Modified Miata

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Lego Mazda MX-5 Miata

Mazda’s MX-5 / Miata is one of TLCB office’s very favourite cars. Small, light, cheap and enormous fun, it’s just like the Elves. Apart from you’d need to replace ‘and enormous fun’ with ‘little shits’.

Sorry if we’re grumpy today, the Elves started one hell of a fight last night after we let them watch some of the World Cup. With no known nationality the Elves tend to support whichever team is more violent, and thus when a Columbian kneed a Brazilian in the spine one of them immediately replicated the move on a colleague, sparking a mass Elf-fight. Sigh.

With order restored and the main protagonists removed from the office by way of TLCB catapult, we can get back to blogging cars. This one is small, light, cheap and enormous fun, and it comes from previous bloggee Rhys’ Pieces. His brilliant Mazda MX-5 Miata features a host of tasteful* modifications that are seen regularly on the thousands of Miatas that race every weekend. To see more of his excellent model take a trip to Flickr via the link above.

*Apart from the massive camber (or ‘stance’). Which always sucks. Why Rhys, why?

Mazda MX-5 Miata roll cage

Totally Tubular!

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Lego VW T2 Surf

The totally radical Andrea Lattanzio is back dudes! We’re like, stoked, to see his new pavement ride, this primo ’60s Vee-Dub pick-up. It’s got space for his sticks and the beach bunnies can watch him rippin’ a honker the from the deck. See more of his awesome whip on MOCpages.*

*Alternatively;

One of the office’s favourite builders, Andrea Lattanzio, returns to TLCB! We’re very excited by his latest model, this brilliant 1960s Volkswagen T2 pick-up. There’s room in the back for his surfboards and the girls can watch him catching a big wave from the tailgate. See more of his superb creation on MOCpages.

Lego Surf Bus

 

Desert Wanderer

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Lego Toyota FJ Cruiser

Ewald Straßmann (aka Brick Pimp) makes it two-in-a-week with his superb desert-crossing Toyota FJ Cruiser. See more of the mini-figures’ Savannah expedition on Flickr above.

Rod Mod

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Lego Hot Rod

After several non-car posts one of our Elves finally returned to the office with a vehicle worthy of our blog name. This ace hot rod pick-up is the work of Flickr’s SM 01 who has continued working on his previously featured model. His rod now features a list of working functions so long we couldn’t fit them all here. To see what his creation can do take a trip to Flickr by clicking the link above.

Not a Car. Er, again.

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Lego Steam Train

This is not a car. But it is lovely. Dan42BR‘s Dampflok 109-13 steam locomotive was discovered on Brickshelf, and you can view all the photos via the link.

We promise the next post will definitely, positively be a car. Probably.

Classic Swoosh!

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Lego Classic Space

Who doesn’t like a swooshing classic spaceship?* No-one in TLCB Office that’s for sure! See more of billyburg‘s swooshing spaceman on Flickr at the link.

*If the answer to this question is you, normal car-related service will resume shortly.

Reimagine

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Lego Titanfall Mech

The Second World War is endlessly glorified on TV, in video games, and in Lego. Whilst the reality was nothing glorious, it nevertheless captures the imagination of all of us who never served in the conflict, but who owe such an enormous debt to those who did.

TLCB veteran Kosmas Santosa is the latest a long line of builders to recreate scenes from the war years, however he reimagines things a little differently. Standing in the ruins of a nondescript wartime European village is a Titanfall mech, and never has a sci-fi build resided so comfortability in historical setting.

You can see more of Kosmas Santosa’s ‘Titanfall: World War II’ imagining on Flickr, and as we occasionally do here at TLCB, here’s a more important link that we’d like you to click if you have the time.

Swiss Jeep

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Lego Jeep CJ

We’re don’t think there are many old Jeeps in Switzerland. Clocks, chocolate, bankers and other stereotypes sure, but probably not Jeeps. Anyway, this mini-figure has taken his Jeep CJ to the Swiss Alps and it looks rather at home. Ewald Straßmann aka Brick Pimp is the builder, and you can see more here.

Lego Jeep CJ

200 Club

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Lego Technic Front Loader Mini

Two hundred Lego pieces. It isn’t a lot is it? Especially if you’re aiming to build a functional Technic model.

