This app is stupid. A random nickname generator, with no option to not select one? What the heck is the point of that? Isn’t my LEGO ID/username good enough? So now I’m apparently “ElderLovablePossum”, which, while mildly amusing, means nothing to me and has nothing to do with LEGO… Ten points from Hufflepuff!
I only had to type “adv” for the Advanced Builders group to pop up. +5
But I’d never have known to do that, so I’d never have seen the contest (or anything else under that categorization) if my friend hadn’t told me. -10
(At least you can “follow” posts or areas or whatever, so now I can access “Advanced Builders” from my home page, which I get to by clicking the minifig head at bottom left of screen, and then – for some reason, not that I’d know if I hadn’t just tried – clicking on the “family portrait” icon…) I’ma call that one a net zero – positive that I can save stuff, negative because it’s complicated and non-intuitive to find my list of saved stuff. +0
But then, the links in my “family portrait” (favorites) are all broken, and I get an error message, thereby COMPLETELY DEFEATING THE PURPOSE. -20… Hufflepuff is really struggling right now…
But then, once in Advanced Builders, it’s just a feed (well, there are a few broken buttons near the top – including a medal that I thought might be for voting on the contest, but nope, just says “sorry, we can’t find that anywhere!”) So then you have to scroll down to find “Vote for your favorite rebuild of the LEGO Life logo!” -5
So I voted for Greg (I’m pretty sure) by just tapping his photo. The title block turned solid/darker red, so it seems locked in.
The good news is, he’s winning. The bad news is, can’t tell whether 100 people or 100,000 have voted… but my hunch is it isn’t all that many, because in the time it’s taken me to write this snarky post making fun of the app, the percentages have changed drastically. Screen shots show:
42% Greg
33% Castle
17% Construction
8% Rainbow
0% Black and White (didn’t screen shot that one)
But now I’m seeing:
38% Greg
31% Castle
15% Construction
8% Rainbow
8% Black and White
While I like Greg’s very much, I think the Castle one rivals it in coolness, and the construction one uses a similar concept (a la DIG Into Reading) with the cave on the left side. And, much of the awesomeness of Greg’s build is in the windows, which you can’t even friggin’ see into in the small isometric photo in the app – you can tell there are minifigs, and kinda make out the penguin kid, king, etc…. but can’t really appreciate the key detail from the overview shot. So, while I vote @greg and hope he wins, I won’t be surprised if the castle ends up winning – even there, you can’t fully appreciate the Escher-ness without detail shots or even a zoom function.
Actually, as I poke around a bit more, I guess each entry got its own post in the feed, and you can indeed tap the pics to embiggen from there. Interestingly, the hearts on the individual posts come nowhere close to matching the voting percentages – Greg’s still doing well, but the construction one has 356 <3 to his 338 <3, and the castle has a paltry 45 <3.
Overall, very confusing. But hopefully @greg wins!
Refreshed again, and now I'm seeing:
40% Greg
27% Castle
13% Construction
13% Rainbow
7% Black and White
So it’s definitely getting traffic, if nothing else, although I can’t fathom how… and the more overall voters while Greg holds a strong percentage lead, the more secure his lead is!
Last note: maybe the random name generator is to protect kids…?
