Good things come to those who wait. The next generation of MINDSTORMS (EV3) was unveiled today.

Read the press-relase here and read the preview at TechnicBricks

Then discuss it here

At this moment 22 members have signed up for the event (list and sign-up topic is here). We'll book the rooms mid-January, so if you plan on joining please sign-up soon. After mid-January you can still join but you have to take care of the accommodation yourself by contacting the Kirchenbauerhof.

For our 9th event we go to Gunzburg, Southern Germany on Thursday 6th, Friday 7th and Saturday 8th of June 2013 (so most of us will arrive on Wednesday late afternoon and go travel back on Sunday morning). We will stay at a very nice place with a variety of apartments called Kirchenbauerhof located 3 km from LEGOLand Gunzburg near the famous river Donau. You can read all about the event in this topic.

Announcing the prize pool for the third annual Expand the Winter Village Contest III!

Click here to check out the exciting prizes that will be awarded!

Reminder! Contest ends January 30th! As we enter the holiday season yet again, thoughts turn to fun and winter activities and where better to enjoy those than in your own Winter Village? So far, TLG has provided us with four places to visit, a lovely Winter Toy Shop, an equally inviting Winter Bakery, and elaborate and playful Post Office set and this year's new Cottage, but wouldn't it be nice to have an even larger Winter Village full of festive fun?

Well, now you can, by expanding the theme with your own Winter inspired creation!

Visit the Town Forum for more details!

It's Sci-Fi Month!

With Sci-Fi Prizes:

Read here for more information about our exciting contests and prizes for this month.

Challenge 6: The End?!

Is this the end for Historica? Is it the end for Revolword?

Head on over to the Announcement topic in the Guilds of Historica subforum to see all the great incentives we have for you!

More pictures of the 2013 Architecture set 21017 Imperial Hotel are available! It appears to be a March release.

Thanks - again - to GRogall for the find, and to Hothbricks.

Discuss the 2013 Architecture sets in the Special Themes forum.

The Tournament of Retribution is up and running! The number of entries for this competition is steadily growing.

Have a look in the Pirates MOC Forum for more!

A picture of the 2013 Modular Building 10232 Palace Cinema has surfaced on LEGO.com

Thanks to GRogall for the find.

Eurobricks is proud to present reviews of four brand new Legends of Chima sets. Check out WhiteFang's reviews of 70003 Eris' Eagle Interceptor and 70100 Ring of Fire and I Scream Clone's reviews of 70004 Wakz' Pack Tracker and 70102 Speedorz Leonidas in the Action Themes forum.

Be sure to also read Cardinal Brick's reviews of 70000 Razcal's Glider, 70001 Crawley's Claw Ripper and 70003 Eris' Eagle Interceptor.

Eurobricks Fellow and Reviewers Academy Teacher Clone O'Patra has posted a review of the new 10937 Batman: Arkham Asylum Breakout.

Go here to read the review in the LEGO Licensed Themes forum.

WhiteFang, Rufus, Pandora and all the staff at Eurobricks wish you a very Merry Christmas!

Here are some festive MOCs from our members (with apologies to anyone I've missed!)

LEGO Family ... harton ... monsinjor

CarsonBrick ... Hrw-Amen ... Schifo Factory

For those of you that missed it last year - here´s a really nice Fabuland Christmas for all of you !

The next CUUSOO set will be 21103 Back to the Future™ Time Machine.

Unfortunately the Modular Western Town project conflicts with an ongoing project at the LEGO Group and a result, the project does not meet the business case requirements and has not passed the LEGO Review.

Discuss here.

Reviewers Academy teacher Clone O'Patra brings us a review of one of the new Spider-Man sets.

Go read it here!

EDIT: He's also just done a review of TMNT's 79101 Shredder Dragon Bike. Read it here!

A few words on what happened and the way forward:

During the night from 17-18 the provider did maintenance on our server. Due to a server reboot part of our database got corrupted. We did not do a full restore from our (daily) backup this time, but only restored the damaged tables (the main one being the members table). So no posts have been lost!

Of course we have to take measures to make us more safe from database corruption and that'll be the next step. This will require a number of changes on the server which will be done during a planned maintenance window. We'll inform you in advance when this will happen (as the site will be offline during this window).

I want to say a big thank you to Ace for his time working on these issues. He was the one fixing the database (preventing loss of posts) and is in charge of the way forward for preventing this. Without Ace the future of EB would be rather uncertain. Thank you Ace!!!

Discussion topic is here.