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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…

Snakey B

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We love alternate builds here at The Lego Car Blog, as creating many things from one set is at the very heart of what LEGO is all about.

TLCB Master MOCer Firas Abu-Jaber demonstrates this perfectly today, having created this brilliant B-Model from the parts found within the excellent 10295 Porsche 911 Turbo set.

Following his incredible Ford GT40 10295 alternate comes another iconic American supercar, the Dodge Viper, complete with opening doors, a detailed engine under the raising hood, and working steering too.

All the parts to create it can be found within the 10295 set, the complete image gallery can be found here, and you can find building instructions to turn your own 10295 Porsche 911 Turbo set into a Dodge Viper at Firas’ website by clicking here.

My Other Car’s a Mustang

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America likes naming cars after animals. Thus this viper is borne of a horse, being constructed solely from the pieces found within the excellent Creator 10265 Ford Mustang set.

Besides a few mis-coloured clips you’d be hard pushed to tell that Marcin Majkowski’s Dodge Viper is a Mustang in disguise, plus the doors and hood open, there’s a detailed interior, and a lifelike V10 engine too.

Building instructions are available and there’s more to see of Marcin’s 10265 B-Model on Flickr – click the link above to swap one animal for another.

Racing Snake

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Early-’00s American cars are fat, badly built, inefficient, poor handling crap-boxes, and you’d have to be an idiot to like any of them.

This is an early-’00s Dodge Viper; a fat, badly built, inefficient, poor handling crap-box, and it’s one of our favourite cars ever.

Even more so in this configuration, the 2003 GTS-R endurance racer, as constructed to near-perfection in 1:14 scale by TLCB favourite SP_LINEUP.

SP has used over 1,300 pieces to recreate the iconic American racing car, including a beautifully detailed interior, engine bay, chassis bracing, brick-built drivetrain, and the spectacular GTS-R long-tail bodywork.

There’s more to see at SP’s photostream and you can make the jump to an early-’00s endurance race – and one of TLCB favourite cars ever (because we’re idiots) – via the link above.

Topless Summer

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It’s summer here at TLCB and it’s HOT. Elves are scattered everywhere panting, and the office ‘air conditioner’ (a fan gaffa-taped to a window ledge) is just moving hot air about like the one in the back of an oven, ensuring everything is equally cooked.

Those of you reading this in sunnier climes than the UK (that’s all of you) will be wondering what all the fuss is about, but this TLCB Writer is well-travelled and no-where gets hot like the UK. Thank the high humidity, limited air conditioning, and buildings designed to keep in, not out, for that.

It also might explain why the British buy more convertibles than the French, Germans, Italians, and Spanish. Put together. Thus we have two here today, and they’re both… um, a bit crap.

The Dodge Viper was basically a truck engine shoved in a kids’ plastic toy, and was predictably rubbish as a result. But on the other hand, it was a truck engine shoved in a kids’ plastic toy, and it was therefore excellent. This superb Speed Champions scale Dodge Viper convertible was suggested by a reader, and it comes from previous bloggee RGB900 who has nailed the 1990s American icon in 6-wide form.

Equally iconic (and rubbish) was the modern Volkswagen Beetle convertible; a bubble-shaped Golf with a pram roof stuck on the back that predictably became the must-have accessory for people that knew nothing about cars.

Fashion is fickle though, and without any substance whatsoever the modern Beetle is now dead, and its customers have all moved on to Mini convertibles. SP_LINEUP hasn’t forgotten it though, creating this excellent brick-built version that was also suggested by a reader.

There’s more to see of each convertible on Flickr via the links, and if you’re wondering why we haven’t featured good drop-tops instead of a kids’ toy and VW pram, just be thankful we didn’t find one of these to post. See, the British do stupid things when it gets hot.

Highway to the Dreary Zone*

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Fighter pilots. Adrenaline junkies who live life on the edge, where gravity is so banal they have to multiply it by a factor of nine just to stay awake. You’d imagine then, that when they’re not piloting a 2,000mph missile upside-down they’re driving something pretty spectacular. An AMG-Mercedes, perhaps a Dodge Hellcat, or a hot rod with an engine measured in cubic feet.

Not according to previous bloggee Ralph Savelsberg though, as the Royal Netherlands Air Force pilots of this glorious F-16AM Viper drive… a Renault Trafic van. Um, OK.

It is a beautifully built Renault Trafic van, but it is, nevertheless, still a Renault Trafic van. There’s more to see of the Renault, and the considerably more interesting F-16 Viper fighter jet that accompanies it, at Ralph’s photostream. Take the Highway to the Dreary Zone* via the link above.

*Today’s (slightly butchered) title song

Whitesnake*

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Lego Technic Dodge Viper ACR

America has mixed form when it comes to supercars. The excellent Ford GT is at one end, the Corvette is in the middle, being now pretty good but mostly fairly hopeless, and the Dodge Viper… yeh, that’s still crap.

