This enormous floating monolith is – according to its maker Vince_Toulouse – a ‘T8-Prospector’, and it’s magnificent.
Whilst we know not what it does, we do know that Bionicle, Galidor, and Duplo pieces are used in its immense construction.
Motorised mechanics including the arm-mounted drill and LED lighting bring Vince’s spectacular creation to life, and there’s more to see of this other-worldly machine on Flickr via the link above.
Alpine are back from the dead, with new production cars, a re-badged Renault Formula 1 Team, and re-badged Oreca Le Mans Hypercars. Which is nice and all, but they were cooler the first time round. Particularly when they built this; the 1978 Le Mans-winning Renault Alpine A442B.
Only two manufacturers competed for outright victory in ’78, but with the other being Porsche and Alpine’s Didier Pironi and Jean-Pierre Jaussaud completing a record distance over the twenty-four hours, the victory was still an immense achievement.
This fantastic Speed Champions recreation of the ’78 race winner comes from Flickr’s SFH_Bricks, whose catalogue of classic Le Mans racers is both extensive and beautifully constructed.
A wonderfully accurate livery adds to the realism (which TLCB Elves like too for some reason…) and you can see more of SFH’s glorious Renault Alpine A442B at his album of the same name via the link above.
‘Player 1, Player 2, Choose your fighter!’ is the title of this space-based build by bradk918. Although it hasn’t escaped our notice that the starfighters are actually numbered one and three… No matter, because we don’t understand sci-fi anyway, and Brad’s builds are seriously good.
Top flight building techniques and stellar presentation make these well worth a closer look, and you can get your coin in the slot before the count-down ends at Brad’s photostream via the link above.
Uh oh. Sci-Fi. The genre about which we know nothing. Fortunately the creator of this spellbinding ‘Pterosaur Ship’, which to us looks like the beautiful combination of a bat and a dying butterfly, has bequeathed it with a description; “Just an average guy traversing planets in a spaceship to share inter-galactic news with the local crocodile-riding tribes.”
Well that clears that up. There’s more to see of this bewitching build courtesy of Oliver Barrell, and you can traverse the planets with an average guy, sharing inter-galactic news with the local crocodile-riding tribes via Oliver’s ‘Pterosaur Ship album at the link above.
Things are not always what they seem. And not just in today’s terrifying world of AI, but in decades past too. Because the ‘Ferraris’ used in the famous TV series ‘Miami Vice’ were not actually Ferraris at all, but Chevrolet C3 Corvettes.
Cunning modifications transformed the then-ageing Stingrays into prancing horses, but we think we actually prefer the ‘Vettes to the Italian supercars they became. This one comes from previous bloggee Sseven Bricks and there’s more to see of his Speed Champions C3 on Flickr. Click the link above to take a look.
TLCB Opinion of the Day; Archeologists are glorified looters. Whether it be an item of great reverence to a particular culture, the wealth of an entire people, or the bones of someone’s ancestor, they’re all ripe for digging up and sticking in a museum.
Cue Indiana Jon… um, we mean ‘Johnny Thunder’, who’s about to get his hands on the ‘Lost Sun Disk’ from the mouth of a hidden jungle totem. He may have to shoot a native or two, but that ancient treasure belongs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
Newcomer workhardbuildhard is the builder behind the aforementioned theft, with Johnny and an accomplice ready to make their daring escape in a neat grey Jeep CJ. The locals certainly won’t be able to keep up with that!
There’s more of the build to see at whbh’s photostream via the link above, or alternatively visit any Western cultural museum for innumerous items of great worth successfully looted by brave archaeologists.
Just a decade on from the aeroplane’s invention and there were already international races occurring. One of the most famous was the Schneider Trophy, in which teams from across Europe sent their finest flying inventions to race a course to glory.
Racing ceased in 1914 due to an international disagreement, but returned again in 1919, when said dispute had been mostly-kinda-not-really-resolved. The aforementioned wrangle had continued to dramatically further the development of the aeroplane though, so that was nice.
Cue these two superb brick-built entrants into the Schneider Trophy, as constructed by TLCB debutant Hod Carrier of Flickr. Above is the Sopwith Tabloid, Britain’s valiant entry into the 1913 Monaco event, whilst below is the remarkable Italian Savoia S-21 floatplane, which went on to be flown by a cartoon pig for some reason.
