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.

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!