The LEGO Downtown Diner contest and giveaway has come to a close, and it’s time to crown our winner!
As always, you did not make it easy to narrow down these entries, let alone choose a winner! I was so taken with all of the submissions, and loved seeing such a wide variety of styles and stories representing Nostalgia.
Without any further ado, the winer is…
Drum Roll Please…
“Childhood in the 80s” by @fourbrickstall!
“Childhood in the 80s” by @fourbrickstall
This photo perfectly captured the nostalgic spirit of the contest. Not only did she take a wonderful photo, but the treehouse build, utilizing the new tree trunk costume pieces, is amazingly executed. There are several photos accompanying this one, highlighting the attention to detail, that I recommend you check out here. She also submitted a handful of other wonderful photos, like this Dungeons and Dragons memory and tribute to the classic game Simon.
Please join us in congratulating FourBricksTall. I’ll be in touch soon about delivering your prize!
And thank you to everyone who entered! You really went above and beyond with this contest. Once again, all the wonderful entries made it very difficult for us to choose just one winner.
Runners Up
Here are some other entries we loved that nearly took home the prize. Did I mention that it was very hard to vote??
“Do you remember?” by @The_Aphol
“Really, everyone’s a fan” by @karenmaymartin
“Oh brother, what have you done?” by @spideygoeshygge
“Remembering the best birthday EVER!” by @mrs.playwell
Thank You
Special thanks to Brett, Shelly, and Lizzi for helping me in judging duties. You can view all of the awesome entries here.
Thanks also to our friends at LEGO for the opportunity to review and give away this great set.
And of course, thank you to everyone who entered. Unfortunately we can only have one winner. If it wasn’t you this time, keep an eye out for another giveaway in the future!
-James
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I’m so glad this one won!! It was my favorite shot – I loved the use of the tree trunk pieces as well. Congrats! @fourbrickstall
Thank you so much! Man, I love these tree trunk pieces. My idea list for shots with them is so long I get intimidated just looking at it. I’ll get to it though.
These are all great! So imaginative!
Thank you! This was the first thing I thought of when”nostalgia” was mentioned.
Congratulations @fourbrickstall! Very well deserved: Lovely photo and very creative build. I was a big fan of this photo from the first moment I saw it. Congratulations also to the runners up for the beautiful work! This contest was really fun, with a great topic and full of beautiful photos!!!
Thank you! It was a great contest! I really enjoyed this one and also looking at the other entries. So much talent!
Congrats Anna, well deserved, i like your picture a lot! And thanks for the feature!
Thanks Marco! And yours was beautifully done!
Congratulations @fourbrickstall! What a great shot! Had me nostalgic for the treehouse in my Grandparents garden!
Yay! This is amazing! Thanks so much! I really love this build — as I was creating the treehouse with my current favorite minifig (tree disguise), I kept thinking back to the times by the levee looking for treasure in the shore with my metal detector, my RC vehicles, and my useless slingshot (or perhaps it was my poor skill) and just kept adding these elements. At some point, I had rollerskates, bikes, soccer balls, you name it but I had to stop myself and scale it all back.
Thanks for the contest! It was really fun going back to my childhood and recreating it in LEGO. It also just amazes me how far LEGO has come all these decades that I can create this image with just LEGO parts.
Congratulations @fourbrickstall! I love that shot! It makes me wish I had a tree house 🙂
Thanks Lynn! It makes me wish I still had one.
Congrats Anna! It’s an amazing build. I’ve always wished I’d a treehouse growing up and this is what it would have looked like. Well done!
Thank you! My own treehouse was rather simple; I’d have loved one that spanned two trees! I’d probably still be in it.
Treehouses are so wonderful! They really give kids special memories, don’t they?
Oops, this was for Lizzi.
It’s such an honor to have been a runner up on this, thank you so much guys! And congrats to @fourbrickstall on that beautiful shot!
Thanks Karen! Your photo is wonderful. I had to do a double-take to see the minifigs!
Congratulations Anna. I loved all of your shots for this challenge. And hats off to the runners up and everyone who entered. Beautiful, fun, evocative shots and scenes. Bravi!!!
Thank you, Doug! I really had fun coming up with ideas with my 7yo — who promised me he’d stick around for the shoot but bailed. The competition was tough, as you can see!
Congratulations Anna!
I instantly fell in love with your tree house photos the minute I saw them. They perfectly captured the emotions I had as a kid building tree houses in my backyard, or my childhood friends’, and all the fun adventures that happened after they were built.
Great job!
Thanks Brett! My idea list for this shot was so long; it was very tempting to crowd the scene with bikes, skateboards, rollerskates — and I did — but thankfully, I was able to rein in my enthusiasm a little and settle on just a few props. Paid off!
Congrats Anna! You deserved this win with all your super thoughtful and passionate entries!