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Microscale Mech Mining

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It’s sometime in the future, where humankind have traversed the vast void of space, colonised  whole new worlds, and yet are still digging big holes in the ground to extract minerals. Sigh.

Interplanetary destruction aside, Duncan Lindbo‘s ‘Gila’ six-legged mobile mining mech does look rather neat though, and it comes to life too, thanks to a motorised bucket-wheel and LED lighting.

There’s more of this microscale mech to see at Duncan’s photostream, and you can lay waste to an alien eco-system via the link above.

6928 Redux

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The year is 1984, and the mini-figures of Classic Space are hunting for uranium. For what we’re not sure, but as their exploits are entirely peaceful we’re sure it’ll be for noble research purposes.

Fast forward forty years and the Classic Spacemen have moved on to light and sound, at least if our German is up to scratch. Cue 1corn’s ‘Mobile Licht- und Schallmeßstation’, a fantastic redux of the 6928 Uranium Search Vehicle of 1984.

Sixteen wheels, a smiling mini-figure crew of four, an array of light and sound measuring equipment, and some lunar baseplates covered in sand add to the whimsy, and you join the Classic Spacemen in their measuring at 1corn’s ‘Mobile Licht- und Schallmeßstation’ (6928) album on Flickr.

Sci-Fi Sunday

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TLCB Elves are currently stomping around the office with exaggerated mass, armed with an assortment of stationary and other office supplies procured from staff desks. The inspiration for this slow-moving battle comes from Marco Marozzi, and his ‘Hadestron Mech’. We have no idea what a ‘Hadestron Mech’ is, but it looks the shiznit, with more to see at Marco’s photostream. Click the link above to grab a stapler and stomp your way over.

Space Train

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Like regular train, only in space! if we’re honest we’re not quite sure how the overhead power-lines work, but Daniel Barwegen‘s build looks lovely nonetheless. It’s also available to buy in this year’s Creations for Charity fundraiser, to which Daniel has donated it. There’s more to see at his photostream via the link above, and you can click here to check out the fantastic Creations for Charity page.

Space Balls

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Measuring over one-hundred studs in length, the family jewels of the Lego sci-fi community are the ‘SHIPs’. This one, constructed by Flickr’s Duncan Lindbo, measures in at 116 studs, and it’s a properly impressive specimen.

A ‘Samovar-Class’ tanker, Duncan’s design utilises an array of orbs to transport various fluids, hung within a plum-straight outer casing which looks like it was rather testy to create, what with LEGO’s limited sand-green parts inventory.

You can head to Duncan’s photostream to check out this nuts creation, bouncing on over via the link above, and fifty TLCB Points to you if you found all the testicular vernacular. Although most of our posts are bollocks anyway we suppose…

Ma.Kamel

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It’s Ma.Ktober, one of the many annual sci-fi build-a-thons of which – here at The Lego Car Blog – we know nothing. This entry comes from previous bloggee SweStar, and is based on a piece of concept art.

Entitled the ‘Camel’ – presumably because it looks exactly nothing like one (instead appearing more like a cross between one of those dinosaurs in Jurassic Park that ate the guy on the toilet, and some sort of grasshopper) – SweStar’s creation is nevertheless a beautifully inventive machine.

Clever construction techniques and excellent presentation are in abundance and there’s more to see of SweStar’s Ma.K Camel on Flickr – click the link above to take a look.

Bang! Zoom!

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…Straight to the Moon! Or from the moon we suppose, as this marvellous lunar base is likely already on one. Flickr’s Chris Malloy is owner of this microscale marvel and you can head to his ‘Horizon Lunar Launch Base’ via the link above.

The Power of Crystals. Again

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LEGO were struggling in the late-’90s. Having decimated their Town line, and with Technic looking, well… like this, the LEGO Company turned to increasingly short-lived sci-fi themes to keep the wolves from the door. That meant some quirky new pieces, new colours, and plot development so lazy it makes the Marvel Cinematic Universe look like Christopher Nolan.

Yes, we’re talking crystals, the go-to for half-a-dozen late-’90s themes when LEGO couldn’t be bothered to think of anything else. One such theme was the amusingly-iconed Rock Raiders, which lasted just a single year, featured a comic and a video game, and – of course – a quest for crystals, because… shut up, that’s why.

Flickr’s Mathijs Bongers has returned to the crystal mines of the Rock Raiders theme with this immensely playable-looking ‘Modular Mining Unit’, complete with working suspension, drill, laser, magnetic crane, container modules, mining station, and on-board speeder.

There’s much more of the MMU to see (plus a whole heap more rock-based machinery) at Mathijs ‘Rock Raiders; Planet ONYXX Expedition’ album, and you can join him mining for crystals (as LEGO did about five times too often) via the link in the text above.

Treasure Planet

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Losing Disney around $74 million, 2002’s ‘Treasure Planet’ is a film the studios would probably like to forget. Which is a shame, because it was well received, but was sadly at odds with the computer-animation boom of the early ’00s, and Disney’s traditionally animated movies were all but gone within a few years.

