LEGO will be opening its first official brand store near Vienna Austria on August 2nd. 2013

Location is Shopping City Süd,

Vösendorf 2334, Austria

if you will attend the opening celebrations, can be discussed here!

This episode of the MOC roundup brings us a couple of larger builds, well worth a look to spot some nice close up detailing or minifigure posing.

t-brick brings us the complete story of his beautiful rendition of Castle Neuschwanstein

Thanks to Grogall for the tip!

Finally something a little more macabre......

What is the mystery of Number 18?

Are you sure you can handle a good fright? Then click here to find out.......

You wont be disappointed. A great collaboration from domino39, Clicketbrick and N3erick68

In the Star Wars forum, member Legopard has posted this beautiful podracer.

Check out more details and share your thoughts here!

A topic with information about our 10th Eurobricks event, Billund, 8-10 May 2014, has been posted in our events forum. With the dates already known all participants should have enough time to plan for it.

We made sure there's a month gap between Brickworld Chicago, which is for some years the scene of our US Eurobricks event, in case some want to go to both.

LEGO is presenting the new Winter Village set at BrickFête in Toronto Canada.

and It is now time to present this great model to you!

So have a look at this cool set, in our hot discussion here!

Official HR images of the next Cuusoo model are now available to us!

21103 Back to the Future Time Machine

So see the rest of the pics in our discussion thread!

EB Member just2good told us USA Today reported that a new set will be shown at SDCC:

Batman: the Riddler Chase! Discuss the first set of the 2014 Wave here.

Here is a MOC roundup of a different type! The Guilds of Historica members Kayne, Erynlasgalen, Masa of Kaliphlin, Gideon, Skaforhire, Kai NRG and robuko have been on a two week MOC extravaganza and between them created 22 MOCS depicting life in the Siccus Badlands of Kaliphin

Thanks to our very own History Regulator Ecclesiastes for the tip!

Well done guys and girls on the community building.

...and now, back to the studio for a quick news flash from the Digital Design section:

LEGO Digital Designer has just been updated with 180 new bricks - everything from tires to minifig apparel, making the grand total of bricks in LDD just under 3000. Furthermore, about 20 brick bugs have been fixed. Read more about it here.

LDD Manager has been updated to version 1.20 with support for all the above mentioned bricks. Read more about LDD Manager here.

LDD2PovRay, the ultimate tool for creating photo-realistic renderings from LDD models, is on version 1.2.10. If you haven't checked it out, you should definitely do so.

And finally, a small celebration. The Digital Designer section here at Eurobricks recently tipped over 1000 topics. Thanks all members for that . And if you havent' visited us yet, Calabar, legolijntje and myself welcome you over to our corner

Official images of the two new rumored Minecraft sets, The Village and The Nether, were posted on cnet, while images of SDCC exclusives Micro-scale Bag End and Jek-14 Mini Stealth Starfighter were uploaded by Movie Talk, a Yahoo blog. Thanks, CM4S and just2good for the links.

You can discuss the new Minecraft sets over in our Special themes forum, the Hobbit exclusive in our Historic forum, and the Yoda Chronicles exclusive in our Star Wars forum.

Going at least 88 mph our own Rufus brings us an in-depth review of the latest CUUSOO set – the 21103 Back To The Future Time Machine.

Head on over to the Special LEGO Themes forum and enjoy the review and discuss it here.

The first of the 2014 Star Wars sets to be unveiled is an AT-AP, shown today at San Diego Comic Con. It's scheduled for a March 2014 release at $69.99, with 717 pieces. Discuss in our Star Wars forum.

(Thanks to member CM4S for the tip and to The Brothers Brick for the picture and set details.)

The Series 11 Minifigure are apparently for sale in Poland!

Brickset reader Herman Napierala Has scanned the instruction sheet so we can all see the figures!

Thanks to just2good for posting!

Thanks to The Brick Time on Flickr, I spotted the latest reveal from San Diego Comic Con, The Hobbit: Lake town Chase

Head on over to the LOTR & Hobbit Discussion forum to discuss your thoughts.

If you missed it before, be sure not to do it now! Head over to the Sci-Fi forum and watch this incredible moc called Steam Castle Falls !

Eurobricks Reviewers Academy Teacher JimButcher presents an exclusive review of the new Architecture set 21050 Architecture Studio - Create Your Own Architecture.

Head over to the Special Themes forum for an exclusive first look.

Eurobricks member VFracingteam has spent the last 2 months working on this replica of the SL Gabon which plies the waters of Gabon, Africa. The statistics speak for themselves:

• Dimensions - 193 x 50 studs
  
• Weight - 35 kg
  
• Parts - ~38000
  

The hull structure is made entirely from Technic beams and pins, while the superstructure is mostly System. He invented this building style for ships and seems to be the only one using it, though probably not for long!

Wander over to the Technic, Mindstorms, & Model Team forum and see if you can tell the difference between the model and the real thing.

(You can read about the construction of this masterpiece in another topic).

At long last, the results of the Chima Raffle/Contest are in! Are you a lucky winner? Click here to find out!

To go along with the Chima results, be sure to have a look at Eurobrick's reviews for each of the six Chima CHI Figures:

Finally, there are still 2 more days remaining for the Hero Factory Brain Attack Contest voting, and every voter gains the chance to win a free Hero Factory set or two!

So if you have not placed your votes yet, be sure to do so!

Before and After

Hero or Monster?

Digital Heroes

What is this about?

It's the latest community build and contest project for the Star Wars forum! Thanks to your suggestions, we've developed Shadows of Nar Eurbrikka, a building RPG set during the Shadows of the Empire time period, between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. You can join one of two factions, the Empire or the Rebellion, and participate in 'episodes' (challenges) by building to earn in-game XP, tags, and other rewards, both digital and physical. You'll also have a character in-game, and through your building, you can advance your character, unlocking new abilities determining what and how you can build, in order to help your faction win and rake in the prizes.

Learn More and Sign Up!

The latest HispaBrick Magazine is off the presses. And as usual packed with good stuff for any dedicated AFOL.

Download and comment here