Media giant Disney has purchased movie and TV production house Lucasfilm for $4.05B in cash and stock. Star Wars Episode 7 is targeted for release in 2015, with more feature films expected to continue the Star Wars saga. Lucasfilm founder George Lucas will act as a creative consultant for the next film. Disney plans to release a Star Wars film every one to three years from 2015 on, with episodes 8 and 9 following on.

The future of LEGO Star Wars looks bright for many years to come... discuss here in our Star Wars forum.

Source: http://thenextweb.com/ (brought to us by our member Pranas).

New Eurobricks staff member DarkDragon has done an amazing job re-vamping our Brick Flicks & Comics Forum!

In addition, DarkDragon has gathered an expert group of teachers to create tutorials on film-making and comic creation.

All of this is now available for anyone interested in the Brick Flicks & Comics Academy! Check it out today!

Star Wars MOCer extraordinaire ACPin has posted an excellent model of General Grievous arriving on the planet of Utapau.

See all of the pictures and share your thoughts in the Star Wars forum!

Words cannot express how cool this creation is so go check it out now!! Do eeet noooow!!!!!

Yes, we have moved the site to a brand new server.

This new (dedicated) server is a powerful machine with AMD 8-Cores CPU, 32GB RAM, 4x 1T HD in raid 10, running Ubuntu.

Most important, nothing on this server is shared with anyone else, it's all for us!

Welcome in our new home!

Our Special Themes Moderator RUFUS is doing a restoration of some Classic Space sets.

You can follow his progress in this topic.

We are now on the new board version for some weeks and are pretty much finished with our customization. I've almost completely forgotten what the old board looked like by now and personally love the new board look&Feel and it's new features.

Some of my favorites are:

1/ Integration with social media, making it very easy to share a topic from Eurobricks with your friends on Facebook, Twitter, etc.

2/ Tags allowing you to find similar topics all over the board. A powerful feature over time once it's well populated.

And there are others like the Rich Text Editor allowing you to post the URL of a youtube video and it will automatically embed, the quick navigation tab, the improved Profile Feed where one can directly reply to comments, etc.

Our regulator Darkdragon has made a Visual User Guide to help you get started.

It looks like the long awaited Legends of Chima photos have surfaced. Come take a look in Action Themes and join the discussion.

Pictures of 2013 Friends sets have surfaced on a German website.

Head over to the 2013 Friends Sets Discussion thread in the Town forum to see pictures of all the sets.

TLG is giving you the chance to bring a play theme idea into production!

Go here to the thread started by Masked Builder and read more.

New Super Heroes set pictures have been found! Thanks to Krulis for pointing them out.

Discuss them here.

Pictures of the first wave of 2013 Star Wars LEGO sets have just been discovered on the Swiss store wog.ch!

See all the pictures and share your feelings in the Star Wars Forum.

Creations for Charity

Eurobricks member and MOC expert Nannan has launched the highly successful Creations for Charity again this year.

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!

Soon Mister Phes will be designing a brand new skin for our Classic-Pirates.com forum.

In order to prepare he's to conduct research on your screen resolution, browser version and Internet connection.

It should only take a minute to share your feedback in this topic.

While Eurobricks was down, I started an impromptu contest on Flickr, for people to express

how they were handling the outage. The rules were basically to create an 8x8 vig

portraying how they were handling the situation.

See the contest entries and vote here