JJ Tong (zfogshooterz)

At first glance I was expecting the spirit to be part of the villain faction or possible somehow be related to the Skull Sorcerer (which I'm sure is a stretch) but yeah "spirit of the temple" does sounds like they're more tied to the temple than being a villain. Also yeah definitely agreed with the spirit being a neat figure, the printing design is really nice.

Yo, this wave looks really good and fresh! I can feel the variety and the minifig lineup looks absolutely stellar! The theming reminds me a good bit of Prime Empire and I like that If I have the cash and space, this might be the wave that I don't mind completing.

Wasn't really expecting the "all-new" series to be direct continuation in-spirit from the recent chapters but hey the stuffs shown in the trailer looks interesting, looks like the crazy stuffs is dialed to eleven here haha. The vibe with the sets looks promising with how Lloyd's mech looks (I really like how that looks ) Also despite being probably unlikely here's hoping that Lego would actually simulcast the episodes from their channel rather than having broadcasting them on some obscure tv channel. It's partially why I ended up not really enjoying my time watching Crystallized (aside from how disappointing the second part turned out).

Congratulations to the winners, well deserved! And thanks for hosting the contest too, Clone OPatra! While I didn't win, I'm certainly happy that I was able to cook something up and participate in this contest! And I definitely appreciate everyone that has voted for my entry, thank you all for it Also for the fun of it, I did another tally up myself and made a chart for the votes of the Theme Lineup to see how the voting went. I was going to add the individual voters to the list but the result seemed really reader-unfriendly so I scrapped that. But yeah, it seemed to be quite a fierce fight between Detection, Monster Racers, Cryptid Hunters, Medieval Village Life and Mission: Lazarus. Anyway, enjoy the chart!

Thank you, glad to hear that! I have loved the medieval themes ever since I've entered Lego seriously in 2010, from watching the 2007 Castle stuffs in Adventures of Clutch Powers, exploring the Heroica website and playing the online game in 2011 to exploring the 90s castle themes a few years back. And I have also watch and rewatched Lego commercials (far more times than I should admit haha ). So a lot of these factors was mixed in to the soup that was the eventual direction for this theme to match what Lego could produce as best as I can make. BTW, I do also want to thank you for the direction that I went with Akrarab the Orc. I initially had no idea on what kind of character/minifigure should I do for the good guy in the small set. Your theme Edie and Wicker Witches Cat 2 entry (Specifically, Edie in her True Witch outfit and Clarissa the bloodwitch) was the inspiration that Akarab should be a mage. And I ended up really happy with the results. So yeah again, thank you!

15 - 1 point 17 - 1 point 9 - 1 point (I think this is the toughest vote yet for me too, if there were to be 3 more additional votes, I'll add 4, 8 and 18)

6 - 1 point 7 - 1 point 12 - 1 point

I think you nailed that pretty nicely in the horror aspect, while the Space Bugs does seem to have world-ending capabilities, they are definitely to be toned down for obvious reasons. The vibe the Finality gives are pretty dark with a slight garnish of imminent despair with the way you put them. That also does reminds me of a story on r/nosleep (a subreddit for horror stories.) I remember a story where a giant space plant would invade various solar systems, growing its way into the system's sun for light. No civilization was able to stop it despite having advanced technologies in an extremely higher scope than what planet Earth had.

I don't think I have seen Lego doing Gnomes (to my awareness) so this pretty cool! I really like the look of the Time Machine

Both sets looks dope! I like the look of the Legionnaire Transport. While I don't play the game title, for some reason this theme is giving me a bit of Halo vibes. The Final Ends sounds like they'll definitely top the Space Bugs from Galaxy Squad in terms of active threats!

I dig the Cat Warriors! They seem like a faction that you don't want to mess with

Oh man, the builds looks so nice here, love the Gates of Asthar! Combining Babylon designs with space explorations is a really unique idea! Furthermore, this also does feel more of a different but modern take on the Life on Mars concept. I didn't initially notice that the Naggyy has a giant eye for a face. When the final bigger image revealed that, it gave me a tiny shock :P But I do like that concept for an alien

Oh yeah! I'm def looking forward to the voting phase too, that's the second half of the fun haha! Quite a good number of really cool entries and concepts here

Based on a couple past contests I've entered, one did specifically mentioned that you're not allowed to vote for you entry. So hopefully that rule would be implemented for this one or at least specifically mentioned. But yeah, I definitely agree that the idea of being able to vote for yourself would generally be already weird.

Oh this is very nice, I really like how whimsical this is. And yeah, like Agent Kallus, the Pumpkin and Mummy karts are my top faves too But overall, I just love everything about this!