Tag Archives: mini-figure

D-Cup

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Exactly half-way between the death of King Edward VII and Salad Fingers came this, the glorious 1957 Jaguar D-Type.

Launched in 1955 the D-Type was specifically designed to win the Le Mans 24 Hours, with a 3.4 litre straight-six and a host of aeronautical inspired innovations – most notably the tail-fin to provide stability for the (then un-chicaned) Mulsanne Straight.

The result was an outright win in ‘55, ‘56, and most dominantly in ‘57, when 250,000 spectators watched the D-Type – now with an enlarged 3.8 litre engine – take first, second, third, fourth, and sixth places.

This lovely Speed Champions recreation of the ‘57 Le Mans winner comes from regular bloggee SFH_Bricks, with custom stickers from Brickstickershop and building instructions available too.

There’s more of the model to see at SFH’s photostream, and you can head down the Mulsanne Straight in 1957 via the link above.

Separation Space

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Sometimes a little separation is a good thing. And we have two good things today in the form of these splendid brick-separator-based speeder bikes. Flickr’s Wynd owns the hands behind them and you can separate yourself from this page via the link above.

Marketing Magic

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Well this image composition will be familiar to anyone that works in the car industry…

A group of trendy persons in their twenties, covering all genders and races*, leaning casually against the car that has brought them so much enjoyment during the last 30 second montage.

Ergh, we hate car commercials. Whether a crappy hatchback, a generic crossover of unimaginable blandness, or a sedan greyer than the people that will buy it, they’re all apparently the gateway to a life filled with diversity and excitement. Which is bollocks. You’ll still be boring, just boring with a large monthly finance commitment.

Flickr’s SHARPSPEED is the marketeer behind this particular pitch, and you can transform your life via an economy hatchback on a convenient finance package at the link!

*More racially diverse mini-figures needed SHARPSPEED…

Brick Baarn

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What’s better than a Lego train? Lots of Lego trains. Aaaaaand that’s the nerdiest sentence we’ve ever written. Still, we do have lots of Lego trains today, courtesy of the Brickshow Baarn 2026 event, the Lowlands L-Gauge Model Train Club (LLMTC), and layout collaborator joopatkleppie.

This beautiful railway diorama was constructed by joopatkleppie and his co-collaborators, and includes a whole range of wonderfully detailed trains, buildings, vehicles and trackside furniture.

There’s lots more of the LLMTC’s fantastic Brickshow Baarn 2026 layout to see at joopatkleppie’s photostream, and you can jump on board via the link above.

Rock-Horse-Tank

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It’s just like Rock-Paper-Scissors, except Tank smushes Horse, Horse kicks Rock, and Rock explodes Tank. At least according to ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’.

Don’t worry, they didn’t smush a horse, but the tank was defeated by a rock deftly placed by the titular hero.

Recreating that iconic movie scene is Viktor Faldt, who has recreated the (fictional) Nazi tank complete with a detailed interior and engine, rotating guns, a mini-figure crew, plus Indiana Jones, a horse, and a rock.

There’s more to see at Viktor’s photostream and you can join the game of Rock-Horse-Tank via the link above.

Big Yellow Taxi*

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This TLCB writer always found it strange that American taxis used to be ginormous V8 sedans. Threading through congested city streets, the only thing lower than miles-per-hour was the miles-per-gallon.

Today’s far more efficient hybrids and EVs make much more sense, but they do somehow seem less… American than the V8 barges that preceded them.

Cue Sseven Bricks’ fabulous ‘75 Plymouth Fury taxi, which captures the spirit of the lost cabs beautifully. There’s more to see on Flickr, and you can hail a ridiculously inefficient ride via the link.

*Today’s absolutely lovely title song.

Hill & Biens

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We’re sticking with classic cars today, and this lovely Speed Champions 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, that won Le Mans in the hands of Phil Hill and Oliver Gendebien.

Created by SFH_Bricks, this beautifully presented model captures the iconic Ferrari racer superbly, and you can join Hill and Gendebien in France in ‘58 via the link.

