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🐾 Pets in Play 🐾

Calling all pet lovers and LEGOĀ® enthusiasts! It's time to unleash your creativity and bring your furry, feathered, or scaly friends to life in brick form. In this challenge, we want you to showcase your beloved pets in various playful situations, whether they're frolicking in the park, lounging at the beach, or causing mischief around the house.

Get creative! Whether you have a dog, cat, bird, hamster, or any other pet, we want to see them in unique and imaginative scenarios.

Let the pet adventures begin! šŸ¶šŸ±šŸ°šŸ¦œšŸ

ā—Your submission must:

  • Have a brick built pet
  • Not show a live animal
  • Not reference any IPsĀ 

āš’ļøĀ HOW IT WORKS

The challenge will consist of 3 phases:

  • Submission PhaseĀ - Build and submit your entry before July 9th 2024 at 6am EST. We recommend submitting your entry 3-5 days before the deadline in the event weĀ have toĀ return it to you for changes. 
  • Judging Phase – Our judges review the entries and choose a maximum of 5Ā entries, which will then go forward to a Fan Vote, on July 16th 2024.
  • Voting Phase –  LEGO Ideas members will thenĀ have the opportunity toĀ vote once, for their favorite entry fromĀ Ā July 16th 2024 to July 23rd 2024.Ā 
  • Winners AnnouncementĀ -Ā We'll share the results of the Fan VoteĀ here on LEGO Ideas no later than July 30th 2024!

šŸ†Ā PRIZES

šŸ„‡ Grand Prize - Win the challenge and receive:

  • Tuxedo Cat 21349
  • The Insect Collection 21342
  • Adorable Dogs 31137
  • The Fauna Collection – Macaw Parrots 31211
  • Kingfisher Bird 10331
  • Forest Animals: Red Fox 31154
  • Wild Safari Animals 31150
  • White Rabbit 31133Ā 

🄈 Runner-Up - Be one of 2 Runner-Ups and receive:

  • Tuxedo Cat 21349
  • Adorable Dogs 31137
  • Forest Animals: Red Fox 31154
  • White Rabbit 31133
  • Exotic Parrot 31136

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Ā šŸ’»Ā Ā HOW TO ENTER

  • Submissions may be in either physical bricks or by using a digital building tool such asĀ Bricklink’s Studio. You’re welcome to use image editing tools, such as Photoshop, to create your images.
  • 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.
  • Add a title and short description.
  • Upload your entry to the challenge using theĀ SubmitĀ Entry button on this page.

Ā šŸ“œĀ CHALLENGE RULES

Acceptable Entry Content  

  • You must be theĀ original creatorĀ 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 beĀ new creationsĀ and not previously posted online or submitted to any other challenge.  
  • You are allowed to use anyĀ official LEGO elementĀ (LEGO System, LEGO DUPLO, LEGO TECHNIC/Construction) in your entry. The LEGO elements must be genuine (not cut, glued, or otherwise modified).  
  • Entries shouldĀ not contain references to any existing third-party work or creationĀ or infringements of any third-party intellectual property right such as Animal Crossing.Ā 
  • You may use Minifigures in your entry. Please only useĀ generic MinifiguresĀ in your submission.Ā 

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 and add visual effects to photos of your entry.
  • Entries containing photos that are too dark or blurry will be removed from the challenge. 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 live animalsĀ in pictures you submit. Photos containing people will be removed.
  • Please do not overlay any text or logos onto your submitted images.  

House Rules  

  • Entries containing defamatory or degrading elements will not be eligible for the challenge.  
  • Any cheating or harassment of other participants will result in disqualification from the challenge.   
  • Your challenge entries and comments on challenge entries must follow the complete LEGO Ideas House Rules.  

Submission RequirementsĀ 

In order to get your submission approved, your submission must include the following:Ā 

  • A title*.Ā 
  • Photos of your buildĀ 
  • A description*.Ā 
  • Entries may have tags, if you wish*.Ā 

* -Ā Submissions should have correct capitalization and not have any spelling mistakes.Ā 

Ā Judging  

A panel of judges consisting of members of the LEGO Ideas team will choose the winners based on:  

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

Ā The Fine Print  

  • You must be at leastĀ 16 yearsĀ of age to participate and enter.  
  • Any and all submissions that feature any AI-generated art in any way, will not be accepted.Ā 
  • You may submit multiple entries to the challenge, but only one entry per person will be considered when winners are selected. This means you cannot win as a semi-finalist and as the grand prize winner with two different entries.   
  • Winners will be contacted on the email address associated with their LEGO ID account after July 23rd 2024.Ā 
  • Winners will be announced on LEGO Ideas when all winners have returned the signed Winner’s Certification Documents. A winner who does not return their Winner’s Certification Document within one week (5 days) of receiving it will be disqualified, and a new winner will be selected.   
  • Active participation by way of submissions of any kind to this challenge is not open to residents of Iran, North Korea, Myanmar/Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Syria, Russia or any other country which is subjected to sanctions and where prohibited or restricted by law, for as long as such sanctions remain in place. Submissions in active challenges by residents of Russia will unfortunately not be eligible for prizes as long as sanctions remain in place.Ā 
  • 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.Ā 
  • 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.  

ā“FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS  

For more information, see the Challenges FAQ.