Competition reminder: Build a Polybag!
Posted by Huw,
There's still time to enter our competition to build a small model like those found in polybags.
I can now announce that our Tips and Tricks editor and ex-LEGO designer Tiago Catarino will be among the judges!
We've had some terrific entries, including Flash on a treadmill by Lego Images, presumably exercising at home while in lockdown!
Take a look at the other entries on Flickr and Instagram and if you've not yet entered, find out how to do so after the break.
Rules:
- Polybags can be inspired by any past or current theme or anything else.
- Polybags may include one minifigure, in which case the part limit is around 30 pieces, excluding minifig parts.
- Alternatively, polybags without a minifigure may contain approximately 50 pieces, following the example of official sets.
- Only elements which would fit inside a standard polybag, measuring 17.5cm / 7" wide and 12cm / 5" in height, may be included.
- Your models should be new and unseen prior to this competition. Significantly updated models are permitted.
- You may submit multiple entries.
- Virtual creations in LDD, stud.io and other CAD program are permitted.
- If you mock-up a polybag, please do not include the LEGO logo to avoid any confusion or other consequences.
Entries will be judged on the following criteria:
- Creativity and design.
- Building techniques and parts usage.
- Adherence to the rules.
How to enter:
You can submit your entries in three ways:
- Upload a maximum of two images of your entry to the Brickset Flickr group set up for this competition
- Post your entry on Instagram using the tag #BricksetPolybagCompetition.
- Plus, so that even the social-media averse can enter this time, you can also email an image of your creation to [email protected].
Prizes:
- We are hoping to secure two of the upcoming May the Fourth gift with purchase set to use for first prizes, which will be awarded to the best polybag with a minifigure and to the best polybag without a minifigure.
- Additional gift with purchase sets and polybags might also be awarded to runners-up.
Other information:
- Please do not include any references to sex, drugs, alcohol etc. in your entry.
- Custom and non-LEGO components are not permitted.
- Although we will not be judging your photographic skills, please try to light your models evenly and photograph them against a clean background.
- Please upload your entries by 23:59 BST on Sunday 31st May 2020.
- The winners will be announced shortly after.
- The judges' decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
Please ask any questions you might have in the comments, and we shall answer.
Good luck!
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Flash on a treadmill is brilliant!
Many others are great, too. But if I had to pick a winner, it would be the Star Trek one of Uhura calling The Enterprise. Beloved subject matter very cleverly executed!
sent mine in via email a while ago, is there any way to check it was correctly received?
Looking at the Flickr group, I think my favourite entry ( that isn't one of my own :D ) is the little submarine with the Chameleon in.
That's not just any treadmill. It's the Cosmic Treadmill. He uses it to travel through time.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Cosmic_Treadmill
I sent a couple of entries by email and requested a confirmation email in response so that I know that my entries have been received, but I received no response. Could you please give me an explanation or let me know that you have received my entries? Thank you.
By the way, my entries were a microscale Porkchop Express and Ravage from the Bumblebee movie.
We've had 117 entries by email. I have not had time to reply to them all.
@bnic99 said:
"sent mine in via email a while ago, is there any way to check it was correctly received? "
I am also womdering that, it would be nice if Brickset made a gallery of email entries.
Is it wrong that I'd buy about 90% of those sets?
Already submitted one entry, and just finished another.
Submitted mine, may need to do another...
I was little concerned clicking the link to the Flickr group and not seeing my entry among the others, since it was recently uploaded. That was on my mobile device, not logged into either Brickset nor Flickr. Now on my laptop, the link shows me all the pictures. There are favorites and views on my pictures, so I assume the visibility is not an issue for the judges. Anyway, good luck to everyone!
Mine is tagged correctly on Instagram, yet not showing in the tag. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_k5FcXp_i4/
I ended up putting mine on Flickr after not receiving e-mail confirmation, good to know it wasn't just me!
My entry is almost ready. When I submit by email, how do I send the description; in the body of the email, in an attached document, or what?
Lots of fantastic entries! Really impressive! @Huw: who's on the judging panel? And what was the May the Fourth gift set this year?
Ok I would honestly just buy that cosmic treadmill if that was a set. comp won.