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Find My Car in Lego | G to L

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Have you ever wondered what your car would look like in Lego form? Well you might just be able to find it, with a little help from The Lego Car Blog Archives.

We’re back with Part 2 of the Find My Car in Lego series, this time looking at the most frequently built brands from G to L.

If your car (or one you’re interested in seeing Legoifiyed – What? It is a word) wears a brand from G to L, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to find it below!

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G to L

GAZ

These Soviet era trucks and cars have appeared far more frequently than you might think. We also earned our record for the most negative comments received due one GAZ post in particular. Find it and the rest here.

Honda

Sports cars, economy cars, kei cars, Formula 1 cars, and humble mopeds, they’ve all appeared here by the dozen. Click here see everything we’ve published to wear the famous ‘H’.

Hummer

We hate Hummer. But that hasn’t stopped Lego versions from appearing here. Click these words and shout “U.S.A!” or “Freedom!” or some other nationalistic nonsense as you do.

Hyundai

Only a few Hyundais are in the archive so far, which is bit weird considering they’re one of the world’s largest manufacturers. With cars like the N Vision 74 pictured here, expect many more to come.

Isuzu

Trucks (mostly), and one of the most common vehicular sights across Asia. Find all the Lego versions to appear here by clicking these words.

Jaguar

An orderly queue of these British cars can be found in the archive, with even a few official LEGO sets now joining the fan-made models. Click here to join it.

Jeep

From wartime Willys to the latest Wrangler, around a hundred Jeep images are in the archive to date. Many of the models are motorised too, so you can recreate off-road adventures in miniature in your own back yard.

Koenigsegg

There are probably as many brick-built models of Sweden’s hypercar as there are the real thing. You can find those that have featured on this site by clicking here. There’s even an official LEGO set.

Lada

Russia’s most popular car brand has appeared here numerous times over the years. Resolutely rectangular LEGO bricks do seem to fit Lada’s aesthetic rather well…

Lamborghini

The products of Italy’s maddest supercar maker have been recreated countless times in brick form. One of the most popular brands in the archive, find all the Lego Lamborghinis to feature by clicking here.

Lancia

The most interesting back-catalogue of any car maker, matched only by their dismalness today. Unsurprisingly, it’s old Lancias that have captured the imagination of builders. Find their classics here.

Land Rover

The Best 4x4xFar. Except the Evoque Convertible, obviously. Beautiful replicas mix it with official LEGO sets. Click here to find them all.

Lexus

‘The Japanese Mercedes’, as one famous fictional radio DJ put it. They’re better than that though, and you can find all the models from Toyota’s luxury brand that have appeared here to date by clicking these words.

Lotus

From sports cars to movie stars, with even an official LEGO set thrown in. Why you really should take a look in the Lotus archive however, is for the historic Formula 1 racers. They are magnificent.

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That’s the most frequently built car brands* from G to L. If you’d like to check out the previous A to F list you can do so here, and of course you can use the Search box on every page to be as specific as you like. Next time, M…

*If you’re wondering why Kia isn’t on the list, us too. The Lego Community; get on it.

Find My Car in Lego | A to F

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Have you ever wondered what your car (or a car you really like… or even dislike for that matter) would look like in Lego form? Well The Lego Car Blog is here to help!

Whilst our Archives, rumoured to be inhabited by a band of long-lost and now-ferrel Elves, are a dark and bewildering place, you can access them digitally via the search box on every page. And fortunately for us, we have an intern, who we can send into the archival catacombs to retrieve past vehicular curiosities. Thus one mildly-traumatised intern later we can today commence a brand new series; Find My Car in Lego!

With so many vehicle brands past and present, this would be a very long post if we highlighted them all, so instead we’re going to focus on the most popular brands, segmented alphabetically, beginning with A to F…

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A to F

Alfa Romeo

Like that girl you dated in college, Alfas are interesting, beautiful, and will cost you dearly. Click here to take a look at everything to wear the famous shield, from racing cars to aircraft. There’s even a link to Kim Kardashian’s bottom.

