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LEGO Friends year-long contest, great prizes!

by Thita (admin) on April 23, 2016

in Community News

As you may remember from our previous discussions (see links at the end of this post), LEGO’s ReBrick website was recently re-launched to focus on LEGO contests for teen and adult LEGO fans. The LEGO Speed Champions Dream Race Stop-Motion Contest and the LEGO Dimensions Build Your Own Gateway Contest are still going on, and now a new one has been added; the LEGO Best Friends Contest. Details below. 🙂

➡ LEGO BEST FRIENDS CONTEST – DESCRIPTION: Show us the best of LEGO Friends! In celebration of LEGO Friends, we invite you to create what you feel the very best of LEGO Friends – including their animal friends! Enter at ReBrick.com or in one of the 15 North American fan conventions (see locations further down).

➡ LEGO BEST FRIENDS CONTEST – WHERE TO ENTER: It happened with LEGO Castle in 2013, it happened with LEGO Batman in 2014, and now it’s happening with LEGO Friends in 2016! Show us the best of LEGO Friends at one of the eligible North American fan conventions, or on LEGO Rebrick.com to be the grand prize LEGO Friends winner for 2016! For this contest, you have a couple different ways to enter. You can enter on LEGO Rebrick, and/or you can enter at one of these 15 different fan conventions in North America:

BrickFair Alabama – Birmingham, AL, USA
BrickCan – Vancouver, BC, Canada
BrickUniverse Raleigh – Raleigh, NC, USA
Philly Brick Fest – Oaks, PA, USA
BrickFair New England – Marlborough, MA, USA
BrickSlopes – Sandy, UT, USA
Brickworld Chicago – Schaumburg, IL, USA
Brick Fiesta – Houston, TX, USA
Brickfête Toronto – Toronto, ON, Canada
BrickFair Virginia – Chantilly, VA, USA
Bricks by the Bay – Santa Clara, CA, USA
BrickCon – Seattle, WA, USA
BrickFair New Jersey – Somerset, NJ, USA
BrickUniverse Dallas – Plano, TX, USA
Denver Brick Fest – Denver, CO, USA

➡ LEGO BEST FRIENDS CONTEST – HOW TO ENTER: Each fan convention will have a winner, and there will be a LEGO Rebrick winner as well. From these 16 semi-finalists, one grand prize winner will be chosen. There’s lots of ways to win, so if you didn’t win at the fan convention you attended, you can still enter on LEGO ReBrick or another convention.

➡ LEGO BEST FRIENDS CONTEST – ENTRY DEADLINE: If you are entering at a LEGO convention, they will have their own times and dates to enter. If you enter at ReBrick.com, submit your entry on LEGO Rebrick no later than November 21st 2016 at 10:00 AM EST (the counter at the top of the contest page should adjust to your own time zone).

➡ LEGO BEST FRIENDS CONTEST – JUDGING: Potential semi-finalist winners at LEGO fan conventions will be selected by a moderation panel consisting of at least one member of the LEGO Community Team and at least one representative from the respective event organizer. Entries will be evaluated according to the following criteria: originality – 50% and creativity – 50%. In case of a tie, the entry with the higher creativity score will prevail. The potential semi-finalist winner for Rebrick will be selected by a panel of judges composed of: a member of the LEGO Brand Team, a Master Model Builder from the LEGO Model Shop, and a member of the LEGO Community Team. Entries will be judged upon: best overall creativity – 25%, most inspired details on the model – 25%, attention to contest theme – 25%, best use of LEGO elements – 25%. In case of a tie, the entry with the higher creativity score will prevail. From the 16 semi-finalists, one grand prize winner will be elected using the same criteria. The grand prize winner will be announced at LEGO Rebrick on December 12th.

➡ LEGO BEST FRIENDS CONTEST – RULES: Entries must use LEGO bricks and other LEGO building elements primarily from LEGO Friends sets. Elements from other sets may be used, by excessive use of non-Friends elements may contribute to a lower “attention to contest theme” score, during the judging period of the contest. You can submit multiple entries to the contest, but can only qualify as a semi-finalist once. Only one entry per person will be considered when the grand prize winner is selected.

➡ LEGO BEST FRIENDS CONTEST – PRIZES: Each of the 16 semi-finalists will win the following sets: #41118 LEGO Friends Heartlake Super Market, #41129 LEGO Friends Adventure Park Hot Dog Van, #41122 LEGO Friends Adventure Camp Tree, and #41134 LEGO Friends Heartlake Performance School. The grand prize winner will also receive a one-of-a-kind, life-size, brick-built LEGO Friends fox by the LEGO model shop.

This is another great contest by the LEGO ReBrick website with a fun challenge and awesome prizes. Note that the winners will receive some of the most exciting LEGO Friends sets of the year, two of them haven’t even been released yet. Take a look at that sweet yellow school bus in the LEGO Friends Heartlake Performance School, and even sweeter LEGO Friends Hot Dog Van! Also, if you don’t have enough LEGO Friends pieces and colors, or would like some inspiration for your own model, you can visit LEGO Friends section of the Online LEGO Shop.

