Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! What's that coming around the track? Is that the sound of jingle bells in the distance? Ho...Ho...Ho...

The Santa of Train Tech (yours truly) needs some help from EB's LEGO Train Community. This year, the tracks of EB's Train Tech forum look a little bare. Why is that? you ask. There's not many holiday trains in the forum and Santa needs to get his toys out of the North Pole for all the good little girls and boys.

This year, Santa has extended a generous offer to those who build and share an image of their LEGO Train (of the Christmas variety that is). Christmas Train builders will be provided with a special EB LEGO Train Tech tag to hang below their avatar this Christmas, but not any train will work. The LEGO Trains needed for the North Pole require special magic. For more information, check out Christmas Trains found only in the Train Tech forum.

Santa Needs You!

Hispabrick Holiday Greeting

Our friends over at Hispabrick Magazine is sending us all a Happy Holidays greeting over in this topic. They even included a small LDD Santa-droid to download.

Our very own Whitefang did it again!

He continues his tradition of making the best reviews for the Collectable Minifigure Series.

This time he brings us 8827 LEGO Collectable Minifigures Series 6

Go here for the review

Category 2: Embassy

Round two of the Guilds of Historica has just launched. We want to see how your guild coexist within another land.

Head over to the Guilds subforum to read the full details of this larger building category.

Eurobricks First LEGO Batman Contest Results

I am pleased to announce that our Eurobricks member, Skrytsson has emerged the champion for both Category 1 and 2.

Congratulations Skrytsson ! You have certainly earned yourself some attractive prizes in this coming Christmas!

Click here to find out the rest of the winners.

Train Tech Achieves One Million Views

One Million Views? That's Right! EB's LEGO Train Community, Train Tech, had over one-million views in 2011! With outstanding LEGO Train MOCs, interesting technical train topics, and layouts that steer the LEGO Train Community to EB, check it out today. See the outstanding LEGO Trains that our community is building and discuss the forum's success here.

Few hours ago our server was upgraded and most resources are now doubled. We hope this will end the occasional slowness of our site which occurred these past few weeks.

Read the full announcement here.

Member montyofmusic brings us a review of the 6863 Batwing Battle Over Gotham City (and some great close-ups of his carpet ).

Go here to the LEGO Licensed forum to check it out (and see a post by the sets designer from TLG!!! ).

Today TLG sent out info in a press release about LEGO Friends, read it and discuss it here.

Day 18, 72 winners so far! Are you one? No? Well there's still six days to go!

Keep track of it all via the raffle calendar and the official EB SW X-mas Raffle 2011 topic.

Oh... and if you haven't seen this entry by Praiter Yed...

...then I recommend you have a look through the topic for more laughs!

The Guilds of Historica round one challenge has finished, with 79 entries submitted the guild leaders decided it would be fun to provide some prizes for this and future challenges.

If your Watch tower is missing please PM either Tazmaniac or myself, as we are also in the process of moving all the new topics to the subforum, its possible we may have overlooked one or two

See anything you like? Any guesses on what the mysterious black figures could be?

Head on over to the new Guilds of Historica sub forum located in the History Forum

Thanks for making this a massive success and get ready for the next challenge in the new year as well as the unveiling of the Guilds points score to see whose guild reigns supreme!

It all happened on a quiet Saturday, 17th of December 2011: Eurobricks reached 20.000 members

Instead of this being a boring 'congratulations topic' you can instead let us know what made you become a member on this site.

We want to hear where you found us, what made you sign up, how often you come to this site and how you like the experience of being part of our community.

The discussion topic is here.

With the Lord Of The Rings theme being officially confirmed, the Eurobricks staff has decided to put this new theme in the "LEGO Historic Themes" forum. This means that it will not go to the "LEGO Licensed" forum and the ongoing discussion thread about Lord Of The Rings is now moved to "LEGO Historic Themes".

"LEGO Historic Themes" will get a sub-forum for our very successful community castle build "Guilds of Historica".

More details and discussion are here.

And from the "What? Really??!!

Picture is link to original article

What could the controversy possibly be? Find out and weigh in on the subject in this topic.

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Further reference links

Businessweek: (cover story) LEGO is for Girls

Ology.com: LEGO Friends are LEGOs(sic) for Girls

AfterEllen.com: Feminist Friday

One Brick to rule them all, One Brick to find them,

One Brick to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In the Land of Mordor Eurobricks where Shadows lies

It has been confirmed! Here's the Official Press Release from TLG.

Join the discussion here.