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LEGO Technic 42238 Ducati Desmo450 MX Factory | Set Preview

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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 sets we 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.

Al-tow-native

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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.

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My Other Truck’s Garbage

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Do you own the LEGO Technic 42175 Volvo FMX & EC230 Electric Excavator set, but wish it was a little more… garbage? Then we have the perfect alternative!

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.

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LEGO Technic 42232 Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear Megacar | Set Preview

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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…

The Fastest LEGO Car Ever Made: Life-size LEGO Technic Koenigsegg Sadair’s Spear

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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.

My Other Piece of Agricultural Equipment is a Unimog

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The new and rather excellent looking LEGO Technic 42242 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 5023 set brings a whole lot of lime to the Technic line-up.

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.

Technic 42240 Aston Martin Aramco AMR25 F1 Car | Set Preview

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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.

Remotely Racing

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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.

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Czech Meight

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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.

Bus Boy

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We’re travelling slowly through Westchester New York today, on a twenty-year-old Orion Industries V (05.505) bus. Over a hundred Orion Vs still operate on Westchester’s ‘Bee-Line’, and are the last not be hybrid or electrically powered.

This Orion V actually is battery powered though, as its maker JLiu15 has equipped it with full motorisation including the drive, steering, and doors.

There’s more of the model to see at JLiu’s ‘2005 Orion V (05.505) Bee-Line Bus’ album on Flickr, and you can take the No. 52 to Bronxville via the link above.

Mentally Challenged

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If the Ford Mustang is the car of crashing immediately upon leaving an otherwise respectable car meet, the Dodge Challenger is the car of crashing in the middle of an illegal one.

Usually seen doing poorly executed donuts in the centre of an intersection with a perma-vaping aspiring ‘rapper’ behind the wheel whose IQ is lower than their credit score, you’d have to be a complete moron to think the Challenger is cool.

Cue this spectacular Technic Dodge Challenger by Flickr’s Lachlan Cameron (aka loxlego), and it’s so cool!

Working steering, adjustable suspension, a V8 engine, six-speed gearbox, plus custom decals, wheels, and chrome all feature, and you can join the crowd standing around an intersection at night filming the inevitable crash on their phones whilst shouting ‘Oooooohhh!!’ via the link above!

Trailin’ Low

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This neat Technic 8×4 truck and low-bed three-axle trailer comes from previous bloggee damianPLE, and despite the small scale there’s a full remote control drivetrain squeezed inside. The Power Functions Medium Motor and Servo are powerful enough to haul a load too, and you can see more (as well as find a link to building instructions) at Eurobricks and Bricksafe.

I Used to Bullseye Womp Rats…

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It’s Star Wars Day, that one day of the year when nerds feel socially acceptable, and when websites that normally couldn’t care less about the George Lucas saga jump on the bandwagon for clicks.

Um, so here’s a Star Wars post… But it is an interesting one, we promise! This brilliantly clever T-65 X-Wing fighter, mounted atop a fully controllable Stewart Platform, is the work of vascolp of Eurobricks, and it’s built entirely from parts found within the enormous LEGO Technic 42100 Liebherr R 9800 Excavator.

The huge quantity of electronics from the donor set allows vascolp’s X-Wing to pitch, bank and twist beautifully, as well as position the opening wings. A custom Pybricks Python programme controls the magic and you watch this incredible alternate in action via the video above and read more about the build at the Eurobricks forum here.

LEGO Technic H2 2026 | Set Previews

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Yes our crack team of Elves have finally returned from their mission inside The LEGO Company’s HQ, and following our reveal of a few Summer 2026 Technic sets already, we have six more H2 sets to reveal today! Read on to find out what they’ve uncovered…

42233 Mighty Machines Series 1


Well, we say ‘six’, but actually there are thirteen, because 42233 Mighty Machines Series 1 could be any one of eight tiny Technic construction vehicles. Like LEGO’s Minifigure Series, 42233’s packaging is uniform no matter which version is inside, but unlike the Minifigure Series you can’t feel it to try to figure it out. Expect the forums to be filled with theories on what the various models sound like imminently… Under fifty pieces, and under a fiver. Lovely stuff.

42234 Dodge Viper GTS-R

We jump from 7+ pocket money to 10+ and 800 pieces with this, the 42234 Dodge Viper GTS-R.

