We’re 14 Today!

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Lego 14

Yes it’s The Lego Car Blog’s birthday! And unlike almost every previous year we’ve actually remembered on the day itself. At fourteen years old this dodgy alley in the corner of the internet is older than the Tesla Model S, Grand Theft Auto V, Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy’, and Tik Tok. And not even a fraction as successful as any of them.

Still, millions of you have joined us over the years, whether that be for the thousands of Lego cars, trucks and motorbikes we’ve publicised, the over a hundred LEGO set and product reviews, reveals of new LEGO sets, interviews of some of the world’s best Lego builders, or the Your Mom jokes. Whatever your reasoning, we’re glad you’re here.

We’re not on social media but if you like what we do feel free to spread the word, you can click here to write to us to complain that we haven’t featured your creation, and if you really want to support us you can buy the Elves a birthday present here.

We’ll keep trying to publicise the best Lego vehicles the web has to offer, and thank you for joining us on the ride.

TLCB Team

Red Removal

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LEGO’s fictional energy company has been supplying fuel to planes, cars and boats, as well as sponsoring pretty much every vehicle in LEGO City with a number, since ’92. Cue TLCB Master MOCer Dennis Glaasker (aka bricksonwheels), who has taken Octan’s iconic white, red and green colour scheme and flipped it to create this huge custom Peterbilt 389 and Polar tanker combo.

Constructed for the Legoworld Show in the Netherlands, Dennis’ spectacular 1:15 tanker features unique decals, custom chrome, and a livery so cool we don’t miss the red absent from Octan’s usual colour-scheme at all.

There’s more of Dennis’ stunning creation to see at his ‘Peterbilt Octan Tanker Combo’ Flickr album, plus you can find out how he creates amazing models like this one via his interview here at TLCB via the first link in the text above.

Poop-Poop!

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We’ve gone all Toad-of-Toad-Hall today, courtesy of this be-goggled mini-figure and his marvellous 1931 Mercedes-Benz SSKL. Flickr’s SvenJ. owns the hands behind it, which he’s also used to stretch LEGO’s latest tyres over their vintage rims for the perfect wheel/tyre combo. There’s more to see at Sven’s photostream and you can race along the roads in the early-’30s via the link above. Poop-Poop!

We’ve Got Wind

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And so has Daniel Church. This is his ‘Wayward Wanderer’, a spectacular twin-sail concept yacht with a gorgeous curved jib formed of tessellating hexagons. The Wanderer’s beautiful brick-built hull is equally well crafted, with the only wonky element of the whole photo being the horizon. Point your bow towards it and set sail via the link above.

Vintage Ghouls

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It’s Halloween! Which means ’tis the season of pumpkins, spooky monsters, and skimpy outfits. Unfortunately we don’t have any images of the latter, but we do have a spooky monster-driven vintage pick-up truck loaded with pumpkins, which is good enough for us. Regular bloggee _Tyler is the builder and you can click here to ghost your way to his photostream.

My Other Car’s Also a Ferrari

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It’s been two decades since the Ferrari Enzo, and two since an official LEGO set depicting it. Cue nopingrid of Eurobricks, who has recreated Ferrari’s iconic early-’00s hypercar from the parts of one of their newest, the Technic 42212 Ferrari FXX K. Using 85% of the FXX K’s 900 pieces, nopingrid’s Enzo includes working steering, a V12 engine, plus opening butterfly doors, and we think it looks rather better than the donor set. Building instructions are available and you can find out more at the Eurobricks forum via the link above.

Creations for Charity 2025!

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Creations for Charity is back!

Creations for Charity, the fantastic annual fundraiser raising money for the provision of official LEGO sets to children who have little else, is back for 2025! Through the sale of unique Lego creations, hundreds of underprivileged children will receive a LEGO toy this Christmas, and you could get your hands on an amazing one-off Lego model to boot!

Get involved

You can join in Creations for Charity 2025 in several ways;

  • By donating a creation to the Creations for Charity store
  • By buying a creation
  • By giving a monetary donation to the charity

You can take a look at the Creations for Charity fundraiser by clicking the link below, where fabulous fan-built creations can soon be bought. You could even join the building heroics by donating a Lego creation of your own.

Do something amazing, get involved in Creations for Charity 2025 and bring some joy to a child who really needs it.

Buy or donate a creation at the Creations for Charity store.

Paint it Black

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This splendid creation is a Porsche 911 (964) Turbo, and it isn’t quite possible to build in black. But is is possible to build it in red, which is why we’ve pictured a black one here obviously.

Designed by previous bloggee ArtemyZotov, this fantastic 1:12 recreation of the early-’90s 911 features opening doors, front trunk and engine cover, a fully removable body, working steering, independent suspension, and a detailed flat-6 engine.

Artemy has produced building instructions too, so you can recreate this outstanding model for yourself, although only in red. Which is fine by us at it looks the business in red.

Artemy didn’t have all the red pieces for his design, hence the black build with a few (cough) clone parts, however you can see what the 911 looks like rendered in red at the Eurobricks forum, plus you can find the full gallery of the black brick-built version you see here at Bricksafe.

