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4) Butcher entry (Built by Walt) - 1 point 14) Mechanic entry (Built by Yatkuu) - 1 point 27) Flamenco Dancer entry (Built by Skafte) - 1 point Once again hard to choose between a great crop of entries. Good luck everyone!

7) Art Deco (Built by lisqr) - 1 point 10) My Third Wish (Built by Skafte) - 2 points Great entries as ever! Well done people, really imaginative.

"Through the Wormhole" "Hello, I'm Advid Forst, your host for 'Through the Wormhole' - the show where we travel through time and space to ask the question, "Who would live in a house like this?" Today we've taken a trip to ancient Earth, the original homeworld of the long extinct human race. But will our panellists be able to identify which kind of human inhabits the structure behind me?" "The building itself is of a rough stone construction, with a conical roof made from tree branches packed with mud to provide some insulation. As usual, we've collected a number of items from inside the house that may or may not provide a clue to who lives here. Clearly they are no stranger to warfare, judging by the wooden spear. The helmet is probably a trophy from a recent battle. There is a wooden box containing a skull carefully preserved in cedar oil; the remains of a revered ancestor, if I'm not mistaken. And finally, a bowl of the blue pigment known as woad." "Now I'm going to reveal to our audience, but not our panellists, the identity of our mystery human. As he seems to be a fairly aggressive type, we've put him in a stasis pod for the duration of the program. This also helps prevent any embarassing and legally awkward changing-history-by-exposing-primitives-to-alien-technology incidents like that one in ancient Egypt during our last series. Anyway, have you guessed who it is yet? That's right! A Celtic Warrior! Cyril, are our host's life signs still nominal? Excellent! Now after the commercial break, we'll be heading back to the studio to see how our contestants are doing." One final overview of the vignette to show the radial roof construction, and now the sensible bit! Series 6 minifig: Celtic Warrior Series 3 minifig: Space Alien Theme: Space/Historical gameshow mash-up Architectural feature: Celtic Roundhouse For anyone not familiar with it, this MOC is inspired by the popular UK celebrity panel show 'Through the Keyhole,' and its long-time presenter David Frost. The Celtic Roundhouse was common in Britain from Iron Age until the Middle Ages, and is based on reconstructions I visited at the Museum of Welsh Life a few summers ago. Hope you enjoyed the show!

Great entries everyone! Here are my votes: 8) Steampunk shark submersible - 2 points 13) Water strider - 1 point 14) Piper super cub float plane - 2 points 15) Micro port - 2 points Good luck all!

So many fantastic entries I could have cast twice as many votes. Anyway, here they are: 5) 1 point 13) 1 point 19) 1 point 24) 1 point 29) 1 point 38) 1 point 46) 1 point Well done everyone!

Living in Istanbul I was spoilt for choice for good subjects for this contest, and ended up going for The Maiden's Tower (Kiz Kulesi in Turkish), one of Istanbul's most iconic landmarks. Built on a tiny island in the Bosphorous strait, there has been a tower on the site for 2400 years, although the current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus in 1110 AD and subsequently modified by the Ottoman Turks (thank you Wikipedia!) Popular local legend has it that the original tower was built for the Sultan's daughter, hence the name. It was prophesied that she would die from a snake bite on her 18th birthday, so he decided to imprison her in a tower on the island to protect her from snakes. (In another similar legend, she was put there to keep away undesirable suitors). Of course, it didn't work, in either version of the story. In actual fact, the tower was probably built as a customs office, to control shipping through the Bosphorous from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. During its long history it has also served as a fortress and a lighthouse, and most recently as a tourist spot, complete with restaurant and cafe. The panoramic view of Istanbul from the balcony is hard to beat. The tower features in the opening credits of practically every Turkish soap opera, and was also the place where James Bond is captured and tortured towards the end of 'The World is Not Enough.' They could have saved time just by making him pay the restaurant bill! This was an interesting building challenge, as it's definitely a landmark, but the scale of the real building is more similar to most of the 'Architect Series' sets. Some fun SNOT work for the tower and crenellations at the back. Hi-res versions of the imagea can be found at: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=500960 Pleasingly everyone who has come round to our apartment since I put the model on display in our living room has recognised it instantly. Of course it looks much more spectacular in its real-world context. Good luck to everyone and thanks to the moderators for organising a great contest!

Apart from the light blue bricks, the Seaside House isn't nearly as attractive as last year's lighthouse island or even the log cabin. A pity, when I first heard about it I was quite excited. The vehicles are as good as ever though.

So many good entries that I wished I had more than 5 votes to distribute. But here we go anyway. Great work everyone! 4. Inn by Dix - 2 points 10. Mountain Guides Station by Priovit70 - 1 point 14. Log cabin by Jameson42 - 1 point 24. Winter church by sdrnet - 1 point Judging by everyone else's posts it'll take a strong late showing by someone to match Dix. Still plenty of time though!

Great idea to achieve the flying weapon, it's really effective! I like the fact that you managed to get leaves outside the door of the dojo too. Really nicely composed!

Thanks for the review! This is a very, um, interesting set... I like the opening mechanism and all the new parts, but the whole concept is a bit odd. It's a fighter whose only weapons appear to be blades, so presumably it fights things by flying into them? Bizarre. As someone else has said the nose piece is pretty clunky too. Having said that, for these parts at this price, it'll be a hard set to pass up when they finally get released on my side of the Atlantic!

Here goes with my first ever Eurobricks post! This was a really challenging category, but fun - thanks to the organisers! Spartacus - Fight to the Death The scene is from the 1960 film, 'Spartacus'. Spartacus (armed with sword and shield) is forced to fight to the death with his former sparring partner, Drabo (armed with trident and net) for the amusement of Senator Marcus Licinius Crassus. Crassus discusses political schemes with his friend Glabrus, while the slave girl Varinia, who has fallen in love with Spartacus, looks on anxiously... If you want to see how the fight ends, you can watch it on .Series 5 minifig: Gladiator (obviously!) Series 1-4 minifig: Spartan I don't own an official Lego net, so the one Drabo is carrying was hand knitted from black cotton thread by my wife. She's a star! The scenery without the players: For more photos look on my MOCpages page. Good luck everyone!