They’ve Saved the Best Trip For Last…
But this time they may have gone too far. In 1990’s final* instalment of the superb Back to the Future franchise the ageing DeLorean needed a little help in hitting 88mph. Flickr’s Irwan Prabowo –...
View ArticleTyphoon
The RAF like aircraft named after tropical storms and their current BAE Systems Eurofighter Typhoon is one of the world’s finest fighter planes. 70 years earlier the Eurofighter’s grandfather was too....
View ArticleViva Italia!
Another day in the office and another Elf sits happily munching a yellow Smartie, whilst fending off its envious colleagues with a bit of Technic. It has just returned with this lovely, brick-built...
View ArticleMysterious Ma.Ktober
We’ve almost come to the end of Ma.Ktober without featuring any of this year’s builds. This is possibly due neither us nor the Elves really understanding what it’s all about. Time to rectify the...
View ArticleToscana
Many of Angka Utama’s cars are like the Elves, complex and small. The Toscana is a good example of this, including a drop down rear engine. Actually, on second thoughts the Elves are a worryingly...
View ArticleSwooooosh!
Flickr’s Red Spacecat has produced this beautifully sleek space racer, but unfortunately we know nothing more about sci-fi than that. We suggest heading over to Flickr where there’s lots of...
View ArticleMonster Mash
What with it being Halloween and all the Elves are feeling spoooooky, and are trying to find scary Lego vehicles for us here at TLCB. So far they haven’t found a Lego Ssangyong Rodius, but they have...
View ArticlePoison Ivy
Another day, another Elf, and another MOC to bring you. This 5-wide named ‘Poison Ivy’ is the work of Flickr’s Vinny Turbo, and you can see more here.
View ArticleGet Out Of My Way
There was a time you had to watch out for Volvo drivers; unpredictable, incompetent pilots who felt ‘safer’ in their tank while putting everyone else at greater risk… then two things happened. The...
View ArticleDuelling Pullbacks!
In contrast to the feature packed Technic models of our recent posts comes a pair of builds from Gene 3S. Gene’s Flickr and MOCpages listings feature an array of cute vehicles, with his latest...
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 ArticleBlue Whale
After ridiculing the automotive efforts of communism earlier in the week here’s a car that proves a) we occasionally show a BBC-like impartiality here at TLCB, and b) capitalism can get it just as...
View ArticleTwo Trucks
Like magpies, the Elves are attracted to pretty, shiny things. This lovely little truck by South Korean builder bigcrown85 was an instant success with them. It features a neatly detailed body, with...
View ArticleAshes to Ashes
Audi’s original quattro (without a capital letter) is currently seeing something of a resurgence in popularity thanks to a starring role in the hit BBC show ‘Ashes to Ashes’. However for those in the...
View ArticleA+
MOCpages’ B. Rick (which we’d love to be his real name!) makes his TLCB debut* with a beautiful little Ford Model A hot rod. See more of his classic V8 roadster at the link. *We think. B. Rick’s name...
View ArticleIncredible Lego Technic
Pawel Kmiec, better known as Sariel, has been busy… Thumping onto the doormat at the TLCB Portakabin this week, has been a copy of his second Lego Technic book. It’s called Incredible Lego Technic and...
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 ArticleNice Ride
What is this bison/buffalo arrangement doing on TLCB we hear you cry? Well, the lucky rider of this grey beast has got himself one of the first forms of transportation known to mankind*. Not only...
View ArticleSomething Spacey
We have a well documented ignorance of almost everything sci-fi here at TLCB. Cars we can do, swooshy spacey stuff… eh, not so much. This funky looking spacecraft by Mark Stafford (a LEGO employee no...
View ArticleBeautiful Simplicity
The brilliant simplicity of Stephan Jonsson‘s chopper motorbike is at odds with much of what appears here on TLCB, but it’s this that makes it one of the most beautiful Lego creations to feature here...
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