Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ may have concluded, but its vehicular legacy continues, with the cars, trucks and vans from the show still inspiring builders.
One such builder is Eurobricks’ paave, who has recreated Hawkins’ police chief Jim Hopper’s 1985 Chevrolet Blazer, complete with a working V8, high/low gearbox, steering, and suspension.
Building instructions are available and there’s more to see at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above to visit Hawkins one more time.
The Isuzu NPR is the plastic stackable chair of vehicles; entirely overlooked, and yet utterly indispensable. The most interesting thing about an NPR is not the truck itself, but what it’s carrying. And that’s the whole point.
Cue thirdwigg’s Isuzu NPR glass truck, notable in real life only because it carries glass. Working steering, an inline-4 engine, and a tilting cab feature, with more to see – including a link to building instructions – via the link.
As the world’s best selling car, the Toyota Corolla has been many things, but not often a 4×4 desert racer. Cue Randy Wilmenta, who has built his 1989 Corolla GT-S into an awesome all-wheel-drive off-roader, which Eurobricks’ 2GodBDGlory has faithfully recreated in Technic form.
With working all-wheel drive courtesy of two Power Functions L Motors (hooked up to both a transverse inline-4 piston engine and a remotely-operable 6+R gearbox), remote control steering, an electronic hand-brake, motorised clutch, pop-up headlights and differential lock, plus suspension, and opening doors, hood and trunk, 2God’s recreation of the unique Toyota packs in as much as its real-world counterpart.
3D-printed wheels and an excellent classic Toyota livery complete a superb build, and you can find out more about the model and the real off-road Corolla it replicates via the Eurobricks forum. Take a look via the link, where you can also watch a video of 2God’s brilliant build in action.
Hollywood loves a plane crash on an uninhabited island. ‘Cast Away’, ‘Lost’, ‘Send Help’, and of course the fantastic book that inspired all of them – ‘The Lord of the Flies’ – explore what happens when man is left alone. Well, except ‘Lost’, which instead explored the limits of audience patience after taking a good idea and then abandoning it in favour of whatever would elongate the series the most.
Anyway, Loïc Gilbert is also exploring island survivalism through his brilliant brick-built diorama. The remains of a wrecked airliner offer his mini-figures some shelter, and there’s much more to see at his photostream where you can explore morality, instinct, and order versus anarchy. Or whatever it was ‘Lost’ ended up being about.
Click the link above to join the survivors.
We’re not really sure which gender each of TLCB Elves is. There seems to be a fairly constant number of them despite the regular accidents, so Elven procreation must occur, but we don’t want to think about it too much.
The colour of their finds is of no help either, because they all like pink. Which means Elves of every type were very excited by today’s creation, which is very pink indeed.
Previous bloggee K P is its creator and there’s more to see of his unusually hued vintage car on Flickr. Take a peek whilst we award a pink Smartie (they’re the best kind) to its discoverer.
It’s been so long since a group of our Elves were dispatched to The LEGO Company’s HQ to find the H2 2026 Technic sets we assumed any that hadn’t returned had been eaten by the guard dogs. But no! We have one more survivor, who arrived at TLCB Towers last night with this; the brand new LEGO Technic 42238 Ducati Desmo450 MX Factory!
A return to off-road motorcycles, 42238 brings Ducati’s first ever motocross bike to the 2026 Technic line-up, with 457 pieces, working steering, suspension, and a single-cylinder engine.
It looks great too, neatly replicating the Ducati’s red-and-gold colour scheme and including some good-looking be-stickered fairings.
Aimed at ages 10+, 42238 will be on sale from August for an expected $50 / £45 / €50 and looks to be a decent addition to LEGO’s officially-licensed bike catalogue.
With over four-thousand pieces, the LEGO Technic 42082 Rough Terrain Crane is one of the largest sets ever released. Which means there are plenty of parts with which to create something new. Cue TLCB Master MOCer Nico71, who has constructed a number of alternates from the vast set, with his latest being this; a fantastic Mercedes-Benz Unimog tow-truck.
Utilising around 3,500 of 42082’s pieces, Nico’s phenomenal B-Model features no less than five motorised functions, plus four-wheel-drive, an inline-6 piston engine under a tilting cab, working steering and suspension, and opening doors, toolboxes and compartments.
Like the donor set, a single motor provides motion to a huge array of functions via a sophisticated gearbox, with Nico’s B-Model cleverly including reverse switches so the battery box can be switched on and left.
Working stabiliser legs, an articulated towing-platform, an elevating and extending crane boom, and a winch (which is ingenuously synchronised with the boom to maintain its hook level) are all operable through a series of levers, allowing Nico’s Unimog to function exactly like the real thing.
It’s an astonishing alternate and perhaps the very best B-Model build that this site has ever published, with full details, engineering diagrams, and a link to building instructions available at the Eurobricks forum. Find all of the above and convert your own 42082 Rough Terrain Crane set into this amazing alternate via the link, plus you can watch the model in action via the video below.
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TLCB’s Rover 200 is two-tone, but somehow beige-and-rust doesn’t look quite as good as Sseven Brick’s classic orange-and-white Ford F-250.
Cleverly constructed in 7-wide, the white portion of the bodywork has a depth of 2½ plates, and we’re not even sure that’s possible.
However he’s done it there’s more to see at Sseven’s photostream, and you can two-tone over via the link whilst we ponder if an orange rattle-can could transform the office Rover…
Do you own the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, but wish it was a little more… garbage? Then we have the perfect alternative!
Constructed only from the parts found within 42175, previous bloggee paave’s garbage truck B-Model features a tilting cab, functioning steering, a working piston engine, an operational discharge plate, an openable and locking tailgate, plus a pneumatically operable side-arm lift that can seemingly lift a bin from the other side of the street.
