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Red Letter Day

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We’ve got a lot of red Smarties to give out today…

Lego Technic Truck Trial Tatra 813

The Elves, upon the recent discovery that red Smarties are made from crushed beetles, have gone on a bonanza of frenzied online treasure-hunting not seen since those pictures of Jennifer Lawrence were leaked. As a result we have no less than five(!) red creations to show you, from five disgusting and delighted Elves.

At No.5 is this stupendous remote control Technic Tatra 813 trial truck by Eurobricks’ Madoca 1977. It features 8-wheel-drive via two Power Functions XL motors, RC steering, LED lights, a V12 piston engine, and the obligatory-for-truck-trial awesome suspension. You can see more details of this incredible machine at the Eurobricks forum linked above.

Lego Ford LTD

At the other end of the scale, and our red No.4, is this classically-built 1977 Ford LTD. Newcomer FirstInfantry is the builder, and you can see more of his 6-wide classic, and his other beautifully simple vehicles, on Flickr.

Lego Pilatus PC-7 Aircraft

In at No.3 we have this lovely little Pilatus PC-7 plane created by one of our favourite aircraft builders; Flickr’s Dornbi. Bedecked in pretty Swiss colours Dornbi’s Pilatus has one of the nicest brick-built canopies we’ve seen. See more of his work via the link above.

Lego SHIPtember GARC Spacecraft

For No.2 we head into space. And also into the weird world of SHIPtember. And GARC. And probably some other Lego memes we know little-to-nothing about. Anyway, despite our sci-fi ineptitude, this one-hundred-and-fifteen-stud-long behemoth still looks pretty cool to us. The red giant is entitled ‘Sphyraena’ (we’re glad we’ve just had to type that rather than pronouncing it) and it can be found on F@bz Flickr photostream here.

Lego Technic Truck

And finally at No.1 we have this; Lucio Switch aka Ivan Manarin‘s beautiful pneumatic and remote controlled Technic truck. One of the most superbly photographed models of the year, Ivan’s masterclass in Technic features four XL motors for drive, a servo for steering, a M motor for the air suspension pump, another for the fifth wheel, two sets of IR receivers and three Power Functions battery packs. Oh, and eight(!) pneumatic cylinders, plus three valves and two pumps. Have a guess how many shock absorbers each front wheel needs to deal with that lot. Now triple it. It’s the Technic truck of the year.

So there you have it; five happy Elves and five stunning red creations. You can check each model out via the links in the accompanying text – which is your favourite?

Victorian Falcon

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Lego Steampunk Millenium Falcon

The Steam Wars / Star Wars saga continues, and this time it’s the Millenium Falcon that’s undergone a whimsical redesign. See more of markus19840420‘s marvellous creation on Flickr.

Tentacles

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brickbin starfighter

The Small Starfighter Building Contest on Flickr has generated some novel and creative solutions to fitting a minifig scale spaceship into 14x14x6 studs. We’ve already covered some of the builds but the contest has now closed* with the onset of SHIPtember. One of the latest postings is Chris Perron’s “TYLYK“, an alien looking ship in the unusual colour of dark tan. “NPU” is an often overused phrase in the world of sci-fi Lego but the tentacles which wrap around the cockpit are certainly different. The ship also includes two useless Lego pieces and some nice greebling for good measure. Click this link to Chris Perron’s Photostream to see more.

*Happily resulting in a downturn in the number of Elves running around the office shouting “Pew! Pew! Pew!”.

brickbin starfighter rear

Small Starfighters

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steebles

Like all fans of Lego*, The Lego Car Blog Elves love a good swooshing session every now and then. Of course it’s not much fun if you’re the unfortunate Elf who is being swooshed at the time. There is no finer sight in the eyes of our happy little helpers, than one of their motion-sick colleagues flying across the editorial offices, spraying vomit as he goes. The Lego Car Blog executive jacuzzi has been used as a clean up facility after several of these sessions and is therefore a tax-deductible necessity and not a luxury item. A team of excited Elves has just returned from the Starfighters Group on Flickr, making “Pew! Pew!” noises and swooshing a hoard of finds.

Simon Liu

The Starfighters Group started a competition in July, which continues this month, for “Small Starfighters”. The builds must be of mini-figure scale and fit into a 14x14x6 stud box. Builders have come up with some neat designs, ingenious folding mechanisms and some clever ways of presenting their 14x14x6 boxes as hangars and transporters.

At the head of this post is Steebles’ “EDF-10 Basilisk” powered by an “electrospray” engine. Next up in our post is Simon Liu’s “KG-7 Tigerfish” which he describes as, “a chubby and unfortunately disaster prone craft that, even after four iterations, was still terrible.”, a bit like our fatter elves. Featured below is one of the Classic Space and Blacktron inspired builds, Automaton Pictures’ “G-3 Infiltrator” . Click this link to visit the group, see more brilliant builds and find out who wins the contest.

Automaton Pictures

*Okay, so most of the Elves are only in it for the Smarties and Meal Tokens.

Penguins Unlimited

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Lego Space Tanker

Enormous spaceships aren’t normally our bag, but this ace 120-stud Octan Space Supertanker by Flickr’s Lego Junkie reminded us too much of a certain penguin pollution catastrophe to pass up. If only they’d made it with 6001 hulls…

Terrifying Tetra-Track Trio

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Lego Classic Space Tetra Trio

The blood-alcohol level is still pretty high in TLCB office today, so rather than trying to come up with something clever to say about this superb Classic Space trio by Flickr’s Billyburg, we’ll hand this post over to the builder himself;

Tetra-Track Micro: For those times you want to go for a space walk, but don’t want to use your legs – and because Segways are so last year.

