Monster Miner

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Lego Komatsu Wheel Loader

This enormous wheel loader was discovered by a member of our Elvish workforce on MOCpages. It’s been built by newcomer Dave MacLeod, and it’s his first creation to be uploaded to the site. This highly detailed model is – almost unbelievably – mini-figure scale, being based on the Komatsu WA1200, the largest loader in the world. It’s therefore a bit big for most Town layouts, being larger than even many of LEGO’s modular buildings, but what a way for a mini-figure to ride around Town! There’s more to see on MOCpages, click the link above if you’re digging it and welcome Dave to the community.

Lego Komatsu WA1200

I’m a Wanderer

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Lego Gypsy Wagons

Most of the gypsy/traveller vehicles that we see near TLCB Towers are not like these. New Toyota Hilux and Range Rovers with private number plates seem to be the preferred choice at the moment, but very occasionally we do see travelling done the traditional way.

These beautiful Polish gypsy wagons by Flickr’s Karwik remind us of a time when there was only one horse power available up front. Click here to go travelling.

Lego Creator 10248 Ferrari F40 Set Preview

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Lego 10248 Ferrari F40 Review

Today might have been Clarkson, Hammond and May’s last episode of Top Gear, but LEGO have gone a very long way to cheering up TLCB office…

This is the new 10248 Creator set, and it’s absolutely gorgeous. Following on from the 10220 Volkswagen Camper and 10242 Mini Cooper sets, LEGO have teamed up with Ferrari once more to bring us a stunning brick-built recreation of possibly the greatest car ever made.

Ferrari’s F40 was launched way back in the late 1980s to triumphant acclaim and it became the definitive supercar of the era. Powered by a small 2.9 litre twin turbo-charged V8 shrouded within kevlar and carbon fibre bodywork, the 201mph F40 was the fastest and most expensive Ferrari ever built.

Production lasted just 5 years, during which time around 1,300 units were manufactured. This means that today the F40 is a little too pricey for most of us, but luckily LEGO have the answer…

LEGO’s 10248 Ferrari F40 Creator set arrives in August of 2015 and contains over 1,150 pieces, a few of which are new and unique to the set, including the wheels, tyres and windshield. There’s an opening engine cover to reveal a detailed V8 engine, opening doors, clamshell front section, pop-up headlights and a detailed interior.

Aimed at ages 14+ the LEGO Creator Ferrari F40 won’t be cheap (RRP is estimated to be around $90/£70), but that’s quite a lot cheaper than the real car. Plus you can park it on your desk.

As is often the way a Set Review for 10248 may follow – in the meantime you can remind yourself of the previous iconic vehicles in the Creator line-up by clicking on the links in the text above.

Lego Creator 10248 Ferrari F40 Review

Death by Deuce

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Lego Mad Max Hot Rod

There seems to be little let-up in the proliferation of Mad Max – Fury Road vehicles within the Lego Community, and we couldn’t be more pleased! Flickr’s _Tiler has added another to his garage – you can see more of it and his previous Mad Max builds at the link above.

Clap Trap

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Lego CL4P-TP Robot

Flickr’s Simon Liu is the builder behind this utterly brilliant recreation of the CL4P-TP robot from Borderlands 2, which in hindsight looks uncannily like a robotic Minion. It’s a remarkable build that’s well worth a closer look – click these words to jump to Simon’s photostream where you can show your appreciation.

‘It’s Got a Cop Motor…’

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Lego Dodge Monaco Blues Brothers

It’s been a while since we featured one of your suggestions; this one was discovered by one of our readers on the Lego Ideas creation sharing platform. It’s a recreation of the 1976 Dodge Monaco from the 1980 film ‘Blues Brothers’ by newcomer eini1971, and you can see more at the link.

Whoooosh!

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Lego Spaceship

David Hensel has built what might be the best example of a static model with the illusion of movement that we’ve ever seen. His awesome mini-figure scale jumpship scene can be found on Flickr – click here for take off.

Smart Ass

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Lego Smart ForTwo

There’s nothing more smug than a Smart parked end-on to the curb. And rightly so. Cars are friggin’ massive these days as designers have made each successive model bigger in order to increase interior space. Which is, frankly, a really lazy way to do it. Mercedes and Swatch thought a little differently, and their 1998 Smart ForTwo was a triumph of clever packaging not seen since the original 1959 Mini.

Ralph Saveslberg‘s Lego recreation of the iconic European city car is similarly clever, with bricks placed sideways, backwards and upside-down in order to replicate the Smart’s famous shape and visible tridion safety cell. Ralph’s ForTwo is available to view on Flickr – click the above for a little more.

Lego Smart City Coupe

Veneno

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Lego Lamborghini Veneno Roadster

This amazing looking vehicle is a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster – an ultra high-tech concept/limited-run hypercar created to celebrate the marque’s 50th anniversary. Lego car-building legend Firas Abu-Jaber has recreated the extraordinary supercar from what appears to be a bucket filled entirely with red sloped pieces. You can see how he’s replicated the Venero’s incredible aero by visiting his accounts on either MOCpages or Flickr, plus you can read his Master MOCers interview by clicking here.

