Save the Alien Hunters! Space themed contest

[InnerRayg]

Do we have to ask parents permission first?

We don't really require parental permission to enter contests perse, but if you win you are going to have to give me your address so I can actually mail your prizes, and you may need to ask their permission for that. It's kind of your mile may vary, and if you think your parents might have an issue with it I'd go ahead and ask just to make sure.

[No longer active]

 

Do we have to ask parents permission first?

We don't really require parental permission to enter contests perse, but if you win you are going to have to give me your address so I can actually mail your prizes, and you may need to ask their permission for that. It's kind of your mile may vary, and if you think your parents might have an issue with it I'd go ahead and ask just to make sure.

 

 

Also can people from other countries enter? because I live in Uk.

[Chro]

I don't think there were any restrictions placed on where you live, no...

[cerebralTurbulence]

 

Okay, Entry #1 is Ready!

Burt Ballad's Muscle Cruiser

Entry Pic: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6003635

Gallery Link: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=537619

 

Also, hurrah for the deadline extension! Now I have time to wrangle a couple more entries!

You might want to deeplink your entry pic. We can't see it right now. :/

 

Here's the picture itself, instead of merely the Brickshelf link. This should work better.

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/cerebralTurbulence/AlienHuntersEntry1/frontthreequarters.png

EDIT: New Entry Pic here: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/cerebralTurbulence/AlienHuntersEntry1/newentry.png

Edited December 26, 2013 by cerebralTurbulence

[InnerRayg]

 

 

Do we have to ask parents permission first?

We don't really require parental permission to enter contests perse, but if you win you are going to have to give me your address so I can actually mail your prizes, and you may need to ask their permission for that. It's kind of your mile may vary, and if you think your parents might have an issue with it I'd go ahead and ask just to make sure.

 

Also can people from other countries enter? because I live in Uk.

 

Yeah there's no restrictions as far as that goes. As long as you're going to be able to receive a package from the US and I can't guarantee you won't run into problems with customs, I know that happens sometimes.

[No longer active]

OK here's my entry, I think I call it the Star Striker.

 

http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/UniteComicSociety/Felinuva/MOCs/Ship/ship1.png

 

You can see the rest of it in the link below.

 

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=537690

 

NOTE: The folder may not be public yet so you'll have to wait for it to be public.

Edited December 23, 2013 by Felinuva Toa of Felines

[believe victims]

Entry Name: Gary Glee^TM's Larva Hunter
Entry Pic URL: Here
Topic URL: Here

[BULiK]

Hey, I was wondering if there was any possibility of another extension to the contest. I have the majority of my entry done, but am currently hindered by the celebrations of christmas and the subsequent family gatherings, that I can't finish or take pictures of what I have currently by the time the entry period ends. An extension of around a week and a half would be greatly appreciated, but by no means delay the contest for a lazy member like me if you don't want to.

[InnerRayg]

Hey, I was wondering if there was any possibility of another extension to the contest. I have the majority of my entry done, but am currently hindered by the celebrations of christmas and the subsequent family gatherings, that I can't finish or take pictures of what I have currently by the time the entry period ends. An extension of around a week and a half would be greatly appreciated, but by no means delay the contest for a lazy member like me if you don't want to.

I'm sorry, there won't be any more extensions. I'd still love to see the model when you do get a chance to take photos of course, but this contest by design is to be finished by the new year.

[cerebralTurbulence]

 

Okay, Entry #1 is Ready!

Burt Ballad's Muscle Cruiser

Entry Pic: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6006115

Gallery Link: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=537619

 

Also, hurrah for the deadline extension! Now I have time to wrangle a couple more entries!

 

EDIT: I've changed the pics a bit, now that I've figured out how to take a screenshot without those awful backgrounds.

Entry No. 2 completed!

Abe Aria's Pursuit Raptor

Entry Pic: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/cerebralTurbulence/BZPEntry2/entrypic.png

Full Gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=537850

 

I should hopefully have my final entry up before Saturday night.

Edited December 26, 2013 by cerebralTurbulence

[cerebralTurbulence]

 

Okay, Entry #1 is Ready!

Burt Ballad's Muscle Cruiser

Entry Pic: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=6006115

Gallery Link: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=537619

 

Also, hurrah for the deadline extension! Now I have time to wrangle a couple more entries!

