Battle For The Golden Mask Competition: Discussion Thread

[VBBN]

Win a 14 Karat Gold Bionicle Mask!

Bionicle's reveal at New York Comic Con has gotten a lot of fans excited, and what better way to celebrate than with a contest! Eurobricks has teamed up with BZPower, Bionifigs, RUSBIONICLE, Pockyland, Lego's ReBrick, as well as The Lego Company themselves, to bring you an exciting and prize filled contest. For this contest you are tasked with creating a Bionicle villain, the baddest one you can imagine!

Contest Rules

To enter, you have to create a villain using a minimum of 75% LEGO® Constraction/Technic bricks and no more than 25% System bricks. You submit photos of your villain to the site where you wish to enter. It is allowed to submit your creation to multiple sites. It is also allowed to submit multiple entries. You may build in LDD, but we will only accept rendered versions of the LDD files.

*Entries built in LDD must only contain parts in colors that are available to build with in real life

You must be a member of the site on which you enter and you must sign up according to the individual terms and conditions of that site.

Entries cannot be revised or altered once submitted, so give us your very best photography right from the start.

• Villains containing or depicting contemporary military vehicles or weapons will not be eligible for the competition
  
• Villains containing defamatory or degrading elements will not be eligible for the competition
  
• Copies of/or in other ways infringements relating to any existing third party property or any other intellectual property right will not be eligible for the competition
  
• Use of any toy parts not produced by the LEGO Group will result in your villain being disqualified
  
• Entry villains should show your creation only, and should not show recognizable features of any person or any commercial product other than LEGO Products
  
• Entries that are obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit, pornographic, lewd, derogatory, inappropriate, or otherwise not in good taste, as determined by the LEGO Group in their sole discretion, will not be eligible for the competition
  
• You can enter something you’ve published elsewhere before the start of the contest, but we encourage you to build a new MOC worthy of a gold mask
  
• Entries must not contain LEGO elements which have been modified from their original form (this includes painted elements)
  
• Your entry must be least 75% Constraction/Technic and a maximum of 25% System elements
  
• Any cheating or harassment of other participates will result in disqualification from the competition
  
• Entries must be made by the user submitting the entry
  

The competition will begin October 20, 2014, 12 p.m. CEST and ends December 1, 2014, 12 p.m. CET. If you’re not sure what time zone you’re in, here’s a time zone converter.

Judging

Anyone can submit multiple entries to the challenge, but only one (1) entry per person will be considered when the final winners are selected.

Each site will have 5 semi-finalists. These semi-finalists will be chosen from all entries by a jury of judges, including one representative from each community. These semi-finalist judges are:

Sara Moore, LEGO ReBrick.com

Alexander (VBBN), EuroBricks

Eddy (Exo 6), Le Club Bionifigs

Rack, Pockyland

tahu_nuva, RusBionicle

Black Six, BZPower

All semi-finalists will be sent for judging by the LEGO jury, which will chose first, second and third place winners for each site. . The LEGO Group reserves the right to add additional submissions of their choosing from each site. Then, from among the first place winners on each site, the LEGO jury will choose the overall winner. The jury will consist of Lead Designer for Bionicle Cerim Manovi, Assistant Marketing Manager Kari Vinther Nielsen and Junior Designer Nicolaas Vás.

Prizes

Prizes will be awarded as follows:

On each site:

1^st prize – 6 new Bionicle heroes, signed by the designer

2^nd prize – 3 selected Bionicle heroes

3^rd prize – 1 selected Bionicle hero

Eurobricks winners will also receive these respective tags

The overall winner, chosen from among the 6 winners. will receive a unique 14 karat gold Bionicle mask, only available through this competition. 


Who May Participate

The Competition is international and open to entrants worldwide, except as noted below, who are 13 years of age or older at the time their Entry is submitted. The Challenge is not open to residents of Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Myanmar/Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Syria, any other U.S. sanctioned country and where prohibited or restricted by law. The Competition is not open to residents of the Canadian province of Quebec.

Employees, officers, and directors of the LEGO Group of Companies, and their affiliates, subsidiaries, advertising and promotion agencies, and immediate family members and/or those living in the same household, are not eligible to participate.

Rules posted in this thread have been transferred from the official Lego rules document. All official rules can be found attached below, and can also be found on ReBrick. "The original, long-form rules which reside on LEGO ReBrick are the official rules and will supersede all other versions of the rules found on any of the participating sites."

This thread is for contest discussion, questions, and comments. Please post your entries in the Entry thread.

Happy Building!

Battle for the Gold Mask - final rules.pdf

[CabooseBM]

Sounds like fun. Going to have to bring my A-Game for this!!

[Mandate]

Probably going to lose this (as I always do), but I'll give it a shot.

[SirPuddings]

I haven't made a MOC in quite some time so I'll probably be pummeled here, but it's worth a shot.

