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Wow, that's impressive! It's spot-on and the way you achieved the angle of the head is great! The only thing that is a bit off is the rotation of the "M" on the hat. Did you use any software to plan it out before you built it?

Thank you! Yes, you're right, it probably is a bit unbalanced, but as you said, that's just how the map is. Consider it an added challenge. Thanks! Hm, that's odd. Thanks for pointing that out. I have re-uploaded the file. And thanks for the suggestion, but I will not be adding any tanks to the maze. Those would just look out of place.

Haha, true, Pixar's animation (and CG animation in general) has come a long way. The photorealistic environments and textures already stood out in The Good Dinosaur and you can see it in the trailers for Finding Dory as well, like the little particles in the water, the shine on the fish scales, etc. Yeah, Geri's Game is also still my favorite after all this time. It's been nearly 19 years since that came out! I definitely think there is some potential for an Inside Out sequel, but considering most of their films for the next few years are going to be sequels, I'd rather see another original film instead.

Indeed, Lego is a much bigger offender when it comes to gender equality, so please direct your complaints there if you must. I'm sure there is a thread about this somewhere on here. Back on topic, here is our first look at the short film Piper which will be shown in front of Finding Dory. Looks like it will be as amazing as every other Pixar short!

Please let's not. I'm so tired of today's SJW culture where everybody is offended by everything. Pixar films are great movies and not meant to discriminate anyone (in fact, I'd argue the opposite), no matter if they pass some test or not, so just relax and enjoy the movie.

Thank you! As a matter of fact, it is! If you look closely at the pictures, you will see that the ISD is tilted so that there is just enough space for the ball to roll under the starboard side of it.

Finally? Was anyone really chomping at the bit for Cars 3 news? :tongue:Thanks for sharing it though. More Pixar news is always good news! I know what you mean, but I like with their choice. As you said, the headlight-eyes design has been done before a lot because it is the obvious choice, and while the windshield-eyes aren't completely original either, they're still more unique. The big eyes also allow the animators to convey expressions better. Plus having the windshields be the eyes allows them to anthropomorphize vehicles that don't have headlights like forklifts and aircraft. Or Lightning himself for that matter. I have to agree. It just sounds like the same plot of the first movie which was already recycled for Planes. That's one of the things I liked about Cars 2 - that movie at least tried to do something different.

Thanks! Yes, I was surprised how long it took too. Must be because of all the translucent pieces. I didn't enter one for the contest, but I might still build one. Thank you. Hm... Hard to tell. It might take a minute or so for the ball to go all the way down and back up, but it's not supposed to go fast. That's kind of the point, that you get to watch the ball travel up and down the tower in between maze rounds. I guess if you have the same amount of patience as the Hulk, this tilt system is not for you. Interesting! May I ask how you came to this conclusion?

Thanks! Yes, I dos! However, I don't have nearly enough windows, slopes, and hinges to pull it off. If someone wants to take a crack at it, you can use the LXF to create instructions and build it. Thanks! I tried to make it as big and accurate as possible. Yes, that was actually one of the main ideas behind this entry! I just forgot to mention it in the first post. Thanks for reminding me. Again, I wish I could. This would be amazing to have and play with in real life. Thanks. As a matter of fact, I had to stay up quite late a few times the last couple of weeks in order to finish this build and I'm starting to feel some sleep deficit. Good thing I'm leaving for a relaxing weekend near Las Vegas tomorrow.

