Ice Lorry
This is a Scania XT crane/tipper truck, and it has been constructed entirely from the parts found within the enormous LEGO Technic 42128 Heavy Duty Tow Truck set. Builder mpj hasn’t used all 2,000...
View ArticleMy Other Big Crane Truck’s a Big Crane Truck
This is a big crane truck, and it’s built from… er, a different big crane truck. Still, it is about as different from the source big crane truck as it can get, whilst still being a big crane truck...
View ArticleDon’t Mention the War II
For some reason people don’t seem to like it when Germany and Japan collaborate. What? We’ve already done that joke today? Damn… Moving on, this is the fifth generation Toyota Supra, a frankly...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s The Batmobile
Not many people can say that. One really. And we suspect if he knew anyone else was saying it he wouldn’t be happy. However thanks to TLCB Master MOCer Nico71, you dear readers, can say ‘My Other...
View ArticleLife Begins at Forty
Or so say people over the age of forty. For Ferrari, with whom we have a love/hate relationship here at TLCB Towers, Enzo decided to celebrate his brand’s big 4-0 with a spectacular present to itself;...
View ArticleAcceptable in the ’80s
And the 2020s it seems, as the once fairly unfashionable Ferrari Testarossa is now a bonafide millionaires’ toy, worth much much more than the entire contents TLCB office car park. This one comes from...
View ArticleThe Garbage Man Can!
Is this post mostly an excuse to link to one of The Simpsons’ greatest ever songs? Yes. Yes it is. But the model’s good too. Eurobricks mihao has created this superbly engineered remote control...
View ArticleGreen Slopes
Technic creations don’t have to be ginormous piece-hungry behemoths. Sometimes small and simple can be good, as proven here by Zsolt Nagy’s ‘Mini Snow Groomer’. Stick to the green slopes via...
View ArticleVintage Pump Rules
It’s one minute past midnight here at TLCB Towers, and this writer – for complicated home/partner-based reasons – is sleeping in the office. Or trying too. An eerie whiring noise awoke said domestic...
View ArticleQuick Cig
LEGO’s new 42141 McLaren Formula 1 Race Car comes from a time when advertising dangerous things is no longer acceptable. Unless you’re Ferrari of course. Back in the ’80s and ’90s though, anything was...
View ArticleForever Sweeping
A proportion of mankind are – let’s be honest – knobs, and if you chuck your litter on the ground, you’re part of this subset. Fixing this problem, at least on hard-standing areas, is the humble...
View ArticleBig Red Truck
If you’re a TLCB Elf, seven, or indeed a member of TLCB Team, then you probably like Big Red Trucks. This Model Team / Technic Freightliner Classic is definitely a Big Red Truck, and what’s more it...
View ArticleThe ‘I’s Have It*
Everything has an ‘i’ prefix these days. We have Apple to thank for this chronically unimaginative naming convention, which has now infiltrated cars too (we’re looking at you Hyundai and BMW). However...
View ArticleKomatsu Krusher
This TLCB Writer was having a peaceful day scrolling through the delightfully tedious entries our Festival of Mundanity competition in collaboration with BrickNerd. There’s a bar of soap, a rental car...
View ArticleAlright M8
This rather excellent Technic Supercar is a BMW M8 Competition, BMW’s 600bhp, twin-turbo V8, all-wheel-drive flagship. Constructed by IA creations, this recreation of BMW’s super coupe includes a...
View ArticleFlattening Alternative
TLCB staff know to wear shoes in the office. No, the Elves don’t make that sort of mess, but their shenanigans do make barefoot walking of the halls hazardous. Today, this TLCB Writer forgot that...
View ArticleBoring. Except When it’s Not.
Boring. Dull. White Goods. All things levelled at the Toyota Corolla (including by us), and all true. Except when they’re not. Whilst there have been millions of tedious white boxes produced with the...
View ArticleConclusion of Mundanity
Judging the near one-hundred entries submitted to BrickNerd and TLCB’s Festival of Mundanity is underway, but before we reveal the winners there’s time for a few entries that snuck in before the...
View ArticleA Super Car
Technic Supercars are one of our very favourite things in the Lego Community, and despite LEGO’s foray into officially-licensed replicas of real-world vehicles, we do still like seeing interpretations...
View ArticleTwin Tatras
You wait ages for a Czech off-road truck, and then two come along at once. Or something like that. Anyway, we do have two awesome brick-built Tatras today, each representing a real world counterpart...
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