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Winter Wonderland Worlds – LEGO contest

by on November 4, 2017
in Community News

LEGO is running another wonderful contest for teen and adult LEGO fans, titled LEGO Winter Wonderland Worlds (see about other currently running contests at the end of this post). As you might have guessed from the title, the challenge is to build a wintery scene to capture the spirit of the season – either within the LEGO Worlds game, or with physical LEGO bricks. Below are the details. 🙂

➡ LEGO WINTER WONDERLAND CONTEST – OVERVIEW: Although it might not be winter outside just yet, LEGO’s ReBrick team challenges you to build the ultimate LEGO winter paradise indoors! Build a diorama or vignette capturing the spirit of the season. You can build in the LEGO Worlds game, using LEGO bricks, or in the digital building software of your choice, such as LEGO Digital Designer. So, get out your winter gear and start building!

➡ LEGO WINTER WONDERLAND CONTEST – HOW TO ENTER: Build your winter scene in LEGO Worlds, LEGO bricks, or with another digital building tool. Take up to five photos or screenshots of your creation and submit them to the contest. Make sure to show off all angles of your creation. Use the description field to describe your entry, then hit “submit”. When you receive a “Success!” pop-up notification after clicking “submit” on the entry submission page, your entry has successfully been submitted. The ReBrick moderation team will review it within 1-3 working days to make sure it fits all the contest rules

➡ LEGO WINTER WONDERLAND CONTEST – RULES: Your entry should depict a winter scene or vignette. Your model does not need to be built in LEGO Worlds (although that is encouraged), and can be built with LEGO bricks or a digital building service, such as LEGO Digital Designer. Your model does not need to be Christmas or holiday based, just winter themed. There is no size limit to entries to this contest. Entries with a strong religious theme are not eligible for this contest. Entries with military themes are not eligible for the contest. Entries containing defamatory or degrading elements will not be eligible for the contest. Entries consisting of or containing copies of any existing third party work or creation or infringements of any third party intellectual property (IP) right will not be eligible for the contest – this includes characters and specific parts from LEGO IP sets such as LEGO Star Wars, LEGO Harry Potter, or The LEGO Movie. as well as all flesh-toned minifigures. Use of characters or parts from LEGO-created themes such as LEGO Ninjago or LEGO Friends are allowed. Entries can be previously built, but cannot be submitted previously in any contest of any kind competing for a prize. Entries must not contain LEGO elements which have been modified from their original form, including painted or cut elements. Use of non-LEGO elements, such as homemade stickers, rubber bands, or clay is prohibited in this contest. Entrants must be at least 13 years of age at the time of entry. You can read the rest of the entry guidelines and rules here.

➡ LEGO WINTER WONDERLAND CONTEST – DEADLINE: You must submit your entry by November 28th, 2017 at 10:00 AM EST. If you are not sure what time zone you are in, you can use an online time-zone converter to make sure you don’t miss the deadline.

➡ LEGO WINTER WONDERLAND CONTEST – JUDGES: A panel of judges from the LEGO Worlds team will select one grand prize winner and eleven runner ups. They will judge entries upon: overall coolness and originality – 25%, most inspired detail – 25%, relevance to contest theme – 25%, best use of LEGO elements – 25%.

➡ LEGO WINTER WONDERLAND CONTEST – PRIZES: There will be one grand prize winner, who will receive: Sony PlayStation PS4, LEGO Worlds for the PS4 and Classic Space and Monsters packs, #70612 LEGO Ninjago Movie Green Ninja Mech Dragon and #70615 LEGO Ninjago Movie Fire Mech (which include an unlock code for LEGO Worlds in the building instructions), and the possibility to have your entry integrated into the LEGO Worlds game (please note that should you win, there is no guarantee that your model will be featured in the game, or your model might be altered by TT Games before it is integrated into the game). In addition, there will be eleven runner up winners, who will receive: LEGO Worlds for the PS4 and Classic Space and Monsters Packs, #70612 LEGO Ninjago Movie Green Ninja Mech Dragon and #70615 LEGO Ninjago Movie Fire Mech (which include an unlock code for LEGO Worlds in the building instructions).

