It continues to be Star Wars Day, and this time we’re taking it seriously. What? This is a speeder bike. Kinda. Flickr’s Tim Goddard as built this most Italian of scenes, with a gorgeous Vespa scooter parked outside a pretty cafe. Pop in for a cappuccino at the link above.
Crappy communist cars such as this, this and this weren’t just made out of old Fiats. No, because there was an exception! Dacias were made out of old Renaults.
Based on the Renault 12, Dacia produced the 1310 from 1979 until 1999, before Renault took over the company from the Romanian state and, well… just continued making it for another seven years. Small revisions to the design were made over that lengthy production run, although all were somewhat ungainly, with the 1980s example pictured here looking particularly tragic.
Still, when you’re part of a communist dictatorship choice is somewhat limited, and thus over two million Dacia 1310s were sold.
This superb replica of the 1310 is the work of previous (but newly named) bloggee blockostalgia, who has done a tremendous job of recreating the humble Romanian people’s car in brick form. Everything opens, there’s a detailed interior and engine bay, and presentation is top shelf. Literally.
There’s lots more of block’s delightful Dacia to see on Flickr via the link above, and if you’re wondering what became of the brand after Renault’s take-over… well they now make the best selling car in all of Europe.
LEGO have released an enormous array of officially-licensed Formula 1 sets for 2025, and this includes last year’s Ferrari SF24 car.
But this year’s Ferrari has one crucial difference from the 2024 car; seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. Which means Ferrari’s smooth-brained strategists can now screw up the race of the most successful driver in Formula 1 history.
Cue this phenomenal recreation of the 2025 Scuderia Ferrari, which swaps the Technic construction of LEGO’s official SF24 set for Model Team visual realism.
Flickr’s Szunyogh Balazs has enhanced this further with an accurate livery, including Ferrari’s HP title sponsor. And whilst printers are amongst the most irritating machines in existence, with ours seemingly controlled by Ferrari’s aforementioned strategists, it’s a considerable improvement on subversive adverts for cigarettes.
There’s a whole lot more of Szunyogh’s beautifully presented Ferrari SF25 to see at his Flickr album of the same name, and you can Send-to-Printer via the link above.
The Elves here at TLCB Towers eat all sorts of things. These include actual meals, awarded to them for finding a blog-worthy creation such as this one, but also glue sticks, dog treats, erasers, and anything else they deem edible.
This means that everyone’s least favourite job is cleaning out the Elves’ cage room, but today this TLCB Writer doesn’t have to get close to the little turds’, um… turds, because he can clean remotely thanks to this spectacular fully motorised Volvo EC300E excavator!
Built by Nura of Eurobricks, this incredible creation blends the best of Technic and third-party suppliers, with three SBricks delivering Bluetooth control to eight Power Functions motors, a suite of Bricktec LED lights, and two custom pneumatic units, with the result being that the 3D-printed bucket can move just like the real thing.
The tracks, rotating superstructure, two-stage boom, bucket, and twin pneumatic compressors are all operable remotely, with the electronics hidden inside a superbly realistic and authentically liveried exterior.
It’s a masterpiece of Lego engineering, and you can see more of Nura’s amazing creation at the Eurobricks forum, and via the video below. Take a look via the links whilst we put this Volvo to work.
Here in Europe we have strict pedestrian safety regulations. This is good news for two reasons; firstly that if you get hit by a car it’s designed to do as little harm as possible, and secondly that we won’t ever have to see a Tesla Cybertruck, which has seemingly been designed to cause the maximum chance of fatalities and is thus illegal.
Taking the Cybertruck approach to vehicle design is the appropriately-named Bloodred_Bricks, who has created this quite fantastically aggressive post-apocalyptic vehicle based on the muscle cars of decades past.
Armoured with a be-spiked bull-bar, wheels mostly made of knives, and some kind of rear-mounted rotavator, Bloodred’s ‘Mad Max’-esque build looks only marginally less lethal than Musk’s stupid truck.
Which of course means TLCB Elves love it, and are now running around the office smashing into one another armed with various pieces stationery equipment.
We’ll clear them out with Mr. Airhorn shortly, so whilst get on with that you can check out Bloodred’s wild post-apoc ride on Flickr. Click the link above to take a look – just don’t step out in front of it.
