#toy contest

[inventors-fair]

Prime Playthings: Child's Play Winners

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Our winners this week are @bread-into-toast, @corporalotherbear, and @wildcardgamez!

@bread-into-toast — Barby Doll

To be completely honest, this placement is at least 30% because of the outstanding pun. Not to sell the rest of this card short, though! Weaponize is a delightfully creative mechanic, acting as both a mirror of the Crimson Vow disturb spirits and an extremely natural-feeling offshoot of reconfigure, with some very smart wording to ensure the whole thing plays like a dream. I do slightly worry about the equip cost (I assume, based on its place in the reminder text) being set to 2 potentially constraining design space, but being able to set the initial cost means you already have a degree of fine control over how hard it is to get this attached to something. While the effect barring weaponize isn't super exciting, it's serviceable enough as something good you'd like on an equipment as much as a creature. Plus, it works excellently with the overall flavor, making it a delightful all-around package.

@corporalotherbear — Commercialize

I'll freely admit that I did a cartoon spit take on reading the art description, so immediate points there. Does a petrified corpse count as its own monument? Eh, I digress. I'm always a sucker for when reanimation gets more creative than just plonking the creature back on field good as new, and within that niche this card solidly swings for the fences. In exchange for a restriction to legends and a potentially hefty size down, you get twice the effect of the legend of your choice. Or more, as you now have free reign to copy the copy as much as you want. It's the flavor that really gets to me, the sheer comedy of turning larger-than-life heroes of old into marketable figurines.

@wildcardgamez — Possessed Button Eyes

I was absolutely in love with all the delightful creatures this week, but suffice to say a lot of the noncreatures caught my eye. As a sort of bizarro-Equipment this card immediately has my attention, and insofar as I can tell it works like a charm. It's a bit like the cadre of artifact-animating auras, but trading granted indestructibility and/or prodigious size in order to evoke traditional equipment's biggest strength. Namely, re-usability. The ability to turn a stray token or an artifact that's quite interested in going to the graveyard into a credible threat at a moment's notice is pretty strong, especially at instant speed (is that intentional, by the way?) unlike more traditional equipment. Plus, I love the twist on the flavor here, using the tropes and trappings of the haunted doll but decidedly declawing it into more of a Pinocchio affair. The doll's animated with horrible dark magic...to be your best buddy. Cute!

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There's a few things left in the box, so hold your horses for imminent runners up! —@spooky-bard

[bricktoygrapher]

📢 Exciting news!

My photo has won 1st place in the LEGO Camping Photo Contest! 🏆

I’m incredibly proud and thrilled to share it with you all! 🎉

A big thank you to Brickcentral and the judges for this recognition! 🙌

[dingodoodles]

🥳 WE GOT A CONTEST!

We’re so close to unleashing Jawbone the good boy on the world! So we decided to make a contest to celebrate :3 CHECK HIM OUT HERE

📨 How to Enter: Using the provided PNGs of Jawbone below👇 , place him in any picture, drawing, or meme that you can come up with. Make it silly, cute, funny, or wholesome, it’s up to you!

Rules:

✅ Image must include at least 1 Jawbone PNG

❌ NO AI

✅ Discord winner will be decided by community (❤️) votes

✅ 1 winner will be chosen by admins from any social media posts using the hashtag: #jawboneplush

✅ You may re-upload your submission on Social media. The Winner will be chosen from : BlueSky/Twitter(X)/Tumblr

✅ You may create up to 2 images. This means you may submit 2 on discord then re-upload the same 2 to socials for an extra chance to win!

🏆 Prize: 2 winners will each receive one Sips and Sneeze plushy each!

🗓️ Date: The contest will run from April 10th to April 30th

Keep it PG13 please. ------------------------------------------ Good luck :3

[br1ghtestlight]

“A charming name that children would give. A for Alliteration. Big smiles, little life experience. Don’t quite know what a frown looks like. Or a tree. Or, well… grass. Dreams of magic portals. Haunted mansions. Pranks that’ll knock you clear to another planet! Smart kids. Real smart kids. Some shameful mistakes along the way, though. Immature, tasteless errors. [...] But they’ve been getting better and better…”

[maybebovinity]

Day 12: Toys for Tots

Yareli on her way to deliver goodies to the Ventkids on her exclusive Vox train

Tennobaum 2024 aims to celebrate the Holiday Spirit and contribute to the Toys for Tots Charity

If you have the means, consider donating to Toys for Tots!

[spins-in-confusion]

guess whos still not over ii17

the lyrics are from "Mr Loverman"!!

[tategaminu]

What do you mean HTTYD is 15 years old... I still remember when I got the pirated version from the chinese market and I had watch weekly Hiccup and Toothless in 360p‚ the trailers were in the TV and mcdonals toys were abandoned in the streets.

[inventors-fair]

Child's Play

A new creature type being introduced is always cause for celebration, methinks. A new niche to fill and a new direction to take design in! And while Duskmourn's release had a fair few more headlining debuts, I want to take a moment to highlight one in particular:

Design a Toy or Toy-related card.

To elaborate, that's a card that either has the creature type Toy (not necessarily because it's a creature; kindred is a potential option), or specifically mentions Toys somewhere in its rules text. Precisely how it mentions Toys is entirely up to you, but that's the clerical baseline.

I should also mention that as it exists currently, Toy is part of an unofficial category of "artifact creature types," namely creature types that are only seen on artifact creatures. That does stand as a bit of a restriction, but restrictions can often breed creativity, so I'm excited to see how you all tackle it.

