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23rd Build Challenge...Zombie Apocalypse Killfest '09!

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Lino M is a group administrator Lino M says:

Listen up, maggots! You don’t like me and I don’t like you, but as last medical eval proves I’m still human you had better listen to me and listen good if you wanna come out of this alive! My name is Sergeant Rex Malone, I’m an Elite Commander in the Special Forces and I’m a mean son of a gun! Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock these past few months, you’ll know that we are up to our eyeballs in zombie scumbags! Oh yes, its true. Some say this will be the end of the human race as we know it…I say if we all band together with a little know how and a can of whoop-ass we can wipe the zombie hordes off the planet for good by the end of Brickcon! That’s why I’ve been assigned to lead this challenge.

That’s right, people! Welcome to Zombie Apocalypse Killfest ‘09! And guess what, maggots…this will be the first LUGNuts challenge officially sponsored by the good ol’ boys over at Brothers-Brick. They’ll be monitoring our progress so progress had better be good!

Now I’ve had my share of confirmed kills and my experience proves that zombies are undead, thoughtless killing machines who will think nothing of eating your face off and scooping out that pudding mush you call a brain! You can’t talk to them. You can’t reason with them. The only thing these zombie freaks listen to is a baseball bat to the head, a shotgun blast to the face, or an electric cattle prod to the nutsack! So how are we gonna win this war, then? One thing we have at our advantage is zombies are dumber than a bag of hammers and you…well most of you anyway, can outsmart and outgun a zombie. Here’s what I want you LUGNuts to do…build yourself a badass zombie fightin’ vehicle! I don’t want tanks, military vehicles, or planes…I already got them. But what I need is civilian vehicles refurbished into the most badass war machines ever constructed in Lego! That means cars, trucks, bikes, RVs, tractors, farm machinery, garbage trucks…anything you can get your grubby little hands on, fitted with gun turrets, spikes, barbed wire, cages, armor, flame throwers, buzz saws…whatever you need to annihilate the zombie masses! If you haven’t the foggiest idea what I’m talking about, you may seek post-apocalyptic movies for inspiration, like say The Road Warrior or Death Race. Or check out what others have built lately and work from there. Them new fangled Space Police, Agents, and Power Miners sets have pieces and sticker sheets with skulls, graffiti, grime and other doodads that may help give your vehicles that post-apocalyptic badass quality you might be looking for. Dioramas and scenes of zombie killin’ madness are highly encouraged! You may build in any scale you want…however, if you are going to Brickcon and will be submitting your vehicles into the Brothers Brick’s Zombie Apocafest layout, they MUST be built in minifig scale. If you need incentive to enter submissions to their layout, they will have several prize categories this year and two of them are vehicle related! They will be giving trophies for best Original Zombified Vehicle as well as best LEGO Vehicle…this is a set you can buy that has been refurbished into a zombie fightin’ machine. If you get a wild hair and want to build above and beyond the call of duty, they also need burned out post-apocalyptic buildings matching Café Corner scale and standards. Trophies are also given to best buildings and structures on their layout...so make it a good one, and you just might be the talk of the town!

Today is September 1st, you have until October 1st…one month to build your creations and post them here. As always, build one or build many. This thread is for photo submissions and short write ups ONLY so don’t go flapping your gums about it, just build something! The other idea thread is for your questions, comments, concerns and any other gum flappin’ banter you maggots want to talk about. Got it? Good! Now lets show those zombie freaks we are not to be messed with! Get to it, LUGNuts!
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Kevin Fedde says:

Well played, Sergeant.
Expect an entry.
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rabidnovaracer is a group moderator rabidnovaracer says:

^Comments need to be posted in the other thread for this challenge.
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beuk says:

Jordan's Zombie Apoc Tractor by beuk


Tractor - check.
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Mad physicist is a group moderator Mad physicist says:

Guys, seriously. Discussion is fine, but Lino's introduction and Rabidnovaracer's reminder make it clear that we have a separate thread for comments and discussion, so that the submissions thread can remain free from clutter. Let's stick to that, shall we?

On a separate note, beuk, the picture of your model is from August 14th. Lino didn't mention it explicitly, but entries for LUGNuts challenges are supposed to be newly built.
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Jon Derk says:

This doesn't look apocalyptic...
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/j0n4th4n_d3rk53n/3885642652/]
[https://www.flickr.com/photos/j0n4th4n_d3rk53n/3884846819/in/photostream/]But it is!!!
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q_159 says:

My entry:



A Garbage Truck
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Firas Abu-Jaber says:

Post Apoc Truck: The war is just started!

