It’s been ages since we featured a swooshable spaceship. Which makes sense, as we’re a car blog. Anyway, today we deviate from our site title to bring you this, the ‘Falcon Class Interceptor’. Constructed by Flickr’s Caleb Ricks we know nothing about what it is or does, but the colour-blocking techniques are sensational. And we can swoosh it. Whilst we get on with that you can see more of Caleb’s creation at his photostream; click the link above to intercept it.
It’s been a decade-and-a-half running this shambles of a website, and we’re still not really sure how to tell the sex of a TLCB Elf.
All we know is that despite the various incidents that occur here, via squashings, dogs, seagulls and so forth, the number of Elves seems to stay relatively stable. And after one particularly traumatic event in TLCB Executive Washroom & Sauna, procreation must play a part in that.
However today – assuming TLCB Elves conform to similar gender stereotypes as humans – we may have got a clue as to which of our smelly little workers are the fairer sex, because a number of them were riotously excited at the arrival of this 1973 Nissan President Type-D ‘Kaido Racer’, which is so pink.
Constructed by Flickr’s mocbyendo, this wildly modified sedan features working LED lights front and rear, custom wheels and decals, an exposed oil-cooler, half roll-cage, and yellow bon-dashi exhausts punching straight through the hood.
Ah, come to think of it perhaps there’s more going on here to excite the Elves than just the two-tone pink…
Whilst we continue to ponder Elven biology you can check out more of endo’s magnificent Nissan on Flickr – click the link above to jump in the pink.
BMW, makers of some of the most aesthetically horrifying vehicles of recent times, seem to have finally rediscovered their mojo. Of course they still make a few cars that make us vomit on the sight, but the new 3-Series looks, well… rather like BMW’s used to. Which means all they had to do was peruse their own museum in order to not build something that looked like it had been dredged from the bottom of the ocean. Something like this, the wonderful BMW 2002 Tii.
This lovely example comes from previous bloggee PleaseYesPlease, who has refined his design for this car over the years (and as LEGO have released new parts) to get ever closer to BMW’s classic icon. The resulting model nails the 2002’s understated brilliance, and you can see lots more at Please’s Flickr album. Click the link above to take a look, and – if you work for BMW’s design team – some inspiration.
Today’s title, as we all know, is the internet meme which refers to the common trope of characters being transported to other worlds after being hit by a truck in isekai anime and manga, with isekai of course being the ‘different wold’ subculture of Japanese fantasy. And anyone that suggests we had no idea what any of that was and had to look it all up before writing this can go get truck-kunned themselves.
Flickr’s Fukku Guen is the builder behind this excellent Japanese box truck, which he seems intent on using for truck-kunning, according to his description that definitely didn’t introduce the words to us for the first time ever.
There’s more of the truck to see at Fukku’s photostream and you can step in front of it to gain special powers in another dimension via the link above.
We’re living in strange times. At the time of writing internet-connected freezers in supermarkets across Europe have turned up to 50°C, diesel in TLCB’s home nation is now over £2/litre ($10/gallon) thanks to the President of the Unites States, and that same President has launched his own ‘Made in the USA’ phone that’s actually just a Taiwanese HTC painted gold. Thus here at a supposed car blog here’s a giant space insect-based aircraft with an orangery for a bum.
It comes from the delightfully whimsical mind of Vince_Toulouse, and it looks kind of like the sets from LEGO’s own ‘Insectoids’ theme from the late ’90s if only they were, well…. good. A crew of unusual-looking mini-figures join the plants inside the insect-esque helicopter, and you can see more of Vince’s fantastical creation on Flickr via the link above.
We’re pretty purist here at The Lego Car Blog, preferring creations built only from real LEGO bricks (and compatible third-party electronics). But a couple of mild modifications can add a whole lot to a build, particularly if the vehicle it’s replicating is also a little different from how it left the factory.
Cue Sergio Batista‘s Speed Champions Nissan 200 SX, which recreates the real-world car of a fellow Portuguese YouTuber. Custom decals, bespoke 3D-printed wheels, and custom ‘Toyo’ tyres join the accurate brick-built bodywork, which also features pop-up headlights, a detailed engine, plus room for two mini-figures, and there’s more to see of Sergio’s mildly-modded Nissan via the link above.
Sometimes the trailer is better than the main event. Such as for every Marvel movie. But it’s also true on the farm, because whilst it’s the tractors that get the plaudits, it’s what they pull that really matters.
Cue previous bloggee Keko007 and his excellent Fendt 930 Vario, which is a very lovely tractor indeed, but Keko’s also built the important bits that it tows; a Pottinger TOP 762 C, a Joskin Modulo Tanker, and a Caselli 8T tipping trailer. And whilst we have no idea what any of them do (except maybe the tipper trailer), we do know we wouldn’t be able to eat anything without them. Head to the farm via the link above and tow something really very useful.
The wonderful annual fundraiser that provides LEGO sets for underprivileged children via the donation and sale of brilliant creations and instructions is back!
There are dozens of models already available in the Creations for Charity shop, and there’s still time to donate your own. Take look at what’s available and find out how you can help via the big words below.