Audi

Vorsprung Durch Technik. Alongside plenty of Technic Audis to peruse, the Audi archive includes a few official LEGO sets, and whole load of quattros. Click here to get three feet from the car in front.

Austin

They didn’t just make Minis. From black cabs to mid-engined rally cars, put on your best British accent and take a look at everything to wear the Austin badge here.

Bentley

Once maker of the ‘fastest lorries in the world’, and now cars for footballers, you can pretend you don’t have a mortgage by clicking these words.

BMW

Now known for making the ugliest cars in existence, our archives are packed with brick-built machines wearing the firm’s roundel. Sedans, racing cars, motorcycles, and even oddities like this, you can find them all here.

Bugatti

The world’s fastest cars have, somewhat unsurprisingly, been recreated countless times in Lego form. Official LEGO Bugatti sets, and even a drivable life-size replica join the fan-built models.

Buick

From land yachts to hot rods, there’s a wide variety of Buicks in the archive. One’s even pedal powered. Click here to find them all.

Cadillac

More land yachts. And more than a few movie cars, from Ecto-1 to Mad Max. You can check out everything in the archives to wear the Cadillac badge here.

Chevrolet

Pick-up trucks, day vans, taxi cabs, hot rods, and – naturally – several little red Corvettes. There are dozens of Chevys of all types in the archives and you can find them all here.

Citroen

Really very French indeed, older Citroens have captured the imagination of countless of Lego builders. Find their creations by the dozen by clicking here.

Daihatsu

It’s not just supercars, Americana and quirky European classics here at The Lego Car Blog. Nope, tiny Japanese boxes feature too, and you can find every time Daihatsu have appeared by clicking here.

Dodge

Dodge have made all sorts of boring cars over the years, but for some reason 90% of those in our archives seem to be of the muscle variety. Click these words to see them all.

Fiat

Objects of both joy and derision, not least due to all the terrible Eastern European cars they spawned, you can find every Fiat – from official LEGO sets to Abarth spin-offs – by clicking here.

Ferrari

Probably the most popular brand* in the archive, with over three-hundred images tagged. Official sets, Formula 1 cars, classics, and supercars have been built in their hundreds.

Ford

*If it wasn’t for Ford, with nearly one-hundred Mustang images alone. Which has allowed us to make countless jokes about Mustang owners, and for that we are grateful. Find them, and the hundreds of non-Mustangs also wearing the Ford oval, by clicking here.

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If your car’s make isn’t within this post and you don’t want to wait until we reach it alphabetically, you can of course find any vehicle that may have appeared here via the aforementioned search box. Simply input some words and see what’s returned! Next time, G…

How To Start a World-Famous Lego Site

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Have you ever wondered how to start a world-famous Lego site? Well, us too. But we can tell you how we started this one, and that might set you on the path to something a whole lot bigger. Maybe even world-famous.

Some say it’s a desperately tenuous use of the word ‘professional’, others that we were simply light on content this week and needed something to post. We say, if you’re interested in learning how you could create a Lego site like this one (but probably better), then take a look at the sixth entry in the ‘Become a Lego Professional’ series. Because this time, it’s us!*

Become a Lego Professional – Part 6;

The Lego Car Blog – How this site came to be

*Actual Lego Professionals are also available; click here to take a look.

2023 | Year in Review

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2024 is just around the corner, and The Lego Car Blog, lodged like a piece of fluff in the internet’s belly-button, has clung on for another year!

Sadly the Queen didn’t though, and thus 2023 saw the coronation of a new king in our home nation, alongside the official end of the COVID-19 pandemic, a titanic submarine implosion, and a Chinese balloon that was just monitoring the weather, honest.

It was also the year when President Putin was usurped as the World’s Biggest Dick (ironically) by Hamas (although Benjamin Netanyahu is surely challenging that now), and in which the head of a national oil company chaired the United Nations Climate Change Conference. Which means we’re still all going to cook or drown, to the surprise of absolutely no-one.

