Technic-head Blakbird brings us a humble review of the new Technic 8043 Excavator. Is it one of the best Technic sets ever? Read on to find out!

Click here to view this review in our Technic forum.

Have you ever heard of an unlucky rock? - the kind of rock that sinks many boats. - A mysterious hut on top and cave that serves as a prison for castaways? Venture into the

Cape of No Hope, a LEGO History creation by Lolas.

Dear LEGO fans and Eurobricks Forum members, have you ever wanted to have your minifgures turn into a cute, tall, soft plush version of themselves?

Eurobricks Fellow MetroiD and his lovely girlfriend decided to make this dream a reality, and soon they had these two fantastic custom plush minifigs in their hands: LEGO workers turn into the symbols of their community and LUG.

(Click on the image to know the story of these figures and join the discussion)

Forestmen's Crossing is back! at least in the Eurobricks History forum. LEGO Classic Castle fan Jonas has restored one of the fantastic Forestmen sets from 1990,

6071 Forestmen's Crossing. Using LEGO Minifigures from the Vintage Minifigure Collections and 2010 Robinhood, his classic restoration is certainly appreciated by woodland Classic Castle fans.

REMINDER!

Only two weeks to go now for the first Lego Digital Designer Contest here at Eurobricks.

The Prize table is pretty massive, or what do you think of:

Falling Water, Star Wars Rebel Trooper Battle Pack, the huge Imperial Flagship, Chrome Stormtrooper and Emerald Night.

And on top of that there's a Silly Surprise Prize, the Best-in-Show Award and a unique Secret Prize.

The idea of the contest is to encourage the use of LDD as support tool during the design process, so jump in an give it a go.

Read here about the contest and the rules

FBTB is throwing a MOC contest where the prizes sure are worth having a go at winning.

White Boba Fett, Cloud City Boba Fett, Chrome C3P0, Chrome Darth Vader, Chrome Stormtrooper, 8097 Slave1 and much more.

(Click the picture to check it out)

LEGO Train fan Scrat shares his LEGO rendition of an

EU40/E401 in the Train Tech forum, a great place to share your LEGO Train creations.

Prolonged application time

!

Go to this thread for Graphic Designer and this thread for Product Designer, and check out the details.

Then get your portfolio together and change your future !

Application date prolonged until the end of July!

Completely unique to the LEGO Train theme, TaltosVT shares this most complexing

Timesaver Switching Puzzle. Built in microscale, this interesting creation is based on the original HO version by John Allen. You can read more about the puzzle in the Train Tech forum.

Where might these happy City minifigures be travelling to?

Well, they're on their way to everyone's favorite LEGO City community, the EB Town Forum.

Why are they going there?

Our very own 'high-res hero', Grogall, has shared new high resolution images of the late 2010 LEGO City sets. If you haven't seen them already, check them out here!

The LEGO Community Development team would like to know which of the already existing elements would be needed most urgently in missing colors.

Go to this thread in the Embassy to read the details and to make your suggestions !

And PLEASE - do read the instructions and follow them !

LEGO is holding a Design Challenge to find the cover for the Late Holiday Catalog. Entries can be submitted now through August 8^th.

This promotion is open only to residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia who are 5 years of age or older as of 6/24/10.

Read the whole story in the Embassy forum!

Eurobricks Forum member def shares with the online LEGO community some fantastic custom minifig designs and decals:

(Images link to the topic)

Why don't you take some time and check them in the Minifig Customisation Workshop?

More and more of our (Staff)members seem to be dying in the Tournament of Retribution II, over at the Pirates forum, this comic for example is titled 'Demise of an Emperor'.

Don't wait any longer! Take your own personal revenge NOW!

The Rules

Official Sign Ups

Avatar Authorization

Fantastic Prizes

New in the EB Town Forum is this amazing

Town Hall and Market by Kris Kelvin. His creation takes LEGO Town to much higher level of detail and splendor.