It wasn’t just Supras that had the 2JZ under the hood. In fact several Toyota and Lexus products were powered by the internet’s favourite engine, including really weird stuff. Which means if you want 2JZ kudos without having to spend ridiculous Supra money, you could get one of these; the excellent Toyota Mark II / Chaser.
Launched in 1992, the seventh generation ‘X90’ Mark II was a mid-size sedan that lasted until 1996, and was available with a variety of engines, including a diesel, a twin-turbo, and the 2JZ.
This splendid Model Team example comes from recent bloggee Mihail Rakovskiy, who is making a name for himself here at TLCB with his excellent ’90s Japanese cars. His ‘X90’ Mark II is as wonderfully life-like as his other creations, with opening doors, hood and trunk, a detailed engine bay, a realistic interior, and even an accurate drivetrain visible underneath.
Superb presentation tops a brilliant build, and there’s lots more of the Toyota to see at Mihail’s ‘Lego Toyota Mark II’ Flickr album. Click the link above for the thinking man’s 2JZ.
We’re dumping double today, courtesy of regular bloggee Arian Janssens and this brilliant DAF FAS 3300 DKX in ‘Bas Van Buuren’ livery.
A huge tipping bucket is mounted behind that DAF FAS’s cab, whilst behind that a drawbar trailer is fitted with a second enormous tipper.
Both are exceptionally well detailed and presented (although we’re not sure you’d dump the load from the truck whilst the trailer was hitched…) and there’s more to see of the whole rig at Arian’s photostream. Take a look via the link whilst we congratulate ourselves on successfully avoiding a minefield of double-entendre.
Reminiscent of the 1960s ’round-bonnet’ Mercedes-Benz trucks still in use all over the developing world, this lovely classic drop-side truck was discovered by one of our Elves today, and it comes from previous bloggee LegoMarat, who has built and photographed it superbly.
Equipped with opening cab doors, front and rear suspension, opening drop-sides, and fully remote controlled drive and steering, Marat’s model is one of our favourites of the year so far, and you can take a look at all of the images on Flickr via the link above.
*Today’s title song. ‘Cause we’re from the hood.
American cars in the late-’70s through mid-’80s were rubbish. They were rubbish long after the mid-’80s too of course, but even the iconic Ford Mustang was a throughly mediocre specimen in its early-’80s guise.
Base on Ford’s then-new ‘Fox’ platform, the third-generation ‘Foxbody’ Mustang could be had as a prosaic coupe, a dreary hatch-back or a lacklustre convertible, and was powered by an array of engines ranging from an inline-4 that produced no horsepower whatsoever to a 5.0 V8 that produced no horsepower whatsoever.
Getting with the times however, and Ford did add a 4-cylinder turbo, which did produce some horsepower – briefly – before it broke.
You may have guessed we’re not fans of Ford’s third-generation ‘stang, and we’re not. Until that, is comes to its 1986 facelift.
Adopting Ford’s ‘aero’ design, the Foxbody instantly went from dreary to desirable, and even the engines got a glow-up, with the 4-cylinder breaking the 100bhp mark (up from a miserly 88) by the early-’90s, and the 5.0 V8 surpassing 200bhp.
This excellent Model Team recreation of the Foxbody Mustang captures the facelift’s sleek exterior brilliantly, and comes from previous bloggee Szunyogh Balázs (aka. gnat.bricks). There’s an opening hood (under which can be slotted both a V8 or 4-cylinder engine as Szunyogh has created both), opening doors and trunk, and a superbly life-like interior.
There’s more of the model to see at Szunyogh’s ‘Lego Mustang – Foxbody’ album on Flickr, and you can take a look at the moment when America’s automotive malaise era finally ended via the link above.
Germany have a reputation for making iconic sports cars. The Z4 M is probably not one of them, but it was a worthy entry into the faster end of the class in the 2000s. Launched in 2003, the Z4 was available with a variety of engines from a mundane 2.0 4-cylinder making 150bhp, through a variety of straight-sixes with around 200bhp.
The fastest was of course the Z4 M, which deployed a wider track, the rear axle from an M3 CSL, hydraulic power steering, and the M-Division’s 340bhp S54 engine, for a 0-60mph time of 4.8 seconds.
This neat recreation of the first-generation Z4 M is the work of FanisLego, who has built it entirely from the pieces from the Creator Expert 10295 Porsche 911 set.
There’s a detailed engine under the opening hood, opening doors, working steering, and a remarkably good rendition of the famous Bangle-era ‘flame surfacing’, particularly given the constrained parts choice.
