It's that time of year again when the days get shorter, the nights get colder, and children all around the world stare longingly into warmly lit toy shops and prepare their wishlist to send to Santa.

If you like to read more, head over to LEGO Town and read Oky's excellent review of the rereleased Winter Toy Shop!

Here are the results of the Crane Contest, which ended last week. It was a somewhat low profile contest, but nevertheless some great entries. Check out the full results in the Technic Forum.

1st Kenworth K100 Crane Truck by Efferman

2nd Jerfeds Hamnkran by DavSod

3rd UNIC URW-094 Mini Spider Crane by JamesJT

If you don't own an SBrick yet, here's your chance to get one, with a free Black casing and a 10% discount.

Hello everyone,

Our server was just moved to a new datacenter which was the reason of the downtime. I was planning to post the following message, but due to an overload of work I totally forgot. My apologies!

Dear members,

Our provider announced that our server will shortly be relocated to another data center. The relocation will occur from 25 November, 19:00 h until 26 November, 07:00 h (CET). During this time Eurobricks might not be available for an extended period of time.

- The EB staff.

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Pretoriano posted this awesome pirate ship The Storm!

Sail over to the Pirates MOC Fourm and comment on this and many other great creations!

Eurobricks member JanetVanD makes quite the impression with her latest MOC: a 57,992 piece model of Her Majesty's Theatre in London. And for those who think the size of the MOC means there is hardly any interior detail... check out the pictures in the Town forum.

On behalf of our Eurobricks LUG Ambassador and Event Moderator, CopMike, I am here to remind our Eurobricks Community that the annual traditional EB Xmas Raffle 2015 - Your ideal Christmas Tree will end in less than a week time! Get your creative juice and don't hesitate to put up your most original entry.

So head over to the info & entry thread and start building !

We again suffered from the same problem we had about a week ago, causing some downtime.

Last time we only fixed the issue, but didn't find the root cause. This time also the root cause was found and a permanent fix implemented!

Discussion topic is here.

MOC Expert markus1984 bring us a very nice diorama about one of our favorites classic space faction: Ice Planet !

Eurobricks Forum member, LEGO customiser and BrickWarriors founder Thrash set sails toward our forums to bring news of his latest new designs: Tricorn, Pirate Coat, Pirate Cutlass, Lantern!

(Click on the images above to join the discussions, or browse the Minifig Customisation Workshop to learn more about the LEGO customisers' world)

TLG uploaded official images of some of the 2016 City sets to their server. Check them out in the Town forum.

Sometimes following a WIP topic can be just as fun (or more) as seeing a finished MOC!

Hass Kabal is documenting his progress on a stunning UCS-style LEGO Batmobile from the Arkham Knight videogame!

Click the picture to watch it unfold in the Licensed forum.

We experienced an issue on our server which caused some downtime.

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Sander1992 shared a large diorama he and his brother completed for Legoworld in the Netherlands. The diorama contains most of the classic pirate sets, and great creations and landscaping. Come check out his Large Landscape Topic out in the Pirate MOCs forum.

Yeah, it´s last years pic that I´ve photo shopped! It´s good for the environment to reuse !

Well, you might have thought that the EB Santa wouldn´t make a drive-by this year? WRONG !

So head over to the info & entry thread and start building !