And with every mighty superhero team comes a mighty headquarters! Located in the heart of Manhattan, the tall building that used to be Stark Tower until the Battle of New York stands as a symbol of hope and serves as a base of operations for the Avengers. Here, they can train, strategize, create new tech, or just hang out, and sometimes build evil robots that want to kill all humans. Based on its appearance in Avengers: Age of Ultron, this tower is not just a great display piece, but also functions as both a UCS-style playset and a tilt system for the Lego Ideas Maze. It even features an automated ball return mechanism that is designed to work with mazes that have actual holes in them, so that if your ball falls through, you can watch it roll down the tower, floor by floor, and get lifted back up to the top where it is dropped back into the maze. And the best part is that you don't even need a table to play the maze as the tower doubles as a stand for the tilt system! Here it is without any of the fancy graphics. It took 3 days to render that first image, so please excuse me if I use low-quality screenshots for the rest of this post. Some profile shots of the building. Thanks to the hinges, the rounded back wall can be opened like double-doors. The third picture shows the opened backside. As you can see, there are stairs connecting each floor in addition to the ball-elevator, along with the obligatory fire extinguisher on every floor. A shot of the North side of the building. I'm actually not sure if this side is accurate to the movies since I couldn't find any reference pictures of this side of the tower. If it isn't, please leave your barrage of nerdy complaints in the comments down below. A top view of the tower. It was quite a challenge to get the curvature of the platforms at the top right. As mentioned before, the ball return mechanism only works with mazes that have holes for the ball to go through, but of course you can use mazes without holes as well. Here is how it looks with an example maze which is the official maze from the set with a new color scheme and modified to have real holes. Please note that this maze is just for demonstration purposes and not part of the entry. There is a slightly tilted platform below the maze so that if your ball falls through the maze, it will be guided down to a chute through which it rolls down to the hangar below. Once in the hangar, the ball rolls down the channel on the left, around the outside of the landing platform (which features a working turntable), and back towards the rear of the hangar through the channel on the right. The ball then rolls down a ramp that leads to the front of the building where it then zig-zags down the slanted windows. Once it gets to the bottom, the ball enters the building through an open window and rolls down a channel that leads to the elevator chain in the back. When it gets to the chain, the ball gets picked up by two prongs and lifted up to the top by Jarvis (i.e. a Power Functions motor). That much is clear. The only question is: If you put Thor's hammer on the ball elevator and it goes up, is the elevator worthy? Once it gets to the top, the ball is dropped onto the rails that lead out of the building and back into the maze. The cycle is complete and the fun can continue forever and ever until Infinity War. Now let's take a look at the interior of the tower. The front face of the building can be opened to access the inside as shown in the following image: The first floor features a lobby with the Avengers logo painted on the floor, a reception desk, and a waiting area. The second floor is where the Iron Legion is stored and repaired. Three fully posable robot arms with different tools hang from the ceiling and there is a rack of spare parts and other tools in the back. Counting the spare parts, there are two dozen legionaries here. Clearly they haven't been painted yet at this stage of the assembly. The third floor is a laboratory where the Science Bros, Tony Stark and Bruce Banner, can do some science together and foolishly create maniacal A.I.s. There are many computers, holograms, and tools, as well as a medical bay in the back. I based the look of the lab on this concept art: On the fourth floor there is a large training room where the Avengers can hone their skills by sparring each other and dodging fire from several turrets. After training, they can relax in the living room on the fifth floor. Here, they can throw a party, have some drinks, and play a friendly game of Who Can Lift Thor's Hammer. The tower also includes living quarters for each of the six Avengers. The sixth floor houses Hulk and Thor's rooms. Hulk's room is expectedly messy and has food strewn about, a Hulk-sized weight lifting bar, a plant, and a TV. Thor's room on the other hand is decked out in Asgardian gold and looks nice and shiny. It features a golden statue with the winged helmet that Thor refuses to wear in the movies for some reason, a large banner, and a small desk with quills where he can write letters to Jane Foster and his friends back in Asgard. The seventh floor is where Steve Rogers and Tony Stark live. Steve's room is filled with old-timey things like wooden furniture and a phonograph, as well as the American flag of course, and a hanger for his shield. And yes, that newspaper on his desk is the Old Times. Tony's room reflects his egotistical playboy lifestyle as it features a large painting of his alter ego, a hi-tech stereo, and a bed large enough for one or more lady friends to spend the night with him. Note the contrast between Steve's giant old phone and Tony's little smartphone on the other side of the wall. Black Widow and Hawkeye's rooms take up the eighth floor. Both feature a simple bed and a wall where they can hang up their weapons. Additionally, Natasha's room also has a closet and a make-up table (a girl's gotta look good while saving the world! ) while Clint's room has a dart board and a desk where he crafts his arrows. You can click the images for higher resolution and you can download the LXF file here: Avengers Tilt System.lxf Feel free to open it in LDD and explore the tower as I have spent a lot of time building it and putting in more details than I probably should have. I hope you like it and look forward to your feedback. Excelsior!

Thanks everyone! However, as you can see here, this entry has been disqualified as I will be entering with my Jakku themed entry instead.

Thank you! Thanks. Do you have any suggestions to improve the build? I haven't seen any design at this scale that I'm completely happy with.

Looks great! Great! Glad you're catching up on your childhood. After you're done with those, you need to watch The Lion King. We will probably never get anything from that movie in the CMFs, but it is still regarded as the best Disney movie by many. Also, R.I.P. Alan Young. I guess Uncle Scrooge will be voiced by someone else in the reboot now...

