LEGO has blessed classic space fans in recent years with minifig spacemen in new colors, callbacks to old factions, and a couple of re-imagined sets. What we haven’t had in ages is an actual new LEGO faction in the tradition of the 80s and 90s, when every year or two would bring in a new spin on Space. Over on the Eurobricks forums, Bob De Quatre is hosting a contest that lets anyone create a new faction based on a constrained color palette. It seems like an amazing way for veteran Classic Space builders as well as new voices in the community to celebrate LEGO’s space legacy with a creative spin. Large builds, small builds, and even just minifig-focused creations have a category, so why dust off those oxygen tanks and fire up your ray guns and sign up over at the Eurobrick forums.
Perhaps you’ll find your groove like Angus MacLane did with the totally chill Browntron faction (which pre-dates the Summer Faction Festival but fits the rules)
Contest rules from the eurobricks forums:
Summer Faction Festival
It’s summer, it’s hot outside, it’s the perfect time to design your own sci-fi faction and build rovers, spaceships, moon base or anything you want, as long as it matches a set of colors that you’ll have to choose. (This still applies even if it’s winter in your area!)
What defines best a faction than its colors?! So choose yours, wisely, and start building!
The different colors you have to decide on are:
- One or two primary colors: must be the most dominant(s) color(s) of your builds
- Two to three secondary colors: used as accents or details, but not as much as the primary colors
- One transparent color: should be used for the canopies, windows and such
You can of course use more colors if needed for smaller elements. And be creative, try to not use existing Lego colorscheme!
Categories
A: The small band – Design and build anything that fits inside a 32 studs and respects the colorscheme of your faction!
B: The large band – Design and build anything that doesn’t fit the size restriction of category A while still matching your faction’s colorscheme.
C: The crew – Design and build a group of six (6) sci-fi themed minifigs that represent members of your faction.
D: The faction – Present your faction with a description, your choice of colors, and as much pictures as you want (including your entries for other categories)
(Prizes infos will be added later)
Rules
- First rule: have fun!
- For every entry, please write at least a short description of your faction including the faction’s colors.
- For category C, brickbuilds robots or characters are allowed, just don’t oversize them. Be sure to include a picture with all six of your crew.
- For category A, the largest dimension of your build must not be over 32 studs.
- The contest will run from July 10th to August 31st 2025. As long as it’s still August 31st somewhere in the world, you can still enter.
- Entries posted after the deadline will be disqualified.
- This contest is open to all EB members, even if they joined EB after the contest has begun, with the exception of the Sci-Fi staff, who are not eligible to win prizes.
- You can enter any of the categories with any numbers of entries, but you’ll be eligible to receive only one prize.
- All entries must be new creations, not posted anywhere else prior to being entered in the contest. You may be asked by a staff member to change your entry if it is too similar to an earlier creation.
- All entries must be built from real LEGO. No clone brands, no third-party custom parts, no digital entries.
- Custom sails and rigging are allowed.
- Non-Lego light sources are allowed as long as you mention it in your entry description.
- You can use official stickers or custom stickers.
- All entries must be posted as a new topic in the Sci-Fi forum, the title prefixed by, “[SFF] Cat X – “. (For example, “[SFF] Cat C – LArge mining ship”.)
- You may do a ‘full-blown photo edit’ with all the text, effects, background compositing, support erasing, and other effects on one picture. All your other pictures may have no editing other than color adjustment or background removal for a solid-color background. For obvious reasons, any photo editing that changes the shape, functionality, or color (not tint or adjustment, but actual color) of a LEGO piece is prohibited.
- All entries are considered WIPs (Works In Progress) until the deadline passes. Until the deadline has passed, you are allowed to change and improve your MOC.