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 garbage truck (or ‘bin lorry’ to us here at TLCB), complete with motorised drive and steering, a tilting cab, suspension, piston engine, tipping garbage compactor, and – most ingeniously – a side-mounted garbage can (‘wheelie bin’) arm that grabs, raises and tips said receptacle automatically.
Have we been using this to grab TLCB Elves and tip them upside-down for fun? Yes. Yes we have. Because the garbage man can! See more at Eurobricks via the link.
Excellent Build!
I built 2 Grandfathers of mihao’s model 14 years ago…:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFdPXDTseME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCmM9Omoue0
…sorry for the bad camera quality and the missing sound (indeed, there was a Lego code pilot built in which made real cool speed-dependant driving sounds as you can hear here…:
Thanks for sharing Micha : ) Those are excellent – particularly for 14 years ago!