Terms of participation – UGEARS 21-Day Build Challenge · Halloween Edition 2026

As of: 20 October 2026

This English version is provided for your convenience. Only the German version is legally binding.

1. Organiser

The organiser is Ligna Arts OHG, Juraweg 14, 47506 Neukirchen-Vluyn, Germany, operator of ugears.de (“we”). Contact: kontakt@ligna-arts.de, phone +49 2845 3799956. This promotion is not associated with, sponsored or supported by Meta (WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook), Google or Judge.me.

2. What it is about

You buy a model kit during the promotion period, finish building it within 21 days, show your build in three steps and write an honest review. In return, you get the price you paid for the model back as UGEARS promotional credit – redeemable from 2 January to 31 March 2027 on ugears.de.

3. Who can take part

  1. Anyone who orders a model kit on ugears.de from 20 Oct 2026, 00:00 to 31 Oct 2026, 23:59 (German time) can take part. The order date counts.
  2. You take part through your order; the promotional credit is issued to the person who placed the order. The model from this order must be built, shown and reviewed.
  3. If the person building the model is a minor, the customer or a parent/guardian handles the submission and grants the rights under section 9.
  4. All model kits in our shop are eligible, including licensed models. Excluded are pre-assembled models, gift cards, free gifts and voucher items.
  5. One promotional credit per customer, for exactly one model. If you ordered several kits, you choose which one you take part with. “One customer” is determined by email address, name and delivery address.
  6. Employees of Ligna Arts OHG are not eligible.
  7. No registration is required when you buy. Signing up in advance on ugears.de/challenge is voluntary and not a requirement.

4. How to take part

You take part by

  • clicking “I’m in” in your order email or on ugears.de/challenge, or
  • sending us your first submission (section 8).

By doing so, you accept these terms. You can join at any time within the deadline – even at the very end.

5. Deadline

  1. You have 21 days from your order date, until 23:59 on the 21st day. Example: order on 25 Oct 2026 → deadline 15 Nov 2026. The latest deadline (order on 31 Oct 2026) ends on 21 Nov 2026, 23:59. The deadline is the same for all delivery countries; delivery time does not extend it.
  2. By the deadline, the model must be fully built, all three steps submitted and the review written.
  3. If we need a different shot, we’ll let you know. You can then send it within 7 days of our message – even if the 21 days have already passed.

6. What you show

Fully built means: all parts assembled according to the instructions, the model is complete and the mechanism works (if there is one). Painting or decorating is not required. We do not judge how beautifully the model is built.

Minimum in three steps:

  1. Unboxing – video, at least 10 seconds in one take. Camera steady on the box, front with the model name in view for 2–3 seconds, then open the box, take out the wooden sheets and hold them up briefly. Only your hands move, not the camera.

    Already unboxed? Then choose instead:

    • Sheet shot: the box with the model name and all wooden sheets side by side, even if parts have already been pressed out (photo or video), or
    • First steps: the box with the model name, your first finished assemblies and the sheets next to them (photo or video).

    In every case, the box with the model name must be visible.

  2. Progress – photo (video optional): the half-built model on your table.

  3. Finished – video, at least 10 seconds in one take. The whole model is in view. Slowly walk half a circle around it – or hold your phone still and turn the model once by hand. At the end, show the mechanism moving for 3–5 seconds (crank, key, button – if there is one).

Portrait or landscape doesn’t matter, as long as the model is recognisable. There are no other quality requirements. Your face doesn’t need to be visible. More photos and videos are always welcome.

Only real, original footage: photos and videos must show the model from your order and be taken by you or the person building it. Images and videos generated by AI or edited with AI tools are not allowed. Only cropping, adjusting brightness and trimming are permitted – without AI tools. If in doubt, we may ask for a short extra video (e.g. “Please turn the crank once” or “Show us the back”).

7. Review

  1. Write a review of your model on ugears.de (via Judge.me): stars and at least two sentences, honest.
  2. The number of stars and the content have no influence on the promotional credit. A critical review counts too.
  3. We publicly mark challenge reviews with a shop reply: “Review as part of the Build Challenge”.
  4. Reviews on other platforms (e.g. Google) are not part of the challenge and are not rewarded.

