A Parisian restaurant and a Maersk cargo boat in 2014

Two new products have already been announced for 2014 with a set of LEGO Creator Expert 10243 (formerly Modular) on the menu, the name of which reveals the contents of the box, the "Parisian-Restaurant", and a new cargo ship from the Danish company Maersk with which LEGO has had a partnership for many years.

The first sets resulting from the partnership between the two companies date back to 1974 with the first container ship (1650), followed in 1980 by the first truck also dressed in the Maersk colors. Other sets were subsequently marketed including the train set 10219 (2011) and the cargo boat set 10155 (2010) which is itself a reissue of set 10152 released in 2004.

These sets have become very popular with MOCeurs mainly because of the presence of an exclusive color used only for sets in the range, The "Maersk Blue", with however some slight variations in color due to the two production waves, the first dating from 1974 to 2006, the second from 2006 to the present day.

The news of the company Maersk could be at the origin of the contents of the box: The first cargo boat of the new fleet Triple-E just launched in South Korea in June 2013 and LEGO could immortalize the event with this set. Maersk has ordered twenty of these boats, the largest container ships in the world, slower but more economical and environmentally friendly than their predecessors.

As for the "Parisian" restaurant, I'm waiting to see what LEGO will offer us. Undoubtedly a building with a terrace, awnings on the windows and glazed frontage, to stick to the typical design of the restaurants of the capital. But the term "Parisian" is so overused that it is better to be careful ...

The LEGO Creator Expert Parisian Restaurant set (LEGO reference 10243) is expected to retail for around € 149 and the Maersk cargo ship (LEGO reference 10241) is expected to retail for around € 129.

This information is distilled in a dropper on the various forums of AFOLs, inevitably with the complicity of LEGO, and I will not fail to post you here the future details which will be revealed gradually to fuel the buzz ...