As a final aside, Duskmourn's Toys (and Innistrad before it) have gone all-in on Toy as "haunted killer doll," but I want to stress that creature types have been reinvented and reinterpreted all throughout Magic's history, so don't be afraid to go in a completely different direction.

Stay safe, have fun. —@spooky-bard

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[bricktoygrapher]

Camping gone wrong 🏕️🐺

"Relax, man! Just ignore them and they'll leave." 😏

This is my entry to the Camping Photography Contest organized by @brickcentral.

I spent a long time thinking about the concept for the photo, but the only thing I was certain of was that I wanted to include this 4x4 off-road truck. While going through my minifigures, I came across a wolf figure, which sparked the idea of creating a scene where wolves disrupt the campers' plans.

I experimented with different setups, and in the end, I settled on this scene: one camper is completely relaxed, enjoying a marshmallow on the truck's roof, while the others are a bit more tense. There wasn’t enough space for all three on the roof, so one ended up in a tree.

Since I only have one wolf figure, I had to take multiple photos and composite them into a single image.

[stone-cold-groove]

Mattel presents the Great American Family Sweepstakes. Mattel Toys sweepstakes partnership ad - 1973.

[strangegutz]

weaponry measuring contest

Davey belongs to @anonymouspuzzler !!

[queasybastard]

go with the flow (2023)

[brickcentral]

📢JULY CONTEST: FOOD TRUCKS

Warm sunny days and nights are here. Lots of places to visit and lots of smiles and happiness are waiting for us. But you know you can't go on a journey without having a good snack first. Here we have a kind gentleman with his scooter, serving little bites of happiness in round shapes. Yummy! Who doesn't like donuts? He is at the right place, too: the railway station. Here you can see different people crossing by and taking these little pink donuts to various places 🚂

This month, the theme for our contest is related to food trucks, food trailers, and any other food vendors. Build your own and show it in a creative way.

RULES:

• Build and take a picture of a food truck, trailer, or another mobile food vendor

• New pictures only (taken on July 1st and later)

• Share your work on our Discord server

• Multiple entries are always welcome

• AI-generated images are not allowed!

PRIZES:

Two winners will get 60404 Burger Truck LEGO sets and also offered the opportunity to shoot a narrative for Brickcentral from one of the other 4 options:

• 21342 The Insect Collection

• 31151 T-rex

• 31150 Wild Safari Animals

• 76427 Buckbeak

The activity ends on 29th July, 23:59 CET

IMPORTANT FINE PRINT:

• Must be 18+ (no proxies allowed)

• Shipping from LEGO is available to your country

• Prizes are subject to availability and can be changed

• Winners must respond within 48 hours

• Customs are the winner's responsibility

Have fun! 🙂

@toy-story-yana ,mod

[madd-nix]

Playtime! Ingo always makes time to play with the kids, and if that means potentially taking a plush Larvesta to the face, then so be it. He loves them.

For anyone that doesn't know, Ingo and Johanna married here, Dawn is Ingo's stepdaughter, Rosie (pigtails) is their adopted daughter, and Percy (baby) is their son.

[evilhorse]

Nestle Quik ad featuring the Gobots (circa January 1986)

[inventors-fair]

Toy Box Titans: Child's Play Runners Up

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Our runners up this week are @deg99, @grornt, and @lanabutnotdelray!

@deg99 — Wind-Up Ironside

A wind-up toy is definitely a strong mechanical jumping-off point as far as concepts go, and I'm definitely pleased with how much this card commits to the idea. True to form, this takes a while to really get going, but the ability to funnel between some to all of your board into growing this trampling threat every turn is pretty scary. It's not even sorcery speed, so you're entirely free to hold up creatures and just have whoever's not doing anything else give it a quick wind as your turn rolls around. Removing a counter and therefore "winding down" to actually get to attack is a great bit of flavor that also makes it a neat (if possibly unintentional?) reference to the ancient series of Clockwork monsters.

@grornt — Rubber Recluse

This one's just cute, really. The concept of this silly rubber spider being so scary as to shock a creature into becoming smaller (or just dying on the spot) tickles me to the core. It's a nice, compact package of effects that I really find myself liking. It's very reminiscent of Fungal Infection, but being printed as a creature card automatically makes it more attractive for a lot of black strategies, even discounting the usefulness of reach on a flash blocker. As simple as it is, I could easily see this being a linchpin of a limited format, and that's pretty neato.

@lanabutnotdelray — Ruby Rider Rifleman

Plush immediately sticks out to me as an excellent twist on Prototype, trading the modular size and color for the ability to be placed on nonartifact creatures. Plus—although it's entirely possible it could get printed on an artifact creature—turning a nonartifact card into an artifact creature is a meaningful difference a lot of the time. This seems similar in concept—or possibly even inspired by��Hearthstone Miniaturize from their similar toy-themed set, although in mechanical practice there's few similarities. The card itself though, woof. That's a lot of extra damage flying around, and any way to increase this thing's power leads to huge returns. The fact that it applies to noncombat damage is bonkers as well. In fact, I think it's probably fair to have the card exclude itself, so it's not effectively doubling its own power in addition to whatever else it's doing. This is the kind of card that an opponent who knows what's coming will dread and an opponent seeing it for the first time will instantly make priority one. Scary!

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That's a wrap! Thanks for joining me for this fun little adventure, and for joining us for yet another year! As before, I'll be in the discord for the rest of the day taking commentary requests (and just to be clear, address it through the fair-talk channel, please). See ya there, pals! —@spooky-bard