Last Week of the Festival of Mundanity

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The final countdown for the Festival of Mundanity has begun! There’s less than a week left to show us your wonderfully dull creations built for this boring contest we are cohosting with The LEGO Car Blog. We’ve seen some more awesome entries and we’re going to take a closer look at some of the prizes today, too!

Masterful Mundanity

As a refresher for those who may not remember, in this contest we aren’t looking for stunning builds of beautiful and interesting things. What we want to see is the boring stuff that doesn’t get built out of LEGO that often. We’re looking for the most ordinary, mundane, and uninspiring things you can think of in two categories: objects and vehicles.

You’ll have to head over to The LEGO Car Blog to see all the cars that have been built so far, but here is a gallery of some of the dull objects we’ve seen so far in this festival submitted in the Flickr group and on Instagram. Entries range from a power plug to a soap bottle and everything else in between!

These builds certainly are mundane but they still made us look twice and consider their NPU! The more mundane, the merrier!

A Prize As Boring as Watching QVC in the 90s

The prizes for the object category aren’t quite as mundane as you might expect. Just like Are wrote about how adding lights to his MOCs provided that extra spark of magic, Brickstuff is donating these lighting kits for our winners.

What’s that square brown screen in the middle, you ask? A mini brick-built TV with a remote that can play up to two hours of whatever you want AND come with a built-in speaker!? And a new Brickstuff product that hasn’t even launched yet!!??

We got a chance to play with one, and boy is it fun. Who knew watching the QVC shopping channel could be so much fun! We also loaded about two dozen other tv clips so we could channel surf—Brickstuff has added great animations of static in between channels so you’ll feel like you’re going back in time. The speaker is decently loud as well. We don’t know how they come up with such awesome kits!

So get building! Full prizes and rules are included below. You have until the end of the month and the clock is ticking!

Prizes

You can read about the other prizes on The LEGO Car Blog. There are even more lighting kits, stands and some nifty BuWizz bricks. A big thank you to our prize sponsors for donating some really awesome stuff to the prize pool!

Object Category Prizes

1st Place

  • Golden Nerdly Trophy & BrickNerd Swag Box

  • $50 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd

  • Brickstuff brick-built TV with Remote Control and Sound (plays up to two hours of any video you load onto it)

  • iDisplayIt case/stand

  • Game of Bricks lighting kit

2nd Place

  • $25 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd

  • Brickstuff Lighting Effect Starter Kit

  • Game of Bricks lighting kit

3rd Place

Vehicle Category Prizes

1st Place

  • Golden Nerdly Trophy & BrickNerd Swag Box

  • $50 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd

  • BuWizz 3.0 or 2.0 Bluetooth brick (winner’s choice)

  • iDisplayIt case/stand

  • Game of Bricks lighting kit

2nd Place

  • $25 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd

  • Game of Bricks lighting kit

3rd Place

Festival of Mundanity Rules

  • All entries must be new creations. Entries may be updated as long as the contest is still open.

  • Entries can be posted either on Flickr or Instagram. A link to your entry should be posted in the Festival of Mundanity Flickr group using the hashtags #FestivalofMundanity, #BrickNerd and #TheLEGOCarBlog. If you do not have a Flickr account, you can use the hashtags and tag us on Instagram and we’ll post a link to your entry for you.

  • Please only add one photo/submission of each entry to this group (extras will be removed). If you don’t have either Flicker or Instagram please email your submission to dave@bricknerd.com.

  • You may enter as many times as you want with unique creations.

  • Entries must be either a vehicle or an object (settings are welcome too). If you can figure out how to combine the two and still make it uninteresting, you could win prizes in both categories.

  • Digital renders are allowed, though the creation must be structurally sound and all the pieces must be available physically. Custom or modified parts are not allowed this time around though unique prints/stickers are acceptable.

  • These rules or the prizes may be modified at any point.

  • The contest ends on Thursday, March 31st, 2022 at 11:59 pm PT (7:59 am GMT on April 1st for the Europeans). Winners will be announced a few weeks after.

  • The contest will be judged by both BrickNerd and The LEGO Car Blog contributors who will evaluate entries based on mundanity, concept, quality, presentation, composition, and how uninspiring it is.

Why aren’t you building yet? Get to it! Leave your thoughts about the prizes in the comments below.

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