Beef Pew

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Along with cyberpunk and melon as a starter, we really don’t understand sci-fi. And that’s why, in our minds, pretty much all spaceships go ‘pew-pew!’. Except today, because this one goes ‘PEW-PEW’. Probably. It’s beefy.

That beef begins with two LEGO City cement mixer drum pieces on either side, whilst a Second World War bomber-like gun turret provides the ‘pew’-ing. Sorry, ‘PEW’-ing.

Flickr’s Thomas Jenkins is the builder behind it and you can join him for some beef pew at his photostream. Click the link above for a taste, or wait for a proper Lego site to blog this without referring to a bovine based broth.

Perfect Paint

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TLCB’s home nation likes a neatly painted truck. Most trucks are still plain white of course, but many firms go the extra mile with their visual identity, painting their vehicles in beautiful colours that hark back to the days of horse-drawn carts, canal boats, and traction engines. This is one such truck, a Volvo FH12 operated by Newis heavy haulage and constructed superbly by Flickr’s Ralph Savelsberg. There’s more to see at Ralph’s photostream and you get your brushes out via the link above.

Atomic Wedgie

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Tightly-whiteys, budgie smugglers, keggs, chuddies… You’ll have to ask David Roberts why he’s designed a spaceship to look like a giant pair of undercrackers, but if you do, please also ask him why he didn’t build this in white. Perhaps with a brown streak at the rear. A missed opportunity David…

If You’re Going to San Francisco

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For those who come to San Francisco
They’ll find bricks placed with care everywhere 

On the streets of San FranciscoCars and vans will climb hills into the air

The improved lyrics of 1960s hippy nonsense, prompted by this fantastic diorama published by Brickleas of Flickr, who – with his fellow collaborators – has captured the spirit of ‘60s San Francisco wonderfully in this epic diorama.

Beautiful detailing abounds and you can go to San Francisco via the link above. Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair.

More is More

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When it comes to cars, we’re ‘less is more’ people. Subtlety and understatement are the order of the day. For TLCB Elves however, more is definitely more. Which means they’re very excited by this Classic Space ‘Wayfarer’ spaceship, which is absolutely bursting with ‘more’. Flickr’s Gaurav Thakur owns the hands that have packed an enormous array of spacey things into, onto, and underneath the ship, and there’s even more ‘more’ to see at their photostream. Take a look via the link above.

Land Roadster

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What do you get if you cross a Land Rover with a vintage roadster? A Land Roadster of course, with this one owned by Adventurers hero Indiana Jones Johnny Thunder. There’s working steering, space for three mini-figures, and more to see courtesy of Sseven Bricks via the link above.

Cease & Desist

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Italian lifestyle brand and occasional car maker Ferrari are rather enthusiastically legalistic. Even if you legitimately buy one of their products and decide to have some fun with the badges (as electronic music producer Deadmau5 knows), they’ll send you a letter threatening court action. Because you modified your car. Something to do with brand protection apparently, which is a bit rich considering all the tat they sell with their logo on.

All of which means Flickr’s Sharpspeed can probably expect a call from Ferrari’s lawyers, because his Speed Champions ‘Montichiari’ looks almost exactly like a Ferrari Daytona. That is to say, really good.

There’s more of the ‘Montichiari’ to see at his photostream via the link above so take a look before Ferrari get it removed.

Perfect Seaplane Pavilion

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The coolest way to travel is – and there’s no argument here – by seaplane. You taxi through sparkling waters, the engine roars, and the thumping of the hull on the waves suddenly becomes total serene smoothness. You look down below to the retreating ocean, now dotted with islands and boats, as you travel to a place that you know can only be at least as beautiful as the one you’ve just left. Yeah… we want to join Eero Okkonen‘s ‘Seaplane Association’, whose utterly gorgeous pavilion stands atop a rocky pinnacle with its aircraft waiting beneath it. Join us in enquiring about membership via the link in the text above.