 

EDIT: I've changed the pics a bit, now that I've figured out how to take a screenshot without those awful backgrounds.

Entry No. 2 completed!

Abe Aria's Pursuit Raptor

Entry Pic: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/cerebralTurbulence/BZPEntry2/entrypic.png

Full Gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=537850

 

I should hopefully have my final entry up before Saturday night.

 

And my final entry!

Don Dirge's Scout ATV

Entry Pic: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/cerebralTurbulence/BZPEntry3/entrypic.png

Full Gallery: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=537921

 

Here's hoping!

Edited December 27, 2013 by cerebralTurbulence

[The 10th Rider]

Entry Name: The Albino Turtle

Entry Pic: http://imageshack.com/a/img43/6874/ni10.jpg

Alternate Pic: http://imageshack.com/a/img853/7338/hyao.jpg

[BrickPharaoh]

Edit: I've modified my entry to include only ONE pic of each entry, as long as the entry topic for both.

 

Entry 1: Ballad's Muscle Machine

 

Main: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Darksiders/LegoDigitalDesigner/SPACECONTEST/balladsbuster.png

 

Entry 2: Glee's Warpsaw Flyer

 

Main: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/Darksiders/LegoDigitalDesigner/SPACECONTEST/gleeglider.png

 

 

Entry Topic: for both entries

 

Best of luck to all!

Edited December 28, 2013 by Mohamed Marei

[Kanakalackin]

3rd Entry!

 

Turret Defense

 

Entry Pic

[Tornado]

Here's my entry!

 

The Alien Hunter's Space Carrier

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/94989161@N03/11169982226/in/set-72157638276995466

[InnerRayg]

Wow that's quite a deluge of entries! No doubt thanks to us entering the final hours of the contest - tonight at midnight EST the entries will be shut down, so if you've got something last minute you want to enter now's the time! Thanks guys, it's been great seeing all these great MoCs and I really can't wait to start working them into these future projects I've got cooking.

[Xaeraz]

Entry Name: BURT BALLAD^TM'S ASTEROID ARMOR
Entry Pic URL: http://i.imgur.com/QHBkMQc.png
Gallery URL: http://imgur.com/a/MHZsL

Oh no! The ALIEN MENACE has dispatched its DECORATOR DRONES to bring TREASONOUS ALIEN PROPAGANDA AND FESTIVITIES to the Alien Hunter base! BURT BALLAD^TM! Use your ASTEROID ARMOR with rocket chainsaws, fire slicer, and gattling cannon to SMASH THOSE DRONES APART! If they breach your suit, use the GLOVENS to roast them alive!

 

Entry Name: GARY GLEE^TM'S BOOSTER ROCKET

Entry Pic URL: http://i.imgur.com/IxDC2Grh.png
Gallery URL: http://imgur.com/a/LrZEU

Calling GARY GLEE^TM! We've received intel that an ALIEN MENACE PROPAGANDA AND MESSAGE COURIER has set up an ALIEN CONTAINER LAUNCHER and is intending to spread ALIEN CHEMICALS AND PACKAGES all over the system! Use your BOOSTER ROCKET's Psy-Lock harpoons to shut down the LAUNCHER, then take the fight to the evil COURIER with your CHEM PISTOL and PSIONIC BLASTS!

 

Entry Name: KUIPER BELT GLIDERS

Entry Pic URL: http://i.imgur.com/QB2vZ7m.png
Gallery URL: http://imgur.com/a/Iw7K1

ABE ARIA^TM and ZIA ZEAL^TM take the fight to the ALIEN MENACE using the state of the art KUIPER BELT GLIDERS! Dodge the flying asteroids and ALIEN CONTAINER to reach the menacing, fearsome ALIEN DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS! Then, use your PHOTONIC MISSLE ARRAYS to blast him, or take him on on foot with ABE ARIA^TM's PHASER LASER and ZIA ZEAL^TM's twin MASTER BLASTERS!

 

(Personal notes: I wanted to go for the idea of making each entry look like an actual Lego set, hence the inclusion of ALIEN ME-or, uh, Alien Menace elements in every one, and the huge amount of "flick-fire missles." LDD, however, lacks the actual flick fire part, which is why you'll notice that Gary Glee's rocket is lacking the telltale shafts. Extra pictures can be provided on request.)