In partnership with ‘Forza Horizon 6’ (where a bespoke Viper livery will be available for owners of the set) 42234 brings America’s favourite V10-engined supercar to the Technic line-up. That engine features too, under the expansive front-hinged hood, as does working steering, opening doors, and too many stickers. Expect 42234 to cost $65 / £60 / €65 when it reaches stores this summer.

42235 Ferrari 488 PISTA

With two fewer cylinders but around 10% more parts (including new wheel-arches), the 42235 Ferrari 488 PISTA joins the 2026 Technic range as the second ‘Forza Horizon 6’ set. Like the Viper above, 42235 includes a working engine, functional steering, plus an opening hood and doors, however unlike the Viper its stripe is (mostly) brick built rather than stuck-on. Not so the headlights though. Boo.

Expect 42235 to match the pricing of the Viper at $65 / £60 / €65 when it races into the line-up later in the year.

42241 Green Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport


Wait, haven’t we seen this one before? The 42241 Green Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport recolours the 42222 Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport set revealed just six months ago, and drops that set’s tie-up with the ‘Asphalt Legends Unite’ video game, presumably because LEGO can’t partner with two game titles simultaneously. The Chiron isn’t available in ‘Forza Horizon 6’ though, so it doesn’t mirror the affiliation of its counterparts above. Was orange, now green, still 771 pieces and $65 / £60 / €65.

42239 Batmobile Tumbler

With fewer pieces than the cars above, but a $100 price increase, what is going on with the 42239 Batmobile Tumbler? Well Control+ is back! A rechargeable battery, motorised drive, steering, and LED lights – all controlled via a mobile device – make this the perfect set for chasing household pets. Zero stickers, new tyres, and awesome looks (the Tumbler is still easily the best Batmobile ever) get our seal of approval, and you can protect Gotham / pursue your cat for $190 / £170 / €190 when 42239 arrives this summer.

42242 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 5023 with Crane

And now for our favourite new Technic set for H2 2026; this is the 42242 Mercedes-Benz Unimog U 5023 with Crane.

Aimed at ages 11+ and with 1,189 pieces, 42242 packs a whole lot into its mid-size package, making it – weird though it seems to write this about a set costing well over $100 / £100 / €100 – feel like rather good value.

Working four-wheel-drive, all-wheel-suspension, steering, a six-cylinder piston engine under an opening hood, stabiliser legs, tipper, and a two-stage pneumatic and rotating knuckle-boom crane all feature, as do a few new parts too.

42242 is expected to cost $130 / £110 / €120 and is our pick of the range.

That’s the H2 2026 Technic line-up. Three sets revealed already with six further new sets joining them in stores this summer. One we’ve seen before, and one where you won’t quite know what you’re getting until you open it. We’ll take the Unimog…

LEGO Technic 42236 Custom Garage Ford Mustang GT | Set Preview

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A crack team of TLCB Elves were recently fired – by way of the office catapult – over The LEGO Company’s perimeter wall. Their mission; to uncover the brand new LEGO Technic sets for 2026. And not get eaten by the guard dogs.

Two have already returned (and their ‘Fast & Furious’ finds can be seen in our set reveal here), and today we have another. And it’s even more modified than the ‘Fast & Furious’ pair. This is the LEGO Technic 42236 Custom Garage Ford Mustang GT.

Aimed at ages 10+ and constructed from just under 1,000 pieces, 42236 is an interesting idea (and possibly sub-brand*) that allows builders to modify their model with a range of styling components, including wider arches, a scooped hood, wings and splitters. Which explains the higher piece count and raised price (£80 / $100 / €90) than we’re used to with other sets of this scale.

It’s also the set for you if you like stickers, because 42236 is covered in them. Wheels, grille, body panels, rear lights… they’re all decals. And whilst that does create an interesting colour scheme, we’re kinda at the point where the base car could be anything and LEGO simply change the manufacturer it represents by altering the stickers that come with it.

Working steering and a V8 under the swappable hood do feature though, and you can get your hands on the new 42236 Custom Garage Ford Mustang GT when it arrives this summer.


*We’re eagerly anticipating further Custom Garage sets that represent the modifying scene here in TLCB’s home nation.