We return to the side of the LEGO Star Wars range with the small set 75295 Millennium Falcon Microfighter, a box of 101 pieces which will be marketed from January 1, 2021 at the public price of € 9.99.

We could pretend to marvel at this new interpretation of the Millennium Falcon in this Microfighter format which sometimes has some good surprises in store for us but also some high-level failures, but it is really just a new version of the Millennium Falcon.

Sets 75030 Millennium Falcon Microfighter (2014) et 75193 Millennium Falcon Microfighter (2018) had their aesthetic bias, this new variation improves certain details and sacrifices others. That's how it is, and luckily LEGO doesn't bring us exactly the same model every time.

Collectors will therefore be delighted to have a new variant to add to the shelves and those who have not been able to obtain the previous versions will finally be able to get this ship to scale. Chibi usual. Personally, I prefer flick fire missiles from version 2014 to stud shooters used since 2018.

We will simply note that the rear is nicely made with more credible reactors than on the two previous versions and that the part which serves as the canopy for the cockpit has been updated with a new pad printing: the front windows disappear. The designer does not hesitate to integrate a few colored pieces in the passage of the bowels of the vessel, it is always taken for those who will throw everything in their bulk.

The minifigure delivered here is the one already seen in the sets 75159 Death Star (€ 499.99), 75205 Mos Eisley Winery (49.99 €) or even 75290 Mos Eisley Winery (349.99 €). It therefore becomes a little more affordable but it still has the same problem of color difference between the neck and the head of the character, a technical defect hidden on the official visuals via a retouching of the photos.

In short, the Millennium Falcon is an obvious chestnut tree from the Star Wars range at LEGO and you always need one in the catalog. This new small box sold for € 9.99 will allow you to make a gift without breaking the bank and will always please whoever will be offered it.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at December 29, 2020 next at 23pm. "The" I try, I participate "are automatically deleted, make an effort.

Update : The winner was drawn and was notified by email, his nickname is indicated below. Without a response from him to my request for contact details within 5 days, a new winner will be drawn.

Already adapted in many countries, the LEGO Masters format finally arrives in France from December 23 at 21:05 p.m. on M6. For those who do not know the concept of this LEGO-style reality TV competition, it is a construction competition on imposed themes that brings together eight pairs, with a phased elimination to determine which duo of participants will pocket the € 20.000 promised to the winners. The adaptations of the format already broadcast in other countries have found their audience and having watched a few of them, I found it rather entertaining.

The French version presented by Éric Antoine, magician and favorite of the moment at M6, therefore uses the mechanics and tests already seen in other adaptations of the show (collaborative construction of an amusement park, assembly of a bridge who must bear the heaviest possible load, etc ...) and a duo of judges decides at each stage of the fate of the different pairs.

For the French version of the program, the jury is made up of Georg schmitt, an entrepreneur who benefits from the certification LEGO Certified Professional (LCP) and Paulina Aubey, a visual artist who produces mosaics using LEGO bricks. The US version of the show had the right to a jury made up of Jamie Berard and Amy Corbett, two seasoned designers from Billund. I regret a little that the production of the French version did not call on French-speaking designers employed directly by the brand, the jury having full powers in this competition.

As with the other adaptations of the format, the eight pairs of candidates in the running, presented as the crème de la crème of construction based on LEGO bricks in France, are identified by a nickname that allows them to forget their first names and find each other easily a champion according to his affinities with the theme displayed from the launch of the show.

The casting : "lovers"with Aurélien "PointBrick" and his companion, the "Belgian dads"with two MOCeurs in their forties,"crazy artists"with two young visual artists from the Fine Arts,"father and son"a duo that brings together the young Youtubeur Yann Graoully and his father, "brick geeks"a duo that brings together Guillaume "DisneyBrick" Roussel and his mate Loïc, "Parisian students"presented as the intellectuals of the competition with Maximilien MaximusBricks et Thibault "Barrelroll" stated, "the unknown"a duo formed by production with Johan "Legollywood" and a banker, and finally "the technician and the creative"a duo composed of David "Hand Solo", a boy who built himself a prosthetic arm from LEGO bricks and Sébastien "Sistebane", co-founder of the Power Brick association and editor of the French-speaking magazine Briques Mag.

The format of the show being archi-scripted, more than the elite of French-speaking LEGO, we find in fact more or less the same profiles of amateur duos or more experienced builders already present in all versions of the show. broadcast in other countries. I already have my little idea on the probable finalists and on the duo that will emerge victorious from the French version, but I'll let you make your predictions.

Even if the format of the show is very structured and that several of the pairs are probably only there to serve the rise to a final of technicians used to handling LEGO bricks, I hope that the editing of the different episodes does not won't overdramatize too much, M6 usually getting a ton of it with guys peeling carrots or baking cakes. In the end, whether the show is scripted and probably scripted until the final victory is not that big of a deal, if it's done well and it's both rhythmic and entertaining.

It now remains to verify that the various competing duos will be able to produce creations of the level of those seen in other variations of the LEGO Masters concept and that the suspense is maintained until the end so that this family entertainment manages to retain its loyalty. audience over the weeks and does not end on W9 at 23:00 p.m. from the second episode. And don't forget that this is only reality TV with a final cut on which the various candidates did not have a say.

The first copies of the boxes of 36 sachets of the 21st series of minifigs to collect (ref. 71029) provided by LEGO contained three complete sets of 12 characters and it did not take more for this statistic calculated on the basis of a few boxes to spread like wildfire.

Attention, nothing and no one confirms for the moment, and especially not LEGO, that this ideal distribution will be the same on the boxes which will be supplied to the resellers at the beginning of January 2021. It is therefore advisable to exercise caution if you attempt a pre-order in company of two of your friends who rely on you to provide them with a complete set of 12 characters.

If you do not want to wait for a more global availability of these boxes to obtain confirmation of the distribution based on the expected arrival in January 2021, you can pre-order a box of 36 sachets at Minifigure Maddness which offers a reasonable price (3.30 € per bag instead of € 3.99). Expedition announced at best for January 25, 2021, the brand obviously does not guarantee the distribution.

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Good news for those who want to put under the tree something other than LEGO boxes released earlier in the year: some of the 2021 novelties of the Technic range yet announced by LEGO as available only from January 1, 2021 are already available on FNAC. com.

By choosing Express home delivery or parcel relay, it is possible to obtain these products between December 21 and 23. For a withdrawal in a FNAC store, collection will be possible between December 22 and 23, depending on availability. In any case, you can hope to put a Ferrari, a Jeep Wrangler or a McLaren Senna GTR at the foot of the tree: