Tag Archives: Speed Champions

Pink Missile

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‘Pink Missile’ can refer to recent Iranian military propaganda, what this TLCB Writer calls his, um… nevermind, or – in this case – a battered twin-turbocharged Nissan 240SX drift pig.

Built by Sergio Batista, this Speed Champions scale drift weapon includes pop-up lights, a roll-cage and bucket seats, mis-matched body panels, and a highly detailed twin-turbo engine that definitely wouldn’t fit under the missing hood.

There’s more to see at both Flickr and Eurobricks and you slide in the pink via the links!

LEGO 77264 Jaguar Project 7 & Speed Champions Land Rover Defender | Set Preview

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It’s another set reveal day here at The Lego Car Blog, and this time we’re going small, because this is the brand new LEGO 77264 Jaguar Project 7 & Speed Champions Land Rover Defender!

With 740 pieces including two mini-figures, 77264 brings two factory-modified vehicles from JLR’s past into the Speed Champions range; a wide-tracked Defender ‘classic’, and the wild F-Type based Project 7.

Both capture their real-world counterparts rather well, with a few well placed decals and new rims on the Jag, and 77264 will be available  for $55 / £45 / €55 from August ‘26.

Hill & Biens

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We’re sticking with classic cars today, and this lovely Speed Champions 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, that won Le Mans in the hands of Phil Hill and Oliver Gendebien.

Created by SFH_Bricks, this beautifully presented model captures the iconic Ferrari racer superbly, and you can join Hill and Gendebien in France in ‘58 via the link.

The First of Many

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It’s 1970, and northern France is being pounded by heavy rain. Of the dozens of starters at that year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, only seven remain. The leading three are built by a manufacturer that has never won the race before. Richard Attwood and Hans Herrmann’s Porsche Salzburg 917K crosses the finish line five laps ahead of the rest, beginning a run that to date includes nineteen outright wins, making Porsche the most successful manufacturer in Le Mans history.

This fantastic Speed Champions homage to that first victory comes from SFH_Bricks of Flickr, whose Porsche Salzburg 917K includes a tremendous replica livery courtesy of Brickstickershop. Building instructions are available and you can head to a soaking Circuit de la Sarthe fifty-six years ago via the link above.

Cyberpunk Skyline

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Things TLCB doesn’t understand; Star Trek. Pugs. Melon as a starter. Trap music. Marvel. Cyberpunk.

Which means we’re rather out of our depth here with these two cyberpunk Nissan Skylines of different vintages, and thus our only commentary is ‘don’t they look cool!’.

Flickr’s Sergio Batista owns the cyberpunk pairing and you can take a closer look at each neon Nissan at his photostream via the link above. And seriously, how is melon as a starter acceptable?

LEGO Speed Champions 77262 Ken Block’s ‘65 Ford Mustang Hoonicorn V1 | Set Preview

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Internet – this set is for you! Yes one of web’s most famous cars is about to join the Speed Champions line-up, because this is the brand new LEGO Speed Champions 77262 Ken Block’s ‘65 Ford Mustang Hoonicorn V1!

Constructed from 345 pieces, 77262 brings one of the most famous (and fan recreated) cars of modern times to the LEGO range, and unlike the copycat brick brands, this Hoonicorn is officially licensed.

Which of course means a lot of stickers – even without the Monster Energy sponsorship that would have necessitated an 18+ age recommendation (because energy drinks will one day deservedly be seen like cigarettes) – but also the late Ken Block himself in mini-figure form, replica gold wheels, and some of the Hoonicorn’s key details visible in the 2014 ‘Gymkhana 7’ film.

Aimed at ages 9+, the new 77262 Ken Block’s Ford Mustang Hoonicorn V1 set will reach stores in June of ‘26, and is expected to cost $29.99 / £22.99 / €27.99. Start planning your miniature L.A. streets recreation in which to drift it now…

Witness Me!

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It’s been a while since TLCB Elves watched 2015’s ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’. They are all happily watching the automotive carnage today though, thanks to one of their number finding this excellent rendition of ‘Nux’s car from the movie.

What was once a 1934 Chevrolet 5-Window Coupe is now a desert-running hot rod, complete with nitrous oxide injection, human ear window decoration, and a stand for a living human hood ornament.

This excellent Speed Champions version comes from Flickr’s Eero Okkonen, who captures it brilliantly (omitted human ears and hood ornament notwithstanding), and you can ride into Valhalla all shiny and new via the link above!

Stingray

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It’s 1973, the US President is engulfed in scandal, and the US are supporting an Israeli war in the Middle East causing a global energy crisis. Thank goodness things like that don’t happen now…

Anyway, back to ‘73 and this, the gorgeous ‘C3’ generation Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.


Surely one of best American car designs of all time, this C3 Corvette comes from Ciamoslaw Ciamek, who has captured it brilliantly in Speed Champions form.

Building instructions are available and there’s more to see at Cismoslaw’s photostream. Click the link above and head back to an era with no similarities to today whatsoever…

Porsche Pair

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It’s a Porsche sort of day here at TLCB, with two more joining the prior proper Porsche.

These two Speed Champions Porsches come from their endurance stable, bookending it across half a century.

Built by previous bloggee SFH_Bricks, there’s more to see of the 1975 917KH and 2025 963RSP on Flickr, and you can take a closer look via the link above.

