Category Archives: Lego

€2m Statue

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The attribute that matters least with the world’s fastest, best driving, and highest performing cars is… the way they drive. Allow us to explain.

Bought alongside seventeen others by the super-rich, such cars are simultaneously placed on a balance sheet by an incredibly boring accountant, and in a sealed storage unit by company that specialises in not driving cars.

Thus when Ferrari announced a hypercar that couldn’t be driven, was stored by them, and cost over €2 million (back in 2015), it was perfect for their ultra-wealthy client base.

Based on the Ferrari LaFerrari, the FXX-K produced over 1,000bhp from a race-derived 6.3 litre V12 and Kinetic Energy Recovery System (fancy speak for ‘Hybrid’), wore specially developed Bridgestone tyres, featured uniquely engineered Brembo brakes, and generated nearly half-a-ton of downforce from an extreme aerodynamic package.

None of which mattered of course, for what is essentially a €2 million statue.

Cue previous bloggee Fabrice Larcheveque (aka ABFab74), who has recreated the Ferrari FXX-K brilliantly in 8-wide Speed Champions form. Presented superbly, there’s more of the model to see at Fabrice’s Flickr album, including a link to building instructions so you can create your own FXX-K at home. Whereafter – for the authentic FXX-K experience – you can pay someone €2 million to put it into storage…

Space Balls

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Measuring over one-hundred studs in length, the family jewels of the Lego sci-fi community are the ‘SHIPs’. This one, constructed by Flickr’s Duncan Lindbo, measures in at 116 studs, and it’s a properly impressive specimen.

A ‘Samovar-Class’ tanker, Duncan’s design utilises an array of orbs to transport various fluids, hung within a plum-straight outer casing which looks like it was rather testy to create, what with LEGO’s limited sand-green parts inventory.

You can head to Duncan’s photostream to check out this nuts creation, bouncing on over via the link above, and fifty TLCB Points to you if you found all the testicular vernacular. Although most of our posts are bollocks anyway we suppose…

Common Off-Roading Dangers

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We’ve all been there when off-roading; you get stuck in a muddy river bank, lose your glasses, and then you’re eaten by a velociraptor.

Flickr’s 1saac W. has captured the number one off-roading danger perfectly with his early-’90s Jeep Wrangler, resplendent in Jurassic Park livery and with the prerequisite velociraptor courtesy of a LEGO 76958 Dilophosaurus Ambush set.

Join the off-road adventure via the link above, or click here to see a velociraptor eat a fat guy.

Ma.Kamel

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It’s Ma.Ktober, one of the many annual sci-fi build-a-thons of which – here at The Lego Car Blog – we know nothing. This entry comes from previous bloggee SweStar, and is based on a piece of concept art.

Entitled the ‘Camel’ – presumably because it looks exactly nothing like one (instead appearing more like a cross between one of those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park that ate the guy on the toilet, and some sort of grasshopper) – SweStar’s creation is nevertheless a beautifully inventive machine.

Clever construction techniques and excellent presentation are in abundance and there’s more to see of SweStar’s Ma.K Camel on Flickr – click the link above to take a look.

Bang! Zoom!

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…Straight to the Moon! Or from the moon we suppose, as this marvellous lunar base is likely already on one. Flickr’s Chris Malloy is owner of this microscale marvel and you can head to his ‘Horizon Lunar Launch Base’ via the link above.

Two ‘Dogs and a Shake

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Sally, you’re a real swell gal [combs hair]. I don’t got no money for a ring yet, but I’m gonna [combs hair].

Every ’50s date seemed to take place in a diner like this. Which is a whole lot better than whatever the 2020’s equivalent is (swiping right and Netflix probably).

Previous bloggee SFH_Bricks takes us back to the era of slicked hair, poodle skirts and jukeboxes, with this fabulous ’50s diner diorama. An array of classic American metal is on display in the parking lot (many of which have appeared on these pages), and you can join Sally, her date, and a host of other old-timey mini-figures at the diner via the link to Flickr above.

Soul of the Sea

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We hadn’t heard of Lauren Landers until today, but thanks to Brick.Ninja and this beautiful brick-built recreation of her ‘Soul de la Mar’ sailing yacht, this TLCB Writer has been able to conduct extensive research.

Balanced on just three studs above a coral reef, Brick has captured Lauren’s 1993 Beneteau Oceanis 510 in wonderful detail, including one of the neatest hulls we’ve seen yet.

There’s lots more of this fabulous build to see at Brick’s ‘Soul de la Mar’ album via the link above, and if you wish to conduct your own ‘research’ on the real life vessel (and the girl captaining it) you can take a look here. You’re welcome.

White Flight

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Monochrome, minimalist, and Scandinavian is very en-vogue right now. We’re not sure said design philosophy applies to rotary-wing aircraft much, but judging by this creation by Aero Explorer it should do.

With a title as straightforward as its colour palette, Aero Explorer’s ‘Lego Helicopter’ is beautiful in its apparent simplicity, but there’s some clever techniques in play to create an exterior of such cleanliness.

