Tentacles
The Small Starfighter Building Contest on Flickr has generated some novel and creative solutions to fitting a minifig scale spaceship into 14x14x6 studs. We’ve already covered some of the builds but...
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It’s a spacey day here at TLCB. Although today’s final publicised creation looks quite atmospheric, it’s definitely in the ‘weird sci-fi’ category of Lego building. Built by David Roberts this is a...
View ArticleMobile Signal Scanner
It’s nostalgia time for TLCB readers of a certain age. LEGO has been “In Space Since 1978″ and produced many themes but their original offering is still held in high esteem. We’ve no idea how old...
View ArticleThe Wheels on the Bus…
Rhys Knight has everyone’s dream job: he gets paid to “play” with Lego, working for Bright Bricks. The Elves have just come back from a raid on MOCpages with two of Rhys’s latest commissions. First is...
View ArticleVanishing Point
This radio station was named Kowalski, in honour of the last American hero to whom speed means freedom of the soul. The question is not when’s he gonna stop, but who is gonna stop him. Ralph...
View ArticleRed Letter Day
We’ve got a lot of red Smarties to give out today… The Elves, upon the recent discovery that red Smarties are made from crushed beetles, have gone on a bonanza of frenzied online treasure-hunting not...
View ArticleBought a Car. Turned Out To Be an Alien Robot. Who Knew ?
Explosions. Megan Fox. Product Placement. Explosions. More Megan Fox. And Explosions. That summarises the first instalment of the Transformers movie franchise, and it also explains why our workforce...
View ArticleGeneric Space Title
Here at The Lego Car Blog we’re even more amateurish than usual when it comes to blogging space builds. But we heard your Mom likes a big rocket so we’re going to give it a go. First up is Ryan...
View ArticleTiny Turbo Meets Drome Racers
Today we bring you what Drome Racers would’ve looked like if it were a series about Tiny Turbo supercars. Count Sepulchure’s pint-sized racecars, numbers 3 and 18, use some early 2000s printed pieces...
View ArticleDust Storm
This incredible gunship is the work of TLCB newcomer [Stijn Oom], who has realised the artwork of previous TLCB bloggee Pierre E Fieschi in three dimensional form. Stijn’s Lego recreation of Pierre’s...
View ArticleTiny Trio
Our Elves tend to favour big creations, with which they can run down their colleagues and smush them into the carpet. But here in TLCB office we like small creations too, showing what skill and clever...
View ArticleJet Set
Being a car blog we best know the Messerschmitt company for stuff like this, but first and foremost they were an aviation manufacturer. This particular aircraft is probably the peak of the company’s...
View ArticleThe Peoples’ Surface Hopper…
…or Herbie goes to Classic Space. One of the Elves is the happy recipient of a red Smartie today, having returned from MOCpages with a happy red spaceman and this Lunar Surface Hopper. Its creator,...
View ArticleFerrari 250GT California Picture Special
This, ladies and gentleman, is the best creation you will see in 2014. It’s the best creation we have ever publicised. It’s probably the best Lego vehicle in the world. This is a Ferrari 250GT...
View ArticlePre-Piano
As viewers of BBC’s Top Gear will know, the Morris Marina is fit only for death-by-piano. But what you may not know is that the Morris Marina wasn’t actually that terrible. Underneath it was in fact a...
View ArticleSmooth Operator
MOCpages based builder Turbo Charger has a big portfolio of virtual supercars, including some fantasy six-wheelers but he has switched to real bricks for his “Rotary Supreme”. It’s a well known fact...
View ArticleSamurai!
As regular readers of TLCB will know, we’re not a fan of a particular American ‘SUV’. But we are fans of SUVs that do it right, and the tiny Suzuki Samurai is one such vehicle. Powered by a dinky...
View ArticleTonight on Top Gear… Picture Special
…Jeremy will be mildly offensive, James will wear a wooly jumper, and Hammond will indulge in some bad acting. But we’ll still love it. BBC’s Top Gear began way back in 1977 as a fairly...
View ArticleWeird Wheels
Just when you thought that you’d seen all of the possible ways to build a wheel from LEGO, along comes F@bz. Whilst he is best known for his unusual spacecraft, we have also his featured futuristic...
View ArticleDaisy, Daisy
TLCB regular billyburg has come up with another in his series of super Classic Space vehicles. In contrast to F@bz’s creative solution to futuristic two-wheeled transport that we featured two days...
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