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.
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.
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.
It’s been some time since one of our Elves ran over its colleagues with a remote control creation. And that doesn’t change today, as despite being epically remote controlled, this magnificent Tatra trial truck is too slow to run down any Elves at all. Which enraged the Elf that found it. Still, a Red Smartie will perk it up, and we can take a look at this astonishing creation without having to clean the floors first.
It comes from TLCB Master MOCer Sariel, and it’s a Tatra 813 8×8 designed specifically for going very slowly over almost anything.
Eight-wheel-drive, four-wheel-steering, high/low gearbox, incredible suspension, and a working piston engine all feature, and you can see more of this mighty machine on Flickr and via the video below, where Sariel pulls some very heavy things (very slowly) across his floor.
The Isuzu NPR is the plastic stackable chair of vehicles; entirely overlooked, and yet utterly indispensable. The most interesting thing about an NPR is not the truck itself, but what it’s carrying. And that’s the whole point.
Cue thirdwigg’s Isuzu NPR glass truck, notable in real life only because it carries glass. Working steering, an inline-4 engine, and a tilting cab feature, with more to see – including a link to building instructions – via the link.
As the world’s best selling car, the Toyota Corolla has been many things, but not often a 4×4 desert racer. Cue Randy Wilmenta, who has built his 1989 Corolla GT-S into an awesome all-wheel-drive off-roader, which Eurobricks’ 2GodBDGlory has faithfully recreated in Technic form.
With working all-wheel drive courtesy of two Power Functions L Motors (hooked up to both a transverse inline-4 piston engine and a remotely-operable 6+R gearbox), remote control steering, an electronic hand-brake, motorised clutch, pop-up headlights and differential lock, plus suspension, and opening doors, hood and trunk, 2God’s recreation of the unique Toyota packs in as much as its real-world counterpart.
3D-printed wheels and an excellent classic Toyota livery complete a superb build, and you can find out more about the model and the real off-road Corolla it replicates via the Eurobricks forum. Take a look via the link, where you can also watch a video of 2God’s brilliant build in action.
It’s been so long since a group of our Elves were dispatched to The LEGO Company’s HQ to find the H2 2026 Technic setswe assumed any that hadn’t returned had been eaten by the guard dogs. But no! We have one more survivor, who arrived at TLCB Towers last night with this; the brand new LEGO Technic 42238 Ducati Desmo450 MX Factory!
A return to off-road motorcycles, 42238 brings Ducati’s first ever motocross bike to the 2026 Technic line-up, with 457 pieces, working steering, suspension, and a single-cylinder engine.
It looks great too, neatly replicating the Ducati’s red-and-gold colour scheme and including some good-looking be-stickered fairings.
Aimed at ages 10+, 42238 will be on sale from August for an expected $50 / £45 / €50 and looks to be a decent addition to LEGO’s officially-licensed bike catalogue.
With over four-thousand pieces, the LEGO Technic 42082 Rough Terrain Crane is one of the largest sets ever released. Which means there are plenty of parts with which to create something new. Cue TLCB Master MOCer Nico71, who has constructed a number of alternates from the vast set, with his latest being this; a fantastic Mercedes-Benz Unimog tow-truck.
Utilising around 3,500 of 42082’s pieces, Nico’s phenomenal B-Model features no less than five motorised functions, plus four-wheel-drive, an inline-6 piston engine under a tilting cab, working steering and suspension, and opening doors, toolboxes and compartments.
Like the donor set, a single motor provides motion to a huge array of functions via a sophisticated gearbox, with Nico’s B-Model cleverly including reverse switches so the battery box can be switched on and left.
Working stabiliser legs, an articulated towing-platform, an elevating and extending crane boom, and a winch (which is ingenuously synchronised with the boom to maintain its hook level) are all operable through a series of levers, allowing Nico’s Unimog to function exactly like the real thing.
It’s an astonishing alternate and perhaps the very best B-Model build that this site has ever published, with full details, engineering diagrams, and a link to building instructions available at the Eurobricks forum. Find all of the above and convert your own 42082 Rough Terrain Crane set into this amazing alternate via the link, plus you can watch the model in action via the video below.
Constructed only from the parts found within 42175, previous bloggee paave’s garbage truck B-Model features a tilting cab, functioning steering, a working piston engine, an operational discharge plate, an openable and locking tailgate, plus a pneumatically operable side-arm lift that can seemingly lift a bin from the other side of the street.
There’s more to see – including a link to building instructions – at the Eurobricks forum, plus you watch all those features in action below.
You’ve seen the full size Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear, and now LEGO have unveiled their 1:8 scale Technic version. This is the brand new LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar!
Constructed from 4,104 pieces, many of which make their debut on this set, 42232 recreates the ultra-exclusive Jesko-based Sadair’s Spear, named after the final racehorse Christian von Koenigsegg’s father rode as a jockey.
Like the real car, 42232 includes a mid-mounted V8 engine connected to a 9-speed sequential gearbox (complete with an in-cabin gear indicator), working steering, Koenigsegg’s triplex suspension, and an ingenious recreation of ‘Ghost Mode’, where the front and rear clamshells open as the the doors simultaneously rotate upwards. How that works when the doors can still be opened independently is an engineering marvel in itself.
42232 also looks wonderfully accomplished visually, no doubt helped by the gorgeous replica wheels, with LEGO confidently mirroring the model and the real Sadair’s Spear on the box to highlight the set’s accuracy. That image does helpfully hide the printed headlights though.
