It’s a total Mustang takeover! To celebrate the release of the iconic #10265 LEGO Creator Ford Mustang, LEGO is running not one, but two contests centered around this classic muscle car! Check them out, and enter if you feel inspired. The judges can’t wait to see what LEGO fans come up with! Oh, and the prizes are amazing! 🙂
➡ LEGO FORD MUSTANG SCENERY CONTEST: The first contest celebrates the Ford Mustang in a beautiful scenery. From the classic muscle cars to the high-performance sport vehicles of today, the legendary Ford Mustang has been seen in many different memorable styles over the years. Which model has been your favorite so far? The LEGO Ideas team challenges you to build your favorite Ford Mustang in a scenery where you would take it. So, get ready to head out on a brick-built road trip down memory lane!
The grand prize winner of this contest will win the following: #10265 LEGO Creator Expert Ford Mustang, #75884 LEGO Speed Champions 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback, and a $500 shopping spree at the Online LEGO Shop. Two runner up winners will get the following: #10265 LEGO Creator Expert Ford Mustang, #75884 LEGO Speed Champions 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback, and a $300 shopping spree at the Online LEGO Shop.
Submissions are open until the 3rd of April, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. EST. Judges consisting of members of the LEGO Creator team as well as Ford team, will then review all the entries in accordance to the judging criteria. Contest rules and other details can be found here: LEGO FORD MUSTANG SCENERY CONTEST
➡ LEGO FORD MUSTANG VINTAGE POSTER CONTEST: The 1967 Ford Mustang – an American legend and a true classic! To honor this beautiful classic, in the second contest, the LEGO Ideas team is looking to see your original take on a vintage poster featuring a 1967 Ford Mustang. So, show them your very own design and be sure to incorporate that vintage, retro look and feel to your poster – and, of course, it should be built in LEGO bricks!
The grand prize winner of this contest will win the following: #10265 LEGO Creator Expert Ford Mustang, #75884 LEGO Speed Champions 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback, a $500 shopping spree at the Online LEGO Shop, and the winning brick-built poster turned into an actual poster by a LEGO designer. Two runner up winners will get the following: #10265 LEGO Creator Expert Ford Mustang, #75884 LEGO Speed Champions 1968 Ford Mustang Fastback, and a $300 shopping spree at the Online LEGO Shop.
Submissions are open until the 3rd of April, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. EST. Judges consisting of members of the LEGO Creator team as well as Ford team, will then review all the entries in accordance to the judging criteria. Contest rules and other details can be found here: LEGO FORD MUSTANG VINTAGE POSTER CONTEST
While both of these contests are about the #10265 LEGO Creator Ford Mustang, they challenge LEGO fans in different ways. You can choose the contest you like better, or even enter both of them! And, if you haven’t done so already, You can read in detail about the set at the LEGO Creator Ford Mustang Press-Release, and you can find it at the LEGO Creator Expert section of the Online LEGO Shop.
What do you think? How do you like the #10265 LEGO Creator Ford Mustang? And what do you think of these contests? Are you planning to enter either of them? Or both? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉
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These are going to be good competitions. I don’t have time to enter, but I’m curious to see the results. The Mustang is awesome!
For the first contest, does it have to be a scenery? Can you put the Mustang in a garage or something like that?
I think a garage would count as scenery. 😀
Well, it’s not against the rules, so it might very well work. 😀
Hmm… might be time to revisit this old MOC…
https://www.flickr.com/photos/gid617/25910712173/in/album-72157666035226296/
hehe Only small problem is that I’m not with most of my collection right now… might scale it down. 😉
Is the idea for the first contest to do brick-built scenery or real-life scenery? Brick-built scenery would seem an awful lot like what they’re asking you to do for the second contest… except of course for the second contest it has to be a 1967.
The rules for the first contest state the following: “The scenery can be brick-built, or you can take your brick-built Ford Mustang out in a real-life setting to show us where you would take it. Just remember not to include any IP related items in your photos.” The rules for the second contest state: “Entries should have a vintage look and feel and include the LEGO 1967 Ford Mustang or your interpretation of it and not consist of or contain copies of any other existing third-party work or creation or infringements of any third party intellectual property right. You’re allowed to use graphical elements/effects of your own designs to support your brick-built poster (for example as background) so it is not a requirement that the poster is created with only LEGO bricks.”
So yeah, they are similar in the sense that they could both be built with real or digital LEGO bricks, or could be put in a non-LEGO environment. But the second contest is asking for a vintage poster look, while the first one is about the environment.
Hmm, kind of a tough call then especially for the first one as to whether it’d be better to build the scenery or just find it. Maybe not so tough for me though, since I probably don’t have the bricks to build the scenery anyways. hehe
It is cool that these Ideas contests allow digital improvements on the photos, makes for some really well presented entries!
Yeah, the rules allow some pretty broad interpretation, so we should be seeing some interesting entries. 😀
The prizes are amazing! I might give one of these a shot! 😀
Do we have to build our own Mustang for these contests? Or are we supposed to use the set that was just released? Can we use the Speed Champions Mustangs?
Pretty sure you’re supposed to build your own. 😉
I wonder why they decided to run two contests at the same time.
I think they skipped a month, so maybe they are just catching up. 😀