Superb presentation matches the construction and there more to see at Aero’s photostream. Click the link above to take flight.

Treasure Planet

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Losing Disney around $74 million, 2002’s ‘Treasure Planet’ is a film the studios would probably like to forget. Which is a shame, because it was well received, but was sadly at odds with the computer-animation boom of the early ’00s, and Disney’s traditionally animated movies were all but gone within a few years.

It’s this traditional animation however, that sets ‘Treasure Planet’ apart from its computer-animated peers today, being infinitely more beautiful than the CGI films of the time.

Measuring a metre tall and a metre long, this spectacular 4,000-piece recreation of ‘Treasure Planet’s ‘RLS Legacy’ solar galleon captures the movie’s gorgeous animation wonderfully in brick form, and comes from Flickr’s Daniel Church who designed it for the Brickworld Chicago show.

Presented (and edited) beautifully, there’s more to see of Daniel’s incredible otherworldly ship at his ‘RLS Legacy’ album, and you can join the Legacy’s crew at the Crescentia Spaceport at the start of their adventure via the link above.

The Worst Car in the World

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What’s the worst car in the world?

No, it’s the Tesla Cybertruck, a truck that can’t tow, that can’t off-road, that can’t be washed in sunlight, a truck on sale with literally unfinished software, that requires a $5,000 option not to rust, a truck with windshield wipers that drop off, window surrounds that drop off, critical braking issues, critical steering issues, and with wheels that slice into the tyres wrapped around them.

A testament to marketing over substance, the Cybertruck’s only saving grace is that this automotive equivalent of the Fyre Festival is unable to be sold in Europe – because it is so dangerous to pedestrians, cyclists and other road users – so we’ll never have to see one.

Except in Lego form of course, thanks today to Thomas Gion‘s very neatly constructed 6-wide example, which demonstrates another one of the Tesla Cybertruck’s myriad of alarming issues. Click the link above to check it out, or here if you’re not sure why there’s a sliced carrot sticking out of the fender.

Seahawk

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We’re back, although not with a car… This is a U.S. Navy Sikorsky MH-60S Seahawk, a multirole helicopter in service since the mid-’80s. Based on the U.S Army UH-60 Black Hawk, the Seahawk features folding rotor blades and tail, allowing it to store more easily on the ships from which it operates, and serves in Search and Rescue, Medevac, Anti-Submarine Warfare, Special Naval Warfare, and various other types of Naval airborne operations.

This splendid replica of the MH-60S Seahawk comes from Ralph Savelsberg, who has recreated the U.S Navy helicopter with fantastic attention to detail detail. Enhanced by accurate markings and photographed beautifully, there’s lots more of Ralph’s creation to see at his ‘Lego MH-60S Seahawk’ album on Flickr. Click the link above to land on a U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship and take a look.

Yeah Baby!

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Is there anything more British than a Jaguar E-Type bedecked in Union Flag? OK, maybe tea. Or politely queuing. Or pilfering far-off countries’ antiquities. Or football hooliganism. But other than those things a Jaguar E-Type bedecked in a Union Flag is bloody well right up there.

Famously driven by Austin Powers (“women want him, and men want to be him”), the “Shaguar” first appeared in the International Man of Mystery’s 1997 debut, and has been recreated superbly in brick form – including the patriotic paint job – by published Lego author Peter Blackert (aka Lego911).

Building instructions are available with more to see on Flickr. Take a look via the link above whilst we go and politely queue for a tea.

King Rat

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Here’s a rat king riding a train. Because shut up, that’s why. There’s a Duplo train base under there somewhere, and you can check it out at Kristof‘s photostream.

Fashionable for the Family

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Following on from his excellent 1959 Dodge Coronet that recently featured here, Flickr’s SFH_Bricks has now built the estate version, the Custom Sierra, and has there ever been a cooler way to move several kids and a dog? Jump back to when family cars were a billion times more interesting than a generic jelly-mould crossover via the link above!

Moving Boxes

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Here at The Lego Car Blog most of the models we publish are supercars, sports cars, and giant off-roaders. Because we’re six. But if we were a vehicle, we’d probably be a crappy old van.

In our home nation that would most likely mean a Ford Transit, which isn’t just the best-selling van, but the best selling vehicle. However despite the massive numbers almost none survive beyond about fifteen years old (with many dying much younger), thanks to the disposable nature of vehicles used as tools, high repair costs, and a very robust annual inspection process.

In many parts of America though, there is no such inspection (leading to some truly terrifying vehicle conditions unthinkable in our home nation), and thus battered vans from decades past can are still a common sight.

This is one such van, a 1997 Ford Econoline, as built by newcomer yellowsquadron, who has utilised some sun-yellowed white bricks to superb effect to recreate the knackered exterior.

Posable steering, opening doors (including the sliding side door), a detailed engine under an opening hood, a realistic under-chassis drivetrain, and a wonderfully life-like interior all feature, and you can check out all the imagery (plus a link to building instructions) at yellow’s ‘Ford Econoline 1997’ album. Move some boxes via the link above.