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Fewer Ads!

Ads. They’re everywhere. On television. On radio. On buses. On your phone. In trains. On billboards. And, thanks to BMW, now even in your car. But not in the middle of a TLCB post. As much as we can help it anyway.

Yes we recently turned in-post ads off, because the extra coin matters less to us than reader experience, particularly when some ads were covering text and it could say something important. Like a ‘Your Mom’ joke.

Whilst adverts will still appear in the side bars and also stick the pages edges, making this change has approximately halved our revenue, which does mean our charitable donations could look a little marginal once the costs of running the site are covered. So if you like what we do and would like to help us to keep giving, you can. We’d love it if all the advertising revenue that this site does earn could be donated to good causes, with the site’s operational costs covered elsewhere (which – due to us working for free and the Elves only being paid in Smarties – are pretty low). If you feel like it, you can help below.

Thank you

TLCB Team

We do appreciate the irony of this post communicating a reduction in ads whilst simultaneously, itself, being an ad….

How Do They Do That?

Lego Microphone

Ever thought ‘How do they do that?’ when viewing some of the incredible Lego vehicles featured here at The Lego Car Blog? Or ‘I wonder what car that builder drives in real life?’. Or ‘How did they get started in the Lego Community?’. Well wonder no more! Because we have over twenty-five interviews right here at TLCB from the very best vehicle builders in the business.

And if that raises another question ‘How on earth did TLCB get [insert awesome builder] to agree to an interview?’, a couple of Elves armed with a sharpened pencil can be very persuasive…

Anyway, don’t worry about our methods, just head over to the Interviews page where some of the world’s greatest Lego builders told us everything whilst applying band-aids and signing an NDA under duress.

TLCB Interviews

A Car Park of Lego Vehicles

We’ve been AI-ing ourselves, and apparently The Lego Car Blog is the largest archive of Lego vehicles anywhere in the world! Which is probably because no-one else could be bothered… Still, seeing as our Elves have found the square root of nothing over the past few days, it seems like an opportune time to remind ourselves how big the Archives now are. Find whatever you’re looking for (probably) below!

A-Z of Lego Cars

From Alfa Romeo to… um, Volvo (ok, we haven’t quite got to Z), there are over fifty car brands in The Lego Car Blog Archives, from vintage luxury to the very newest marques and everything in between. Find out if your favourite car has been built from LEGO bricks (and what TLCB Staff think of it…) by clicking the words below!

Click Here for the world’s largest Lego Car Archive


A-Z of Lego Bikes

If you like your journeys with two less wheels and the added jeopardy of becoming an unexpected organ donor, we’ve got motorbikes too! From BMW to Vespa, hundreds of hogs, scramblers, cruisers, and superbikes have been built from LEGO, and TLCB Archives are packed with all of them. Don your helmet and join the ride via the link below!

Click here for the worlds largest Lego Motorbike Archive


A-Z of Lego Trucks

And if you like your vehicles with rather more wheels, and trailers loaded with everything from hay to beer, then check out TLCB A-Z of Trucks, where every brand from DAF to ZIL is represented. Haul yourself over via the link below!

Click here for the world’s largest Lego Truck Archive

BuWizz Gathering 2026

BuWizz-powered creations have been appearing on The Lego Car Blog for years, and with programable bluetooth control, mega power, and a 5-Star Review when we tested their awesome 3.0 Pro system, it’s easy to see why.

If you’re a BuWizz builder or a fan of seeing what remote control Lego can do, the BuWizz Gathering 2026, held in BuWizz’s beautiful native Slovenia, is coming this July 11th-12th.

The 2026 event will include multiple vehicular competitions, daily prizes, conferences, and a social dinner, as well as attendance from 95-million views YouTuber RacingBrick and TLCB Master MOCers Sariel and Nico71.

Tickets are on sale now for €60 (competitors) and €20 (spectators).