Post Apoc Truck
Please visit my Photostream for more describtion.
Also take a look at my interesting story I made about this vehicle, well not really interesting :0
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Jon Derk says:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/j0n4th4n_d3rk53n/3888676070/] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/j0n4th4n_d3rk53n/3887880121/in/photostream/]
2nd Entry!
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kwycstix says:

BullFrog Shipping

BullFrog Shipping
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rabidnovaracer is a group moderator rabidnovaracer says:

Urban Assault Vehicle

Urban Assault Vehicle
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Aaron (-_-) says:

Ready for the aaarrrrpocalypse the ever resourceful Road Pirates.

Road Pirates by Aaron (-_-)


Road Pirates by Aaron (-_-)

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fancy song [deleted] says:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/rods_in_lego/3894995968/]
This is my '27 Chevy with a gatling and chain gun.
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SHARPSPEED says:

Brawler Hellraiser Post Apoc vehical by SHARPSPEED


Here's mine! It a Brawler Hellraiser, modded for zombie killing service!
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rabidnovaracer is a group moderator rabidnovaracer says:

Run zombies! Run!

Post-apoc HMMWV Slantback

A HMMWV Slantback
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Lego Monster says:

If you absolutely positively have to mow down a field full of zombies, accept no substitute. I bring you... The Zombine Harvester:



The farmers and ore miners of New Portsmouth got together soon after the apocalypse. Fed up of the zombie raids, they converted an old ore hauling truck into the ultimate in Zombie killing.

TO FULLY APPRECIATE ALL ITS FEATURES LOOK HERE
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fancy song [deleted] says:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/rods_in_lego/3924968982/]
A couple of guys living in an old New York bomb shelter were driving along to find cars or trucks to fix, and they found a little hatch with a flat-4. They gave it a Gatling,sniper, and Minigun.
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kin.leg◎ says:

Sorry Lino that I'm a bit late to this challenge. Just a bit too busy with my final exam. And now, I show you the hybrid between PA and Sci-Fi themed Apoc Vehicle!

Just the combat scene that I made.

Apoc Vehicle_04 by kin.leg◎


And big wheels are for wheelie!
Smoke you baby! by kin.leg◎

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Dohoon Kim says:

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/dohoon/3926000617/]
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oingus says:

I give you, um, the apoc truck. Sorry, too late to think up any fancy names.

Truck by oingus


I also made a HUMVEE, a trailer for carrying it (with flamethrower) and four characters, including even Sargeant Rex Malone! Sorry, no cattle prods, but machine guns and flamethrowers galore.
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oingus says:

The HUMVEE! Posted seperately so I'll get more praise in the write-up for both of them. ;D More-or-less to-scale with the truck.

HUMVEE by oingus

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/>ylan/>. says:

Finally! My entry! An early '90s style flatbed truck with a dangerous exposed V8 engine and high-caliber machine gun! Video!

Post-Apoc Flatbed Truck
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gambort says:

Apocalego by gambort


Brains make an awful mess of the sidewalk. Check out the link under the pic. That's what I lived today. It was awesome aside from the stinging dust effect.
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Jason son says:

This is my entry for the Killfest.

PA Truck 1 by Jason son

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Proudlove is a group administrator Proudlove says:

mobile lookout tower by Proudlove


A mobile lookout tower. An essential part of this complete apocalypse.
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Aaron (-_-) says:

I´ve got 2 entries comin at you in the thick of it at a recent zombie display put on by us in VicLUG.

First an apocafied version of one of my older creations.

