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The Sanitarium Contest 2: Mobile Combat!

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Entry period has ended, voting will begin soon!

 

Welcome to the second Sanitarium Contest. The theme this time is pretty straight forward, Build a ground based combat vehicle, with personnel. Your entry must meet the following requirements to be accepted.

 

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1. The vehicle must be ground based, as in wheels or treads. The entry MUST have wheels or treads and they MUST be used as a means of transportation on the entry. Transformers and/or humanoid vehicles are also fine, the vehicle may also have the ability to float/fly, but remember that it must be ground based initally.

 

2. The vehicle must be able to carry at least 2 or more personnel inside of it. This means the interior, the personnel must be able to fit at least halfway into the vehicle. The personnel can be minifigures, technic minifigures, toa/matoran, custom personnel, robots/droids or whatever, just as long as 2 of them fit inside the vehicle, and they are distinct.

 

3. The vehicle must have some sort of gun/cannon/laser on it, it does not have to fire like a blunt shooter but it must clearly be a long range weapon of some sort. Catapults, slingshots, anything is game here as long as it is long range.

 

Lego prizes will be awarded for first and second place, first place will win a Chrome Hau and second place will win either Tarduk, Raanu or a Coast Guard Kayak city set, selected at random!

 

Rules are as follows:

 

1. Your entry will be put under the microscope very closely, so please provide several angles/pictures of it before entering, any non lego parts found on the entry will result in a DQ. There is no lego medium that will not be accepted here, it can be 100 percent system, 100 percent technic and so on.

 

2. Outside of the theme, this is a freebuild, so you may build anything you like! However you may NOT edit the creation once it has been officially entered and you may not steal another persons work.

 

3. There will be no 3 part entries. Your creation must contain at least 30 parts at the minimum.

 

4. No whining, no complaining, no cheating, period. This means begging for votes when the polling has begun also.

 

5. The NEW deadline for this contest has been set for September 25th. There will be NO further extentions.

 

6. You may only enter ONE vehicle. This is not up for debate, detachable accessories and the like are fine, but ALL these must be able to attach to the main creation in some manner.

 

7. You may NOT enter previously posted/public creations.

 

8. Have fun and please PM me for any further questions or information, or post. Everyone will be given a second chance, so if your entry does not fit the contest requirements, you may modify it and then re-enter it at least once. No pressure!

 

9. Please post your entry in the following format:

 

Entry Name:

Entry Picture:

Gallery link:

Topic link: (if needed)

 

If you have any further questions, you can PM me or my contest assistant Distorted.

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Uzumakikunai

Cool. My BBC entry should be alright for this (well, i didn't enter or publish it, but it was built for the contest).

 

I just need to make it a lot bigger....

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Xaeraz
Can the personnel be those little micro minifigs made of the 1X1 cone and the round stud?
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Zyrox

Could our vehicle have legs? Yanno, instead of treads or wheels. Also, I know we can only have one vehicle, but could we say have a vignette built around it?

 

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Onyx.5

I have to admit, I'm tempted to enter... Knowing me I'll probably be too lazy to build anything in time, but I'll keep it in mind...

 

Question- Only wheels and treads? What about legs? I mean, I know you probably want to avoid this turning into a humanoid mecha contest, but legged vehicles are so cool...

And if by themselves legs aren't okay, would wheel/tread covered legs like the ones on Skopio be okay?

Or could a vehicle have legs as long as it has treads/wheels elsewhere as well?

 

 

Edit: Whoop, Zyrox beat me.

...Gosh, did I really take more than 14 minutes to make this post? Geez.

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CzaR
Would catapults and such qualify as long range weapons?

 

Yes.

 

Can the personnel be those little micro minifigs made of the 1X1 cone and the round stud?

 

Yes, your personnel can be pretty much anything, as long as they are distinct.

 

How small can a droid pilot be?

 

As small as you can make them with lego.

 

Could our vehicle have legs? Yanno, instead of treads or wheels. Also, I know we can only have one vehicle, but could we say have a vignette built around it?

 

The vehicle may have legs yes, transformers and the like are welcome, just remember that you need 2 personnel. As for a vignette, no that will not be allowed, the entry must be one vehicle/accessories ONLY.

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CzaR

Correct, as long as it is distinct. By that I mean that you must clearly be able to tell that it is a pilot/personnel on/in the vehicle. If it looks like part of the vehicle, then that must be fixed.

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xccj

Wow, I actually have a vehicle that perfectly fits the requirements... it was designed to be a two person tank. Maybe I'll find time to take picts and enter it...

 

:music:

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Distorted
Could our vehicle have legs? Yanno, instead of treads or wheels.

The vehicle may have legs yes.

Bah-humbug. Wheels and tracks > legs. :P

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Veq

SO entering. :)

 

I arelady have a plan, but my plans usually don't work out.

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Xaeraz
LEt's say I wanted to add a motorcycle or small vehicle like that. Mould it need a firm connection, or could the larger vehicle just "hold" it?
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CzaR

It must attach to the main creation in some manner and it must function as one with the main creation. That is the only requirement.

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Xaeraz
Alright, my last question. I've got one guy whose sitting in what amounts to the crane controls off the Crystal Sweeper. Is he enclosed enough?
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Primus
Just to make sure, they don't have to be enclosed in the machine, but should fit in it, right?

Also, let's say (hypothetically) that I was able to pull off some sort of combining vehicle thingy that splits into two smaller vehicle thingies. I would still be able to enter that, right? The whole splitting apart would be a secondary function of the main contraption, and as long as the main thing fits the guidelines, it'd be fine, right?

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Lluvio
Wheels and treads only? Or would a "walker" of sorts be allowed, like the ones in Star Wars?
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Distorted

I was working on something, but since I've already got a Chrome Hau (albeit a very scratched one <:s) and I'm not really interested in owning any of the small sets, I'll set it aside for now.

 

I'd be happy to help out creating the polls and making thumbnails, though.

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CzaR
Does it have to have an engine? Or can I make it into a chariot?

 

An engine is not required, a chariot is fine as long as it meets the requirements.

 

I've got one guy whose sitting in what amounts to the crane controls off the Crystal Sweeper. Is he enclosed enough?

 

That is fine yes.

 

Just to make sure, they don't have to be enclosed in the machine, but should fit in it, right?

 

Correct.

 

I would still be able to enter that, right? The whole splitting apart would be a secondary function of the main contraption, and as long as the main thing fits the guidelines, it'd be fine, right?

 

That is fine yes.

 

Wheels and treads only? Or would a "walker" of sorts be allowed, like the ones in Star Wars?

 

A walker will be allright, but it must have wheels/treads on the feet, like Skopio.

 

I just have one question: does a missile launcher count as a long-range weapon?

 

It sure does!

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