Life-Size Lego Lunacy

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Life-size Lego Car

This, Lego car fans, is a real, working, 100% LEGO, fully drivable car.

Snappily titled the ‘superawesomemicroproject’ it’s the product of two men, Australian marketer Steve Sammartino and 20 year-old Romanian engineer Raul Oaida, who built the life-size Lego hot rod using over half a million Blacktron-coloured LEGO pieces.

Their creation is powered by 256 LEGO pistons mounted within four enormous orbital engines fed by compressed air, with only the wheels and loaded components featuring non-LEGO construction.

Funded via crowdsourcing, the superawesomemicroproject has reached speeds of 30km/h with a driver on board and will probably go faster than that, all while built purely from little blocks of Danish plastic.

To read more about this amazing vehicle check out the superawesomemicroproject at Steve and Raul’s website, and watch the incredible video below.

Thanks to Bricknerd who beat us to the punch.

Battlefield Recovery

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Lego M31 Armored RecoveryBreaking down in battle presents problems. The local recovery firm may be a little unwilling to venture out to get you, spare parts might be a bit tricky, and their tow truck is probably on the small side. Thankfully the US military had it covered in World War II with their massive M31 Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV). Daniel Siskind has recreated the wartime machine beautifully, and you can see more on Flickr.

Alex Baldwin

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Lego Crane

Jennifer Clark’s Demag all-terrain crane was uncovered on MOCpages today, and it’s one of the best we’ve seen this year. Fully remote controlled and featuring a huge variety of functions, you can see more of this Technic masterpiece here where there’s also a link to Jennifer’s own website containing full details of all her builds.

Mr. T

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Lego Ford Model-T

The Elves are still hard at work, despite the miserable weather outside The Lego Car Blog Towers. Today’s find, by an Elf who’s now pegged up by the ears near a radiator to dry out, is an unusual model in Lego form.

We’re not really sure why Ford’s Model-T is overlooked by the Lego-building community, what with it being one of the most numerous (and famous) cars ever produced. Brickshelf’s solic helps to give the vintage vehicle some plastic recognition with his superb Technic Model-T truck. It comes compete with authentic leaf sprung suspension, Power Functions control and a working piston engine. See all the photos on Brickshelf at the link above.

Technic Ford Model-T

Ice Road Truckers

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Lego Truck Trial Tatra 8x8

As the icy finger of winter draws ever nearer to The Lego Car Blog Towers we’re beginning to post a little less often. Whilst the Elves, being elves, are used to Christmas working, most of the staff here will be drunk on a variety of festive beverages for the next few weeks and thus quality (never our strongpoint) is likely to take a turn for the worse.

It seems appropriate then to round off the last full week of (mostly) sobriety with a wintery model; something red, something good at ploughing through the snow, and something that’s able to carry a lot of presents in the back. No, not Santa’s sleigh, but a monster 8-wheel-drive Tatra T813 Kolos trial truck.

Built by gkurkowski, the T813 Kolos features all the usual Technic Truck Trial toys, and there’s a whole gallery to peruse on Brickshelf. Check it out at the link above.

Technic Tatra T813 Kolos

Cozy Coupe

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Lego Little Tyke Cozy Coupe

We post all sorts of exotic vehicles here at The Lego Car Blog. From super cars to tanks, if it goes fast or explodes it seems to get the Elves’ attention. This though, is probably the most important car we’ve ever blogged. Why? Because it’s probably the one car every single one of us has had a go in!

The Little Tyke Cozy Coupe is a right of passage for any toddler, either at home, pre-school or at a well-heeled friend’s house. Reminisce on Flickr courtesy of Legohaulic.

GMC CCKW

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Lego GMC Army TruckThis nondescript abbreviation is an American GMC army truck built during World War 2, that then saw service in the Korean War a few years later. Featuring 6×6 drive the CCKW was used to transport all manner of military goods and was built in a variety of specifications. =DoNe=‘s closed cab flatbed version is shown here and you can see more on Flickr.

 

Reach Half a Million Readers a Year!

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Lego MinifiguresWe’ve been a bit cautious about posting this blog update, as we can scarcely believe it, but here goes…

The Lego Car Blog is reaching Half-a-Million people annually.

