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Voting is over and the votes have been tallied, congratulations jansued and Artizan!

Ever since 2007 The Lego Company has raided our wallets with their mostly popular (and sometimes less so, I’m looking at you 8015 Assassin Droid!) Battle Packs. Now it’s your turn! Create your own Star Wars Battle Pack to populate the galaxy (and your desk) with more minifigures!

An all Jedi battle pack, Star Wars Christmas battle pack, an astromech battle pack, a cantina goer battle pack, the options are endless! All entries should include a small build with play features as well as 4 minifigures. Look to the previous battle packs for inspiration but use your imagination too. If you are using aliens that do not already have a mold produced by Lego (such as the Quarren), they must be a race that makes an appearance in one of the main 6 Star Wars movies.

This is not a fig-barf contest. Each entry will be judged on play features, the main build, and the minifigures. The entries will be given a maximum of 6/15 points for the build, 5/15 points for the minifigures, and 4/15 points for play features.

Rules

  • Each person is allowed up to 2 entries in this contest, but each person is eligible to receive only one prize.
  • Each entry must include 4 minifigures or the equivalent of minifigures (brick built figs may not contain more than 30 pieces).
  • Each entry should not include more than 100 pieces (not including minifigures and 1 weapon apiece), but there will be some grace given if the piece count exceeds this number be a small amount.
  • The contest will run from 1st May to 31th May, 2015. As long as it's still May 31 somewhere in the world, you can still enter.
  • Entries posted after the deadline will be disqualified.
  • This contest is open to all EB members, even if they joined EB after the contest has begun. EB Staff are ineligible to win prizes.
  • All entries must be new creations, not posted anywhere else prior to being entered in the contest. You may be asked by a staff member to change your entry if it is too similar to an earlier creation.
  • All entries must be built from real LEGO. No clone brands, no third-party custom parts. Digital entries will be allowed. All digital entries must use only existing pieces in existing colors.
  • You can use official stickers or custom stickers for the minifigures only.
  • All entries must be posted as a new topic in the Watto’s Junkyard forum, the title prefixed by, "[sWBP] – entry name". (For example, "[sWBP] – Youngling Battle Pack") A link must also be included in this thread for your entry to count.
  • Post pictures no larger than 800x640, but you may link to bigger pictures.
  • You may do a 'full-blown photo edit' with all the text, effects, background compositing, support erasing, and other effects on one picture. All your other pictures may have no editing other than color adjustment or background removal for a solid-color background. For obvious reasons, any photo editing that changes the shape, functionality, or color (not tint or adjustment, but actual color) of a LEGO piece is prohibited. It is also prohibited to use the Lego logo in any picture.
  • All entries are considered WIPs (Works In Progress) until the deadline passes. Until the deadline has passed, you are allowed to change and improve your MOC.
  • If there are more than 25 entries, EB staff will make a first selection to bring the number down to 25, and then EB members will vote for their favorite entry among that selection. EB staff will using the judging scale listed above. EB members should vote based on the judging scale, but will not be required to show what points they judged by.

Rules Update:

  • The piece count allowed for brick-built figs has been increased to 30 pieces
  • The piece limit rules has been updated to be more flexible. It's still at 100, but there is some overage allowed. This is being purposely left vague because I don't want people to abuse this rule and I reserve the right to veto any builds that are obviously too parts intensive.
  • Entries are not required to list their piece count (though you still can if you want). The piece count needs to visually look like it could be a battlepack but can be done in a completely different way from the TLG produced battlepacks. (See my example entry for what would still be acceptable if it's not in the TLG format).

Prizes

  • First and second place will win 9489 Endor Rebel Trooper & Imperial Trooper Battle Pack.

Example Entry:


Rodian Bounty Hunter Battle Pack

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A galaxy far, far away always has work for a bounty hunter. Go on adventures with this group of Rodians!

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Help them crack the security codes on the door!

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Help make sure this group of bounty hunters always gets their guy, alive or disintegrated!

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Awesome contest!

If you are using aliens that do not already have a mold produced by Lego (such as the Quarren), they must be a race that makes an appearance in one of the main 6 Star Wars movies.

I guess that means no Bothans for me :/

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Cool, I've got alot of ideas already, I hope to start some work on it later this weekend.

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I guess that means no Bothans for me :/

A verbal "appearance" is fine as well so Bothans would be allowed.

This sounds fun. Any piece count?

The build has to have no more than 100 pieces, but the figs and up to 1 weapon apiece don't count towards that number.

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A verbal "appearance" is fine as well so Bothans would be allowed.

Yay! Thanks Josh!

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So only 25 total entries, as in not too many people will be able to enter?

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So only 25 total entries, as in not too many people will be able to enter?

No, we could have 500 entries, but only the top 25 will make it to the group voting phase. This is to help keep the voting manageable for everyone. No one likes to have to scroll through 80 entries and try to decide which are the best 2 out of those 80.

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Since custom stickers are permitted on the minifigs , does that mean decals are too ( I really don't know if a decal is considered a sticker or not ) ? Also what about PAD-printed parts ( for the mini figs only of course ) ? Finally , does a more "TLG-stlye" build with many play features , often decreasing the movie accuracy of the build get a better rating than an accurate one with less or maybe no play-features at all ? In other words should we build a battle pack the Lego Group would build , or one like we would design it ? Thanks :classic:

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Since custom stickers are permitted on the minifigs , does that mean decals are too ( I really don't know if a decal is considered a sticker or not ) ? Also what about PAD-printed parts ( for the mini figs only of course ) ? Finally , does a more "TLG-stlye" build with many play features , often decreasing the movie accuracy of the build get a better rating than an accurate one with less or maybe no play-features at all ? In other words should we build a battle pack the Lego Group would build , or one like we would design it ? Thanks :classic:

Custom stickers, decals, or pad printing for minifgs will all be allowed. As for the build, I think if you're build wows people with how movie accurate it is, but doesn't have play features, that it will still get good response. I can't speak for everyone since each person's tastes are different. The main idea of the contest is to create a TLG style battle pack, but it doesn't have to be on the same level. My example entry has play features, but it's not something TLG would ever produce. I hope that helps clear that point up a little.

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I like this contest. I'll have to take a look at my minifigs and try to come up with something that ties 4 together.

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I'm confused the contest here and the one in watts junkyard rules are different.

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Very cool contest! I may actually enter this time! I think Lego has done 2 different styled battlepacks: 2 v 2 and 4 of one side. Is there any rule about which to do?

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I'm confused the contest here and the one in watts junkyard rules are different.

There are two different contests going on right now, that could be what's confusing you. This contest is in Watto's Junkyard though, so I'm not quite sure what you mean by that. Maybe you can post links to help clarify?

Very cool contest! I may actually enter this time! I think Lego has done 2 different styled battlepacks: 2 v 2 and 4 of one side. Is there any rule about which to do?

Either style is fine!

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This sounds great fun, got two solid ideas and a possible third...will get building and see what happens.

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Okay , another couple of questions from me . First , can we have a brick-built droid as part of the build (and not as one of the 4 minifigures ) ? I don't mean a humanoid one , I mean something like a droideka . The reason I ask is because it uses more than 10 pieces ( but so does TLG's droideka ) . Also , is it ok to have a brick painted ? I do not mean anything like I design on it , just painting a white brick reddish brown , as it doesn't come in that colour ( I just thought that since we 're supposed to build a battle pack as TLG we can "produce" a new colour of an existing mold ) .

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