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Customize your ride with LEGO 2K Drive

Make that vehicle your own, with style! In partnership with LEGO 2K Drive, we’re asking you to create custom street-racer-type vehicles with 300 or less bricks.

The wackier, cooler, ridiculous, the better! We’re looking for something truly unique. 

You can submit cars made: 

  • Physically  
  • Digitally (Stud.io etc.) 
  • In the LEGO 2K Drive game by taking screenshots. 

We will have one Grand Prize Winner and one Runner Up!

Once the intake has closed, all submissions will go into a review and then LEGO Ideas Fans will decide the winners during a Fan Vote. 

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

  • 42141 McLaren Formula 1™ Race Car 
  • 42111 Dom's Dodge Charger 
  • 76918 McLaren Solus GT & McLaren F1 LM 
  • 76917 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) 
  • 76912 Fast & Furious 1970 Dodge Charger R/T 
  • A copy of LEGO 2K Drive on the platform of your choice 
  • A prize package of LEGO 2K Drive Goodies! 

 

ENTRY DEADLINE: Submit your entry no later than August 1st 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST.  If you’re not sure what time zone you’re in, here’s a time zone converter.   

Overview

How it Works

The Challenge will consist of 4 phases:  

  1. Submission Phase - Create and submit your entry before August 1st 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. We recommend submitting your entry 2-3 days before the deadline in the event we have to return it to you for changes. If your entry is submitted before the intake closing date but is sent back to you for changes, you will have until August 2nd 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. to resubmit. Resubmissions after this will not be accepted.
  2. Judging Phase - Our judges review the entries and choose their favorite entries, which will then go forward to a Fan Vote, on August 8th, 2023.
  3. Fan Vote - The Fan Vote will determine the Grand Prize Winner and Runner Up Winners, and will run from August 8th 2023 – August 17th 2023.
  4. Fan Vote Results - We will share the Fan Vote results here on LEGO Ideas by August 24th 2023!

How to submit your design:

  1. Submissions may be in either physical bricks or by using a digital building tool such as Bricklink’s Studio. You’re welcome to use image editing tools, such as Photoshop, to create your images. You may also create and submit cars by using the LEGO 2K Drive game and taking screenshots. 
  2. Take up to five photos of your creation and submit them to the challenge. Make sure to show off all angles and any features or functions of your creation.  Please submit your photos in as high a resolution as possible so that we can see all the details clearly. If possible, the shortest edge should be at least 1080 pixels.
  3. Add a title and short description.  Around two sentences is perfect.
  4. Upload your entry to the challenge using the Submit Your Entry button on this page.   

Acceptable Entry Content

  • You must be the original creator of all creative work you submit (the model, images, photographs, description text, etc.) and you must have the exclusive right to submit your model to this LEGO Ideas Challenge. You may not submit a model or any other content made by, or on behalf of, someone else. 
  • Entries must be new creations and not previously posted online or submitted to any other challenge. 
  • You are allowed to use any official LEGO element (LEGO System, LEGO DUPLO, LEGO TECHNIC/Constraction) in your entry. The LEGO elements must be genuine (not cut, glued, or otherwise modified). 
  • Entries should not contain copies or references to any existing third-party work or creation or infringements of any third-party intellectual property right such as Ford. 
  • You may use Minifigures in your entry. Please use generic LEGO Minifigures that do not use any third-party intellectual property
  • Challenge entries related to the topics below do not fit our brand values and will not be approved for publication on LEGO Ideas: 
    • Politics and political symbols, campaigns, or movements 
    • Religious references including symbols, buildings, or people 
    • Sex, nudity, drugs, or smoking 
    • Alcohol in any present-day situation 
    • Swearing or profanity 
    • Death, killing, blood, terrorism, horror, or torture 
    • First-person shooter video games 
    • Warfare or war vehicles in any modern or present-day situation, or national war memorials 
    • Large or human-scale weapons or weapon replicas of any kind, including swords, knives, guns, sci-fi or fantasy blasters, etc. 
    • Racism, bullying, or cruelty to real life animals 

