OK its with much excitement that I can reveal the winners of our Power5 competition. Firstly I’d just like to say that I am blown away by the not only the amount of entries we received (twenty six) but the quality of all the entries. I think I can honestly say there wasn’t a design that would have caused me disappointment if it had made the series.
So lets get down to business, and in reverse order announce the 5 winners….
At number 5 we have Prisoner Of The Beard! by Uncle Absinthe. With 5 points.
At number 4 we have Mary by Brett Cloke. With 5 points.
At number 3 we have T-Goon by Streets of Beige. With 9 points.
At number 2 we have Crouching Death by Toy Terror. With 11 points.
And finally in the number 1 position we have Brunt Out by Alto. With 18 points.
We would also like to make an honorable mention to Tough Guy by Ash Bellwood. We actually had a 3 way tie for 4th and 5th position between Uncle Absinthe, Brett Cloke and Ash Bellwood. It was however decided that Ash’s design was unfortunately to intricate to sculpt and cast at the 1†size. However we were so blown away by Ash’s developing skills, we have decided to make him his very own one off version of Tough Guy at a much more awesome size! Congratulations Ash, and thanks so much for entering, your design was massively popular in the public vote.
So next I would just like to explain the voting process a little more. As you know everything in the Power5 project revolves around the number 5. We had 5 judges who picked 5 winners each, to eventually decide the 5 pieces that would make the series. So the judges all picked their 5 favorites in order, and we attributed points to each position, for example 5 points to 1st place, 4 points to 2nd place and so on. The judges votes are detailed below….
Jim Freckingham – Robotic Industries
1st Place – Crouching Death
2nd Place – Burnt Out
3rd Place – Mr Winky
4th Place – Tenta TV
5th Place – Nitty Gritty
Lisa Rae Hansen – iBreakToys
1st Place – T-Goon
2nd Place – Burnt Out
3rd Place – Crouching Death
4th Place – Prisoner Of The Beard
5th Place – Plankton
Daniel Perry – fugi.me
1st Place – Burnt Out
2nd Place – T-Goon
3rd Place – Prisoner Of The Beard
4th Place – Watchdog
5th Place – Crouching Death
Ben Hart – ToyCon UK
1st Place – Burnt Out
2nd Place – TC-13-P5-001
3rd Place – Zlop
4th Place – Mary
5th Place – Baby Ryu
So the 5th judge was the public vote, conducted by using the like button on the images posted in our facebook gallery. These likes were counted up, and popped in order, and given the same scores as the judges so 1st place got 5 points, down to 5th place getting 1 point. These results can be seen below….
1st Place – Tough Guy (106 likes)
2nd Place – Fink (92 likes)
3rd Place – Mary (79 likes)
4th Place – Crouching Death (66 likes)
5th Place – Greg Peck (38 likes)
We created this system to hopefully make everything as fair as possible, and to create a fantastic mini series that everyone will love to get their hands on at ToyCon UK in April next year.
So the next thing to happen will be the collaboration between Robotic Industries and the winning artists to develop their sculpt, before it is sent off to Lisa-Rae Hansen to be cast in 5 different colours. All very exciting.
I would once again like to say a massive thank you to everyone that entered. And everyone who took part in the facebook public vote.
The full details of the project can be read in this post. And if you haven’t had a chance yet, make sure you check out all the entries in this facebook gallery.