Rings of Saturn

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Lego Saturn SC-2

Today we continue the theme of vehicles that really aren’t suited to modifying… This (begrudgingly) rather cool looking coupe is a 1990s Saturn SC-2, built during America’s very worst automotive years and featuring (mostly) everything we dislike about American cars.

The Saturn brand was concocted by GM to flog tired old products to trendy new customers, and its cars were almost uniformly crap. Saturn did away with GM’s thirsty, polluting and woefully underpowered V8s in favour of smaller more efficient engines to rival those from Toyota, Honda and Nissan – who were taking huge bites out of the American automotive pie once consumed by the U.S’s domestic manufacturers.

Unfortunately the 1900cc 4-cylinder fitted to the Saturn range was neither efficient nor powerful. Like, at all. How not powerful you ask? Try 85-100bhp. Eighty five! Don’t get us wrong, we like small efficient cars here at TLCB, but to get as little as 85bhp from an engine nearly two litres in size you’d surely have to be making it rubbish on purpose.

One thing’s for sure then, whilst the Saturn SC may be a hopeless base to start modifying from, you could only ever make it better.

Amazingly Flickr’s Senator Chinchilla found one such example of a heavily modified Saturn SC lurking on the ‘net and decided to recreate the mad beast in Lego form, and it looks, well… really quite good! There’s lots more to see on Flickr – click the link above to make the jump – just don’t blame us if you end up inexplicably searching Craigslist for an old SC…

Lego Saturn SC Racer

Godzilla’s Grandad

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Lego Nissan Skyline 2000 GT-R

Nissan’s current GT-R (previously called the ‘Skyline’) is a seriously impressive supercar killer. But we don’t particularly desire it. We’d like to have a go, sure – but to own… it’s just a bit… dull.

Not so the original Skyline 2000, which we want so much that it hurts. Even more so if it’s like this one. Davanchi M has retro-fitted his gorgeous retro Skyline with an RB26DET twin-turbo straight-six engine from a late ’90s Skyline GT-R, meaning it would go as good as it looks. Which is to say, very well indeed.

Davanchi has uploaded a full gallery of images to both MOCpages and Flickr – click the links to spool up your turbos.

Lego Nissan Skyline GT-R 2000

John Deere Feller-Buncher – Picture Special

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Lego Technic John Deere Feller Buncher

The Lego Car Blog Elves live on a simple diet of occasional meals, even more occasional Smarties, and regular extreme Elf-on-Elf violence. Today’s lucky Elf scored a hat-trick, being rewarded – as all successful Elves are – with a meal token, and also with a bonus green Smartie. High on sugar the aforementioned Elf then completed its hat-trick by undertaking what can best be described as a rampage at the controls of its find.

The find in question is this remarkable remote control John Deere 900 Series feller-buncher built by MOCpages’ Desert752 Kirill, and it’s an incredible bit of kit. Power Functions operated skid-steering and drive give Desert’s tracked feller-buncher surprising agility, meaning many Elves were out-manouvered in the hallways of TLCB Towers and squashed as they fled.

Lego Technic RC John Deere

Smarter Elves, learning from previous experience, clambered off the floor to areas of expected safety, but sadly for them the John Deere’s linear actuated felling arm – complete with grab and micro-motor powered circular saw – meant that there really was nowhere to hide.

With no more colleagues to torment the jubilant Elf driver abandoned its motorised weapon and escaped cackling into the night. One suspects its colleagues won’t be forthcoming in welcoming it back upon its next return to TLCB Towers…

Anyway, whilst we await the inevitable Elf fight you can check out what makes Desert752 Kirill’s John Deere 900 such a formidable machine – click the link above for all the details of the build on MOCpages, and watch the video below to see the feller-buncher in action.

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Hoonivan

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Lego Bosozoku Toyota Hiace Van

Toyota’s Hiace van wouldn’t be high on our list of the best vehicles to modify, but the world’s car tuners do seem to make odd choices sometimes. In Europe the Volkswagen Beetle and Transporter are perhaps the most inappropriate, whilst the Japanese modifying scene has gone a similarly daft route with ‘Bosozoku’ – the style in which builder filsawgood has created his splendidly ridiculous Toyota Hiace drift van.

Underneath the be-stickered Technic bodywork is a Technic buggy motor powering the rear wheels and a Power Functions servo motor which steers the fronts. These are linked to the previously featured third-party SBrick which enables control via a tablet or other mobile device.

For more details on the Hiace Hoonivan and to see a full gallery of images head over to Eurobricks via the link above.

Lego Technic RC Van

Tilt ‘n Slide

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Lego Technic Flatbed Tow Truck

This magnificent Technic tilt and slide recovery truck was discovered on Eurobricks, where builder Kevin Moo has engineered a range of stunning functionality from no less than nine(!) Power Functions motors. These include remote control drive and steering, the tilting and sliding of the recovery bed, a working winch and wheel-lift and a motorised opening bonnet. There’s also a V8 piston engine up front, working suspension on all axles and operational headlights.

You can see the full gallery of images at the Eurobricks discussion forum via the link above, plus you can see Kevin’s recovery truck in action via the video below – it looks the perfect vehicle for the inevitable rescue of some of our previously blogged cars – such as this, these, and almost any Peugeot.

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