Cease & Desist

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Italian lifestyle brand and occasional car maker Ferrari are rather enthusiastically legalistic. Even if you legitimately buy one of their products and decide to have some fun with the badges (as electronic music producer Deadmau5 knows), they’ll send you a letter threatening court action. Because you modified your car. Something to do with brand protection apparently, which is a bit rich considering all the tat they sell with their logo on.

All of which means Flickr’s Sharpspeed can probably expect a call from Ferrari’s lawyers, because his Speed Champions ‘Montichiari’ looks almost exactly like a Ferrari Daytona. That is to say, really good.

There’s more of the ‘Montichiari’ to see at his photostream via the link above so take a look before Ferrari get it removed.

Aston Honda

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If Formula 1 pre-season testing is to believed, newly formed Aston Martin Honda are in big trouble. And if we’re honest we found Aston’s move to Honda bit odd seeing as Mercedes-Benz AMG part own Aston Martin road cars, provide their engines and electrics, and have a good F1 powertrain available to buy. Still, at least it won’t change Lance Stroll’s performance, as he was at the back anyway.

Cue today’s double, from both Aston Martin and Honda (via Acura), this time with competing endurance sports cars.

Constructed by TLCB regular SFH_Bricks, the Speed Champions Aston Martin Valkyrie AMR-LMH #23 IMSA and Acura ARX-06 MSR #93 capture their real-world counterparts brilliantly, thanks in no small part to the simply outstanding liveries and custom-printed tyres.

There’s more to see of each via the links above, and let’s hope Aston Martin Honda solve their problems soon. Not for Lance Stroll obviously, but Alonso’s there too…

Ridge Racers

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These days car manufacturers are delighted to work with video games makers. What you drive virtually as a kid may one day influence what you decide to drive for real. But back in the ’90s video game licensing was still rather hit-and-miss, which meant there was a glorious variety of eccentrically-named vehicles available that were inspired by – or downright copies of – real world cars.

Namco’s ‘Ridge Racer’ was one such title that eschewed licensing in favour of some tremendous own-brewed vehicles, including the ‘Assoluto Bisonte’, ‘Terrazi Troop’, ‘Age Solo Dirigient’, and – our favourite – the ‘Lizard Detector’.

Flickr’s Studworks takes us straight back to racing circa-1998 with his brilliant Speed Champions homage to the cars of ‘Ridge Racer Type 4’, complete with superb replica liveries printed by Brickstickershop.

Building instructions and access to the stickers are available, and you can fire up your PS1 to take the ‘Lizard Detector’ up ‘Wonderhill’ via Studworks’ ‘Ridge Racer Type 4 Cars’ album here!

Insert Hippy

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We maintain that the scariest vehicle – other than a government-registered SUV in Minneapolis of course – is the Volkswagen Transporter camper, what with them being almost exclusively driven by top-knot wearing, ethnic peace crisp eating, alternative lifestyle evangelists. And now that we’ve successfully antagonised both the hard-right and hard-left in one sentence (there’s no bias here!), on to the model!

This neat Volkswagen ‘T3’ camper comes from Flickr’s HCKP13, who’s captured the ’80s bus brilliantly in brick form. There’s more of the model to see at HCKP13’s photostream, and you can head to a parking lot outside Starbucks to steal the free WiFi whilst bemoaning capitalism via the link above!

LEGO 77258 Speed Champions F1 Academy Car | Set Preview

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Alternatively titled “LEGO go racing!”. Alternatively alternatively titled “Women in the workplace“. Yes, this is the brand new LEGO 77258 Speed Champions F1 Academy Car, and it replicates LEGO’s entry of a real car in the F1 Academy 2026 Season! Which is just like F1. Only worse. And just as gender uniform.

However, the F1 Academy’s lack of gender diversity is because it’s nearly 2026 and there are no women drivers in Formula 1, and nor have there been for forty years.

Cue Formula 1’s investment in the F1 Academy, a spec-series championship for female drivers only, on par with Formula 4, into which LEGO will enter under the banner ‘LEGO Racing’ with Dutch driver Esmee Kosterman.

Wearing a LEGO Friends-esque livery, the new LEGO Racing F1 Academy car aims to inspire a new generation of girls to get into motorsport, and brings a new Speed Champions set into the range to boot.

With new wheels and tyres, a funky new mini-figure crash helmet and steering yolk, plus stickers replicating Esme’s real 2026 LEGO Racing F1 Academy car, we think 77258 is a fantastic addition to the Speed Champions line-up, with a thoroughly decent message behind it too.

You’ll be able to get your hands on the new 201-piece F1 Academy Car for $28 / £22 when the 2026 F1 Academy season begins in March, around the same time the sexist pigs in Formula 1 begin their own 2026 campaign.

On the Wings of an… um, Seagull

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Seagulls are roundly disliked in TLCB’s home nation. Found on rubbish dumps or in British seaside resorts (which amount to the same thing), they make irritating ‘CAAAW!’ noises, crap all over the place, and mug people for their chips. However in car form, they’re rather wonderful…

This is the mid-’50s Mercedes-Benz 300SL ‘Gullwing’, perhaps the only time a coupe has been more desirable than the roadster, thanks entirely to those magnificent doors.

This splendid Speed Champions version, complete with the aforementioned gullwing doors, comes from previous bloggee SFH_Bricks, and with building instructions available you can recreate it for yourself. There’s more to see at SFH’s ‘1954 Mercedes-Benz 300SL’ album and you can CAAAW, crap all over the place, and steal someone’s chips via the link above.