Tag Archives: Technic

British Sea Power*

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Of the world’s seven largest off-shore wind farms, six reside in TLCB’s home nation, including the four biggest. Of course the UK is the perfect country to capture the power of the wind because, well… there’s a lot of it. Plus a huge coastline and considerable expertise in how to build along it thanks to the legacy of North Sea Oil.

But despite the normality of off-shore wind farms in the UK’s waters, this TLCB writer is continually amazed at how the enormous turbines are placed where they are, considering the violence of their location.

Rather calmer, yet somehow just as remarkable to watch, are Master MOCer mahjqa and AppieNL, whose collaboration for the LEGO World 2026 show saw a pair of Technic tug boats and enormous crane barges construct modular ‘floating’ wind turbines entirely remotely.

Power Functions and Powered-Up motors, pneumatic compressors, magnets, and some seriously clever mechanics saw an entire wind farm gradually rise out of the floor, without a single human hand touching even one LEGO brick.

It’s one of the most enrapturing 7 minute Lego videos we’ve ever seen, and you can harness the power of the wind via the embedded player below, plus you can see more of the Technic components contained within it (including the remote control tug boat featured in this post) via the link to mahjqa’s associated Flickr album here.

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*Today’s wonderful title band.

Feliform Carnivoran Mammal

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This, according to its creator Steph Ouell, is the ‘Hyena SS’, so called because it looks almost exactly nothing like the feliform carnivoran mammal that inhabits Africa and the Middle East.

Suspect name aside though, it’s a seriously good Technic Supercar, with working steering, suspension, scissor doors, a mid-mounted engine and gearbox, plus a properly curvy Technic panel body.

There’s lots more of Steph’s creation to see on Flickr, and you can head to the plains of Africa via the link above.

Laying Bridges

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The war in Ukraine continues to drag on, with Russia now targeting Ukraine’s bridges (a war crime, as these are civilian infrastructure). Of course militaries have been able to create their own bridges for centuries, and this is one of the vehicles deployed to quickly create a bridge in the modern era, the remarkable Tatra 813 AM-50 bridge layer.

Based on Tatra’s 813 Kolos 8×8 off-road truck, the AM-50 can span a gap of over 12 meters (40ft) and carry loads of 50 tons, with this amazing Technic version by Samuel Nerpas (aka Tatrovak) able to replicate the real truck courtesy of a suite of Power Functions, CaDa, and BuWizz electronic components.

A plethora of motors power the eight-wheel-drive, steering, and bulldozer blade, plus the bridge cradle, winch, unfolding, and side extensions, with the deployed bridge then strong enough to support the truck as it drives over it.

It’s an incredible feat of Technic engineering and you can see more – and watch the model in action – at both Flickr, Eurobricks, and via the video below.

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Pushing Logs

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The LEGO Technic 42157 John Deere 948L-II Skidder is one of the more unusual sets of recent times. Which means it can make an unusual B-Model too. Cue this delightfully odd ‘Forestry X-treme Off-Roader’ by Flickr’s Tung Pham, which redeploys the pieces from 42157 to create a unique log-pushing machine.

With a raising and slewing bulldozer, articulated steering, oscillating suspension, and a rotating pneumatically unfurling crane, Tung’s alternate is packed with technical functionality, and there are more brilliant images to see – plus a link to building instructions – at his ‘42157 – Forestry X-treme Off-Roader’ album. Click the link to push some logs.

Keep on Tumblin’

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The Tumbler is – and no arguments here – the best Batmobile bar far. Which is probably why it has both appeared here at The Lego Car Blog and been turned into an official LEGO set more times than any other of Batman’s rides.

Despite the proliferation however, there’s always room for more Tumblers, particularly when they are as accomplished as this.

Constructed by Eurobricks’ MAP Tec, this enormous Technic Tumbler is fully remote controlled, with twin XL-Motor drive and Servo steering, plus shooting rockets, an opening roof, and moving aero wings via an M-Motor each.

There’s also suspension from and rear, a working steering yoke linked to the aforementioned Servo, and a full suite of LED lights.

Building instructions are available, and you can head to the Eurobricks forum to find them, all the imagery, plus videos of MAP’s model in action.

Green Death

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What’s small, green, and incredibly deadly? Yes, it’s the quad bike (or ATV to some), a vehicle that despite having twice the number of wheels as a motorbike is even more likely to fall over.

This one comes from TLCB Master MOCer TLCB Master MOCer Kyle Wigboldy (aka thirdwigg), features working steering and suspension, and it’s just waiting to strike.

There’s more of model to see – including a link to instructions – at Kyle’s Flickr album, and you can power around a field until the quad inevitably flips over on top of you via the link above.

Striped Snake

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We suspect the engineers of the Dodge Viper and The Lego Car Blog Elves have much in common. Hopefully not in the way they look or smell, but if you were to ask the Elves to design a car, it’d probably have a racing stripe, an enormous rear wing, and the engine from a truck in it. All of which are key attributes to the late-’00s Dodge Viper ACR.

Cue this very mean-looking Technic version by Grigoriy, which features a racing stripe, an enormous rear wing, and has the engine from a truck in it.

It also packs in working steering, independent suspension, opening doors and hood, plus custom decals and 3D-printed headlights (as LEGO don’t yet produce the part in trans-clear).

Building instructions are available (you can switch those clear headlight pieces for grey) and there’s lots more of Grigoriy’s superbly presented build to see at both the Eurobricks forum and at his ‘Dodge Viper ACR’ Bricksafe album. Click the link above to take a closer look.

