Monthly building contest - September '18 - Back to School

Mr_Cross

The month of September marks the end of the summer holidays for millions of children, and also my little girl is starting school this year. So, in honour of that, this month's theme is 'Back to School'.

THE HOMEWORK:
Partially inspired by the relatively recent (re)release of Harry Potter sets, I'm looking for builds that include classrooms, textbooks, teachers and all that's educational and instructional (fictional or otherwise).
You can also take this theme in a broader sense, make fun of The Three 'Rs' of the illiterate, go "Old Skool" if you must or simply use one of the Wizarding World minifigures in some kind of build... be creative, learn something?

SCHOOL RULES:
In the spirit of being 'old school', however, no digital jiggery-pokery. Real LEGO bricks only, photographed with a minimum of enhancing please. You may make your own stickers. Maximum two photos please, and try to keep file sizes down too. You can enter as many times as you like, but for ease, please make a post for each. You can adapt a previous build if you want but please do something to make it new for this contest.

END OF TERM REPORT:
The prize will probably be a random Harry Potter CMF, plucked unceremoniously from a box at a local shop and in no way poked or prodded in the usual intrusive fashion in order to determine its contents. I may also find another prize for the entry with the most "likes" if my favourite is a different one, that is assuming there are more than two entries of course.

Judging will take place as close to Oct 1st as I can and I will post the results soon after. It's September already for some members so that's good enough for me to start this. @stlux is running the July/August contest which can be found here, there's some great entries already and if you're quick you might sneak in there. You could also sign up to host one of these contests yourself here.

Good luck class!

FowlerBricks

Hmm...no digital builds...I may have to go microscale...

Mr_Cross

@FowlerBricks, microscale would be just fine :-)

Cyberdragon

Well I'm out then, even if I tore down all my HP sets and everything else, I don't have the old style dragon figure (which may not be the scale I need anyway).

Eh, I'll wait till another contest then...

TheOriginalSimonB

Nothing like having new pens ready for the start of term.  Now, 499 more words needed on what I did on my holidays...

FowlerBricks

My inspiration has gone totally out the window...time is running short. C'mon guys, we need more than one entry! (and I need some more ideas XD)

Mr_Cross

It's not an exam. Please don't over think it, simple is also good. You could build an apple as a gift for the teacher. Do minifigure juveniles hang around the bike sheds? Why has a T-rex in an F15 just blown up the elementary school*?



*Calvin and Hobbes.

gmonkey76

^Love Calvin and Hobbes

snowhitie

Here's 2 entries for you veiwing pleasure.

My son wanted to take part again and he's mad this 'plaque' for his school. His school is colloqualy known as the 'school on stilts' since part of the school is literally on stilts on top of the playground.

snowhitie

I have made a potions classroom. I started a couple of days ago to make a very basic classroom (here). My first plan was to make it a sort of vignette in a sort of a a dungeon.

Then I remembered I'd already made a rock formation in the beginning of the month to put the Hogwarts castle on (here). I decided to make the rocks much deeper and to put the classroom inside. After a couple of days hard work I'm ready to present to you my entry for this month.

It's housed inside of the rocks:

Even though I didn't start on the rocks with the idea to incorporate in the monthly building contest, I did make it this month. Only Hagrid's boat isn't my own creation :) The castle fits on top too (see here).

More detailed pictures (of the store of potions at the back for example, can be seen in my Flickr pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/[email protected]/shares/91s729

Mr_Cross

Last couple of days folks.

FowlerBricks

I've got a tiny entry coming!! Hopefully I'll have time to take some pics and enter.

Coops

I told my kids about this and my son built his creation which he wanted me to share with you (I'm terrible at building thing without instructions). When I mentioned it was a school theme his first thought was detention! Here is his class of students in detention, with Abraham Lincoln being the teacher lol.

FowlerBricks

So inspiration finally came. What better to build for a contest themed Back To School than a mini Hogwarts Express? Unfortunately, I didn't have enough pieces to build any carriages to go with the engine, but here is the engine:

This was built using a total of 15 pieces. I purposefully didn't look at any other mini trains Lego has made during the build process. The only thing used as reference was #4841, so hopefully I've got some original building techniques in here. :D

Here's another shot for scale: https://i.postimg.cc/9X4sQ3RV/Hogwarts_3.jpg

Cyberdragon

I'll throw in a last minute mini one. Might do a few more, IDK.

Shop class, metalworking. (real grime)

Bumblepants

Last minute potion lab accident I made with one of my girls:

snowhitie

^ I like the use of the green element connected to the bottle as spillage! Nice colours too.

Mr_Cross

I'll allow any entries that make it in before 9am tomorrow UK time, it's pretty much October everywhere after that. I'll try to make a decision (with the aid of my two young school experts) by tomorrow evening and I'll notify the winner shortly thereafter. Thanks to all who've entered so far.

Mr_Cross

After deliberation and some disagreement, we have reached a verdict. For a number of reasons we have awarded the schools highest honours to @TheOriginalSimonB, congratulations, please PM me your address and I'll get your prize in the post.



All the entries deserve an honourable mention, so, @snowhitie and son, @Coops and son, @FowlerBricks, @Cyberdragon and @Bumblepants and daughter thank you for taking the time to enter.

If you missed the chance to enter this contest and would like a reason to build something, @snowhitie's monthly building contest: monsters is already open for entries. Alternatively, you could consider hosting a future contest by signing up here.

TheOriginalSimonB

Ooh, ta!

TheOriginalSimonB

Well, look who’s here...