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British Sea Power*

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Of the world’s seven largest off-shore wind farms, six reside in TLCB’s home nation, including the four biggest. Of course the UK is the perfect country to capture the power of the wind because, well… there’s a lot of it. Plus a huge coastline and considerable expertise in how to build along it thanks to the legacy of North Sea Oil.

But despite the normality of off-shore wind farms in the UK’s waters, this TLCB writer is continually amazed at how the enormous turbines are placed where they are, considering the violence of their location.

Rather calmer, yet somehow just as remarkable to watch, are Master MOCer mahjqa and AppieNL, whose collaboration for the LEGO World 2026 show saw a pair of Technic tug boats and enormous crane barges construct modular ‘floating’ wind turbines entirely remotely.

Power Functions and Powered-Up motors, pneumatic compressors, magnets, and some seriously clever mechanics saw an entire wind farm gradually rise out of the floor, without a single human hand touching even one LEGO brick.

It’s one of the most enrapturing 7 minute Lego videos we’ve ever seen, and you can harness the power of the wind via the embedded player below, plus you can see more of the Technic components contained within it (including the remote control tug boat featured in this post) via the link to mahjqa’s associated Flickr album here.

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*Today’s wonderful title band.

Steamy Show

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Here at The Lego Car Blog we don’t get out much. Partly this is because we work secretively in the shadows, but mostly it’s because TLCB Elves are banned from many public spaces.

However if you lead more exciting lives than we do, you can get out to the subject of today’s post, the huge LegoWorld 2024 show in Utrecht in the Netherlands.

Over two decades old, LegoWorld is the largest LEGO show on earth, and this year Flickr’s Tamás de Groot is making his exhibitor debut, leading the collaboration behind this epic (and enormous) railway layout.

Beautifully landscaped with trees, embankments, fields and bridges, there are multiple lines, locomotives, and a range of rolling stock travelling though the display, and you can see the whole thing (plus much more besides) at the LegoWorld 2024 show for the remainder of this month.

If like us you’re unable to make it to LegoWorld 2024 in person, head to Tamás de Groot’s Flickr album of the same name to see his fantastic display, or click here to take a look at a round-up from 2023.