My Other Car’s a Boat
LEGO’s 42093 Chevrolet Corvette set spawned several B-Model entries into our 2020 Lock-Down B-Model Competition, including off-roaders, sports cars, and even a Formula-E racing car. This is Grohl’s...
View ArticleGreen Machine
As TLCB’s home nation has just confirmed that the sale of new non-zero emission vehicles (that’s petrol, diesel, LPG, and Hybrid) will be banned in just nine years time, this humble corner of the...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42123 McLaren Senna GTR | Set Preview
It’s that time of year again, when shadowy figures scurry through the night in search of things they didn’t know they wanted. No, not Black Friday, but the annual Elven unearthing of LEGO’s new...
View ArticleSkid Marks
The Lego Car Blog Elves, as has been well documented on these pages, love to commit acts of extreme violence on one another. We’re not really sure why, but as we suspect a trip inside the Elven mind...
View ArticleTokyo Drift
None of the ‘Fast and the Furious’ movies are works of cinematic genius, and the third instalment ‘Tokyo Drift’ ranks below even the franchise average. However we do remember it was eminently...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42124 Off-Road Buggy | Set Preview
Will any other 2021 Technic set be as good as the 42124 Control+ Off-Road Buggy? No, of course not. Resembling both a real life off-road buggy and a Tamiya RC car, 42124 is a pink and blue wonder...
View ArticleBrick Built Bimmer
Gosh do we hate the BMW X3. Not a much as the X7, which numerically we hate just over twice as much, but still. However, our thoughts on BMW’s affront to ‘compact’ SUV styling are – like pretty much...
View ArticleI Don’t Want to Live on this Planet Anymore
Half of America believes the other half is lying, a deadly disease is confining us to our homes, and we’re at the tipping point of irreversible and catastrophic climate change (unless you’re in the...
View ArticleStreet Fighter
Street Fighter is one of the highest grossing and most loved video game franchises of all time. It’s also one of the worst movies. Being neither a video game nor a movie, this ‘Street Fighter’...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42125 Ferrari 488 GTE AF CORSE #51 | Set Preview
It’s that time of year again, when the guard dogs at The LEGO Company’s HQ get the chance of an early Christmas treat in the form of Elf-based snacks. Fortunately our Elves are sneaky creatures with a...
View ArticleKett This
Your first car was your best car. Well, it was almost definitely your worst car, at least in TLCB’s home nation where astronomical insurance costs prevent new drivers from owning anything with an...
View ArticleGame of Bricks – Light Kit (42111 Dom’s Dodge Charger) | Review
Here at TLCB we’ve taken a fairly backwards approach to employee payment. As in, no one gets paid anything. But why should we have all the fun when we could not pay you guys for doing work too! Cue...
View ArticleHigh Tech LEGO Projects | Book Review
We like rule breakers here at The Lego Car Blog. Thus when No Starch Press offered us a sneaky peak into a book with ‘rule-breaking inventions’ written on the cover, we had a take a look! Well, one of...
View ArticleOld Grey
Here at The Lego Car Blog we’re basically seven year olds, so it tends to be fast, loud, and obnoxiously coloured vehicles that feature here. Not today though, as we’ve flipped to the other end of the...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42122 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon | Set Preview
The 2021 LEGO Technic set previews continue here at The Lego Car Blog, with this; the brand new 42122 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon! Adding another real-world manufacturer to the Technic line-up, 42122 will...
View ArticleDesign an Iconic Ferrari Poster! | Competition
One of LEGO’s greatest strengths is their box art, which often depicts the set inside in a beautiful artistic recreation of a real-world setting (take a look at the boxes above to see what we mean)....
View ArticleGame of Bricks – Light Kit (42107 Ducati Panigale) | Review
It’s nearly Christmas, when twinkly lights are everywhere! So why not add some to your Technic sets? Reader Francesco Frangioja has done just that… … When TLCB and Game of Bricks kindly offered me the...
View ArticleBuggy Blues
It’s been a while since the last mass Elven smushing here at The Lego Car Blog Towers. The Elves are wising up to the dangers of being out in the open for too long, a suspiciously unguarded Smartie,...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42118 & 42119 Monster Jam | Set Previews
LEGO’s officially licensed vehicles continue with two more new-for-2021 sets! 42118 and 42119 join the Technic range as the pull-backs for 2021, and like the 42109 ‘Top Gear’ rally car, each is...
View ArticleFifteen Horsepower of Fun
We’ve featured some very cool, very fast motorbikes here over the years. The Honda Mini Trail ‘Monkey Bike’ is not one of them. However we would take this diminutive 125cc practical joke of a...
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