…and other Lego sites too.

It’s been a quiet few days here at The Lego car Blog, during which time the mythical Elves we use to scour the web for the best Lego vehicles have returned zilch, nada, nothing. Boo.

But have you ever wondered ‘How do I get my model featured on The Lego Car Blog?’. Well this post is for you!

1. Help the Elves to find you. Our Elves search far and wide for the best Lego vehicles on the web, and their favourite haunts are Flickr, Eurobricks (specifically the Technic & Model Team forum), and Bricksafe. They don’t visit social media sites though, because a) social media is poison, and b) underscoring the whole ‘poison’ thing, social media platforms usually require activating an account to view images, which means we can’t link our readers to them. We’d therefore really encourage you to upload your creations to a free-to-view platform like those listed above, even if you’re on social media sites too.

2. Follow, but not too closely… If you want to increase your chances of getting noticed, then check out the groups we follow and maybe join them yourself, and/or follow us (we’re on Flickr and Eurobricks under our site name). However please don’t message us saying ‘Please blog my creation’, nor add images to our Flickr group that haven’t been featured here. If your work is good enough, and meets our criteria, that’s enough : )

3. Meet the Criteria. All the main Lego sites will likely look for similar things in the models they feature; a great model, well presented, with high quality imagery. Here at The Lego Car Blog we also add the aforementioned free-to-view accessibility, and the need for the model to be (or feature) a vehicle. You can find our full criteria by clicking these words.

4. Help us tell a story. A model that’s a little unusual may stand a greater chance of appearing, as it allows us to say something new. We like weird, probably because we are ourselves. A few one-off vehicles (like the one pictured above) and have even drawn attention here from their real-world owners.

And that’s it! Be visible in a free-to-view place, join some Lego vehicle groups and discussions, take care with presentation, and try to build something unique. Follow these steps and one of TLCB Elves may return to our office clutching your creation in their claws. We hope they do!

It’s the final chapter of the Find My Car in Lego series, as Part 4 takes us from the letter S to the end of the alphabet. As with Parts 1 to 3, we’re focussing on the most frequently featured car brands, which admittedly omits most of the Soviet and Chinese weirdness that monopolises the final few letters of the alphabet. You guys aren’t building many Xpengs, Zotyes or Zeekrs yet…

However fear not, because there are some great manufacturers in the final quarter of the alphabet. And UAZ. Take a look…

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S to Z

Skoda

Once-derided marque from behind the Iron Curtain, now a competent mainstream arm of the Volkswagen empire. Which means today it’s exceptionally boring. Fortunately Lego builders seem to prefer making the rubbish but interesting cars of Skoda-past.

Subaru

Kei-trucks, rear-wheel-drive sports cars, and – of course – all-wheel-drive performance saloons. Find WRXs galore (plus the rest) by clicking these words.

Suzuki

Suzuki have made all sorts of vehicles, but it’s their pint-sized 4x4s that seem to have captured Lego builders’ imaginations most frequently. Find all the brick-built Samurais, Jimnys, and Vitaras here.

Tatra

Today famed for their off-road trucks, Czech manufacturer Tatra also once made truly ground-breaking cars. Find them (in a sea of their awesome heavy-duty trucks) by clicking here.

Tesla

The brand that brought EVs to the masses, and the one with the most insane fans of any manufacturer. Ludicrous speed, appalling quality, and a share price more volatile than Kanye West, click here to find every brick-built Tesla to appear. All have better panel gaps than the real thing.

Toyota

From one end of the quality scale to the other, almost 170 Toyota images have appeared to date. Sedans, 4x4s, racing cars, pick-up trucks, sports cars, vans, and a certain ’10-second’ orange Supra…

UAZ

Soviet 4x4s, vans, and small trucks. All are very ugly, many are very capable, and there are some excellent Lego versions to be found in the Archive.

Volkswagen

Humungous global conglomerate responsible for tens of millions of fantastically dull hatchbacks, crossovers and SUVs. Which is perhaps why it’s VW’s Beetles, buses and beach buggies that populate the Archives. Find them all, including official LEGO sets, by clicking here.