Find full details and tickets for the BuWizz Gathering 2026 here

There’s also currently 10% off BuWizz components in their Summer Sale. Click on the image below to take a look at what’s available.

Attacks on LEGO Sites

Regular readers of this shady corner of the internet will know that one of the sites our Elves frequent for models is Eurobricks, an expansive fan forum containing thousands of Lego topics.

However over the past week it’d been very quiet from our Eurobricks based Elves, so we headed there ourselves to check it out and… couldn’t.

It turns out Eurobricks experienced a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack, where their servers were flooded with traffic, taking the site offline. Eurobricks is now back up and running after the team there implemented a fix which you can read about here, but coincidentally(?) we’re undergoing some seriously unusual traffic too.

In fact, every day for the last few days we’ve received as many visits in 24 hours as we usually do in a month. That’s tens of thousands of visits a day. But note ‘visits’, not ‘visitors’, as almost all are from the same U.S desktop.

Which means unless a very enthusiastic reader has just discovered us and is working their way through our entire archive one post at a time, strange things are afoot.

So far TLCB hasn’t fallen over (we’re as surprised as you!), but if you do have trouble accessing us please let us know. Although if that is the case you probably won’t be able to read this nor comment, so perhaps this whole post is moot…

Anyway, welcome back online Eurobricks and you can show them your support via the link above!

Every Lego Car, Ever*

From Alfa Romeo to Volvo, almost every major car manufacturer (and a lot of minor ones too) have seen their vehicles recreated in Danish plastic.

Thousands of Lego cars have appeared here at The Lego Car Blog over the last decade, with hundreds of trucks and motorcycles joining them too.

Which means if you’ve ever wondered ‘I wish there was a Lego version of my car…’, there probably is. And it can be found in our enormous A-Z of fifty car manufacturers, where you can find the biggest and best archive of Lego cars, sorted by the badge on the hood, anywhere in the world.

Find the complete A-Z of Lego Cars here

(plus Trucks and Motorcycles)

*Well, all the good ones.

How to Get Your Model Featured at TLCB…

…and other Lego sites too.

It’s been a quiet few days here at The Lego car Blog, during which time the mythical Elves we use to scour the web for the best Lego vehicles have returned zilch, nada, nothing. Boo.

But have you ever wondered ‘How do I get my model featured on The Lego Car Blog?’. Well this post is for you!

Lego Barn Find Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix

1. Help the Elves to find you. Our Elves search far and wide for the best Lego vehicles on the web, and their favourite haunts are Flickr, Eurobricks (specifically the Technic & Model Team forum), and Bricksafe. They don’t visit social media sites though, because a) social media is poison, and b) underscoring the whole ‘poison’ thing, social media platforms usually require activating an account to view images, which means we can’t link our readers to them. We’d therefore really encourage you to upload your creations to a free-to-view platform like those listed above, even if you’re on social media sites too.

2. Follow, but not too closely… If you want to increase your chances of getting noticed, then check out the groups we follow and maybe join them yourself, and/or follow us (we’re on Flickr and Eurobricks under our site name). However please don’t message us saying ‘Please blog my creation’, nor add images to our Flickr group that haven’t been featured here. If your work is good enough, and meets our criteria, that’s enough : )

Lego Photography Studio

3. Meet the Criteria. All the main Lego sites will likely look for similar things in the models they feature; a great model, well presented, with high quality imagery. Here at The Lego Car Blog we also add the aforementioned free-to-view accessibility, and the need for the model to be (or feature) a vehicle. You can find our full criteria by clicking these words.

4. Help us tell a story. A model that’s a little unusual may stand a greater chance of appearing, as it allows us to say something new. We like weird, probably because we are ourselves. A few one-off vehicles (like the one pictured above) and have even drawn attention here from their real-world owners.

And that’s it! Be visible in a free-to-view place, join some Lego vehicle groups and discussions, take care with presentation, and try to build something unique. Follow these steps and one of TLCB Elves may return to our office clutching your creation in their claws. We hope they do!

