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A topic with information about our 10th Eurobricks event, Billund, 8-10 May 2014, has been posted in our events forum. With the dates already known all participants should have enough time to plan for it. We made sure there's a month gap between Brickworld Chicago, which is for some years the scene of our US Eurobricks event, in case some want to go to both.

Eurobricks Event 2014 Billund Denmark The one stop place for all your event info! 1/ Where, when, what: Get ready for our the 10th Eurobricks event, at the heart of the LEGO universe: Billund, Denmark. The event is Thursday 8th of May, Friday 9th of May and Saturday 10th of May, so most of us will arrive on Wednesday late afternoon and go travel back on Sunday morning. The program will be interesting as always! 2/ Accommodation We stay in comfortable wooden chalets in the lovely Billund Camping near a lake at 5 min walk from LEGO. For those who want to share a chalet, we'll take the L5-chalets which all have living room/kitchen, a bathroom (shower/toilet), and 2 bed rooms (one with 2 box mattresses and one with a cot and one bunk bed (two beds over/under each other)), so 5 beds per chalet. The camping has available 18 L5-chalets which are pre-booked for Eurobricks till 31st of December 2013. Prices: The camping was taken over by Merlin early this year and they will renovate all the chalets. The chalets will get a 'LEGO makover', but that also means prices for 2014 are a bit higher compared to our event of 2012. Chalet (L5): 1095 DKK/night (note: all the L5 chalets have a bathroom) Camping card (one needed per chalet): 110 DKK Breakfast: 80 DKK/day (optional, but I assume everyone will want breakfast) - Children (3 - 12 years incl.) 40 DKK/day Bed Linen & Towels: 75 DKK/Per Person (optional, you can also bring this yourself) I've added an example a bit later in this post so you'll see how to calculate your total cost for the stay. IMPORTANT: we have a deal with the camping to have 1x the buffet dinner in their restaurant and in return they give us unlimited access to a private conference room. We'll use this room for the evening activities (and possibly some activities during the day). The price for the buffet dinner is 198,00 DKK (~27 Euro) while Children 3-12y pay 99,00 DKK (~13 Euro). By signing up to the event you agree to join the group buffet dinner at the camping restaurant on Saturday 10th of May. Also note that all drinks consumed inside the conference room have to be bought from the bar of the camping. Booking and payment: We'll do this again in a decentralized way. Per chalet one person needs to be the 'chalet responsible'. This person will collect the money from the other people in the chalet and will be responsible for the booking and payment of the chalet to the camping. Payment is to be done shortly after booking (the chalet responsible pays directly to the camping, not to us!). Each 'chalet responsible' should send an e-mail to the Camping containing: name, address, telephone number, how many persons there are in the chalet, the type of chalet (=L5-Chalet) and refer to "Booking # 73585 - Eurobricks Event 2014". Also state the number of people in your chalet who want to hire bedlinen/towels and take breakfast. The camping will send back a confirmation of the reservation and a link for online payment. Chalet responsible: We'll work out who'll be the chalet responsibles in the sign-up topic. Please indicated in the sign-up thread if you'd be OK to be a chalet responsible or rather not. We prefer people who already came to past events to take the role of chalet responsible over people who we've never met before. Also in the sign-up topic you can work out with whom you'd like to share a chalet. If you become chalet responsible you should get in touch with the other people in your chalet (by Personal Messenger) and give instructions on how they can send you the money. Once you have collected all the money you can make the reservation and payment to the camping. Ultimately it's up to you as chalet responsible how you do this, as long as you agree with the people in your chalet. If you come with your family and would like an entire chalet you will of course be your own chalet responsible. To make life easy I've made an example email for booking a chalet with the camping. Find it below in this post. Address and Contact: Billund FDM Camping Ellehammers Allé 2 DK-7190 Billund Tel.: +45 75 33 27 77 E-mail: info@LEGOLAND-Village.dk Website 3/ Sign-up for the event: You can sign up for the event here. 4/ Some examples: Example calculation of the total cost for your stay (assuming a full chalet): I'll take myself as an example: I'll stay the entire event, so 4 nights, in a chalet with 4 other people (so full chalet, 5 people in total), that makes (1095 DKK x 4)/5 = 876 DKK. I'll also take breakfast each day, making the total 876 DKK + (80 x 4) = 1196 DKK. Also I'll take the bedlinen and towels, so 1196 DKK + 75 DKK = 1271 DKK. Now I only need to pay my share of the camping card (one needed per chalet), so 1271 DKK + (110 /5) = 1293 DKK So my grand total 1293 DKK, or after conversion (using xe.com) that makes roughly 175 EUR per person. Example email for booking a chalet (only for 'chalet responsibles'): To: info@LEGOLAND-Village.dk Title: Booking # 73585 - Eurobricks Event 2014 Dear, I'd like to book a L5-chalet for the Eurobricks LEGO event 2014. We will arrive late afternoon Wednesday 7th of May and leave on the morning of Sunday 11th of May, so 4 nights in total. There will be a total of 5 persons in the chalet. All 5 of us take breakfast and bedlinen/towels. We'll pay everything in advance, so please send me the total bill (including chalet, breakfast, bedlinen/towels and one camping card). My contact info: Joe Smith Forestlane 210, 3020 UK Mobile: +49-45.66.44 Best Regards, Joe Here are a few pictures to give you an impression of the place where we'll stay:

