VBBN Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 Back in October, Eurobricks teamed up with BZPower, Bionifigs, RusBionicle, Pockyland, as well as Lego themselves and their very own ReBrick to create the largest Bionicle competition that has ever been launched. Here on Eurobricks, the final count revealed 294 total entries from MOCists around the globe, and the contest in total brought in 1864 unique entries. Today we are proud to announce the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. Our 1st place winner will go head-to-head with the respective winners from the other 5 sites, to determine who will win the most coveted prize of all: A 14 karat gold Skull Spider mask. The winner of the golden mask is... Akutahn by Roa McToa, BZPower Head over to ReBrick for the full announcement! Eurobricks-1st Place: Terror Bite by IGU The jury said, “This is an awesome cartoonish version of a villain.” They loved thecreativity of the dinosaur head with the result of the build and thought it was just generally a very creative use of pieces – old Bionicle, newer Chima, Hero Factory as well as the dinosaur. “It’s just a big crazy mix of a monster.” Eurobricks-2nd Place: Mechan'Rex, Steel Guardian by TheOneVeyronian Eurobricks-3rd Place: Claughn by SEMI Here is the full list of winners from all six sites! Rebrick: Hysleria by BionicleBud Kraata Beast & Makuta Tehkaa by BrickKing03 (with the win going to the Kraata Beast portion of the build) Acazel by _Yuki BZPower: Akutahn by Roa McToa Helsephyr by Vampire Bohrok Pending confirmation from builder. Eurobricks: Terror Bite by IGU Mechan’Rex, Steel Guardian by The One Veyronian Claughn by SEMI Rusbionicle: Makuta Nakken by Launcher Cepheus by The Chosen One Roodaka, Queen of the Spiders by Red Pockyland Dark Fang :arlord by 席德 Shura Killer by Aha Lord of Elemental Fire by Jack Hunter Bionifigs: Diatan by Peter Bionicle Chernobog the Archfiend by Djokson Serinak by Jeordeon Be sure to congratulate the winners, and lend your thoughts on who you think will win the battle for the Gold Mask! Quote
TheOneVeyronian Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 (edited) Wow, those were some great entries, and I'm quite surprised I won 2nd place here! Congratulations to the other winners, it was one tough competition, and some of the winners on the other sites were simply jaw-dropping p.s. I don't mean to be picky, but is it possible that you could change out the photo of my creation used in the post out for another one of the model from my Flickr, maybe this one instead? The other two winners get nice front-on views and mine gets an ugly side-on view especially when the side-on view shown wasn't the showcased picture in my entry post for that model... just saying. Thanks! Edited December 19, 2014 by TheOneVeyronian Quote
Mutant Orc Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 Congratulations! That clown is imprinted on my mind now!! It's terrifying! I can see why these came top- they all have really cleverly used parts and look great. Well done Quote
arc Posted December 19, 2014 Posted December 19, 2014 I had a feeling that terror bite might be in the final run, congrats to all the winners! Quote
Dorek Posted December 20, 2014 Posted December 20, 2014 Congrats to all the winners! Best of luck to you all, some killer (no pun intended...) entries here. Quote
LegoPanda Posted December 20, 2014 Posted December 20, 2014 I knew i forgot something this month, it was entering in the contest Good luck to the finalists. Quote
Kalhiki Posted December 20, 2014 Posted December 20, 2014 Congrats, you guys! Truly worthy semi-finalists. Quote
mysteriouspi Posted December 21, 2014 Posted December 21, 2014 Really impressive builds, you guys! Well deserved wins! Good luck to IGU in the finals. Quote
Leewan Posted December 22, 2014 Posted December 22, 2014 Congrats to the winners, Terror Bite was one of my favorite MOCs, so it's nice to see it among the finalists. Good luck to IGU ! Quote
Rando07 Posted December 22, 2014 Posted December 22, 2014 Congratulations to the winners! A really great batch of entries there. :D Quote
Toa Taruho Posted December 25, 2014 Posted December 25, 2014 This competition sure was fun, Lego definitely has to do this again! Congrats to all the winners :D Quote
LegendaryArticuno Posted January 4, 2015 Posted January 4, 2015 Man these mocs are all incredible... I gotta build up my collection. Quote
VBBN Posted January 14, 2015 Author Posted January 14, 2015 The winner of the golden mask is... Akutahn by Roa McToa, BZPower Head over to ReBrick for the full announcement! Quote
GK733 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 I like their decision and on the other hand don't. Not because of gender, but because of her place in the community. I know this guy has taken tons of work, but less is more. It really bugs me that the creation includes special pieces certainly not available for everyone (silver Pohatu boomerangs at least) and overall such a mass not even many of top MOCers woul do that because of the amount of pieces used. While it's impressive, and beats the others easily. Certainly would if it wasn't for the fact that one submission managed it better and in smaller size: http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/944380BFTGM01Peterbionicle.jpg While it is still black and red (edgy) it was much better looking overall and certainly unique compared to this giant, still very impressive makuta. If she puts out a video out of the MOC I might just change my mind, I'm pretty sure Akutahn has some impressive functions. Quote
Pate-keetongu Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 The winning MOC is technically very well build, but in other hand it's a bit dull that so... stereotypical villain won the contest. I mean, our first place winner TerrorBite was both awesome build AND original character. But well, I naturally respect judges' opinions, and I am very glad how this contest vastly increased the amount action figure MOC on this forum and the on the community overall. Quote
arc Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 Although I prefer terror bite, this is definitely very impressive, Worthy of a gold mask I think. Quote
