One Hundred Ways To Win!

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Lego LUGNuts Competition

Hello LEGO Car Blog readers! Lino Martins here. Aside from being the outspoken front man and taskmaster over at LUGNuts, I have been a lot of things in my day: wine enthusiast, chubby chaser, mob informant, Pulitzer Prize winner, True Belieber, drug mule, part-time figure drawing model, prison snitch, gun-nut, cheese monger, interim fluffer, Olympic gold medalist, and backup dancer…but I have never been a writer for The LEGO Car Blog. Which is why that, thanks to a serious lapse in someone’s judgement (probably the Elves), I am honored that they let me take over the blog for this one post.

Now it’s about to get a bit more lowbrow around here and they probably won’t get the damage deposit back on this rental blog-writing studio, but I can assure you this is all for good reason. For all of February, LUGNuts will be running our 100th challenge called “100 Ways To Win”…a challenge so epic, we went back in time to 1582 to convince astronomers to give us one more day in this otherwise very short month. It’s totally true. I wouldn’t just make that up. We have a physicist who does that kind of stuff.

Anyway, how this works is you go on over to LUGNuts, (read the rules and whatnot), choose a number from 1-100 and, based on your chosen number, we will assign you an automotive task from a list of ideas that we have under lock and key. You build accordingly, play your cards right, and you may take home a totally awesome prize.

Over at LUGNuts, in life, and sometimes in the bathroom, we live by one policy: go big or go home! An epic challenge calls for epic prizes so the third place winner gets the LEGO Technic 42050 Drag Racer. Second place winner; we up the ante with the Technic 42039 24 Hours LeMans Race Car. For the first place winner we pull out all the stops with the Technic 42030 Remote-Controlled Volvo L350F Wheel Loader. Also, all three winners will get an autographed copy of The Art of LEGO Modeling, courtesy of Dennis Glaasker, Dennis Bosman and No Starch Press. I’m pretty sure winning a totally epic prize from a LUGNuts challenge will get you laid. (Claim void if you happen to be a youngin, live in Idaho, or if your belly protrudes from under your billowing renaissance fair shirt.)

How do we afford such huge prizes? We had a little help from our sponsors and friends at The Brothers-Brick, Constructibles, and the LUGNuts admins. Plus the judge ruled in my favor during that whole cheese mongering fiasco so I don’t have to worry about posting bail. What, did you think my brief stint as a drug mule would get me busted? Oh, HELL NO!

So head on over to LUGNuts to see what we have in store this February! Thanks, LEGO Car Blog for letting me use your blog-writing studio. Oh, and if some Chinese dudes in a van tell you I sold them fake Viagra, don’t believe them. Also cool water and salt will take the wine stains out of the carpet. Just sayin’.

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Lego Competition

Carrying 15,000 Bricks

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Lego Marvel SHIELD Helicarrier

This spectacular creation was unearthed by The Brother Brick this week, and it might be the biggest thing to appear here this year.

Built by  Stephen (Chao) it is of course a scale replica of the SHIELD Helicarrier from the Avengers franchise, and it’s massive. At over 4 foot long and constructed from over 15,000 pieces it has a mass five times that of the official LEGO Helicarrier set.

A suitably high gallery of images is available to view on Flickr, including work-in-progress shots detailing the helicarrier’s construction step-by-step. Click the link above to visit the album at Stephen’s Flickr photostream.

Lego Avenger's Helicarrier

Town Ferry

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Lego City Car Ferry

This lovely Town-style car ferry was discovered by one of our Elves on Flickr. It’s an unusual build for TLCB, but we like cars and the most interesting places to drive them are often on the other side of some water. It’s also a thoroughly excellent build, looking realistic, yet sturdy and playable too – exactly what a Lego Town model should be. We reckon it’s good enough to be an official LEGO City set.

You can see more photos, including the interior details, courtesy of Flickr’s Luis Baixinho – click the link to  climb aboard.

Lego City Car Ferry

Blue Flame

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Lego Plymouth Fury 1968

It’s a well-known fact that a flame paint-job unleashes at least an extra 50bhp. Tim Inman’s 1968 Plymouth Fury is going to need all the help it can get, because the Fury was massive. Still, try telling an American that size doesn’t matter…

Tim’s classic Plymouth was suggested to us by a reader and you can see more at his photostream by clicking here.

Egghead

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Lego Rover

This marvellous-looking thing is a planetary rover by Flickr’s Jonas and it’s kicking off this year’s Febrovery. The online Lego Community loves a tenuously titled monthly challenge so we can expect a flurry of Febrovery-related vehicles to appear over the next four weeks. We’ll endeavour to bring you the best our Elves find, probably with vague and rambling descriptions that expose our science fiction incompetence. Until then you can see more of whatever this is as Jonas’ photostream – click here to get your space on!

Put a Rocket up Your A…

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Triumph Rocket III

The Elves have been making ‘Brrrum Brrruuum’ noises and riding around the office on assorted kitchen equipment today. We have the creation pictured here to thank for this annoyance; it’s a Triumph Rocket III and it is – in fairness to the little turds – most excellent in every way. Previous bloggee Henrik Jensen is the builder and there’s lots more to see of his brilliant British bike on both MOCpages and Flickr – click the links to mount up.

