Lego Cozy Spooky Fall Build Challenge 🍂🎃🍂

Embrace the transition of the seasons with us as we celebrate the return of our Lego build challenge! This round, we’re increasing the build duration, and awarding gift certificates to the top 3 builds, as voted upon by the community.

The challenge? Create a Fall-centric build using only the parts found in our Lego brick pit corner! We’re encouraging everyone to conjure their best inner seasonal vibes, whether that range from puddle-jumper to cozy-pumpkin-spice-life to cute-but-creepy to harrowing-Halloween-horror  💀

The only price to enter the challenge is the cost of the bricks used to construct your build. The builder with the highest vote ranking at the end of the competition will receive a $30 gift certificate, with two follow-up winners each receiving $10 of in-store credit.

Breakdown:

THE BUILD

Create a Fall-inspired Lego build using only the parts found within the Mana Cloud store Lego brick pit corner. The model subject and size will be open to the builder to decide, but in order to qualify for the competition, each completed build must:

To qualify to enter, each build must:

 🍂 Have an obvious element inspired by the Fall season
 🍂 Be either a single model, or confined to a single Lego plate
 🍂 Be constructed in, & using only Lego parts available from, the store
 🍂 Be on display at the store during entire competition (till Oct. 28th)
 🍂 Be as all-audience friendly as possible*

*NOTE: within the Lego brand standard. Please check with us if you have questions. Some thematic liberties will be allowed (EXP, “gory” monster details).

ENTRY DETAILS

Build your model at the store between Sept. 1st – Oct. 13th. When done for the day, your build will be weighed & charged like a normal bulk Lego purchase. Contestants will be given an info card to fill out for display with their model. Builds may be worked on over multiple days, and will only be considered complete & final on Oct 14th, when judging begins. Entries may be taken home after Oct. 28th.

All builders:

 🍂 May compete solo, or with one partner as a team
 🍂 Must pay for all pieces used in model
 🍂 Must follow all contest guidelines to be eligible to win
 🍂 May be any skill level or age to participate*

*Contestants under the age of 18 must be entered by their parent or legal guardian.

There is no fee to enter, outside the price of the materials used to enter the competition. Please read Additional Info section below for more details about how transactions for model entries will work.

DATES

September 1st – October 13th: Build a model entry anytime in-store
October 14th-28th: Community voting open to the public
October 30th: Winners announced on social media!

PRIZES

3 different contestants will be chosen as the competition winners, as decided upon by public voting at the end of the competition duration. 1 builder who receives the highest vote ranking will win a $30 gift certificate to Mana Cloud. 2 runner-up builders with the 2nd and 3rd highest vote scores will each receive $10 gift certificates. Prize gift certificates are only only redeemable in-store at Mana Cloud Geek Boutique, and may be either used as in-store credit, or as a physical certificate that may be gifted to someone else. Teams may request their prize be split & added to their account as store credit.

Winners will be decided at the end of our voting period, and contacted/announced through social media on October 30th!

VOTING

Voting will open to the public between Oct. 14-28th. During this time, we invite anyone to come & give their opinion on their personal favorite build! Please only vote once during this challenge. We will disqualify votes if we find anyone playing against the good nature of fair competition.

Voters will be asked to rank their 3 favorite builds. The 3 highest overall at the end of voting will be announced as the winners on our social medias Oct. 30th.

Additional Info:

For space limitations, builds must be small enough to fit in the competition display shelf, & cannot be bigger than what fits on a single available Lego plate. We ask builders to stick to a plate appropriate to the size of their build.

All Lego bricks used to build in this competition may only be from those found available for sale within the brick corner at Mana Cloud. The drawer pieces (Character Creation & special-parts) may also be used, but builders must keep track of how many they take. Complete minifigs cannot be parted out. If a builder wishes to purchase the minifig however, we will allow them to use parts from the fig in their build. Please ask before use about any Lego that found outside the retail bin area. They may be inventory we are still processing, or a someone’s progress build.

Builders may spend as much time as they need during open store hours between September 1st – October 13th. Once they are done building for the day, their build will be weighed and payment will be calculated for the materials used to enter this competition. If contestants wish to add more to their build at a later date, they must first allow an associate to weigh the build prior to being altered so that they will know how to correctly charge for new pieces that get added.

NOTE: in the spirit of fairness (and housekeeping), we will not hold onto a bunch of loose unattatched pieces for builds in progress. For the sake of ease, we ask that builders find a way to attach any otherwise yet unused pieces into their build before finishing building and checking out for the day.

All purchased bricks are the property of the builder. After purchase, the build will be added to the competition display shelf, where it will wait to be judged starting October 14th. We ask that all builds remain at the store for display and judging until after the winner is announced on October 30th, after which all contestants may collect their build at any time during store operating hours.

Questions? Comments? Want to stay in the loop? We invite you to join us on the Mana Cloud discord, or you may also contact us.