THE LAST FEW DAYS OF NON-BLOGGING HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY COMPUTER TROUBLES. AH, COMPUTER TROUBLES… WHEN YOU REALLY NEED TO BE THROWN OFF SCHEDULE, THEY’RE ALWAYS THERE FOR YOU!
Posting
a short entry today (topic postponed from Tuesday), and with any luck, blogging
returns to normal next week.
Psst – Hey, Buddy!
Wanna Enter a Competition?
All
right. It’s time to kick this thing into
action. To help promote Bricks Cascade
2015’s “Crisis on Infinite Baseplates” (COIB) collaborative build, I’m holding
a online build competition.
I
want to get people building COIB modules.
I want people attending Bricks Cascade inspired by the notion of winning
an award or prize (even the current unannounced ‘mystery prizes’ currently
offered). I want people on the fence
about attending Bricks Cascade to decide in favor of it, just so that they can
show off their amazing COIB MOC to the public.
I even want people who won’t possibly come to Bricks Cascade to build
COIB MOCs to both play along with the theme and inspire those who ARE attending
to step up their game.
This
is my first ever attempt at sponsoring a competition, so it’ll be interesting
to see how it goes. I even wrote up a
press release for the thing…
The Press Release
Don’t miss the
greatest LEGO build competition in the Multiverse!
FOR
RELEASE 2.13.15
BattleGorilla’s
LEGO Blog is sponsoring a competition to help promote the “Crisis on Infinite
Baseplates” collaborative build taking place at this year’s Bricks Cascade
(March 12 – 15 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, OR).
The
competition runs in Flickr’s “Crisis on Infinite Baseplates” group from
February 13th through March 26th, with winners to be
announced on March 31st. (Details
about awards/prizes will be announced shortly.)
Competition Rules
–
Genre: Superheroes (Good guys vs. bad guys)
Premise: Intercontinuity Cross-Over (Heroes from one
universe/reality battling villains from another).
Scale &
Standard: MOCs (My Own Creations) for the competition
are to be minifig scale, and built on standard 10”/32 stud square
baseplates. The smallest MOC is
therefore 32 studs by 32 studs. Larger
MOCs are simply built on multiple baseplates.
Building Supplies: This is a LEGO contest, so the MOCs should be
built of LEGO-brand building bricks and elements. (No Mega-Bloks, no Kre-O, or other similar
direct competitors to LEGO.) Third party
accessories are allowed (BrickArms, BrickForge, BrickWarriors, etc.). Decoration of pieces via decals, stickers,
custom printing, are allowed, as are third party products composed of actual
LEGO parts with custom printing (Eclipse Graphx, Custom Bricks, Citizen Brick,
etc.). All MOCs must be built from
actual pieces, no LDD entries allowed.
Interdimensional
Travel: Each MOC must include at least one
A.R.T.I.F.I.C.E. Gate (link to building instructions below).
Conflicts: The original core idea was superheroes vs.
supervillains. But if you have a
different ‘good guys’ vs. ‘bad guys’ MOC in mind, it must at least include
either superheroes or supervillains.
Superheroes vs. an invading alien army.
Supervillains invading Heartlake City (from the LEGO Friends
theme). Superheroes defending against
evil Hot Dog Warriors, or supervillains slaughtering the peaceful Hot Dog
People.
So
start building, enter the competition, bring your MOCs to Bricks Cascade if
you’re attending, and above all: Have
fun, and play well!
Crisis
on Infinite Baseplates Flickr Group
Bricks
Cascade 2015
BattleGorilla’s
LEGO Blog
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