The Lego Car Blog Elves are feeling spacey today, and that’s OK with us. Cue Wynd of Flickr, who has constructed two splendid Neo-Classic Space creations featuring de-rigueur trans-yellow canopies, blue-over-grey colour-scheme, and greebles galore.
Each is presented beautifully and there’s more to see of Wynd’s wonderful reimagining of LEGO’s most celebrated vintage theme at their photostream. Fly to to an alternate universe of 1980s LEGO via the link above.
The Lego Car Blog Elves are running around making beep-boop noises today, thanks to bradk918 and this splendid neo-Classic Space Mobile Space Supply Station. Thanks Brad.
Anyway, annoying though those noises are, Brad’s creation is epic, carrying a reconnaissance spacecraft atop a 16×16 landing platform riding on six enormous vintage M-Tron wheels.
The result is a terrific transporter and there’s more to see on Flickr via the link above. Take a look whilst we dust off Mr. Airhorn to make a noise of our own.
The Lego Car Blog Elves are running about making spacey noises today, courtesy of this; Gaurav Thakur’s enormous Classic Space ‘Enceladus Expedition Convoy’.
Consisting of two linked 6×6 mobile laboratories, Gaurav’s creation is packed with Classic Space goodness, including complicated control centres, beep-boop robots, and a variety of lab equipment.
A crew of Classic Spacemen (plus a few Space babies – perhaps there’s an board crèche too) studiously operate the convoy vehicle and its contents, and there’s heaps more Classic Spacery to see on Flickr.
Join the ‘Enceladus Expedition Convoy’ at Gaurav’s album of the same name via the link above!
Well whatever this Classic Spaceman is doing, no-one can hear him. Flickr’s manuele vidi is the creator of this whimsical Classic Space vignette, in which many hands make a great logo. Join the Classic Spaceman doing, um… Classic Space things via the link above.
The Lego Car Blog can be accused of many things. Incompetence. Wilful ignorance. Childish humour. But Only-Blogging-Thousand-Brick creations isn’t one of them. Proving that point today is Nikolaus Lowe‘s delightfully simple half-tracked Febrovery entry, complete with a smiling Benny the Spaceman and a Storm Trooper at the handlebars. Which is an interesting play on these sorts of machines’ original drivers. Join in the space Naziism via the link to Nikolaus’ photostream above!
The year is 1984, and the mini-figures of Classic Space are hunting for uranium. For what we’re not sure, but as their exploits are entirely peaceful we’re sure it’ll be for noble research purposes.
Fast forward forty years and the Classic Spacemen have moved on to light and sound, at least if our German is up to scratch. Cue 1corn’s ‘Mobile Licht- und Schallmeßstation’, a fantastic redux of the 6928 Uranium Search Vehicle of 1984.
Sixteen wheels, a smiling mini-figure crew of four, an array of light and sound measuring equipment, and some lunar baseplates covered in sand add to the whimsy, and you join the Classic Spacemen in their measuring at 1corn’s ‘Mobile Licht- und Schallmeßstation’ (6928) album on Flickr.
Like any LEGO fan who grew up in the ’90s, this TLCB Writer would give an internal organ, even a big one, to get his hands on a LEGO monorail.
Flickr’s martin.with.bricks. doesn’t need to forgo a body part, because he already owns the best LEGO set ever made, and has redeployed it to create this fabulous ‘Space Monorail Station’.
Packed with wonderful spacecraft, speeders, hover-tugs, aliens, a glorious Futuron-style monorail train, plus an entire second monorail based on LEGO’s rollercoaster tracks, Martin’s colossal Space Monorail Station is the sort of creation that makes you want to shrink yourself to mini-figure size to wander through it.
You can jump into all the imagery of Martin’s ‘Space Monorail Station’ at his album of the same name, where TLCB Staff will be both pretending they’re 3cm tall, and wondering which organ they could do without.
The early design philosophy of LEGO’s Classic Space theme was to take an item of mundane earthly equipment, paint it grey, and add a satellite dish. Cue Dump trucks, mini-diggers, floor-buffers, and – in this case – a horse-box and trailer.
Taking LEGO’s 452 ‘Mobile Ground Tracking Station’ (aka Space Horsebox), Flickr’s Frost (aka TFDesigns!) has rebooted the vintage set with parts four decades newer, to marvellous effect.
Opening the rear reveals no horse, but handily there’s an array of delightfully spacey equipment available to track one down.
There’s more of Frost’s fantastic 452 Redux to see at his photostream, and you can join the Classic Space shenanigans via the link above.
The annual space-based buildathon that is Febrovery is here for another year, in which a myriad of mini-figure scale lunar rover of all shapes, themes, colours and sizes will join the thousands already present in the long-running Flickr group.