8. How to submit

Option 1 – everything via your review (Judge.me): using the link in our email, you write your review and upload both videos and the progress photo. Your submission is matched to your order via the order’s email address.

Option 2 – email: send photos and videos with your order number to kontakt@ligna-arts.de – feel free to do so while you build. If a video is too large to attach, send a download link. You then also write your review (stars and text) via Judge.me.

A post on your social networks counts as a submission if you email us the link together with your order number. Questions or problems? Simply reply to our challenge email or write to kontakt@ligna-arts.de.

9. Usage rights

  1. By submitting, you grant us free of charge the simple (non-exclusive) right, unlimited in time and territory, to use your photos, videos and review for our website, newsletter, social media and advertising (including paid ads). This includes usual edits such as cropping, trimming, subtitles and compilations with other entries. We credit you with your first name and the first letter of your surname.
  2. There is no entitlement to publication.
  3. You confirm that you hold the rights to the footage and that any recognisable persons agree to its publication.
  4. Public challenge updates: we report openly about the challenge on ugears.de and our channels – with anonymous figures (e.g. participants, models built, completion rate, most popular models) and with participants’ entries. We may show your model and your status (e.g. “unboxing”, “progress”, “fully built”) together with your first name and the first letter of your surname. If you prefer not to be named, write to us – we’ll then show your entry without a name.
  5. You can object to further use at any time (kontakt@ligna-arts.de). We will then no longer use the footage for new content and remove it from our own channels as far as possible; ads already running may continue until the end of the campaign. Your promotional credit is not affected.

10. Your UGEARS promotional credit

  1. What it is: the UGEARS promotional credit (“Aktionsguthaben”) is issued as a personal discount code and can only be redeemed on ugears.de.
  2. Amount: the price you actually paid for your challenge model after all discounts, excluding shipping. If a discount applied to the whole order, it is taken into account proportionally.
  3. Issue: by email once we have checked your submission – usually within 7 days of your complete submission. The email contains a “Redeem credit” button and the code.
  4. Personal: the code is linked to the order’s email address and cannot be transferred.
  5. Validity: redeemable from 2 January 2027 to 31 March 2027, once and in a single order. No cash payout.
  6. Minimum order value = credit value: you redeem the promotional credit on a purchase whose merchandise value (excluding shipping) is at least as high as your credit. This way you always use it in full.
  7. What for: all items in our shop except gift cards. Gift cards do not count towards the minimum order value.
  8. Cannot be combined with other discount codes, vouchers or promotions. Free shipping from €35 within Germany applies.
  9. Lost your code? Write to us and we’ll send it again.

11. Withdrawal and returns

  1. Your statutory right of withdrawal (14 days from receipt of the goods) and your statutory warranty rights remain unaffected.
  2. From your first submission, only the statutory right of withdrawal applies to your challenge model. Our voluntary services – 100-day returns, exchange and exchange after you start building – no longer apply to this model. They remain in place for all other items in your order. Clicking “I’m in” alone does not trigger this.
  3. If you withdraw from the order or the challenge model, or if the order is cancelled, the promotional credit lapses; a code already issued becomes invalid.
  4. If you return an order that you paid for with the promotional credit, we refund the paid part to the original payment method and issue the credit part as a new code. If the order was paid entirely with the promotional credit, you receive a new code. The new code is valid until 31 March 2027, but for at least 30 days from issue.

12. Checks and exclusion

  1. We check the order, email address, name and delivery address as well as the “verified buyer” status on Judge.me; for individual submissions we run a reverse image search.
  2. Anyone who submits someone else’s, older or AI-generated footage, uses several customer accounts, takes part more than once or provides false information will be excluded.
  3. If we find a violation, we may declare the promotional credit invalid until it is redeemed.

13. Data protection

We process your order data, your submissions and your review in order to run the challenge and issue the promotional credit (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). The use of your footage and being named in challenge updates are based on the rights granted under section 9. More in our privacy policy.

14. Final provisions

  1. Your participation is governed by these terms as valid at the time of your order. Later changes apply to you only if they are in your favour.
  2. We may end the promotion early for new orders for good cause (e.g. technical or legal reasons). Orders already placed continue to take part under these terms.
  3. German law applies. Mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country in which you have your habitual residence remain unaffected.
  4. Should any provision be invalid, the remaining provisions remain effective.