It's not Black Friday, at least not in France. But it looks a bit like it anyway. Go ahead for some offers at LEGO with the possibility for latecomers to be offered a nice little promotional set under the same conditions as during the VIP weekend. Everyone who will benefit from the launch of the set 10276 Colosseum (499.99 €) will be able to be offered a Roman chariot with its pilot and its brick horses.

The LEGO Stores reopen their doors tomorrow, you can also be offered a small polybag from 40 € of purchase. If you go to a LEGO Store tomorrow, think about the employees who do their best to serve you while respecting health constraints and behave as responsible customers. There will be some for everyone.

Details of the offers:

The raffle which makes it possible to try to win 1 VIP points is also accessible via the VIP rewards center. Registration is free:

For products that benefit from a 20% reduction:

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Black Friday or not, we are not going to let ourselves be defeated and I am offering you a new competition in the theme of "Review "the moment that will allow the lucky one to win a copy of the LEGO ART set 31200 Star Wars The Sith. The assembly of this mosaic which according to LEGO "... allows you to reinvent these legendary Sith Lords and relieve stress ..."will therefore allow the winner to relax at a lower cost.

As usual, there will be only one winner and he will save the modest sum of 119.99 €. Too bad for the others, they can always afford this pretty box on the official online store.

To validate your participation, all you have to do is identify yourself via the interface below and follow the instructions provided. As usual, it is a question of finding information on the official online store and then correctly answering the question asked. At the end of the participation phase, the winner will be chosen by drawing lots from among the correct answers.

Your contact details (name / nickname, email address, IP) are only used within the framework of this competition and will not be kept beyond the drawing of lots which will designate the winner. As usual, this no-obligation competition is open to all residents of mainland France, DOM & TOM, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland.

Thanks to LEGO for allowing me to offer this set. The prize will be sent to the winner by me and by Colissimo followed with insurance and signature on delivery (and suitable packaging) as soon as their contact details are confirmed by return email.

As always, I reserve the right to disqualify any participant who has attempted to defraud or hijack the entry system in order to increase their chances of winning. Hateful and bad losers to abstain, the others will have more chances to win.

Good luck to everyone !

Note: If you choose to identify yourself in the participation interface via facebook, be aware that in the event of a win, the personal information (name / first name / photo) linked to your account will be displayed in the widget.

All the tricks to do a little teasing without immediately revealing everything are good to take and LEGO is going today on the LEGO Ideas platform of an operation that looks like it a modest survey allowing fans to choose which BrickHeadz figure will have the honor of being the 150th in the line.

Among the four proposals in the running, it is obviously the one based on the JAWS (Les Dents de la Mer) franchise that attracts attention. We know that LEGO has signed a five-year contract with Universal Pictures which allows him to have access to a few licenses such as Universal Monsters including a first variation in BrickHeadz format is currently available via the set 40422 Frankenstein. The JAWS franchise is also in the trash that LEGO now has access to.

Un Duo Pack of BrickHeadz with a Sam Quint (Robert Shaw) minifigure accompanied by a shark should please fans of the 1975 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, but I hope that LEGO takes this a step further with a possible set 18 + which would feature Quint's boat, the Orca, the shark and some minifigs including the essential Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) and Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfus) ...

LEGO has planned to announce a novelty in 2021 during an event that will take place live on Youtube this Friday, November 27. You don't have to be a diviner to understand that it will be the next one Structure, with at least one clue that leaves no room for doubt: Chris McVeigh is surrounded by other sets in the range, and he therefore seems to be the one who is at the origin of the model that will come to flesh out the LEGO city from next January.

If you want to attend the live event which will offer a retrospective of some products released in 2020, a guided tour of the Colosseum of the set 10276 Colosseum which will be available from November 27 and the announcement of this Structure 2021 is at this address on Youtube you will have to be at 16:00 pm sharp. As you can imagine, the official announcement with photos and everything will be synchronized.

On the sidelines of the announcement of these festivities, we learn today via an information banner present on the official website that the LEGO Stores will reopen their doors on November 28 and that Black Friday will take place in these stores from December 4 to 7, 2020. LEGO is therefore following in the footsteps of the brands that have agreed to postpone Black Friday in France .

It is not yet known whether the operation will be kept online, but the offer summary page has been removed from the French version of the official store. No official confirmation of the maintenance or postponement of the online operation at this time.

Today we can quickly move on with the second reference in the LEGO ART range which will be marketed from January 1: the set 31202 Disney's Mickey Mouse.

With 2658 pieces, the inventory of this second box is less extensive than that of the set 31201 Harry Potter Hogwarts Crests (4249 pieces) but the retail price of the product remains the same: 119.99 €. Here it is a question of assembling Mickey or Minnie as you wish and possibly of collecting two copies of the set to obtain a rectangular mosaic bringing together the two characters. The overall model is content to combine the two existing creations, LEGO does not offer an "alternative" construction.

The cartoon side of the pattern is reinforced by the use of tiles 1 x 1 rounds which in my opinion are more suited to this type of mosaic than the stud pieces used on other products in the range. The overall finish is better and easier to maintain. These tiles are on the other hand a little more difficult to remove from the modules and the supplied super brick separator is not of much help. Its use in this specific case just guarantees you to expel pieces to the four corners of the living room and the golden crowbar provided is a better ally during the operation.

As usual, this is not about having fun by discovering more or less original editing techniques, everything is scripted and the user is guided by a very well designed instruction booklet. The pieces are delivered already sorted by color in individual bags and you just need to associate the right shade with the right number to get started. It seems to be relaxing.

The usual mechanics of the LEGO ART range do not change, we align parts on the nine 16x16 modules which are then connected to each other via a few pine Technic. The Disney logo pad printed on a 2x4 piece will give a little cachet to the whole but you can also not install it on the model, the pieces which will be used to fill the hole are provided. The complexity of these models being quite relative, two and a half hours were enough for me to assemble Minnie, having previously stored the batches of parts in small plastic cups.

Here also, I regret a little that LEGO does not provide two different plates to be used according to the model chosen with the mentions "Mickey Mouse"on one side and"Minnie Mouse"on the other. However, in my opinion, the combined mosaic would have benefited from the presence of two separate plates.

For those who are wondering, each mosaic is foolproof once assembled, the pine Technic provide a first level of connection to the nine modules, the whole is reinforced by the presence of the gray parts placed on the back of the model and the whole is completely secured by the installation of the frame of the table with tiles that overlap the uprights. As with the other mosaics in the range, LEGO provides two wall brackets but you can easily just use one by placing it in the center of the frame.

I'm not an unconditional fan of Mickey and Minnie, but it must be recognized that visually it works quite well in this specific case with the two silhouettes presented on a white background in the shape of ears itself surrounded by a very vintage blue halo. As with the other mosaics in the range, the rendering is convincing as long as you stay at a certain distance, so you will have to study the exhibition location by choosing a wall with a little distance to really enjoy it without having the nose into the details.

As usual, we are promised a thematic podcast planned to accompany the assembly from the launch of the product. This audio track will only be available in English and is not yet downloadable at the time of this writing.

120 € for Mickey or Minnie alternately or 240 € for Mickey and Minnie at the same time, it's up to you. At the risk of repeating myself, I really have trouble with the public price of these products despite their beautiful packaging and the stated desire to target an adult audience who in principle has the means to have fun. The sale of packs bringing together the number of sets needed to assemble global or alternative mosaics, offered at a preferential rate, seemed to me to be a logical step and I am surprised that LEGO is not making this effort.

Note: The set presented here, supplied by LEGO, is as usual in play. Deadline fixed at December 9, 2020 next at 23pm. 

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.