Contest: Mind that Banana

Entry form and T&Cs

In celebration of the awesome elements in the Peely Bone set, we are running a building contest with 7 great LEGO® Fortnite prizes!

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How to enter 

• Build an original creation using at least one LEGO banana element in your build. 
• This can be any of the three LEGO System elements representing bananas (see below).
• You must not use any of your banana elements to represent a banana! All bananas must be used to represent something else.

"Mind That You Don't Use a Banana as a Banana" was a bit of a mouthful for a contest name, so we're just calling it Mind that Banana.

Judges will be looking for imagination, creativity and cleverness in your use of bananas as non-bananas, and the quality of your building and presentation will also play a smaller part in the judging. Size doesn't matter, it's what you do with your bananas that counts!

Here are the three permitted banana pieces:

• Banana (33085, 67129) [View on Rebrickable | BrickLink | Brickset |  | Brick Owl]
• Banana Peel (5215) [View on Rebrickable | BrickLink | Brickset | Brick Owl]
• Banana Bunch (3566) [View on Rebrickable | BrickLink | Brickset | Brick Owl]

Search LEGO Pick a Brick for all 3 banana elements

Reminder: You don't have to use every kind of banana element in your creation, one of the three is enough.

You may be less familiar with the Banana Bunch, since it only appears in three sets. Here's a closer look at it:

When you have completed your model/s, the entry form and full terms and conditions are here.

Here are some of the more important points to be aware of before you start.

• You must be over 18
• This contest is open to all countries except for the Russian Federation, Iran and Sudan. This is due to postage restrictions to these countries by Australia Post and is beyond our control.
• You can build with real LEGO bricks or digital LEGO bricks.
• Your creation must be new – not something you have already published online.
• You may enter as many times as you wish (but please don't spam the judges with loads of similar entries!)
• Entries close Sunday 1 December 2024 at 11.59pm UTC. Check your local time equivalent here.

Prizes

There are 7 prizes in total: 5 equal first place winners, 1 second place winner and 1 third place winner.

• There will be five first prizes of LEGO Fortnite set 77072 Peely Bone
• There will be one second prize: LEGO Fortnite sets 77071 Supply Llama & 77070 Durrr Burger
• There will be one third prize: LEGO Fortnite set 77071 Supply Llama

If you want to get excited about the prizes, check out Zach's article listing every new part in the October 2024 LEGO Fortnite sets.

We know you'll go bananas over this contest, so make like a banana...and build something apeeling for our Mind that Banana contest. Which of our readers will be top banana and who will slip up? We'll pick the best of the bunch.

Judges

UPDATE! We can now announce the three people who will be judging the winners in December:

• Mathias Julin, product designer – lead designer of the LEGO Fortnite Peely Bone set!
• Markus Rollbühler, senior product designer – working on LEGO Lunar New Year Festival sets left him with banana trauma, but he's happy to overcome that!
• Thomas Jenkins, one of New Elementary's highly apeeling contributors!

The contest is run by New Elementary with support from the LEGO Group. New Elementary is not associated with the LEGO Group. LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site.

All text and images are ©New Elementary except element renders which are ©The LEGO Group.