Design The Dungeons & Dragons Building Instructions Cover!
Winner Announcement
The winners have been chosen! Thank you for participating and making this challenge great.
We’re all looking forward to the release of ‘Dragon’s Keep: Journey’s End’ by BoltBuilds. But imagine opening the box and finding your artwork as the cover on the building instructions!
Your designs should show off the best of Dungeons & Dragons. It could be worlds, characters, battles or anything else you feel represents 50 years of this game.
Your entries should:
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Be at least 270mm x 192mm in size and 300 DPI. Larger submissions should be in the same ratio.
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Have space for featuring the LEGO Logo and the Dungeons and Dragons Logo (Any other details like legal lines etc.)
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Be Dungeons and Dragons art and not feature LEGO elements or be in a LEGO element style.
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You may draw, use photos you've taken or use editing software to create your designs. But all work must be original and your own.
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AI-generated artwork will not be allowed or accepted in this, or any other challenge on LEGO Ideas.
If you are the Selected Designer of this challenge, you will receive the following:
- The opportunity to have YOUR design as the Building Instructions cover art!
- 5 copies of the set, with YOUR art on the building instructions, based on Dragons Keep: A Journey’s End.
ENTRY DEADLINE: Submit your entry no later than May 2nd 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. If you’re not sure what time zone you’re in, here’s a time zone converter.
Overview
How it Works
The Challenge will consist of 4 phases:
- Submission Phase - Create and submit your entry before May 2nd 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. We recommend submitting your entry 2-3 days before the deadline in the event we have to return it to you for changes. If your entry is submitted before the intake closing date but is sent back to you for changes, you will have until May 3rd 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST. to resubmit. Resubmissions after this will not be accepted.
- Judging Phase - Our judges review the entries and choose entries for the Fan Vote by May 9th 2023.
- Fan Vote Phase - The fan vote will determine the Selected Designer and Runner Up prizes and will run from May 10th 2023 – May 17th 2023.
- Design Selection Announcement - We will share the Selected Design and Fan Vote results here on LEGO Ideas by July 2023.
How to submit your design:
- Submissions may be drawn, use photos or use editing software to create your designs.
- Submit up to five photos of your creation and submit them to the Challenge.
- Please submit your artwork in as high a resolution as possible so that we can see all the details clearly. Please remember your entries should be at least 270mm x 192mm in size and 300 DPI and larger submissions should be in the same ratio.
- Add a title and a short description.
- Upload your submission using the Submit Entry button on this page.
Submission Rules:
In addition to the LEGO® IDEAS™ TERMS OF SERVICE (including, without limitation, the House Rules, Product Idea Guidelines and Privacy Policy), by submitting a LEGO® product idea involving, utilizing or incorporating the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS (“D&D”) intellectual property (a “D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission”), you additionally agree to the “D&D Content Terms” (below). IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT SUBMIT OR UPLOAD YOUR D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ SUBMISSION. To the extent that the D&D Content Terms conflict with the LEGO® IDEAS™ TERMS OF SERVICE (including, without limitation, the House Rules, Product Idea Guidelines and Privacy Policy), the D&D Content Terms shall prevail, solely with respect to a D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission.
Therefore, make sure you read our Product Ideas guidelines thoroughly to make sure your design can be approved and is eligible for review and voting.
- You must be the original creator of all creative work you submit (the images, description text, etc.) and you must have the exclusive right to submit your entry to this LEGO Ideas Challenge. You may not submit an entry or any other content made by, or on behalf of, someone else.
- Entries must be new creations and not previously posted online or submitted to any other Challenge.
- Entries can only reference Dungeons and Dragons and should not contain copies or references to any other existing third-party work or creation or infringements of any third-party intellectual property right such as Ford.
