LEGO Contest Round-Up for May 2023
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[Our current monthly LEGO contest round-up can be found here.]
A new month is upon us which means more competitive building! Are you ready? Here’s the latest batch of LEGO contests and challenges from all around the AFOL community for May 2023 to help you find some inspiration and motivation to build! There’s nothing quite like a theme or a prompt to take you out of your comfort zone and give you something new to try. Besides, contests are the perfect place to interact with other contestants and judges and get to know your fellow builders. And if you’re like me, a deadline helps make sure you actually finish!
We’ve listed them in order of deadline so you can plan your building time to the best advantage. Make sure to check the LEGO activity calendar for local challenges and events near you. Here at BrickNerd, some of our fondest memories, greatest building achievements, coolest trophies, and best friendships came from LEGO contests, so we really hope you try some of these out. We look forward to seeing what you build!
For the past 5 years, the Brickfilm Day event has been a non-competitive celebration of the Brickfilming community where animators come together to each release a brickfilm or brickfilming-related video on the same day.
This particular Brickfilm Day is a special one, as this May marks the 50th anniversary of brickfilming itself!
Upload on: May 13th
Prize: All entrants will have their Brickfilms promoted by the event hosts across all their online platforms and social media pages (Instagram, Twitter and Discord)
Where to enter: YouTube (send link to video through email)
Get prepped for Series 2 of the BrickLink Designer Program, coming soon!
Submissions open: May 15
Prize: Five models (presumably) will be accepted to become the next wave of sets produced through the program.
Where to enter: BrickLink
In celebration of 100 years of Disney, we’re challenging you to build habitats featuring your favorite Disney, Marvel, Muppets, Pixar, Star Wars, or any other Disney owned IP characters and scenes! Post your 8x8 Disney habitats May 18th-20th, and then post your habitat stack on the 21st if you’ve built more than one!
Deadline: May 21st
Prize: Just the fun of building with bricks!
Where to enter: Instagram
Ideas Test Lab Pick a Brick Challenge
To celebrate the 45th anniversary of the LEGO minifigure, use between 150 - 200 elements to create customizable display stands to show off your minifigures using a select BrickLink Studio palette. Selected submissions will be available to purchase directly through the Pick and Build hub on LEGO.com!
Deadline: May 23rd
Prize: Users (however many) whose submission is selected will receive $1,500 USD (before tax)
Where to enter: Ideas
Build a mini model of an existing LEGO set of your choice. Your entry can be max 20x20x20 studs, but doesn’t have to be that big! The most important thing is being creative with the parts you have.
Deadline: May 27th
Prize: 1st: 10255 Assembly Square, 2nd: 21334 Jazz Quartet, 3rd: 75356 Star Wars SSD, Random: 40478 Mini Disney Castle
Where to enter: Tips&Bricks Instagram
This month the topic is flowers! They are found in different places or in different forms. A few small examples to help you: at a perfumer who is looking for a perfect scent, in the middle of nature in the wild, a flower on the top of a mountain or even a bouquet that you would like to offer. Flowers have many powers and benefits, it's up to you to make me discover them!
Deadline: May 30th
Prize: Just the fun of building!
Where to enter: BrickCentral Discord
Build your dream garage! Enter for a (slim) chance to win an awesome bundle with 8 LEGO vehicle sets! Each entry requires 50 points, with a maximum of 50 entries per VIP member.
Deadline: June 1st
Prize: Eight amazing race car-related LEGO sets
Where to enter: LEGO.com
Get your storm trooper hat on for this May! With four different categories and prizes for each, there’s something Star Wars themed for everyone!
Deadline: June 5th
Prize: Lots of great prizes!
Where to enter: Eurobricks
A multi-round contest with a focus on constraction creations, Bio-Cup is a great place to flex your character-building skills!
Deadline: Preliminary round ends June 6th @ 23:59 PDT
Prize: A plethora of prizes ranging from Bionicle sets, cash prizes and a trophy!
