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Fewer Ads!

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Ads. They’re everywhere. On television. On radio. On buses. On your phone. In trains. On billboards. And, thanks to BMW, now even in your car. But not in the middle of a TLCB post. As much as we can help it anyway.

Yes we recently turned in-post ads off, because the extra coin matters less to us than reader experience, particularly when some ads were covering text and it could say something important. Like a ‘Your Mom’ joke.

Whilst adverts will still appear in the side bars and also stick the pages edges, making this change has approximately halved our revenue, which does mean our charitable donations could look a little marginal once the costs of running the site are covered. So if you like what we do and would like to help us to keep giving, you can. We’d love it if all the advertising revenue that this site does earn could be donated to good causes, with the site’s operational costs covered elsewhere (which – due to us working for free and the Elves only being paid in Smarties – are pretty low). If you feel like it, you can help below.

Thank you

TLCB Team

We do appreciate the irony of this post communicating a reduction in ads whilst simultaneously, itself, being an ad….

How Do They Do That?

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Lego Microphone

Ever thought ‘How do they do that?’ when viewing some of the incredible Lego vehicles featured here at The Lego Car Blog? Or ‘I wonder what car that builder drives in real life?’. Or ‘How did they get started in the Lego Community?’. Well wonder no more! Because we have over twenty-five interviews right here at TLCB from the very best vehicle builders in the business.

And if that raises another question ‘How on earth did TLCB get [insert awesome builder] to agree to an interview?’, a couple of Elves armed with a sharpened pencil can be very persuasive…

Anyway, don’t worry about our methods, just head over to the Interviews page where some of the world’s greatest Lego builders told us everything whilst applying band-aids and signing an NDA under duress.

TLCB Interviews

A Car Park of Lego Vehicles

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We’ve been AI-ing ourselves, and apparently The Lego Car Blog is the largest archive of Lego vehicles anywhere in the world! Which is probably because no-one else could be bothered… Still, seeing as our Elves have found the square root of nothing over the past few days, it seems like an opportune time to remind ourselves how big the Archives now are. Find whatever you’re looking for (probably) below!

A-Z of Lego Cars

From Alfa Romeo to… um, Volvo (ok, we haven’t quite got to Z), there are over fifty car brands in The Lego Car Blog Archives, from vintage luxury to the very newest marques and everything in between. Find out if your favourite car has been built from LEGO bricks (and what TLCB Staff think of it…) by clicking the words below!

Click Here for the world’s largest Lego Car Archive

A-Z of Lego Bikes

If you like your journeys with two less wheels and the added jeopardy of becoming an unexpected organ donor, we’ve got motorbikes too! From BMW to Vespa, hundreds of hogs, scramblers, cruisers, and superbikes have been built from LEGO, and TLCB Archives are packed with all of them. Don your helmet and join the ride via the link below!

Click here for the worlds largest Lego Motorbike Archive

A-Z of Lego Trucks

And if you like your vehicles with rather more wheels, and trailers loaded with everything from hay to beer, then check out TLCB A-Z of Trucks, where every brand from DAF to ZIL is represented. Haul yourself over via the link below!

Click here for the world’s largest Lego Truck Archive

Attacks on LEGO Sites

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Regular readers of this shady corner of the internet will know that one of the sites our Elves frequent for models is Eurobricks, an expansive fan forum containing thousands of Lego topics.

However over the past week it’d been very quiet from our Eurobricks based Elves, so we headed there ourselves to check it out and… couldn’t.

It turns out Eurobricks experienced a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack, where their servers were flooded with traffic, taking the site offline. Eurobricks is now back up and running after the team there implemented a fix which you can read about here, but coincidentally(?) we’re undergoing some seriously unusual traffic too.

In fact, every day for the last few days we’ve received as many visits in 24 hours as we usually do in a month. That’s tens of thousands of visits a day. But note ‘visits’, not ‘visitors’, as almost all are from the same U.S desktop.

