Probably the weirdest of all the weird Citroens was the SM, built during the 1970s when Citroen owned Maserati. Stephan Sander has used his most ’70s coloured bricks (well, maybe apart from brown) to build the French motoring icon in a wonderful LEGO Miniland look. See all the photos of the SM at Stephen’s page on MOCpages via the link above.
We’re kicking off the week here at TLCB with some big creations. First up is this colossal Scania R124G complete with low-lowder trailer and excavator. Built by Dennis Bosman aka ‘legotrucks’ you can see more of the rig here. Next is one of the more unusual vehicles that we’ve featured, but without which all the others here would have nowhere to drive. They’re a pair of grader/scrapers, used for removing old tarmac before new is laid. Suggested to us via the Feedback and Submission Suggestions page they’ve been built by bricklington on Brickshelf, and you can see the full gallery via the link above.
This vintage motorcycle comes from Kosmas Santosa on Flickr. Black is the new black.
There’s more to this Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon by Tim Inman than meets the eye. 50% more in fact. See why on Flickr.
Patrick Bosman‘s Town-style DAF 2600 curtain-side truck is great creation (that’s why it’s here on The Lego Car Blog after all), but we actually think it’s the little washing machine that steals the show! Yes, we’re a bit sad. See more of the truck (and washing machine) via the link above.
…”This isn’t a car”. We continue our run of movie vehicles with this; the superb ‘Bat’ from The Dark Knight Rises, built by LEGO genius Sariel on MOCpages.
Powered by LEGO’s Power Functions motors and LED lights it’s probably the coolest creation we’ve featured this month. It’s not the first Bat Wing built from little plastic bricks though as that accolade goes to the equally brilliant Mahjqa. Both builders have devised ways for their creations to ‘fly’, but they take rather different approaches. See how Sariel achieved it in his video via the first link, and watch Mahjqa’s film in the second. Neither fixed the autopilot though.
The third and final post for today’s Movie Vehicle Special is another car we seem to feature every other month; the DeLorean DMC-12 time machine from the cult 1980s trilogy Back to the Future. Misterzumbi is the latest builder to take a crack at the infamous vehicle, and a sterling job he’s done too. You can see all the details of his mini-figure DeLorean on Flickr via the link above.
You can also see LEGO’s own version of the star movie car in our Brick To The Future 21103 Preview, and if you want to know the real story behind the DeLorean car, including the drugs, bankruptcy, and conned celebrities, make sure you read ‘Failure, Cocaine and Marty McFly’ via The Lego Car Blog Archive.
Here at The Lego Car Blog we seem to feature an Ecto-1 from Ghostbusters every few months, so frequently is the movie car built from LEGO. This time it’s mini-figures that get to do some bustin’, courtesy of ER0L on Flickr. There’s not much we can say that we haven’t already, so at this point we’ll hand over to Ray Parker Jr.:
The Lego Car Blog Elves haven’t found any decent cars today, so to keep them fed we’re diversifying slightly with this charming garage workshop scene from Flickr’s Konajra. More known for his huge ships, Konajra’s mini-figure scene is full of superb details. See if you can identify the four post lift, engine trolley, unpainted cab door, bench vice and, of course, the classic Henschel HS100 truck.
We have no idea what this bubbly mech by Nathan’s Heavy Industry is for, so we’re going to go with a fish controlled weapon of destruction built to exact revenge on docked fishing boats. See more at the link.
At least that’s what TFOL Harry Gravett probably is. He made his debut on TLCB with a TVR Sagaris a while ago and this Tuscan is another good British beast from Harry. View it on Flickr at the link above or check it out on MOCpages.
Japanese rear-wheel-drive sports cars are cool. That’s a fact. So here’s a Nissan Fairlady Z / 350Z by 1saac W, which features some rather cunning techniques to recreate the famous shape. See more on Flickr.
This two-thirds bearded trio are, unmistakably, the American blues rock band ZZ Top in mini-fig form. Despite looking like rejects from a Santa convention the music they created was alright, although sometimes surprisingly wet in the lyrics department. Their early ’80s album ‘Eliminator’ sold an astonishing 10 million copies and featured a car that became nearly as famous as the band. Lead vocalist Billy Gibbons was a hot rodder, and his Chevy-engined 1933 Ford Coupe became the album cover, album name and star of their ’80s videos. -derjoe- has built Billy, his bandmates, and the Eliminator hot rod from LEGO, and you can see more of all of them at the link.
Hybrids, so long a favourite of tree hugging hippy types, are starting to get cool. Porsche’s 918, Ferrari’s LaFerrari, McLaren’s P1 and modern Formula 1 cars are changing the perception of what a hybrid can do. Toyota, one of the first to make hybrid technology work in the real world, took their TS030 hybrid racer to Le Mans this year, finishing second to a hybrid Audi.
Brought to our attention via the Submission Suggestions page, Lego Builder Jr. has recreated the podium scoring Toyota on MOCpages and Flickr in its early red and white livery. See more via the links above, and if you’re still in doubt that hybrid can be cool, take a listen to this.