There’s more to see – including a link to building instructions – at the Eurobricks forum, plus you watch all those features in action below.
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We like a brick-built livery here at The Lego Car Blog, as they – like their real-world counterparts – are able to turn something rather ordinary and ubiquitous (like a DAF 95 truck) into something rather more visually interesting.
Cue Flickr’s joopatkleppie, whose DAF 95 wears the ‘90s livery of haulage firm Jonker Veendam, and that means diagonal stripes…
Jooptakleppie has managed it though, and you can check this diagonally-striped DAF at his photostream via the link.
You’ve seen the full size Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear, and now LEGO have unveiled their 1:8 scale Technic version. This is the brand new LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar!
Constructed from 4,104 pieces, many of which make their debut on this set, 42232 recreates the ultra-exclusive Jesko-based Sadair’s Spear, named after the final racehorse Christian von Koenigsegg’s father rode as a jockey.
Like the real car, 42232 includes a mid-mounted V8 engine connected to a 9-speed sequential gearbox (complete with an in-cabin gear indicator), working steering, Koenigsegg’s triplex suspension, and an ingenious recreation of ‘Ghost Mode’, where the front and rear clamshells open as the the doors simultaneously rotate upwards. How that works when the doors can still be opened independently is an engineering marvel in itself.
42232 also looks wonderfully accomplished visually, no doubt helped by the gorgeous replica wheels, with LEGO confidently mirroring the model and the real Sadair’s Spear on the box to highlight the set’s accuracy. That image does helpfully hide the printed headlights though.
Aimed at ages 18+, the new LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear is expected to cost $450 / £400 / €450 and will be available to order from July 1st 2026. Get in early and you’ll also receive a two-hundred piece replica of the Sadair’s Spear’s steering wheel as a Gift-with-Purchase.
Without doubt 42232 is one of the most technically intriguing Technic Supercars to date, and if you haven’t seen the life-size version yet, take a look at this…
In 2025 the new Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear became the fastest ever production car up the famous Goodwood Hill. Just thirty units of the astonishing 1,300bhp hypercar will be produced, each costing over $4 million. Except… if you’re willing to go a little smaller.
Yes LEGO have announced a brand new 4,104 piece Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Technic set – which we’ll reveal here shortly – and in celebration of the launch LEGO and Koenigsegg teamed up to create something epic; the fastest LEGO car ever made.
Constructed from 327,906 LEGO pieces, this incredible life-size Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear took 9,400 hours to design and build, and features everything from a recreated Koenigsegg key to the real Sadair’s Spear’s ‘Ghost Mode’.
Which is all very cool, but didn’t we also say ‘fastest LEGO car ever made’?
Yes, this 1800kg life-size Technic Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear is fully drivable, and Markus Lundh – the Koenigsegg test driver who broke the Goodwood Hill Climb record in the real thing in 2025 – took on the challenge of driving the Technic version at the very same location.
With a little gravitational assistance, Lundh hit a phenomenal 111kmh on his run down the famous hill, more than doubling the previous record.
You can watch Lundh at the wheel of LEGO’s sensational life-size Sadair’s Spear in the video above, and check back here soon for our reveal of the brand new LEGO Technic set that inspired this epic feat.
The Mazda RX-8 was a triumph when new. With an astonishing buttery-smooth rotary engine displacing just 1.3 litres yet making 240bhp, bizarre rear suicide doors, seating for four, and styling – to quote one famous Top Gear host – “busier than the Pope’s hat”, there was nothing else like it.
And then they got old, and that amazing engine… failed. A lot. Even well maintained RX-8s suffered from terrifying oil consumption and rotor tip wear leading to engine failure, but the poorly maintained ones (as older sports cars often are) died alarmingly quickly.
Values tanked, and now one of the most interesting cars of the ‘00s is worth absolutely nothing at all.
But we like weird, flawed, unreliable cars here at TLCB, and so we love today’s model; this fantastic Model Team Mazda RX-8 from previous bloggee Mihail Rakovskiy. Featuring a highly detailed interior, realistic drivetrain, a remarkably replicated exterior, and a working rotary engine, Mihail has captured Mazda’s mad ‘00s creation beautifully in Lego form.
Excellent presentation matches the build, and there’s lots more of the model to see at Mihail’s ‘Mazda RX-8’ album on Flickr. Take a tip from us and check it out via the link above.
Everyone knows grannies are loaded with cash, but Nonna Vittorina’s grandchildren can expect a larger payday than most. The wheeled bandit’s latest score complete, she makes her escape as the banknotes from her heist blow behind her.
We suspect she’s not acting along though, and a shifty looking Loïc Gilbert is a likely accomplice. Follow the trail of loot back to Loïc’s photostream via the link above.
Here in TLCB’s home nation we know the ‘Nova’ as an early-‘80s to early-‘90s supermini that was everywhere, and then nowhere, as rust and neglect killed – like all ‘80s economy cars – almost every last one.
In 1960s America however, an ‘economy car’ meant something rather different, and General Motors used the same nameplate for the Chevrolet Nova, the base engine for which was more than twice as big as the largest engine ever fitted to its later Vauxhall namesake.
But we’re not interested in the base Nova, not when there was a V8 engine of over five litres available in the Super Sport variant. Imagine that in a Vauxhall shopping car…
This beautiful ‘67 Chevrolet Nova SS is the work of Flickr’s PleaseYesPlease, and it’s about a billion times cooler than the Novas we got. Superbly built and presented, there’s more to see at Please’s photostream and you can take a look via the link.