Building instructions are available and you can swap your own 911 for a Z4 M via the link to Fanis’ Bricksafe gallery above.
It’s ‘Liberation Day’! Yes, President Trump’s tariffs – though at the time of writing we know not what they are – begin today, when it’s expected that you’ll need to pay 25% more for a vehicle not made in the U.S (amongst many other things). And, because that’s not how global markets work, more for vehicles that are made in the U.S too.
The idea of course, is that we’ll all Buy American, even if American is… worse. Take this beautiful 1954 Mack LT truck by Flickr’s Legorigs, which looks, well… exactly the same as a modern Mack truck. And that’s despite the fact that these days Mack are owned by Swedish truck-maker Volvo, whose European trucks are vastly more modern, more powerful, more refined, and more comfortable.
Still, if Trump wants us to jump back to the 1950s, we’re happy to oblige, because Legorigs’ ’54 Mack is absolutely gorgeous. Based on a real show truck, the model features custom chrome and decals, a double-hinged hood, and a superbly detailed engine, drivetrain, and sleeper-cab interior.
There’s much more of the Mack to see at Legorigs’ ‘Mack LT 1954’ album, and you can get stuck in the ’50s via the link above. Or by driving any brand new American truck…
…as well as dust, dirt, leaves, and bees. This is the KTM X-Bow (pronounced crossbow), a two-seat, mid-engined sports car on sale since 2009, that forgoes a roof and windscreen, but it is very fast, and very orange indeed.
Cue newcomer Nard Verbong‘s brick-built replica, which brilliantly captures the most extreme thing to come out of Austria since the Second World War.
Exceptional presentation matches the excellent building techniques, and you can fire a winged insect into your epiglottis via the link to Flickr above.
This TLCB Writer is from age of the VHS tape, when you had to hold down the fast-forward button to skip half-an-hour of trailers before you could watch the Disney movie your grandparents had actually bought you.
But there’ll be no trailer-skipping today, because we have two of them, each loaded with items which are – of course – the reason the trucks pulling them exist in the first place.
Cue regular bloggee Arian Janssens, and this excellent (and very orange) classic DAF FT2800 and Asser Oplegger trailer (we think… our Dutch isn’t up to much), loaded with… um, things. It’s a beautifully detailed creation and if the trailer’s enticed you in you can take a closer look on Flickr via the link above.
Rather smaller, but no less excellent, is Keko007‘s Mercedes-Benz Actros and Faymonville Max510 trailer, hauling his previously-blogged Claas Jaguar self-propelled forage harvester. Some very clever techniques indeed ensure Keko’s model is mightily accurate despite its small size, and there’s more to see of truck and trailer on Flickr via the link above.
This is the most important car that this site has ever featured. Because it is the father of them all.
Built in 1885, the Benz Patent-Motorwagen Nr.1 was first commercially available automobile in history, and the world would never be the same.
Powered by a single-cylinder 1 litre engine producing less than a single horsepower, Karl Benz’s creation forged a different future not just for transportation, but urbanisation, the environment, and even society itself.
This fabulous replica of the invention that changed everything is the work of Nikolaus Lowe of Flickr, who has recreated the Patent-Motorwagen’s single cylinder engine, horizontal flywheel, belt drive, and toothed-rack steering, riding atop third-party wheels, and all of which operate as they did some one-hundred-and-forty-years ago.
There’s more to see of Nikolaus’s beautiful creation at his ‘Benz Nr. 1’ album on Flickr, and you can head to the genesis of every model that this site has ever featured via the link above.
Cruiseliners. Giant floating shopping malls filled with the terrifically fat, the terminally elderly, or the terrifically fat and terminally elderly. And if you’re reading this thinking ‘But I went on a cruise ship…’, then yes, you are one of the above.
Today’s creation is a truck that takes its name from that dreadful excuse for tourism, and comes from newcomer Lecz, making their TLCB debut.
Skilfully blending Technic and Model Team styles, Lecz’s classic Mack Cruiseliner features a working V8 engine under a tilting cab, ‘HOG’ steering, and a functioning fifth wheel lock, with lots more to see – including high quality digital renders and a link to building instructions – at the Eurobricks forum and Bricksafe.
Click the links above to fight off a fat lady at the buffet before docking in a quaint fishing village and ruining it.