Classic-Pirates.com is hosting a new contest that challenges you to build places and locations from the LEGO Pirates universe within a 24×24 base.
Here are the prizes:
1st Place: 6268 Renegade Runner
2nd Place: 6256 Islander Catamaran
3rd Place: 6245 Harbour Sentry
Creative Critic: 6256 Islander Catamaran
Read more about the Captain’s Quarters Contest on Classic-Pirates.com.
Tyler Clites (Legohaulic) has the, uh, nerve to enter the Show Us What You Got contest with this interesting vehicle dubbed the CS-Nozzle Starfighter.
Kevin Fedde (Crimson Wolf) enters the Show Us What You Got Starfighter Contest with the Ivory Lotus.
Click the picture to see more and read the back story.
Jamie Spencer (Morgan19) has been known to create incredible minifigs in the call of a contest. This time, Jamie makes his first sculpted and painted pieces. Check out the full gallery with descriptions on Flickr (or if you prefer Brickshelf).
I promise, we are not in fact contractually obligated to blog all Portal or Valve-inspired LEGO creations. But this Spontaneous Portal Generator Prototype II (aka Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device) by Neaku (also on Flickr) definitely caught my eye:
Via BioniBlog, where Ean has a nice overview of the latest Bionicle Building Contest over at BZPower.
Erik Smit (.eti) recently won the LowLUG MiniMocMadness contest with “The mermaid that came from under the ice.”
After winning two prizes in our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest, Erik is on a roll. Congratulations!
Chris Doyle over at Reasonably Clever has just announced the “Handtruck Building Challenge ‘09.”
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: Incorporate as many LEGO handtrucks into a LEGO creation as you can. The deadline is March 13, 2009, so get building!
Check out Reasonably Clever for complete details.
The Job Muller Contest, on Classic Castle, has certainly been generating a lot of great entries! Here are some of my favorites.
‘Shroom Whisperer by Foamrider:
Ye Olde Toliet Salesman by Life Unscripted:
Sanitizers by Shmails:
The Starfighters group on Flickr is hosting a “Show Us What You Got” Starfighter Contest. The rules are simple: “build an original starfighter, and make it awesome.” The prizes include custom models from Peter Morris, who’s also among the panel of judges. The contest runs until March 31st, so there’s plenty of time to perfect [...]
The Agents of the Imperial Crown contest is certainly contributing to an uptick in the number of LEGO steampunk creations I’m seeing. Here’s a quick roundup.
V&A Steamworks goes airborne aboard HMS Earl Grey:
Rod Gillies (2 Much Caffeine) takes steampunk to China and Prussia:
Jason “JasBrick” has been posting awesome custom steampunk minifigs for a while:
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LEGO fans submitted nearly a hundred entries to the GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest, which made choosing the Grand Prize, First Prize, and Second Prize winners very hard.
Here are are a few of my personal favorites from among the rest of the entries.
Moritz Nolting packs a crowd of minifigs aboard a party truck, led by [...]
Aliencat and Bluesecrets are hosting a brand-new contest over at Classic Castle.
Born in a frenzy of whimsy and late-night chatting, the Job Muller’s Contest is something unique. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is build a fictional medieval occupation, the funnier the better. I think I’m going to be [...]
Both Peter Norman and I have now done example designs for the previously mentioned train building challenge. Remember it closes at the end of February so if you’re planning to enter you better get cracking.
We’re very pleased (and relieved) to finally announce the winners of our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest!
Grand Prize goes to “The Surfer” by tiberium_blue:
Erik Smit takes himself back in time for First Prize in the 1970s category with “Me in the 1970s”:
Al Eisenbart captures the spirit of the 1980s with “Iron Maiden – World Slavery [...]
Andrew Colunga shows that the black fantasy virus is capable of infecting an entire planet, and now the last survivors are desperate to escape the doomed planet in the last remaining spacecraft. Oh the horror!
If you’re wondering why there’s been an abundance of horror action on the blog over the weekend, you should check out [...]
My latest space creation goes small for SCI-LUG’s recently ended Small Starfighter contest. Like several of the entrants, I’ve come up with a transforming design that capitalizes on the symmetrical quality of the bubble cockpit to include the third form of an atmospheric flight configuration.
What astonds me the most is the explosive magnitude of the [...]
There’s been a barrel-full of quality Steampunk creations lately. Many are entries in the Agents of the Imperial Crown contest, but some aren’t. It doesn’t matter, they are all awesome!
Black Valve by crises
Steam Bike I by Zack
FlyCycle by Barbara Marassi & Sopwith Hurricane by Rod Gillies
This week Classic Castle announced the winners of their huge annual contest! The quality of the entries grows every year, but this year they seemed to really blossom. Quite a few of these have been featured already. But here they are, all in one spot, for your viewing pleasure.
Tapestry:
Knight by Bluesecrets
Vignette:
Double Trouble [...]
Following our suggestions over the last few days, reader -greenglo- sent us a reminder that we’d missed his awesome Colossal Castle Contest VI entry titled “Everfrost Mountain Brewery”:
There are lots of great details to check out on Flickr, including detailed shots of the great green Ogre with light-up eye, but the 2-second video is what [...]
Flickr’s LEGO Steampunk group is hosting a contest to build steampunk variations of the LEGO Agents theme. You can create a steampunked version of any Agents vehicle or set and even free build your own. The contest runs from January 1st to February 28th. Check out the details and prizes here.
Jesus Diaz has just announced winners in the Gizmodo GO MINIMAN GO Video Contest. Head on over to check out the top five entries, including the winning brick-flick by David Boddy:
For those of you wondering when we’ll announce winners in our own GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest, we’re almost there! Look for an announcement here [...]
Classic-Castle.com was having a few technical difficulties, but they’ve now been resolved and the Colossal Castle Contest VI entry form is now open.
Not to discourage anybody from entering, but my money’s on Tom Snellen:
If you’ve built something for the contest, don’t forget to read the rules and submit your entry.
The Brickster is hosting a “Build and Decorate a Train Car” contest over on Eurobricks. The contest, in brief, consists of building a train set and decorating it in a holiday theme. For a full description head over to the contest thread.
Which coincidentally brings me to my next post…
FBTB announces a much overdue Star Wars contest since their previous popular Steam Wars contest almost a year ago. Nevertheless, the new contest looks to be an exciting one, where participants must add a touch of the holidays into a Star Wars vehicle or build a vignette that blends both themes.
The contest ends on December [...]
The last couple of months of the year really are the “contest season” in the LEGO fan community. Klocki is trying out a Contests page to capture many of the contests going on at the moment. We’ll try to feature as many as we can get to, but I’m not making any promises. ;-)
Andrew “Doctor [...]