Monthly Archives: April 2025

Fastest Printer

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LEGO have released an enormous array of officially-licensed Formula 1 sets for 2025, and this includes last year’s Ferrari SF24 car.

But this year’s Ferrari has one crucial difference from the 2024 car; seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. Which means Ferrari’s smooth-brained strategists can now screw up the race of the most successful driver in Formula 1 history.


Cue this phenomenal recreation of the 2025 Scuderia Ferrari, which swaps the Technic construction of LEGO’s official SF24 set for Model Team visual realism.

Flickr’s Szunyogh Balazs has enhanced this further with an accurate livery, including Ferrari’s HP title sponsor. And whilst printers are amongst the most  irritating machines in existence, with ours seemingly controlled by Ferrari’s aforementioned strategists, it’s a considerable improvement on subversive adverts for cigarettes.

There’s a whole lot more of Szunyogh’s beautifully presented Ferrari SF25 to see at his Flickr album of the same name, and you can Send-to-Printer via the link above.

Truckster

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Trucks are designed to haul heavy things, rather slowly. So regular bloggee 1saac W. has turned his classic Ford C-Series truck into a dragster, a vehicle capable of hauling nothing at all, very quickly.

The Elves of course, devoid of logic, love this approach, and – because we have the minds of seven-year-olds – we do too.

Thus if you’re an Elf, seven, or just think like one, you can check out 1saac’s beautifully built and wonderfully pointless Ford C600 on Flickr via the link above!

Digging Dirt

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The Elves here at TLCB Towers eat all sorts of things. These include actual meals, awarded to them for finding a blog-worthy creation such as this one, but also glue sticks, dog treats, erasers, and anything else they deem edible.

This means that everyone’s least favourite job is cleaning out the Elves’ cage room, but today this TLCB Writer doesn’t have to get close to the little turds’, um… turds, because he can clean remotely thanks to this spectacular fully motorised Volvo EC300E excavator!

Built by Nura of Eurobricks, this incredible creation blends the best of Technic and third-party suppliers, with three SBricks delivering Bluetooth control to eight Power Functions motors, a suite of Bricktec LED lights, and two custom pneumatic units, with the result being that the 3D-printed bucket can move just like the real thing.

The tracks, rotating superstructure, two-stage boom, bucket, and twin pneumatic compressors are all operable remotely, with the electronics hidden inside a superbly realistic and authentically liveried exterior.

It’s a masterpiece of Lego engineering, and you can see more of Nura’s amazing creation at the Eurobricks forum, and via the video below. Take a look via the links whilst we put this Volvo to work.

Pedestrian Safety

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Here in Europe we have strict pedestrian safety regulations. This is good news for two reasons; firstly that if you get hit by a car it’s designed to do as little harm as possible, and secondly that we won’t ever have to see a Tesla Cybertruck, which has seemingly been designed to cause the maximum chance of fatalities and is thus illegal.

Taking the Cybertruck approach to vehicle design is the appropriately-named Bloodred_Bricks, who has created this quite fantastically aggressive post-apocalyptic vehicle based on the muscle cars of decades past.

Armoured with a be-spiked bull-bar, wheels mostly made of knives, and some kind of rear-mounted rotavator, Bloodred’s ‘Mad Max’-esque build looks only marginally less lethal than Musk’s stupid truck.

Which of course means TLCB Elves love it, and are now running around the office smashing into one another armed with various pieces stationery equipment.

We’ll clear them out with Mr. Airhorn shortly, so whilst get on with that you can check out Bloodred’s wild post-apoc ride on Flickr. Click the link above to take a look – just don’t step out in front of it.

Good Prospects

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This enormous floating monolith is – according to its maker Vince_Toulouse – a ‘T8-Prospector’, and it’s magnificent.

Whilst we know not what it does, we do know that Bionicle, Galidor, and Duplo pieces are used in its immense construction.

Motorised mechanics including the arm-mounted drill and LED lighting bring Vince’s spectacular creation to life, and there’s more to see of this other-worldly machine on Flickr via the link above.

Boring in Space

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Amazon just sent Katy Perry to the edge of space to promote her new album or something. Which shows we’re pretty close to space travel becoming as banal as flying to Bakersfield for a business conference.

Of course we know why Amazon sent Katy Perry into space; because it takes it one step closer to plundering its riches. Space’s, not Katy Perry’s. And riches there are, even on the lumps of rock hurtling around our planet, which are filled with rare earth metals including gold and platinum worth literal quadrillions.

Cue the ‘I.E.A Andromeda’, an enormous asteroid mining rig built to bore into the rocks of space in order to extract their valuable innards, built by Chris Malloy, and photographed in spectacular detail.

An astonishing feat of brick-built engineering, LEGO’s red rollercoaster track, giant gas-filled orbs, microscale spaceships, communication equipment, and a whole lot of rock all feature, with over thirty incredible images taken to capture the complete model.

A goldmine of photos is available to view at Chris’s ‘I.E.A Andromeda’ album, and you can join Jeff Bezos’ girlfriend, a morning TV host, and Katy Perry promoting her new music in space via the link above.

Mario Kart World

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There’s a new Mario Kart on the horizon, and even though its pixels are yet to be played by anyone outside of Nintendo, Flickr’s Clement has managed to recreate a trio of characters from the available gameplay footage. And if a cow on a scooter doesn’t get you excited, nothing will! Smash that crate, drop a banana skin, and fire a green shell via the link above!

