To usher in the new Blobby Farm name, site, and Blobbies, we are launching the inaugural Blobby Farm contest! The “Design a Blobby” Contest is open to all ages and abilities. Test your hand at designing your very own Blobby. Details are as follows:

Step 1: Draw your Blobby. You may draw your Blobby by hand or render it on the computer, whatever suits you. Just remember that Blobbies are very simple — two uneven eyes, a mouth, some nubs, and a few accents, and that’s about it.

Step 2: Give your Blobby a name and a history. Your Blobby must have a backstory — something goofy and short to explain who they are and what they like to do. This is what makes your Blobby tick. After you’ve done this, put your drawing, the Blobby’s name, and its history together and email your submission to
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by December 1, 2005. You may also snail mail your entries to the Blobby Farm (click here for the address). Don’t forget to tell us your name and age.

Step 3: The Blobby Farmers convene and consider all the new Blobby applicants. Putting their super-genius minds together, they separate the wheat from the chaff (as it were). Winners will be selected in four age categories: Ages 0-5; 6-12; 13-18; 19 and up. The winners in each age category will have their designs receive the spark of life! The winning designs will be fleshed out in fleece and felt — taking a tangible form. Mwah-ha-ha!

Step 4: After a short period of time, the winners will receive the Blobby they designed in all its three-dimensional glory via the US Postal Service. Their Blobby will be featured on the site, and all the world will bow to the glory of the winners. Runners-up will receive other fabulous prizes that we will dig out of our junk drawers here at the Blobby Farm.

In summary, submissions are due by December 1, 2005.

Winners are chosen in four age categories, and winners receive a Blobby, Jr. based on their design. Runners-up receive other things. Now read the fine print.

The Fine Print: All submissions become the property of Blobby Farm and will not be returned. Blobby Farm retains the right to reproduce designs, but will always give the designer credit.

Blobby designers are required to have fun while designing their Blobby. All designers who labor under a cloud of misery and woe will have their design rejected from the contest under article 1237-Z, thereby worsening their misery and woe. A vicious cycle of depression will ensue. Beware.