Q2 2015 build challenge – in the limelight

Wait, we don’t just get a bag of lime like we did with the doors?

I don’t plan to enter this, so I’d be willing to be the judge, unless nobody likes that idea or somebody else really wants to do it. I’d be willing to waive my usual $5000 appearance fee, and instead you guys can compensate me by giving me the big box of Duplos that Hinkle sent. OK fine, I’ll do it for free. But if Josh starts giving out free bags of lime bricks, I definitely still want a bag. If it looks like I am in fact going to be the judge, you probably shouldn’t tell me what you’re working on or post pics ahead of time, that way you don’t have to worry about me voting against you because I don’t like you (although if there is a lime sexy robot, it’s not gonna take expert detective work to figure out who built it).

I’d suggest giving out two winners – Best Build, and Best Use of Lime. The Best Build would be so that people who wanna build stuff like spaceships or trucks that could just as easily work in other colors (off the top of my head, all the common lime pieces are just as easily available in other major colors) are not discouraged from doing so if they wish. The Best Use of Lime is pretty self-explanatory, for builds that are lime-specific and wouldn’t make sense in another color.

An optional third prize would be Worst Use of Lime, in which the builder deliberately builds something out of lime that totally should not be, such as Greg’s Statue of Liberty and Darth Maul suggestions.

I just scrolled up and it looks like Josh is only offering one prize, based on his initial post it would go to Best Use of Lime. The other two would just get bragging rights, unless somebody wants to build trophies out of lime, which, according to Josh, we have plenty of.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 10 months ago by Benjamin C Good.

Rich Millich wrote:

Note: trans-neon green is an excellent fit with lime.

Not according to some of @randomdan’s critics, Rich.

@greg – Why?

Dan wrote:

I think they were referring specifically to the lime 2×2 on a trans-neon green cupola. It does look ugly.

Indeed. I suppose as long as they’re separated by white or black or some other dissimilar color, they might look fine… but directly adjacent? ***shudder***

We can always do something like this:

Apparently these people also had a lime surplus they needed to get rid of:

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(I’d put a cool signature here but I wasn’t smart enough to figure out how to do it on this site.)

Ummmm… no. I thought I’d mentioned this on the q2 thread, I will be out of town that entire weekend. Somebody else will have to take over on this one.

I would think it’s a lot easier to judge stuff in person than by photo. Since it’s an option for you guys, I would think you’d wanna take advantage of that. I’m sure there’ll be more contests in the future and that I’ll volunteer again.

More importantly, at least this time around, is that I won’t be available for something like that on Saturday. We’re traveling to Lancaster for family stuff and we’ll be busy all that day.

I did not see any other posts about entries for the lime competition but below is what I would have brought if I had been able. And yes, it did already appear on another thread somewhere.