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Awhile back, we asked you guys to take time out of your busy schedules to create a Mushroom Men diorama. Why? To win some extremely cool prizes, including a custom Mushroom Men bass guitar signed by the legendary Les Claypool.

A ton of amazing entries flooded our inbox, and it was tough deciding on who to choose. But somehow we were able to narrow it down to four finalists, as decided by the Destructoid staff and the folks at Red Fly Studio, the developer of Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars (Wii) and Mushroom Men: Rise of the Fungi (Nintendo DS). Congratulations to Dexter345, Nintendoll, Onlypony, and Trish for making the final cut!

Now, it's time for the Destructoid community to help us decide by voting for their favorites; to help make your decision, images of the dioramas have been included in the gallery. We'll be accepting votes until October 26 at 11:59 PM EDT, at which point we'll count up the totals and announce the top three the very next day. 

Hit the jump to make your vote count!


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Cataract's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:23
Cataract
Oh wow, this is really hard to choose. Honestly, everyone did a really amazing job with this.
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:29
wardrox
How do we know who's is who's?
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:34
nintendoll
@Wardrox

The names are printed at the bottom right corner on the photos.

Only Pony's is adorable, and Dex's made me lol ^_^ I have some tough competition here.
Stella Wong's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:42
Stella Wong
These are all so amazing! :D I love them all.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:44
Nick Chester
@wardrox:

What nintendoll said!
Rational Animal's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:45
Rational Animal
Wow, these are really awesome-looking and super creative. I'm envious of all of your artistic abilities.
Rational Animal's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:46
Rational Animal
Also, Nick, there's a typo in the title, in case you hadn't noticed yet.
wardrox's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:49
wardrox
Fine, I'll "look" at the "pictures" then.
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 11:58
ScottyG
Yeah, well done everyone. :)

Props to dexter for using real mushrooms too, which for some reason I thought was actually a requirement.

@wardrox
Just voted for the lady friend did you? ;) (thankfully her entry is awesome so that can't be taken in a bad way)
Char Aznable's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:00
Char Aznable
Damn, these are great. Although Trish wins bonus points for reminding me of those foldout Mighty Max playsets, I have to give it to Onlypony.
Justice's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:04
Justice
OnlyPony wins it for me, sorry Dex!
JACK of No Trades's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:05
JACK of No Trades
onlypony looked the best. Nintendoll's didn't take as much time as the others.
Funktastic's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:10
Funktastic
@JACK of No Trades - Now, now . . . let's be nice here, and not start any problems . . . =P
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:17
nintendoll
@Jack

OnlyPony's is awesome, the reason mine looks like it didn't take as much time is because the blacklight paint didn't take well to the various materials I applied it to. I ended up running out of time for the other stuff I wanted to do with it. I just knew I definitely wanted to do it under a blacklight, because all of the screenshots of the game were dark with glowy things :)
NegFactor's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:18
NegFactor
Onlypony's looks amazing. Just seems like an amazing amount of detail was put into it, in terms of what's going on in the diorama. But that's just my thoughts.
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:23
nintendoll
Wait...how did Dex go down from 3% to 0%?!
ScottyG's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:23
ScottyG
@nintendoll
Shame you didn't submit more pictures. I would've loved to see yours from other angles like the other ones. :)
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:27
nintendoll
@ScottyG

I tried but since it was under a blacklight, I had to keep the camera perfectly still on a slower shutter speed. All of the other photos I took came out super blurry ;_;
Holyetheline's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:34
Holyetheline
I voted. They were all pretty good.
Funktastic's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:36
Funktastic
Hmmm . . . after stating that Dex was at 0% and is now back at 4% . . . I claim Nintendoll is haxorzing! =P
Hollie Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:36
Hollie Bennett
nintendoll FTW!!!!!
nintendoll's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:39
nintendoll
LOL I HAX ALL UR BASE

JK, maybe the site just broke for me for a minute.
GENACON's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 12:47
GENACON
Wow, these entries are awesome, Better then my entry. (which i hope you got :P )


@ Nick Chester,
Will you be listing those who entered and showing their dioramas at some point?
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 13:28
mix
Onlypony takes my vote, great work everyone!
Infinite Obscurity's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/23/2008 20:10
Infinite Obscurity
Trish gets my vote for being so elaborate, but it was pretty close. Nice job everyone!
Bramenjam's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/24/2008 11:24
Bramenjam
Only Pony! <3
Roel's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/24/2008 11:35
Roel
It must be OnlyPony. The Pony has mushroom Primus!
Dexter345's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/24/2008 14:20
Dexter345
Shoot, mine isn't nearly as good as OnlyPony's. Oh well, props.
GohanGVO's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/24/2008 22:31
GohanGVO
Voted Trish. Such an awesome concept, and great execution.
JackJockey's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/25/2008 10:46
JackJockey
Really liked the only pony one. But good job to everyone.
doggydetail's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2008 16:37
doggydetail
I've been watching the results ANXIOUSLY and it seems like although voting was closed 16 hours ago, the numbers are still being updated???? It's a close contest, that's for sure!
Trish's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/27/2008 17:01
Trish
Did I win this????? This morning the spread was Trish 46, Onlypony 29 but now it's Trish 40, Onlypony 38...Are votes still being accepted even though the polls are closed?
Maybe absentee ballots are being tallied? Hanging chads? Voter registration fraud?
Only Pony's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2008 03:51
Only Pony
No, let's keep the polls open for a little while!
I just might win at long and dear last.

Or at least to get a score high enough to earn me a single string...
Trish's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/28/2008 11:22
Trish
Well today Onlypony is at 40% and Trish is at 39%......what's the deal?
justino1's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/29/2008 14:49
justino1
holy! is that thing out of wood
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