VicLUG Zombie Apocalypse by Aaron (-_-)


And a creation inspired by a LEGO set built by my LUGmate Rod well before it had come out. This beauty has been kicking around for some time now a few weeks after last years BrickCon Zombie Apocafest if memory serves correct.
VicLUG Zombie Apocalypse by Aaron (-_-)

The Zombine!!!!!!!!
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Lino M is a group administrator Lino M says:

Mobile Slaughterhouse...We Don't Need No Stinkin' Horseys!
A Mobile Slaughterhouse designed to turn the unthinking zombie masses into glue. Head on over to my photo stream to read more about the gruesome horrors lurking within. ;)
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legotanks says:

Blood Harvest by legotanks


The zombie apocalypse means unemployment for those who provide food to the living. This heavily modified combine comes with two motion-sensing electric gatling guns and a special failsafe package strapped to the back.
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legotanks says:

Meat Plow by legotanks


A 1965 Oshkosh snowblower truck is repurposed for turning solid zombies into less solid zombies.
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Sam Christian (Samthelegoman1) says:

The LifeSaver

The Life Saver by Sam Christian (Samthelegoman1)

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_olafo says:

Well, I finally got ahold of a temporary camera, and just in time also. So, here's my entries!

Big Mack

Big Mack

Fodder

Apocalego Four-Wheeler

Shot Rod

Shot Rod
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Lino M is a group administrator Lino M says:

They were going to save all this zombie killin' business for the breeders...but 130 Mai Tais later it just seemed like a good idea. Head to my photostream to learn more about the most ridiculous zombie fightin' vehicle ever made.

Zombie Killin' Gay Pride Float

Yanno, it was actually a lot of fun to build a pink tractor.
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legot465 says:

And in the nick of time:

zombie death jeep by legot465

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oingus says:

And, in the knickers of time.

Modified Appaloosa Torrent-90 by oingus

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lego911 is a group moderator lego911 says:

Got a Zombie problem?

Need to get somewhere in a big hurry?

Why not take the original high-speed Post-Apocalyptic Mean-Machine - the Ford Falcon Mad Max Interceptor. The last of the V8s.

GRRRRRRR

Mad Max Interceptor

For more information and picture, please see the photostream.

911
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kin.leg◎ says:

Last minute entry! The CAT

When you are alone in your house and those zombies are just outside of your house, what should you do? No doubt, immediately apocfied your car or truck or any vehicle will do, and crush them into pieces!!

This is what my neighbor do with his truck. :P

CAT_01 by kin.leg◎

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Azaghal Gabilzaramul says:

More pictures tomorrow or Friday, but for now I give you . . .

Gangsters VS Zombies by Azaghal Gabilzaramul


Gangsters VS Zombies!
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SHARPSPEED says:

Roundup?
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Aaron (-_-) says:

It seems as though both Nathan and Lino will be rather busy at BrickCon this weekend among other LUGNuts as well.
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legot465 says:

If only I lived in Seattle
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rabidnovaracer is a group moderator rabidnovaracer says:

Sharp- must we revisit this topic every month? Settle down. The Round-up will be posted in due time; and yes, Lino, Nathan and I are, among others, at Brickcon this weekend.
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Proudlove is a group administrator Proudlove says:

Thanks to the patient ones. (Sharpspeed, it appears you're itchin' to find out the true power of the written word) Brickcon was fun and it was good to meet Tim. Check out the badly edited pic of the four of your fabulous LUGNuts crew.

lugnuts crew by Proudlove


The round-up is up, guys and gals. Have at 'er!

lugnuts-cars.blogspot.com/2009/10/zombie-apocalypse-killf...
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_olafo says:

Whoops, guess I did forget music on the other pictures. Well, I changed that!

Thanks for the round-up!
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/>ylan/>. says:

Great roundup! Worth the wait ;D

Next year I'll try to make it to brick-con...hopefully...maybe. Apple Pie lives in Seattle now so I'd be surprised if he didn't at least attend the show. Anyone know?
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Jon Derk says:

Great roundup! I'm probably going to BrickCon next year. But I'm not old enough to display my creations :,)
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oingus says:

Where is next year's BrickCon? If it's close to Oregon, I might go, if my parents are willing to drive me there. Heh heh.

I'm so sad I missed it when it was in Portland. It was so close, and yet so far. There was my chance, and yet we left for Poland a month early. ;_;
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Lino M is a group administrator Lino M says:

BrickCon is always in Seattle and always the first weekend in October.

BrickFest is in Portland about every other year usually in April or May. The organizers of that one are a little less...lets say organized so we're never sure if/when they're having another one.

And there are others all over the country and the world. But you can always depend on BrickCon being in Seattle on the first weekend of every October.
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Jesse Ives says:

Any near Texas, or the entire south-west for that matter? so far I've had no luck finding any, and my parent's cheapness never ceases to amaze me.
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