We’re diggin’ this vintage looking excavator by Flickr’s Christoph Ellerman. It can really dig too, thanks to a suite of electronics hidden inside, with a three stage arm, slewing superstructure, and skid steer tracks. Click the link above if you’re diggin’ it too.
It’s truck time here at The Lego Car Blog. Because we didn’t find any cars. But what a truck it is. Constructed by serial bloggee Arian Janssens, this DAF FAS XG+ 530 is outfitted with a hook-lift and drawbar trailer, meaning it can take two huge loads at once. Superb attention to detail is evident throughout the truck, trailer, and the massive black containers being transported by both, and there’s much more to see of the component parts and the complete rig at Arian’s ‘DAF FAS XG+ 530’ album on Flickr.
It’s the start of a brand new year! Which here at The Lego Car Blog means it’s dark at 4pm, the adverts are all for holidays, and we look back on the last year with an image of the current one, which makes no sense but we’re a decade in so we’re not changing it.
Anyway, on to what happened at TLCB in 2024!
We published almost exactly the same number of posts in 2024 as 2023, with 347 hitting the front page. These generated 16% fewer visitors however, with the site now around half its peak of over a million several years ago. That still means that hundreds of thousands of you are turning up to read our gibberish though, something to which we remain astonished.
2024’s most viewed posts were the new LEGO set reveals, with Speed Champions coming out on top of the pile. The Review Library and our new A-Z of car manufacturers (plus bikes and trucks) were next in line, along with the most viewed individual creations (‘That’ Toyota Supra, Nosing Ahead, and ‘Oh My gosh, It’s Oshkonoggin!‘, none of which were actually posted in 2024).
Likes for 2024 were down 56% year-on-year yet comments were up 18%. As these were (mostly) nice ones, it seems people are perhaps over ‘liking’ things. Good. Social media is poison.
Which is a bit of a pain, as more and more creations are appearing there only. These are often suggested to us, but to ensure our readers don’t have to create an account and hand over their souls to Meta, Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, we only publish creations that are free-to-access. Thus if you do use socials to publicise your works and you’d like them to appear here, do consider replicating your images on a free-to-access platform such as Flickr, Eurobricks, Bricksafe, or Brickshelf – that way we can direct our readers to them without fear of a ‘Create an Account’ gateway appearing.
That said, thousands of you still joined us from Facebook, and hundreds-of-thousands from Google. Whether you found what you were looking for or found us by accident, you’re very welcome!
The USA easily remained the top visiting country in 2024, followed by Germany, UK, and Netherlands, whilst there are just four countries on earth remaining with an all-time visitor count of one. Hello to the four people from St. Helena, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Palau!
We’re here to continue publishing the best Lego vehicles the web has to offer, unless you get bored of this (or we do). Expect more cars, trucks, motorbikes, ships, and even sci-fi builds throughout 2025, and if enough of them arrive from an as-yet-un-listed manufacturer, said car maker will join those already in the A-Z, where you can find every creation to feature here categorised by the badge on the bonnet.
We’ll also continue to publish (and assess) the brand new LEGO sets due to reach stores during the year, along with brick-based vehicle news, builder interviews, and probably a few Your Mom jokes.
Thank you for taking the time to join us here at The Lego Car Blog, it’s your views and clicks that keep this site running (and enable the advertising revenue to be donated to causes more noble than this one), and we hope you’ll enjoy what we publish in 2025.
TLCB Team
We’re only three models in to the new year and already we’re publishing one of the finest trucks this site has featured yet. And a title to piggy-back off a crappy movie for clicks…
Discovered on Eurobricks, this is Michael217‘s fully remote-controlled Kamaz 5410 6×4 truck, complete with some unique 3D-printed pieces and a partially – cough – un-LEGO drivetrain.
Riding on custom wheels under bespoke polycarbonate fenders, Michael’s Kamaz is powered by a combination of a LEGO Buggy Motor, GeekServo, and an RCBric Management controller, with 6×4 drive, working steering, a two-speed gearbox, tilting cab, and a V8 engine.
The resultant truck looks spectacular and there’s more to see of Michael’s superbly-presented model at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above to find the full build details and further top quality images.
2025 sounds futuristic doesn’t it? It probably won’t be of course, besides being one step closer to the AI or climate apocalypse, but here’s a futuristic bike nonetheless! Build by Horcik Designs, there’s more to see of this ‘Cyberbike-A’ on Flickr, and you can ride into the future via the link above.