Which means unless a very enthusiastic reader has just discovered us and is working their way through our entire archive one post at a time, strange things are afoot.

So far TLCB hasn’t fallen over (we’re as surprised as you!), but if you do have trouble accessing us please let us know. Although if that is the case you probably won’t be able to read this nor comment, so perhaps this whole post is moot…

Anyway, welcome back online Eurobricks and you can show them your support via the link above!

Every Lego Car, Ever*

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From Alfa Romeo to Volvo, almost every major car manufacturer (and a lot of minor ones too) have seen their vehicles recreated in Danish plastic.

Thousands of Lego cars have appeared here at The Lego Car Blog over the last decade, with hundreds of trucks and motorcycles joining them too.

Which means if you’ve ever wondered ‘I wish there was a Lego version of my car…’, there probably is. And it can be found in our enormous A-Z of fifty car manufacturers, where you can find the biggest and best archive of Lego cars, sorted by the badge on the hood, anywhere in the world.

Find the complete A-Z of Lego Cars here

(plus Trucks and Motorcycles)

*Well, all the good ones.

How to Get Your Model Featured at TLCB…

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…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!

Lego Barn Find Bugatti Type 35 Grand Prix

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 : )

Lego Photography Studio

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!

2025 | Year in Review

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It’s 2026! The Winter Olympics, Football World Cup, and Artemis Lunar Programme will all arrive in the next twelve months, but before then let’s look back at our 2025…

Posts

We published nearly a post a day over the last year, with the most viewed of 2025 being our preview of LEGO’s new officially-licensed Formula 1 sets. The top page (outside of the Homepage of course) continued to be the Review Library, with our new A-Z of Lego Cars not far behind.

Visitors 

2025 wasn’t just the Year of China for vehicle sales (with Chinese car brands that didn’t even exist a few years ago now everywhere), but also for visitors to this site. China shot up the country rankings to end the year in third place, with many days having more Chinese visitors than even Americans. A new world order is imminent. Either that or dozens of models that have appeared here over the years are about to become Chinese copy-cat sets…

Germany, the UK, Netherlands and France completed the top six, with just over half of all visitors joining us from a desktop and just under half from mobile devices. Which definitely means at least one of you has visited us from your office toilet.

2026

What does 2026 hold? We’re not sure there’s as much need for The Lego Car Blog as there has been in the past. The online Lego Community now feels rather fragmented over dozens of platforms and social media sites, and doom-scrolling through Instagram will inevitably serve up far more Lego creations than we ever could. But for now at least we still like doing this, and it seems hundreds-of-thousands of you do too. Well, you keep coming back, which must count for something.

Thus we’ll endeavour to continue publicising the very best vehicular builds from across the internet, with reviews and set previews too. If you like what we do you can support us here, and if you don’t you can always let us know in the comments.

Wishing you a very happy and brick-filled 2026

TLCB Team

It’s Christmaaaaas!

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The doors to the TLCB Towers have been locked, the Elves are back in their cages, and TLCB Staff are off to exchange gifts / see loved ones / drink heavily. Perhaps all three.

Thus there’ll be nothing new to see here for a few days, as we take our customary break from the internet to spend time on things that matter rather more. If you’re in need of your Lego car fix over the coming days there’s loads here to see in the Archives, including Interviews with the world’s best vehicle makers, the A-Z of Lego Cars (and Trucks too), the enormous Review Library, and if you’ve enjoyed what we’ve written during 2025 you can buy the Elves us a Christmas present here.

Yet whilst all the above are worth a click, we’d encourage you to save them for another time. Switch off, ignore your screens, and enjoy the season.

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, and we’ll see you soon.

TLCB Team

Today’s Christmas creation can be found courtesy of Jens Ohrndorf.

We’re 14 Today!