Take a look via the links in the text above and perhaps create Artemy’s brilliant 911 Turbo for yourself. In red of course.

*Today’s title song.

Red Before Yellow

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This is a Bucyrus 495HR electric rope shovel, a 1970s-designed mining excavator capable of lifting over 100 tons at a time. Which make is very large indeed.

So large in fact, that this astounding fully-functional recreation of the 495HR is actually mini-figure scale, making this probably the largest ‘Town’ category post this site has ever published.

Created by Konajra of Flickr, it’s an update to his previously blogged Caterpillar 7495, adopting the original red livery of its creator Bucyrus before the design was purchased by Caterpillar, who painted it yellow and who still use it today.

With remote control movement via a suite of motors and several third-party programmable SBricks, LED lighting, and authentically replicated decals, Konajra’s creation is one of the most impressive of 2025, and there’s lots more to see – including some work-in-progress shots – at his ‘Bucyrus 495HR’ album. Take a closer look red rope shovelling before Caterpillar yellow via the link above.

Bird of Prey

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Military marketeers get to use the coolest names (unless they’re Soviet of course, when it’s just a collection of letters), including Lightning, Storm Shadow, Typhoon, Tomahawk, and – as with today’s creation – Raptor.

Named after a pointy-beaked, pointy-footed bird, the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor supersonic stealth fighter is used only by the Unites States, with just under 200 units currently in operation.

This spectacular brick-built version of the F-22A single-seat variant comes from Flickr’s Kenneth Vaessen, and includes an opening cockpit canopy, working landing gear, and opening bomb-bay doors, alongside some simply superb shaping.

A gallery of half-a-dozen excellent images is available to view and you can wing your way there via the link above.

Sci-Friday

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The Lego Car Blog Elves are feeling spacey today, and that’s OK with us. Cue Wynd of Flickr, who has constructed two splendid Neo-Classic Space creations featuring de-rigueur trans-yellow canopies, blue-over-grey colour-scheme, and greebles galore.

Each is presented beautifully and there’s more to see of Wynd’s wonderful reimagining of LEGO’s most celebrated vintage theme at their photostream. Fly to to an alternate universe of 1980s LEGO via the link above.

TLCB x AI

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Here at The Lego Car Blog we try to do things differently. Often worse, but differently nonetheless. Thus today we’re going to address the rise of the machines, and the two letters that – if countless sci-fi films prove correct – will probably spell the end of us all. A. I.

Now deployed in every job application, university essay, and best man’s speech, AI has changed (or imminently will) pretty much everything. Cancer screening, vaccine creation, and disaster response are immeasurably more powerful thanks to artificial intelligence, whilst music, movies, and voice work can be produced without artists, and photographic/video evidence now means nothing.

On balance, for all the potential good it can do, we think that AI is probably going to harm society more than help it, and so – mirroring our approach to social media – we have decided not to use it here at The Lego Car Blog. Correspondingly all our content will continue to be written only by human beings, and thus all the mistakes you spot are our own. We will also endeavour to ensure that no AI-generated creations are featured, with our Submission Guidelines updated to reflect this policy (although this may prove tricky to administer once AI can nail it).

Until then however, The Lego Car Blog will proudly be an AI-free site, both in word and image. Unless the robots in charge in the future deem this post evidence of resistance, in which case AI wrote it.

Image credit.

Aetherium Arcana

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TLCB is way out of its depth today. This is the ‘Aetherium Arcana’, a floating mechanical marvel filled with curiosities and ingenuity, and about which we know nothing…

We are absolutely not the Lego site to do Jesse Gros (aka Westside Lego Daddy)’s spectacular ship amongst the clouds justice, but before his astounding creation appears on the sites that can, here’s a chance for a closer look at this incredible floating whimsy.

Barracuda*

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If TLCB Elves were to design a car, it’d probably look like a ’70s Plymouth Barracuda. Lime green bodywork, a black hood with a giant scoop in the middle of it, racing stripes, and an enormous V8 engine packing up to 425bhp from over 7 litres, the Hemi ‘Cuda was wildly different to the cars trundling around our home nation at the time.

Cue this splendid Speed Champions scale recreation of Plymouth’s third-generation Barracuda from previous bloggee gnat.bricks, which includes all of the aforementioned attributes plus -and more unusually at this scale – a brick-built drivetrain, including  full-length exhausts, gearbox, driveshaft and differential, and steering arms/suspension. These don’t function of course, but then neither did the steering/suspension of the real ‘Cuda.

There’s more of gnat’s brilliant Barracuda to see at his ‘CUDA SC’ album on Flickr, and you can jump back to ’70s America via the link above, whilst clicking the link below for the most appropriate soundtrack imaginable.

*Today’s excellent title song. Of course.

Beetle Built Different

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Hope, magic, and more than a little ingenuity. The Lego Car Blog staff have built a great many things, but none have deployed antenna ball-joints as fenders. There’s so much going on in 1saac W.‘s Volkswagen Beetle there is genuine bafflement here at TLCB Towers as to how it all holds together. Join us trying in vain to figure it out at 1saac’s photostream via the link above.