I'm delighted to announce the Animal Toy Forum Diorama Contest 2013, sponsored by
Safari Ltd, is now open! This is our first ever animal diorama contest so I'm especially looking forward to it! I hope you will decide to contribute to ensure our first contest goes off with a bang! We have some excellent prizes up for grabs thanks to our generous sponsor
Safari Ltd!
The rules and regulations for the contest are as follows:-Entry is
free.-All members of The Animal Toy Forum, including staff, are invited to participate. Non-members wishing to participate are invited to
register to the forum, this is free.
-There are
no categories, just a simple theme of 'wildlife'. Any and all figures, including customised figures, are allowed.
-The
deadline for entries is August 30th 2013. (Entries received after 00.00 hours GMT August 30th will be invalid.)
-One diorama entry per member.
-Entries must be accompanied by a
creative title. -If you have entered a diorama, you can't send in another one to replace the first one.
-Dioramas have to be new (never published on the web before) and you must have produced the diorama yourself. Stealing somebody else's diorama will result in disqualification.
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Photoshop is allowed, but the original photograph(s) must be your own.
-Entries will remain
anonymous until the winners are announced.
-Entries should be submitted as a
.jpg file, between 800 and 1000px wide.
-Entries should be
sent via email as an
attachment to
[email protected] The
email title should read as follows:
"animal diorama contest - [forum username]", and the
email body should include the
diorama title.-
Winners will be selected by a poll open to all Animal Toy Forum members. There will be three winners in first, second and third place respectively (no joint positions). These will be the top three dioramas as selected by the poll. In the event of a tie for any position, a tie-break poll will be created. There will also be three non-prize winning honourable mentions.
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Prizes. A selection of Safari Ltd figures, kindly provided by Safari Ltd, will be awarded to the first, second and third place winners. The prizes will be as follows:
1st Place Prize
The first place winner will receive a total of seven Safari Ltd figures! Specifically, choice of seven from the following list:
Wild Safari Capybara
Wild Safari Lesser Kudu
Wild Safari Chimpanzee with baby
Wild Safari Platypus
Wild Safari White rhino
Wild Safari Polar Bear
Wild Safari Polar Bear Cub
Wild Safari North American Wildlife American Badger
Wild Safari North American Wildlife Bison
Wild Safari Meerkats
Wild Safari Zebra
Incredible Creatures White-lipped snail
Incredible Creatures Clown trigger fish
Incredible Creatures Crocodile hatchling
Incredible Creatures Veiled chameleon
Incredible Creatures Bearded dragon
2nd Place Prize
Second place prize will receive five Safari Ltd figures. Specifically, second choice of five figures from the prize list above (i.e choice of those figures remaining after the first place winner has chosen).
3rd Place Prize
Third place prize winner will receive four Safari Ltd figures. Specifically, those figures remaining from the above list after the first and second place winners have chosen.
Questions and queries about the contest can be posted below. Also, for the dinosaur lovers amongst you, the
Dinosaur Toy Forum Diorama Contest 2013 sponsored by Safari Ltd is also now open.
So, I think the only thing that remains for me to say is "good luck and happy diorama-ing"!