I have added a picture of the updated maze to the first post. It takes a long time to render these pictures, so I hope it's okay if I don't re-render every angle. Thanks. Please make sure to download the updated LXF as well. Thank you and welcome to EB!

Theme parks certainly seem to be a popular theme in this contest. Very nice entry. The only thing I'd maybe want to see is some more micro scale dinosaurs other than the T-Rex, but as it is it looks great.

Interesting question! Nice to see another Disney Parks aficionado on here! I love going to Disneyland since I live only a 30 minute drive away from it and Space Mountain is one of my favorite rides. I nearly soiled my pants the first time I rode it when I was about 6 years old, but after going on it so many times, it has almost become boring to me, so I very much appreciate them keeping it fresh with the different theme overlays. I have experienced every iteration of the ride in California, except for the Rockin' ones which I wasn't even aware of until now. As much as I love Star Wars, I'd have to say that my favorite is the Ghost Galaxy version. I have only been on it once, but I was fairly impressed by it. It was scarier than I thought it was going to be, and I don't scare easily. Seeing ghosts pop up around you as you race through the dark is actually quite creepy. Hyperspace Mountain is a close second though.

Poodoo. I guess I'll have to modify it. Thanks for the info.

Really? Darn. I was so sure I interpreted it correctly, but I guess that makes sense. Oh well. I thought "You can enter all categories with different entries" meant that You can enter each category with different entries, but look like you were right. Thanks! I got the idea for the legs from the Battle of Hoth board game. Your entries are great too. Sorry to get your hopes up on the multiple entries thing. Just wait until you see my Cat B entry! Thank you! I tried to make it as detailed as possible at this scale. Thanks! I used the story as a guide for the layout of the maze and having the ball be BB-8 just seemed like an obvious choice. If this maze was actually produced, I would imagine the ball to have BB-8's ball pattern. I'm not 100% sure on this, but the soccer ball seems to fit into a 4-plate high space in LDD, so I assume so. If anyone wants to check if that is the case in real life, please let me know if it doesn't work and I'll modify my entry to accommodate that. Indeed! The fact that the original maze already looked a bit like Jakku may have been an inspiration for this entry.

Thanks! Thank you, but I think you're forgetting about the second part of that rule.

Looks like we both posted our Star Wars themed entries at the same time! Nice build. It's quite impressive how you summed up the entire Original Trilogy in one little maze! The "Choose your side" idea is pretty clever and the fact that you have a second level to move between episodes is a nice idea too, although I'm not sure it would work in real life. By the way, you forgot to add the category to the title.

Maze: Escape From Jakku by Okay Yaramanoglu, on Flickr BB-8 has been given part of a map that leads to Luke Skywalker and it is now up to him to deliver it to the Resistance! Play as BB-8 as you roll through the deserts of the junkyard planet Jakku and escape the clutches of the First Order. But watch out for patches of quicksand or you'll drown! You start at Tuanul village which is under attack by the First Order. Navigate through the Graveyard of Giants past a crashed Star Destroyer. Meet up with Rey at her AT-AT home, travel past a crashed X-Wing and some other wreckage, and enter Niima Outpost where you meet Finn and escape in the garbage Millennium Falcon! The LDD file can be downloaded here: Jakku maze.lxf UPDATE: It has been pointed out to me that the maze ball needs a space of 5 plates high to fit through instead of the 4-plates high space that I used, so here is a modified version of the maze to accommodate that. I lifted up the AT-AT, Millennium Falcon, outpost entrance, and outpost building by one plate each. Here is the updated LXF: Jakku maze fix1.lxf Please leave your thoughts below and may the force be with you!

Nice MOC and build video. You need to remove the "s" from "https".

Wow, beautiful build, Bob! It works with your equally beautiful tilt system perfectly! Would love to see a video of the emperor ball actually going through the maze. So, does this count as an entry?

Very nice! It's very colorful as a fairground should be and the build of the rides and the vendors is very clever. My only concern is that it would be very difficult to actually roll through the maze with all the gaps and the lack of flat walls. Also, it looks odd having only that small section of the rollercoaster in there, but I know how difficult it is working with those rails in LDD.

Thanks! And yes, the CMFs seem to be extremely popular. They've been sold out in my area ever since they've been released. Thank you! It certainly was a challenge, but it was a lot of fun to build and I'm happy with the result. Thanks! Are you making one as well? Which park is it based on? Can't wait to see it!