2025 | Year in Review

It’s 2026! The Winter Olympics, Football World Cup, and Artemis Lunar Programme will all arrive in the next twelve months, but before then let’s look back at our 2025…

Posts

We published nearly a post a day over the last year, with the most viewed of 2025 being our preview of LEGO’s new officially-licensed Formula 1 sets. The top page (outside of the Homepage of course) continued to be the Review Library, with our new A-Z of Lego Cars not far behind.

Visitors 

2025 wasn’t just the Year of China for vehicle sales (with Chinese car brands that didn’t even exist a few years ago now everywhere), but also for visitors to this site. China shot up the country rankings to end the year in third place, with many days having more Chinese visitors than even Americans. A new world order is imminent. Either that or dozens of models that have appeared here over the years are about to become Chinese copy-cat sets…

Germany, the UK, Netherlands and France completed the top six, with just over half of all visitors joining us from a desktop and just under half from mobile devices. Which definitely means at least one of you has visited us from your office toilet.

2026

What does 2026 hold? We’re not sure there’s as much need for The Lego Car Blog as there has been in the past. The online Lego Community now feels rather fragmented over dozens of platforms and social media sites, and doom-scrolling through Instagram will inevitably serve up far more Lego creations than we ever could. But for now at least we still like doing this, and it seems hundreds-of-thousands of you do too. Well, you keep coming back, which must count for something.

Thus we’ll endeavour to continue publicising the very best vehicular builds from across the internet, with reviews and set previews too. If you like what we do you can support us here, and if you don’t you can always let us know in the comments.

Wishing you a very happy and brick-filled 2026

TLCB Team

It’s Christmaaaaas!

The doors to the TLCB Towers have been locked, the Elves are back in their cages, and TLCB Staff are off to exchange gifts / see loved ones / drink heavily. Perhaps all three.

Thus there’ll be nothing new to see here for a few days, as we take our customary break from the internet to spend time on things that matter rather more. If you’re in need of your Lego car fix over the coming days there’s loads here to see in the Archives, including Interviews with the world’s best vehicle makers, the A-Z of Lego Cars (and Trucks too), the enormous Review Library, and if you’ve enjoyed what we’ve written during 2025 you can buy the Elves us a Christmas present here.

Yet whilst all the above are worth a click, we’d encourage you to save them for another time. Switch off, ignore your screens, and enjoy the season.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, and we’ll see you soon.

TLCB Team

Today’s Christmas creation can be found courtesy of Jens Ohrndorf.

Black Friday | Nothing to See Here

Black Friday

It’s the most wasteful time of the yearWith credit cards loadedHousehold debt has exploded
‘Cos discounts are hereIt’s the most wasteful time of the year
It’s the shallowest season of allThere’ll be fighting in Walmart
To fill a shopping cartBut it won’t fill that holeIt’s the shallowest season of all

Feel-Good Alternatives 

Creations for Charity

Buy a one-of-a-kind creation, with all of the proceeds used to buy LEGO sets for underprivileged children who might get nothing else this Christmas.

Red CrossTearfundChristian Aid

Fantastic charities working every day to alleviate poverty, suffering, and injustice around the world. Visit their appeals, and change a life.

We’re 14 Today!

Lego 14

Yes it’s The Lego Car Blog’s birthday! And unlike almost every previous year we’ve actually remembered on the day itself. At fourteen years old this dodgy alley in the corner of the internet is older than the Tesla Model S, Grand Theft Auto V, Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy’, and Tik Tok. And not even a fraction as successful as any of them.

Still, millions of you have joined us over the years, whether that be for the thousands of Lego cars, trucks and motorbikes we’ve publicised, the over a hundred LEGO set and product reviews, reveals of new LEGO sets, interviews of some of the world’s best Lego builders, or the Your Mom jokes. Whatever your reasoning, we’re glad you’re here.