In fact 2023 was the hottest year ever recorded for the earth’s surface temperature, but was it hot for The Lego Car Blog too? Let’s find out…

Stats

After dropping back into six-figure views from our high of over a million a few years ago, we’re almost exactly level from 2022 to 2023. Our viewing figures are directly linked to the amount of content we publish, and we’ve realised that – impressive though seven-figures annually are – we’re much too lazy to keep that pace going. Hopefully we’re publishing enough to keep you all interested (337 posts in 2023), whilst ensuring there’s balance away from writing.

The Lego Car Blog’s readers came from almost every country on earth, led by the U.S, Germany, U.K, Netherlands and Canada, whilst fourteen countries supplied just a single visitor. The most popular post of the year was ‘That’ Toyota Supra, with the Review Library, our 2024 Speed Champions preview, and the Technic 42154 Ford GT set preview also pulling in big numbers.

What’s Next?

If the online Lego Community keeps creating amazing vehicles, then we’ll keep publicising them! We might also finally complete Master MOCers Series II, with just two spaces remaining after Thirdwigg joined the Hall of Fame in 2023, and we’ll probably try to review a few things too.

We continue to be amazed just how many of you want to read the nonsense we write, and if your views and clicks earn a little revenue that we can donate to those more deserving than we are, then that’s all the motivation we need.

Thank you for visiting, if you’d like to get in touch with us you can either leave a comment or send us a message via the Contact Page, and we’ll see you in 2024.

TLCB Team

Merry Christmas!

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It’s the night before Christmas
And all through these pages
No Elves are stirring
‘Cos they’re shut in their cages
The Lego Car Blog Team
Will be off getting fatter
So spend some time off the ‘net
With the people that matter

We’ll be back in a few days, until then, we wish you all a very Happy Christmas : )

TLCB Team

The Hidden Pages of The Lego Car Blog

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Here at the world’s thirty-sixth-best source for LEGO news, reviews and fan creations, we’re continually amazed by the propensity of people to, well… actually turn up to read the nonsense that we publish. That your views generate advertising revenue to fund the Executive Washroom and Sauna that we give to those that need it more than us, is more amazing still.

Whether you’ve been with us since the start, found us by accident, or seen one of your own creations featured here, you may not know that there’s more to The Lego Car Blog than the homepage feed. Not much more admittedly, but just enough to warrant this post!

So if you fancy stepping beyond the homepage into the murky backwaters of this site, here are a few of the lesser-known pages hidden behind a wall of incomplete menus and incoherent website mapping;

Interviews
Some of the world’s best vehicle builders have been coerced – occasionally via an Elf armed with a sharpened pencil or some incriminating Photoshopping – to reveal the secrets to their success here at The Lego Car Blog. There are two seasons of ‘Master MOCers’ available, plus our ‘Become a Lego Professional’ series, and you can jump to each via the links below.

Master MOCers Series 1 | Master MOCers Series 2 | Become a Professional

Frequently Asked Questions
Do you want to find out who the shadowy figures that work here really are, how to get your creation featured, whether you can get building instructions for a model you’ve seen, or if we’ll publicise your website, product or LEGO Ideas submission? If so click the links below!

FAQs | Submission Guidelines

Archives
The Archives here at TLCB Towers are a dark and foreboding place. A decade of Lego news, creations, and Your Mom jokes are stacked high upon towering shelves, the narrow corridors between which are rumoured to be inhabited by a band of long lost and terrifyingly feral Elves.

Fortunately you don’t need to go in there, as you can find pretty much anything via the handy Search box that appears on every page; type your query into it to see what it brings back. Plus we’ve been rather more organised with our reviews, with over a hundred available in the Review Library. Additionally, all our posts include a variety of Tags that appear in the post footer. If you’re intrigued by one give it a click, and any previous uses of that Tag will appear.

Review Library | Example Search | Example Tag

Directory
Lastly, if you’ve had enough of The Lego Car Blog (and we can’t blame you), you can check out a whole host of other sites via the Directory, including considerably more professional Lego Blogs, Lego resources and creation-sharing platforms, third-party products, and even a few more general vehicle-related sites.