Entry Quality Standards 

  • You may submit digital entries using Bricklink’s Studio, which is free of charge to download. You are also welcome to create digital entries using third-party LEGO CAD software. 
  • You may use photo editing software, such as Photoshop, to enhance your entry’s presentation.  Entries containing photos that are too dark or blurry will not be approved.
  • To ensure easy judging of your entry, we recommend taking pictures on a neutral background free from background clutter, with your model well framed. 
  • Please do not include people or limbs in pictures you submit. Also, please don't include any text or logos in your photos. Photos containing such will be removed.  

House Rules

  • Submissions containing defamatory or degrading elements will not be eligible and will be rejected. 
  • Any cheating or harassment of other participants will result in disqualification and/or rejection of a submission, and/or removal from the LEGO® IDEAS™ platform.  
  • Your submission and comments on submissions must follow the complete LEGO® IDEAS™ House Rules. 

Judging

A panel of judges consisting of members of the LEGO 2K Drive team will choose their favorite entries, which will go onto a fan vote, based on: 

  • Overall coolness and originality: 25%  
  • Most inspired details: 25%  
  • Relevance to challenge theme: 25%  
  • Best use of LEGO elements: 25%  

These entries will then be put forward to a fan vote, in which LEGO Ideas members can vote for their favorite entry. Members will have one vote, and one vote only. The vote will run from August 8th 2023 – August 17th 2023.

The Fine Print

  • You must be at least 13 years of age to participate and submit a design. 
  • You may submit multiple entries to the challenge and there is a possibility that more than one of your entries are selected as winners. Please note that you will only recive the highest finishing Prize Package. So if you have one submission as a Grand Prize Winner and one as a Runner Up, your Runner Up submission will not be selected as a Runner Up and you will not receive more than one prize package.
  • Creators of the selected submissions will be contacted on the email address associated with their LEGO ID account by August 24th 2023. All selected submissions will be announced on LEGO® IDEAS™ when all chosen creators have returned the signed Certification Documents. Any creator who does not return their Certification Document within five (5) business days of receiving it will be disqualified.
  • Active participation by way of submissions of any kind is not open to residents of Iran, North Korea, Myanmar/Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Syria, Belarus, Russia or any other country which is subjected to sanctions, for as long as such sanctions remain in place, or where otherwise prohibited or restricted by law. Submissions by residents of Russia will be rejected.
  • If you are a resident of Ukraine or Belarus and are selected as a challenge winner, your prizes will be shipped at a later date once shipping resumes normal operation. 
  • By entering the challenge, you agree to follow the rules on this challenge Brief page and you agree to the LEGO Ideas Terms of Service.   
  • This challenge is offered, organized and run solely by the LEGO Group. Participants should direct all queries and matters relating to the challenge to LEGO Ideas. 

Prizes

If you are the Grand Prize Winner of this challenge Fan Vote, you will receive the following: 

  • 42141 McLaren Formula 1™ Race Car 
  • 42111 Dom's Dodge Charger 
  • 76918 McLaren Solus GT & McLaren F1 LM 
  • 76917 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) 
  • 76912 Fast & Furious 1970 Dodge Charger R/T 
  • A copy of LEGO 2K Drive on the platform of your choice 
  • A prize package of LEGO 2K Drive Goodies! 

 

If you are the Runner-up of this challenge Fan Vote, you will receive the following: 

  • 76918 McLaren Solus GT & McLaren F1 LM 
  • 76917 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) 
  • 76912 Fast & Furious 1970 Dodge Charger R/T 
  • A copy of LEGO 2K Drive on the platform of your choice 
  • A prize package of LEGO 2K Drive Goodies! 

 

Frequently Asked Questions

For more information, see the Challenges FAQ.