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.

A new edition of the excellent Hispabrick Mag is out.

Download it here

Discuss it here

We are beginning to see some reviews pop up of the new 2013 LEGO Star Wars sets. Member Moexy has reviewed set 75013 Umbarran Heavy Mobile Cannon along with a few other sets.

Check out his reviews of 75001 Republic Troopers vs. Sith Troopers, and 75012 BARC Speeder, plus Mordatre's review of 75000 Clone Troopers vs. Droidekas in the Star Wars forum!

The raffle just keeps on giving and giving !

Go and check out all the great entries if you haven´t, if you have do it again!

And hail the winners so far, and root for the upcoming winners!

Entries thread here - calender here.

The votes have been tallied and the results are in!

Click here to see and congratulate the winners of the Comic Cover Contest!

Click here to see and congratulate the winners of the Video Contest!

And I officially promise to cut back on my usage of exclamation marks. Starting.... Now!

The LEGO Community Team has shared the AFOL survey Quarter 4 and kindly asked to get feedback from as many as possible (takes only a few minutes).

Here is the link

Super Heroes Month may be over but you can still win some fabulous prizes in our voting raffles!

Vote in the Comic Cover Contest and you could win one of these:

Vote in the Moviemaker Contest and you could win one of these:

So vote for your favorite entries today!

Some things didn't go as expected today...

The popularity of a certain review was slowing EB down, and while restarting the server (to take into account a few new settings) part of the database got corrupted forcing us to restore a 10 hour old backup. Read more here.

WhiteFang has made a very detailed review of the new Collectible Minifigure Series 9.

You can read the review here in our forums.

...and so it begins.

Go here for the calendar and discuss the raffle here.

You can still sign up for the Tournament of Retribution III: a contest in which you make fun of either redcoat soldiers or bluecoat soldiers by creating a funny comic. Here's the prize pool:

In the Prize Thread you can read how you can take a share in this treasure!

After you've read the rules, you can sign up right here.

Please hurry because the thread will be closed on the 7th of december!

Eurobricks is proud to announce the beginning of an exciting new contest in the Star Wars forum!

There are many great prizes to be won, including a brand-new 10221 Super Star Destroyer! We hope to see your entry soon. Read the rules in the Star Wars forum!

The raffle entry window has closed.

WOW - 165 cool entries in the raffle ! Well done everyone!

So the chance of winning is 72/165, about 43,6%. Not bad for that effort.

The prizes:

Winner 1:

Winner 2:

Winner 3:

and as extra topping on the cake - the 3 winners on the 24th each also get one !

More information on how this will go down - here!

Now good luck everyone !

*Special thanks to Eurobricks Bionicle Moderator, Brickthing for the design of the teaser poster*

This discussion is about CMF Series 9 on TLG usage of releasing teaser image through official channels

Creations for Charity

Eurobricks member and MOC expert Nannan has informed me that 2012 was a massive success with already $7000 raised! Now as it winds up again for another year the left over MOCs have been reduced in cost to help squeeze out as many donations as possible.

If you like the idea of helping out less fortunate kids receive LEGO sets donated for the holiday season then head on over to the topic here.

To learn how you can purchase an amazing number of unique creations built and donated by the AFOL community before they are gone, then get cracking, great builds disappear fast!

Don't forget that the Comic Cover contest ends Friday, Nov. 30th at midnight GMT! The Superhero Video Contest ends then as well. So get those entries finished, people.

Also, the prizes for this contest have been revealed. Check them out in the contest thread!

Only ONE day to go and there´s still room for more entries!

Just build something/anything that means Xmas for you using at least two (2) parts, take a picture and post it.

That small effort could land you five (5) cool SW minifigs sent home to you for free !

Hurry up and do it now !

Only 2 weeks after we have announced the next Eurobricks Event already 20 members have confirmed their attendance!

The 2013 event will be in Gunzburg, Southern Germany, on 6-8 June.

Next to the usual activities (LEGOland, EB workshop/presentation, fun contests, ...) we will also do an city visit of Munich and the local LEGO brand store(s).

You can read all about the event in this topic.

More new LEGO City sets for 2013 are popping up in our Town Forum

(thanks to Grogall for pointing this out!)

Discuss the news and see the new high-res pictures in the Town Forum