Posten.

Anxious to know more before reporting here on the situation described, I therefore subscribed to the online version of this daily (it's free for the first 40 days) to read the article which motivated the publication of International mail.

That being said, it would seem that LEGO, often presented as paradise on earth for all those who dream of working one day in contact with their favorite toys, is not spared by the perpetual quest for performance and profitability at the expense of the well-being of its employees.

By reading the article of Western-Posten, we therefore learn that the LEGO group, led by its savior and current CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, is putting pressure on its employees. Sophisticated performance evaluation methods are in place, each employee is constantly assessed on various criteria on which a possible bonus depends. Nothing new here, these methods are used in many businesses, large and small, and they have been proven successful when used with good judgment.

But employees of the group are protesting against these methods considered to be counterproductive and which are the source of stress and discomfort that are gaining ground, not only at the LEGO headquarters in Billund but also in various offshore departments. around the world.

Mads Nipper, marketing manager at LEGO since 1991 and who left the company this year, weighs the statements of certain employees or their union representatives by recalling that the rigorous management put in place in the 2000s was necessary to save the group of an announced bankruptcy and that it has borne fruit.

Some employees, however, evoke the permanent confusion between private and professional life, the high availability required by the geographical distribution of the various LEGO entities on a global scale which means that somewhere on the planet there is always an open office, the misuse of the evaluation methods in place by some local managers recruited to support the development of the brand over the past ten years anxious to promote their work and their ego to the detriment of that of their colleagues, etc ...

Anyone who complains about the gradual disappearance of what they call "The LEGO Spirit" would like to point out, however, that they remain grateful to Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the savior of the business that sustains them ...

The situation described above is nothing new for anyone who knows the world of work. Constant pressure, the cult of results, and the near-sick concern for performance are common elements in today's business. But for many, LEGO remains a great place to work, and regular surveys of the group's employees confirm this impression: They were 56% in 2013 (62% in 2011) to indicate that they would recommend to others. to come and work at LEGO.

A little nod to the LEGO Store in Disney Village which is still not open to the public but which makes a shy appearance on one of the plans of the Disney complex in Marne-la-Vallée.

The opening of this LEGO Store, initially scheduled for September 2013, will a priori not take place before the end of April 2014.

In any case, this is what InsideDLParis announces on his facebook page. This postponement would be linked to "security" issues at the store premises.