Brickset Bi-monthly Builiding Challenge March-April 2019: Building Bridges

J0rgen

Greetings all, and welcome to my first go at hosting a building challenge:

For the next two months I want you to mind the gap, and bridge the divide by building some sort of bridge. I realised there are a lot of bridges I'd like to build myself, like the bridge Gandalf crosses on his way to Bag End, or the curved railroad bridge featured in the Harry Potter films, so now I'm using this opportunity to get some inspiration for future endeavours. While bridges are less abstract than art or monsters, you can build any sort of bridge you want, from a cute little bridge in a park, to a spindly walkway, a suspension bridge, a big Brooklyn style bridge, a wild fantasy bridge or any other sort of bridge you feel like. And if you want to interpret the word differently and build a command bridge or a bust of The Dude, I suppose that's fine too. It can be any scale you like.

The rules are pretty much as usual:

Your entry has to be a new MOC  created specifically for this challenge.

No more than two images per post in this thread - but feel free to link to others hosted elsewhere.

Enter as many times as you like so long as each entry is in its own post.

Closing Date is 30 April 2019. Winner to be announced in the first few days of May.

Prize will be determined by the winner's owned and wanted lists on the main site so make sure you keep those updated.

Go get creative!

Bumblepants

Oh I love bridges. I actually have a massive bridge planned but won't be able to work on it until the Fall. I will have to do something else for this in the interim.

TheOriginalSimonB

Splendid subject matter.  I have ideas to think on now.

snowhitie

Good idea!

msanders

Here's my entry for the Bridge challenge. I've taken inspiration from the Three Billy Goats Gruff, with the story centred around a bridge! I built the bridge that the goats have to cross to get to the delicious flowers on the other side! However, a troll lives under this bridge and wants to eat the goats that are trip-trapping across his bridge! You all probably know the story but the troll ends up in the water after the biggest goat fights him! 

The goats were difficult to build at this scale but the troll was even harder! Not sure yet of the outcome but I've had so much fun building this little scene. The bridge design is based off of the new 1x2 plates with rounded edges. Sorry for the photo lighting - I don't really have a good setup. 

Please check out more images and higher resolution photos on my flickr 

https://www.flickr.com/x/t/0095009/gp/[email protected]/Z8ecUn

snowhitie

@msanders it's a great vignette and the quality of the picture is really nothing to worry about! Lovely story as well, remember reading it a LOT with my son.

Bumblepants

Crossing the poisonous stream.

J0rgen

Very nice too, @Bumblepants :) Do you have a close up of the bridge?

Bumblepants

J0rgen said:

Very nice too, @Bumblepants :) Do you have a close up of the bridge?

Kids have already destroyed it. The layer behind the med. Azure is just dark blue 1*8 arches. 

Shib

Completely daft build...but figured that the LEGO Movie 2 had a bridge between different worlds... 

TheOriginalSimonB

Hoping to find time for something a bit better over Easter, but as I was dismantling the Temple here's the bridge of resurrection complete with opening function .

snowhitie

My son has built for your competition a Jurassic Park walkway bridge to stay safe from the Velociraptors but where you can view then in safety. The bridge is very sturdy I got to say and very colourful too. Hope you like it.

FowlerBricks

Well, at long last my entry is finished. I forgot that this was a bi-monthly challenge and busted my butt rendering images at the end of March late at night...then realized I had plenty of time. *facepalm* Anyway, this is the bridge of Quan-Xin. It serves as a way to traverse the Voral'nama gorge and allow soldiers to access both halves of the border post. This fortress stands at the border of the Fariq-Xin empire and the desolate wilderness of San-dred. (Disclaimer: all of these places and names were totally made up and if they happen to align with other places or names, fictitious or not, that is purely coincidence). 

(Question: am I allowed to enter this MOC in another contest? One outside of Brickset?)

J0rgen

Yes, you absolutely may, @FowlerBricks Nice to see more great entries popping up! I'm really enjoying hosting this :)

J0rgen

Any more entries before we cross the bridge into May? Still two days to go :)

truck730

A bridge to join my only 2road plates, 

snowhitie

Last minute entry, bit of fun. My son and I made this one together. We only used pieces that came in the Unikitty Dr Fox's lab set (#41454), 2 of them.

It's supposed to be a bridge at a fair or fun park, you go up the stairs when the light is green, then solve a riddle and punch in the answers on the pad on the right. The doors open and you have to get through a bunch of moving 'claws'. Next you have to jump from one trampline bit to the next (the purple circles). Afterwards, there's some white rollers to run over, before sliding down to the end. Thanks for the challenge, we had fun coming up with new things.

BillyBricks84

I'm glad the two-month timeline worked out for getting a bunch of great entries. I'm generally not able to enter these during the school year, but I like seeing the creations from those who enter. Had I found some extra time, I was going to zig where others zagged and create some Jeff "Bridges" Brickheadz, like his character in Tron or from True Grit (pretty sure I've seen The Dude done before). I'm excited to see next month's theme! (And sorry to anyone who clicked on this thread thinking there would be another entry.)

truck730

Could have prompted a monthly build theme ,I don't like brickheads but could be tempted from the cave for a challenge like that

FowlerBricks

When will the winner be chosen?

J0rgen

Thursday! May has been crazy with work so far.

ecmo47

Here's a bridge I built a while back. Perhaps it will give you some ideas.

https://live.staticflickr.com/4740/39152164345_0ba82819ea_b_d.jpg

J0rgen

Hi all! Sorry for the lateness of the announcement of the winner of this Bi-Monthly Contest, but May has been very busy for me, and I wanted to write a little about all the lovely entries, not just name the winner.

All the entries have been imaginative and fun, regardless of their complexity, and I thank everyone who participated. The Asiatic style bridges wowed me with their architecture, particularly @FowlerBricks' support pillars, while I see a future as amusement park designers for @snowhitieand her son, and @Shib building a bridge of unity with the bricks from Queen Whatevra promoted the theme of The LEGO Movie 2 very nicely. The contest must have a winner, though, and that is the very first entry; @msanders' The Three Billy Goats Gruff (Bukkene Bruse in Norwegian). It's a cute, immediately recognisable little scene, featuring fun representations of the characters, as well as a very nice design for a simple, paved bridge. I will start collecting those curved 2x1 plates in order to build a bridge like that of my own :) Thank you all again for participating, it's been really fun to host and see all the designs you come up with, and I will definitely do this again some time in the future!

msanders

Yeah! Great news! Thanks @J0rgen for hosting and it was such a great theme. I am always blown away by the entries in these (bi)monthly challenges. Such great creativity.

It's always nice to hear that I have inspired you to get some of the curved 2x1 plates for your own work - I think they are great pieces with so much versatility (I may have bought a fair few on BnP!). 

Looking forward to the next challenge. 

snowhitie

Congrats @msanders totally agree with the verdict, it's such a cute little model, well done!

If anyone fancy launching another building comp, feel free!

TheOriginalSimonB

Nice on @msanders well deserved.

Baby_Yoda

Next time the bridges should be required to span 2 metres without supports between the ends.