And Now For Something Completely Different
Robotic Dancing Cheerleaders! What’s not to like ? Distinctly non-car for The Lego Car Blog, but they do have wheels – only 2 on each robot and they’re balanced by gyro sensors. These are full of...
View ArticleHump Day Rally Special
What with it being Hump Day (Wednesday is the ‘hump’ of the week) we thought we’d find a tenuous link to vehicles good over humps, and nothing is better than a rally car when things get humpy. Both...
View ArticleParty Like It’s 1999
It’s been a while since we featured a purely Technic car here at The Lego Car Blog, and even longer since we featured one in such a classic style – they’re getting hard to find these days. szecs aka...
View ArticleB-Side
The supporting actor of track sides, the B-Side is there only to fill the blank space on the back of the record. But sometimes the B-Side turns out to be better than than the A. B-Sides famous for...
View ArticleLego Landie
The Lego Car Blog Elves continue their never-ending* search for the web’s best Lego vehicles, and today it was Brickshelf‘s turn to yield a model worth publicising. This marvellous Technic Land Rover...
View ArticleGroovy Little Motorbike
Honda’s Marc Marquez claimed victory at the German MotoGP over the weekend, so we’ve decided to take TLCB on two wheels for this post with a Honda from a different era (and budget!). The excellent...
View ArticleTruck Trial Tuesday
OK, OK, if you’ve been reading all today’s posts and have spotted a theme, it’s because the guy that writes our titles is on holiday. So, in light of this we bring you our third and final ‘T is for...
View ArticleTow Truck Thursday
After the success of Tuesday’s titles, we couldn’t think of a better name for this post featuring Gabor Horvath’s “Tow Truck from Johnny English”. As well as being a good representation of a...
View ArticleUnspeakably Good
This jaw-dropping Pagani Huayra was discovered on Brickshelf. Featuring a seven speed gearbox, remote control and a name we can’t pronounce it’s a true Lego Technic Supercar in every sense. Jorgeopesi...
View ArticleSeriously Huge Investment in Parts
We’re coming to the end of a ridiculously busy week here at TLCB. Originally when we started this humble website we envisaged an average of a post a day, but the last week has seen so many brilliant...
View ArticleThe Tudors
Besides being a CBC television programme containing quite a lot of sex (and also quite a lot of historical inaccuracy), ‘Tudors’ can also refer to buildings of a certain style and, perhaps more...
View ArticleAcronyms
Time for a confusing array of letters! PF RC AWD SUV. Points* to those of you who can decode that lot! If you’d like a hand, check out Madoca’s superb 4×4 on Eurobricks, or see it in action in the...
View ArticleTooth Whitening
We fully expect to receive a lot of spam comments for home whitening kits following this title, but we couldn’t resist. Crowkillers’ spectacular Vampire GT Technic Supercar has undergone a colour...
View ArticlePower-Up
One of our Brickshelf-based Elves returned with this today, a beautiful fully-studless RC car in an eye-popping paint scheme. Underneath that bright bodywork is a Power Functions RC system including an...
View Article“My Mother Warned Me About Getting Into Cars With Strange Men”…
…”This isn’t a car”. We continue our run of movie vehicles with this; the superb ‘Bat’ from The Dark Knight Rises, built by LEGO genius Sariel on MOCpages. Powered by LEGO’s Power Functions motors and...
View ArticleHere Be Monsters
Paul Boratko (aka Crowkillers) is one of our favourite builders here at The Lego Car Blog. His models look and function brilliantly, but it’s they way they’re built which sets them apart; they’re as...
View ArticleHors Route
No, not a roadtrip by Snoop Dogg, but Google’s (incorrect) French for ‘Off Road’. This awesome Power Functions controlled Technic buggy is the work of Charbel, who has his own website showing how it’s...
View ArticleGiant Panda
Our American readers may laugh at Fiat’s tiny off-roader, but mock at your peril; the original Panda 4×4 will beat a Hummer off-road on a typical snowy European farm-track. Piterx’s Technic version of...
View ArticleLiebherr LTM
LEGO’s Technic mobile cranes have always been firm favourites with builders (read TLCB’s reviews of the official sets here), but are less common as MOCs. When done well though, crane MOCs can be more...
View ArticleBags of Fun
This Lamborghini SV by Brickshelf’s Spiderbrick features all the usual Technic goodies (suspension, all-wheel-drive etc.), but it also features something we’ve never seen before; working airbags. Yes,...
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