No, we don’t know how either, and honestly it’s more than a little bit scary. We don’t know how long we’re going to keep TLCB in operation, but it definitely feels bigger than us now. So, how would you, yes you reading this very sentence, like to be writing these words rather than reading them?

We would like to open the TLCB up to guest posts so that we can share the responsibility… er, we mean, offer an opportunity, to aspiring writers and bloggers with a passion for little plastic bricks to reach half-a-million worldwide readers.

Maybe you’re at school or college and would like to try writing for a large audience for the first time. Perhaps you’re an adult builder and you know of a Lego community or event that’s been overlooked that you’d like to share. Or maybe you’ve just bought an official LEGO set and would like to review it to help others make a purchase.

If this sounds like you then please get in touch with us through the Feedback and Submission Suggestions page, telling us a little bit about yourself (age, occupation, where you’re from, and include a contact email or Flickr account) and what you would like to write. You can remind yourself of what we look for by visiting our Submission Guidelines page. The team will then get in contact with you directly (and we’ll remove your contact details from your message for security).

Become a Guest Blogger and write for TLCB!

TLCB Team 

DAF 2800

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Lego DAF Truck

If you were a 1980’s dutch mini-figure truck driver you’d probably have spent your day in one of these, a DAF 2800 articulated HGV. Thietmaier is the builder, and you can see more on Flickr here.

Saving Lives at Sea (Part II)

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Lego Technic QuadFollowing yesterday‘s RNLI Land Rover, previous TLCB bloggee pitrex contacted us with his own Technic life guard build. Featuring a host of Technic functions, piterx’s quad and jet-ski combo includes; Power Functions RC drive, working steering and suspension (quad), controllable impeller (jet-ski), and a working winch on the trailer. About as good as an official LEGO Technic set then! Join the discussion on Eurobricks via the link above.

Saving Lives at Sea

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Lego RNLI Land Rover

The Lego Car Blog’s home nation has a close relationship with the sea. An island dependent upon the dangerous waters surrounding it for trade, Britain has pioneered sea travel for hundreds of years.

Sadly this means that countless lives have been lost over the centuries to the waters, piracy and the cold. In 1824 an organisation was established to save those in peril. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) has operated in the waters around Great Britain since its creation almost 200 years ago and today has over 400 boats stationed in over 200 rescue centres. An average of 22 people are rescued every day, with over 140,000 lives saved since the charity’s foundation.

Ralph Savelsberg has built one of their most recognisable tools in Lego, the Land Rover Defender tow car and mobile RIB rescue boat. You can see all his photos on Flickr here, and read more about the work of the RNLI at their website.

Lego RNLI Life Boat

Oops.

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It seems some of The Lego Car Blog Elves got into the paint cupboard and had some fun with the blue paint. Apologies to those of you who struggled to read the text against the background hue.

Normal service is, we think, resumed. Please let us know if you’re not seeing a return to our usual white and turquoise scheme. The offending Elves have been identified (they got most of the paint on themselves) and are due a date with Mr. Air-horn.

TLCB Team

AKIRA

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Lego Akira Kaneda Bike

This beautifully slick creation is a product of the incredibly talented Arvo Brothers. Based on the AKIRA manga work of Katsuhiro Otomo, Kaneda’s bike is a stunning design in 2D, and looks even more spectacular with an additional dimension. Arvo Brothers’ Lego version of the Manga design is to be detailed in their new book, with explanations of how to build it and decals included. Read more at the brothers’ Flickr page here.

Steady Eddie

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Lego Eddie Stobart

This is one for our British readers, Andy L’s fantastic Eddie Stobart Volvo truck. Built in 7-wide mini-fig scale you can see all the photos on MOCpages.

The Fast and The Funeral

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Lego Paul Walker Fast and Furious

Today we’ve learned of the tragic death of one of the stars of The Fast and The Furious movie franchise, 40 year old Paul Walker.

Paul died whilst on his way to a charity event, travelling as a passenger in a Porsche that crashed into a post and caught fire in Los Angeles.

We know that if you’re a reader of this blog you’re probably into cars, especially fast ones. We’re often guilty of glorifying speed here. Sometimes it’s worth remembering that the consequences, never shown in the movies in which Paul starred, are very real.

Please drive responsibly. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of Paul and the driver of the Porsche during this tragedy. Paul leaves behind a 15 year old daughter.

Picture courtesy of DerJoe