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Voting for the ninth Contraption Challenge is now open on the Official PlayStation Community forums. The finalists have been decided and it’s now down to you to choose the final winner.

The brief for this challenge was to build a vehicle capable of bridging or crossing a gap and following a mention on the Official PlayStation Blog, this was by far the biggest Contraption Challenge yet with more than 60 entries. These 60 were painstakingly narrowed-down to five by MVPs and the Community Team.

Take a gander at the finalists in the video below, then head over to this poll on the Official Forums to cast your vote.

Nuclearfish has now closed entries for the latest Contraption Challenge and the voting is open. The challenge was to create an amusement park ride like a ferris wheel, zipper or a carousel. Rides which use a track, like roller-coasters and ghost trains, were not allowed.

The levels you have to choose from are:

• CC08 The Utilize by Arnaldo7
• CC08 Celestial Orbiter by Deandria
• CC08 Fairground by EMERALD-COAST
• cc08 NEON STAR SHOT by haddington-bear
• cc08 Carnival by IStwisted
• cc08 The Sack Master by IStwisted
• cc08 The Twister by IStwisted
• CC08 Butter Churner by lukieboy1981
• CC08 Water Slide by Mercedes-E-Class
• cc08 two hinge ferris wheel by monuk
• CC08 Orbiter and Haunted House and Teacups by ROFLCOPTER_lol
• CC08 – Shock drop! by sackboy094
• CC08 egg wheel by tgn1
• CC08 entry by tgn1
• CC08 Atomic Ride by xDante95x

You can find all of these easily by searching ‘@MVPfish’ in LittleBigPlanet and going to that user’s Hearted page. You have until 15th November to get your votes in by posting up to three of your favourites in the forum thread. The winner will receive a badge for their signature and be featured in on the LBP Contraptions YouTube channel.

Nuclearfish has said he plans to change-up the challenge a bit for the next event, going back to more specific tasks and goals. We’ll, of course, let you know when details are  announced!

Nuclearfish over on the Official PlayStation Boards is running yet another ‘Contraption Challenge’. This time around the challenge requires you to build a Amusement Ride.

From ‘Nuclearfish’ at the Official Playstation Forums…

For this challenge you need to make…. an amusement ride! However, not just any ride. It has to be a ‘flat ride’, which means no roller coasters, ghost trains or anything that uses a track. Flat rides include things like ferris wheels, pirate ships, drop towers, zippers, carousels and much more.

Find my “Contraption Challenge 08″ level, where I’ve made an example (which can be seen below). It’s a ferris wheel, but I’ve made it more interesting by giving it a spooky theme (ready for Hallowe’en) with a giant moving spider in the middle. Whilst it’s a good idea to keep your ride realistic, you will also need to think outside to box to make something more original.

Unlike the previous challenges where there was a specific task to complete, all you need to do with this one is make something that looks awesome and is fun to ride (yes, Sackboy does need to ride it. No standing at the side watching). However, if you want to make something a bit more complicated with logic, then give your ride a sequence of events. So instead of my ferris wheel continuously spinning, I could have it stop when you walk up to it, then move once you get in, then stop once it’s done a full rotation to allow you to get out. Or, you could make something with a full sequence of swinging and spinning, complete with timed emitted water jets.*

So, all you need to do to take part is create a new level and build your ride. There’s no size limit, but these rides don’t usually take up much space (although they can be very high). Concentrate on making the ride look the best it can, and maybe give it a theme. Use plenty of sounds too. And if you’re going to enter more than one ride, put them in seperate levels.

Once you’re done, give it a title with ‘CC08′ at the beginning, publish it, and then leave a comment on my example level so that others can find it. You’ve got until Sunday 1st November to get it published. Have fun, and good luck!

Here is a list of previous CC winners:

(CC01) Sackapult winner: TOM_TOM1993
(CC02) Off-road Vehicle winner: Munrock
(CC03) Siege Weapon winner: haddington-bear
(CC04) Flying Machine winner: gm9218
(CC05) Transporter winner: TeeBaG
(CC06) Rube Goldberg Machine winner: marc225
(CC07) Wall Climber winner: rtm223

Watch them all and subscribe to LBPContraptions on YouTube! Take a look at the finalists from the previous Contraption Challenge…

Sorry for the late post, more Contraption Challenge alerts here on the Blog!