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LEGO are doing a fine turn in recreating movie cars. The 10300 Back to the Future Time Machine set captures possibly the most famous movie car of all time in brick form. The 42210 Technic ‘2 Fast 2 Furious’ Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34)… um, does not. But what if you could turn it into that most iconic of film icons? Well now thanks to Dyens Creations you can!

Built entirely from the parts of 42210, Dyen’s DeLorean includes working gull wing doors, detailed time-travelling modifications, and the pivoting wheels from ‘Back to the Future’s third instalment to convert the model to flying mode.

It also cleverly hides 42210’s stickers so you don’t need to peel them off, and you can see more of Dyens’ delightful DeLorean – including a link to building instructions – at both Eurobricks and Flickr. Build your ‘Back to the Future’ B-Model via the links above!

I Met Her in a Club Down in Old Soho…

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We often get asked to feature more digital builds, but, well… we just prefer the real thing. So too did Ray Davies, who – in his 1970 hit with The Kinks – rejected the advances of Lola, despite later addressing the controversy around his lyrics by stating “It really doesn’t matter what sex Lola is, I think she’s alright”.

Cue a seamless link to ‘LOLA’ from Marvel’s ‘Agents of Shield’, a 1962 Chevrolet Corvette that hides some rather trick abilities, as recreated here in this marvellous image by Flickr’s Vaionaut.

Like Ray’s admirer in that Soho club, Vaionaut’s ‘LOLA’ doesn’t feature the real pieces you’d expect, but it looks so good we can’t help but think it’s alright too. It’s also capable of doing a few things that a brick-built creation can’t, being rendered in flight in a way that’s very probably more realistic than if it had been constructed from real bricks.

Somewhere in all that there’s a metaphor for accepting someone for who they are, and you can see more of Vaionaut’s digital Chevrolet Corvette ‘LOLA’ via the link above, whilst we ponder it.

*Today’s title song.