Build yourself a car, out of Legos of course, and race against other players for prizes

Way before Legos were about taking all of pop culture's best heroes and converting them into cute, easy to play games, Legos were about something else: building stuff! So it's exciting to see that the feature announced today for Lego Universe is all about building and racing Lego race cars.

The whole thing sounds like a ton of fun. First you build your minifig character a race car from over 100 options and then you blaze around some really exciting and creative tracks. One track you'll race around is in the middle of a pirate battle and the other weaves its way through spaceships being built to access new Lego worlds. Throughout the races you'll be able to soar off of huge jumps and smash through stuff built with Legos. Do well enough and you'll win new helmets or accessories for your race car.

Racing is coming to the Lego Universe closed beta, so to get in on the this action, go and sign up here.