I just received my copy of the book LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side accompanied by the exclusive Palpatine minifigure, and after a quick glance at the content, a few pages caught my attention:

Above, a presentation of the duel scene ("I am your father", etc ...) between Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in Cloud City (Cloud city) and below a Senate Pod seen inside the Galactic Senate compound on Coruscant. I mention these two visuals, which are indeed photos of scenes based on "real" bricks because the book a priori only gathers official LEGO content if we are to believe the credits displayed on the last page.

These two scenes are therefore not MOCs (unless you find me these creations somewhere) used by the editor to illustrate the chapters concerned. However, it is difficult to conclude that these are two sets already in the LEGO boxes. However, since the end of August, we have been talking about a set initially planned for 2015 but whose marketing was finally canceled by LEGO which could, according to its title, integrate the Senate Pod, Palpatine and some Senate guards: 75088 Senate Commando Troopers ...

Regarding a possible remake of the 10123 Cloud City set released in 2003, more famous for Boba Fett's minifig with pad-printed legs than for the fidelity of the representation of the places, the visual above may suggest that LEGO has already re-worked on the subject. We will remember elsewhere of the free poster during the special Star Wars week last May, which gave pride of place to the famous duel between Luke and his father.

These extrapolations are obviously to be taken with a grain of salt, while waiting to learn more.

As for the book, the content (a hundred pages) is significantly more extensive than on the book of the same style devoted to the Chronicles of Yoda released in 2013, even if once again the texts quickly fly over their subject and are addressed to younger fans of the Star Wars universe.

The French version of this book (LEGO Star Wars: The Dark Side) is expected by the end of October.

The LEGO Jurassic World license is already confirmed and we know that 5 sets are probably planned to accompany the film's release in June 2015.

We learn today via the site jurassicworld.org that LEGO intends to capitalize a little more on this highly anticipated film with a video game based on this license that will join the many other LEGO video games already released.

No information about the development studio that will be responsible for converting the universe of the film to LEGO sauce, but it's a safe bet that TT Games, the official developer of LEGO video games, will be there.

We can hope that the game will not be based solely on the new film and that it will integrate content inspired by the three previous installments of the Jurassic Park saga, in order to flesh out the content of the game and to be entitled to an exhaustive bestiary ...

As things are going, it is better to make a full recap of the 2015 novelties announced by one and the same contact on the Eurobricks forum: If this information is false, it will be easier to deny the complete list of new sets City, Creator, Legends of Chima, Technic, Ninjago, Friends, Top Gear, Architecture, The Simpsons, Star Wars, etc ... published on the forum and which I summarize for you below.

If this information is correct, we note the arrival in the LEGO catalog of sets based on the successful British automotive news show Top Gear, now also available in US version.

Jurassic World sets should number 5, but no name has been released.

A Star Wars set 75088 Senate Commando Troopers appeared online, but this box was eventually canceled by the manufacturer.

Remember that Eurobricks is usually a great source of information but there are plenty of guys who are just looking to make themselves interesting also frequent this forum: One of the sources for the 2015 Marvel sets revealed to have lied.

Update : Un Swiss merchant site has put most of the new products online with their LEGO reference.

Some additional details (via a forumer ofEurobricks who had access to the retail catalog) for LEGO sets based on the Marvel movies Avengers: Age of Ultron and Ant-Man, both expected in 2015:

Avengers: Age of Ultron : 5 boxes would be on the program.

Ant-Man: 3 boxes would be planned around the release of this film announced for July 22, 2015.

The Marvel range will be completed by several boxes (at least two) based on the universe of the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man.

Be warned, Eurobricks is an interesting source of information, but this forum is also frequented by guys in need of digital notoriety who are willing to say anything to get noticed. The above information should be taken with huge tweaks, one of the sources has just admitted to lying ....

Update : The references of the LEGO Marvel Super Heroes sets expected for 2015 are available on a Swiss merchant site which however does not publish the names of these boxes: