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[11 DAYS LEFT TO ENTER!]The Clipboard Blog Contest #1: Lego's True Potential


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ENTRY DEADLINE: MAY 19, 2016

 

For shame, Lego. Seriously, you missed the opportunity for a good villain in Von Nebula, you forgot about what good comic art was when you hired Sayger, and darn it, that battle with Skull Basher was waaaay too short. Fortunately, you have your loyal fans to tell you all about it. And now they are going to fix it for you.

 

That's right, for this contest you are going to take a moment where Lego had so much potential and threw it out the door, and instead use that potential for your own creations. You shall develop Von Nebula, redraw that ugly Sayger scene, and give Skull Basher the battle he deserves - or whatever else you saw a potential for greatness that was trashed in the name of the almighty dollar.

 

The winner will receive ONE 2016 Winter Wave set of their choice. I will make every reasonable effort to ensure that you get your prize. (If you are in some country not named the United States, you are responsible for telling me about any problems I might have delivering your prize if you win that UPS won't tell me about. If you know that it will cost over $100 to ship your prize to your country, don't enter.)

 

HOW TO ENTER:

 

Post your entry in a topic on the BZPower forums, and link the topic to this blog entry by posting a comment on this blog entry below.

 

RULES:

 

READ THEM, ASK QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY

1. MoCs, games, stories, artwork, comics, and basically anything you can post in the Creative Outlet will be accepted as an entry. However, your entry does not have to perfectly fit there - if you have some other lack of potential you would like to address, go for it. (Bionicle website redesign, anyone? :P)

 

2. Entries MUST be posted in a topic on BZPower forums, which MUST be linked to this blog entries' comment section. The actual entry may be hosted offsite, but there must be a topic linking to it and drawing attention to it. This is required for this contest - I know, it's weird, just live with it.

 

3. Entries must have never been posted on BZPower before the contest began - March 3, 2016. Anything after that is fair game. Posting it anywhere else doesn't disqualify you, period.

 

4. Entries must USE Lego's untapped potential for something CREATIVE. Whining on the forums about Lego's lack of ambition is NOT an entry.

 

5. Unlimited Entries are allowed per person, but PLEASE do not post 10 MoC topics in one day and enter them all. Please be courteous to your fellow forum browsers. Otherwise, go to town.

 

6. All Lego themes, past and present, are fair game for entries.

 

7. Every BZPower member, from new members to staff members, are allowed to enter. Having a higher site rank or popularity will not increase your chances of winning - so yes, new member, you can win too.

 

Except for me. fishers64, as this contest's host, may not enter.

 

8. Collaborative Entries ARE ALLOWED, with the following IMPORTANT WARNINGS:

     A. MAXIMUM of 3 PEOPLE. You are NOT allowed to recruit the entire site against one person; that's just wrong.

     B. You are responsible among yourselves for deciding who gets the prize of the Bionicle set. I will assume that the person who starts the topic for your project is the one who will get the prize, unless you specifically tell me otherwise. If you argue over who gets what in front of me, you both get nothing.

 

If you are a lone contributor, you do not get the right to complain if a collaborative team wins. Someone convinced someone else to work for them for free, or they bribed them somehow. That's called life skills. Learn them. :P

 

9. For Fan Created Games, your epic plan to redesign a boring Lego game will be accepted as an entry. However, entries must reflect actual capability of developing the game described - you must have an actually feasible plan. Renders and screenshots of partially completed games do help. (An exception to rule #2 will be made in this case - you can post the full text in a comment here, since planning topics are not allowed in FCM. For collaborative teams, the name on the comment is getting the prize unless otherwise indicated.)

 

10. RPGs need to be approved and running by the end of the entry period to qualify as an entry, as per rule #2. Don't make an RPG for this contest that you have no intention of running; that's just cruel. I expect you to run your game; otherwise it will be DQed. If you're stuck in the middle of the process, you may ask me for an extension - I tried to make the entry period long enough for you to get through the approvals and into running the game.

 

HOW WINNERS WILL BE DETERMINED:

 

IF YOU CARE, READ ON

The entries will be judged by me on the following criteria:

 

1. Validity of the potential squandering. Think less of "I want this from Lego and they didn't give it to me waaah" and more of "They could have done this, and it would've been more fantastic than what they did, but they didn't, so now I'm doing it."

 

A less valid example than the ones in the top paragraph would be if you handed me the plans for a BIONICLE MMORPG. We don't have a good case that Lego has the potential to do that. Again, this is partly subjective - and it doesn't have to live up to chir-brother standards of potential, just that the lack of the potential's use resonates with some people.