Alpine Past

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Alpine are back from the dead, with new production cars, a re-badged Renault Formula 1 Team, and re-badged Oreca Le Mans Hypercars. Which is nice and all, but they were cooler the first time round. Particularly when they built this; the 1978 Le Mans-winning Renault Alpine A442B.

Only two manufacturers competed for outright victory in ’78, but with the other being Porsche and Alpine’s Didier Pironi and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud completing a record distance over the twenty-four hours, the victory was still an immense achievement.

This fantastic Speed Champions recreation of the ’78 race winner comes from Flickr’s SFH_Bricks, whose catalogue of classic Le Mans racers is both extensive and beautifully constructed.

A wonderfully accurate livery adds to the realism (which TLCB Elves like too for some reason…) and you can see more of SFH’s glorious Renault Alpine A442B at his album of the same name via the link above.

Little Dump

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Sometimes you don’t need a big dump, and a small one will do you just fine. Cue ER0L‘s Peterbilt dump truck, which at only 8-studs wide is indeed rather small. It kinda works though, with both a tipping dumper and sort-of-suspension on the rear wheels. Neat detailing and excellent presentation prove it doesn’t have to be big to be blogged, and you can take a small dump on Flickr via the link above.

Ready Player 2?

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‘Player 1, Player 2, Choose your fighter!’ is the title of this space-based build by bradk918. Although it hasn’t escaped our notice that the starfighters are actually numbered one and three… No matter, because we don’t understand sci-fi anyway, and Brad’s builds are seriously good.

Top flight building techniques and stellar presentation make these well worth a closer look, and you can get your coin in the slot before the count-down ends at Brad’s photostream via the link above.

Wooden it be Lovely

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All is not what it seems today. Because this lovely Brio-esque wooden train is not a lovely Brio-esque wooden train at all, but a lovely Lego one.

Built by Maxx Davidson, this fantastic scaled-up wooden train runs on LEGO’s rail system, yet looks at first glance identical to the wooden railways that will be immediately familiar to anyone who has kids, has had kids, has been a kid, or has been anywhere near anywhere that has kids.

You can take a closer look at your childhood via the link above, whilst we eagerly await a Hot Wheels track, a red plastic boat, and one of those wire bead thingies that seem to be in every doctor’s surgery waiting area.

Flight of the Pterosaur

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Uh oh. Sci-Fi. The genre about which we know nothing. Fortunately the creator of this spellbinding ‘Pterosaur Ship’, which to us looks like the beautiful combination of a bat and a dying butterfly, has bequeathed it with a description; “Just an average guy traversing planets in a spaceship to share inter-galactic news with the local crocodile-riding tribes.”

Well that clears that up. There’s more to see of this bewitching build courtesy of Oliver Barrell, and you can traverse the planets with an average guy, sharing inter-galactic news with the local crocodile-riding tribes via Oliver’s ‘Pterosaur Ship album at the link above.

My Other Car’s a McLaren

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This astonishing Technic Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 was discovered on Eurobricks today, and – even more astonishingly – it’s built only from the parts of the 42172 Technic McLaren P1 set.

Shown here in render form (but also built for real, however with inadequate images), this 1:8 replica of the latest 1,000bhp Corvette comes from Timorzelorzworz, and is as packed with working functionality as its donor set.

A mid-mounted V8 engine is hooked up to a 7-speed gearbox, the steering is controlled from the steering wheel, suspension is independent front and rear, the front trunk, engine cover and doors open, whilst the entire bodywork aft of the b-pillar is removable too.

Building instructions are available and there’s much more to see including further renders, images of the brick-built model, and full build details at the Eurobricks forum. Take a look via the link above and convert your P1 into a ZR1.

Boxing Clever

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The Lego Car Blog Elves have the vehicular tastes of Russian millionaires, favouring vehicles that are fast, loud, and obnoxious. Preferably with rocket launchers attached.

We however are… ok, somehow simultaneously weird and boring, so we like creations like this, a humble Iveco Daily 35S16 box van. In white.

Still, even if you’re of a more Elven persuasion, you can see this Iveco Daily 35S16 is beautifully constructed, with some ingenious techniques used to replicate the seemly simple but actually subtly tricky design. Keko007 is the builder behind it and there’s more to see of his humdrum white box on Flickr via the link above.

Le Mans Matra

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Matra. The greatest car manufacturer most have never heard of. Formula 1 World Champions, three-time Le Mans Winners, and creators of hugely influential production-car successes like this, segment-pioneering inventions like this, and colossal failures like this.

That last one bankrupted the company, which disappeared forever in 2003, so we’ll jump back to 1972 when Matra where on top of not just their game, but everyone else’s, taking the first of three Le Mans wins in a row.

They did so with this, the wild Matra Simca MS670, which won the race by eleven laps in the hands Henri Pescarolo and Graham Hill, with another MS670 in second. This superb Speed Champions recreation of Matra’s ’72 endurance racer is the work of SFH_Bricks of Flickr, who has added it to his ever-growing roster of Le Mans cars.

Authentic decals and fantastic presentation make SFH’s MS670 a worthy homage to the oft-forgotten champions, and you can take a closer look at his brilliant build via the link above.