24 posts tagged “contest”

Ok friends, I have put up a new contest (finally) over at the forum:  VinylToyFreaks. Plan on working that grey matter, which is your brain though, this one is going to take some thought! :)

Ok peeps, its time to put on your thinking caps for the latest contest on the forum.  We need some kind of slogan for our forum. 

The best slogan will be chosen to represent this forum.  So the winner will first of all have a claim to fame of being the one that  came up with the VTF slogan!  The other thing that the winner will get is  2 prizes from our mini figure goodie bag!  The second and third prizes will be for a single mini figure each and of course honorable mentions.  This should be fun.

Here is the criteria for comeing up with a slogan.

Short and sweet. KISS is the acronym for Keep It Short and Sweet.  Something short will stick in the minds of readers a lot longer in most cases.  Make it catchy .  A good slogan should run off your tongue and be memorable that way too.  Speaking of which, making it memorable.  Easier said than done huh?  Make sure your slogan not only relates to our forum, but will make people think of us whenever the slogan is said or seen.  No vulgar slogans or cursing.  (ex.  Toys Kick A__! won't be accepted)

Please keep in mind this is all in fun and don't take it all too seriously if you don't get picked. :)  Perhaps a new slogan every year will be used.. or 6 months.. whatever..

Get on with it guys!  The contest is officially started as of today and will run until 6/8/2008.  One month.  Plenty of time to come up with something!
~S4ndm4n

All standard rules apply, including min post count of 25, etc..

Ok guys  I think I'm going to try to post all of the entries that we receive on VTF for our biweekly contest.. unless we get tons (which I hope) then it'll be as many as I can..hehe.. Anyway.. here's the first:

Rufus J. Cirrus

He's a big orange cat who lives in an abandoned cliff dwelling.  He's been in the high desert ever since he was orphaned as a kitten, taught how to survive by his aged friend and mentor, the Right Honorable Rev. Chompington, a Gila Monster (Rufus calls him R.C., even though technically that works for both of them).  Rufus walks on his hind legs because no one told him he wasn't supposed to.  He and R.C. live together, R.C. sunning himself on the window ledges, and Rufus curled up in the shade.  It's not the best place for a longhair cat, but the Reverend knows where all the hidden springs and streams are.  R.C. doesn't really have a congregation, so he and Rufus have long philosophical discussions together.  Sometimes, Rufus will go out when the sun is down and scavenge the bits and pieces that the wind blows in (that's how he found his battered top hat).  Some of it, he uses to decorate the house, the rest goes toward perfecting his backpack glider.  That's the other reason Rufus likes the strong updrafts in the cliffs.  He's a bit natty-looking these days from past mishaps, but these days the wings work fine - it's more a matter of refinement now.  One of these days, he maintains, those desert birds are going to be in for a surprise!  Then they'll eat like kings.  R.C. listens patiently and gets the salve and bandages.

Entry from Member:  jpidgeon

Custom vibe has a rockin new contest posted for all you brilliant artists out there!  The coolest part about this contest is that you don't win a prize, you win SEVEN! That's right! Take a look at what one of them will be!  My boombu DIY..  that makes it all worth it.. Just kidding.. all of the diy toys included in the prize are awesome, IMHO.  :D 

Click on the image for details!

Ok so the first membership promotional giveaway has completed tonight and Nos4a2 has drawn the winner.  Thank you Jimmy Foo for the generous donation of the URFUKT Bud toy by Jamungo. 

If had a drumroll smiley it would help but I don't so I'll just drag out this line for a bit... ha!  Just kidding.  In all fairness, the number of members (brand new and since the start of the forum) at the end and with 10 or more posts was 24.  This was excluding the two admins of course and the donor of the toy. 

The list was randomly generated, and numbered, then a random number selection tool was used to pick.  The winner picked was

  badsurfer! 

Congratulations! 

And keep coming back (click here if you haven't joined us yet)for more people, we have more cool giveaways planned in the near future..

Toys R Evil has a year end giveaway going on and I think that most of you that read my blog would be interested in this.  Very cool prizes and its by Andy!  How can you go wrong?!  This is a great giveaway guys and Andy's blog is one of the great resources in the toy community.  Show your support and let him know you care, and you could win a great prize in the process!  :D  Toys R Evil's Giveaway

TRE_giveaway_1

First Prize (regular and alternate, see rules and details)

Toys R Evil giveaway 2008 2nd prize

Toys R Evil giveaway 2008 3rd Prize

Toys R Evil Giveaway 2008 4th Prize

Toys R Evil's official rules:

i would dearly have loved to give away seven prizes, but alas i have not enuff luv to spread around (sounds wrong but you know what i mean!) ... maybe by February i might have more to give? = when i "celebrate" the 3rd year of cyber-existence for thy blog :p (*shameless-hint to potential-prize-sponsors*)

HOW TO ENTER:
/// just leave your name and (working) email address in the comments section**! or you can choose drop me a PM @ toysrevil [at] yahoo [dot] com (*note: there will be NO acknowledgment of email-received)

/// **all i ask of you folks is if you could leave behind some feedback (however long or short) about my blog and how it's doing so far, for you as a reader, yeh? ... it could be: what can be improved on, what you'd like to see more or less of, whether i need to make my blog prettier etc = basically to help me improve my blog! all comments would be taken into consideration :) ... but if you reeeeeally don't want to, no worries - just leave your email addie.

