25 October 2024

Contest: Mind that Banana

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Entry form and T&Cs

In celebration of the awesome elements in the Peely Bone set, we are running a building contest with 7 great LEGO® Fortnite prizes!

Mind That Banana! Build with bananas - but don't build a banana. A New Elementary building contest with Lego Fortnite prizes

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How to enter 

  • Build an original creation using at least one LEGO banana element in your build. 
  • This can be any of the three LEGO System elements representing bananas (see below).
  • You must not use any of your banana elements to represent a banana! All bananas must be used to represent something else.

"Mind That You Don't Use a Banana as a Banana" was a bit of a mouthful for a contest name, so we're just calling it Mind that Banana.

Judges will be looking for imagination, creativity and cleverness in your use of bananas as non-bananas, and the quality of your building and presentation will also play a smaller part in the judging. Size doesn't matter, it's what you do with your bananas that counts!

Here are the three permitted banana pieces:

3 different kinds of lego banana pieces

Reminder: You don't have to use every kind of banana element in your creation, one of the three is enough.

You may be less familiar with the Banana Bunch, since it only appears in three sets. Here's a closer look at it:

Lego Banana Bunch (part 3566) seen from various angles including underneath, where there are antistuds

When you have completed your model/s, the entry form and full terms and conditions are here.

Here are some of the more important points to be aware of before you start.
  • You must be over 18
  • This contest is open to all countries except for the Russian Federation, Iran and Sudan. This is due to postage restrictions to these countries by Australia Post and is beyond our control.
  • You can build with real LEGO bricks or digital LEGO bricks.
  • Your creation must be new – not something you have already published online.
  • You may enter as many times as you wish (but please don't spam the judges with loads of similar entries!)
  • Entries close Sunday 1 December 2024 at 11.59pm UTC. Check your local time equivalent here.

Prizes

There are 7 prizes in total: 5 equal first place winners, 1 second place winner and 1 third place winner.


  • There will be five first prizes of LEGO Fortnite set 77072 Peely Bone
  • There will be one second prize: LEGO Fortnite sets 77071 Supply Llama & 77070 Durrr Burger
  • There will be one third prize: LEGO Fortnite set 77071 Supply Llama

If you want to get excited about the prizes, check out Zach's article listing every new part in the October 2024 LEGO Fortnite sets.

We know you'll go bananas over this contest, so make like a banana...and build something apeeling for our Mind that Banana contest. Which of our readers will be top banana and who will slip up? We'll pick the best of the bunch.

Judges

UPDATE! We can now announce the three people who will be judging the winners in December:
  • Mathias Julin, product designer – lead designer of the LEGO Fortnite Peely Bone set!
  • Markus Rollbühler, senior product designer – working on LEGO Lunar New Year Festival sets left him with banana trauma, but he's happy to overcome that!
  • Thomas Jenkins, one of New Elementary's highly apeeling contributors!


different lego banana pieces, including some in a variety of colours


The contest is run by New Elementary with support from the LEGO Group. New Elementary is not associated with the LEGO Group. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site.

All text and images are ©New Elementary except element renders which are ©The LEGO Group.

23 comments:

  1. The legend has it that should you connect those three together, the result will be one ugly genetically mutated banana, which legally ceases to be a banana in most jurisdictions and therefore qualifies as an entry here.

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    1. This is the kind of thinking that judges enjoy :D

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  2. Thanks for doing that fun contest :) ! Does the only colour accepted for Banana 33085 is yellow, for the build ? I guess yes, but i ask for being sure

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    1. Thanks for querying. To define this better – We will accept all "available" colours: meaning for physical builds, any colour you can get your hand on; and for digital builds we will accept any colour at all, because all LEGO colours are available digitally. This may seem like an advantage to digital builders, but the judges will naturally give some balance by their appreciation that physical builds inherently have a higher difficulty level with colours.

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  3. Thanks for hosting this fun contest. I just entered my build and it is my first entry ever in a building contest.

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  4. Hi there, I have some questions about the contest.
    Firstly when I submit an entry do I still the creative rights to the entry or does the entry now belong to New Elementary?
    Secondly (when building digitally) aside from the banana can I use other parts, and in colours that don't exist (yet?).
    Lastly are very slight collisions of parts allowed? (i.e. about a millimetre)

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    1. 1. You have the rights, we only request the rights to publish on our site and our social channels.
      2. Yes.
      3. Only connections that work in real life please.

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  5. Hi, thanks for the interesting contest! Feels like an iron builder round!

    I noticed a comment about how you will judge based on physical/digital colour availability. How will this affect digital builders that only use colours that are physically attainable?

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    1. The judges would take that into account and not penalise.

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  6. I can't wait for receiving my BL order, in order to finish my build ! About the pictures, i already saw that we have to import the picture's file ( = no need to use a internet host-site, that's easier) ; but, what is the best way for you ? Do i send you my picture, and keep it away from sharing (on FlickR, etc.) till the results ? Or, when i've sent my file to you, am i allowed to post my MOC on other sites, even if the contest is still running ? Thanks again fir hosting that fun and exciting contest :) !!

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    1. Exciting!
      The picture remains yours, so you may do what you wish with it.

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  7. Sorry, i have a last question : i posted my entry today, but i don t know if i did the submit well ... how to know if i did ? Do we receive a confirmation email ?

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    1. It gives a confirmation screen, no there is no email. What name did you submit under and I can check

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  8. I just sent my entry, but i have fear that didn't worked :/ Do we receive a confirmation email when entry is successfully done ?

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    1. It gives a confirmation screen, no there is no email. What name did you submit under and I can check

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  9. I’ve made three separate entries under the moniker ‘Brickdusa’. Can you confirm they’ve been recieved? Thank you kindly.

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  10. My son builds something for this challenge and he is 15 can I enter it my self ?

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    1. I’m afraid entrants must be aged 18.

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  11. when will the winners be announced? :)

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    1. hehe! Judges will start looking on Monday but previous experience tells me it takes them a few days cos they all get very passionate about it! Soooo hard to only pick 7 winners!

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