Today marks Mask of Destiny’’s fifth anniversary! I haven’’t been with MoD for the entirety of those five years, but I have something to commemorate the event. I will be hosting a group of five contests, one contest for each year.

I’ll have more details on the deadline and prizes later, but you must include a valid shipping address (for the prize) with your entry in order to be eligible to win. If you are under 18 please have your parent or guardians provide written consent, or preferably have them enter your creation for you. Please note right now I am not taking entries. The categories below are subject to change and these are not necessarily all the rules we will use for the contest, but they will remain the basic guidelines for them.

Category One: Alternate Model

Limiting yourself to the parts that come in any one BIONICLE® canister set, you must make something completely new! Also, if the set only came with X amount of parts, you may not use more than that amount of parts when building your model, for example if you’re using a VISORAK set you can’t use more than four of Part 50858 since the set only had four in the first place.

Category Two: Way of the Toa Olda

Build a creation only using parts available before the TOA METRU. In other words no use of TOA METRU parts or any new parts that came out the following years. You may use parts that came out in newer colors since then as long as the original of that part existed before the TOA METRU were released.

Category Three: All in the Canister

For this category you have to build a set that fits into any BIONICLE canister. This EXCLUDES the TOA INIKA canister. The set must be able to fit into the canister without removing any parts, including tools or weapons. The MOC may physically attach to the lid, but the MOC’’s attachment mechanism must not protrude out of the can’’s lid when inside it.

Category Four: Inventors’ Guild

For this contest you have to demonstrate a new “concept” to use with a MOC and include an essay about what your invention does and what you speculate it is good for. To be specific you use a part or group of parts a certain way with other parts and then tell us about it and how your idea contributes to fellow MOCers. For example, a kind of shoulder or a fully articulated torso. Perhaps a working TOA tool?

Category Five: BIG BOB

Build a large-scale MOC, preferably between two and three canisters tall compared to a PIRAKA or TOA METRU canister. Creativity and use of parts is the key for this one, since a large MOC means it can use more complex tools or have more special features and mechanisms!