Lego fan site Eurobricks has set the challenge of using just two hundred elements to create a whole new Lego Technic set. Here at The Lego Car Blog Towers we use two hundred bricks every time we build a steering rack, because we’re a bit rubbish, so we’re not really qualified to enter. Thankfully the interweb contains far more talented builders than us, and here are two such prudent engineers.

First up (above) is previous bloggee Jorgeopesi with his two hundred piece mini Technic front loader. He’s used the meagre parts count to produce a raising and tipping bucket, hand-of-God steering system and even pendular suspension on the rear axel. See more of his excellent mini front loader on Brickshelf via the link above.

Our second two hundred piece Technic model comes from fellow Brickshelf user Nikolyakov (also on MOCpages), and he’s also taken the machinery route. Nikolyakov’s mini combine harvester features a raising and lowering harvesting head – which also spins when the wheels are turned, hand-of-God steering, and posable unloading pipes. You can see more of his mini combine via the links above, and you can check out the rules, prizes and other entries in the Eurobricks two hundred piece challenge by visiting the Eurobricks site here.

Lego Mini Combine Harvester

Falconry

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Lego Ford Falcon XY

When we think ‘muscle car’ we usually picture an American behemoth with a massive V8 and two stripes painted over the bonnet. However that would be stereotyping the genre, because this is an Australian behemoth with a massive V8 and two stripes painted over the bonnet.

Australia’s muscle car tradition is as strong as the US’s, and whilst their road racers are derived from their US parent companies, they were very much home-grown down-under.

Sadly in recent times all mass vehicle production has, or will very shortly, cease in Australia, with GM (Holden), Ford and Toyota all abandoning manufacturing in the country. Doc Brown’s 1971 Ford Falcon XY GTHO remembers a time when the industry was flourishing, and you can see more of his Power Functions controlled Technic supercar at both Eurobricks and Flickr.

Lego Ford Falcon GTHO

This is the Self Preservation Society…

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Lego The Italian Job

This is the self-preservation society
The self-preservation society

Go wash your German bands, your boat race too
Comb your Barnet Fair we got a lot to do
Put on your Dickie Dirt and your Peckham Rye
Cause time’s soon hurrying by

Get your skates on mate, get your skates on mate
No bib around your Gregory Peck today, eh?
Drop your plates of meat right up on the seat

This is the self-preservation society
This is the self-preservation society…

Oh yeah, Miro Dudas has updated his previously blogged Mini Cooper to Italian Job spec! See more here!

Baja Bug

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Lego Baja Bug

The builder of this Baja Bug, Piterx, says he doesn’t like it very much! He has set the bar very high with his previous builds (use the Search function at the foot of this page to see his previous work), but we like it a lot. It’s controlled via Lego Power Functions motors and it looks a blast to drive. You can let Piterx know whether you like it or not on Eurobricks.

Double Trouble

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Lego Lamborghini vs Subaru WRXWe’ve blogged quite a few classic vehicles here at The Lego Car Blog recently, so to bring a bit of balance we’d like to post a duo of cars so newly-released we’ve not even seen them on the road yet. Luckily though, the Elves rediscovered the page of our very promising Featured TFOL Alexander Paschoaletto, and his two latest cars; the 2014 Lamborghini Huracán, and the 2014 Subaru WRX STI*.

Making modern cars is getting harder, with lots of curves and angles appearing on everything from city runabouts to limited-run exotica, but Alexander has managed to pull off the curves found on these two nicely. See more of both creations via the links to Alexander’s pages.

*Our American readers may think the Subaru should read ‘2015’. Our marketing department refuses to time travel.

Humdinger

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Lego Hummer H1

We are not fans of Hummer here at The Lego Car Blog. In fact it might be collectively our least favourite vehicle brand of all time. The Elves though – having no taste whatsoever – love this American institution, and so this post is for them.

Built by Technic legend Sariel, this Hummer H1 is one of the most complex and brilliantly engineered creations of the year so far. Containing four(!) XL Power Functions motors for drive, a remotely controlled high/low range gearbox, working indicator and reversing lights, windsreen wipers and a whole host of other functions, the only way to really see what it can do is in a suitably aggressive video complete with a hard rock soundtrack. Handily Sariel’s got that covered…

Dear Marie

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Lego Lockheed P-38 Lightning

One of our favourite aircraft builders returns to TLCB today. MOCpages’ Henrik Jensen‘s Lockheed P-38 Lightning ‘Marie’ is worth a click. See more via the link.