Interesting question... I know that a lot of the people coming to the Eurobricks event have had an above average education and can spent crazy amount of money on LEGO. For example, ~12% were specialized doctors, many IT specialists (programmers, etc.), some engineers (myself being one), ... . But maybe the people traveling half way across Europe (or even the world) to come to our events are not the average AFOL! I think that against the world average education level the answer is for sure yes. If you only look at the population where LEGO is selling most (Europe, US, ...) I'm not so sure. As this is LEGO related I'll move this discussion to our LEGO General Discussion and News forum.

Thanks Masked Builder for this superb review! About the set: I full agree with the conclusion on the review. It's as good as a Technic set can get

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Doc, seems your Brickshelf gallery is still not public. Stupid brickshelf

If you like to work for LEGO and have the skills, this might be your dream job: Link to forum discussion.

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I'm also waiting for the pics of Holodoc to go public on Brickshelf (that's one of the reasons I stopped using Brickshelf). I am already working on some of the logistics for our 2014 event. Today I'll have a call with the place where we'll be staying to work out some details. Maybe there'll soon be an information topic so we can start dreaming about the next event :)

Please don't type topic titles all in capital letters. Thanks!

And the next CUUSOO will be the "Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover". Info and discussion is here. UCS Sandcrawler didn't make it, but Thinking with Portals (by our very own Brickthing and Team Jigsaw) could still get selected.

Welcome Ben! It's always nice to have more Belgians onboard

The unofficial US Eurobricks event is Brickworld where we have all kinds of EB festivities led by Hinckley.

The event was a wonderful and relaxing time for me. Having fun, talking, eating, drinking, building, ... . I am already looking forward to next year!

The EB event 2013 is over, but we have a lot of good memories. The weather was fantastic, the company even better. We had lots of fun in the LEGO parks, a great day visiting Munich with our tour guide Grogall, nice conversations, contests, ... . For me this was one of the nicest and most relaxing events so far. I already miss having around in real physical format all those wonderful EB members. Till we meet again it's back to our virtual home called Eurobricks.com. Here you find the post-event topic including pictures of the 9th EB event.

I just couldn't resist buying this set after seeing in this review how great if really is. Amazing set with a huge playability level. Thanks for making the review!

A warm welcome to Ecclesiastes, our new History Regulator!

Message to the people in my car: You have to wear the same clothes the entire event. There's no room anymore for your personal luggage

The doc, myself, Johan (Snefroe), Dana (Aredhel) and Steven will arrive in one car. Our guestimated arrival is Wednesday at 17:30.

I've just ordered my Merlin annual pass for the nice discounted price of 65 euro

3D printers are really hot these days. Market value of companies producing such devices is going sky high and new achievements are hitting the news regularly. Examples range from printing a working gun to attempts to print an tasty pizza. It makes one think of the 'replicator' all of the Star Trek fans have known for many years. When it comes to our hobby, LEGO, I wonder how this evolution will reshape things in the coming years. There are already injection moulded after market parts (BrickForge, Brickarms, etc.), but what if the quality of 3D printers gets good enough for anyone to just make their own parts? That SNOT connector LEGO just doesn't make? No problem, I'll just print one. A new Roman helmet variant? Here it comes. The sky could be the limit: Just imagine... and next print it. I can imagine a time when people are sharing their designs in digital format for anyone to download and print at home. More indexing work for our staff but no more shipping needed, just download the file and print the piece in your own home. Are you excited? We'd love your opinion! Join the discussion here.