Let’s Go Schwimming

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Lego VW Swimmwagen

This company would be the choice of peace loving hippies within 15 years. Weird.

Volkswagen, rescued by the British Army after near annihilation during the World War Two Allied bombings, was not always a global behemoth churning out millions of cars a year. Its past includes being the darling of the hippy movement, and prior to this, foundations routed in conflict. This is one of their earliest efforts, and also one of their contributions to the Axis Powers, the Type 128 Schwimmwagen. So called because it can, er, schwimm. LegoUli has used some ingenious techniques to recreate the famous wartime amphibian. Click his name to see more.

Mini Fortress

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Lego B17

Insert flanking Mustang fighters for twice the awesome. Oh, he did? Click the link to see more!

Following our earlier post this week showcasing the Empire of Japan’s most famous fighter, we’re able to restore some balance with (probably) the Allies most famous bomber; the B17 Flying Fortress. This beautiful micro scale model comes courtesy of John Lamarck on MOCpages. He’s even built the ground crew and escorting fighters to go with it. See more here.

The Vikings Are Coming!

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Lego tug boat

Not a car. But easily the most detailed model we have ever featured.

This is the Tyr Viking. And it’s awesome. At over 1.25 meters long and 70 cm high, we really don’t have a sufficient enough vocabulary to describe it properly. So instead, we suggest you take some time to visit Konajra‘s photostream, and let the incredible pictures do the talking.

Town Trucks

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Lego American Truck

U.S Truck

Two Elves returned today, each carrying a Town scale truck from opposite sides of the Atlantic. Fearing yet another brutal Elf fight (it takes ages to clean the office afterwards), and as each truck is worthy of posting, we’ve doubled-up and included both. The first (above) is a U.S Peterbilt from _lichtblau_ featuring some lovely chromed parts. The second (below), from Thietmaier, is a classic European Volvo F10. You can see more of each truck on Flickr.

Lego Volvo Truck

E.U Truck

Boxing Clever

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Lego Freighter

Inter-Planetary Removals

Earth getting a bit crowded? Fancy a change of atmosphere? Then why not move across the galaxy with Box Traveller? LEGOLIZE IT MAN put down his foreign narcotics just long enough to build this rather lovely cosmic removals van. See more on Flickr.

Pulling Swedes

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Lego Scania Truck

Not the blonde curvy type of Swede, but still nice to look at.

Time for a truck, and this example comes from one the best truck builders on the net; Bricksonwheels. Dating from the late ’80s to early ’90s, these 143 model Scanias could punch out over 500bhp from their V8s. See the complete photo gallery of this classic tractor unit on Flickr.

Loneliness…

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Lego Loneliness

We’ve set him up with internet dating. He’ll be sorted in no time. Or our money back.

Continuing our other-worldly theme, a trembling Elf brought this back to The Lego Car Blog office today. Said Elf was probably trembling because it had to get through snow half as deep it was tall, but we like to think it was the sheer creepiness of this shot by the wonderfully weird theoneman that did it. Entitled ‘Loneliness of Despot’, you can see more on his Flickr photostream.

Recovery Space

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Lego Space Station

The rescue of 6950

Long ago, during the Classic Space era, the exploration rover 6950 was sent into uncharted territory. Communications were lost, and the brightly coloured pioneer was doomed to forever rest in the relentlessly grey landscape of Classic Space. Until now. Chris Melby aka ZeeMasterBrick decided the plight of 6950 was worth action, and in response he built the monstrous ‘Archimedes III’ recovery vehicle you see above. Sadly it looks as though 6950’s original crew all perished, but no doubt they were smiling as only Classic Spacemen can. See more of the recovery on MOCpages and Flickr.

Slammin’

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Lego Lowrider

This little piece of orange awesomeness comes from Zeto Vince of MOCpages. Check out the angle of the wheels and then figure out how he did it – and whether it rolls or not…

Tangy!

Cat Back

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Lego Cat Backhoe

Insert dirt for twice the awesome.

This engineering marvel is the work of pipasseyoyo on Brickshelf. Featuring ten separate functions, this Technic Caterpillar backhoe can do everything its real-life counterpart can, thanks to eight Power Functions motors and two gearboxes. See it in action below!

Lego Caterpillar Digger

A big extension. We’re childish.

YouTube video:

Vote for the NEW Technic 4×4!

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Lego Technic Competition

Ten finalists have been chosen from fan creations uploaded to Lego.com. Vote for your favourite!

It’s the Grand Final of LEGO’s ‘You Design It, We Make It’ competition! Fans have been uploading their versions of the 9398 4X4 Crawler for the past few weeks, and we’re now down to the final 10! The winning creation will be turned into a new official LEGO Technic set. Make your vote count:

The Ten Finalists: Vote here!

One-Way Ticket to Pearl Harbor

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Mitsubishi A6M Zero

Mitsubishi A6M Zero

This beautiful looking aircraft is a Mitsubishi A6M Zero, as flown by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service during the Second World War. The Zero entered service in 1940 and quickly gained a fearsome reputation as both a long range fighter and dogfighter, with a kill ratio into double figures.

Constructed as a single piece (unlike the American and European planes of the time) it weighed about half that of its opponents and could out-turn anything else that flew during the war. Unfortunately this strategy meant it was lightly armored and under-powered, and the Zero rapidly became obsolete during the ultra fast technology progression of Word War 2, ending its days as a Kamikaze weapon, long before Al Qaeda made it cool.

Mrutek on Flickr is the builder behind the Japanese warplane forever immortalized by one terrible day in December 1941.

Copper and the Bandit

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Lego Police Car

You’re nicked! (Do they say that in America?)

Uh oh, looks like the Bandit is about to spend some time holding on to his soap very carefully. _lichtblau_‘s 1975 Pontiac and Plymouth Gran Fury police cruiser meet for this roadside shot on Flickr.

The King

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Lego Helicopter, Erickson Air-Crane

Insert quiff and sparkly suit for twice the awesome

This enormous orange behemoth is an Erickson Air-crane, nicknamed ‘Elvis’. At over 4m long and 1m high it contains over 100,000 LEGO bricks. Pro builder Ryan McNaught, aka TheBrickMan, spent one month designing and building this creation for the Brickvention 2013 show. You can see more of Elvis at Ryan’s Flickr photostream here. Uhuhuh.

Cosmic Raceway

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Lego Spaceship Race

Insert Yogi Bear for twice the awesome

Time to jump in The Lego Car Blog Time Machine and go all the way back to 1978, long before this writer was even born. Hold on tight…

One of the most peculiar but brilliant cartoons to come out of the famous Hannah-Barbera studios was the insane ‘Yogi’s Space Race’. Hannah-Barbera were on a bit of a roll in the ’70s, with stupendous shows like Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, Top Cat and Hong Kong Phooey all beaming onto televisions around the world. All this success must’ve led to a massive narcotics and alcohol-fueled binge, because the studio promptly went mental and sent one of their best loved picnic-pinching bears into space for an intergalactic version of Wacky Races. Only 13 episodes were made before Yogi returned to Yellowstone Park to see out his days stealing cake and dodging Ranger Smith, but all were TV gold.

The splendidly named onosendai2600 recaptures this retro-madness with his glorious Galactic Asteroid Rally Circuit (GARC) racers. All are made in a distinctly old-school style, whilst also being wildly futuristic. You can see the full gallery of all four Asteroid Racers on Flickr.

Lego Space Racer

Galactic Asteroid Rally Racing. Obviously.