So what do you think? How do you like this LEGO contest? Are you planning to enter? Do you already have some ideas on what you would like to build? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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LEGO Cinderella’s Castle rumors & thoughts

by Thita (admin) on April 22, 2016

in LEGO Disney

There has been rumors circulating about an exciting new set coming this fall, based on Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World Resort. According to this discussion at Eurobricks, the #71040 LEGO Disney Cinderella’s Castle is going to be a large exclusive set with regular minifigures (instead of mini-dolls). Which means it should be perfect for the upcoming LEGO Disney Collectible Minifigures, and we will likely get even more iconic Disney characters. 🙂

The Walt Disney Cinderella’s Castle was inspired by some of the most breathtaking castles of Europe, and is truly beautiful and magical in its own right. I hope the LEGO version of the set will be big enough and substantial enough to convey the beauty of the castle. We can also take a look at the castles and palaces LEGO already released under the LEGO Disney Princess line to see some of the elements, colors and designs LEGO may employ in the new LEGO Disney Cinderella’s Castle. Keep in mind that these are play-sets aimed at young girls, and are in the $40-$70 price-range – so smaller and simpler than what we can expect from a large exclusive set.

➡ #41055 LEGO DISNEY PRINCESS CINDERELLA’S ROMANTIC CASTLE: This is the largest of the LEGO Disney Princess castles with 646 pieces and a price of $69.99. I think the light-blue, white and gold color combination is very nice, and the pointy round towers do resemble the real Cinderella’s castle. Cinderella’s Romantic Castle measures over 11” (30cm) high, 9” (25cm) wide and 8” (22cm) deep, so quite substantial. It includes Cinderella and Prince Charming, plus Lucifer the cat and Bruno the dog. The set was first released in 2014, and is still available under the LEGO Disney Princess section of the Online LEGO Shop.

➡ #41068 LEGO DISNEY PRINCESS ARENDELLE CASTLE CELEBRATION: This is the second largest LEGO Disney Princess castle with 477 pieces and a price of $59.99. The color combination on this castle is a bit unusual. The castle in the film got more muted, real castle colors, which LEGO designers tried to imitate with the tan walls. However they also added more of the usual LEGO Disney Princess colors, which didn’t work too well in my opinion. Sand-green roof pieces would have looked much better, and would be closer to the original castle – but then the whole thing would look more like a LEGO Harry Potter castle, rather than a LEGO Disney Princess one. So I can see the dilemma designers faced here. It is still a good looking castle with very nice accessories and great minifigures. Arendelle Castle measures over 10” (27cm) high, 8” (22cm) wide and 5” (13cm) deep. It includes Elsa and Anna mini-doll figures with outfits from Frozen Fever, plus Olaf the snowman and 3 mini snowmen. The set was released earlier this year, and is available under the LEGO Disney Princess section of the Online LEGO Shop.

➡ #41063 LEGO DISNEY PRINCESS ARIEL’S UNDERSEA PALACE: This is actually my favorite LEGO Disney Princess castle. Okay, it’s a palace, but a palace is just a prettier castle, isn’t it? The soft yellow walls with gold highlights and dark-pink roof pieces look beautiful. This set is only 379 pieces and $54.99, and is totally worth it in my opinion. Ariel’s Undersea Palace measures over 9” (23cm) high, 9” (25cm) wide and 4” (12cm) deep. It includes Ariel and Alana mini-doll figures, plus Sebastian the crab, Flounder the fish and a dolphin. The set was released in 2015, and is still available under the LEGO Disney Princess section of the Online LEGO Shop.

#41062 LEGO Disney Princess Elsa's Castle

➡ #41062 LEGO DISNEY PRINCESS ELSA’S SPARKLING ICE CASTLE: This set was a huge hit released before last Christmas season, with stores having a hard time keeping it in stock. It is actually a relatively small castle with only 292 pieces and a price of $39.99, but somehow it manages to look quite substantial. The tall translucent-blue pieces and large arches probably help with this illusion. While the structure itself has a very simple shape, the beautiful color-combination and nice accessories make this set a real winner. Elsa’s Sparkling Ice Castle measures over 9” (23cm) high, 7” (20cm) wide and 4” (11cm) deep. It includes Queen Elsa and Princess Anna mini-doll figures, plus Olaf the snowman. The set is available under the LEGO Disney Princess section of the Online LEGO Shop.

➡ #41067 LEGO DISNEY PRINCESS BELLE’S ENCHANTED CATLE: This set hasn’t been released yet as of this writing, but there is already a lot of excitement about it because of the nice castle, great accessories and brand new characters from Beauty and the Beast. It contains 374 pieces and the price is going to be $49.99. Should be available this summer under the LEGO Disney Princess section of the Online LEGO Shop.

And that wraps up the LEGO Disney Princess castles we got so far. Again, the #71040 LEGO Disney Cinderella’s Castle is assumed to be a lot larger and more detailed than these sets, but still looking at them can give us an idea about what LEGO is capable of when it comes to Disney castles.

What do you think? Are you excited about the upcoming LEGO Disney Cinderella’s Castle? What do you think it will look like? How big and detailed is it going to be in your opinion? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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