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Lego 14

Yes it’s The Lego Car Blog’s birthday! And unlike almost every previous year we’ve actually remembered on the day itself. At fourteen years old this dodgy alley in the corner of the internet is older than the Tesla Model S, Grand Theft Auto V, Pharrell Williams’ ‘Happy’, and Tik Tok. And not even a fraction as successful as any of them.

Still, millions of you have joined us over the years, whether that be for the thousands of Lego cars, trucks and motorbikes we’ve publicised, the over a hundred LEGO set and product reviews, reveals of new LEGO sets, interviews of some of the world’s best Lego builders, or the Your Mom jokes. Whatever your reasoning, we’re glad you’re here.

We’re not on social media but if you like what we do feel free to spread the word, you can click here to write to us to complain that we haven’t featured your creation, and if you really want to support us you can buy the Elves a birthday present here.

We’ll keep trying to publicise the best Lego vehicles the web has to offer, and thank you for joining us on the ride.

TLCB Team

TLCB x AI

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Here at The Lego Car Blog we try to do things differently. Often worse, but differently nonetheless. Thus today we’re going to address the rise of the machines, and the two letters that – if countless sci-fi films prove correct – will probably spell the end of us all. A. I.

Now deployed in every job application, university essay, and best man’s speech, AI has changed (or imminently will) pretty much everything. Cancer screening, vaccine creation, and disaster response are immeasurably more powerful thanks to artificial intelligence, whilst music, movies, and voice work can be produced without artists, and photographic/video evidence now means nothing.

On balance, for all the potential good it can do, we think that AI is probably going to harm society more than help it, and so – mirroring our approach to social media – we have decided not to use it here at The Lego Car Blog. Correspondingly all our content will continue to be written only by human beings, and thus all the mistakes you spot are our own. We will also endeavour to ensure that no AI-generated creations are featured, with our Submission Guidelines updated to reflect this policy (although this may prove tricky to administer once AI can nail it).

Until then however, The Lego Car Blog will proudly be an AI-free site, both in word and image. Unless the robots in charge in the future deem this post evidence of resistance, in which case AI wrote it.

Image credit.

Sponsor an Elf!*

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Do you love Lego cars, trucks, aircraft and sci-fi? Do you like ‘Your Mom’ jokes and references to Putin’s tiny member? Then have we got a deal for you! And by ‘deal’, we actually mean a ‘donate’ button.

Yes we’ve finally done it, after being asked to a few times by our readers. So here it is. It won’t appear on the main page because that feels a bit pushy, but it can be found in the About Us, Contact, and FAQs pages. And below.

If you’d like to donate something please do (any profit we make goes to charitable causes), and if not we’re still delighted to have you here : )

TLCB Team

*Donations are not guaranteed to feed TLCB Elves.

Bleugh! Ads!

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Running a world-famous Lego website has its perks. Fame… Girls… Riches… Probably. Still, running this shed in the corner of the internet also has its perks, and we do earn a little from all your eyeballs and the ads they linger on.

Except for the last few days the ads have gone berserk. Now it might be because our equipment and operating systems are older than some of our readers, but nevertheless ads started to appear over images, over post text, and – in delicious irony – even over other ads.

If you’ve been affected by this ad explosion, rest assured we changed nothing to prompt it. But we have summoned all our technical prowess to correct things. Which basically means we’ve turned off advertisers’ ability to place ads anywhere they like.

This might mean that TLCB treasure chest is a little emptier than usual, but seeing as we give its contents to those who need it more than we do, and there won’t be any contents if you all get annoyed and leave, it’s the right thing to do.

Anyway, we hope it’s all fixed now. Let us know if not. And do please linger on the ads that do appear – it makes it all worth it.

TLCB Team

2024 | Year in Review

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It’s the start of a brand new year! Which here at The Lego Car Blog means it’s dark at 4pm, the adverts are all for holidays, and we look back on the last year with an image of the current one, which makes no sense but we’re a decade in so we’re not changing it.