Directory

Happy clicking, and if there’s anything you’d like to see here at The Lego Car Blog (or stop seeing…) then you can let us know! You can contact us via a handy form, and – if it’s not one of the two hundred pieces of spam we receive every day – we will read it : )

Contact Us

Ad Trial Update

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Back in March, after being approached by an advertising publishing platform, we began a trial that promised greater advertising revenue, more granularity, and the freedom to restrict ads that perhaps are less in-keeping with our morals than we’d like. So, two months on, how has it gone?

Er… well, none of the above promises actually materialised. The opposite in fact. Visitor numbers halved, advertising revenue dropped by more than that, and some boring yet quite invasive websitey stuff had to be handed over too.

So here endeth the trial, and we’re pleased to say that reverting back to our previous platform has restored our advertising revenue immediately (which we continue to give away to those who need it more than we do), and visits are on the way back up too. Phew.

So we’re back to where we started, which isn’t a bad place to be after all, but do let us know if anything negatively affects your user experience (and thank you to those that did get in touch with feedback during the trial).

The lesson here is perhaps to be happy with what you’ve got, and that sometimes (ironically!) marketing isn’t always entirely truthful. That said, if you could click on an ad or two…

TLCB Team

Uh Oh – Ads!

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On TV, at the cinema, in magazines, on radio, on billboards, in social media, on buses… advertisements are everywhere. Including this decaying back-alley in the corner of the internet.

Following this site’s one-and-only upgrade in a decade of operation two years ago, a greater degree of advertising has been permitted at The Lego Car Blog, with colourful boxes trying to sell you stuff appearing in the side bar, in-between posts, and between paragraphs.

As we don’t ask our readers for money nor receive any kind of endorsement or sponsorship from LEGO (and rightly so – they’re a reputable organisation), these ads are what keep the lights on at TLCB Towers, and they do a little good in providing revenue that we can give away too.

Amazingly, The Lego Car Blog’s success has meant we’ve appeared on the radar of an award-winning publishing platform, who have somehow not noticed our gross incompetence and instead focussed on the number of eyeballs (like yours) that this site receives.

Therefore we’re currently undergoing a trial with said publisher to explore additional advertising revenue, more tailored to our readers, and with far greater granularity. This will allow us to exclude advertising themes we’re not happy with (gambling, sexualised content, get-rich-quick schemes and so forth), although of course the ads that you see here at TLCB (like any site) are mostly based on what your search history reveals about you.

For a while this means you might see an increase in the number of adverts as the publisher optimises where and how they should appear. Please bear with us through this stage, and if you have any comments on your user experience here at The Lego Car Blog, do please let us know so we can feed this back.

If it all goes wrong we can revert back our previous (and more-than-adequate) advertising solution, whilst if it works you should see more targeted advertising that also generates us a greater revenue stream that we can do some good with : )

Thanks for visiting us

TLCB Team

2022 | Year in Review

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It’s 2023! Well, nearly. So let’s look back on the year that was 2022…

A (corrupt) World Cup, the death of a queen, three British Prime Ministers, Heard vs. Depp, Musk vs. Twitter, record inflation, rightful protests in Iran, a Russian invasion, and COVID still lingers, although somewhat less potently than when it first arrived on a bat from China or something. It hasn’t been a vintage year has it?

But there was some good news too, including the toughening of various environmental and climate laws worldwide, the hopeful end of the Ethiopian Civil War, and break-throughs in both cancer and Alzheimer’s treatment. But what about The Lego Car Blog?

Stats

Well it wasn’t a vintage year for TLCB either, with our Facebook page disappearing following a post supporting Ukraine, threats from Russia, and a fall in readers from the last two years’  return to the magic million.

We wondered if we were getting boring, and – whilst don’t doubt our inane gibberish probably is – a look at our numbers revealed we published 17% fewer posts in 2022 than in 2021. Ah. TLCB laziness…

Still, 380 posts isn’t to be sniffed at and – whilst we haven’t published every day – the best vehicular creations and LEGO news stories from around the world have appeared here every week, bringing visitors from very nearly every country on earth.

