Pumping Iron: Winners Announced

The wait is over! The results are in, the creations have been ranked, and it's time to reveal just who walks away with the prizes from the Pumping Iron contest!

As usual, the top place models were all within a few points of each other - although this time the first place finisher had a good 20 point lead.

I've listed the rankings for the top 20 models - if your model didn't make that grid, you can always claim that your build captured spot #21. I won't argue.

To jump to the winner's grid, click the logo!

I'll be contacting the winners in the next few days to arrange for shipment of your prizes.

Thank you again to everyone who participated! I hope to see all of you again when we announce our next contest! (Probably next week sometime)

Steampunk Winners Announced!

Reasonably Clever's LEGO Steampunk in 50 Bricks or Less contest has reached the end and the results are here! This was an amazingly close contest - and once again everyone who took part is to be commended!

Here's what our Celebrity Judge Jake von Slatt of The Steampunk Workshop had to say:

"Thanks everyone for giving me this opportunity! I was amazed and surprised at the number and variety of entries, when I first read the contest rules I thought 'what can you do with only 50 bricks?' Turns out you can do a lot! The top cluster of entries were pretty tightly matched, and on a different day any one of them might have come out on top. But it's clear that everyone put in a lot creative effort and I'm pleased to see that the Lego-istas (Lego-folk? Lego-nattii?) are such a vibrant part of the Steampunk world!

Cheers,

Jake."

• The Top 13 Models
• A listing of all the entries

I'll be contacting the winners over the next couple of days to arrange for prize selection and distribution.

Once again, a hearty "Thank you" to all who participated, and I hope to see you all again in our next contest. Details on that will be announced April 2nd!

Transfomer Challenge - The Results!

The December Challenge is O-VAH!

Midnight has come and gone here in Michigan, and that means I can upload the entries and results of this challenge.

Before I get to that, however, let me first say Thank You to all those who participated. This, as it turns out, was a real bitchkitty of a contest. Maybe the reason there aren't many transforming LEGO sets on the market is because they're really, really tricky to make.
(Crowd to Doyle: DUH.)

We had one more entry before zero-hour, bringing the total Transformer Army to nine. Click on the grid to go to the contest page, where you can check out each entry in detail!

Go ahead. I'll still be here when you get back.

All done? Cool. Then you know who won, who placed, and who tried.

I couldn't have picked a better batch of winners. We had a very multi-faithed winner's circle. - from the commercialized Santa, to a Nativity (well, sort of), to a Jewish dreidel.

Hearty congrats to the three builders who will be receiving prizes: George Fox, Pumpkinetics, and Jonathan Skinner. Look for an email from me later today, guys.

I also want to showcase the work of Phillip Thorne, who sent in a "Contest Non Entry" of his unfinished, but still kick-butt works-in-progress. Check them out here. (Love the hat choice on Santa. Wish I had used that in the strip.)

Finally, Doug7172 had a couple of entries that didn't make it in before deadline, but just barely. Please take a moment and check them out as well.

Once again, thanks to everyone who entered, or at least thought about it!

Now it's time to start brewing up the Deep-Winter Challenge....what shall we build this time?

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Mars Re-Mission: Scoring is on-line!

Just uploaded the scoring chart for the contest - I thought I'd cross-post it here as well, for discussion's sake...

EDIT:

...okay, that's not working. Just go here to look at the table.

Mars Re-Mission: WINNERS ANNOUNCED!

I'll be updating the individual entry pages over the next couple of days, but in the meantime, here are the winners of the first Mars Re-Mission contest!

3rd Prize -
7021 - Viking Double Catapult versus the Armored Ofnir Dragon
Goes to....

Entry #10 - The MiX-TBL by Ian Healey
83.2 Total Points

Comments included: "The complexity and detail make the Mix Limo (sic) super-cool. More disco lights would have been nice" and "This is what happened to those play mobiles that used o frequent the neighborhood?" and "The pictures show all the detail."

2nd Prize -
Bionicle Inaka 8727 - Toa Jaller
Goes to....

Entry #15 - Ultimate Astro Disco by Jordan Cross
85.6 Total Points

Comments Included: "Very Cool!" and "Jordan has too much time on his hands. Doesn't he have homework?"

but the Ultimate Prize... Star Wars set 7761 - Jedi Starfighter goes to...

Entry #14 - DISCO Robot by Chris Edwards
with 92.4 points!

Comments include: "Did George Clinton pose for this?" and "Love the John Travolta shite complete with black shirt and open chest - Complete with Saturday Night Fever!"


I'll be contacting the winners shortly to send them their prizes.
Thanks again to all who entered!