It’s New Year’s Day, and there’s already a hooker in the office. Nope, we haven’t gone ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ for 2025 (we’re still very much a ropey Lego blog rather than a stock market scam); this one is of the Lego variety, being a splendid fully mechanical Technic hook-lift truck courtesy of TLCB Master MOCer Thirdwigg.
Fitted with front and rear axle steering, a working piston engine under the tilting cab, a functioning hook-lift plus tipper mechanism, and two roll-off containers (one of which is also fitted with a slewing crane grab), Thirdwigg’s truck is an excellent creation with which to begin the new year.
There’s much more to see at Thirdwigg’s ‘Hook Lift Truck’ album on Flickr, where a link to building instructions can also be found, and you can click the link above for the hook.
The holiday season is near its end, and thus we’re already thinking about the next time we can escape this crumbling ruin of an office filled and the mythical creatures within it (the Elves, not TLCB staff).
Cue recent bloggee Nick Kleinfelder‘s recreation of his own 1980s Volkswagen T3 Westfalia, complete with a boot-rack, a pop-top, and a delightful beige hue that could have been marketed as ‘Infant’s Nappy’.
There’s more of the model to see at Nick’s photostream, and you can holiday in an ’80s VW via the link above.
“I know…. Isn’t in beautiful?”
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Previous bloggee _Tiler has one of them in the back of his Gotham City police car. We’re not sure he’ll be there for long…
Most Chevrolet Corvette owners would, we suspect, happily swap their American sports car for one wearing the prancing horse. But perhaps not this Corvette for this Ferrari.
The early-’60s ‘C1’ Chevrolet Corvette is one of America’s greatest cars. The Ferrari 308 is not one of Italy’s. Still, it looks good in Lego form, at least at the hands of Firas Abu-Jaber, who has used only the parts from the LEGO Icons 10321 Chevrolet Corvette set to create this superb 308 B-Model.
Less pretty, less powerful, and less reliable than the two-decade-older ‘Vette, the 308 still wears that famous prancing horse, and thus if you’d like to swap your American classic for an Italian one you can take a look at Firas’ photostream, where all of the excellent images of his 10321 alternate can be found.
Motorcycles tend to do one well, and the other horribly. Which is why if you want to ride both surfaces you should have two. Nick Kleinfelder‘s friend’s father done just that, owning a Suzuki RMZ 250 and a Yamaha XV 750 Virago, both of which Nick has recreated for him as a Christmas gift. Clever parts usage and a some immensely fiddly looking connections make these bikes some of the most realistic at this scale we’ve seen yet, and you can hit the pavement or the dirt via the link above.
The best imaginations are based on reality. This odd looking machine is a ‘Savoia S-21’ as depicted in the Japanese animated movie ‘Porco Rosso’. It is however, based on a real Italian 1920s air racer, that if anything looked even stranger than its cartoon counterpart. Eero Okkonen is the creator of this appealing brick-built interpretation, complete with the cape-wearing titular protagonist, and there’s more to see at his photostream.
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.
We’re back! And mostly sober. The Lego Car Blog Elves, locked in their cages over the festivities, have recommenced their hunt for the best Lego creations that the web has to offer, and no sooner had they been released it seemed, than one of their number had returned with this lovely vintage truck, complete with a Christmas tree, mini-figure family, and a pair of otters for some reason. We’re not sure otters are known as yuletide animals, but no matter, they’re wonderful nevertheless, and there’s more to see of K P‘s truck, family, and otters on Flickr via the link.
It’s a few nights before Christmas
All through TLCB Towers
The Elves are back in their cages
Counting down the hours
‘Til they’re released once again
After the festivities are over
And TLCB Staff return
…Hopefully sober
Here at The Lego Car Blog we’re taking our customary Christmas break. We’ll be back (hopefully sober) before long. Until then, we wish you the merriest of Christmases, and encourage you to put down your phone, switch off your computer, and enjoy what’s most important.
Happy Christmas!
TLCB Team
If we could write to Santa to ask for anything, a supercar would be near the top of the list. It’s probably a good thing he only gives toys though, as if we all got our wishes the world would likely be much worse for it.
Cue today’s creations, which – whilst they are toys – do help us into the world of supercar ownership, as each as been published with building instructions so you can build them at home too!
Above is Nathanael Kuipers‘ Ferrari La Ferrari, which he has built entirely from the parts from the official LEGO Speed Champions 76914 Ferrari 812 Competizione set, whilst below is Fabrice Larcheveque‘s fantastic Lamborghini Diablo, which recreates the ’90s supercar icon beautifully in 8-wide brick.
There’s more to see of each via the links above, where building instructions can also be found, so you too can own a supercar this Christmas.