- Challenge entries related to the topics below do not fit our brand values and will not be approved for publication on LEGO Ideas:
- Politics and political symbols, campaigns, or movements
- Religious references including symbols, buildings, or people
- Sex, nudity, drugs, or smoking
- Alcohol in any present-day situation
- Swearing or profanity
- Death, killing, blood, terrorism, horror, or torture
- First-person shooter video games
- Warfare or war vehicles in any modern or present-day situation, or national war memorials
- Large or human-scale weapons or weapon replicas of any kind, including swords, knives, guns, sci-fi or fantasy blasters, etc.
- Racism, bullying, or cruelty to real life animals
Submission Quality Standards
- You may use photo editing software, such as Photoshop, to enhance your entry’s presentation.
- Entries containing photos that are too dark or blurry will not be approved.
- Please do not include people or limbs in pictures you submit. Photos containing such will be removed.
- Please do not overlay any text or logos onto your submitted images.
House Rules
- Submissions containing defamatory or degrading elements will not be eligible and will be rejected.
- Any cheating or harassment of other participants will result in disqualification and/or rejection of a submission, and/or removal from the LEGO® IDEAS™ platform.
- Your submission and comments on submissions must follow the complete LEGO® IDEAS™ House Rules.
Judging
The Judges (consisting of members from the LEGO® IDEAS™ team and the Wizards of the Coast team), will choose entries for the Fan Vote based on, and not limited to:
- Best representation of 50 years of D&D
- Originality
- Details
- Use of colour
- Composition
The Fine Print
- You must be at least 13 years of age to participate and submit a design.
- You may submit multiple models for consideration, but only one submission per person will be considered when the designs are chosen for the Fan Vote phase. This means no single person will have more than one design submission in the Fan Vote phase.
- Creators of the selected submissions will be contacted on the email address associated with their LEGO ID account by July 2023. The full list of designs selected will be announced on LEGO® IDEAS™ when all chosen creators have returned the signed Certification Documents. Any creator who does not return their Certification Document within five (5) business days of receiving it will be disqualified.
- Active participation by way of submissions of any kind is not open to residents of Iran, North Korea, Myanmar/Burma, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Syria, Belarus, Russia or any other country which is subjected to sanctions, for as long as such sanctions remain in place, or where otherwise prohibited or restricted by law. Submissions by residents of Russia will be rejected.
- If you are a resident of Ukraine or Belarus and your design is selected for the Fan Vote phase, or if your submission is ultimately chosen as the LEGO® IDEAS™ Dungeons & Dragons set, your prizes will be shipped at a later date once shipping resumes normal operation.
- By submitting a design, you agree to follow the rules on this Submission Brief page, you agree to the LEGO® IDEAS™ Terms of Service and you agree to the D&D Content Terms.
- This submission invitation is offered, organized and run solely by the LEGO Group, with a limited license from Hasbro for usage of the Dungeons and Dragons intellectual property. Participants should direct all queries and matters relating to their submissions to LEGO® IDEAS™.
- LEGO is not obligated to commercialize any D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission.
D&D Content Terms
- Subject to the terms and conditions herein, you are hereby granted a limited non-exclusive, non-assignable, royalty-free, revocable license solely to submit the D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission through the LEGO® IDEAS™ Platform until such license terminates or is earlier revoked by Hasbro or its designee.
- By submitting a D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission you acknowledge and agree that: (i) the title of the DUNGEONS & DRAGONS property, and all characters, creatures, weapons, powers and spells, character names, locations, titles, plots, storylines, logos, artwork, and all other elements of the property, as well as the Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast’s associated logos and trademarks (collectively the “Properties”) are the intellectual property (including, without limitation, trademarks and copyrights) of Hasbro or its affiliate(s), whether or not registered as such; (ii) the goodwill associated with the Properties and all uses of the foregoing inure solely and exclusively to Hasbro or its affiliate (s); and (iii) the Properties have acquired, and will continue indefinitely to have and to acquire, a secondary meaning in the minds of the public.
