Sand Green
Winter is coming here in TLCB’s home nation. The trees are red and yellow, the ground is thick with the shells of various nuts, and a good proportion of the country is under water. So to cheer us up...
View ArticleGatorade
We love simple basic vehicles here at The Lego Car Blog, perhaps because we’re rather simple and basic ourselves. Cue the John Deere Gator, an all-terrain utility vehicle powered by a 340cc lawn-mower...
View ArticleMighty Metro
It’s the early-’80s, and British Leyland has a new small (and surprisingly good) car on its hands. The Metro, first sold as an Austin and later a Rover, rapidly became a best seller, with over 130,000...
View ArticleMy Other Vehicle’s a Giant Excavator
The 4,100-piece LEGO Technic 42100 Liebherr R 9800 Excavator is the largest and most expensive Technic set ever released. With seven motors, two ‘Smart Hub’s, and programmable control via the...
View ArticleLEGO Technic H1 2024 | Set Previews
It’s time! After a period lost in space, and with the Elves that managed not to become German-Shepherd-snacks safely back at TLCB Towers, we can reveal the brand new for 2024 LEGO Technic line-up. And...
View ArticleBeta Test
The LEGO Technic 8865 Test Car didn’t exactly bowl over our reviewer when we had one on test. However if you own a 8865 set (and a set of pliers to take it apart), you could turn it into this neat...
View ArticleRoute 66
The war in Ukraine drags on, as tiny-penised Putin continues his folly to return the region back to the days of the Soviet Union. Those days, marked with oppression, fear, and the eradication of...
View ArticleThe Last RWD Champion
From one wild almost-unrestricted racing car to another; this is the Lancia 037, the last rear-wheel-drive car to win the World Rally Championship, and one of the earliest entrants into the insanity...
View ArticleSuper 8
The Lego Car Blog Elves are winding down for Christmas. They don’t need to of course – they’re Elves, basically designed to work during the festive period. And they don’t have rights. However, we...
View ArticleAntidote
Despite what you’d think looking at the cars around TLCB Towers, you really don’t need a Range Rover to drive to the gym. Which is why we love the Suzuki Jimny. Small, light, and vastly more capable...
View ArticleMechanimog
We love the Mercedes-Benz Unimog here at The Lego Car Blog. Designed as a multi-purpose tractor for both civilian industry and the military, the Unimog is simple, highly adaptable, and incredibly...
View ArticleForest Fire
Following Master MOCer Thirdwigg’s recent appearance here with his superb Mercedes-Benz Unimog U4000, he recently uploaded a few other variants, which is fitting as the Unimog is available in a...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Truck
LEGO’s 10290 Creator Expert Pickup Truck set has spawned several excellent alternates thus far, and today we have another. Built by FanisLego, 825 of the original set’s 1,677 pieces have been...
View ArticleWhat is it Good For?
Humanity still enjoys a good war every now and then. And, because it’s been five minutes since the last conflict in the Middle East, a new one is pulling more and more nations, factions and regions...
View ArticleBrickin’ Bronco
Ford have decided to stop selling anything that’s not an SUV. Or a Mustang. Which is both a shame and very possibly a mistake. However their renewed SUV-focus has brought about the return of one of...
View ArticleMega Rover
Febrovery is back for another year, when the Online Lego Community comes together to build various planetary roving vehicles in innumurable styles and themes. This is spaceruner‘s, a small 6×6...
View ArticleEven More Mogin’
There are almost as many variants of Mercedes-Benz’s Unimog as there are tasks for them to do. Which is probably the point. Endlessly adaptable, the Unimog is also the perfect choice for Technic...
View ArticleRoving Big
Febrovery, the annual building bandwagon in which ground-based science-fiction vehicles take over Flickr, is complete for another year. Which means it’s complete here too, which is good news for TLCB...
View ArticleDesert Lion
France isn’t known for strong animal symbolism, with a chicken usually being selected as the animal of choice. Peugeot – weirdly – does have a good animal symbol, what with the marque’s badge being a...
View ArticleTowtally Sideways
You don’t need a million pieces and to know The Brothers Brick secret handshake to see your creation blogged. A few dozen, cunning deployed (sideways in this case), combined with careful presentation...
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