It’s this traditional animation however, that sets ‘Treasure Planet’ apart from its computer-animated peers today, being infinitely more beautiful than the CGI films of the time.

Measuring a metre tall and a metre long, this spectacular 4,000-piece recreation of ‘Treasure Planet’s ‘RLS Legacy’ solar galleon captures the movie’s gorgeous animation wonderfully in brick form, and comes from Flickr’s Daniel Church who designed it for the Brickworld Chicago show.

Presented (and edited) beautifully, there’s more to see of Daniel’s incredible otherworldly ship at his ‘RLS Legacy’ album, and you can join the Legacy’s crew at the Crescentia Spaceport at the start of their adventure via the link above.

Monorail!* | Picture Special

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Like any LEGO fan who grew up in the ’90s, this TLCB Writer would give an internal organ, even a big one, to get his hands on a LEGO monorail.

Flickr’s martin.with.bricks. doesn’t need to forgo a body part, because he already owns the best LEGO set ever made, and has redeployed it to create this fabulous ‘Space Monorail Station’.

Packed with wonderful spacecraft, speeders, hover-tugs, aliens, a glorious Futuron-style monorail train, plus an entire second monorail based on LEGO’s rollercoaster tracks, Martin’s colossal Space Monorail Station is the sort of creation that makes you want to shrink yourself to mini-figure size to wander through it.

You can jump into all the imagery of Martin’s ‘Space Monorail Station’ at his album of the same name, where TLCB Staff will be both pretending they’re 3cm tall, and wondering which organ they could do without.

*It’s more of a Shelbyville idea…

Wipeout!

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In the history of video gaming there are only two cool titles (sorry nerds); Grand Theft Auto, and this; Wipeout.

First appearing in 1995, the British anti-gravity racing game has been a staple an almost every console and PC operating system for three decades, luring gamers with frenetic fast-paced gameplay and music from electronic legends including of The Chemical Brothers, Kraftwerk, Orbital and more.

Today’s phenomenal creation pays spectacular homage to the second-coolest video game in history, recreating the ‘Feisar FX250-300’ anti-gravity racer from the Wipeout franchise.

Constructed (and presented) flawlessly by Aliencat! of Flickr, the Feisar racer captures Wipeout’s iconic aesthetic in jaw-dropping detail, with the build enhanced by the most prefect decal-work we’ve ever seen applied to a sci-fi creation – just look at that colour transition!

A gallery of a dozen stunning images is available to view at Aliencat’s ‘Feisar FX250-300’ album, and you can head to one of Earth’s premier anti-gravity races via the link in the text above. It’s the coolest thing you can do in gaming short of stealing a fighter jet from the army base in GTA.

*Today’s title song. Of course.

Love and Rockets

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It’s SHIPtember, the annual spaceship-building bandwagon for sci-fi creations measuring over one hundred studs in length.

This one comes from Flickr’s Ryan Olsen and is a ‘Stiletto Class’ destroyer, so named because of its narrow pointed shape. That and it’s captained by Tiffany and comes from the Stripper Nebula. We may have made that last bit up.

You can take a closer look at Ryan’s gargantuan space shoe via his ‘Stiletto Class Pickett Destroyer’ album, plus you can see the other SHIPtember works-in-progress and finished builds at the SHIPtember Flickr group.

*Today’s title song.

Adventures Across the Galaxy

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We know nothing whatsoever about sci-fi, but nevertheless we do like Classic Space, with it’s perennially-smiling spacemen, assorted research tools, and spaceships that look like a cross between a fighter jet and a racing car.

This one comes from Flickr’s Wynd, who has brilliantly re-booted the Classic Space aesthetic in the creation of his ‘Galaxy Adventurer’. Funky landing gear, a glowing engine, and a perennially-smiling spaceman all feature, and you can join him adventuring across the galaxy via the link above.

Just Another Mecha Monday

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It’s Monday! And this is a mech. Hence the title. TLCB, being universally crap with sci-fi, aren’t able to explain much more about Sylvain Daunais‘ ‘TeamExplorer Neo-Ex-U’ than that, but it is a thoroughly excellent build, and you can find out more via the link.

*Today’s lightly butchered title song.

Not a Car

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This is our 47th ‘Not a Car’ post. By which we mean it’s the 47th post titled ‘Not a Car’ – there are thousands more posts in the archives that do not, in fact, feature cars. Because we’re crap at sticking to our brief.

Which means this is also another post where we flounder about way out of our depth, but despite our ineptitude with anything that isn’t a car, even we can see this is a spectacular build, coming from Damien Labrousse and based on a brilliant piece of concept art.

Titled ‘Shark Fighter’, Damien’s concept aircraft features some phenomenal build techniques and photo editing, and there’s more to see of his fantastic creation at his photostream, including a link to the art that inspired it. It might not be a car, but it’s one the the most intriguing vehicle designs of the year so far.