- Except for the limited licenses granted herein, you agree that you shall not acquire any rights, title or ownership interest in the Properties, or any derivatives thereof, as a result of your use thereof. Without limitation, you acknowledge and agree that you shall not acquire any right whatsoever in any product, digital game or other digital content, motion picture or television production or other endeavor which is based upon, derivative of, inspired by, or otherwise related to the Properties including, without limitation, remakes, prequels, sequels, sound recordings, publications, or other endeavors in which the characters, characterizations, designs, and/or visual representations contained in the Properties may appear; all right, title, and interest in and to the foregoing is retained by Hasbro and/or its affiliate(s), as applicable, without limitation or restriction including the right to exploit or license any items based upon such derivative or related works. Without limiting the foregoing, you hereby assign to Hasbro or its affiliates with full title guarantee all such rights created by the use of the Properties as depicted in the D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission together with associated goodwill In the event that such rights are not transferred to Hasbro or its affiliates by operation of assignment due to applicable law, you hereby grant Hasbro and/or its affiliates a perpetual, exclusive, irrevocable, transferable, sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free, paid-up license to use, exploit, and sublicense such rights in the Properties as depicted in the D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission, whether or not such rights are copyrightable, patentable or otherwise protectable under applicable law. You agree to execute and deliver to Hasbro all necessary documents, assignments and signatures, which Hasbro may reasonably request for the purpose of perfecting Hasbro or its affiliates title to all such rights as are assigned or licensed above. To the extent permissible by law, you hereby waive all so-called ‘moral rights’ as may be subsumed in the D&D LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission.
- You shall not, directly or indirectly, at any time, attack Hasbro’s or its affiliate’s ownership of the Properties or the validity thereof or attack the validity of the license granted herein, or apply for any registration or file any document or take any action which would affect Hasbro’s or its affiliate’s ownership of the Properties or other product development material, or aid or abet anyone else in doing so, or use or authorize the use of any Hasbro or Wizards of the Coast trademark, trade name or words, symbols or combination thereof or other designation identical with or confusingly similar to such marks or to any element of the Properties, whether or not such element shall have been protected by patent, trademark or copyright. You agree not to in any way disparage the Properties, Hasbro, or any of its affiliates including Wizards of the Coast.
- You agree that if Hasbro or its affiliates (or their licensees or designees) introduce a product, digital game or other digital content, publication, sound recording, motion picture or television production or other entertainment content, character, plot, storyline, creature, weapon, power or spell, or other endeavor or element of any type or kind, which is based upon, similar to, identical to, derivative of, inspired by, or otherwise related to your Dungeons & Dragons LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission, whether accepted to or rejected from the LEGO® IDEAS™ Platform, and regardless of whether or not such Dungeons & Dragons LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission reaches the Fan Vote Phase, no payment or royalty shall be due by Hasbro or its affiliates, and you shall receive no credit or other acknowledgment, and you further agree to indemnify and hold Hasbro and its affiliates harmless and release Hasbro and its affiliates from any and all claims of infringement relating to any such Dungeons & Dragons LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission.
- You further expressly agree that the sole and complete compensation you may be entitled to receive will be in accordance with the LEGO Group’s Product Idea Guidelines, as set forth in the “Prizes” section, herein below.
- You acknowledge and agree that the license grant from Hasbro herein extends only to the submission of the Dungeons & Dragons LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission on the LEGO® IDEAS™ Platform, and that you may not otherwise utilize the Properties, whether online or in a physical location.
- You will at all times comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, regulations, and rules relating or pertaining to the Dungeons & Dragons LEGO® IDEAS™ Submission(s).
- Failure to comply with any of the shall be a material breach and may result in the immediate termination of the license grants herein.
Prizes
If you are the Selected Designer of this challenge, you will receive the following:
- The opportunity to have YOUR design as the Building Instructions cover art!
- 5 copies of the set, with YOUR art on the building instructions, based on Dragons Keep: A Journey’s End.
Submissions chosen for the Fan Vote phase, but not selected as the LEGO® IDEAS™ Dungeons & Dragons product Building Instructions, will receive the following:
- A copy of the set, based on Dragons Keep: A Journey’s End.
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