Welcome to Season 7 – Round 8 of Iron Builder!
Who will take home the crown?
Our defending Iron Builder Champion Eann McCurdy or our challenger Andrew Cazenave-Tapie?
And the seed part is…
This round’s seed part is the Plant Flower Bell Shaped with Small Pin Hole in dark blue.
Now our two contestants have 14 days to come up with amazing and inspiring creations featuring this seed part. Wish them luck! They’ll better get cracking!
Who are you rooting for? Who will take it home? Whose builds reign supreme?
Only one way to find out! ALLEZ BRICK!
Mrs. Cheeseman’s Sanctuary
Hey Andrew! It’s been a hot minute since the bell rang; excited to see what you’ve been cooking up with the seed part
I hope you aren’t as lost as the protagonist of this build. Don’t worry if you are, though; there’s always a mouse around to guide the way! Myself? Anyone who’s familiar with my photo stream will know mushrooms and I go a long way back. So as we started tinkering, imagine my de-light when I found that it makes a great fantastical mushroom!
Who will-ow win this round? We’ll leaf it to the judges to decide in just a few weeks, but in the meantime, let’s put on a show!
Blue-Bell Monastery
Hey Eann! I see you’ve had a lovely early start, but don’t worry about me I’m not far behind and if you don’t watch out I will catch up. I’m glad to hear you’ve found comfort with your beloved mushrooms. Just make sure to not eat the wrong ones, or you might end up as blue as them!
In any case, I can hear the bell ringing loudly for plenty of brand new ideas, pouring out like a fountain, so I wish you luck for the rest of this round, you’re definitely going to need it if you wish to retain your title!
Wedding Cake
Excellent microscale build; the bell connection is super fun!
Unfortunately, taking my throne isn’t going to be a piece of cake like you may have thought. I’m well prepared for our con-frost-ation and won’t go down easy. Try to topper this!
LEGO Perchta Mask
I can see that you’ve been cooking last two days. It’s quite fitting since this Perchta is quite hungry. However I doubt a cake will be enough, she seems to want the victory too!
Zhiguli on the road
Well Eann, you seem to have gone a little quiet out there. So much so that I had to send out a good old Zhiguli to look for you. In the meantime, I’ve discovered how forks and bell flowers make perfect power line insulators.
Live Iron Builder Reaction
Sorry, I got carried away in a brainstorming session. Love those powerlines; the fork connection looks a bit sketchy but is quite clever! When first opening this piece, I was a bit skeptical at first. Turns out there’s a whole lot of room to play with connections after all! Don’t pencil in this as a win yet, though; it’ll take more than cool connections to get the judges to note- ice.
If You Give A Mouse A Cookie
If you give mousellanabuilds a bell-shaped flower
Then he’ll probably build a teacher.
When he’s done building the teacher,
He’ll probably build a blackboard too.
…then he’ll realize a floating blackboard looks stupid and spend the next 72 hours building an entire classroom.
Laboratory Tools
Great work with that classroom scene, very clean and creative. I even had to get the microscope out to inspect some of those well hidden connections. Don’t worry though, my laboratory is still working at full capacity and we may or may not have found more promising recipes for upcoming builds!
Sink with Flowers
Lovely microscope! I don’t know about you, but now that we’ve had plenty of time for the round to sink in, I’ve been feeling quite drained. Believe it or not, though, we only have a few days left; hopefully you aren’t feeling b-rushed!
LEGO Fighter Jet
Oh I still feel like we’re just getting started. There’s no doubt we’ve been flying through this round! Yet, for an IB round between engineers, it was about time someone brought some more serious engineering. I hope you don’t mind me taking a page from my own field for this one.
Roll for Initiative!
I think the term “engineer” is a generous title for my position compared to your job- I’m sure the skills of your field dwarf mine. The quality of that airship definitely explains where you’ve been the last couple of days!
Personally, though, I like to keep my work and hobbies separate; while you’ve been designing aircraft, I’ve been exploring the depths of a dungeon. But enough roleplay: we only have a few days left, and it’s time to take initiative! I’ve been taking it easy on you the last couple of builds, but it’s time to roll up my sleeves and begin my final build. See you Saturday, and best of luck in the final days!
Farewell, Coral City
How are we doing bud? Feel like I haven’t sean you in a hot minute! Hang in there; you’re in the home stretch now!
These have been a wild two weeks, huh? From slices of cake, to planes, automobiles- maybe we’ll even see a train in these last few hours? May as well add a submersible/boat to the list while we’re at it! This part was a fun one, even if the minimal connections caused some headache along the way. Truly, though, I feel we’ve barely dived beneath the surface! So far I’ve counted 36 unique uses, and yet it feels like we could be going on for eternity. Thankfully for myself- and for my sleep schedule that has been shot to 9th layer of hell so mach as to put convention nights to shame- this ends tonight (well, it still feels like night). It’s been a pleasure to compete with you; not against you, but alongside you! May the best builder prevail!
Medieval Market
Well Eann , it seems this round has finally come to an end, and while you decided to go to the depths of the ocean, I couldn’t think of a better way to end than to take it back to where it started: medieval/fantasy times. It’s been a an honour to compete with you these past two weeks and I must say you’re quite a worthy opponent. But in any case, things are now on the judges hands, and who knows maybe we’ll all be floored by the results!
Round 8 is officially over!
It is now in the hands of our judges to decide who has won this round!
Good luck to both our builders!