 

Generally, smaller remakes are better than large ones. Remaking Sayger's artwork is better than remaking the entirety of the Lego Group's corporate direction. (XD)

 

2. How well your work actually uses the potential Lego squandered.

3. Quality of the resulting work. (Epicly Awesome? YES GO FOR IT.)

 

If I get a high number of high-quality entries that are high in all of the above attributes, a poll will be held. However, you will not be able to throw a low-quality entry in here and expect to capitalize on your popularity or rank.

 

This is an open contest across all forums - I'm looking for a wide variety of entries. The more the merrier!

 

ENTRY DEADLINE: MAY 19, 2016 - GO!

 

ENTRY LIST:

 

1. Slizer Dome by Pahrak #0579 (Games and Trivia game)

 

2. Hero Factory: Contagion by Timeimageness (Epic)

 

3. Strakk's Best Friend by ZippyWharrgarbl. (One-shot comedy)

 

4. Toa 2015 - Worth the money? by Ghidora (MoCs)

 

5. RoboRiders Re:Start by Pahrak #0579 (Epic)

 

6. Spybotics Playsets by Disty Says Hi

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I have a series of Mocs that would go perfectly for this.

Welp, then put 'em in a topic and shoot me a link. What are you waiting for?

 

Well, you see

 

That means I have to work and take pictures

 

*sigh*

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I have a series of Mocs that would go perfectly for this.

Welp, then put 'em in a topic and shoot me a link. What are you waiting for?

 

Well, you see

 

That means I have to work and take pictures

 

*sigh*

 

It is not that much work. Just throw a sheet over the side of your bed so it drapes on the floor, stand all of the MoCs on it, and SNAP. 

 

If you're feeling feisty, you can wave them one by one in front of a camera while it is in video mode and engage in smug gloating about how Lego sets will never be this good.

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If you're feeling feisty, you can wave them one by one in front of a camera while it is in video mode and engage in smug gloating about how Lego sets will never be this good.

 

You know

 

Now I'm interested

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Question: If one was to enter an RPG into the contest, how influential would the changes have to be to the plot itself?

I've been working on one for quite a while already over in the BRPG Forum that takes place in an entirely new setting, yet the background information concerning the universe in which events happen places the story in a heavily modified version of G1 Canon (with the potential for a few other surprises along the way), and I'm wondering whether or not this would be acceptable for the contest, or if I should just come up with another entry entirely.

Working on it has been rather touch and go lately, however, so I think I'd be fine with either decision.

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Question: If one was to enter an RPG into the contest, how influential would the changes have to be to the plot itself?

I've been working on one for quite a while already over in the BRPG Forum that takes place in an entirely new setting, yet the background information concerning the universe in which events happen places the story in a heavily modified version of G1 Canon (with the potential for a few other surprises along the way), and I'm wondering whether or not this would be acceptable for the contest, or if I should just come up with another entry entirely.

Working on it has been rather touch and go lately, however, so I think I'd be fine with either decision.

Just as a side note: I'd go against using an RPG, considering the Mods usually take more than a week to approve it and the contest ends on the 19th.

 

Also, my entry is in. Yayz.

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Question: If one was to enter an RPG into the contest, how influential would the changes have to be to the plot itself?

I've been working on one for quite a while already over in the BRPG Forum that takes place in an entirely new setting, yet the background information concerning the universe in which events happen places the story in a heavily modified version of G1 Canon (with the potential for a few other surprises along the way), and I'm wondering whether or not this would be acceptable for the contest, or if I should just come up with another entry entirely.

Working on it has been rather touch and go lately, however, so I think I'd be fine with either decision.

Just as a side note: I'd go against using an RPG, considering the Mods usually take more than a week to approve it and the contest ends on the 19th.

 

Also, my entry is in. Yayz.

 

May 19th, not March 19th. He has slightly more than two months. 

 

@Timeimageness: You'd probably be better off coming up with a better entry. You'd have to make the case somehow that your heavily modified version of the G1 canon is better than the actual G1 canon itself - a tall order. You can enter it into the contest, but without a good case, you will probably lose. 

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Well, "better" would be in the eye of the beholder, but as much as I love G1, it was far from flawless. Most of what I was planning on fixing up were things such as gender imbalances, a better intro for the former inhabitants of Spherus Magna, making the Rahaga cooler, and possibly subverting some of the other tropes people have come to expect from the series as well.

I did kind of want to challenge myself with it a little, though, but hey, no big deal. I'll just go off and do something easier for the contest, such as the complete systematic reconstruction of Hero Factory, for example. It shouldn't be too hard to find a way to encourage creativity in children without resorting to the usage of pointless cliffhangers...