[Zatth]

Entry Name: Alien Hunters Leviathan Dropship X-52
Entry Pic URL: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kanohizatth/alienhunters/ah1.jpg
Topic URL (if applicable): http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11623

 

Entry Name: Abe Aria's Wasp and Don Dirge's Hovercraft

Entry Pic URL: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kanohizatth/alienhunters/ah5.jpg
Topic URL (if applicable): http://www.bzpower.com/board/index.php?showtopic=11624

[ChocolateFrogs]

I'm entering!

 

Entry Name: Zia's Bi'Gun Rover
Entry Pic URL: HERE

-CF

[kongutahu]

Entry Name: Abe Aria's Power Mech

Entry Pic URL: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kongutahu/STaHsubmission/mech1.png

A powerful mech with an energy sword and blaster. Also includes a loading vehicle with extra energy canisters and a rising platform to get Abe into the mech.

 

Entry Name: Armed Energy Transport

Entry Pic URL: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kongutahu/STaHsubmission/truck1.png

A small but tough transport vehicle with a rotating turret on top and storage space for several energy canisters.

 

Entry Name: Alien Hunter Dropship

Entry Pic URL: http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/kongutahu/STaHsubmission/ship1.png

A large ship that can split apart into different sections. A bunker for hiding in during alien attacks, two extremely fast mini shuttles, and a robot soldier dropship. also contains a small buggy that can be stored inside.

 

Gallery (more pictures of all three entries): http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=537957

[believe victims]

Entry Name: E-7UDE^TM's Battle Body with Bot Boosters
Entry Pic URL: Here
Topic URL: Here

[InnerRayg]

Holy wow, guys, I think I need to ask you all to stop making such AWESOME MoCs! You're making this contest suuuuper hard to judge and I can't afford to buy twenty prizes for everyone ;_;

 

(just joking, keep up the good work to all! Just a few hours left now.)

[InnerRayg]

Alright, we had some technical difficulties with the forum for a minute there, but now that we're back the entry period is officially closed! Now the judging begins...give us a week, and hopefully that should be enough time to make this really difficult decision.

[Waaja]

buy twenty prizes for everyone

 

I won't mind that 8D

[CaT in Rogue]

Oh, come on! I couldn't enter my MOCs because the forums were down over the time I had internet access! Fantastic.

[Click]

Same here. I had just enough time to see that it was online before the entry period ended.

[InnerRayg]

There were other members with similar issues - they politely sent me a PM explaining the problem and I entered them because I'm a pretty understanding guy. Maybe you guys might try something like that, or just politely post your entries here instead of posting things that are unnecessarily angry? I've basically said yes to every request anyone has posted here about the contest, if you had issues with the forums I'd probably be cool with giving you a break.

 

But I mean it's two days later now and I'm not really willing to postpone the judging by that much so make it by today or early tomorrow after that I'm cutting this off regardless.

[BrickPharaoh]

There were other members with similar issues - they politely sent me a PM explaining the problem and I entered them because I'm a pretty understanding guy. Maybe you guys might try something like that, or just politely post your entries here instead of posting things that are unnecessarily angry? I've basically said yes to every request anyone has posted here about the contest, if you had issues with the forums I'd probably be cool with giving you a break.

 

But I mean it's two days later now and I'm not really willing to postpone the judging by that much so make it by today or early tomorrow after that I'm cutting this off regardless.

 

Gosh, you are so cool for doing this! Not that many people do that in order to appease contestants. I salute you.

[No longer active]

I'm not really willing to postpone the judging by that much so make it by today or early tomorrow after that I'm cutting this off regardless.

 

Is the contest cancelled?

[Chro]

By "cutting this off" he means ending the entry period, not canceling the contest.

[InnerRayg]

 

There were other members with similar issues - they politely sent me a PM explaining the problem and I entered them because I'm a pretty understanding guy. Maybe you guys might try something like that, or just politely post your entries here instead of posting things that are unnecessarily angry? I've basically said yes to every request anyone has posted here about the contest, if you had issues with the forums I'd probably be cool with giving you a break.

 

But I mean it's two days later now and I'm not really willing to postpone the judging by that much so make it by today or early tomorrow after that I'm cutting this off regardless.

Gosh, you are so cool for doing this! Not that many people do that in order to appease contestants. I salute you.