The United States of America once again topped our visitor list, with Germany, the UK, Netherlands and France completing the top five. At the other end of the scale are various countries with just one visitor, most of which are lovely exotic islands. There was also one visitor from Iran; if it’s you, a very special welcome to this humble site of brick-based nonsense.

202 publishable comments were written by readers during 2022 (only some of which were from angry Russians…), countless messages entered our inbox (only some of which were marketing spam), and the site received tens of thousands of referrals from social media (which considering we’re not on it, rather shows its power), with the top pages continuing to be our Review Library and The Rise and Fall of MOCpages, alongside the homepage of course.

Advertisements

All of that has led to an increase in the revenue we see from the adverts that appear on this site. None of our staff (nor TLCB Elves, what with them being mythical) are paid, thus we can give away what this site earns to those who need it more than we do; thank you for taking the time to visit us – it really does make a difference.

What’s Next?

More inane gibberish on the subject of Lego vehicles most probably…

After a wonderful competition with our friends at BrickNerd during 2022, 380 posts published, and a site that spans Interviews, Reviews, and the publication of thousands of fan-made models, we’re happy to keep things a little more ‘underground’ in 2023. This means we won’t be chasing the magic million (achieved previously by posting more content), nor rejoining social media, such are its ills. Rather, if you still like what we do, we’ll keep doing that. Several posts a week, showcasing the best Lego vehicles from around the world, plus occasional LEGO news, reviews and interviews will keep us happy. We hope it keeps you happy too : )

Thank you for visiting us, please do let us know what you think of what we do via the comments or the Contact Form, and we’ll see you in 2023.

TLCB Team

Only Two More Sleeps!

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There are only two more sleeps ’til Christmas! Which means we’re locking the doors to TLCB Towers, frantically buying presents we forgot about, and readying ourselves for drunken family arguments.

We’ll be back in a few days, but if you need to get your Lego fix in the meantime, you can find a few places that are open all-year-round below!

  • All our past posts are available in the Archives, where you can search for pretty much anything and something will probably turn up.
  • Our Review Library contains over one-hundred LEGO set, book, and third-party product reviews.
  • The world’s best Lego vehicle builders have been interviewed right here at TLCB! (Incriminating pictures work wonders for motivation.) Find them all by clicking here!
  • Proper Lego blogs, and a lot more besides, can be found in the Directory.

We’d recommend switching off from the internet for the festive period though. The important things will be much closer to home : )

Have a very Merry Christmas

TLCB Team

P.S. The amusing image used above comes courtesy of previous bloggee Sylon_tw, who has captured Santa a very long way from home (that, or the penguins are). Fingers crossed he can get his sleigh going again before tomorrow night!

The Worst Day of the Year

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Black Friday

The annual day of ‘discounts’ (in actuality only mass marketing) is once again here to inflict greed, violence and wasteful consumerism on the soulless masses.

As is customary, here at The Lego Car Blog we will not be taking part in the day of materialist misery (which now stretches to a week or more) that leaves one in four Americans in debt, whilst surpassing the annual GDP of around half the world’s countries (and that’s just the spend within the U.S and our home nation).

Therefore you won’t find a round-up of the best Black Friday brick-based ‘discounts’ here, but we do have some alternatives that will help you to preserve your soul, and perhaps add something back to counter a day that is built around taking.

Creations for Charity – Buy an amazing one-of-a-kind Lego creation, with all proceeds used to buy LEGO sets for children in need. If you’ve ever commented “Is this for Sale?” on a post here at The Lego Car Blog, maybe it is!

Unicef Market – The United Nations Childrens Fund, providing developmental and humanitarian aid to children worldwide. Buying your Christmas gifts here will help to save and transform some of the youngest lives in the world’s poorest nations.

Red Cross, Tearfund, Christian Aid – Fantastic charities working every day to alleviate poverty, suffering, and injustice.

Finally, the revenue generated via the advertisements that appear on this site (even the Black Friday ones) is also used to help those who need it more than we do. If you like the look of an ad, give it a click, and if you like what we do here at TLCB, then please consider sharing us. The more eyeballs the ads get, the more we can give : )

Thank you

We’re 11 Today!

