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Contests and build challenges are often a great way to get creative juices flowing. Check out our coverage of new contests here, and congratulate the winners of contests that have finished.

It’s a Bad Day for Micropolis on ReasonablyClever.com [w00t!]

In more contest news, Reasonably Clever and TwinLUG are hosting the Bad Day for Micropolis contest.

As this gorgeous school (with adorably itty-bitty school buses) built by judge Max Braun illustrates, the TwinLUG Micro City Standard is fairly simple — to fit into collaborative displays — while still enabling individual builders to do some pretty cool things.

There are four categories in the contest, and you can win a cartload of prizes. The contest ends at 2:22 AM EST on May 4, 2009, so get building!

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LEGO Builders of Tomorrow contest on WIRED GeekDad [w00t!]

Many of you out there first became an adult fan of LEGO when you bought LEGO for your kids (while some of us just never stopped).

LEGO Builders of Tomorrow set For LEGO fans like you, the GeekDad blog from Wired.com is currently running the perfect contest — the LEGO Builders of Tomorrow contest.

To enter, just add a photo of you and your kids building together to the GeekDad photo pool on Flickr. The contest ends next Thursday, April 30.

There’s LEGO to be won, of course, but the winning family also gets their picture featured on an upcoming LEGO set. In LEGO fandom, that’s pretty close to immortality.

LEGO Zombie Contest reveals theater infested with brain-hungry minifigs

The Big Toy Hut’s LEGO Zombie Contest includes some great entries so far, like this scene in a movie theater by Gettobread:

The theater itself includes excellent details, from Bruce Lee smashing through a wall to Snake Plisskin looking ready to escape New York.

Check out the rest of the entries on Flickr. If you want to enter yourself, there’s not much time left — you have until April 21 to build and post a completely new LEGO zombie creation.

Is it too early to mention Zombie Apocafest 2009 yet?

Starfighter Contest Results

The results have been announced for the Show Us What You Got Contest over on Flickr. As one of the judges in this contest, I must say that this was an extremely tough choice. There were so many fantastic entries that it was hard to narrow things down and produce only four winners.

I’ve posted a mosaic of all the entries below, and you can check them all out in the entry thread. Don’t forget to check out the First, Second, Third, and Fourth place winners, as well.

That’s a lot of pod racers

The pod racer contest on ~~From Bombs to Boulders~~ From Bricks to Bothans recently ended with some amazing entries. You can see them all in the contest thread. If you’re a member on FBTB, stay tuned for the exciting rounds of voting!

Sean Kenney’s colossal LEGO Nintendo DSi is 7 feet wide and weighs 250 lbs

LEGO Certified Professional Sean Kenney was recently commissioned to create a larger-than-life sculpture of the forthcoming Nintendo DSi — yes, that’s Sean peeking out from behind the DSi:

The big blue DS is nearly 7 feet wide, weighs 250 pounds, and was built from 51,324 LEGO elements.

Watch how this amazing sculpture came together in this video:

To see more pictures, check out Sean Kenney’s website and Sean’s MOCpages. You can also see Sean’s Nintendo DSi in person at the Nintendo World Store in New York City.

C-5 Construction Mech

Matt (Plastic Matt) has built a really cool mech for the mecha hub civilian mecha contest. I love the feel that this thing captures. It seems industrial and heavy-duty, just like something carrying an I-beam should. The head is just perfect too, though it reminds me of Maximilian from The Black Hole. Sometimes, it doesn’t take using crazy new techniques or bizare uses of parts to build something that looks fantastic, and this demonstrates that principle terrifically.

Winners of the 7th clickbrick Original Model Contest announced [News]

I blogged the 7th annual Original Model Contest last week, but winners hadn’t been announced yet.

Sachiko Akinaga now has the final list of winners.

First Place: “Howl’s Moving Castle” by TEN (more photos):

Second Place: “Memories of a Dream” by Mokuami:

Third Place: “Goldfish Balloon” by Sachiko Akinaga:

Fourth Place: “Animal Happy Cake” by Kana-Oyako:

Fifth Place: “MSN-100” by Tuwake-de-Sondake:

Photos from 7th annual clickbrick Original Model Contest now online

Although winners of the 7th Original Model Contest (sponsored by Japanese LEGO specialty store clickbrick) won’t be announced until March 7, some great photos of the LEGO creations entered in the contest are now available.

Entrants are free to choose their own theme, but are restricted to 20×20 studs and 30 cm tall, and they can’t use LEGO Baby/Primo, DUPLO, MINDSTORMS, or custom parts.

“Goldfish Balloon” by Sachiko Akinaga:

“Howl’s Moving Castle” by TEN:

“In Space” by Tora-Chichi:

“Memories of a Dream” by Mokuami:

See lots more photos in Sachiko’s Brickshelf gallery.

(Via LEGO-KEI and Let’s LEGO.)

Past coverage of this event here on The Brothers Brick:

Announcing the FBTB Podracer Challenge [w00t!]

March is apparently the new December — at least in terms of the plethora of LEGO contests happening at the same time.

From Bricks to Bothans has just announced the Podracer Challenge. The challenge is to create an original podracer (not one featured in Episode I or in the Expanded Universe) like the Pre-Classic Space and 3vil podracers featured in the graphic above.

The prizes:

First Prize: Darth Vader’s TIE Fighter, Chrome Darth Vader, and Chrome C-3PO
Second Prize: Chrome Vader or Chrome Threepio – your choice
Third Prize Chrome Vader or Chrome Threepio – whatever the 2nd prize winner didn’t choose.

Announcing the ForbiddenCove.com Whale of a Tale contest [w00t!]

LEGO Pirates fan site ForbiddenCove.com has just announced the Whale of a Tale Contest. Build an outlandish tale on a base no more than 32×32 studs, though there’s no restriction in height.

You could win one of these 2009 LEGO Pirates sets:

First Prize: 6253 Shipwreck Hideout
Second Prize: 6240 Kraken Attackin’
Third Prize: 6239 Cannon Battle

Announcing the Classic-Pirates.com Captain’s Cabin Contest [w00t!]

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.