UPDATE: Planning is now underway for the next Zombie Apocafest. Read all about it in our Zombie Apocafest 2009 strategy, tactics, & logistics post.
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The LEGO convention season is upon us, and BrickCon 2009 is just over four months away — time to start planning your trip and what you’re going to build. Likewise, it’s time to start planning collaborative displays.
With a successful Zombie Apocafest 2008 under our belts, we at The Brothers Brick are pleased to announce Zombie Apocafest 2009.
To celebrate this announcement and as an example of one of our new prize categories, I’ve turned 7639 Camper into a mobile zombie defense platform.
This year, we’re splitting up the prizes into four categories:
- Best Original Vehicle (last year’s winner: Andrew Lee’s Truck)
- Best Apocafied LEGO Vehicle (new category; example above)
- Best Original Building (last year’s winner: Paul Hetherington’s Casa Baron)
- Best Apocafied LEGO Building (new category)
There are still many details to iron out, and we’re definitely open to suggestions. What kind of overall theme would you like to build toward? If you were there, what worked last year? What didn’t? Let us know in the comments.
Woohoo! I’ll be bringing my old VW Bus and at least half a dozen more apocafied vehicles and sets.
Aw shucks, I was hoping to see a Wild-West-Slash-Steampunk section this year, y’all!
What are the outline or standards for the buildings? Are they the same as last year? What are they?
– Kaupuan
@Dr. X: Excellent.
@OJ: Mwa ha ha! It was clear after least year that participants did want a second Zombie Apocafest, so we’ll do one more. I have a fairly short attention span myself, so a wild west/steampunk collaborative display would be just the sort of thing to attract my attention in 2010. :D
@Kaupuan: Yup, Cafe Corner standard, just like last year.
hmmm, with the best LEGO category, aren’t you afraid to get a slight overdose of green groceries and corner cafés in your city?
Speaking of Brickcon 09, anyone know what the “Imagination in Motion” theme signifies?
What no Apocafig category!?! Could you not be persuaded?
So, there are three buildings to choose from for the fourth category? Perhaps there could be an option to apocafy a fan-built model, your own or someone else’s.
Hmm… I hadn’t considered the intersection between the Cafe Corner standard and that new category. It does limit things a bit, doesn’t it? The LEGO Town and City themes have such a rich history of buildings (not just vehicles) that I was envisioning one of those, not just one of the three new CC-standard buildings.
How about this: As long as the apocafied official set can be integrated with the CC standard, it can be anything.
For the benefit of us noobs, what exactly is the “CC-standard?” The best answer I found was in a Eurobrick discussion thread (Brickwicki was down) that explained the folowing:
-32 studs deep and either 16, 32 or 48 wide on the street.
-Connection technic pins between the 10 & 11 stud spots (from both front and back) at the bottom sides.
-7 to 8 stud deep sidewalk (including curb).
-8 stud deep alley/air space/courtyard in the back.
Is that right or too much structure?
@Jacob – Actually, you don’t have to “zombify” only the actual Cafe Corner type buildings. Any of the Lego set buildings can be made to fit into the CC standard. Andrew and I can talk about it, but I think there is a lot of room for different buildings in that category.
@Thanel – That’s basically it. I think you’ve got it.
This is goin to be my first year at Brickcon and my first entry to the apocafest collaboration. I would like some information on standards, etc. I’m sorry f I’m bothering you guys with stupid questions.
Thanks in advance,
Mangos
^ Basically, the only standards for buildings are the ones that Thanel mentioned a couple comments above yours. If it’s minifig-scale and reasonably “realistic” (no big mecha, for example) we can fit it in. :-)
^ Thanks Andrew. I think I’m just going to enter some vehicles and figures.