Hogwarts

Imperium der Steine is holding an Architecture Contest, to build a MOC in the scale and style of the Architecture sets. Kit Bricksto came up with this great version of Hogwarts for the "Entertainment Architecture" category.

Happy Valley Theme Park

Brother Steven built Happy Valley Theme Park as part of the ABS Builder Challenge. The seed part is the pink coffee mug used in the ferris wheel.

Sharkdependence Day

And should we win the day, the 4th of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day when the world declared in one voice: I have had it with these mother f'in sharks on this mother f'in spaceship!

Daniel Fortine made this Sharknado/Independence Day mashup for the Brothers-Brick Bricknado 2 contest.

Micro vans

Two contests, Pimp my Camper on Eurobricks and Star Warsify the Mini Camper Van on FBTB, have been inspiring lots of variations on the mini camper van. Here's a small selection:

Pif500's A-Team:


Horhat Razvan's crane:


Jamesn's Neko no Basu:


Matt Emmett's Naboo fighter:


Carl Merrian's Jabba the Van:

Day the Earth Stood Still

I really need to go back and mine the recent Micro Sci-Fi contest for blog posts. I really loved Kristi McWii's Day the Earth Stood Still.

Palpatine’s Shrink-O-Matic Ray Contest Winners

Winners are in for Palpatine’s Shrink-O-Matic Ray Contest on FBTB:

Fifth place went to Blackninjatom’s Y-Wing.


Fourth to Trooper10′s TIE Fighter (my personal favorite.


Third to Roarsack’s ATTE.


Flynn’s Millenium Falcon came in second.


And, drumroll please, the winner was Sparkart’s ATST.

Is there a chance the track could bend?

Not a chance, my Hindu friend!

Lots of great MOCs are being created for the Micro Sci-Fi Contest, including these twoo that feature monorails: Jason Alleman's City of Tomorrow and 4estFeller 2.0's Utopia.

Micro Sci-Fi Contest

In another contest, Eurobricks invites you to enter the Micro Sci-Fi Contest. In addition to winning LEGO sets, Si-MOCs made these great trophies. Follow the links for contest details. You have until the end of the month to enter.

Shrinkomatic contest

FBTB is hosting Palpatine's Shrink-O-Matic Ray Contest.

You are challenged to build a SW vehicle at the scale of the microfigs found in LEGO games. You know, these guys:


As some inspiration (or intimidation), the first entry I've seen is Chris Maddison's depiction of General Grevious escaping from Obi-Wan:

Micro Military Contest

Mainman's Microscale Military MOC Madness! Follow the link for details.

Swebrick contest

Swebrick recently ran a contest to feature micro versions of Göteborg landmarks. Some of the entries included Stigge72's Poseiden statue and Micke's Maritime Museum.

Mi-Fi winenrs

Winners have been announced in the Mi-Fi contest. First prize is shared by Nolnet and Halfbeak, with several other great MOCs recognized as runners-up and honorable mentions. Congratulations to them and all of the great entries in this fun contest.

Mi-Fi entries

Here are just a few of the great entries to the Mi-Fi Contest.

CaptainInfinity's Battle of Kashyyk.


Halfbeak's Resistance is futile.


Nolnet's You maniacs! You blew it up!.

Independence Day

Halfbeak presents Independence Day as an entry in the Mi-Fi contest.

Mi-Fi contest

Rod Gillies (2 Much Caffeine) of Empire of Steam and Iain Heath (Ochre Jelly) of the Living Brick are hosting a Mi-Fi Contest. Build a recognizable microscale scene from a known sci-fi movie.

LEGO Military Annual Build Competion 2012

Over on Flickr you can join in on the 2012 LEGO Military Annual Build Competion. Among the many categories there are a few that call for microscale. Follow the link for all the contest rules.

Microbuild LEGO Tournament 2012

I hadn't seen this until just yesterday listening to a back episode of the Look at LEGO Podcast. Over on Toys N Bricks they recently held a Microbuild LEGO Tournament 2012, challenging builders to come up with buildings in the style of the Mini Modulars set. The winners were announced recently. First prize went to Striderhiryu for his Brick Fever nightclub and second was won by Dilbert12's theater. All of the entries can be found here.

Kranhaus Süd

Moctown's Kranhaus Süd took 4th place in the Eurobricks Architecture Contest.

And the winner is ...

The winners have been announced in the Eurobricks Architecture contest. We'll count down over the next few days. Fifth place was shared by two entries, Blake Baer's Matsumoto Castle and unbornchikken's Getty Center. These are both awesome, but I was particularly happy to see the second one, as I used to live in Los Angeles and went to the Getty several times.

Architecture Contest

I actually don't think I've specifically highlighted this contest, though I've featured several of the entries here. Over on Eurobricks they are holding an Architecture Building Contest, challenging you to build a microscale world landmark in the style of the LEGO Architecture sets. There are only a couple more days for this (deadline is this Saturday), so if you've been planning on entering, you'd better hurry.