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Help us choose the winners of our Mushroom Men diorama contest
11:25 AM on 10.23.2008, Nick Chester 36 comments

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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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nintendoll's Avatar
nintendoll at 10/23/2008 11:34
@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.
Aiya's Avatar
Aiya at 10/23/2008 11:42
These are all so amazing! :D I love them all.
Nick Chester's Avatar
Nick Chester at 10/23/2008 11:44
@wardrox:

What nintendoll said!
Rational Animal's Avatar
Rational Animal at 10/23/2008 11:45
Wow, these are really awesome-looking and super creative. I'm envious of all of your artistic abilities.
Rational Animal's Avatar
Rational Animal at 10/23/2008 11:46
Also, Nick, there's a typo in the title, in case you hadn't noticed yet.
wardrox's Avatar
wardrox at 10/23/2008 11:49
Fine, I'll "look" at the "pictures" then.
ScottyG's Avatar
ScottyG at 10/23/2008 11:58
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
Char Aznable at 10/23/2008 12:00
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.
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Justice at 10/23/2008 12:04
OnlyPony wins it for me, sorry Dex!
JACK of No Trades's Avatar
JACK of No Trades at 10/23/2008 12:05
onlypony looked the best. Nintendoll's didn't take as much time as the others.
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Funktastic at 10/23/2008 12:10
@JACK of No Trades - Now, now . . . let's be nice here, and not start any problems . . . =P
nintendoll's Avatar
nintendoll at 10/23/2008 12:17
@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 :)
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NegFactor at 10/23/2008 12:18
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.
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nintendoll at 10/23/2008 12:23
Wait...how did Dex go down from 3% to 0%?!
ScottyG's Avatar
ScottyG at 10/23/2008 12:23
@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
nintendoll at 10/23/2008 12:27
@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 ;_;
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Holyetheline at 10/23/2008 12:34
I voted. They were all pretty good.
Funktastic's Avatar
Funktastic at 10/23/2008 12:36
Hmmm . . . after stating that Dex was at 0% and is now back at 4% . . . I claim Nintendoll is haxorzing! =P
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pheonix-blood at 10/23/2008 12:36
nintendoll FTW!!!!!
nintendoll's Avatar
nintendoll at 10/23/2008 12:39
LOL I HAX ALL UR BASE

JK, maybe the site just broke for me for a minute.
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GENACON at 10/23/2008 12:47
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
mix at 10/23/2008 13:28
Onlypony takes my vote, great work everyone!
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Infinite Obscurity at 10/23/2008 20:10
Trish gets my vote for being so elaborate, but it was pretty close. Nice job everyone!
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Bramenjam at 10/24/2008 11:24
Only Pony! <3
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Roel at 10/24/2008 11:35
It must be OnlyPony. The Pony has mushroom Primus!
Dexter345's Avatar
Dexter345 at 10/24/2008 14:20
Shoot, mine isn't nearly as good as OnlyPony's. Oh well, props.
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GohanGVO at 10/24/2008 22:31
Voted Trish. Such an awesome concept, and great execution.
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JackJockey at 10/25/2008 10:46
Really liked the only pony one. But good job to everyone.
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doggydetail at 10/27/2008 16:37
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!
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Trish at 10/27/2008 17:01
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
Only Pony at 10/28/2008 03:51
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
Trish at 10/28/2008 11:22
Well today Onlypony is at 40% and Trish is at 39%......what's the deal?
justino1's Avatar
justino1 at 10/29/2008 14:49
holy! is that thing out of wood
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