Wheelie Alternative
LEGO’s 60409 Mobile Construction Crane continues to take City sets to new heights, both physically and financially. It also comes with sixteen wheels (and hilariously a portable toilet), which means...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of Pirates
We might be a car blog here at The, er… Lego Car Blog, but we do like ships too. Particularly piratical ones. Of course LEGO’s ‘Redcoat’ soldiers were not pirates, but they were armed to fight them,...
View ArticleEnter Shikra
It’s been a while since we last posted a sci-fi creation, which is mostly because, well… we’re rubbish at it. However even we can spot the brilliant ingenuity in newcomer Outer space BRICKS‘ unique...
View ArticleAn Otterly Wonderful Christmas
We’re back! And mostly sober. The Lego Car Blog Elves, locked in their cages over the festivities, have recommenced their hunt for the best Lego creations that the web has to offer, and no sooner had...
View ArticleStar Sailor*
We’re having a whimsical return after our Christmas break, and it continues with this splendid hovership by Flickr’s Konajra. A quad of hull-mounted anti-gravity engines provide the ‘Zephyr Voyager’...
View ArticleA Bumper Post
We have a bumper post for you today, with a no less than nine dodgems across a pair of fairground creations, each constructed for the ongoing Iron Forge contest on Flickr. Utilising the LEGO Mudguard...
View ArticleHandle This
Front-heavy, able to handle a big load, and often found working in docks*, telehandlers move all sorts of things from one place to somewhere else. This one comes from recent bloggee Sseven Bricks who...
View ArticleThe GOAT
Look at us with our lingo getting home with downies! There really is a goat in this post too, which we didn’t even know LEGO made. Apparently they’re super rare and worth a $million, and Flickr’s K P...
View ArticleBond Bug(gy)
It’s the first of February, which means the annual build-a-thon ‘Febrovery’ is back for another year! Before enthusiasts of old British cars get excited, Febrovery is not a homage to long-dead Brit...
View ArticleTransiting
It a Transit van double here at The Lego Car Blog today, with two rather different examples of Ford’s ubiquitous workhorse. First up (above) is Versteinert‘s wonderful 7-wide 1970s face-lifted Mk1...
View ArticlePassing Wind
Passing wind never smelt so good. Elven* adventurers Eol Skydiver and Kaledor Tesliar are traversing the atmospheric circulation in their magicanical botanical airship. We know not how it works, not...
View ArticleThe Crispy Peking Duck Please
This beautiful creation is a goza bune, a type of pleasure ship owned by Japan’s rich and powerful officials during the Edo period of the Tokugawa shogunate, from the early 1600s to the late 1800s....
View ArticleGo Ape
We love slow, strange, European oddities here at The Lego Car Blog. Probably because we are one. This is one such curiosity, the Piaggio Ape, depicted here in MP-600 form. ‘MP’ stood for ‘Motore...
View ArticleTo the Museum!
TLCB Opinion of the Day; Archeologists are glorified looters. Whether it be an item of great reverence to a particular culture, the wealth of an entire people, or the bones of someone’s ancestor,...
View ArticleRainbow Skies
Rainbow flags are so hot right now. But before they were adopted by corporations to sell more stuff, um… we mean be more inclusive, they were a regular sight floating gently above us every summer. Hot...
View ArticleTraining Day
Yes we’re a car blog. When we’re not making Your Mom jokes or referencing Putin’s tiny todger. But we’re a train blog today, courtesy of this fantastic K-Class steam locomotive crossing a truss bridge...
View ArticleVintage Vegetable Vignette
This site is, admittedly, usually full of vehicles with stripes, spoilers, and V8s. But we’re actually rural bumpkins at heart, so we’re also rather fond of vehicles and scenes like this one....
View ArticleFloat On*
We’re not sure what happens in the future that requires everyone to float about, but it’s a common trope amongst sci-fi builders. Cue TLCB debutant Brickleas, whose ‘Cyberpunk Island’ captures our...
View ArticleAnd Now For Something Completely Different…
Um… well this is… Ok, it’s a… well there’s a school bus, and a Metroliner, and a truck atop a V10 boat engine, and, um… Perhaps it’s just best if you visit Renuad Petit Lego‘s Flickr album. There’s...
View ArticleNightrain*
This – according to its talented maker AlienCat! – is ‘New Hashima District 8’s Shipping Yard 81’, where immense hover trains depart the, um… station(?) pulling their wares of spacey goods. OK, we’re...
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