Minecraft
It’s been a summery weekend here at TLCB, and this writer has been enjoying the great outdoors. Spare a thought then for those working far away from the sun, bringing us the materials out of the...
View ArticleWremotely Wrangling
This spellbinding creation comes from one of The Lego Car Blog’s very favourite builders. Madoca1977 has appeared here numerous times over the years with his stunning Technic vehicles. His latest is...
View ArticleKRAZY
This is a Ukrainian KrAz 255 6×6 off-road truck, launched in the late 1960s by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The KrAZ factory actually started out making bridges, then combine harvesters,...
View ArticleClockwork Orange
We have a happy TLCB Elf in the office today. Contentedly munching on an orange Smartie (they’re the best kind), it found this brilliant mechanical-only Technic Mercedes-Benz Arocs tipper truck. Yup,...
View ArticleMike and the Mechanics
Another day, another find, and another obscure British music reference for a title. You don’t get that at The Brothers Brick. This brilliant garage scene comes from Flickr’s mike m., and it perfectly...
View ArticleLykan Hypersport – Picture Special
This is the Lykan Hypersport, a car with a base price of $3.4million, a production run of just seven units, and diamonds embedded in the headlights. It is a spectacularly pointless machine, built for...
View ArticleKomatsu 3000
This big yellow box is a Komatsu 3000, which sounds like a robot from the Terminator movie franchise. It is in fact a 19ft wide, 1260bhp bucket excavator, with a top speed of 1.5mph. One point five!...
View ArticleOutlawed Electronics
This fantastic looking Technic Supercar ‘Outlaw’ comes from TLCB Master MOCer and serial bloggee Paul Boratko, better known as Crowkillers. His latest creation celebrates 40 years of LEGO Technic, and...
View ArticleDear John*
This neat John Deere 7930 complete with duel-axle trailer comes from Flickr’s keko007. Realistic on the outside, the inside is packed with functionality, including full Power Functions remote control...
View ArticleVeneno
This is a Lamborghini Veneno Roadster, a car that – even by Lamborghini standards – is completely mad. Based on the Aventador supercar, the 740bhp V12-engined carbon-fibre Veneno celebrated the...
View ArticleEruption*
This striking-looking supercar entitled ‘Volcano’ comes from Charbel of Flickr and Eurobricks, and it’s one of the coolest Technic creations we’ve seen in ages. Featuring all the prerequisites of a...
View ArticleMy Other Car is a Porsche
LEGO’s 42056 Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS set did not fair well here under the Reviewer’s gaze. Over-priced and under-engineered, 42056 is – in that regard at least – quite un-Porsche-like. However the...
View ArticleWriter’s Revenge
Today, this TLCB Writer snapped. Enough Elven droppings on the office floor. Enough Elven fighting in the corridor. Enough Elven surgery following the Elven fighting in the corridor. Luckily one of...
View ArticleBig Red
This big red box is a Peterbilt 579 truck, and it comes from TLCB debutant Abhi Jain. Underneath the Technic panelled exterior is a full remote control drivetrain, with two L Motors powering the rear...
View ArticleSliding Citroen
Dogs on hardwood floors. The masters of indoor drifting. Until now. This angry-looking creation is a Citroen DS3 World Rally Car, as driven by nine time World Champion Sébastien Loeb, who has now...
View ArticleTechnic Expedition
If you were surprised that yesterday’s find resulted in no Elven carnage, so were we. Fast, nimble and easily controllable from a bluetooth device, Anto’s remote control Citroen World Rally Car would...
View ArticleHard Trucking
After a productive day here in TLCB Towers – with several Elves successful and fed – this rumbled into the office. Powered by two Power Functions XL motors, with eight wheel drive, four wheel...
View ArticleTechnic Truckin’
From the sophisticated beauty of yesterday’s post to… well, a big red truck. But what Damian Plesniak (aka damianple)’s Technic truck lacks in fancy Model Team detailing it more than makes up for with...
View ArticleCrushing Cars
Never has a vehicle found by one of Elves been more… Elven. Well, maybe if paave‘s Technic Bigfoot monster truck was remote controlled, but weary of past smushings we’re rather thankful that it isn’t....
View ArticleMcLaren P1
McLaren’s past few Formula 1 seasons are probably best forgotten, but whilst their F1 campaign is currently something of a disaster, thanks to the dog of a Honda power unit in the back of their MCL32,...
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