Brave Heart

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Lego Rescue Ship ERRV Grampian DonThis astonishing creation is a 1.25 meter long replica of the Northern Star rescue boat ‘Grampian Don’, built by the immensely talented Konajra on Flickr. Konajra designed the ship in LDD, before building it for real from over 15,000 LEGO pieces.

Based in Aberdeen, Scotland, the Grampian Don supports the North Sea oil exploration platforms, providing emergency rescue response for the hundreds of North Sea oil workers. To see more of this amazing creation visit Konajra’s Flickr page at the link above, or join in the discussion Eurobricks here.

Lego Rescue Ship ERRV Grampian Don

He’s on a Hover Board!

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Lego DeLorean Time MachineThis is probably the most over-built vehicle on the internet, yet almost unbelievably we’ve never featured Doc Brown’s time-travelling DeLorean from the Back To The Future franchise here at TLCB before. Time to rectify that with another one of Ralph Savelsberg‘s brilliant movie cars, complete with Marty McFly on a stolen Mattel Hover Board. It’s so realistic we could probably go back in time and blog it sooner and avoid this post altogether. See more on Flickr.

Lifting Bricks

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Lego Liebherr Crane[Maks] is back, and he returns to The Lego Car Blog with this magnificent Town-style Liebherr LTM crane. See the full gallery, where your building skills will seem archaic by comparison, via [Maks]’ Flickr photostream.

Tiny Tank

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Tiny Tank 02
The tiny minds of the TLCB Elves are often attracted to tiny things. This small, clean, fun build is the work of The Digster on MOCpages.

EC-635

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EC-635 HelicopterKit Bricksto’s military EC-635 Helicopter has been built in the perfect scale for mini-figures. Too often they lie neglected in the bottom of a Lego tub, forgotten, and dreaming of the day someone will rescue them and put them to work. If yours are awaiting a more interesting life follow Kit’s example; dig them out and build them something cool. We can almost guarantee they’ll be smiling.

Buzzin’ Hornet

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Lego Hornet FighterTLCB newcomer Thomas W. aka Sylon-TW earns a post without building a car at all. We do like posting aircraft from time to time, especially when they’re as inventive as this. Thomas’ ‘AW2 Hornet’ is available in FlickrVision.

Lego Hornet Plane

 

Play with Bley

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Lego Dropside Military TruckLEGO’s switch from grey to a slightly more blue-y grey (bley) a few years ago was a little annoying if you were in the middle of building a creation that needed to be all one colour, but TheBrickRepuplic makes it work on his military logistics truck over on Flickr.

His build is also pretty robust and playable, which is good news for The Lego Car Blog Elves, who often break the more delicate creations that pass their way, leading to many tears and the occasional lawsuit. See more of TheBrickRepuplic here.

4x4x5

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Lego Land RoverCamo Land Rovers are cool. And that’s all we need to post Mortal Swordsman’s 5-wide version here at TLCB. See more on MOCpages.

Shed Your Inhibitions…

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Shed 500w
We found a pair of elves giggling in a corner over a picture of this strange creation, which appears to be a shed mounted on caterpillar tracks. This vehicle has been built by Halfbeak, over on Flickr. Click the link to see Halfbeak’s work and to access photos of the real-life vehicle that this MOC is based on. What would you do in your all-terrain shed? Polite suggestions only please…

Bluesmobile

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Lego Bluemobile Dodge MonacoThe 1974 Dodge Monaco from the 1980 film Blues Brothers; “It’s got a cop motor, a 440-cubic-inch plant. It’s got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks”… and it’s on Flickr courtesy of Ralph Savelsberg aka Mad Physicist.

1/3 Million!

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Lego MinifiguresIt only seems like a few months ago that we published our self-congratulatory ‘1/4 Million!’ post. And that’s because it was. In fact, the 1/3 million mark quietly slipped past unnoticed earlier in the week. The Elves were on a bit of a roll and we had too many models to blog to check our stats… but we’ve caught up now. So concentrate, here comes the science part:

  • TLCB has recorded 1/3 million views in 20 months. If we maintain our current daily hit rate we’ll reach another 1/3 million views every 12 months.
  • We estimate this to be about 1/8th, or 12%, of the annual views achieved at the The Brothers Brick and, slightly less impressively, about 1% of the views achieved at MOCpages.
  • We’ve approved almost 700 comments (keep ’em coming!), and deleted over 11,000 spam messages.
  • We’ve blogged approximately 500 cars, trucks, bikes, planes, spacecraft to date.

As always, a big Thank You to you – yes you – reading this post. Without you this blog would just be the ramblings of some incompetent writers. Keep your Suggestions and Feedback coming, we really do try to read and respond to all of them, and we’ll see you in a few months at 1/2 million!

TLCB Team

Fairground Helicopter

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Futuristic Lego HelicopterThis futuristic-looking ‘Ah-51 Goldtooth’ combat helicopter comes from the mind of Jacob Unterreiner on Flickr. Looking like a cross between a food blender and one of those dodgy fairground rides with the spinning thingumies we have doubts as to its airworthiness, but it looks cool, and that’s what counts if you’re a Lego Car Blog Elf. See more at the link above.

MOCpages Upgrade

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Here at The Lego Car Blog we use a number of sources to bring you the best Lego vehicles that the internet has to offer. One of these is MOCpages.

MOCpages

MOCpages, the web’s largest Lego-only sharing community, has unfortunately had a difficult year. A huger server crash wiped out almost all site imagery, and their troubles were sadly compounded by the damage wrought by Hurricane Sandy on Manhattan in October 2012. Since then, MOCpages has suffered numerous outages, errors and glitches, to the point where many have given up and gone elsewhere.

However Sean Kenney, MOCpages King (we’ve given him this title), recently announced a shiny new server array is on its way! This should mean a return to speed, and most importantly stability, at one of the most vibrant and popular Lego sites around.

In order to transfer site data to the new servers MOCpages will be down on Friday 28th June 2013. This also means that any links from TLCB to MOCpages will be broken during the transition. We wish MOCpages staff the best of luck with the upgrade, and we’ll see you on the other side.

TLCB Team

Rising Sun Racers

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Lego Le Mans Racers

Our two most recent ‘Featured TFOLs’ – Harry Gravett and Alexander Paschoaletto – recently challenged one another to a classic Le Mans face-off on MOCpages. The Lego Car Blog Elves pay attention to stuff like this, as it’s an easy meal token, so without further ado, we bring you their face-off entries.

On the left is Harry’s Toyota GT-One, whilst on the right we see Alexander’s Mazda 787B. Find out who wins on MOCpages, as we still haven’t decided our favourite!

Tally Ho!

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Lego Vintage CarChris Elliott recently pointed out we hadn’t featured any vintage cars for a while, then offered to rectify this with his own imagined vintage car, the 1927 ‘Bruegger’ Drophead. Points for being so forward Chris! Still, it is a lovely creation. You can see more on Flickr.