Brick Transport Tycoon Round 1
Third edition of Brick Transport Tycoon Contest just started at LUGPol. Never heard of it? Time for some catching up!
This edition has four rounds. Every round the contestants are challenged to build one transportation-related creation. Each round lasts two weeks. Only the best can keep up with this pace and win the whole contest.
So, what was the first round about? Here’s the challenge:
Challenge 1: Build a SPECIAL transport vehicle. You HAVE TO show the cargo.
Fantasy and SF: no change.Bonuses:
+1 point for vehicle with 20+ wheels. Of course, it’s not about adding few more wheels to a truck, number of wheels shpuld have some justification.
Fantasy: +1 point for a vehicle with 12+ wheels
SF: no change
Let’s see creations of some LUGPol’s builders:
ImpreSariO deals with 20 wheel requirement in a very creative way. Meet RollE:
ImpreSario presented a whole story describing mecha. In a future, LEGO company is experiencing raids on their ABS supplies organised by a clone brands troops. To protect the valuable cargo, LEGO designs RollE, a rollerblade mecha, who can transport and protect ABS granulate.
You have already seen Jerac’s Ymir space transport, blogged by Ricardo:
But BTT creations are not only futuristic. Nori takes the wheel problem into the fantasy era. Here is the ogres’ tranport (in fantasy, only 12 wheels are required to get a bonus point):
Kaczor presents a steampunk solution: a platform transporting a statue:
Crises takes the similar approach, but his platform transports the King himself:
There are also traditional solutions, set up in the present. Here’s 20-wheeler from Bobofruttx:
And very cool special (and long: 106 studs) transport by M-Longer:
Who will win? Nothing is certain now, since the deadline is today’s evening. Some new creations are will probably still to shop up…
But, we alredy know the second challenge:
Challenge 2: Build a nautical vehicle. Must be able to transport at least 5 tons of cargo by 500 miles. Transportation does not to be on the sea, there might be a river, lake or such.
Fantasy: 2 tons of cargo, 200 miles
SF: no changeBonuses (all themes):
+1 point for vehicle not built with metal, wood or plastic
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