Dan Joosten’s contest on Classic-Castle has run its course and he’s declared winners in all categories:
Miniature Set: Bartosza6m with his version of 6081 – King’s Mountain Fortress
Miniature Castle: Chris Edwards with his Castle on the Lake
Check out the second place, third place, and runner-up entries here! Congratulations, everyone!
Keith Goldman presents his third You Control the Action Contest with a unique twist. The theme of the contest is “a celebration of minorities in sci-fi,” which prompts you to think beyond the ordinary yellow minifig and come up with new situations involving the misrepresented, misfits, mavericks, Mace Windu, and in simple terms – the [...]
Now in its seventh year, the massive multi-category contest, run annually by Classic-Castle has gone live.
Categories include Technological Advances, Alternate Sets, Medieval Mariner, Outlaw Escape, Eastern Medieval Life, Religous Life, Knight’s Training, Custom Castle Figure, Brick Castles, Fantasy Castles and Misc. The prizes are quite impressive, including vintage Castle sets, new sets, [...]
Sorry folks, we won’t be getting 6299 LEGO Pirates Advent Calendar here in North America. That decision was apparently made before the whole Castle Advent Calendar drama last year.
Fortunately, the Forbidden Cove October Seed Part Challenge gives you a way to win one — for free!
Click the graphic to read the rules and check out [...]
Louise Dade (Bladewood) and Reasonably Clever are teaming up for a very cool contest — build a pimped-out version of Louise’s wheelchair!
The contest runs from today through November 15th. Click the graphic to check out the rules and prizes.
The second Pillage the Village contest has been launched on Classic-Pirates.com.
Prizes will be awarded for large, medium, and small LEGO creations, with a deadline of November 30th, 2009.
Zombie Apocafest 2009 has come and gone. The undead have been blown up, shot up, and mulched to oblivion. The humans stand victorious among the ruins of their civilization. Fortunately, that civilization was, by good fortune, built from LEGO, and it can be rebuilt, brick by little plastic brick.
Check out the full gallery of Zombie [...]
In addition to the fantastic new creations coming out of Dan’s Mini Castle Contest V, we get to see immense creativity in micro-scale recreations of our favorite classic castle sets.
Griffon brings an excellent rendition of 6080 LEGOLand Castle, originally released in 1984:
It even opens up, just like the original! Check out the rest of [...]
The same applies to this creation, from Jonathon Derksen. An entry for the 23rd Challenge over at LUGNuts, the red truck is quite unassuming:
But have a look inside and see why you want this truck on YOUR side during the Zombie Apocalypse.
The deadline for the LEGO Speeder Bikes contest just passed, and there are more than a hundred entries for the judges to peruse. A couple of my favorites from late in the contest are from mr. eugene. Eugene says that these are his first LEGO creations after emerging from a decade long LEGO hiatus. Welcome [...]
With exactly one month until BrickCon, we’re teaming up with LUGNuts for their 23rd build challenge, Zombie Apocalypse Killfest ‘09.
Naturally, we’re hoping that those of you who build something for this challenge will also bring it for the Zombie Apocafest 2009 collaborative display at BrickCon.
As with other LUGNuts challenges, this is sure to generate [...]
BrickCon 2009 starts in exactly two months. That means it’s time to start getting down to details on all the collaborative displays being planned for the con, starting with our very own Zombie Apocafest 2009. (We’ll be doing a roundup about all the other displays soon.)
Like last year’s zombie apocalypse display, Zombie Apocafest is sponsored [...]
The fifth issue of Hispabrick Magazine is now available for download.
This issue includes:
Celebration of the 10th anniversary of LEGO Star Wars, with a chance to win a chrome-silver Darth Vader minifig
Interviews with Jan Beyer and Mark Kelso
Reviews of 10194 Emerald Night
And lots more!
Download Hispabrick Magazine 005 for free today.
The winners of Classic-Castle’s Battles Contest have finally been chosen. Not surprisingly, some of the winners will be familiar to TBB readers. But enough talking, here they are!
1st Place: Medieval Hooligan Brawl by forseti
2nd Place: Defending the Village by DNL
3rd Place: Defense of the Iron Oak by SuvieD
Best Vignette: Sir Wunstud jumped by [...]
Rocko is hosting a contest! It’s a Castle Contest for those who don’t usually build Castle. Veterans need not apply. So get your permission slip signed and start building!
UPDATE: Planning is now underway for the next Zombie Apocafest. Read all about it in our Zombie Apocafest 2009 strategy, tactics, & logistics post.
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The LEGO convention season is upon us, and BrickCon 2009 is just over four months away — time to start planning your trip and what you’re going to build. Likewise, it’s time [...]
Daniel Z takes his castle evolution project and turns it into a full-scale action-blown battle scene for the Battles Contest on Classic Castle. With that I think there’s no need to fight now, the battle is over!
This entry in the Battles Contest, by Rod Gillies, is balanced on one stud! He says that it took a lot of time and obscenities before it worked out. I’m glad he muddled through!