Mixels competition winners

Great competition and some excellent winners - all very deserving. I can't believe the creativity and imagination on show. I would never have thought of making a pirate from mixels.

Congratulations to the winners. I love all of the winners for different reasons. The standard is just improving each time. The Mixels 3 competition is going to be tough!

gotta love the blue one

I had originally passed on the Mixels, but once I saw the results of the first competition I rushed out and grabbed them (and am very glad I did). This round has inspired me no less. Great work all.

Well done to all the winners, very deserving.
Also well done to the judges, it must have been a very hard decision with the standard so high!

I thoroughly enjoyed playing along with this! I'd never even considered the Mixels range before reading the reviews of series 2 on here. Now, I think I'm addicted!

Congratulations to all - especially the winners!

Am I nuts or did LEGO already stop selling Mixels in Europe (or Belgium at least)? Can't find them on LEGO.com, for one. Seriously, am I now supposed to pick up sets immediately in fear of them being not available anymore in three months?

Yay, joint third place! Thanks Huw for organising a fantastic competition. It was great fun taking part, and some of the entries were, frankly, astonishingly good.

I'll ping you an email shortly. Thanks again. :D

Our LBR in Austin still has all of series 1, plus series 2. Sure looking forward to series 3 and beyond, should beyond actually happen.

Great work all round, its a pleasure to see such inventive use of the parts available.

Honestly, with such a high standard of entries, I would have perhaps liked to have seen a little list of judge's favourites (so, those that didn't win, but were liked by the judges). It might have softened the blow for some disappointed builders that didn't win but had exceptional builds. Also, may I say that more entries + higher standards + less prizes = possibility of mass disagreement? Well, that's just my opinion.

Anyway, congrats to those lucky enough to win, and may I say that there's a building contest going on in the forum at the moment for those of us that aren't done being creative yet?

Thanks so much to the judges and everyone who commented! Please click the link Huw provided if you'd like to check out my other submissions.

There were too many amazing entries to name here but I'll be giving out plenty of compliments all day on flickr. I know I personally wouldn't have participated in this round if it weren't for some select encouragement from our wonderful community.

Great winners, I also fell for the wheelchair mixel. That one was a bit unique.
I also had problems to get all mixels this time. My first 2 of series 2 was bought from LEGO.com but they was not avaliable yet in the local shops. until recntly i got the last tribe from local shops but then i was not avaliable at LEGO.com.
If they have 4 mounth in the run. I think they was avaliable in june/July in norway and they is no longer avaliable on the net.

Congrats to the winners! Huw, may I suggest for the next contest that the submissions not be limited to a monster? I noticed someone else also asked if they could do a spaceship...

WOOO! Congrats winners! Thank you Huw for organizing this. My daughter and I had a blast whipping up daily creations.
In all likelihood I'm going to order the whole set of season 3 mixels from LEGO.com as soon as they are available. There was mixed availability here on the eastside of seattle. Many of the box stores only received 2 sets (boxes) it appeared. And they were pilfered quickly.

Now I'm not terribly upset that I never got around to submitting anything to the contest, as the winners had far better entries than the maxes I had made at the time. However, I'm totally inspired by this and I am definitely participating with series 3. Congrats to all the winners, I'm jealous!

Huw, you should post the short list of models that came close to winning, after all we did have to wait an extra 4 DAYS for the results.

GG everyone, the competition was tough

Congrats to all the well-deserved winners!

I love seeing all the entrees. The hard part really is the calibre the entrees are at. There are so many good ones. Congrats to the winners!

Congrats, some worthy winners there! However, I do agree with those who are saying about the favourites list.

... One day I will win a competition :'(

I think the third place winner is the most Mixel related item. Definitely a lot of creativity, but I don't personally see Mixels (as in what they would look like in a set). Maybe I misunderstood the point of the contest.

The second place winner has to be my favorite.

In fact, I was wondering: I made the shortlist last time, did any of my 6 builds make it to the shortlist this time? Come on, I'd love to see the shortlist, and so would others! We've waited too long for these results... give us a little extra tidbit :-)

I WILL win something one day...

Nice Mixels! Didn't upload to the comp - I prefer Castle to any other theme, with maybe a couple of exceptional sets... Might enter next time!

@mrfuture I have had no trouble getting them all at BR Leker stores here in Norway, including at Oslo City...

Congrats to winners. I will try harder next time in Series 3 .

@joakimthorsen. My last missing tribe was found there. Got a tip from a member on our LUG that they still had some left. But then it was after the contest was closed. But I entered With a Frosticon Mixel creation.

Oh well, i just got my mixels so i did not even get to enter. at least i am getting benny's spaceship today.

Add me to the crowd baying for a peek at the short list--not that I'm inclined to second-guess the judges, but with such a large entry a "shout-out" to the other models that caught their eye seems very appropriate!

And congratulations to the winners--all of them superb!

Congrats to all the winners. It is amazing what each of them built with such as small selection. All the characters were very distinctive.

Awww I can't believe the artist with the beret, mustache, paintbrush, and easel didn't end up with the finalists. That was my favorite.

^ Me too, I was surprised that didn't make the shortlist.

I'm honestly surprised how you even managed to narrow it down to those builds. I bet there was many arguments between the judges about what went on the shortlist this time ;-)

None of mine were on there either, not even my frostbitten Mixel :-( Maybe it's because I didn't make ten million entries in the hope that the judges would really like one this time ;-P

@trennerdios and @TheOneVeyronian -- Thanks for the support! I was bummed Inkasso didn't make it to at least the short list... But at least I had fun building!

Thank you for sharing the shortlist with us--now I pity the judges more than ever! So many very worthy entries; so much fun for everyone to enjoy!

@Huw, I know this is off-topic but just thought I'd let you know that the UCS AT-AT on LEGO Ideas almost has 10,000 supporters.

Huw is as transparent as they come, so I'm not surprised that he published the top contenders when it was requested, but I must profess that I don't really see the value in the request. Six judges reviewed all the models and went through two rounds of undisclosed voting, so it was a thorough process done with integrity.

Nothing to do with integrity, rocao--as I said, I wasn't trying to second-guess the judges--just a sense that making the shortlist in such a competitive field was a considerable achievement, and all those models deserved a bit of a shout-out, even if they didn't win a prize.

Can I request that in the series 3 competition, that we'd be allowed to mix different tribes like in the first comp? It was quite strict this time around IMO.