Lego Triumph Rocket Motorbike

Model Team Maserati

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Lego Maserati 250F Tipo

We’re starting to think that Formula 1 is becoming a bit, well… boring. You can thank Bernie Ecclestone’s enormous rulebook for the current state of affairs, but back in the ’50s the racing was gloriously exciting, due in most part to the fact that the rulebook could probably fit in a small pamphlet.

This exquisite 1957 Maserati 250F Tipo takes us back to a time when things actually happened on an F1 racetrack, when the Argentinian legend Juan Manuel Fangio overcame a 51 second deficit to win the German Grand Prix (and then the championship). Noah_L (aka Lego Builders) is the builder and there’s more to see of his beautifully photographed creation on both MOCpages and Flickr.

Nos Autocarros II

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Lego AEC Regent III Bus

Back in June of 2013 a neat Town-scale AEC Regency classic bus appeared on these pages, built by MOCpages’ Joao Campos. Two and a half years later and Joao is back with a Model Team scale version of his original creation. Now measuring a hefty 62 studs long and 20 studs wide, Joao’s build can pack in even more detail. Suggested to us by a reader Joao’s super-sized update is a beautiful replica that’s well worth a closer a look – click on the link above to climb aboard a trip to MOCpages to see all the images.

Lego AEC Regent III Bus

Big Blue

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After a couple of weird posts we’re back to what we know, with this beautifully built classic Scania LB 141 V8 6×4 truck complete with Nooteboom ODU trailer. Previous bloggee Nanko Klein Paste is the builder and you can see more of his stunning creation on Flickr.

Gyro Transducing

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Lego Sci-Fi Rover

This is Ilya T‘s ‘Rover SCP-1’, and it’s apparently “equipped with a new kind of wheel consisting of an independent system of pneumatic shafts with fifth-generation gyro transducers”, which all sounds marvellous. You can see more of said wheels, as well as the vehicle which rides atop them, at the link above.

Balloon Shop

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Lego Hot Air Balloon

And it’s not even a shop that sells balloons. You can see more of ‘The Flying Erwin’ airborne kiosk by Flickr’s Jonas on, er… Flickr. Float on over via the link.

LEGO Releases its First Disabled Mini-Figure!

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Lego City Wheelchair

LEGO is a wonderfully inclusive toy. Even back when mini-figures were mostly male, all yellow, and always smiling, the humble plastic bricks crossed gender, age and cultural boundaries beautifully.

In recent years The Lego Company has taken a more balanced approach to the different ethnicities and genders that make up society, with their little mini-figures becoming more diverse and, much like any real-world community, far more interesting as a result.

However there was an omission in their current mini-figure range, but one that has now been rectified, as LEGO release their first-ever mini-figure wheelchair! We cannot applaud this move enough – a huge well done to LEGO, and also to the groups that petitioned LEGO in order to raise the issue of disabled mini-figure representation.

The new mini-figure wheelchair is due to be released in the second half of the year as part of the new LEGO City line-up and who knows, maybe with LEGO’s partnership with Marvel we could see a certain X-Men character in mini-figure form too.

Nightcrawler

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Lego 1966 Pontiac Bonneville Nightcrawler

This blue beast is a 1966 Pontiac Bonneville Coupe, with a few modifications courtesy of the inside of Lino Martins‘ head. A chop to the roof and ground-scraping lowered suspension accentuate the already ridiculous proportions of the ’66. It’s been built for the 99th LUGNuts challenge on Flickr, and with the 100th just a few weeks away we’re expecting something pretty special to celebrate… We’ll bring you more details of the 100th LUGNuts challenge soon, but in the meantime you can check out the 99th and Lino’s entry via the links above.

Duel Controls

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Fastest Lego RC Car

It’s a remote control double today as our Elves have found two red RC cars for us to share. Each has been awarded a meal token and a red Smartie, and there have been no smushings or fights. Success all round!

First up (above) is Gerard896’s brilliant lightweight racer. Powered by two LEGO Buggy Motors linked to an on-board Li-Po battery Gerard’s creation could well be the fastest Lego car ever built. You can see all the images and videos of the car in action on Eurobricks, MOCpages and Brickshelf.

Our second RC racer (below) comes from MOCpages’ Rage Hobbit, with his Lamborghini Furore concept. It too is powered by a pair of LEGO Buggy Motors, although this time controlled by Radio-wave rather than Infrared, plus it features working brakes and independent pushrod suspension, and if it weren’t for Gerard’s racer above it might have been the fastest Lego car ever built! There’s more to see at Rage’s MOCpage – click here to make the jump.

Fast RC Lego Car

Town Chopper

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Lego Town Helicopter

Today’s final post comes from TLCB newcomer Сергей Антохин, who has built a MIL Mi-171 helicopter rather brilliantly in Town / mini-figure scale.  We’ve robbed this from The Brothers Brick, as they beat us to it (so no prizes for our Elves for this one), and there’s lots more to see including interior shots and close-ups of that superb tail on Flickr at the link above.