Volvo

Glorious slabs of rectangular Swedish magnificence, there’s probably no car more suited to LEGO than an ’80s Volvo. Over a hundred, including the trucks, buses and pieces of construction equipment that have also worn the Volvo logo, can be found here.

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That wraps up Part 4 of Find My Car in Lego, and with it the series, much to the relief of our researchers. We’ve covered every manufacturer whose models have been recreated in brick form in sufficient numbers, and you can find Parts 1 (A to F), 2 (G to L), and 3 (M to R) via these links.

Some surprisingly well-known brands didn’t make the cut, including Saturn, Seat, Talbot, and Vauxhall in this final part alone, each with just a single entry in the Archives at the time of publication. Of course there are loads of other oddities in the Archives too, and you can find them all plus much more besides via the Search box on every page.

And if you don’t manage to find your car, we’d love to see you build it.

A catacomb of tenuous links, pointless vehicular facts, and wildly inappropriate Your Mom jokes, The Lego Car Blog Archives can be a forbidding place. Fortunately we have a succession of interns here at TLCB Towers, who – unable to decline our research requests – are routinely sent into the labyrinth to retrieve past posts. And only some of whom are now in counselling.

Today we can share Part 3 of the fruits of their endeavours, Find My Car in Lego, with the most frequently appearing car brands from M to R sorted into the neat list below. If you’ve ever wondered what your car looks like in Lego form, now you can find out!

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M to R

Mazda

Japan’s left-field choice has appeared here a number of times over the years. Almost all of those times were RX-7s. Find them all by clicking here.

McLaren

Nearly one hundred McLaren images have appeared here to date, from home built F1s and F1 racing cars, to official LEGO sets, and even a couple of 1:1 life-size replicas of McLaren’s newest supercars.

Mercedes-Benz

The world’s first motorcar, supercars, trucks, Unimogs, SUVs, Formula 1 racers, Unimogs, vans, sedans, and Unimogs… over 170 images have appeared to date. Almost half are Unimogs.

Mini

First a model and now a marque, Minis of all shapes and sizes have appeared over the years, more recently including official LEGO sets. A few have even been driven via an armchair, string, and mop arrangement…

Mitsubishi

Boring trucks and boring cars… and a few rather more interesting ones. Plus Mitsubishi didn’t just build things with four wheels; several models in the Mitsubishi archive are rather more airborne than a Canter box truck.

Nissan

…and its forebear Datsun, have appeared here countless times over the years. Pick-ups, sedans, sports cars, and – of course – a whole host of GT-Rs.

Pagani

There are probably as many Lego Paganis as there are the real thing. Those to appear here include huge Technic Supercars, beautifully detailed Model Team replicas, and even an official LEGO set.

Peugeot

Fire-spitting rally cars, Dakar-conquering buggies, Le Mans racers, and… ugly grey sedans. Peugeot have made them all, and you can find every Lego version in the archive by clicking here.

Plymouth

Long-dead American car maker. The archive is packed with muscle cars, cop cars, and a car with a taste for human blood. Find them all via the link above.

Pontiac

Long-dead American car maker. On-screen highlights include Breaking Bad, Knight Rider, and Smokey and the Bandit, whilst more than a few models in the archive feature a certain signature giant flaming bird motif.

Porsche

Hundreds of Porsche models have featured here to date, including supercars, racing cars, official LEGO sets, tractors, and over two hundred 911 images alone. See them all via the link above.

Renault

Historic French vehicle manufacturer, with trucks, tractors, vans, Formula 1 winners, hot hatchbacks, tanks, and sedans all appearing in Lego form. Click here to take a look at everything to wear the Renault badge.

Rolls Royce

The best cars in the world, and their engines have powered a few iconic machines too. Find them all – including our pink six-wheeled favourite – in the Rolls-Royce archive here.

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That concludes Part 3 of the Find My Car in Lego series, taking us from Mazda to Rolls-Royce. You can revisit prior instillments Part 1 (A to F) and Part 2 (G to L) via the links in this paragraph, plus of course you can be as specific as you like by typing your desired make or model into the Search box available on every page. If you can think of it, it’s probably been built from Lego. Next time, S…