➡ LEGO WINTER CONTEST – WINNERS ANNOUNCEMENT: Winners will be contacted on the email address associated with their LEGO ID account after December 1st, 2017 and announced on ReBrick when the winners returned the signed Winner’s Certification Documents. A winner who does not return their Winner’s Certification Document within one week (5 days) of receiving it will be disqualified, and a new winner will be selected.

After the fantastic LEGO Ultimate Trains Contest this is another great challenge for teen and adult LEGO fans! I like that there are a number of different ways to enter, and there are really no restrictions on how you interpret what a wintery scene could look like. Also, remember that there are a couple of other LEGO contests that are still running (see below).

What do you think? How do you like the LEGO Winter Wonderland World contest? Are you planning to enter? Do you have some ideas already? Feel free to share and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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Giant 3D-printed LEGO sets – a fun project!

by on November 3, 2017
in Featured LEGO Creations

Did you ever wish that you could be a minifig, so you can ride all those awesome LEGO vehicles? While scientist haven’t figured out yet how to shrink ourselves at will, how about making LEGO bricks bigger, so we could at least feel like minifigs in comparison? So far, the closest we could get to experience this is to visit a LEGOLAND Park, where many of the rides and attractions are shaped like giant LEGO elements. And now, with the ever-advancing technology of 3D-printing, people can also print larger versions of LEGO pieces, so they can build their favorite sets in larger scale. 🙂

LEGO fan and super-geek Matt Danton from the UK runs a YouTube channel where he experiments with everything from hexapod walking robots, electronics, hacking, coding engineering, to 3D-printing and more. His channel is fun, so if you like geeky stuff, check it out. Some of Matt’s latest projects included up-scaling a couple of old LEGO Technic sets from his childhood, using 3D-printing technology, then building the original LEGO set and the up-scaled set together with his nephew. Matt also discusses the different plastics he experimented with, the challenges he ran into while printing large LEGO pieces, the cost of 3D-printing, and more. Below, I have included videos of both of the projects. Enjoy!

➡ 3D-PRINTED GIANT LEGO TECHNIC GO-KART: The #1972 LEGO Technic Go-Kart was released back in 1985. It comes with 98 pieces, and a working steering mechanism. Matt decided that this was a good set to try to recreate in a larger scale as it didn’t have too many pieces. However, since the bed of Matt’s 3D-printer isn’t very large, it was challenging to print some of the bigger and longer parts. Also, the set comes with many intricately shaped LEGO Technic axels and gears, which created some problems. However, all in all, after around 170 hours of printing, Matt was able to accurately up-scale all 98 parts of the set, and then build with them.

➡ 3D-PRINTED GIANT LEGO TECHNIC FORKLIFT: For his next project, Matt decided to tackle something bigger. The #850 LEGO Technic Forklift from 1977 includes 210 parts, and working steering as well as fork. This project took around 500 hours of printing, and also ran into some challenges, especially with finding the right type of plastics that would work best for printing and durability.

Really fun projects, aren’t they? When Matt and his nephew are handling the large pieces, it certainly plays tricks on your mind! If you are interested in 3D-printing Matt shares his printing files at Thingiverse.com. The first project was printed on the now discontinued Lulzbot Taz5 3D-Printer, and for the second project, Matt upgraded to a Taz6 3D-Printer that’s available on Amazon. He also used a LulzBot TAZ Flexystruder Tool Head, and a LulzBot TAZ MOARstruder Tool Head with the printer. Matt got his 3D-printing filament at a UK-based supplier called 3DFilaPrint.com, but you can also get filament from LulzBot and other suppliers on Amazon. The black PolyFlex filament for the tires is from Amazon.

What do you think? How do you like these 3D-printed giant LEGO sets? Have you ever experimented with 3D-printing before? What LEGO sets would you like to 3D-print? Feel free to share your thoughts and discuss in the comment section below! 😉

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