What’s small, green, and incredibly deadly? Yes, it’s the quad bike (or ATV to some), a vehicle that despite having twice the number of wheels as a motorbike is even more likely to fall over.
This one comes from TLCB Master MOCer TLCB Master MOCer Kyle Wigboldy (aka thirdwigg), features working steering and suspension, and it’s just waiting to strike.
There’s more of model to see – including a link to instructions – at Kyle’s Flickr album, and you can power around a field until the quad inevitably flips over on top of you via the link above.
People that consume energy drinks are c***s. In TLCB’s home nation, energy drinks make up fewer than 10% of all canned drinks sold, and yet they seem to make up over 90% of all the litter. Not just canned drinks litter, but all litter. Which means there’s a direct positive correlation between Propensity to Consume an Energy Drink and Being a Self-Entitled Scumbag.
The question is do scumbags consume energy drinks, or does consuming an energy drink turn you into a scumbag? That’s one for science. In the meantime here’s the solution, an excellent Isuzu NPR recycling truck, as the one positive of energy drinks – which are without doubt the cigarettes of the 2020s – is that the can they come in is endlessly recyclable. When it’s not chucked in a hedge.
Constructed by TLCB Master MOCer Kyle Wigboldy (aka thirdwigg) this neat Technic creation adds another variant to his previously blogged Isuzu, with a tipping hopper and mechanical bin lift added to the working steering, tilting cab, and 4-cylinder piston engine.
Building instructions are available and there’s more of the model to see on Flickr. Click these words to take a look, and stop drinking Monster. You’re better than that.
We’re all living in a world of AI now. Mostly of course, AI is used to make terrible short videos and to write cover letters, but there’s a somewhat scarier application which means we’re pretty much at the plot of ‘Terminator’. AI drones and robots are already on the battlefield, and they’re making decisions about whether to kill real human beings. So on that cheery note here’s a Lego interpretation!
Looking rather like a 6×6 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), TLCB newcomer deltamc‘s fully remote controlled ‘Autonomous Patrol Machine’ features six-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steering, a deployable scanner that raises out of the body reminiscent of one of the robots in ‘The Incredibles’, a spinning radar dish, and motorised opening weapons hatches to deploy unguided rockets. It’s all impeccably engineered and there’s more to see at the Eurobricks forum where the robot apocalypse is surely one step closer.
This is not a Transformer. But it is kinda like one. In the same way that this TLCB Writer is kinda like Usain Bolt. What? We both have running shoes.
You see back in the late 2000s, when Michael Bay blew up everything in the first instalment of the ‘Transformers’ movie franchise, General Motors wanted in on the alien robot action. Cue some pretty egrigeious product placement, and – if you had a particularly smooth brain – the option to specify your own Chevrolet Camaro to look like the ‘Bumblebee’ from the movie, ‘Transformers’ badges and everything. Even if you only bought the V6.
Today’s model recreates the real ‘Transformers’ specced Camaros brilliantly in Technic form, with working steering, a V6 engine, opening doors, hood and trunk, and no ability to transform. ArtemyZotov is its maker and you can find all the images and a link to building instructions at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link for the most ill-advised options package of the late 2000s.
We’re taking the bus today, thanks to previous bloggee JLui15 and this stellar Orion VII NG bus in Fairfax Connector livery.
Fully remote controlled with working drive, steering, and motorised doors, JLui’s model is so realistic we can almost hear the kid playing terrible R&B through his phone speakers in the back row and smell the old man in the front.
There’s lots more to see at JLui’s ‘Orion VII NG Fairfax Connector Bus’ album on Flickr and you can hop on board to transit Northern Virgina via the link.
No really! Because this fabulous recreation of the wild Hoonigan Big-Block Chevrolet Camaro is constructed only from the parts of the official LEGO Technic 42143 Ferrari Daytona SP3. Which has lead to some inspired parts usage – just look at those tail-lights! Finally a positive to LEGO’s baffling decision to use multi-coloured pins.
Eurobricks’ paave is the builder behind it, and with working suspension, steering, V8 engine, and 4+R gearbox, his 42143 B-Model is as features-packed as its donor set.
Building instructions are available and you can find out more – and maybe swap your own Ferrari for a rather unique Camaro – at the Eurobricks forum via the link above.
There’s working steering, a 6-cylinder engine under the tilting cab, a tipping hopper, and an operational side-loading arm too.
Flickr’s Dyens Creations is the builder behind it, and you can put your bins out via the link above, plus you can click here for another 42175 alternate blogged here previously. Because we do post a lot of garbage.
We’re alternately off-roading at TLCB today, thanks to Master MOCer Thirdwigg and this neat Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer, an immensely capable military truck named after an Austrian cattle breed and built until the mid-‘00s.
Constructed from 755 parts of LEGO’s 42213 Technic Ford Bronco set, Thirdwigg’s recreation of the unusual Austrian off-road truck includes working suspension, steering, a mid-mounted piston engine, an opening hood, and – most importantly – a lunchbox.
Building instructions are available and you can click here to swap your American horse for an Austrian cow.
It’s the 2026 Football World Cup, and today we’re FIFA President Gianni Infantino and a phone call from President Trump, because much like Team USA in their Belgium knock-out game we’ve got a surprise American striker!
However it’s not Folarin Balogun after his mysterious Presidential one-match ban rescindment, but rather this excellent SSC Tuatara Striker from Eurobricks’ MAP Tec.
Featuring a working V8 engine and 8-speed gearbox, adjustable suspension, steering, a deployable spoiler, opening butterfly doors, and even a working handbrake, MAP Tec’s Technic Tuatara is as packed with functions as Infantino’s pockets are with dirty dollars.
You can support the model on LEGO Ideas and there’s lots more of MAP’s SSC Tuatara Striker to see at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above to see your red card ban overturned and then lose to Belgium anyway.
It’s been some time since one of our Elves ran over its colleagues with a remote control creation. And that doesn’t change today, as despite being epically remote controlled, this magnificent Tatra trial truck is too slow to run down any Elves at all. Which enraged the Elf that found it. Still, a Red Smartie will perk it up, and we can take a look at this astonishing creation without having to clean the floors first.
It comes from TLCB Master MOCer Sariel, and it’s a Tatra 813 8×8 designed specifically for going very slowly over almost anything.
Eight-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steering, high/low gearbox, incredible suspension, and a working piston engine all feature, and you can see more of this mighty machine on Flickr and via the video below, where Sariel pulls some very heavy things (very slowly) across his floor.
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.
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.
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.
What’s small, green, and incredibly deadly? Yes, it’s the quad bike (or ATV to some), a vehicle that despite having twice the number of wheels as a motorbike is even more likely to fall over.
