One More Month to MOC the Mundane

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One mundane month down, one to go for the Festival of Mundanity! We’ve already seen some wonderfully dull creations built for this boring contest we are cohosting with The LEGO Car Blog. Let’s take a quick look at some of the entries (and check out some awesome inspiration too)!

Masterful Mundanity

As a refresher for those who may not remember, in this contest we aren’t looking for stunning builds of beautiful and interesting things. What we want to see is the boring stuff that doesn’t get built out of LEGO that often. We’re looking for the most ordinary, mundane, and uninspiring things you can think of in two categories: objects and vehicles.

You’ll have to head over to The LEGO Car Blog to see all the cars that have been built so far—one of them is so uninteresting I forgot I drove it in college… But here is a gallery of some of the dull objects we’ve seen so far in this festival submitted in the Flickr group and on Instagram. Entries range from a vacuum and fingernail clipper to a shopping cart and a bar of soap.

These builds certainly are mundane but they still made us look twice and consider their NPU! We can’t wait to see what the next month has in store. The more mundane, the merrier!

Uninspirational Inspiration

We asked some of our BrickNerd contributors what kinds of things they have built before that were mundane—and wow, have they enjoyed building life-like objects! (Many, many tools for last year’s April Tools theme.) How many of these MOCs would you see in real life and not give them a second thought until you found out theywas built out of LEGO? How uninspirationally inspiring!

So get building! Full prizes and rules are included below. You have one month left and the clock is ticking!

Prizes

In contrast to such a boring contest, we have some flashy prizes for the top three LEGO creations in each category. These prizes may change (or be added to) at any time so keep an eye out for periodic updates. And we owe a big thank you to our prize sponsors for donating some really awesome stuff to the prize pool!

Object Category Prizes

1st Place

  • Golden Nerdly Trophy & BrickNerd Swag Box

  • $50 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd

  • Brickstuff brick-built TV with Remote Control and Sound (plays up to two hours of any video you load onto it)

  • iDisplayIt case/stand

  • Game of Bricks lighting kit

2nd Place

  • $25 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd

  • Brickstuff Lighting Effect Starter Kit

  • Game of Bricks lighting kit

3rd Place

Vehicle Category Prizes

1st Place

  • Golden Nerdly Trophy & BrickNerd Swag Box

  • $50 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd

  • BuWizz 3.0 or 2.0 Bluetooth brick (winner’s choice)

  • iDisplayIt case/stand

  • Game of Bricks lighting kit

2nd Place

  • $25 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd

  • Game of Bricks lighting kit

3rd Place

Festival of Mundanity Rules

  • All entries must be new creations. Entries may be updated as long as the contest is still open.

  • Entries can be posted either on Flickr or Instagram. A link to your entry should be posted in the Festival of Mundanity Flickr group using the hashtags #FestivalofMundanity, #BrickNerd and #TheLEGOCarBlog. If you do not have a Flickr account, you can use the hashtags and tag us on Instagram and we’ll post a link to your entry for you.

  • Please only add one photo/submission of each entry to this group (extras will be removed). If you don’t have either Flicker or Instagram please email your submission to dave@bricknerd.com.

  • You may enter as many times as you want with unique creations.

  • Entries must be either a vehicle or an object (settings are welcome too). If you can figure out how to combine the two and still make it uninteresting, you could win prizes in both categories.

  • Digital renders are allowed, though the creation must be structurally sound and all the pieces must be available physically. Custom or modified parts are not allowed this time around though unique prints/stickers are acceptable.

  • These rules or the prizes may be modified at any point.

  • The contest ends on Thursday, March 31st, 2022 at 11:59 pm PT (7:59 am GMT on April 1st for the Europeans). Winners will be announced a few weeks after.

  • The contest will be judged by both BrickNerd and The LEGO Car Blog contributors who will evaluate entries based on mundanity, concept, quality, presentation, composition, and how uninspiring it is.

What are the most common things you can think of building out of LEGO for The Festival of Mundanity? Leave your thoughts in the comments below.

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