Calling all little ghouls and goblins! This haunted season, we dare you to craft creations for our upcoming LEGO Islands in Fortnite that will send shivers down everyone's spine. Prepare to unleash your darkest, creepiest ideas and conjure up eerie, hair-raising designs that will give everyone a frightful delight!

We want to see hauntingly beautiful structures, ominous looking flora, or evil looking landmarks, but remember—this is a scare fest for the brave-hearted kids! So get your cauldrons bubbling, let your imagination haunt the night, and create something so scary, it’s sure to be a scream! 

🥇 Grand Prize - Win the challenge and receive:

• 77073 - Battle Bus
• 77072 - Peely Bone 
• 77071 - Supply Llama
• 77070 - Durrr Burger 
• 21347 - Red London Telephone Box
• 21344 - The Orient Express Train
•  21342 - The Insect Collection
• 21349 - Tuxedo Cat
• 21334 - Jazz Quartet

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

• 77073 - Battle Bus
• 77072 - Peely Bone 
• 77071 - Supply Llama
• 77070 - Durrr Burger
• 21349 - Tuxedo Cat
• 21347 - Red London Telephone Box

🗓️ ENTRY DEADLINE: Submit your entry no later than October 29th 2024 at 6:00 a.m EST. If you’re not sure what time zone you’re in, here’s a time zone converter.  

👑Special achievement👑

Our LEGO GAME team will choose some of the best builds to be rendered in one of our LEGO Games in Fortnite. This means that your design will be digitized and playable in the game for others to interact with. But that’s not all! Builders whose creations are chosen will also receive a special Interactive Plaque in the game, displaying their name whenever a player interacts with their model—a personalized shoutout to celebrate your hard work and creativity!

Get inspired all month long by dropping into the two islands available for free on Fortnite:

LEGO CHASERS VS HUNTERS

Join this 8v8 battle between the Dream Chasers and Nightmare Hunters. Defend the dream world (or oppose it) by capturing territory across the map. Collect Sand to buy new tools, and eliminate opponents to lead your team to victory!

LEGO DEMO: Scary Space 

Knock, knock creators! Can you feel that chill? Something scary has arrived in your LEGO Space Station. Find out what has gotten to your crew, but look out! Something might be lurking around the corner… the new LEGO Template: Scary Space! Learn how to create your own epic LEGO jump scares with Verse Code and create spine chilling scenes with lots of new LEGO assets.

Let the bone-chilling fun begin—if you dare! 

Let’s keep things brick-tastic with these simple guidelines to help your build shine!

• LEGO brick elements only: We’re talking classic LEGO bricks here! No Technic, no Duplo — just the good ol' bricks we all know and love.
• Height limit: Keep your build under 25 bricks tall (that's about 24 cm or 9.8 inches—give or take a brick or two).
• Baseplate size: Your creation should fit on a max of a 32x32 baseplate (which is roughly 25.5 cm x 25.5 cm or 10 x 10 inches). But hey, you can go smaller if you want! You don’t need to use a baseplate—this is just for measuring!
• No negative space: Your build should be fully enclosed! Think of it like this: You can design the outside of a house, but no need to worry about what’s inside—players won’t be able to go in or peek through windows!
• No flex elements: Nope, no bendy pieces here. Let’s keep things solid and sturdy!
• No stickers, decorated bricks, or translucent bricks: Keep it classic! Use plain bricks only, in all their blocky glory.
• No minifigures, minidolls, or molded animals: This challenge is all about creating the coolest structures! So, no little people or animals in this one—just you and your bricks.

⚒️ HOW IT WORKS

The challenge will consist of 3 phases:

• Submission Phase - Build and submit your entry before October 29th 2024 at 6am EST. We recommend submitting your entry 3-5 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 October 30th 2024 at 6a.m. EST to resubmit. Resubmissions after this will not be accepted.
• Voting Phase –  LEGO Ideas members will have the opportunity to vote once, for their favorite entry, and select the best 15 entries, from October 31st 2024 to November 7th 2024. 
• Judging Phase – Our judges will then review the entries and choose one Grand Prize winner and 2 Runner Ups, no later than November 12th 2024.
• Winners Announcement - We'll share the results here on LEGO Ideas no later than November 18th 2024!

💻  HOW TO ENTER

• 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.
• Take a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 10 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 note, we don't accept videos hosted on 3rd party platforms (like YouTube) in your submission. You can upload your video directly to our platform when submitting your entry. 
• Add a title and short description.
• Upload your entry to the challenge using the Submit Entry button on this page.

📜 CHALLENGE RULES

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.  
• Entries should not contain references to any existing third-party work or creation or infringements of any third-party intellectual property right such as Minecraft or Sonic. 
• LEGO brick elements only: Only standard LEGO bricks are permitted. The use of LEGO Technic, Duplo, or any other specialized elements is not allowed. 
• Height limit: The height of your build must not exceed 25 LEGO bricks (approximately 24 cm or 9.8 inches).
• Baseplate size: Your creation must fit within the dimensions of a 32x32 baseplate (approximately 25.5 cm x 25.5 cm or 10 x 10 inches). Use of a baseplate is optional, but this will be the maximum area allowed for measuring purposes.
• No negative space: The build must be fully enclosed. External designs are allowed, but no open or visible interiors. Players will not be able to view or access the inside of the structure.
• No flex elements: Flexible or bendable pieces are prohibited. All components must be solid and structurally stable.
• No stickers, decorated bricks, or translucent bricks: Only plain, undecorated LEGO bricks are allowed. Stickers, printed designs, or translucent elements are not permitted.
• No minifigures, minidolls, or molded animals: This challenge focuses on structure-building. Therefore, figures, dolls, and molded animal pieces are not allowed in the build.

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 animals 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 Requirements 

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

• A title*. 
• Photos of your build (minimum of 4, maximum of 10)
• A description*. 
• Entries may have tags, if you wish*. 

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

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%  

 The Fine Print  

• You must be at least 16 years of age to participate and enter.  
• Any and all submissions that feature any AI-generated art in any way, will not be accepted. 
• 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 November 12th 2024.
• 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. 
• 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.  

❓FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS  

For more information, see the Challenges FAQ.