Rainbow flags are so hot right now. But before they were adopted by corporations to sell more stuff, um… we mean be more inclusive, they were a regular sight floating gently above us every summer. Hot air balloons love a rainbow envelope, and this one looks like every balloon we remember seeing as a child on warm summer days. Beautifully created by Flickr’s Tong Xin Jung you can soar into the skies in a wicker basket under a rainbow via the link above.
TLCB Opinion of the Day; Archeologists are glorified looters. Whether it be an item of great reverence to a particular culture, the wealth of an entire people, or the bones of someone’s ancestor, they’re all ripe for digging up and sticking in a museum.
Cue Indiana Jon… um, we mean ‘Johnny Thunder’, who’s about to get his hands on the ‘Lost Sun Disk’ from the mouth of a hidden jungle totem. He may have to shoot a native or two, but that ancient treasure belongs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
Newcomer workhardbuildhard is the builder behind the aforementioned theft, with Johnny and an accomplice ready to make their daring escape in a neat grey Jeep CJ. The locals certainly won’t be able to keep up with that!
There’s more of the build to see at whbh’s photostream via the link above, or alternatively visit any Western cultural museum for innumerous items of great worth successfully looted by brave archaeologists.
Well whatever this Classic Spaceman is doing, no-one can hear him. Flickr’s manuele vidi is the creator of this whimsical Classic Space vignette, in which many hands make a great logo. Join the Classic Spaceman doing, um… Classic Space things via the link above.
We love slow, strange, European oddities here at The Lego Car Blog. Probably because we are one. This is one such curiosity, the Piaggio Ape, depicted here in MP-600 form.
‘MP’ stood for ‘Motore Posteriore’ (rear engine), whilst ‘600’ denoted the 600bhp it produced. Kidding. It wasn’t even 600cc. Or half that…
Like we said, sloooow. But we love Apes nonetheless, and thus this excellent Town-style version by Jordan Parmegiani is one of our favourite creations of the year so far.
A scooter in the load bed makes Jordan’s build even more Italian, and you can meander through narrow streets somewhere in Italy via the link above.
The good thing about trucking across a newly-populated planetary expanse, is there are no low bridges.
Which means no pesky height restrictions for your space shipping, something Flickr’s Walter Whiteside Jr. has taken maximum advantage of with this Febrovery entry.
Ship yourself into into space via the link above.
This beautiful creation is a goza bune, a type of pleasure ship owned by Japan’s rich and powerful officials during the Edo period of the Tokugawa shogunate, from the early 1600s to the late 1800s. But we all know about that.
This writer thought it looks rather like the giant ‘Jumbo’ floating Chinese restaurant that resided in Aberdeen Harbour, Hong Kong. He ordered the crispy Peking duck amongst many other things.
Which yes, does mean he’s conflated a 17th century Japanese ship with a barge-based restaurant from an entirely different culture built in the 1970s…
Anyway, with apologies to our Japanese readers, there’s more to see of this superbly detailed Chinese restu… Edo era goza bune courtesy of previous bloggee Markus Ronge, including the stunning detail within. Order your Chinese meal via the link above.
Passing wind never smelt so good. Elven* adventurers Eol Skydiver and Kaledor Tesliar are traversing the atmospheric circulation in their magicanical botanical airship. We know not how it works, not where they’re going, but we’re delighted to float alongside them. Dwarlin Forkbeard is the director of this aeronautical adventure and you can join him, Eol and Kaledor via the link above.
*TLCB Elves must be a different sort. Their wind makes your eyes hurt.
Febrovery’s weirdness continues, and this is right up there in the weird stakes. Entitled the ‘Hexapod Rover’, Pascal‘s spindly spider design is probably eliciting some primal emotions in some of our readers. Place a glass over it and slide some paper underneath, or scream and smash it with a tea-towel, depending on your persuasion, at the link above.
This is an X-28 Landspeeder, and… um, that’s all we know. We’re not Star Trek Wars people. But we do like racing stripes and rooster-tail dust-clouds, and this has both! Ordo (Fabian B.) is the builder behind it and you can take a look via the link above.
The Lego Car Blog can be accused of many things. Incompetence. Wilful ignorance. Childish humour. But Only-Blogging-Thousand-Brick creations isn’t one of them. Proving that point today is Nikolaus Lowe‘s delightfully simple half-tracked Febrovery entry, complete with a smiling Benny the Spaceman and a Storm Trooper at the handlebars. Which is an interesting play on these sorts of machines’ original drivers. Join in the space Naziism via the link to Nikolaus’ photostream above!
It’s the first of February, which means the annual build-a-thon ‘Febrovery’ is back for another year! Before enthusiasts of old British cars get excited, Febrovery is not a homage to long-dead Brit car-maker Rover (Aww. Ed.), but instead expands upon one of LEGO’s earliest set staples, the lunar rover. Although we say lunar, but planetary is fine too.
We’re only on Day 1, yet an array of roving machinery has already been uploaded to the Febrovery Flickr group, including this wedgy orange example from prolific sci-fi builder David Roberts.
Looking rather like the weird ’70s British microcar, the Bond Bug (Hooray! Ed.), David Roberts’ creation points the way to a plethora of rovers sure to follow, and you can check out his orange wedge at his photostream via the link above, whilst this TLCB Writer tries to avoid our editor before he starts talking about crap British cars again…
Look at us with our lingo getting home with downies! There really is a goat in this post too, which we didn’t even know LEGO made. Apparently they’re super rare and worth a $million, and Flickr’s K P has casually got one in the back of his vintage truck. Much as we like goats, being a car blog we prefer the truck, and there’s more to see of it, its moulded fenders, meat-cleaver wing-mirrors, and headlights we can’t figure out (as well as the goat) at his photostream. Take a look via the link above.
Front-heavy, able to handle a big load, and often found working in docks*, telehandlers move all sorts of things from one place to somewhere else. This one comes from recent bloggee Sseven Bricks who – despite only building in Town scale – has included four-wheel-steering in his miniature JCB. Head dockside via the link above.
*Just like your Mom.
We have a bumper post for you today, with a no less than nine dodgems across a pair of fairground creations, each constructed for the ongoing Iron Forge contest on Flickr.
Utilising the LEGO Mudguard Arch ‘seed’ part required by the competition rules, Syrdarian (above) and Dominique Boeynaems‘ (below) ideas have collided, with the pair bouncing to the same conclusion and each squeezing a multitude of mudguards into their bumper builds, from the dodgem cockpits to the roofing.
Each is a wonderful homage to the joy of deliberate gentle collision, and there’s more to see of their brick-based bumper cars at their respective photostreams. Buy your tokens at the fair via the links above – just remember to save the head-on bumping until your last ride of the day!
We’re having a whimsical return after our Christmas break, and it continues with this splendid hovership by Flickr’s Konajra. A quad of hull-mounted anti-gravity engines provide the ‘Zephyr Voyager’ with lift, whilst the traditional masts provide, um…
It looks beautiful though, and perhaps beauty doesn’t need to make logical sense. Float on over to take a closer look at Konajra’s ship of the skies via link above.
*Today’s wonderful title song.