Here’s my #MakeLEGOSonicMoreEggman MOC entry!

July 7, 2023 | 4

Remember that mystery LEGO Sonic box I received from the LEGO Ideas team with a challenge to #MakeLEGOSonicMoreEggman?

Update: Vote for my Challenge Submission on LEGO Ideas!

In case you didn’t, here’s a quick recap – I was sent several bags of random LEGO bricks, disguised in actual LEGO Sonic set boxes, with a challenge to build my own MOC to #MakeLEGOSonicMoreEggman.

This is part of the LEGO Ideas Dr. Eggman’s Takeover challenge, where you too can #MakeLEGOSonicMoreEggman, and vandalise LEGO Sonic to win some great prizes.

The entries will enter a fan vote, and one Grand Prize Winner and two Runner-Up prize winners will score awesome LEGO Sonic-themed prize packs.

If you are the Grand Prize Winner of this challenge Fan Vote, you will receive the following: 

• 21331 Sonic the Hedgehog™ – Green Hill Zone
• 76990 Sonic’s Speed Sphere Challenge
• 76991 Tails’s Workshop and Tornado Plane
• 76992 Amy’s Animal Rescue Island
• 76994 Sonic’s Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge
• A Nintendo Switch with Sonic Games
• A Sonic Graphic Novel

Runner-up Prize:

• 76990 Sonic’s Speed Sphere Challenge
• 76991 Tails’s Workshop and Tornado Plane
• 76992 Amy’s Animal Rescue Island
• 76994 Sonic’s Green Hill Zone Loop Challenge
• A Sonic Graphic Novel

ENTRY DEADLINE: Submit your entry no later than July 11th 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST.  If you’re not sure what time zone you’re in, here’s a time zone converter.   

Note: this is a paid partnership with The LEGO Group

Here’s what I had to work with. A most random bunch of elements, with plenty of blues, and brows to #MakeLEGOSonicMoreEggman.

It was a pretty interesting challenge, and I decided to also challenge myself by using the elements provided and not introduce any other parts from my own collection to see what I could come up with on my own.

I decided to go lo-fi, and begin with an 8-bit LEGO Sonic pixel art-esque build, and started with Sonic’s head and face! The large blue slopes were really useful to bring Sonic’s quills to life, and I think I did okay with what I had to work with!

Next, to figure out how to make our dear old 8-bit Sonic more Eggman.

Dr. Eggman is a a fashion and style icon, so to me, I was inspired to make LEGO Sonic follow Robotnik’s sartorial genius and dress up as Eggman!

I had very very few red and black elements to work with, which was a huge challenge, but I somehow managed to put this chibi-body together! The legs were the biggest challenge, as I had mostly exhausted the black elements – thankfully ball-joints came to the rescue!

Let’s combine the two!

And here’s my completed build, alongside the new Dr. Eggman minifigure! I dubbed it an Egg-Bit LEGO Sonic dressed in his Eggman best!

All in all, I had a lot of fun with this challenge, as I don’t usually MOC, but I pushed myself to best interpret the #MakeLEGOSonicMoreEggman challenge, and I’m quite pleased with the end result.

The element limitation was by far the hardest thing, but I made the best with what I was given, and I was quite happy that it could also stand on its two feet!

I’ve also submitted my entry to the LEGO Ideas Challenge, and once approved, should show up in the gallery.

If you’d like to, you too can join the Dr Eggman Takeover challenge, and build your very own interpretation of how you’d #MakeLEGOSonicMoreEggman!

As it’s a LEGO Ideas challenge, you can also submit digital entries, as well as physical entries to the challenge, for the chance to win some excellent Sonic-themed prizes!

Entries for the Dr Eggman Takeover challenge close on July 11th 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST, before the fan voting segment begins! So please vote for me when votes open from 13 July to 20 July!

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