Linden Lab’s latest venture in providing attractions for Second Life residents comes in the shape and form of a Winter Wonderland that offers snowy views, ice skating, gifts, a ferris wheel, a snowmobile and most importantly of all, a snowball fight arena which you may want to get yourself along to in order to practice before tomorrow’s snowball fight with The Lindens!

Oh I should also mention there’s  photo contest. Linden Lab blogged this information yesterday : Join a Snowball Fight with Lindens & Enter Our Photo Booth Fun Contest. Budding Second Life photographers may want to know that the contest offers the opportunity to win L$10,000 :

PHOTO BOOTH FUN CONTEST
Share your silly photo booth style pictures with us for a chance to win L$10,000, L$5,000, L$3,000, or L$1,000 for your snapshot! Props encouraged! Winners will be selected by a panel consisting of both Lindens and Residents.

For inspiration we’ve created a Pinterest Board on our Official Pinterest Page for you to view.

Rules and more information are available on the contest page.

Enter between now and March 4th, 2015. We can’t wait to see what you come up with!

I didn’t even know Second Life had a Pinterest page! Now when it comes to a photo contest in Second Life my first port of call would be to beg Strawberry Singh for assitance, however I can see she’s way ahead of me and off gallivanting around with Xiola Linden already!

As for the rules of the contest, there’s a twisty turny path to find them but if you can’t find them, here’s a shortcut. The contest has a deadline of March 4th, so there’s plenty of time to enter, or beg Strawberry Singh for assistance. Here’s the gist of it :

1. DURATION. The Contest begins at 10:00am PST February 4, 2015 (the “Start Date”) and ends on 10:00am PST March 4, 2015 (the “Deadline”).

2. ENTRY. Participants must have active Second Life® accounts prior to their participation in the Contest.

The Contest is looking for images of Second Life avatars in a Photo Booth type scenario (actual booth not necessary)(the “Photo Booth Fun”). Solo and group images are welcome, and silly costume props are encouraged. To create an entry, entrants must:

• Log on to your Second Life® account between the Start Date and Deadline.
• Take a Photo Booth Fun snapshot.
• Access the Contest landing page located at http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Photo-Booth-Fun-Contest/con-p/Photo_Booth_Fun_Contest and log in to the Second Life community forum with your Second Life account.
• Upload and submit your snapshot between the Start Date and Deadline.

Oh and the photo must be General rated but please read the rules in full before entering. However if a photo contest isn’t for you, how about that snowball fight with The Lindens?

The blog post reveals all :

SNOWBALL WARZONE SHOWDOWN

Come pelt some Lindens and fellow Residents with snowballs in a frozen field free-for-all at Winter Wonderland. That’s right – between 10 AM SLT and noon SLT on Friday, February 6th, we’re holding a meetup inworld at the Snowball Warzone. Get your free snow launching weapon, gather your posse, and prepare to say hello to some Linden friends for a full on flurry of snow-slinging fun.

There are some big weapons available.

There are smaller weapons too and a theme of this location is that Premium Members of Second Life get extra perks, but don’t worry if you’re not a Premium Member, there’s plenty of fun to be had and you can get a big weapon too, or a smaller one.

However if that’s not for you then there’s plenty more to do here. Zoom around on a Snowmobile.

Take a seven minute ride on a Ferris Wheel.

Go Ice Skating! Dwarfins on Ice is not a show I’m familiar with but it may need to be considered.

The Ice Skating, like many of the other attractions is an area where Premium Members get extra perks. Whereas all residents can get a free pair of Ice Skates, Premium Members get a special set that allow them to perform ice Skating tricks. However fear not all non Premium Members, the standard LDPW skates allow you to skate. I don’t think Linden Lab are skating on thin ice here, perks like this for Premium Members are a fair trade off I feel.

This location is worth a visit even if you don’t want to enter a photo contest or have a snowball fight with The Lindens. Snowball fights with The Lindens were a regular thing when I was a lad so it’s nice to see them returning. I wonder if the Valentine’s day kissing booth will make a return too, or maybe even Magellan Linden will be found under the ice!

SLURL To Winter Wonderland : http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Winter%20Wonderland%202/157/4/22/

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