Previous bloggee Nikolaus Lowe is roving rather differently however, having built his Febrovery entry in Technic-figure scale. It’s also rather contemporary looking, owing more than a little of its aesthetic to the 1971 ‘LRV’ (or ‘moon buggy’), the only actual manned lunar rover to exist.
Working steering and a constantly rotating radar dish are included, and you join Nikolaus technically roving at his photostream. Click the link above to get your rove on.
OK, we’re not always strictly a car blog here at The Lego… er, Car Blog, but today’s sci-fi creations do have wheels! Well, two of them do, and enough to average 4.67 wheels per model in today’s post, which is good enough for us!
First up is Capt. Dad‘s Neo-Classic Space ‘Mobile Research’, because there’s nothing the mini-figures of Classic Space (or indeed, Neo-Classic Space) like more than researching stuff. Much greebling, many opening compartments, and a brilliant interior all feature, and you join in the research via the link above.
Next up is a creation from Neo-M-Tron, a sub-theme which we’ve just invented. This is the ‘Gigatron Flux Inductor’, a giganormous 6×6 cross between the mole thingy from Thunderbirds, a steam train, and a petrol tanker. Created digitally in Bricklink Studio plus copious editing programmes, Ghalad‘s creation is apparently the latter, and you can fill up your stranded lunar rover via the link in the text above.
Today’s third and final sci-fi build features no wheels at all, but it does use two LEGO transparent ball pieces for, um… reasons. Sylvain Daunais‘ ‘Universe Explorer’ looks superb however, and there’s more to see of his excellent Neo-Classic Spaceship on Flickr. Click the link above to take a look, whilst we find some things that have definitely got wheels…
This is the ‘Classic Space Baby Mobile Rocket Transport Mech’, or C.S.B.M.R.T.M. for short, a triple rocket transportation and launch system that can transform into a giant space-baby mech. Because shut up, that’s why.
Angus MacLane is the owner / father responsible for this mildly terrifying Classic Space roving automaton, and there’s more of his otherworldly insanity to see at his photostream. Pack some giant space diapers and head to lunar daycare via the link in the text above.
This is the ‘LL-2329 Scuttlebug’, and whilst it might look rather adversarial, being a Classic Space thingumy it you can guarantee two things; 1. A perennially-smiling classic spaceman, and 2. Its purposes will be entirely peaceful, and very probably nerdy.
In this case the ‘Scuttlebug’s remit is one of mining and demolition, conducted of course by a perennially-smiling classic spaceman. Nevertheless, we bet Blacktron won’t be messing with it…
Flickr’s Duncan Lindbo is the builder and there’s more of the ‘Scuttlebug’ to see at his photostream. Click the link above to cheerily demolish a space mine or something.
The Lego Car Blog Elves are all excitedly running around the office making ‘Bwukushhh!!’ noises today, thanks to OA KD‘s superb landing/launch pad, and the rather awesome looking Neo-Classic Spaceship departing from it. Although seeing as TLCB Staff know absolutely nothing about sci-fi, perhaps the Elves have got the right idea… Click the link above to lift-off whilst we excitedly run around the office making ‘Bwukushhh!!’ noises!
Uh oh. TLCB Elves failed to find any cars this weekend, but they did unearth some sci-fi. Which means the vehicular competence you’re used to, and the eloquence of our prose, are about to take a nose-dive. And the bar was already very low…
Here are two spaceships. Swoooosh!
The first (above), entitled ‘The Nurikabe’, is the work of Flickr’s noblebun, whose spectacular image is reminiscent of those annoying online gaming ads that frequently appear on questionable websites (cough…). Noblebun’s photostream is bursting with exquisitely rendered spacecraft like that pictured here, and you can make the jump to hyperspace or something else science-fictiony via the link above.
The second creation giving TLCB Staff difficulty today comes from previous bloggee Oscar Cederwall (aka o0ger), and is a ‘Light Space2Surface Shuttle’ or ‘L-S2S’ for short. The Neo-Classic Space aesthetic looks the business with the downward-facing cockpit, which – come to think of it – probably makes sense as you’d want to see the planet you’re landing upon rather the sky you’ve just descended through above it.
Crikey, did we just write some sci-fi-related sense? We’d better end there before we ruin it! See more at Oscar’s ‘L-S2S’ album via the link above!
LEGO’s ‘Classic Space Plush‘ is one of their more unusual – and adorable – ‘pieces’. However a real Classic Spaceman, no matter its cuteness, needs a vehicle with which to conduct Classic Spacey things. Cue Daniel Church, and his ‘Awwwstronauts’!
Built to Plushie scale, Daniel has created a fully RC lunar rover and segway to allow his Classic Space Plushies to go about their delightful cuddly space business. Both contain Powered-Up Motors hidden inside and there’s more to see at his ‘Awwwstronauts’ album on Flickr.
Cutely go where no spaceman has gone before via the link!
