Tag Archives: Pixar

Turn Right to Go Left

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Wait, haven’t we featured this Hudson Hornet already? Well, yes…. but we’ve all been waiting for it to get stickers! Flickr’s SFH_Bricks has now done just that, turning his previously blogged Hudson into the NASCAR that made it so famous. More specifically SFH has created ‘Doc. Hudson’, the Disney Pixar ‘Cars’ movie character that paid homage to that most iconic of NASCAR racers. The beautifully replicated decals come courtesy of Brickstickershop, building instructions are available, and you can turn right to go left via the link above.

Onward Guinevere!

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It’s normally the inside of an old van that has all the illegal stuff…

This is ‘Guinevere’, the pegasus-painted van of the elven protagonists in Pixar’s ‘Onward’, and it’s got more illegal moves than Max Verstappen.

Held together by a combination of immense skill and hope (we suspect there’s a reason this model is only photographed from one side!), 1saac W.‘s remarkable creation pushes the limits of brick-based building.

Take a closer look at 1ssac’s photostream, just don’t try to pick it up.

Using Tongue

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Lightning McQueen has deployed his tongue to get over the finish line first in Bousker‘s scene from the movie ‘Cars’, which captures the trio of racing protagonists wonderfully. Will McQueen’s tongue win him the cup? Take a look via the link above.

The Name’s McMissile…

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Disney Pixar’s ‘Cars 2’ featured a rather familiar looking character. Merging James Bond, Q-branch’s Aston Martin DB5, and a Michael Caine voice-over, Finn McMissile was as British a spy car as it was possible to conceive.

Cue newcomer Danny_Boy4, who has taken LEGO’s officially-licensed 10262 Aston Martin DB5 ‘Goldfinger’ set and redeployed its pieces to create the ‘Cars 2’ character inspired by the real Aston Martin the set replicated.

A thorough redesign moves the bodywork away from the DB5 source to match Pixar’s interpretation of it, and adds ‘Cars’ trademark windshield-eyes and (ingeniously) the hidden side-mounted guns that for this TLCB Writer ruined the whole ‘Cars’ premise. Boo Pixar.

There’s more to see of Danny’s top-tier 10262 B-Model recreation of Finn McMissile at the Eurobricks forum, and you can click the link above join the mission.

Incredibile

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It’s been twenty years since Disney Pixar’s best ever movie premiered in cinemas. Pre-dating the Marvel Cinematic Universe, all but the first Spiderman film, and about 76 other subsequent superhero movies because Hollywood was too unimaginative to make anything else, ‘The Incredibles’ perfectly captured the zeitgeist.

Depicting a forgotten genre of superheroes, forced into hiding, and waiting for the world to need them once more, Pixar’s beautiful retro aesthetic paid homage to the comics books of the past, whilst simultaneously pushing the boundaries of digital animation.

Recreating Mr. Incredible’s ‘Incredibile’ from Pixar’s movie masterpiece, Flickr’s SFH_Bricks has reproduced the movie’s iconic car superbly in brick form, and you can create it for yourself as he’s also produced building instructions.

There’s more to see at SFH’s ‘Incredibile’ album, and you can jump back to the greatest heroes of the 2000’s via the link above.

The End is Nigh

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Lego WALL-E and Eve

WALL-E; the last surviving cute robot on an abandoned Earth tasked with tidying up the mess we made. Disney-Pixar’s masterpiece melted hearts around the world in 2008, but a decade on in 2018 several pieces of news have emerged over the course of the year that make us sure we’re heading ever closer to the grim reality depicted in the movie.

The world is in the midst of a mass extinction crisis, CO2 output has risen for the first time in 4 years, and our oceans are filling with plastic.

We don’t yet have cute little rubbish-collecting robots like the Wall-E and Eve pairing built by Flickr’s Luis Peña pictured here to help, but there are a few very easy things that we can do to lessen our impact upon our environment. Turn things off, recycle everything we can, and switch Google for Ecosia. Each year around 300,000 visitors arrive here at The Lego Car Blog directly via a search engine. If they all arrived via the tree-planting alternative Ecosia that would be a lot of trees!

To find out more about what The LEGO Company is doing to reduce its environmental impact click here and to see more of Luis’ brilliant Wall-E and Eve builds click the link above.

The Stig Vs. Lightning McQueen!

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Lego Cars 3

If you’re here and you’re six*, you’re going to enjoy the video below! Fresh from the Disney Pixar ‘Cars 3’ movie, Lighting McQueen, Cruz Ramirez and Mater are visiting the Top Gear Test Track in LEGO form, and they’re about to meet a very special resident!

LEGO’s official Disney Pixar ‘Cars 3’ Juniors sets are available to buy now.

*Or a TLCB Elf

Febrovery Mash Ups

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The fun festival of all things Lego, sci-fi and car-like that is Febrovery has started over on Flickr. These mash-ups of parts and stickers from LEGO’s Disney “Cars” license and old space themes from Frost really caught our eye. The pair of bonnets (hoods for American readers), wrapped around the rocket on the M:Tron design, are particularly good bit of NPU.

The group is already filling up with a wide variety of eccentric and sometimes useful looking vehicles from a wide variety of builders, many of whom are TLCB regulars. Click this link to the group to find out what’s going on.

WALL-E

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Lego Wall-E

Disney Pixar’s 2008 CGI smash is easily in the Elves’ top 10 films, despite it having no cars and no explosions. It does of course have one of their other favourite things; robots. WALL-E, the little tracked recycling robot whose story the movie follows, is one of the sweetest characters the Pixar wizards have created yet, and he’s perfect for recreating from the ultimate recyclable toy; LEGO.

David Hensel is the latest in long list of builders to give Disney’s creation a go in brick form, and we think his work shoots straight to the top of the pile. Available to view on Flickr and MOCpages, you can check WALL-E and his plant out via the links above. The Elves like it very much – it’s even renewed their vigour for recycling, and if they can recycle, anyone can.

You’ve Got A Friend In Me?

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Lego Mech Robot

Got wood? Nearly…

Uh oh… Lotso the evil pink bear has escaped from his ties to the front of the refuse truck, and now he’s mad. The slightly unhinged Gilcelio takes the Toy Story narrative a little further than Pixar intended with this Woody-Destroying Mech. See more on Flickr.

I Shot The Sheriff…

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But I didn't shoot the....

Henning Birkeland over on MOCpages loves the Ultimate Build “Cars” sets so much he decided to make his own. The Lego Car Blog Elves are so impressed they just had to share them. Henning first built the aptly named Red, the friendly fire engine, and now we have the not so friendly Sheriff. We hope to see more of these wonderful “Ultimate Builds” from this very talented builder as I’m sure you do too.