(i'd love to do a survey, but i reckon folks will log-off when i ask LOL - those who are willing, pls PM me and you'll have my gratitude)

DATELINE:
the contest starts NOW and ends at the stroke of midnight passing unto January 1st 2008 (past 31st December 2007) - whereby 4 lucky winners will be randomly picked to receive the prizes in order of list (ie: 1st person picked, gets first prize and 2nd-picked get the second etc)
... which also means there's less than two weeks for me to attempt to complete the custom LOL

DISCLAIMERS:
- if you think i suck, no worries but keep it Under-18. vulgarities will be omitted, cool?
- all blog comments are moderated, so don't freak when it doesn't appear instantaneously, cheers :)
- one entry per person, per email. multiple-entries will be disqualified for the giveaway.
- winners will be contact via email, whereby your mailing address will be asked for.
- winners are to respond within 3 working days from sent-email. if such time where the winner(s) do not respond, the prize will be automatically moved forward to the next picked winner.
- the contest winners will be randomly picked by myself and be given out at my sole discretion. the final decision is mine.
- the prizes will be mailed out by myself. in the event a Singapore-based readers gets the prize, we just meet at MRT, yeh? or let me buy you a teh tarik okay? LOL

THANKS:
my sincere thanks to Andy Woo of Crazy Label, and Dark Horse for their generosity and kind support :)

This just posted on Vinyl Toy Freaks Blog!

Come join us at our new forum, called the Vinyl Toy Freaks! Created by the toy freaks, Nos4a2 (aka Louie Lanford) and s4ndm4n (aka Matt Beers), the Vinyl Toy Freaks would like to welcome new members to join us!

To entice all you toy freaks, fanatics, addicts and of course even the casual toy collectors, we are going to be giving away the URFUKT Bud toy by Jamungo Toys!

To Qualify:

1. You must sign up as a member to the forum (of course!)
2. You must post a short intro about yourself in the Introductions section and
3. To show that you’ve at least looked around a bit there (we know you’ll like it once you do!) You must post comments in at least 10 posts within any of the boards and board sections.**

That’s it! Pretty easy huh? Now get crackin’ cus this promo won’t last forever! We’re thinking all members on December 20, 2007 that meet the requirements above, will be eligible for the drawing! Get over there! We know you’ll like it once you meet us too!

**Spammed posts (repetitive posts for the sake of post count) will be deleted by the admin team and will not go toward the total post count

Postie

Ok so my friend, Martin Rimmer, who started the Love to Post site awhile back, is looking for entries for his mascot design for the site.  I'm always up for a new mascot to design so here's mine! 

Information about Love to Post:

LOVEtoPOST is a project run by Martin Rimmer, a graphic design student with a love for all things creative.
Blank postcards are sent out for creative people to draw, print or stick things onto and then post back.
All postcards will be displayed here with the contact information of the person who did it.

I would like a mascot for LOVEtoPOST and thought it would be a good idea to run a contest for it.

I will accept any format as i can vectorise it myself if need be, only limitation is that it has to have some relation to post however slight it may be.

Once you have your character done all you need to do is e-mail your entry to
postme@lovetopost.co.uk
in jpg format, low res is fine as long as you have a high res version in case you win.

now the good part
The winner will receive a Green Mini Teeter from the Finders Keepers toys
An advert under the Sponsors section of the website
A Tado mushroom from the computer arts mag
Tokidoki Leche Moofia Mini
and any other goodies i can find lying about

Its been awhile since I've posted anything about the MailMeArt site, so if you have only recently started reading my posts, here's what its all about:

About MAiLmeART.com was created by Darren Di Lieto, the founder and editor of LCSV4, after toying with the idea of doing a collaborative project that everyone involved in gets something out of. MAiLmeART is a little project designed to test your skills, make you some money and give you the chance to have a bit of fun. Oh!.. and win some really cool prizes.

Here are some of the latest entries:

Mailmeart_elmer

Mailmeart_riot68

Mailmeart_vallejo

More about the project:

In 18-24 months MAiLmeART will be holding an exhibition (venue to be confirmed). The show will include submissions from you guys and girls which will be on sale at the exhibition. The creators of items that sell at the show will receive 70% of the price their creations sell for, less the landlord’s cut. I can only offer 70% because I need to cover costs. The project will carry on and continue after the show with possibly another show the year after and the year after that. Hopefully the first show will be the first of many. To find out what you need to do to submit your work click here.