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Well, "better" would be in the eye of the beholder, but as much as I love G1, it was far from flawless. Most of what I was planning on fixing up were things such as gender imbalances, a better intro for the former inhabitants of Spherus Magna, making the Rahaga cooler, and possibly subverting some of the other tropes people have come to expect from the series as well.

I did kind of want to challenge myself with it a little, though, but hey, no big deal. I'll just go off and do something easier for the contest, such as the complete systematic reconstruction of Hero Factory, for example. It shouldn't be too hard to find a way to encourage creativity in children without resorting to the usage of pointless cliffhangers...

It sounds like a good entry either way. 

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Is this contest just for fixing bad story choices or does something like the canceling of the LEGO Lord of the Rings count?  Such missed opportunities for amazing sets.  It still baffles me how you can make the Lord of the Rings without making the Lord of the rings aka Sauron.

It counts - any poor decisions or missed opportunities. 

 

(If you want to make MoCs or concept art of the sets that could have been, that would be an acceptable entry,  or you might have a different angle on it. :shrugs:)

 

I have a series of Mocs that would go perfectly for this.

Welp, then put 'em in a topic and shoot me a link. What are you waiting for?

 

Well I was thinking MOCs because I already have a good start on them.

http://www.us.lego.com/en-us/gallery/eb963081-87f1-4b55-9d37-846e7325061a?index=2

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Is this contest just for fixing bad story choices or does something like the canceling of the LEGO Lord of the Rings count?  Such missed opportunities for amazing sets.  It still baffles me how you can make the Lord of the Rings without making the Lord of the rings aka Sauron.

It counts - any poor decisions or missed opportunities. 

 

(If you want to make MoCs or concept art of the sets that could have been, that would be an acceptable entry,  or you might have a different angle on it. :shrugs:)

 

Well I was thinking MOCs because I already have a good start on them.

http://www.us.lego.c...325061a?index=2

 

All you need is a topic and a link to this blog entry. It's possible that you could just put that link in a topic, but it would be better if that gallery allowed you to link/host pictures of individual MoCs, as that would make for a better topic. :)

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Another question: If one were to write up an Epic as their entry instead of a Short Story, how would that be judged exactly?

Would all of the chapters have to be posted and completed for it to be eligible, provided it could be done within the deadline given (extended or otherwise), or would the completion of only a chapter or two still count for the contest?

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Another question: If one were to write up an Epic as their entry instead of a Short Story, how would that be judged exactly?

Would all of the chapters have to be posted and completed for it to be eligible, provided it could be done within the deadline given (extended or otherwise), or would the completion of only a chapter or two still count for the contest?

I will judge it based on what you have completed, whether 2 chapters or 10. 

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Cool.

Decided to go with the HF Reboot idea due to time constraints. I'm almost finished writing up the prologue, and I'll have a link up shortly after I post.

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Hey, just noticed this is a thing I could enter. For some reason I thought this was a Ninjago contest or something, and I'm way behind on my Ninjago. But I digress.

 

So, it says don't enter if it's expensive to ship to wherever we are. Is Australia too far off? Oh, and if it is, can we still enter for funsies? I might slap something together for the fun of it and, I don't know, request a crudely drawn image of the set of my choosing if I were to place in the competition.

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Hey, just noticed this is a thing I could enter. For some reason I thought this was a Ninjago contest or something, and I'm way behind on my Ninjago. But I digress.

 

So, it says don't enter if it's expensive to ship to wherever we are. Is Australia too far off? Oh, and if it is, can we still enter for funsies? I might slap something together for the fun of it and, I don't know, request a crudely drawn image of the set of my choosing if I were to place in the competition.

I will only vote for it if it includes Malum's luscious eyebrows.

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Hey, just noticed this is a thing I could enter. For some reason I thought this was a Ninjago contest or something, and I'm way behind on my Ninjago. But I digress.

 

So, it says don't enter if it's expensive to ship to wherever we are. Is Australia too far off? Oh, and if it is, can we still enter for funsies? I might slap something together for the fun of it and, I don't know, request a crudely drawn image of the set of my choosing if I were to place in the competition.

I will only vote for it if it includes Malum's luscious eyebrows.

 

 

Bara Magna is one of my favourite examples of wasted potential so it might

 

I plan on doing a short story, actually, possibly on Hero Factory. So maybe not.

 

EDIT: Oh and because I forgot to mention: I'm also perfectly fine with not being able to enter. Odds are I'll be too busy to do anything anyway. Also, Australia's expensive to ship to and from. It's awful.

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