We’re not on social media but if you like what we do feel free to spread the word, you can click here to write to us to complain that we haven’t featured your creation, and if you really want to support us you can buy the Elves a birthday present here.

We’ll keep trying to publicise the best Lego vehicles the web has to offer, and thank you for joining us on the ride.

TLCB Team

Creations for Charity 2025!

Creations for Charity is back!

Creations for Charity, the fantastic annual fundraiser raising money for the provision of official LEGO sets to children who have little else, is back for 2025! Through the sale of unique Lego creations, hundreds of underprivileged children will receive a LEGO toy this Christmas, and you could get your hands on an amazing one-off Lego model to boot!

Get involved

You can join in Creations for Charity 2025 in several ways;

  • By donating a creation to the Creations for Charity store
  • By buying a creation
  • By giving a monetary donation to the charity

You can take a look at the Creations for Charity fundraiser by clicking the link below, where fabulous fan-built creations can soon be bought. You could even join the building heroics by donating a Lego creation of your own.

Do something amazing, get involved in Creations for Charity 2025 and bring some joy to a child who really needs it.

Buy or donate a creation at the Creations for Charity store.

TLCB x AI

Here at The Lego Car Blog we try to do things differently. Often worse, but differently nonetheless. Thus today we’re going to address the rise of the machines, and the two letters that – if countless sci-fi films prove correct – will probably spell the end of us all. A. I.

Now deployed in every job application, university essay, and best man’s speech, AI has changed (or imminently will) pretty much everything. Cancer screening, vaccine creation, and disaster response are immeasurably more powerful thanks to artificial intelligence, whilst music, movies, and voice work can be produced without artists, and photographic/video evidence now means nothing.

On balance, for all the potential good it can do, we think that AI is probably going to harm society more than help it, and so – mirroring our approach to social media – we have decided not to use it here at The Lego Car Blog. Correspondingly all our content will continue to be written only by human beings, and thus all the mistakes you spot are our own. We will also endeavour to ensure that no AI-generated creations are featured, with our Submission Guidelines updated to reflect this policy (although this may prove tricky to administer once AI can nail it).

Until then however, The Lego Car Blog will proudly be an AI-free site, both in word and image. Unless the robots in charge in the future deem this post evidence of resistance, in which case AI wrote it.

Image credit.

Sponsor an Elf!*

Do you love Lego cars, trucks, aircraft and sci-fi? Do you like ‘Your Mom’ jokes and references to Putin’s tiny member? Then have we got a deal for you! And by ‘deal’, we actually mean a ‘donate’ button.

Yes we’ve finally done it, after being asked to a few times by our readers. So here it is. It won’t appear on the main page because that feels a bit pushy, but it can be found in the About Us, Contact, and FAQs pages. And below.

If you’d like to donate something please do (any profit we make goes to charitable causes), and if not we’re still delighted to have you here : )

TLCB Team

*Donations are not guaranteed to feed TLCB Elves.

Carbon Fiber Lego Wheels

Carbon Fiber. (Or ‘Fibre’ if you spell it correctly. Ed.) The wonder material from which Formula 1 cars, the Ferrari F40‘s bodywork, the Lexus LFA‘s tub, and fancy road bikes are all made.

Which also means that, inevitably, carbon fiber fakery is everywhere too. Car interior trim, vinyl wraps, even wallets, laptops and suitcases can all be found in finest farbon ciber, mostly looking terrible.

But today we have the real deal, because this is the world’s first genuine carbon fiber Lego wheel. It may not look much, but it’s bona-fide carbon fiber, and its maker PlasticGear has detailed how he constructed it.

Take a look at PlasticGear’s pioneering project in the video above, you can join the discussion at the Eurobricks forum, and don’t even think about wrapping your wing-mirrors/spoiler/centre console in fake carbon, because we’ll laugh at you.