Plague busting building competition 1: Over-engineered

TheOriginalSimonB

Ok folks, let's get this road on the show.  Whether you are self-isolating, working from home, trying to keep the kids occupied or whatever else try to find time for a bit of building. 

New MOCs only, but this round there is no limit to size, pieces or anything else other than your imagination and stash of bricks.  I want to see ridiculously Over-engineered things here. Cars with a zillion wheels, Friends using steam powered make up applicators, City fire leviathans and so forth. 

I will let this run until the end of April before round 2 launches. To make things a bit different from before, I want you to vote for the winner as well as creating. At the end of April please dm me with your top 3 from the entries and I will score them up to see who gets the prize. Yes, there will be one if the postal service is still working by then.  I have a selection of polybags sitting in a bucket of bleach, so they should be safe to send out.

To inspire you: Santa has created himself a mech to deliver presents this year. Sadly he spent so much on this that everyone is just getting brick separators.



Looking forward to seeing what everyone else comes up with. Happy Building! 

KungFuKenny

I just noticed the bag of brick separators on his back!  I’ll be interested to see what folks come up with...

snowhitie

Great, thanks for launching this.

FowlerBricks

I have a few ideas...

KungFuKenny

I’m in the sketch model phase...

SumoLego

I'd be happy to offer a prize, if there's enough interest!

SirBrickalotOfLego

My entry depicts a (British) scientist making a nice cuppa.

TheOriginalSimonB

That's exactly the sort of build I was hoping for!

560Heliport

I've got an idea that perhaps doesn't quite fit your challenge. It's more a mashup of two themes, but I think the end result sort of fits. 

truck730

• Built from my " retrieved from the bin" stash , for delivery in artic remote areas and has an isolation area at the rear

KungFuKenny

I had wanted to make a mech for a Fabuland character, and @TheOriginalSimonB and his Santa Mech provided some inspiration.  The story is as follows...

Maximilian Mouse has a dark secret... he struggles with addiction to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  Tired of dodging cats and scurrying along baseboards to look for leftover crumbs of PB&J, he decided to take matters into his own hands.  After a long design process, he emerged from his workshop in this...

His fully enclosed and armored PB&J mech provides anti-feline protection, a pneumatic peanut butter and jelly distribution gun (with quick change canisters for different flavors), and a chainsaw blade for making neatly sliced sandwiches...

Thanks - looking forward to seeing what others come up with!

pxchris

Fabuland mechs should definitely be an entire thing.

Love it @KungFuKenny!

TheOriginalSimonB

Just bumping this back to the front page...

TheOriginalSimonB

Hoping everyone is having as good an Easter weekend as possible under lockdown and maybe finding some time to build...

catwrangler

I didn't know building contests were back!! I drifted out of doing these when I was ill, but I definitely need to get back into MOCing, so it's a match made in heaven! 

Funny thing about that mouse - when we did some little tableux with the Fabulanders vs. the minifigures, the mouse was absolutely the ringleader of the carnage...

TheOriginalSimonB

10 days to go folks.  Would be great to have some more entries to choose from...

Modeltrainman

@TheOriginalSimonB
Would a vehicle with 4 wheels, but some supersized features qualify?

snowhitie

It's definitly on my to do list! Hope to have something finished for you by the end of the month.

TheOriginalSimonB

Modeltrainman said:

@TheOriginalSimonB
Would a vehicle with 4 wheels, but some supersized features qualify?

Absolutely.  So long as something is over the top/beyond the realms of necessary for the task...

panchox1

Modeltrainman said:

@TheOriginalSimonB
Would a vehicle with 4 wheels, but some supersized features qualify?

don't be stealing my idea now.....

;-)

veyniac

TheOriginalSimonB said:

10 days to go folks.  Would be great to have some more entries to choose from...

I would enter, but there isn't a third place for me to win :)

Modeltrainman

 Will try to still build something.

Modeltrainman

It won't win, but I wanted to support @TheOriginalSimonB. Rex's feet are awkward, but someday he needs a proper mech. If I had more time, but... "YAY! I CAN HELP PEOPLE! Sadly, I don't think it's very well armored, Hamm." "Yeah, well, it's hard to get parts when you can only find 4 LEGO sets in Andy's bin here!" (I was actually trying to only use the sets I got for my birthday.) 

snowhitie

So, between my health and home schooling we didn't have much time for building regretably. I love the idea of relaunching the contest and thought there would be more people needing something to do, but I guess actually a lot of people are just overly busy with work/kids/etc.

My son and I did have an idea and were building something, it was never going to win any prizes but just to do the challenge :) However, it got freaking dropped on the floor... It was a massive staircase that just went from one room to the room next door, instead of using the door you used this staircase that went up and down. I guess it wasn't that stable since not many bits were left after it fell...

Don't think we'll manage to get it rebuild in time for the deadline. But thank you Simon for launching the contest and there are some lovely entries!

Modeltrainman

@snowhitie, that sounds wonderful!

catwrangler

I had also hoped to build something, but there's been a lot of health stuff resulting in a lot of lying down unfortunately!

panchox1

Here is my Super Pursuit Vehicle! Complete with over engineered light bar and holding cell! On the scene and in action breaking up an attempted bank robbery!

panchox1

A few more angles:

snowhitie

@panchox1 he's definilty got enough lights ;)

@Modeltrainman well, I thought it would look cool, but to be honest it wasn't my best, basically a big great brown stuff on top of a one floor building going every which way... Maybe if I'd actually incorporate in bigger building, it might be better. Vanishing stairs in Hogwarts maybe ;)

Modeltrainman

@TheOriginalSimonB , did you ever decide who won? Will there be a round 2?

TheOriginalSimonB

Nobody has cast a vote yet...

GrannyLEGO

KungFuKenny said:

Maximilian Mouse has a dark secret... he struggles with addiction to peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.  Tired of dodging cats and scurrying along baseboards to look for leftover crumbs of PB&J, he decided to take matters into his own hands.  After a long design process, he emerged from his workshop in this...

His fully enclosed and armored PB&J mech provides anti-feline protection, a pneumatic peanut butter and jelly distribution gun (with quick change canisters for different flavors), and a chainsaw blade for making neatly sliced sandwiches...

@KungFuKenny 's Fabuland mech gets my vote ... overengineered PB&J!

560Heliport

I vote KungFuKenny's Fabuland mech also!

Modeltrainman

Oh, we have to vote? I vote Pumbaa for President. Oh. Not that kind...I vote @panchox1 's overengineered police car thing.(Partial to vehicles.)

BillyBricks84

My vote goes for the Fabuland mech, too. A lot of the builds had many details in them, but the overengineering works really well here and shows a great amount of thought went into all aspects of the build. 

snowhitie

I like the mech, but I'm also really impressed with the overengineerd way the British scientist makes his tea. Lots of nice details in the model. So my vote goes to @SirBrickalotOfLego

pxchris

@KungFuKenny Fabuland mech gets the vote here!

panchox1

Can I vote for myself? If not, then I have to vote for KFK's Mech, that chainsaw is just too cool.

Switchfoot55

My vote is for the Fabuland Mech as well. Very well done by everyone who entered!

TheOriginalSimonB

Looks like @KungFuKenny is our winner then.  Drop me a PM with your address and I'll sort out a prize.

As for another compo, I will sort one out in the next few days unless someone else wants to host (and then I can enter!).

KungFuKenny

What a great honor!  I enjoyed seeing the other builds, and a new competition is in the works— stay tuned for more details!