They See Me Rolling’…
Not the most exciting vehicle we’ve ever blogged, sure, but without 12-ton machines like this our journeys would be a lot bumpier. Ralph Savelsberg’s Hamm HW90 road roller can be found on Flickr here.
View ArticleThe Ace of Spades
If you like to gamble, I tell you I’m your man You win some, lose some, it’s all the same to me The pleasure is to play, it makes no difference what you say I don’t share your greed, the only card I...
View ArticleAll Tippers Great And Small
Because one is never enough, MOCpages’ Nick Barrett has built a small army of tipper trucks ranging from Technic to micro. Each features a variety of working functions (well, except the last one), and...
View ArticleLaurel & Hardy
In the early days of cinema one comedy due rose above all others, becoming giants of the medium. Laurel and Hardy starred in dozens of films and brought laughter to millions. Almost 100 years later...
View ArticleElf For a Day
Here at The Lego Car Blog we love to hear your feedback and your suggestions if our Elves have missed a creation worth posting. A little outside competition helps to keep them sharp too. This post was...
View ArticleSupermarine Spitfire
We’ve not posted a plane for a while, so here’s one of our favourites; the beautiful Supermarine Spitfire, built here in Mk. IX form by Henrik Jensen on MOCpages. See all the photos at Henrik’s MOCpage.
View ArticleSunday Prime Time
The Elves still haven’t got bored of Transformers, and thus they’re still fanatically excited whenever one of their number finds something like this. Today’s comes from alanyuppie on Flickr, and it’s...
View ArticleThree Days of the Condor
We’re not sure if Peteris Sprogis took inspiration for his ‘Condor’ concept car from the 1975 movie in this post’s title, or from the massive vulture-y type bird of the same name, but it’s the only...
View ArticleAnd It Was All Yellow
After watching Sesame Street the Elves are having a yellow day today, hence the Coldplay lyric, (guess what colour ‘todays show was brought to you by’…), but we’re not too bothered; we’ve not given...
View ArticleWALL-E
Disney Pixar’s 2008 CGI smash is easily in the Elves’ top 10 films, despite it having no cars and no explosions. It does of course have one of their other favourite things; robots. WALL-E, the little...
View ArticleWalking Space Tractor. Probably
Sigh. It’s been a while since the last Elf fight at TLCB Towers and sadly today was the day that the fragile peace was shattered. Shattered by the sound of an Elf being fed into a desk fan by several...
View ArticleThe Last Crusade
The Lego Car Blog Elves have moved on from the Transformers movies, having since discovered the ’80s gems from the Indiana Jones franchise. Indiana might be the star, but it’s his Nazi enemies that...
View ArticleDriving on Egg Shells
F@bz has attracted the attention of the Elves on previous occasions for his unusually shaped spacecraft but his latest creation is a car. Being a Citroen and therefore a French car, it has to have...
View ArticleOl’ Brown
Small, weird, and a bit ugly. No, not The Lego Car Blog Elves, but the latest creation from Karf Oohlu. Karf has a reputation for using LEGO pieces in new and strange ways, and his ‘Ol Brown Truck’...
View ArticleSuper Sensor
FebRovery continues apace, over on Flickr and with it has come this superb Neo-Classic Space build from Jon Blackford. Jon has updated the 6841 Mineral Detector from 1980 to include bigger sensors,...
View Article218
Germany’s Messerschmitt 109 was the top World War 2 fighter until the Spitfire became the dominant force in aerial combat. Built by the same company that would later go on to manufacture weird bubble...
View ArticleAn Adventure 65 Million Years in the Making
Steven Spielberg’s incredible 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park isn’t a particularly car-y movie; most of the few cars that feature are the Ford Explorers used to shuttle tourists around the theme park....
View ArticleBackhoe Battle
Yellow building site stuff through the ages… On the right, from 1989, Lego Technic’s first JCB; the 8862 Backhoe. A startlingly yellow confection and the perfect showcase for the then-new second...
View ArticleLittle Big Crane
After a pair of posts featuring giant yellow machines, today we’re featuring something a bit smaller. This crane is ideally sized for removing errant Elves from our desks at The Lego Car Blog. Sylvain...
View ArticleGreen Machines
It’s green Smarties all around today at TLCB. First up, Flickr’s Nannan Zhang shows us what it’ll be like to drive in the future if you’ve got no friends or family. See his single-seat ‘Izara...
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