In what one might call an act of epic awesomeness, EB member and Thinking Brickly blogger, fallentomato has compiled an excellent article, fully researched, well organized and with a solid argument for one side of the recent Friends "controversy".

Instead of doing what so many have done and just blindly jumping into the ring and flailing their proverbial internet fists, fallentomato has actually fully researched the subject and presented his findings and constructed his opinion thoroughly and expertly.

Read the full article: Thinking Brickly - The LEGO Gender Gap: A Historical Perspective

And make sure to comment and join in the discussion with fallentomato and other EB members in this topic.

LEGOLas

Discuss here

Source: theonering.net

Are LEGO Trains Classed as "Real" Model Trains?

LEGO Train fan Paul B asks the most interesting question in EB's Train Tech forum. While the answer is most probably "yes" to most LEGO Train builders, some HO and other non-LEGO Train hobbyists might answer otherwise. Read what EB members are saying in this thought-provoking LEGO Train discussion and share your thoughts on the subject.

New version of LDD out today

Massive amount of new bricks added

LDD version 4.2.5 was released today, January 18th. As expected, the main difference to the previous version (4.1.8) is the removal of DbM and LEGO Universe modes. They have been replaced by LDD and Extended Mode. This means that there is no longer any need to manually activate Extended Mode - it's there out of the box.

The lack of new features is more then counterweighed by the massive brick update: 183 new bricks and 70 brick bug fixes.

Read more here

LEGOLAND Star Wars™ Miniland Experience at LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort

In the tradition of Star Wars-themed areas in mainland European or US LEGOLAND parks, LEGOLAND Star Wars™ Miniland Experience will officially open at LEGOLAND® Windsor Resort on March 2012. You can read more info and see more teaser images in this topic and comment if you’re excited about this news!

Think you have what it takes to be a building Wizard?

Head on over to the Licensed Forum and help us build Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry!

Mutley's put the hammer down and he's started a 2nd review run.

This time he's doing the new MINIs for us.

(click the image to see the full review)

(click the image to see the full review)

EB has become the Battle of the Planets as mutley777 has reviewed

Find them all in the LEGO Star Wars forum!

New Architecture set - Sydney Opera House

Thanks member Maikii for finding it! Discuss it here.

Official pictures of 10224 Town Hall are available on the Romanian toy shop website

Thanks to our member Mikey26 for the link.

Image is link to pictures and discussion.

Results for the Historica's "All Along The Watchtower" challenge are in!

With a whopping number of entries in round 1 has been a huge success, thanks to all who entered!

A link to all the amazing entries can be found here along with the latest update in the Historica saga.

Don't miss out on round two in the Historica sub-forum now!

Ghostly images of LEGO Pirate fan Kevblee's phantom ship are starting to emerge through the fog. Is that a

Only in EB's LEGO Pirate Forum!

The 2012 Minifig Lineup poster is apparently available when preordering.

Don't live in the US?

Want one?

Then print one yourself.

Grogall has found high resolution pics for us.

(click the image to see the high res pics and comment)

Grogall has found a couple more videos for us to enjoy

Click here to get to the discussion and watch the non-ripped versions.

It doesn't happen every day when a MOC gets a lot of attention outside the typical LEGO communities and 'makes it' in the real world. However, this is what happened with Yatkuu's MOC "The Winchester - Shaun of the Dead" which was highlighted on dozens of non-LEGO sites and still continues to draw more attention.

Check this topic on our forums for reading the amazing journey this MOC, or even better vote on LEGO CUUSOO if you like to see it in your own home one day.

TooMuchCaffeine brings us an ingenious MOC of Superman flying, complete with scrolling background!

Check out the topic here

LEGO Sci-Fi fan Konajra will have your ships tuned-up, fueled-up, and ready for galaxy space travel with just a short stop in EB's LEGO Sci-fi forum. Make sure you check out his latest creation, Star Tuning.

Lots of new information about LEGO® CUUSOO - go to the Embassy forum to read!

Well 2011 is over... but was it good for you? Loads of good things happened on Eurobricks so we thought we'd take the time to summarise some of the highlights from most of the forums just in case you missed them. Over the next few days at regular intervals I'll be adding to the topic (at the start and the end) another forum summarised by the usual suspects so please keep checking back!

Wrap it up!