 

I don't think it ended up mattering, nobody's sent in anything since I posted that. Our judges are all working on their decisions, and I've basically made mine so now all that's really left is getting together and fighting...I mean politely hashing out who wins the prizes.

[Voxumo]

Question will a article be posted on the front page that links to the topic when the winners are announced or will it just be posted in this topic?

 

Reason i ask is i don't pay very close attention to new topics so sometimes i lose sight of important topics.

[InnerRayg]

I will have them put up a news article. It shouldn't be too much longer now.

[Voxumo]

I will have them put up a news article. It shouldn't be too much longer now.

Ah good to hear.. also Rayg must say despite not liking system building i had fun building for this contest.

[InnerRayg]

I'm glad you enjoyed it.

 

Anyway, it's been a truly grueling experience but the winners have been decided on. The sad fact is that all three of us had a REALLY hard time coming to a single decision - everyone had their favorites and frankly I wish I had another three or four prizes to give away because there was at least that many who could have just easily been on this list. Still, we had to come to a consensus, so here our results. Each one ended up being a particular favorite for each judge, so I asked everyone to give a short write up about why they ended up picking it.

 

In First place: Paleo's Chivalry is not dead. This MoC really proved that size isn't everything. Its sleek form and bright colors really attract the eye, and the inclusion of those flick fire missiles really sold it as a Lego set. This one was advocated for very strongly by Deevee, who had this to say about it: "It's pretty, it's clean, it's pretty, I want to see Ray draw it."

 

In Second place: .:Yio:.'s Mini Tank. Another set that really sold us on its great silhouette. The instant readability and playful action one can envision with this build really impressed me personally. I was a strong advocate for this little guy and the cute little blasters and rollability (is that a word?) of the tires are what did it for me.

 

In Third place: The 10th Rider's The Albino Turtle. Lest you start thinking this contest was all about the small MoCs, the Albino Turtle really stood out for its unapologetic yet sleek bulkiness as well as very creative use of parts. Tufi was a particularly strong advocate for this one, and had this to say about it: "That one's probably my favourite".

 

Haha okay I forgot to ask her for a specific quote but you get the idea!

 

Like I said, this was a really hard contest with a lot of great entries. It ended up being a question of what we could most agree on rather than what each of our personal top 3 were, and a few of all our choices got knocked out of the running in the name of consensus. Consequently There were a lot of models I'd still like to use in the project even though they didn't win, and if that's the case with one of yours I'll be sending a message to ask you for your permission on that. As for the winners, I will be sending out PMs relatively soon about addresses for your prizes and that sort of thing but if you want to get the ball rolling by sending me your address now, feel free haha.

 

Thanks to everyone for their participation, I hope it was fun and maybe we can do this again next year!

Edited January 7, 2014 by InnerRayg

[.:Yio:.]

Oh my g-o-s-h! I can't believe I came 2nd.

 

I can understand why it was so difficult to decide, there were alot of other really good MOC entries as well. Great work to everyone that entered. Really!

And congrats to the other winners too, both are excellent designs

 

Regardless if I can enter or not, I hope you do another system-based contest, they're lots of fun!

 

Happy building

[Voxumo]

*looks at the list of winners and smiles*

Well..

*offers a round of applauds*

Congrats on winning you three.. after seeing the reasons for winning i can't help but agree with the judge's decisions. Truly magnificent mocs in their own unique ways. So once again Congrats.

 

*proceeds to take apart his moc and stares at it*

To make you back into the Droid Tri-fighter or not.. Hmm.

[The 10th Rider]

Whoa! I almost didn't enter, but when I saw it was space themed (my favourite theme to build) and needed something to do over break I caved in...Glad I did! Congrats to the other winners and thanks a bunch to InnerRayg and the other judges! Honestly I don't build much anymore, but something like this with a set theme and time frame is great for getting me to sit down and whip something up. Thanks again, this really just made my day!

[cerebralTurbulence]

Well done, everybody! I knew I shouldn't have rendered mine...

[InnerRayg]

A point of clarification: It might take me a little time to figure out what other MoCs I'll be needing exactly in the upcoming story this is for (the nature of the contest was to leave the specifics open so whatever won I could use, right?), so when I said I'll be PMing some others to ask for their permission to use their models, I meant in a sort of hazy, "at some point in the future anywhere from a few days to a month or so from now". Sorry for the lack of clarity.