LEGO Star Wars 75419 Death Star | Set Preview

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That’s no moon. But the price is lunacy. This is the brand new LEGO Star Wars 75419 Death Star.

Arriving outside the atmosphere of a planet near you on October 1st, 75419 brings Star Wars’ most iconic energy project into LEGO’s Ultimate Collector Series, with over 9,000 parts, thirty-eight mini-figures and an array of movie scenes held within a thin slice of space-station.

These include the crushing trash compactor, Princess Leia’s cell, the hangar control room infiltrated by Luke Skywalker and Han Solo, the tractor beam control deactivated by Obi-Wan Kenobi, Emperor Palpatine’s throne room, the Imperial Shuttle hangar bay, and the planet-destroying Superlaser. And all for $999.

Yes, it’s finally (if inevitably) happened, 75419 is the first one-thousand dollar LEGO set. With a recommended retail price of $999 / £899, it actually translates to over $1,200 in our home nation at today’s exchange rate. Which sounds, and is, a galactic amount of money. But perhaps black boxes and purple Imperial Dignitaries don’t come cheap.

If you’re head of a Galactic Empire you can get your black gloved hands on the new LEGO Star Wars 75419 Death Star set from October 1st. For the rest of us in the Republic, we haven’t forgotten that LEGO is supposed to be a toy, so we’ll be playing with what we’ve got.

Highline

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It’s time for a truck here at The Lego Car Blog, because we’re not just about cars. This is a Scania Highline and Schmitz Cargobull tipper trailer, as excellently constructed by previous bloggee Keko007. Clever SNOT techniques and a functioning tipper mechanism feature and you can see more at Keko’s ‘Scania Highline 4×2 2020 & Schmitz Cargobull Tipper Semitrailer’ album via the link above.

Dihedral Synchro-Helix

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You see, it’s not all Your Mom jokes and toilet humour here at The Lego Car Blog, because today we’re doing science. Just look at that title!

The source of our newfound intelligence is this incredible Koenigsegg Agera RS by Eurobricks’ mihao, which includes – amongst much else – fully functional dihedral synchro-helix doors.

Of course our enormous brains know exactly what ‘dihedral synchro-helix’ means, but we’re not going to write it here so as not to alienate our readers.

Besides those brainiac doors, mihao’s phenomenal Technic Supercar includes opening front and rear clamshells, a removable roof, front and rear LED lights, remote control drive, steering, and motorised adjustable independent suspension, plus a V8 engine hooked up to an eight-speed (plus neutral and reverse) paddle-shift sequential gearbox.

It’s a Technic engineering masterclass, and one you can have a go at yourself as mihao has released building instructions for his astonishing model for free (a hundred TLCB Points to mihao).

There’s loads more to see, including a link to those free instructions, at the Eurobricks forum, plus you can watch this amazing Agera in action via the video below. Click the link above to earn your engineering doctorate.

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Burger Box

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Is there anything better than a burger from a van? OK, a burger not from a van probably, but a burger from a van is still a burger. And just look how burgery this van is! It’s a Chevy P20 box van and it comes from previous bloggee Sseven Bricks, with more to see at his photostream. Click here for a roadside burger of unnamed meat, gherkins, tomato, relish, and questionable food hygiene.

Dirty Photo

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Today’s creation is large, heavy, ponderous, and there are dirty pictures of it on the internet. No it’s not your Mom for once, but this splendid camouflaged bulldozer by Dwelve, who’s photographed it not on a clean white background (although that is still the recommended norm), but rather getting dirty in the forest. Which is where it should be of course. Dwelve has constructed the ‘dozer for third-party set shop Brickmania, there’s more of the model to see on Flickr, and you can see all the dirty photos via the link above.

Tanked Up

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We’re not sure what’s inside Arian Janssens’ excellent classic DAF FT 2800 truck and tanker trailer but – as is always the case with such posts – we hope it’s beer. Or wine. Or anything alcoholic in fact. Yeah, well… you try and work with mythical creatures for a job. Arian’s creation is perfectly hopped, and you can have a taste at his ‘DAF FT 2800’ album whilst this TLCB Writer tries to find some alcohol in the office that isn’t in a hand-sanitiser.

The Smallest Car in the World

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The British motor industry was weird. At one end of it in the 1960s was the fastest car in the world (the Jaguar E-Type), whilst at the other was the smallest. Because, um… honestly we have no idea why Peel decided to make the smallest production car in the world, but make it they did for a few years in the mid-’60s.

Powered by a 50cc scooter engine the P50 could fit only one moderately-sized human, but – as proven in an iconic episode of Top Gear – it could also fit in a lift with a newsreader. Because, um… we have no idea.

This ingenious brick-built example of the world’s smallest car comes from Michael Jasper of Flickr, who has managed to construct it in mini-figure scale. We’re not sure one will fit in it mind…

There’s more (although not a lot more) to see at Michael’s photostream, and you can head to Britain in the mid-’60s for some very small motoring indeed via the link above.