We’re taking a massive dump today courtesy of Ben of Flickr and this excellent Kenworth W900B dump truck. Such vehicles are called ‘tipper trucks’ in TLCB’s home nation, but we like the U.S.’s more lavatorial approach. There’s more to see at Ben’s photostream and you can dump yourself there via the link above.
Have we used this post just to tenuously link to a mildly unsettling British children’s TV character? Yes, yes we have. But the films from ‘The Dark Knight’ trilogy are still the best Batman movies ever, and the Tumbler that appeared within them is also still – and no arguments – the best Batmobile ever, so here we are.
This awesome brick-built example joins dozens of other Tumblers featured here over the years, and captures the most iconic of Batmobiles beautifully. Flickr’s _Tiler / Calin owns the hands behind it and you can smash through Gotham City via the link above, or Google ‘Mr. Tumble’ if you’re feeling brave.
Ferrari are almost Sovietly-bad at naming cars. This is their new 12 Cilindri, so called because it has twelve cylinders. All the other Ferraris that came before it with twelve cylinders were called something else, obviously.
But usual Ferrari crap name aside, the 12 Cilindri is a proper Ferrari (rather than the iPad with wheels they also recently launched), and this tremendous Miniland scale example comes from previous bloggee Joey Klusnick.
An extensive gallery of superb imagery is available to view, which includes shots of the model alongside a life-size brick-built version, and you can find them all via the link above.
Small, Japanese, strangely strong, and a trade professional, the Super Carry and Super Mario have much in common. Although perhaps Mario is really Italian. No matter, because the driver of Ralph Savelsberg‘s Suzuki Super Carry looks a bit like him, and we’re set on the title now. Anyway, we’re not sure where this going, but you can see more of Ralph’s marvellous Suzuki kei truck at his photostream. Click the link above to collect some coins in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Sauber have been in Formula 1 since 1993, and are race winners too, when they briefly ran in partnership with BMW. 2026 marked the end of operating under their own name, with Audi arriving to stick four rings on the front and – excitingly for F1 bosses – their own engine in the back.
The resulting R26 has performed reasonably well so far, moving the team from the back of the pack to ahead of Williams, Aston Martin, and fellow newcomers Cadillac. It also wears a rather cool livery, with Audi’s trademark colour-blocking, and actually-not-terrible-sponsorship.
Previous bloggee Szunyogh Balázs (aka gnat.bricks) has recreated said livery (and not-terrible sponsors) with his excellent replica of the Audi R26 Formula 1 car, utilising LEGO’s excellent new Pirelli slick tyres and a host of clever techniques to accurately capture the 2026 racer.
Superb presentation matches the build and you can find all the images of Szunyogh’s Audi R26 at his Flickr album of the same name via the link above.
In recent years Mercedes-Benz – once the creator of the finest automobiles on earth – decided that engineering brilliance should be measured by the number of multi-colour LEDs that can be fitted to an interior.
Don’t worry though, the once-classy brand has finally progressed from designing their cabins to look like the ‘Love Island’ villa to… well, designing their exteriors to look like the ‘Love Island’ villa.
The latest C-Class and GLC feature a front ‘grille’ with 942 LEDs, because… frankly we don’t care. We’d rather walk. Particularly when the brand used to make cars like this one, the fabulous Mercedes-Benz 190E Evo II.
Built when ‘Mercedes-Benz’ really did mean ‘engineering brilliance’ the 190E was a wonderfully over-engineered sedan designed to last for a million miles – which many did as taxis in Africa. But it also went DTM racing, and that meant 500 units of a performance version were required for homologation.
Mercedes-Benz enlisted the help of AMG and Cosworth, who tuned the naturally-aspirated 2.5 litre inline-4 to 235bhp, fitted a 5-speed dog-leg manual transmission, a limited slip differential, self-levelling suspension, plus the best aero-kit ever applied to a Mercedes-Benz. And there wasn’t a single LED in the grille.
The result dominated the DTM, and created one heck of a road car. It’s the latter we have here today, courtesy of NV Carmocs of Flickr, and this beautifully presented Speed Champions version.
Clever techniques abound in its creation, particularly in the replication of the iconic aero-kit, and there’s more to see of NV’s superb Mercedes-Benz 190E Evo II on Flickr, where there’s not an LED grille in sight.
We’re not just about cars here at… er, The Lego Car Blog. No, we like all sorts of machinery, even weird 1970’s Polish agricultural equipment. And that’s what we have today courtesy of previous bloggee damianPLE (aka damjan97PL).
This is a Bizon Z056 combine harvester, produced from the mid-’70s to the early-’90s, during which time it held 80% of the Polish combine harvester market.
Following the collapse of communism and its sale from state ownership, the Bizon factory was bought by New Holland for their own production, but Bizon combines are still harvesting countless fields today.
This one captures the 1970s original beautifully in brick-form, and includes a fully functioning header (rotation, elevation and disconnect, and which can be also be removed and towed behind on a trailer), an inline-6 piston engine, plus working rear-wheel-steering.
Building instructions are available and there’s more of Damian’s Bizon Z056 to see at both Eurobricks and Bricksafe. Click on the links to bring in the harvest.