Aimed at ages 18+, the new LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear is expected to cost $450 / £400 / €450 and will be available to order from July 1st 2026. Get in early and you’ll also receive a two-hundred piece replica of the Sadair’s Spear’s steering wheel as a Gift-with-Purchase.
Without doubt 42232 is one of the most technically intriguing Technic Supercars to date, and if you haven’t seen the life-size version yet, take a look at this…
In 2025 the new Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear became the fastest ever production car up the famous Goodwood Hill. Just thirty units of the astonishing 1,300bhp hypercar will be produced, each costing over $4 million. Except… if you’re willing to go a little smaller.
Yes LEGO have announced a brand new 4,104 piece Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Technic set – which we’ll reveal here shortly – and in celebration of the launch LEGO and Koenigsegg teamed up to create something epic; the fastest LEGO car ever made.
Constructed from 327,906 LEGO pieces, this incredible life-size Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear took 9,400 hours to design and build, and features everything from a recreated Koenigsegg key to the real Sadair’s Spear’s ‘Ghost Mode’.
Which is all very cool, but didn’t we also say ‘fastest LEGO car ever made’?
Yes, this 1800kg life-size Technic Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear is fully drivable, and Markus Lundh – the Koenigsegg test driver who broke the Goodwood Hill Climb record in the real thing in 2025 – took on the challenge of driving the Technic version at the very same location.
With a little gravitational assistance, Lundh hit a phenomenal 111kmh on his run down the famous hill, more than doubling the previous record.
You can watch Lundh at the wheel of LEGO’s sensational life-size Sadair’s Spear in the video above, and check back here soon for our reveal of the brand new LEGO Technic set that inspired this epic feat.
Which means a famously-lime agricultural brand is within B-Model reach. And reach Eurobricks’ Ngoc Nguyen has done, because he’s created this tremendous Claas Torion 530 front loader solely from the parts found within the aforementioned Unimog.
42242’s pneumatics have been redeployed to create a twin-cylinder boom lift and tilt, at the end of which is a mechanically-operated removable grapple, whilst there’s articulated steering via both ‘HOG’ and the steering wheel.
Building instructions are available and you can find further details of Ngoc’s excellent 42242 alternate at the Eurobricks forum. Swap your ‘Mog for a Claas via the link above.
LEGO’s extensive partnership with Formula 1 has just added another set the grid! This is the brand new 1,547-piece LEGO Technic 42240 Aston Martin Aramco AMR25 F1 Car.
Despite us currently being a third of the way through the 2026 Formula 1 season, 42240 recreates last year’s Aston Martin mid-field competitor (rather than their disastrous 2026 effort) – as piloted by one of the world’s greatest F1 drivers. And Lance Stroll.
Joining the previously revealed championship-winning 42228 McLaren MCL39 F1 Car at the top of the Formula 1 line-up, 42240 matches 42228’s scale (1:8) and technical features, with steering and suspension, a V6 engine with a brick-built ‘electric’ motor, working DRS, and a miserably curtailed two-speed gearbox.
Authentic sponsor decals add accuracy to the AMR25’s appearance, although the standard green parts (which don’t match the real car’s unique hue) and equal-width tyres front and rear do not.
On sale from July 1st, aimed at ages 18+, and expected to cost an enormous $230 / £200 / €230, the 42240 Aston Martin Aramco AMR25 feels like a bit of a rehash, carrying the same limitations as the McLaren MCL39 that preceded it, only being six months late and without that set’s title-winning kudos. Which we suppose means that 42240 does share one attribute with Aston Martin’s current Formula 1 car; it’s pointless.
This morning has been somewhat messier than we hoped. A remote control creation was found by one of our Elves, which – as regular readers will know – of course means it was used to run over as many Elves as possible before it inevitably crashed.
Rather annoyingly however, the Elven attrition continued post-crash, because whilst the truck was out of action it was able to jettison the racing car it carried which was also remote controlled. Sigh.
Order has now been restored, the culprit given a Smartie (that’s how it works…), and we can take a look at the creation/s that caused the ruckus.
Built by Technic genius mahjqa, this remotely controlled transporter and racing car duo are a wonderful demonstration of brick-based engineering.
As well as both featuring remote control drive and steering, the racing car includes an oversized V8 engine with working cylinders, whilst the truck is equipped with a clever tilting hook-lift platform, with even cleverer automatic wheel chocks that deploy during the tilt to ensure the racing car doesn’t roll off.
It’s a brilliant solution and you can watch both models in action via the fantastic video below, in which mahjqa also reveals the ingenious Technic camera cars used to capture the footage, plus you can find full details at Eurobricks as well as all the images on Flickr here.
It’s been a while since we had a trial truck here at TLCB Towers, but we’re making up for it today. This is Madoca 1977’s Tatra T813 8×8 Kolos, and it’s one of the most capable we’ve seen yet.
Controlled via a Smart Hub, two L Motors drive all eight fully-suspended wheels via planetary reduction, a M Motor drives the steering, whilst another M Motor operates the high/low gearbox.
Madoca’s model also includes a V12 engine, a removable cab, plus opening doors and hatches, with lots more to see at the Eurobricks forum. Click the link above for a closer look.
Various comments received here at TLCB have rightly accused us of posting garbage, and excitingly we’ve got more garbage to post today!
