Friends Showjumping Game (MOC).

[stebai]

Hi All,

Just finished this little Easter Gift for my "Friends" crazy daughter. She has got most of the stable associated stuff, and I saw a small fence that came with one. This got me thinking....

I love boardgames and have dabbled a bit with designing before, so I figured I'd have a stab at a centerpiece for all her Friends buildings, and here it is.

It's a bit sad that Lego have finished up with games as this to me presented a massive opportunity. The way it is built allows for many different courses to be designed, and extra fences to be purchased/built. It plays in about 10 to 15 minutes and although simple to learn can be quite deep to play.

It has all the elements of Show-Jumping (inc time faults for those that dawdle around!) and has little downtime for players - we have multiple horses on the track, at safe distances. Each fence also has easily removed top tiles that "fall off" if the fence is hit!

Anyway, on to the pictures.

The overall layout - all 9 fences, the player plates and the 3 dice.

The "Parallel Bars". The first part of the double combination, and a tricky area to clear.

The "Waterjump" with the "Toy House" behind it, you can also just see "Aintree" in this picture, (I named all the fences - sad isn't it!)

Fence 7 "Manhattan" - designed on paper by my little girl makes up the second half of the deadly double...

View from above - you can see how the track has been designed to turn and allow for different track designs to be built.

The last fence is the "Big Red Brick Wall" - a little homage to my childhood watching Olympia.

Fence 8 Egypt - I have tried to give all the fences a Lego theme too.

On the other side is a rather nice "Atlantis" fence that for some reason I failed to photograph.

Anyway, that's about it. I am going to throw this on on Cuusoo just for the fun of it - so please if you feel that you might like Lego to consider this idea, vote for it!

Cuusoo link: http://lego.cuusoo.c...deas/view/62682

All the best to all the fine members of this forum.

Edited April 21, 2014 by stebai

[Kristel]

Greta idea and nice design!

[SnapLock]

Great idea but when i click on your cusso link all i get is page saying

This project is not published.

This project is not published or has been un-published.

To find other projects, please visit the Discover page.

[stebai]

Yeah Sorry Snaplock - the idea hasn't been accepted yet. I'll remove the link until it is live. Thank you so much though for trying :-)

[lightningtiger]

Great idea 'stebai'.......though I don't think the Lego games have taken off like Lego would have hoped for......there are no more released in at least Australia now.

Brick On with your Friends 'stebai' !

[Fritzy]

Well done! Thank you very much for sharing this. I too am still bummed that LEGO Games didn't take off and has since been discontinued, but I never considered doing a Friends-style board game. What a great idea (or in my case, another excuse to look into Friends sets). As someone who used to design custom board game prototypes, I thank you for the inspiration! Please do share more creations in the future. I would love to see them. :)

[3BrickFriends]

Great idea and nicely executed.

[B Rick]

Cool! You don't see too many new game-designs. Looking very good too.

[stebai]

Thanks everyone - It has just been accepted by Cuusoo - which I guess means that they might still consider game based Lego designs. I think this is great news not specifically for my design but hopefully that Lego haven't given up totally on Board Games.

I would be really grateful for any support it receives so here is the link: http://lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/62682

Thanks for all your kind comments anyway, it really is just a set I wanted to build so I could play with my daughter :-)