Where to enter: Flickr
We all remember our first Disney film, watching it on repeat, singing along, and discovering our favorite new character. But what does Disney mean to you?
For this challenge, show your love for classic animation films using between 50 and 800 LEGO elements (approximately) to create:
Dioramas or iconic scenes, your favorite character or item, or what Disney means to you.
Deadline: June 13th (6 am EST)
Prize: The winner will have their build turned into an official LEGO set, which means they will receive 1% of the total net sales of the product,10 complimentary copies of your LEGO Ideas set, and credit and bio in set materials as the LEGO Ideas Fan Designer!
Where to enter: LEGO Ideas
To celebrate our 10th anniversary, BrickNerd is going BIG at Brickworld Chicago! We are bringing a gigantic 10x-sized Nerdly and want you to bring any new or old custom Nerdly builds from Nerdvember to create the largest army of Nerdlies ever assembled!
Deadline: June 15th
Prize: Participants in the brigade will receive BrickNerd swag and be entered into a random draw for several small LEGO sets.
Where to enter: Brickworld Chicago
Keep an eye open for the epic annual tournament style LEGO Middle Earth contest! There will be some awesome prizes and lots of fun to be had!
Dates: June 19th-August 16th
Prize: TBA
Where to enter: Discord
Brickfilm Rapidly All Week Long or BRAWL is a contest in which you have exactly one week to write, animate, edit, and submit a brickfilm. Do you have what it takes?
Deadline: The contest will start June 24th, 2023 7:00 PM EST (Eastern Daylight Time), and will end July 1st, 2023 7:00 PM EST (Eastern Daylight Time).
Prize: There will be three winners who will have their choice (successively) of the 76218 Sanctum Sanctorum, the 10305 Lion Knight’s Castle, and a mystery prize to be revealed shortly!
Where to enter: TBA
Single’s Day is all about you! So, if you could do anything for yourself, what would that look like in LEGO? The fan vote winner of this challenge will have the exclusive opportunity to see their submission turned into an official LEGO Ideas Gift with Purchase set!
Your entry must be between 150 - 250 elements to be accepted.
Deadline: June 27th (6:00 AM EST)
Prize: The grand prize winner will recieve 21340 Tales of The Space Age, 21338 A Frame Cabin, 21337 Table Football, and 21335 Motorized Lighthouse, and will get the exclusive opportunity to have their model transformed into a new LEGO Gift with Purchase set!
Where to enter: LEGO Ideas
WBI Street Parade Contest
WBI has been asked to provide the street parade in the World Explorer Zone of LEGO House! We can’t think of a better reason for a contest!
Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to build a parade float (including characters on/around it)! The space in the World Explorer Zone is roughly 182 studs long, so to allow for spacing and placement of characters, please make your float around 40 studs long. The floats will be placed on roadplates, and should be 12-13 studs wide. More details below!
Deadline: July 15th
Prize: The four winning entries will be displayed in Billund at LEGO House for approximately one year (starting in September 2023)!
Where to enter: Instagram or Facebook
Adventurers. The theme that brought us the man, myth, minifig, Johnny Thunder and his fellow explorers and treasure seekers; friend and foe alike, has reached is 25th year! To celebrate this cornerstone theme of Action and Adventure we have three exciting categories to this contest!
Deadline: August 18th
Prize: Category A - Great Adventure: (48x48 max) - 150 Euro to spend on LEGO sets on the LEGO online shop
Category B - From the office of... (32x32 max) - 100 Euro to spend on LEGO sets on the LEGO online shop
Category C - Ride to Adventure (vehicle) - 50 Euro to spend on LEGO sets on the LEGO online shop
Where to enter: Eurobricks
Happy building! See you here next month for our next LEGO community contest list. And if you would like us to add a contest, please email dave@bricknerd.com.
What are your experiences with LEGO contests? Are there any you know of that we missed? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.
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