We know it’s not Thursday, but we can’t help but to highlight a few of our favorite tutorials and creations of the week.

So without further adieu, here are some of favorite Workshop and creations built by our dedicated LBP members.

Featured Workshops

Needless to say, it’s been a hectic year of Mm and Sony, but it’s also been the most exciting and unforgettable experience for everyone involved with LittleBigPlanet.  Another year has passed, and we are all very much looking forward to spending the holidays with our loved ones.

In the spirit of the holidays, we’d like take this moment to thank the LittleBigPlanet community for their constant support, feedback and participation with the LittleBigWorkshop.  The site is only possible due to the endless support of our LBP fans and devoted community.  Your creations and contribution to the LittleBigWorkshop continues to amaze and astonish us, and it only fuels our imagination to provide more content, challenges and exclusive information to the community.  While we are all taking a little holiday break to spend time with our family, we’ll continue to monitor the LittleBigWorkshop from home and provide periodic updates to the news site when possible.  

From all of us at Sony and Mm, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Just in time for the holidays, check out the PS blog today for our weekly update of SACK IT TO ME.  Lots of big news this week, including the long awaited BIG 12/18 Patches, 1.06 and 1.07.  Both updates over the next few days will address a lot of the feedback we’ve been discussing on our weekly PS blog posts, so be sure check it out as soon as you can.  

Details of each patch update include:

Patch 1.06

• Moderation

• New Search Modes
• “Wheel of Death” bug fix   
• In-Game Store
• Improved Peripheral Support
• …and much, much more

Thanks for hanging in with us these last few days.  There were so many submissions that we had to spend extra time going thru the top hearted levels and then some.  But in the end, the top 5 hearted levels were truly amazing and we can see why you received so many hearts...so here are the top 5.

Congratulations you have been crowned!!!

LBP and MGS fans alike are in for a treat!  If you checked out the PS Blog today you will see all the details on the new Premium Metal Gear Solid® Level and Costume Packs that are hitting the PS Store on December 23rd.  

The Metal Gear Solid Premium Costume Pack will come complete with the Solid Snake outfit we revealed at TGS.  But in addition you will see favorites like Meryl Silverburgh, Screaming Mantis & Raiden who will each have LBP costume

Each costume is available at $1.99 each or get all 4 costumes for the price of 3 at $5.99.  But it doesn't just stop with costumes, player-creators have the option of getting the....

Metal Gear Solid Premium Level Pack for $5.99 which fills your Pop-it tool with a ton of MGS-themed “Create” materials, objects and stickers plus a whole lot more. 

Things like-  

• A 5th Sackboy costume…the Gurlokovich Soldier (see above).
• 72 New Stickers
• 12 New Materials
• 10 New Decorations
• 18 New objects
• New background music track
• 3 new interactive music tracks
• New Metal Gear Solid themed ‘sound object’
• New Plasma Ball ‘danger element’
• New Laser Sight ‘gadget’
• New functioning Searchlight lamp
• 12 new Trophies to unlock
• and best of all.....THE PAINTINATOR and Paint Switch 

In case you’ve missed it, the LittleBigPlanet YouTube Channel is officially LIVE.  In addition to the LittleBigWorkshop, you can now also connect with your fellow community members on YouTube.  Be sure to subscribe so we can inform you on the latest videos and any exclusive content found only on the LittleBigPlanet Channel.

Be sure to also check out the new LBP – Welcome to MY WORLD Video.  

Still stuck with creating an object or level within LittleBigPlanet?  GameDaily spoke to Media Molecule co-founder and Creative Director for LittleBigPlanet, Mark Healey for some expert advice in generating inspirations to create the most innovative level or object you possibly can within LBP.    

Check it out! 

In case you guys missed the Spike Video Game Awards last night, Mm proudly walked away with two VGA awards; “Best PS3 Game” and “Studio of the Year”.  Head over to the PS Blog to see the Mm’s reaction just minutes after the show.

In other LBP news, be sure to check out MmPicks – Music and Games of the week, including a “Mighty Mite LBP7 Tank” (by Rz22g) and “The Real Moon Lander” (by mach10mtbiker)

The LittleBigWorkshop has been a great tool for the entire community to get together and Play Create and Share.  And it's also been an amazing source for us to maintain updates and announcements with our community.  Over the past few weeks, we’ve been reading a lot forum posts and noticed certain rooms have become increasingly congested, making it difficult to sustain the amount of traffic and info pouring in.  

This has inspired our LittleBigChallenge of this week – Your LittleBigWorkshop Forum.  We want the LittleBigWorkshop forum to be YOUR destination for all things LBP, so it only makes sense to have you guys tell us how you’d like the message board to be.  We've came up with a new structure to help with the amount of traffic coming in, but we need your help to tell us if this is what you want.  

So have fun, and get together to tell us how we should better organize the LittleBigWorkshop forums.  We'll be sure to pay attention to your ideas :)

THE POD

• General Announcements - your one stop shop for all news and announcements relating to LBP.  
• Off-topic – intended for off-topic discussions
• Wishlists – want Mm to create a new costume, level or object for LBP.  Share your ideas here

• Story Level Discussion - need help getting past a Story Mode level, this is the place for you
• Collector's Corner - get advice on where to get certain items, objects, costumes, stickers, etc
• LittleBigNetwork - a place for players to meet other players

• How-to - Want to learn how to do something, post here and let the community help you out
• Tutorials - Feel like sharing your knowledge to the community, post here or link to you workshop page and help make the Create community a better place
• Community Creation Brainstorm - Talk about what you want you want to see other people make.  Want to see more levels designed for kids?  Want to recommend some unique concepts for others to build...this is your forum

• Level Discussion - talk about the some of your favorite levels
• Promotion Zone - Now that you're done creating your level, tell the world what, why, and how you created your level

We know all eyes are on us, but we’ve been overwhelmed with the sheer amount of submissions our community has created and as much as we’ve tried to select our winners for LBC1, we won't have any announcements today.  With so many more amazing levels to play, we are spending every waking moment, judging each of the creations submitted by the community.  We're hoping to announce the winners on the News site next week, so stay tuned!

For the time being, check out Mm’s blog for their Creators picks of the week and news on a Designer Sticker Pack available online.