Tetra-Track Mini: The ‘go-to’ solution for all those small space bases and outposts, and for those too cheap to buy the bigger model.

Tetra-Track Midi: Made from bits of scaffolding, old tank parts and recycled double glazing. Loved by the crews for its staggering good looks, supreme handling and load carrying capabilities.

What Billy said. See more at the link above.

Classic Swoosh!

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Lego Classic Space

Who doesn’t like a swooshing classic spaceship?* No-one in TLCB Office that’s for sure! See more of billyburg‘s swooshing spaceman on Flickr at the link.

*If the answer to this question is you, normal car-related service will resume shortly.

Size Matters

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Lego Star Destroyer

We don’t often publicise Star Wars creations here at The Lego Car Blog; there are other Lego blogs that do sci-fi far better than we can. However every once in a while even our car-biased office is stopped by something so incredible it takes us away from looking at things with wheels. This is one such time, and the cause of our collective awe is this; Jerac‘s unbelievable two metre long Imperial Star Destroyer.

Jerac has published a raft of stunning images, including this one edited by Migalart, on his Flickr photostream. Click the link above to see the complete gallery, which almost all of TLCB Elves are currently looking through whilst chanting ‘daan daan daan, dun da daan, dun da daan…’ in unison. We hope they’re not getting any ideas…

Lego Star Wars Star Destroyer

Piew Piew Piew!*

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Lego Ranger Spacecraft

*Because space ship. Being a car blog we don’t have any more to add than that, but Daniel Jassim on MOCpages does, and you can read what he has to say about his ace Ranger space ship by clicking the link above.

Lego Spaceship

A-Definitely-Easter-Related-MOC

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Lego GARC Space Racer

The Elves have been thoroughly useless at finding anything remotely Easter-related this weekend. The best they could do was a camper from a year ago. However all is not lost, because it’s a little-known fact that the Easter Bunny, who’s death in the Galactic Asteroid Race Circuit we remember at this time of year, was a highly skilled space pilot. Sylon-tw pays his tributes to the fallen rabbit with this excellent GARC ship. See more and pay your respects too on Flickr via the link above, or you can check out an alternative Easter theory here.

Nimrod

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Hyper hooter

In contrast to the bright and sponsor covered shapes of our recent posts is this Blactron build from Pico van Grootveld, with its subtle yellow cheat lines. Pico has featured on the blog before, in our post on this year’s Classic Space Pocket Money Contest. The “Hunter” looks absolutely perfect for blasting across the galaxy and doing whatever evil it is that Blacktron get up to. The ship is packed with play features and has some nice greebling underneath and at the back. It also features windscreen wipers for flying through dense planetary atmospheres or wiping away the blood of your defeated opponents. You can take see more details by following the link to MOCpages or to Flickr.

Btron Hunter

Classic Space Pocket Money Contest – 2014

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03-Teq

The tiny minds of the Elves are often attracted to tiny, brightly coloured things.  They also like the odd bit of sci-fi, especially buggies and spaceships and robots.  It’s almost as though David & David, the hosts of the Classic Space Pocket Money Contest II, created their competition with our workers in mind.  If they were ever given any pocket money (Pay the little swabs? Never!) then the builds in this contest are exactly the sort of thing that the Elves would spend I their loot on.

04-Stuart

The contest took Lego back to its roots, with builders limited to 100 parts.  Having built a hopefully winning MOC, builders then had to disassemble it and come up with two other MOCs, using just the original pieces.  We seem to have forgotten that Lego used to actually encourage kids to take the model on the box-top apart and build something new, rather than having a TIE fighter sitting on the shelf, gathering dust.

02-Digger

This years contest set the competitors the additional challenge of inventing their own Classic Space style theme.  It lead to some strange colour combinations and surreal back stories involving unobtanium and cheese mining.  Andy L’s winning “Space Fire Response Unit” are, naturally, equipped to fight fires in the vacuum of space.  Who cares about the science: just revel in the 1980s retro looks by clicking this link to the contest’s home on MOCpages.

01-Fire

Note:  NEVER give a TLCB Elf any money.  They WILL eat it and those big £2 coins get horribly wedged in their tiny tummies.

Not a Car

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Lego Lowva Spacecraft

After some ‘re-direction’ The Lego Car Blog Elves have been very focussed in their search for vehicles over the last week. Today we thought we’d relax the rules a little, as the Elf that found this a) hadn’t eaten in a while, and b) it’s just too damn good! It’s called the ‘Lowva’ and VolumeX is the builder. See all the photos on Flickr at the link.

Spacey Saturday

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Lego D-Wing Fighter

The Elves are feeling a bit peculiar this weekend, and thus they’ve found some pretty weird creations today. Not all were suitable for public viewing, but these two definitely are. First up (above) is the latest creation by TLCB favourite VolumeX, who has expanded on the Star Wars ship naming rules and designed a ‘D-Wing’ fighter. You can see all the details at VolumeX’s photostream above.

Lego Technic Star Wars Droid

Today’s second spacey MOC comes from Technic builder Vimal Patel, better known as vmln8r, who also builds something that bears a close resemblance to George Lucas’ finest work. Vimal’s Technic droid features remote control, including a handy grabbing arm that looks great for fetching sweets and the TV remote. See it in action below, or on Vimal’s photostream via the link above.

Solar Striker

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Lego Viper Solar StrikerThis marvellous slice of blue sci-fi is the work of Flickr’s Nick Trotta (aka tardisblue). Part of the NoVVember* ‘Vic Viper’ theme month, you can see more of Nick’s ‘Solar Striker’ and his other creations at the link above.

*We’ll let the other Lego blogs explain / endorse the rules in this month’s bandwagon. We would, but we don’t care for rules. We’re rebels.