Anyway, on to what happened at TLCB in 2024!

Stats

We published almost exactly the same number of posts in 2024 as 2023, with 347 hitting the front page. These generated 16% fewer visitors however, with the site now around half its peak of over a million several years ago. That still means that hundreds of thousands of you are turning up to read our gibberish though, something to which we remain astonished.

2024’s most viewed posts were the new LEGO set reveals, with Speed Champions coming out on top of the pile. The Review Library and our new A-Z of car manufacturers (plus bikes and trucks) were next in line, along with the most viewed individual creations (‘That’ Toyota Supra, Nosing Ahead, and ‘Oh My gosh, It’s Oshkonoggin!‘, none of which were actually posted in 2024).

Likes for 2024 were down 56% year-on-year yet comments were up 18%. As these were (mostly) nice ones, it seems people are perhaps over ‘liking’ things. Good. Social media is poison.

Which is a bit of a pain, as more and more creations are appearing there only. These are often suggested to us, but to ensure our readers don’t have to create an account and hand over their souls to Meta, Musk, or the Chinese Communist Party, we only publish creations that are free-to-access. Thus if you do use socials to publicise your works and you’d like them to appear here, do consider replicating your images on a free-to-access platform such as Flickr, Eurobricks, Bricksafe, or Brickshelf – that way we can direct our readers to them without fear of a ‘Create an Account’ gateway appearing.

That said, thousands of you still joined us from Facebook, and hundreds-of-thousands from Google. Whether you found what you were looking for or found us by accident, you’re very welcome!

The USA easily remained the top visiting country  in 2024, followed by Germany, UK, and Netherlands, whilst there are just four countries on earth remaining with an all-time visitor count of one. Hello to the four people from St. Helena, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, and Palau!

2025…

We’re here to continue publishing the best Lego vehicles the web has to offer, unless you get bored of this (or we do). Expect more cars, trucks, motorbikes, ships, and even sci-fi builds throughout 2025, and if enough of them arrive from an as-yet-un-listed manufacturer, said car maker will join those already in the A-Z, where you can find every creation to feature here categorised by the badge on the bonnet.

We’ll also continue to publish (and assess) the brand new LEGO sets due to reach stores during the year, along with brick-based vehicle news, builder interviews, and probably a few Your Mom jokes.

Thank you for taking the time to join us here at The Lego Car Blog, it’s your views and clicks that keep this site running (and enable the advertising revenue to be donated to causes more noble than this one), and we hope you’ll enjoy what we publish in 2025.

TLCB Team

Merry Christmas!

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It’s a few nights before Christmas
All through TLCB Towers
The Elves are back in their cages
Counting down the hours
‘Til they’re released once again
After the festivities are over
And TLCB Staff return
…Hopefully sober

Here at The Lego Car Blog we’re taking our customary Christmas break. We’ll be back (hopefully sober) before long. Until then, we wish you the merriest of Christmases, and encourage you to put down your phone, switch off your computer, and enjoy what’s most important.

Happy Christmas!
TLCB Team

TLCB is a Teenager!

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Today is a momentous day, albeit one fraught with uncertainty, unpredictable outbursts, mood swings, and mild horror. No not Donald Trump’s Presidential comeback, but our birthday, because today The Lego Car Blog became a teenager!

Well, not quite today, as in typical teenager fashion we got up too late, but it’s better than last year when we forgot entirely.

Since our first post thirteen years (and one day) ago, nearly nine million of you have joined us here at the Online Lego Community’s most ramshackle website, with the most viewed pages of the past year being the new set reveals, the Review Library, our new A-Z of Lego Cars (plus bikes and trucks too), and a recreation of a certain Toyota Supra.

So whether you’re here for the first time or have been with us for all thirteen years, thank you for joining us. Expect more Lego-based vehicular ramblings as we enter our thirteenth year, only perhaps with worse skin, braces, and added moodiness.

TLCB Team