Nekchir Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) Like many others have said, it's always the most complex and large MOCs that win these sorts of competitions. I just wish everybody, no matter how bad you suck at building things; it just has to look good, had an equal chance. The winning MOC just looks like a revamp of Teridax. Though, it is still cool-looking. Edited January 14, 2015 by MonkeyChud Quote
Dorek Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 Like many other have said, it's always the most complex and large MOCs that win these sorts of competitions. I just wish everybody, no matter how bad you suck at building things; it just has to look good, had an equal chance. The winning MOC just looks like a revamp of Teridax. Though, it is still cool-looking. More or less what I mentioned that I hoped wouldn't happen. It's hard to find the balance, I guess; the people most interested in the contest would be the people from the old generation, not necessarily newbies, and at some point you have to draw the line between enthusiasm and skill. That said, I do wish something like Terror Bite, with a bit more personality, had won. Not that it's a bad MoC by any standards; Roa has always been an incredible MoCist, and is hardly undeserving of the win. I hope she enjoys the new mask, whatever she plans on doing with it. Quote
The Kumquat Alchemist Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) More or less what I mentioned that I hoped wouldn't happen. It's hard to find the balance, I guess; the people most interested in the contest would be the people from the old generation, not necessarily newbies, and at some point you have to draw the line between enthusiasm and skill. That said, I do wish something like Terror Bite, with a bit more personality, had won. This is an important point to consider when hosting contests such as these; what do you prioritize when judging between concept and execution? Extremely interesting concepts might be badly executed or not fully realized for lack of parts, and on the flipside, such as in the case of the winner, a generic (in comparison with some more far-out entries) concept can be executed beautifully. Edited January 14, 2015 by The Kumquat Alchemist Quote
Timeline15 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) I personal think the win is thoroughly deserved. The contest was to create a villain for Bionicle. not a random titan, not a clown, something that could be in the Bionicle universe, This entry was a Makuta, to do with Okoto no less, and was well executed (and this is coming from someone who hates the overly jumbled huge mocs) even I will admit this moc was well done. Some of the other mocs in this contest, while incredibly impressive in terms of engineering, looked aesthetically terrible IMO. too many, pieces (particularly ccbs ones) jumbled together, look terrible, and the winner (mostly at least) avoided that. Hopefully any future contests will have either a size or piece count restriction, to avoid the contest suddenly escalating into huge mocs no toa sized creation could hope to compete with. Edited January 14, 2015 by Timeline15 Quote
Phantoka_Chirox Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 I still find it incredibly unfair that the new (and at that time unavailable publicly) 2015 pieces were allowed in the contest. Quote
Timeline15 Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 I honesty doubt that was a factor. the new pieces aren't inherently better or easier to moc with than the old pieces, so I don't see how they can give an advantage. Quote
TheOneVeyronian Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 Well, congratulations to the overall winner, but like many people it seems, they've gone for the "biggest is best" frame of mind which kinda overshadows all those clever and excellent smaller builds. I like a big build and I do get impressed by them, and it's a very well done big build, but I do feel that choosing big builds counts those with a much smaller budget out. I do have enough to build big, but it'd be an absolute mess of colours, so that's why I didn't build big. My other criticism would be the lack of LDD builds represented in the 36 or so people that won. Out of all my entries, Mechan'Rex was kind of the last one I expected to get picked especially when many of my other entries, many of them LDD builds, were far more popular, more aesthetically pleasing and interesting (yes, I'm very much a self-critical type). But I'm not complaining anyhow! But anyway, I'm glad for the winner, and being female myself, I suppose it's nice to see a female builder win overall. Though I will admit that the statement "girls can build Bionicle too" kinda threw me a bit, girls have always been able to build Bionicle of course Quote
Risgrynsgrot Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 I agree what you other guys are saying. The winner is just a huge mess of different kinds of pieces, vaguely resembling a generic Demonic shape. I'm not saying that it's easy to make something like that, but I personally think that smaller models really show the creative sides of people. Like the clown that ended up third here on Eurobricks, that's loads of NPU. And I also agree that it's very unfair to use unreleased pieces, that's an unfair advantage. Why just not go all the way and let contestants modify pieces however they like? Quote
The Kumquat Alchemist Posted January 14, 2015 Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) Hopefully any future contests will have either a size or piece count restriction, to avoid the contest suddenly escalating into huge mocs no toa sized creation could hope to compete with. How fair this type of rule is would depend on who the contest is aimed at. If aimed mostly at AFOLs I'd think it overly restrictive, but if the contest was made to appeal to a more general audience interested BIONICLE or CCBS, I'd think it might be appropriate, alongside a prototype parts restriction. If implemented well, this type of restriction would really open up these kinds of contests to those with less developed LEGO collections. Working within the restrictions of a certain height or length limit would encourage implementing creative concepts with minimalist building techniques, instead of creating extravagantly-executed builds that look generic. Though not appropriate for all, or even most, contests, such rules might be worth considering in certain situations. Edited January 14, 2015 by The Kumquat Alchemist Quote
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