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It’s The Lego Car Blog’s eleventh birthday, and we’re celebrating the only way we know how! By forgetting the actual date and then publishing a post with a numbered LEGO brick image stolen from the internet a few days late.

Since our first post way back in November of 2011 we’ve grown to become one of the internet’s favourite LEGO sites. Well, not one of its favourites, but certainly popular. OK, perhaps not popular either, but we’re known.

In fact nearly 8 million mostly-lost visitors have come to know us since that first post, with the Review Library, The Rise and Fall of MOCpages, and our Directory attracting the most eyeballs beyond the homepage.

Since our last also-forgotten birthday we’ve added hundreds more of your creations to the Archives, held an immensely mundane competition with BrickNerd, and added Russian ‘patriots’ to the list of those we receive hate mail from, alongside the American ones we’ve been receiving messages from for ages.

So as we march towards our teenage years we’d like to say a massive thank you to each and every one of you reading this brick-based nonsense. Without you this site would be nothing at all.

If you’re new here and you’d like to see what we’re up to, some good places to start can be found below;

  • Review Library: Over one hundred reviews of LEGO sets, books and third-party products.
  • Directory: The place to find links to other (usually much better) LEGO-related websites.
  • Interviews: A TLCB Elf armed with a sharpened pencil can get even the most famous builders to talk…
  • Feedback and Submission Suggestions: Let us know what you think. No, really.

Thank you for taking the time to visit us

TLCB Team

It’s Quiet. Too Quiet…

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Lego Set Review Library

The Lego Car Blog has been quieter than a Date Night at The Brothers Brick of late. We could blame the TLCB Elves of course (we normally do), but to be fair to them they do have a strict criteria to adhere to, particularly egregious failures of which are enforced by way of ejection from the building by the office catapult.

So whilst we wait for a blogworthy creation, there are a few places you can head to here at TLCB for your Lego car fix. And that continue to bring us advertising revenue to keep the Executive Washroom and Sauna operational…

The Review Library contains every LEGO set, movie, book, and third-party compatible product that we have ever reviewed.

There are over one hundred reviews in all, from classic Technic sets to the latest officially-licensed Creator products, and you can find them all via the link below.

Visit the Review Library here

Lego Microphone

The online Lego Community is a wonderfully varied place, where builders of all nationalities, ethnicities, and specialisms can create and share their brick-based talents. Here at The Lego Car Blog we love to showcase the very best vehicular models the community has to offer.

Occasionally this extends to the builders behind them too, so that you (and we) can learn from the masters.

TLCB Interviews Page contains dozens of interviews with the best Lego builders in the world, including those that have seen their models turned into official LEGO sets, become published authors, and even paid professional model-makers. Find out how they’ve done it via the link below.

Visit the Interviews Page here

Finally, if you’d like to find a particular LEGO set, vehicle brand or model, you can do just that via the ‘Looking for Something’ search function that is available on every page. Wondering if a Citroen Mehari, Trabant 601, Pontiac Aztek, or other automotive oddity has appeared here, then use the search function to navigate TLCB Archives! Cool cars are available too of course…

So there you have it, some stuff to do whilst we wait for a blogworthy build. Of course if you’d like to help us out you can suggestion a creation our Elves have missed via the Feedback or Contact Us pages. Make sure you take a look at the Submission Guidelines first to check eligibility, and drop us a note!

Suggest a Creation here

Festival of Mundanity | The Winners!

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It’s Winners time in BrickNerd and TLCB’s Festival of Mundanity!

Over the past two months we’ve been looking for the delightfully dull, brilliantly bland and monumentally mundane; no supercars, monster trucks or powerboats this time!

Across both the Object and Vehicle categories almost one hundred entries were submitted, with BrickNerd looking after your boring Objects and The Lego Car Blog your soporific vehicles.

You can check out the fantastic winning entries within the Object category via BrickNerd’s Winners Announcement, whilst here at TLCB we’re delighted to announce the Vehicle category winners!

