Thanks to prateek we've got fresh "Out Of Box" picture for the 2011 January Star Wars LEGO wave.

To view and discuss this in our LEGO Star Wars Forum click <HERE>

For better pics check the Galleries:

2011 Gallery hosted on Eurobricks

2011 Gallery hosted on flickr

Finalized pictures of the 2011 sets are now starting to appear across the forum. Here some examples:

Star Wars - Creator - City - Technic- Pharaoh's Quest - Atlantis - Ninja Go!

Thanks to Darth Jar Jar, Navy Trooper Fenson and Prateek for posting.

News in the brief: Over at the LDD forum, we are trying out a concept called RCB (Relay Community Build). Basically it is about building a MOC together by passing the model from builder to builder, and that each builder adds on what the previous have done. If you want to see what this is all about and follow the build, have a look

Hero Factory Contest Results!

The results of the multiple contests that went on during Hero Factory Month have been posted! Click here to find out who the talented winners of the MOC and art contests are, who the lucky winner of the raffle is, and to congratulate them!

Eurobricks Forum members,

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More news about LEGO NASA sets!

NASA news continues to come in! Robert Pearlman, editor of CollectSpace.com has stopped by our Town Forum to clarify some things about the pictures and articles that have appeared on his site. He's given us quite a bit of interesting news to drool over! The new LEGO NASA line is shaping up to be quite an exciting part of the January assortment!

Discuss this exciting news here

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Cheers

ISC

For all those iPhone savvy people, Ace Kim (FBTB) brings us news of the latest "

From FBTB "Bricking News brings together the most popular LEGO AFOL news sites in one convenient app: The Brothers Brick, From Bricks To Bothans, Brickset, and of course Eurobricks. Each news article is a full text feed complete with pictures so you only have to tap once to read the full story. In addition to their news feed, the Brickset tab includes a simple search form to search against their database of over 8,000 sets for a quick reference look up. There’s also a flickr tab showcasing some of the top LEGO groups on flickr. For more information, please visit the Bricking News website."

Many thanks to From Brick to Bothans for sharing this great news with us!

Dear Eurobricks Forum members, the Staff in co-operation with

Out of the 34 awesome entries we got, three were chosen by your as the best of the best!

Click on the banner above to reach the Winners Announcement thread and congratulate them, and check the Minifig Customization Workshop Forum to know more about the entries!

Collectible Minifigures Series 3

Thanks to grogall and Flare for pointing out this picture from flickr:

flickr: hmillington

Discuss the third wave of this exciting line here

More new LEGO NASA set news!

EB member tl8 joined just to point out an excellent story on collectspace.com!

According to collectspace.com "LEGO's version of the International Space Station will be part of the company's City line of building sets in 2011. (LEGO)"

Read more about it and discuss it here

Thanks to tl8 for the info.

Thanks to EB member grogall for posting this excellent news!

(also) thanks to the Brothers Brick

LEGO signs deal with NASA

Thanks to grogall for the pictures

NASA and LEGO are partnering up to promote Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)!

NASA will actually be launching a LEGO Space Shuttle into space!...along with the Shuttle Discovery, of course.

The official motto of the partnership is "Building and Exploring Our Future."

From the official Press Release:

As part of the Space Act Agreement, NASA will send special LEGO sets to the International Space Station aboard shuttle Endeavour's STS-134 mission in February 2011. The sets will be assembled by astronauts on-orbit and by children and student groups across the country. The construction process and activities with the sets will demonstrate the challenges faced when building things in the microgravity environment of space.

Discuss this news here and thanks to grogall and Brothers Brick!

Edit by Hinckley: Apologies about the confusion over the source of this. I first read it on Brothers-Brick, but EB member grogall had posted the topic yesterday. Sorry!

Cube Dude Mania!

Springfield, USA's BlockoLUG brings us a ton of cube dudes:

Check out 60 new cube dudes from this irreverent and enigmatic LUG.

Discuss here

Exclusive interview with Lego Digital Designer Development Manager

Not to long ago I got a opportunity to make an interview with the LDD development Manager in Billund, and naturally jumped to the occasion. It resulted in a nice talk about the new LDD 4 and it's features, but also gave a glimpse into the future of LDD and the thoughts thay lay behind the development of the software.

So without further a due, here is the Eurobricks LDD forum exclusive Interview.

Go here to download PDF and discuss.

Eurobricks Forum member and

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