[Kristof]

Hello, first of, thank you very much for such an amazing contest... whoa!

I'd like to ask about restrictions regarding digital entries: Is there any obligation only to use existing colors of used parts? Ie. does the entry have to be "buldabe" in real from available parts?

Thanks for clarification.

Krištof

[Aethersprite]

Just got into MOCing recently. While I don't have a lot of parts, I'm definitely going to enter! This will be my first competition! :)

[bacem]

ok, this is interesting. i might enter this one.

[WARHEAD]

Super excited for this! I'll start developing ideas ASAP.

[LegoPanda]

this contest looks interesting, i will participate and hopefully win :D good luck to all contestants

[julochka]

I'd like to ask about restrictions regarding digital entries: Is there any obligation only to use existing colors of used parts? Ie. does the entry have to be "buldabe" in real from available parts?

Thanks for clarification.

Krištof

HI Kristof, Thank you for this question! Since modified/painted parts aren't allowed for physical builds, we believe you should stick to the available colors if you build in LDD.

Thanks,

/julie

Edited October 20, 2014 by julochka

[TheOneVeyronian]

Nice competition! I have a few unseen MOC's lying around in both my physical LEGO collection and my hard drive, and with a little tweaking I should be able to use them here. I probably won't win (I never win anything I enter recently!), but I can't pass up an opportunity as good as this

Shame I'm only a member of Eurobricks though, not that it matters too much I guess.

[SirPuddings]

Are things like packaging, such as the lids from the 2001 Toa Mata sets allowed for this?

[Mandate]

Which mask will it be?

[SirPuddings]

Which mask will it be?

Most likely Tahu's mask, or maybe even the Mask of Creation but I'm probably pushing my luck there.

[Front]

Hmm, can't join

[Kristof]

Great, thanks for fast reply Julie. Well it's true that this restriction can be derivated from rule 4 or rule 8, nevertheless I think it would be worth to mention this as a separate point exactly for digital entries.

Regards

Krištof

EDIT: Oh and ome more thing: Do Thechnic Bricks belongs to Technic or System parts? Or even better, is there any distribution catalogue saying which part belongs to where? For sure, there is no doubt about that on mosts parts but some of them (like technic bricks) I wouldn't be secure with.

Edited October 20, 2014 by krisandkris12

[Logan McOwen]

I'd love to enter, but I just know I'd get royally roasted :P

[julochka]

Are things like packaging, such as the lids from the 2001 Toa Mata sets allowed for this?

As long as it is official LEGO set packaging, I can't see why not.

EDIT: Oh and ome more thing: Do Thechnic Bricks belongs to Technic or System parts? Or even better, is there any distribution catalogue saying which part belongs to where? For sure, there is no doubt about that on mosts parts but some of them (like technic bricks) I wouldn't be secure with.

Technic counts on the Constraction side - so it's Bionicle, not System. I don't know of a catalog, but perhaps someone else here does and can help with a link. Establishing the percentages was more a rule of of thumb to help the judges be able to compare all entries fairly because they are more or less built in the same way.

[VBBN]

Which mask will it be?

This has not yet been revealed.

A couple questions have been asked on another site, I will relay the responses;

-no cutting flex/ribbed tubes (this is considered modifying Lego parts)

-no homeade cloth as capes/wings/etc. Only use official Lego cloth

[TheRedGuy]

Can it be a Revamp of a existing character, or does it have to be a original one? Also, can I enter a slightly edited version of a MOC I made before?

Edited October 20, 2014 by TheRedGuy

[Kalhiki]

Villains containing defamatory or degrading elements will not be eligible for the competition

Some of my ball sockets have very minor cracks in them. Is that considered degrading? They don't affect the quality any, so would they be accepted?

Anyway, this looks pretty good. I just bought a bag of parts from a flea market, and I've been wanting to build with them. Looks like as good a time as any.

Plus, big prizes are at stake, so why not.

[SpiderSpaceman]

Some of my ball sockets have very minor cracks in them. Is that considered degrading? They don't affect the quality any, so would they be accepted?

Anyway, this looks pretty good. I just bought a bag of parts from a flea market, and I've been wanting to build with them. Looks like as good a time as any.

Plus, big prizes are at stake, so why not.

That statement isn't referring to lego pieces at all.

[Kalhiki]

That statement isn't referring to lego pieces at all.

Oh! Pfff. I thought it was talking Lego elements.

My bad.

Well, that helps me a bunch considering most of my sockets are cracked.

Edited October 20, 2014 by Kalhiki

[SpiderSpaceman]

Oh! Pfff. I thought it was talking Lego elements.

My bad.

Well, that helps me a bunch considering most of my sockets are cracked.

Haha aren't everybody's?

[Chro]

If cracked sockets were illegal, how would we ever build snazzy Tuma revamps?