Four key criteria were considered by the judges:

  1. Mundanity – Does the MOC represent something you wouldn’t really think about in real life?

  2. Concept – Does the topic matter show creativity in its idea and overall execution?

  3. Quality – Is the MOC built well, feature any NPU (nice parts usage), and make you look twice?

  4. Presentation – Is the MOC photographed/presented and composed in a way that compliments the subject matter?

Honourable Mentions

It was really close, with vehicles or all types, sizes and functionality entered. Three entries scoop the prizes, but lots caught our eye, so before we move on to the winners here are few honourable mentions!

Caleb Flutur‘s ‘3x Upscale 6654’ recreated both a mundane vehicle and object in one go, whilst iBrickedItUp spanned both categories too with his Cozy Coupe parked by the bins on a grey Tuesday, which came seriously close to a prize spot! IBrickedItUp also entered a slew of boring vehicles, with the ‘Hurtz’ Rental car lot making us chuckle the most. Thomas Gion captured the height of dreary ’90s econo-SUVs, whilst Zsolt Nagy and Saberwing007 impressed with excellent technical functionality packaged with vehicles of utmost tedium.

There are plenty of other entries that scored highly too; from lawn-mowers to removal vans we can’t mention them all, but a big boring thank you to everyone who entered!

Winners!

1st Place | Toyota Corolla Sedan (1saac W.)

Scoring highly in every category, it’s the most default, boring, and unimaginative vehicle in existence, looking for a parking spot and finding only a loading zone. 1saac W. is the, um… lucky owner of a mid-’00s Toyota Corolla Sedan in real life, and has captured one of life’s most mundane tasks in brick-form. Keep looking 1ssac, there’ll be a space around the corner. Probably.

1saac W. wins a Golden Nerdly Trophy & BrickNerd Swag Box, a $50 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd, an awesome BuWizz 3.0 or 2.0 Bluetooth Brick, an iDisplayIt case/stand bundle for LEGO models, and a Game of Bricks lighting kit of their choice!

2nd Place | Hyundai Venue (Tim Inman)

In second place is what will undoubtedly overtake the Corolla Sedan as the most dreary vehicle on the roads; the Korean crossover. Bought to give an impression of adventure and dynamism, crossover SUVs instead portray nothing more than an imagination deficit created by the force-feeding of endless marketing drivel. Tim Inman‘s Model Team Hyundai Venue captures the segment brilliantly, being about as interesting as your Aunt’s Facebook feed. We’re bored just thinking about it.

Tim Inman wins a $25 LEGO Gift Card (or local equivalent) from BrickNerd, and a Game of Bricks lighting kit of their choice!

3rd Place | Er… Shopping Cart (Nikolaus Lowe)

Yes it is a vehicle. We’ve all driven one, they’re all crap, and if you do try to extract fun from one it immediately veers towards the watermelons and your parents / security / other shoppers shout at you. There is nothing more disappointing than a shopping trolley. They even make you put a coin in to gain access to the trundling misery. Nikolaus Lowe takes third spot (and very nearly earned a podium over at BrickNerd too) with his inspired homage to modern-day mundanity.

Nikolaus Lowe wins a Game of Bricks lighting kit of their choice!

And so concludes The Festival of Mundanity. Thank you to our amazing prize sponsors, BrickNerd for choosing to partner with us idiots here at TLCB, and to all of you who participated! Winners; we’ll be in touch via your online channels to discuss your prizes!

The Festival of Mundanity is Closed!

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Like all the best mundane things, like heading to the shop for milk and finding it shut, BrickNerd and TLCB’s Festival of Mundanity is now closed!

Around one hundred creations have been entered across the two categories (Objects and Vehicles, with a few cunningly spanning both!), many of which can be viewed at the Flickr Group of Mundanity here.

We’ll be rounding up some of the recent vehicular entries shortly, before judging begins (and some really rather excellent prizes are handed out).

Until then, thank you to each and every brilliantly boring, delightfully dull, and magnificently mundane entry, and best of luck!