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The LEGO Movie – contests for everyone!

With the release of The LEGO Movie LEGO also launched a couple of fun LEGO contests you may want to participate in. There is something for all ages and skill-levels, so if you want a fun challenge and also win some prizes, here is your chance to be AWESOME! 🙂

The LEGO Movie Emmet Awards

For younger kids there is the Emmet Awards, a series of monthly contests that will test their imagination and building skills. This contest will run between February and July. Every contest will have five nominees chosen and there will also be an overall winner as well. And of course there are going to be some prizes too! There is not a whole lot more known as this point, but look out for further announcements at Emmet Awards website.

Emmet Awards Details

The first LEGO contest in the Emmet Awards series was just announced a couple of days ago. It is quite simple; just go to the Emmet Awards website and follow the directions. It basically involves arranging your favorite scenes from the movie, adding a cover and some audio clips and you are done. It is called the Direct Your Own Movie Contest.

If you are sixteen or older and want something more challenging, there is also the Be The Special – The LEGO Movie REBRICK Competition. (REBRICK is LEGO’s own website for older LEGO fans.) This LEGO contest runs from February 10th until March 31st. It is an alternative build competition where you take an existing LEGO set and use the pieces to create something new and original. The catch? You can only use pieces from that set. The size of the LEGO set doesn’t matter, or when it was released, so long as you only use parts from that set.

The LEGO Movie Contest

You can either take a picture of your LEGO contest entry, or a video. The top 10 models with the most votes or “likes” by the REBRICK community will be entered into the semi-finals from which the judges will choose the first, second, and third place winners by mid-April, based on creativity, originality and relation to the chosen theme. The jury will consist of: Frederikke Hoff (Community Editor at the LEGO Group), Michael Fuller (Senior Designer at The LEGO Group who has worked on The LEGO Movie sets), and Chris McKay (Co-Director of The LEGO Movie). Just to get these people looking at your LEGO creation is an honor! 😀

Some other important rules besides that you can only build from one set is that you cannot use custom elements, and you cannot choose a set to rebuild from licensed IPs, such as Star Wars or Lord of the Rings. You can however use any LEGO Group created IP, such as LEGO City or LEGO Friends. You can use The LEGO Movie sets too. However using the LEGO logo anywhere in your creation will result in disqualification. You can read the full rules here: REBRICK CONTEST DETAILS

The LEGO Movie PR Tin

The prizes are also really nice. One grand winner will receive a prize of a limited edition gold-colored Emmet Statuette (not available in retail and only available though official LEGO competitions), an exclusive The LEGO Movie PR tin containing nine LEGO minifigures (pictured above – photo by CK Tsang), and a large The LEGO Movie set signed by the designer. The second place winner will also receive an Emmet Statuette, The LEGO Movie PR tin and a medium size set signed by the designer, and the third winner will receive the Emmet Statuette, tin and a smaller set signed by the designer.

LEGO ReBrick Logo

It would be really cool if some of our community members would enter the contests and show LEGO their awesome building skills! The first contest appears to be great for younger kids, and the second contest looks quite challenging for older builders! And the prizes are amazing too! What do you think? Are you planning to participate in either of these LEGO contests? Feel free to share in the comment section below! 😉

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2014 LEGO sets & minifigs – more videos

We have discussed the upcoming 2014 LEGO sets extensively at the 2014 LEGO Sets – London Toy Fair Report and the 2014 LEGO Sets – German Toy Fair Report, however I have found two more videos from the German Toy Fair that I think you will find interesting. 🙂

2014 German Toy Fair

The first video covers most of the upcoming 2014 LEGO sets, including their functions and features. The video includes 2014 LEGO Technic, 2014 LEGO Legends of Chima, the new LEGO Ultra Agents, the upcoming LEGO Mixels characters, The LEGO Movie sets, and the LEGO City trains and LEGO City Arctic sets.

The second video features the most exciting minifigures in the 2014 LEGO themes. It starts out with The LEGO Movie minifigs (we have seen most of these before), then covers the 2014 LEGO Legends of Chima minifigures (look at all those new tribes!), then there are the 2014 LEGO Disney Princess mini-dolls (I like these even more than the LEGO Friends minifigs – they are very cute), next up are the 2014 LEGO Friends mini-dolls (lots of them!), and finally The LEGO Movie Collectible Minifigures that have been released already.

I hope these videos give you an even better idea of the 2014 LEGO sets and minifigures. They are both well-edited videos by the German toy website spieletest.at focusing on the best aspects of what’s coming. Let me know what you think in the comment section below! 😉

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