But that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t want a go in one. Especially this variant, the mad ACR edition. With the Viper’s V10 engine tweaked to 645bhp, carbon ceramic brakes, and a seriously extreme aero package the ACR was… well, still nowhere near as good as anything from Europe or Japan.

That didn’t stop it heading to the Nurburgring with aim of claiming the road legal lap record though. Three attempts ended with a wrecked ACR and no record, but it was the fastest road-legal-American-rear-drive-manual-transmission-car to lap the Nurburgring. Possibly because it was the only one to do it.

No matter, because this fully remote controlled Technic Dodge Viper ACR designed by previous bloggee Lachlan Cameron (aka Lox Lego) and photographed by Jeff McClain is every bit as good as the real car isn’t. Alongside the remote control drive and steering are working suspension, LED lights, a V10 engine underneath a flipping clamshell hood, and opening doors and tailgate.

There’s more to see of Lachlan’s amazing ACR at his Flickr photostream – click the link above to attempt the lap record…

Lego Technic Dodge Viper ACR

*Today’s title song. Don’t pretend you don’t like it.

Highway to the Danger Zone

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The art of Air Combat Manoeuvring (ACM) came to the attention of the general public with Tony Scott’s 1986 film, Top Gun. Whilst this concentrated on the US Navy’s school the US Marine Corps and Air Force have similar units. With the advent of high-tech missiles, guns and dog-fighting were deemed to be obsolete. Pilots would be able to destroy their enemies using radar, way before they were close enough to see them.

Vietnam was to become the testing ground for the technology. However, the Rules of Engagement often dictated that the identity of opponents had to be visually confirmed first. This could lead the heavy American aircraft (often with no guns) into tight, close-in, turning fights with lighter, cannon armed MiGs. Analysis showed that US airmen needed new aircraft, leading to the F-15 & F-16 programmes and new skills, which lead to the creation of the USAF’s Aggressor squadrons. These squadrons flew lightweight aircraft, often of types not used by the US, which could simulate the tactics and manoeuvres used by enemies.

Evan M‘s excellent F-16C comes from the 16th Weapons Squadron, based at Nellis AFB. The model does a very good job of capturing the smooth curves of the F-16’s blended fuselage and wing in angular Lego. The tan & brown colours from Lego also represent one of the various colours scheme used by the squadron. Click here to see more images and click here to take the Highway to the Danger Zone.

Striped Snake

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Lego Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR

We have a bit of a soft spot for the Dodge Viper here at TLCB. Yes, it’s a poorly built, pointlessly-engined, wayward-handling super ‘sports car’ from the country that doesn’t know what a corner is, but – well – it just looks so cool! This top-notch recreation of the SRT10 ACR Viper, a special edition that aimed to sort out the car’s cornering deficiencies, is the work of previous bloggee Alexander Paschoaletto, and it looks easily as cool as the real thing. See more at Alexander’s Flickr photostream by clicking here.

Lego Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR

Thunderbirds Are Go!

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F-16 Thunderbird

Neither Brains nor Lady Penelope but the United States’ Airforce aerobatic display team feature in this model from Jme Wheeler. Whilst other militaries use lightweight trainer aircraft to equip their teams, the USAF and the US Navy have traditionally used front-line fighters. At one point, both teams displayed using the large, heavy McDonnel Douglas Phantom II, a machine not exactly noted for its manoeuvrability.

This model is neatly chibi version of the current mount of the Thunderbirds: the Lockheed-Martin F-16. Jme Wheeler has captured the shape of the Viper in compact form, including its chines. He’s made a good choice in the big, bubble canopy that has allowed him to squeeze a minifigure into the cockpit too. It’s all topped off with a suitably abbreviated version of the Thunderbirds’ distinctive markings. Sadly, a group of Elves has got hold of the model and are busily trying to fly it across the TLCB offices by launching it from a high shelf. To get a view of the ‘plane when it was still in one piece, click this link to Flickr, where you can see more of Jme Wheeler’s Lego cars and ‘planes.

Red Letter Day

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Lego Cars

It’s been an uneventful few days here at TLCB Towers, as not a single Elf has returned with anything of note. Out of patience, we summoned Mr. Airhorn and chased any remaining Elves out of the office. When they’re hungry enough (which won’t take long) we’ll have some more models to blog…

In the meantime we can keep the cars coming thanks to some of your suggestions.

From left to right; Previous bloggee Alexander Paschoaletto‘s tidy Model Team Koenigsegg CCX, previous bloggee Rage Hobbit‘s remote control Technic Lotus Elise S, and newcomer Ben Smith‘s lovely Model Team Dodge Viper GTS.

You can see more of each of today’s submitted creations via the hyperlinks in the text above, and if you’d like to suggest a creation too you can do so via the Feedback page found in the main menu.

Swoooosh!

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Lego Spaceship

Spacepunk

This very purple viper spaceship is the work of the rather talented tardisblue. Side-note; Punk appears to make a resurgence at some point in the future, judging by the follicly-endowed pilot. Check out the full photo gallery on Flickr.