LEGO Announces a New Lord of the Rings Contest With Some Expensive Prizes

From June 23 until August 6, LEGO Ideas is holding a physique contention with immoderate hard to find and costly prizes. The contest's taxable is "A Night to Remember successful the Shire", with LEGO calling for fans' champion day enactment ideas acceptable wrong the iconic peaceful hamlet. Creativity and cleverness is the sanction of the game, truthful if you're funny successful entering the contest, you person rather a portion to travel up with an thought and get to building.

Winners volition beryllium announced September 22, which besides happens to beryllium Bilbo Baggins' birthday. Be definite to cheque retired the contention leafage for afloat details.

LEGO Ideas Contest Prizes

Other than bragging rights, the main gully to effort to triumph the contention is the prize structure. You tin triumph immoderate of the coolest, astir intricate, and of people astir costly LEGO Lord of the Rings sets by making it acold capable successful the contest. Here's however prizes volition work, taken from the contention page:

If you are the Grand Prize Winner of this challenge, you’ll person the following:

• 10316 The Lord of the Rings: Rivendell, signed by a designer
• 10354 The Lord of the Rings: The Shire, signed by a designer
• 10367 The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook, signed by a decorator

If you are 1 of 2 Runners-Up of this challenge, you volition person the following:

• 10354 The Lord of the Rings: The Shire
• 10367 The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook

If you are 1 of the different 2 finalists, you volition person the following:

• 10367 The Lord of the Rings: Balrog Book Nook

If you're funny however these sets look passim the physique process, we've built some Rivendell and the Shire, with the Balrog Book Nook coming soon.

Contest Details

The contention is breached up into aggregate phases to guarantee each introduction is fixed adjacent and just attention. Here's however they interruption down:

The Building Phase

This runs from present until August 6 astatine 6AM EST, with the anticipation of submitting edits until extremity of time August 7.

The Expert Phase

Once each submissions are in, LEGO experts volition reappraisal and take 5 builds. These 5 volition past determination onto the Fan Vote, which takes spot August 25.

Voting Phase

LEGO Ideas members volition person conscionable 1 ballot to formed betwixt August 25 and September 8, and this volition find the wide contention winner.

Winners Announcement

The results volition past beryllium posted onto LEGO Ideas connected September 25. Winners volition beryllium contacted via email for their LEGO ID, past the prizes listed retired supra volition beryllium sent out.

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