Community Mission: Jawbox Donation Contest!

As you all know, you need to donate LOTS of bricks to complete Nexus Tower. So why not reward the people who donate the most? That's exactly what Lego is doing. The top 20 contributors to the Nexus Jawbox will win REAL bricks! It's almost like trading in your virtual bricks for real ones! And who wouldn't want to do that? So make sure you start stocking up/buying bricks right now! It's going to take a lot to donate a ton of bricks and become one of the winners! Here is your 'mission' according to the community article. And in case you don't get what "stop" means after each sentence, it was an old term to tell the reader that the sentence ended there. It was usually in telegrams or military messages.

Here’s your mission: Start gathering loads of bricks. Stop. After May 3, talk to Nexus Jay in Nimbus Station. Stop. He will send you on to Kurt Tussle at the Race Place. Stop. Tussle stands right next to the magnificent Nexus Jawbox. Stop. You will drop your bricks into its churning abyss of a mouth! Stop. If you are one of the top donators, you will win… real bricks! Full stop.


Here is the full prize list:


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The top contributor to Nexus Tower wins:

o LEGO Architecture – Farnsworth House (#21009) 
o 1 LEGO Large Brick Box (#5508)
o 1 LEGO Brick Separator (#630) 
o 1 copy of LEGO® Universe Massively Multiplayer Online Game (#55000)
o An in-game item exclusive to this contest: The Hood of the Mystic
o 20 in-game Faction tokens.

The 2-20 top brick contributors will win buckets of bricks:

o 1 LEGO Large Brick Box (#5508)
o 1 LEGO Brick Separator (#630) 
o 1 copy of LEGO® Universe Massively Multiplayer Online Game (#55000)
o An in-game item exclusive to this contest: The Hood of the Mystic
o 20 in-game Faction tokens.

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But make sure that while your donating bricks, to keep your hand away from the jaws, they could bite your hand off!

-Zorkonian12

How to Build the Nexus Jawbox! (Before it comes out!)

The Nexus Jawbox is a special model that can only be in Lego Universe for a short time. It's job is to collect bricks from players so the Nexus Tower construction project can be finished. Once the entire community has donated enough bricks, Nexus Tower will be completed! LEGO has released the instructions for you to build the Nexus Jawbox with (for all of you people who can't wait to see it in-game). Once again, and with all models, you can build it on your property, your living room floor, or in the new updated LDD! Have fun building!

-Zorkonian12

Organized Vendors!

Have you ever had to scroll through ALL of those hundred thousand or so bricks that a vendor sells? I have! Thats why Lego decided to make brick vendors a little more organized. You can now find bricks based on Clips, Hand Accessories Hinge & Turntable, and more! You can also even use your buckets to sort bricks and find them more easily from the vendor. With this update (that is coming soon) you will be able to spend more time building and less time searching. Even though this update is small, it should have a big effect on your building productivity in Lego Universe.

-Zorkonian12

How to Build the Fire Brawl! (and build like LU programmers!)

There is another instructional release on how to build an upcoming in-game set in your property, LDD, or at home! It teaches you how to build the Fire Brawler, one of the new race cars coming to Lego Universe. There is also some great news with LDD! Version 4.1 is now ready for you to download! I don't know what the new version is like (since I tend not to use LDD, and I haven't downloaded v4.1 yet). However, the one main new feature is this: "This means that you now have access to the LEGO Universe palette of bricks, which is used every day by our own Builders!". Apparently with the new version you can use the same colors that actual Lego Universe programmers use. Pretty exciting! You can download v4.1 of LDD here:

 v4.1 LDD

Have fun with it!

I also have a link to the .pdf instructions on how to build the Fire Brawl. Click here for it!