Reaching tradition status on EB - go and read all about Christmas in Fabuland over here.

There you meet Lionel Lion, Hannah Hippo and even my boss - Bertie Bulldog.

Enjoy and a really really Happy Christmas from all of us to all of you!

Reviewers Academy Teacher and Special Themes Moderator Rufus brings us a brand (and spanking ) new review of 2014 LEGO City Set 60057 Camper Van!

Come and join us in the Town Forum to read all about it!

There´s a prize pool update in the Xmas Raffle 2013 discussion thread - read all about it here.

From the official CUUSOO blog:

LEGO® NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Available January 1st

Hailed by NASA as a “miracle of engineering” when it landed on Mars in August, 2012, we’re thrilled to present a LEGO set based on this historic spacecraft. The fifth LEGO CUUSOO set, 21104 NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover, will be available in the LEGO Shop online for $29.99 from January 1st, 2014.

Go here and discuss it!

EB's Star Wars forum's building RPG has entered its third installment, hosted by Star Wars Blog Master Lobot. It's a more whimsical objective this time around: return to Echo Base, recover information, decorate for Christmas Life Day, and earn glory for your faction through building!

The votes have been counted, so here are the results!

1ST PRIZE

Wind-up Insects - by Lipko

2ND PRIZE

Lifestyle Machines - by Doc_Brown

3RD PRIZE

Lifeguard Vehicles - by Piterx

Congratulations to all prize winners!! And thumbs up for all participants.

Check out the full results in the Technic Forum!

LEGO requested me to point out they have many new job positions.

Have a look here for an overview of all open positions.

One interesting position is the one for graphic designers – characters and illustrations.

Would you like to work for LEGO? There's a topic here for discussion.

Only a couple of weeks until Christmas and what better way to get into the Holiday spirit than to enter the Expand the Winter Village Contest? You have a little more than three weeks to get in your entry, so get building!

Be sure to read the rules in the Town forum.

6 days... 36 winners so far! Are you one? Did you enter? Check the daily winners on the advent calendar, and if you're one of the lucky ones boast here!

Check out the amazing entries and Vote for your favorites!

More reviewing treats for our LEGO Action Figures fans. Reviewers Academy Teacher, VBBN have done an impressive line-up of these upcoming 2014 Hero Factory sets with a total of 8 new sets. The complete review listing is very extensive and I strongly encourage you to check out these individual review links below. For myself, I have decided to choose the 44022 Evo XL Machine as the primary front cover for this feature. Special thanks to TLG for providing all of these sets!

Below are the following 2014 LEGO Hero Factory set reviews listing, all done by our Reviewers Academy Teacher, VBBN:

44015 Evo Walker review

44016 Jaw Beast vs. Stormer review

44017 Stormers Freeze Machine review

44018 Furno Jet Machine review

44019 Rocka Stealth Machine review

44020 Flyer beast vs Breez review

40021 Splitter Beast vs. Furno and Evo review

44022 Evo XL Machine review

Fans of the new LEGO Hobbit Movie sets are in for a pictorial treat. Reviewers Academy Teacher, Masked Builder and new Reviewers Academy Student, Captain Nemo have both successfully reviewed the 79014 Dol Guldur Battle and 79011 Dol Guldur Ambush.

Click here to view the 79011 Dol Guldur Ambush review.

Click here to view the 79014 Dol Guldur Battle review.

Head on over here to download.

And then discuss and comment here

REVIEW - 42024 - CONTAINER TRUCK

This review contains a 360 degree view of the finished model. Visit the Technic forum and check it out!

REVIEW - 42023 - CONSTRUCTION CREW

Visit the topic in the Technic forum and read all about it!.