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LEGO Ideas Land Rover Defender Contest

There is a new contest on LEGO Ideas, this time celebrating the new Land Rover. Please note that you do not have to own the #42110 LEGO Technic Land Rover to participate in this contest. You can use LEGO Digital Designer, or just build your own Land Rover of any size. The details of the contest are below.

Here is the overview of the contest: About as reliable as the sun rising in the East and setting in the West, the Land Rover is capable of great things, and a staple 4X4 which can be used for many different purposes in your daily life. In this contest, the LEGO Ideas team is asking you to show what good deeds you would use a Land Rover for. Helping pull a car through the snow? A rescue operation in the Arctic? They want to see what heroic moment you could imagine, in LEGO form.

The contest will consist of 3 phases: 1.) Submission Phase – build and submit your entry before November 27th, 2019 at 6:00 a.m. EST, 2.) Judging Phase – a panel of judges consisting of members of the LEGO Technic team and Jaguar Land Rover review the entries and choose the winners by December 11th, 2019, and 3.) Winners Announcement - the grand prize winner and two runner up winners will be announced at LEGO Ideas no later than December 18th , 2019.

Here is how to enter the contest: Submissions may be in either physical bricks or by using a digital building tool such as LEGO Digital Designer. You’re welcome to use image editing tools, such as Photoshop, to enhance your photos/presentation. Take up to five photos of your creation and submit them to the contest. Make sure to show off all angles and any features or functions of your creation. Submit your photos in as high a resolution as possible so that the judges can see all the details clearly. If possible, the shortest edge should be at least 1080 pixels. Add a title and short description. Upload your entry to the contest using the blue Submit Your Entry button on this page.

And here are some of the most important contest rules: You must be the original creator of all creative work you submit (the model, images, photographs, description text, etc.) and you must have the exclusive right to submit your model to this LEGO Ideas contest. You are allowed to use any official LEGO element (LEGO System, LEGO DUPLO, LEGO TECHNIC/Constraction) in your entry. The LEGO elements must be genuine (not cut, glued, or otherwise modified). Entries should not contain copies or references to any other existing third-party work or creation or infringements of any third-party intellectual property right such as Ford or Bugatti. The only intellectual property that your creation may be linked to for this contest is Land Rover. You may use minifigures in your entry. (Only use generic minifigures that do not use any third party intellectual property.) You must be at least 13 years of age to participate and enter. There are other rules and fine print as well, which you can read at the contest entry page.

One grand prize winner will receive the following: exclusive Land Rover merchandise, #42110 LEGO Technic Land Rover Defender, #42097 LEGO Technic Compact Crawler Crane, #42088 LEGO Technic Cherry Picker, #40220 LEGO Creator 40220 London Bus, and a LEGO Ideas tote bag. Two runner up winners will each receive the following:  exclusive Land Rover merchandise, #42110 LEGO Technic Land Rover Defender, #40220 LEGO Creator 40220 London Bus, and a LEGO Ideas tote bag.

This contest is a great opportunity to showcase your creativity and building skills. I also like that there are no hard and fast rules as far as size and content, so you can go with the contest topic in pretty much any way you like. If you need some inspiration, you can check out additional pictures and videos of the #42110 LEGO Technic Land Rover Defender at the LEGO Technic section of the Online LEGO Shop.

What do you think? How do you like the LEGO Technic Land Rover Defender? Do you have it already? And are you planning to enter the contest? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below!

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LEGO Xtra Christmas Accessories & More!

Last year, LEGO started a new line of accessories called LEGO Xtra. The collection includes sturdy cardboard playmats, stickers, and small accessory packs with interesting LEGO elements. We have reviewed many of the LEGO Xtra products previously (see links at the end of this post), so today we will only recap what’s available in the small accessory pack lineup, and also talk about the new Christmas-themed accessory pack that was released recently.

Five LEGO Xtra accessory packs were released in 2018. The #40309 LEGO-Xtra Food Accessories includes apples, carrots, bananas, croissants, fish, cookies, ice cream, chocolate bars, and even a full turkey. The #40310 LEGO Xtra Botanical Accessories features trees, bushes, plant leaves, flower stems, flowers, a couple of fence pieces, and some frogs. The #40311 LEGO Xtra Traffic Lights pack includes four traffic lights, garbage can, a red wheelbarrow, and some small accessories. The #40312 LEGO Xtra Streetlamps pack includes a couple of the rarer black street lamps, a bench, newspaper stand, smaller lamps, mailbox, and a few other items. The #40313 LEGO Xtra Bicycles pack features a couple of red bikes, a skateboard, helmets, a printed pizza box, bags, an umbrella, and more. All of these packs are super useful for expanding LEGO City dioramas and they only costs $3.99 each. They are available at the LEGO Xtra section of the Online LEGO Shop.

For 2019, we only got two new packs. The #40341 LEGO Xtra Sea Accessories was released for the summer with a shark, fish, shell, surfboard, diving and fishing gear, and some treasure. The newest pack is the #40368 LEGO Xtra Christmas Accessories with a brick-built snowman with a top hat, candy cane, and gift boxes, a husky, a small Christmas tree, a minifig beanie, a white tree branch, a trans-blue ice crystal, snowshoes, a couple of decorative fences, and several other useful items. These are also $3.99 each and can be purchased at the LEGO Xtra section of the Online LEGO Shop.

LEGO Classic is a great way to amass a large number of basic bricks, wheels, windows, doors, and other basic elements in a rainbow of colors. LEGO Xtra is similar, but with accessories. So far, all the accessory packs come with pieces that are most useful for modern city builders, although some of the packs like the food and botanical accessories could be used in other settings and time periods as well. I do hope that LEGO will consider releasing accessory packs for other themes, and that they release new packs more frequently. Five packs in 2018 was nice, but only two in 2019 is a bit disappointing. The good thing though is that all seven packs are still available, and the limit on them is 50 per household, so you can get plenty for your customizing needs.

What do you think? Do you have any of the LEGO Xtra packs? Which do you find the most useful? And what other accessory packs would you like to see in the future? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below!

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