Bad Energy

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People that consume energy drinks are c***s. In TLCB’s home nation, energy drinks make up fewer than 10% of all canned drinks sold, and yet they seem to make up over 90% of all the litter. Not just canned drinks litter, but all litter. Which means there’s a direct positive correlation between Propensity to Consume an Energy Drink and Being a Self-Entitled Scumbag.

The question is do scumbags consume energy drinks, or does consuming an energy drink turn you into a scumbag? That’s one for science. In the meantime here’s the solution, an excellent Isuzu NPR recycling truck, as the one positive of energy drinks – which are without doubt the cigarettes of the 2020s – is that the can they come in is endlessly recyclable. When it’s not chucked in a hedge.

Constructed by TLCB Master MOCer Kyle Wigboldy (aka thirdwigg) this neat Technic creation adds another variant to his previously blogged Isuzu, with a tipping hopper and mechanical bin lift added to the working steering, tilting cab, and 4-cylinder piston engine.

Building instructions are available and there’s more of the model to see on Flickr. Click these words to take a look, and stop drinking Monster. You’re better than that.

The Robot Apocalypse

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We’re all living in a world of AI now. Mostly of course, AI is used to make terrible short videos and to write cover letters, but there’s a somewhat scarier application which means we’re pretty much at the plot of ‘Terminator’. AI drones and robots are already on the battlefield, and they’re making decisions about whether to kill real human beings. So on that cheery note here’s a Lego interpretation!

Looking rather like a 6×6 Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), TLCB newcomer deltamc‘s fully remote controlled ‘Autonomous Patrol Machine’ features six-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steering, a deployable scanner that raises out of the body reminiscent of one of the robots in ‘The Incredibles’, a spinning radar dish, and motorised opening weapons hatches to deploy unguided rockets. It’s all impeccably engineered and there’s more to see at the Eurobricks forum where the robot apocalypse is surely one step closer.

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Bumblebee-ish

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This is not a Transformer. But it is kinda like one. In the same way that this TLCB Writer is kinda like Usain Bolt. What? We both have running shoes.

You see back in the late 2000s, when Michael Bay blew up everything in the first instalment of the ‘Transformers’ movie franchise, General Motors wanted in on the alien robot action. Cue some pretty egrigeious product placement, and – if you had a particularly smooth brain – the option to specify your own Chevrolet Camaro to look like the ‘Bumblebee’ from the movie, ‘Transformers’ badges and everything. Even if you only bought the V6.

Today’s model recreates the real ‘Transformers’ specced Camaros brilliantly in Technic form, with working steering, a V6 engine, opening doors, hood and trunk, and no ability to transform. ArtemyZotov is its maker and you can find all the images and a link to building instructions at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link for the most ill-advised options package of the late 2000s.

Connecting Virginians

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We’re taking the bus today, thanks to previous bloggee JLui15 and this stellar Orion VII NG bus in Fairfax Connector livery.

Fully remote controlled with working drive, steering, and motorised doors, JLui’s model is so realistic we can almost hear the kid playing terrible R&B through his phone speakers in the back row and smell the old man in the front.

There’s lots more to see at JLui’s ‘Orion VII NG Fairfax Connector Bus’ album on Flickr and you can hop on board to transit Northern Virgina via the link.

My Other Car’s a Ferrari

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No really! Because this fabulous recreation of the wild Hoonigan Big-Block Chevrolet Camaro is constructed only from the parts of the official LEGO Technic 42143 Ferrari Daytona SP3. Which has lead to some inspired parts usage – just look at those tail-lights! Finally a positive to LEGO’s baffling decision to use multi-coloured pins.

Eurobricks’ paave is the builder behind it, and with working suspension, steering, V8 engine, and 4+R gearbox, his 42143 B-Model is as features-packed as its donor set.

Building instructions are available and you can find out more – and maybe swap your own Ferrari for a rather unique Camaro – at the Eurobricks forum via the link above.

More Garbage

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Various comments received here at TLCB have rightly accused us of posting garbage, and excitingly we’ve got more garbage to post today!

This is a Mack LR side-loading garbage truck, and it’s been built only from the parts of the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, so there’s some recycling going on as well.

There’s working steering, a 6-cylinder engine under the tilting cab, a tipping hopper, and an operational side-loading arm too.

Flickr’s Dyens Creations is the builder behind it, and you can put your bins out via the link above, plus you can click here for another 42175 alternate blogged here previously. Because we do post a lot of garbage.

Horse for a Cow

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We’re alternately off-roading at TLCB today, thanks to Master MOCer Thirdwigg and this neat Steyr-Puch Pinzgauer, an immensely capable military truck named after an Austrian cattle breed and built until the mid-‘00s.

Constructed from 755 parts of LEGO’s 42213 Technic Ford Bronco set, Thirdwigg’s recreation of the unusual Austrian off-road truck includes working suspension, steering, a mid-mounted piston engine, an opening hood, and – most importantly – a lunchbox.

Building instructions are available and you can click here to swap your American horse for an Austrian cow.

What One Match Ban?

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It’s the 2026 Football World Cup, and today we’re FIFA President Gianni Infantino and a phone call from President Trump, because much like Team USA in their Belgium knock-out game we’ve got a surprise American striker!

However it’s not Folarin Balogun after his mysterious Presidential one-match ban rescindment, but rather this excellent SSC Tuatara Striker from Eurobricks’ MAP Tec.

Featuring a working V8 engine and 8-speed gearbox, adjustable suspension, steering, a deployable spoiler, opening butterfly doors, and even a working handbrake, MAP Tec’s Technic Tuatara is as packed with functions as Infantino’s pockets are with dirty dollars.

You can support the model on LEGO Ideas and there’s lots more of MAP’s SSC Tuatara Striker to see at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above to see your red card ban overturned and then lose to Belgium anyway.