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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 Orcs by Rod Gillies
Congratulations to the winners! There were a lot of good entries in there and judging was very difficult. Way to go!
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 to start planning collaborative displays.
With a successful Zombie Apocafest 2008 under our belts, we at The Brothers Brick are pleased to announce Zombie Apocafest 2009.
To celebrate this announcement and as an example of one of our new prize categories, I’ve turned 7639 Camper into a mobile zombie defense platform.
This year, we’re splitting up the prizes into four categories:
There are still many details to iron out, and we’re definitely open to suggestions. What kind of overall theme would you like to build toward? If you were there, what worked last year? What didn’t? Let us know in the comments.
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!
If you want to win a chrome gold C-3PO or chrome Vader, you can enter the new contest on the K.A.M. forums. Your task is to present a custom force-user minifig in the backdrop of a vignette made from pieces of one battle pack. Think you’re up to the challenge? May the force be with you.
A couple of months ago, Andrew Lee (onosendai2600) challenged TBB’s own Nannan Zhang (Nannan) to a building contest.
This was to be an epic challenge of skill, with only two limitations. The first limitation was the deadline, which was the end of April. The second, each builder had to use all of the parts supplied and chosen by a third party.
Derek Schin (dbol39) volunteered to provide the mystery part, and sent each builder EIGHT of the printed radar dishes from the UCS Millennium Falcon. A panel of judges was selected, and the guys were off to the build-tables.
Each builder has now unveiled their creation. Epic is certainly the name of the game with these guys. It’s also remarkable how similar the uses that each builder made of the mystery part are. Both efforts have both pros and cons, and I don’t envy the judges their decision.
Nannan put together a battle (above) involving a massive flying saucer, several small saucers, and a huge-nosed mecha. I appreciate the effort he put in to illustrating an instant caught in time. The energy beam blasting a hole through through the mecha is really cool, although I hate the way the beam abruptly ends. I’m a bit confused by the tile floor at what looks like an out-door facility. It’s amazing what a couple of talented and dedicated builders can manage to put together in a couple of months.
Meanwhile, Andrew built a bustling asteroid spaceport/city. I can’t help but appreciate that there’s a building in the city dedicated to a theme of my own creation. I’m also generally a big fan of bases built into asteroids. I do wish that there was a bit more detail in some of the buildings and space ships, though.
Click through either of Andrew’s photos to see more on Flickr. Nannan assures us he’ll be posting a full gallery and write-up once he’s through final exams later this week.
Hippotam has built this snazzy rendition of the famous Polish observatory.
Also, it’s built with only 100 pieces….
The Reasonably Clever/TwinLUG Bad Day for Micropolis contest ends tomorrow, and a whole batch of great entries have come through in the last few days.
Erik Smit (eti) depicts an Evil Corp skyscraper replacing a block of historic houses:
Meanwhile, Tim Goddard (Rogue Bantha) recreates the entire line of modular buildings in microscale for his entry:
Paul Lee (polywen) adds a last-minute entry titled “It Came from BELOW!!!”
See more entries on ReasonablyClever.com.
Every year, I host a Medieval Battles Contest at Classic Castle Forums and now is the time!
So get out there and build the biggest, baddest battle you can!
There will be prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places….so you have a pretty good chance. Get cracking!
(The picture is of the winning battle scene from the first year of the contest…Jens was the builder)
I like the posture of this mech, it has a very organic feel to it. By the way, Brian Kescenovitz is giving away this vignette to the person who comes up with a name for the grey mech. Who doesn’t like free Lego?