Just a Jeep

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It’s been a day of decidedly weird vehicles here at The Lego Car Blog, so we’ll round off with something resolutely normal. Splendidly built with Technic gears for wheels, a miniaturised roll cage, and a dismembered mini-figure hand for a winch, 1saac W.‘s Jeep TJ is as good as small scale building gets. Take a look via the link.

The Manliest Thing You Can Do In A Truck

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You. Yes you, the owner of the full-size V8-powered pick-up truck with the MAGA bumper sticker used to carry nothing more than yourself and your handgun. What are you compensating for? If you want to prove yourself a real man you want to get yourself one of these. Because navigating a 170cc Piaggio Ape Pentaro up a winding cobbled Italian street pulling half-a-ton of oranges is the most skilful thing you can do in a vehicle. Unless this happens of course. Dariusz Sedziak is the man behind this one and you can see more here.

Walking a Cyber Skyline

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A classic Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R, cyberpunk, bosozoku, and Liberty Walk are quite a lot to squeeze into one model. The result could therefore be described as ‘busy’, but heck it works! This cyberpunked, bosozokued, and Liberty Walk bodykitted Skyline 2000 ‘Kenmeri’ comes from Flickr’s Sergio Batista, and is based on the artwork of Kantaro Gashilo. A glorious mash-up of conflicting aesthetics, there’s more to see at Sergio’s photostream, and you can take a walk through a cyberpunk skyline via the link above.

Fabulous Fire Engine

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This fabulous vintage fire truck was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr today, and it cunningly uses a vintage (in LEGO terms) single-piece Fabuland chassis that is absolutely perfect for the job. A rolled hose, ‘brass’ grab rails, and a bench seat recreate the details of the time, and you can head back a hundred years courtesy of a forty-five year-old piece and 1saac W via the link above.

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Do you love Lego cars, trucks, aircraft and sci-fi? Do you like ‘Your Mom’ jokes and references to Putin’s tiny member? Then have we got a deal for you! And by ‘deal’, we actually mean a ‘donate’ button.

Yes we’ve finally done it, after being asked to a few times by our readers. So here it is. It won’t appear on the main page because that feels a bit pushy, but it can be found in the About Us, Contact, and FAQs pages. And below.

If you’d like to donate something please do (any profit we make goes to charitable causes), and if not we’re still delighted to have you here : )

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Two For Tuesday

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It’s a TLCB double today, with a duo of top-notch pieces of construction equipment, each wonderfully detailed, and affording us some ‘Your Mom’ references too.

First up (above) is Ralph Savelsberg‘s fantastic Caterpillar D9T bulldozer. Born in the mid-’50s, the D9 has serviced more construction sites than any other competitor, thanks to its weight, size, and low operating costs. Just like your Mom. Ralph’s Lego version captures the heavy tracked tractor brilliantly in brick, and you can bulldoze your way to it via the link above.

Today’s second constructional creation (below) is Keko007‘s excellent JCB 531-70 telehandler, complete with more varied implements than your Mom’s ‘special chest’. A raising and extending boom means that the model can replicate the reach of the real JCB 531, and you can reach for it yourself at Keko’s photostream via the link above.

Rallye Raid

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France may not be the first nation that springs to mind when thinking about the world’s best off-roaders. British Land Rovers, American Jeeps, Japanese Land Cruisers… sure, but the French? Except they are. By miles.

The originators of expedition rallies, French drivers have won the Dakar more times than any other nation, which makes sense seeing as the race used to start in Paris. This is one of the amazing machines that propelled a Frenchman to a Dakar win, the wild Citroen ZX Rallye Raid.

Based (kinda) on a small French family car, the ZX Rallye Raid won a total of four Dakar Rallies, cementing itself as one of the greatest rally-raid endurance racers of all time. This fantastic Speed Champions recreation of the 1994 Citroen ZX Rallye Raid Evo 4 encapsulates the iconic off-roader brilliantly in brick, and comes from regular bloggee SFH_Bricks.

With removable front and rear clamshells, superbly authentic decals, and mechanicals as detailed as the exterior, SFH’s Citroen ZX Rallye Raid is a winner in brick form too, and there’s more to see on Flickr. Jump to the desert somewhere in North Africa (or an autoroute just south of Paris) circa-1994 via the link above.

Onward Guinevere!

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The Elves is Disney movies do not look like those here at TLCB Towers. Probably because Disney don’t want their young audience members to scream/cry/vomit. Cue 2020’s ‘Onward’, in which two ‘Elf’ brothers undertake an epic adventure in an old van, which recent bloggee Tim Inman has recreated beautifully in brick form.

Complete with rusty sills, a detailed interior behind a sliding door, and a fabulous brick-built pegasus mural, Tim’s Model Team ‘Guinevere’ is one of our favourite creations of the year so far. There’s much more to see at Tim’s photostream and you can join two Elves on the road trip of a lifetime via the link above, whilst we look at ours and ponder our choices.