Official Fairy Bricks Building Contest - Christmas Windows RESULTS ANNOUNCED

DeMontes

Ha ha @bendybadger ...that's a good way of putting it "...thinking outside the (broken) window"...

will get a video of Huw's adorable train...unless someone else manages to post one first :-)

leemcg

The voting for favourites has been a great way to get visitors involved. I am just on my first break of the day, and haven't stopped at all. Think we've had another 2-3,000 votes today.  Clear favourites, but the last addition (not yet on that Flickr album) has been scoring quickly...

leemcg

Whew! That was a long weekend - am now home after an excellent few days talking to the public about the Selfridges Model and the excellent window displays. In case people are interested in the results...


We had over 4500 individual votes over the three days, and the winners were as follows 

First place @DeMontes 1995 votes, prize: new bricks from Town Hall set



Second place @huw 1350 votes, prize donated by Fairy Bricks, bricks from large Agents set




Third place @caperberry 348 votes, prize detonated by Fairy Bricks, bricks from two Friends Juice bar sets. 



Fourth place, 220 votes Rod G (Unknown brickset username). Prize donated by Warren Elsmore, a storage box full of mixed bricks. 



Thanks for all who took part and voted, it was certainly great to have so many visitors looking carefully and choosing their favourites. 

My personal favourite, was by @cheshirecat which didn't seem to get many votes, but I liked it anyway:

 

There are photos of all the entries here, including a video of @Huw's moving train

https://flic.kr/s/aHskqUpcM7



Lee

Huw

Thanks Lee for organising it! It was great fun coming up with the micro-train mechanism and I'm glad that it survived the weekend with only a sprinking of ABS dust around the mechanism.

It was also good fun coming over to see the scores on the doors and cajoling visitors to vote for me :)

DeMontes

Yes, I agree it was a fun concept and all your hard work with the Selfridge's build paid off - it looked great.  I didn't become too competative until I realised that people were voting for my Santa's reindeers bursting through the window...then I also had a few short 'influence campaigns' ha ha....

Huw's build really was very clever, the train was so cute and smooth and Tim's 'Soho window' was very this season!

Hope you had a good night's sleep Lee after all that work this weekend!! Thanks for my prize...when I receive it ;-)

brickedin

Managed to see it in the flesh with my little girl. Fantastic build and fantastic concept @leemcg. My 6 year old was very taken with the @huw train.

CCC

Why was third prize blown up by Fairy Bricks?

There were some nice ideas there. I love Huw's train

 / endbrownnosing

DeMontes

just 'got' that @CCC ha ha!

Legoboy

Lee, this is the pic you were after.  A great turn out of entries, and of course Selfridges itself was grear too.



...and a video!

https://youtu.be/meR2EpyjbFw 

CCC

That's amazing.

I love the warning on the left.

bandit778

CCC said:

I love the warning on the left.

Harsh but probably fair though.

SirKevbags

I don't like declaring a favourite model at an event but I have to in this case. First up the actual model itself is stunning and if it was just "there" it would be incredible. Secondly to involve fourteen other builders with some cracking prizes pulls communities together. Finally the effort @leemcg put into interacting with the public was beyond belief.

10/10 @leemcg Let's get Christmas out of the way and we can think about the Manchester build you're going to be doing for July ;-)

DeMontes

ummmm @leemcg...any chance you can send my prize to me now the festivities are over?

legomental

I've only just seen these and they are amazing. Well done everyone. 

Please can we have details of the July  event?

leemcg

@demontes Have sent you an email

DeMontes

Yay. My prize arrived - thanks Lee. 

I also asked about Lee's July project ;-)   It's still TBC ha ha....

leemcg

I had hoped to do something a bit more permanent with the Selfridges model but unfortunately it's been in my basement for the last 10 months in boxes...

A few things:

Some people were kind enough to leave their vignettes with me in case we could drum up some Fairy Bricks related interest. That hasn't been possible, but it's been much appreciate for you to trust your Lego with me. If I have have your model and you'd like me to send it back then please send me a direct message with your address and I'll get it back to you.

The model has been brought out of storage again to display at the Wanstead Art Trail under the London AFOLs banner. I've had to reduce the size of the model a bit as the biggest shop window to display is only 3.6m long. More Vignettes are being produced under the theme of the Art Trail: Change/Societal Change/Ch...ch...ch...changes. Turn around and face the strange. If you are in London and can be part of @richselby's London AFOLs, then more are welcome. 

Finally, a good photographer friend has popped round this morning to take some professional photos. They are on my Flickr stream if you never got to see the original model.

https://flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/sets/72157673503625805

Lee

CCC

Nice. I spy some newer minifigures in there too.