Each recreates its real-world counterpart beautifully in miniature, and there’s more to see of both aircraft, plus other Schneider Trophy entrants in both digital and real-brick forms, at Hod Carrier’s album of the same name. Click here to race through the skies above a European sea over a century ago!
The Lego Car Blog is a site with humble beginnings. We’re not famous Lego Show exhibitors, Lego User Group leaders, or even upstanding members of the Online Lego Community. Nope, this site was created by idiots, but look how far we’ve co… Wait, that probably isn’t a good example.
But there are great examples of automotive humble beginnings, including two now-titans of the German motor industry; Porsche and BMW.
Porsche’s first car (depicted above) was the 356, which looked a lot like the Volkswagen Beetle, because… well, it kinda was one. BMW on the other hand began by making aero engines during both World Wars. Fortunately for this site’s home nation, the military machine to whom they were supplied didn’t win either of them, and strict metal rationing after Germany’s defeat meant creating cars like the one depicted below, the tiny BMW Isetta ‘bubble car’.
They were simple, slow, and not very expensive, and both shown here are the work of TLCB debutant Filippos Tsialidis, who has created them rather humbly too, using just a handful of pieces for each. They join a host of other classic cars at his ‘Cars’ Flickr album, and you can take a look at beginning of Porsche, BMW, and many others too via the link above.
Sometimes the transporter is cooler than thing it transports. Cue RGB900‘s wildly modified Ford Econoline pick-up, designed to transport a racing motorbike. But we’re not looking at the bike when the truck is so deeply cool. Take a closer look at RGB’s photostream, whilst we trawl Bring-a-Trailer for old Ford Econolines…
Bicycle wheels, a Fabuland middle, and a flag for a scarf. It’s the little pieces that make the whole, and there’s more to see of _Tiler‘s wonderfully presented Ford Model-T here.
The news is currently filled with the economic shenanigans of a certain orange President, including the sudden announcement that – from next week – the cost of all cars not made in the U.S (as well as lots that are) will rise significantly. Because said elderly Twitter addict doesn’t understand that it’s not the seller that pays a tariff, but the buyer…
Thus in today’s post we’re featuring a Donald that’s the antithesis of his POTUS namesake, being witty, wry, warm and charming. And probably more economically competent. Feathered cartoon humanoid Donald Duck is at the wheel of his 313 Belchfire Runabaout, wonderfully recreated in 6-wide Fabuland form by previous bloggee Sven J.
A removable roof and flip-out rumble seat both feature, and best of all Sven has released free building instructions for the design. So in contrast to Trump’s latest executive order, here’s a car you don’t have to pay extra for.
There’s more to see at both Flickr and the Eurobricks forum, and you can get quacking via the links above.
I know… Isn’t it beautiful?
Arthur Fleck, riding in a 1977 Dodge Monaco police car, stares out of the window in wonder at the disorder he has sparked.
Flickr’s _Tiler has captured the moment that down-trodden Arthur became ‘The Joker’, and there’s more to see of the Dodge Monaco in which it occurred 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.
We love slow, strange, European oddities here at The Lego Car Blog. Probably because we are one. This is one such curiosity, the Piaggio Ape, depicted here in MP-600 form.
‘MP’ stood for ‘Motore Posteriore’ (rear engine), whilst ‘600’ denoted the 600bhp it produced. Kidding. It wasn’t even 600cc. Or half that…
Like we said, sloooow. But we love Apes nonetheless, and thus this excellent Town-style version by Jordan Parmegiani is one of our favourite creations of the year so far.
A scooter in the load bed makes Jordan’s build even more Italian, and you can meander through narrow streets somewhere in Italy via the link above.
Plymouth is now consigned to history, a relic of automotive past, never again to see a new wheel turned. The wild bewinged NASCARs, early-’00s oddities, sentient killers, and of course ‘Cudas will likely endure, but the unglamorous sedans, minivans, and station wagons are already all-but-erased from American roads.
Previous bloggee _Tiler hasn’t forgotten them though, and has created this stellar early-’70s Plymouth Satellite in starkly-white Police patrol form. Beautiful detailing is matched by the outstanding presentation, and you can jump back to when Plymouths were common across America via the link above, or click here to enter the brick-built Plymouth rabbit-hole.
