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LEGO Technic 42127 The Batman Batmobile | Set Preview
Controversial opinion: The world needs another comic book superhero movie rehash like a second Trump presidency. And yet, thanks to Hollywood seemingly only funding sequels, prequels and spin-offs,...
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Lego Technic: An Unofficial Illustrated History
Psychiatrist’s Digest, Volume XVI INTRODUCTION What does it take to cause an otherwise sane person to write a 400-page book in their spare time, primarily for personal satisfaction? This important...
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My Other Truck’s a Mack
This excellent looking Technic Mercedes-Benz truck was discovered by one of our Elves on Brickshelf today, coming from previous bloggee mpl and being constructed solely from the parts found within the...
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The Joy of the Unexceptional
We love the unexceptional here at The Lego Car Blog. McLarens, Lamborghinis and Porsches are all very exciting, but we sometimes prefer to celebrate the ordinary. (Maybe we’ll run a building...
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My Other’s Truck’s a Bugatti
Is there anything in the vehicular world more pointless than truck racing? OK, The Brothers Brick’s review of the blue LEGO Fiat 500 set – which is exactly the same as the yellow one, only blue –...
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181mph* LEGO Supercar
*Kinda. This is the Spania GTA Spano, a 925bhp, 400km/h supercar power by a twin-turbocharged version of the V10 engine found in the Dodge/SRT Viper. Well, except this one isn’t of course, being only...
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Spania GTA Spano
What? Yes, us too, but apparently the Spania GTA Spano is Spain’s hypercar, and with 925bhp on tap, it’s quite a potent one. This incredible Technic recreation of the GTA Spano first appeared here...
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Twiddling Knobs
We like a good knob twiddle* here at The Lego Car Blog. Get your minds out of the gutter – we’re talking hand-powered mechanical functions. This is one such creation imbued with knob twiddling...
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High Five
Renualt’s humble 5 was a shopping-car favourite in the 1980s. And a joke by the 1990s. Now that most have been thrown away though, they are properly cool. Particularly in ‘Turbo’ flavour, from back...
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Ferrari at Forty
The definitive 1980s supercar, the Ferrari F40 has become – like most old vehicles – ludicrously expensive. Of course it was ludicrously expensive when new too, but fortunately we have a thoroughly...
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Doublevo
It’s a Volvo truck double here at The Lego Car Blog, much to the joy of the Elf that found this pair of Model Team creations, thus earning itself two meal tokens. Will it save one for another day or...
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What a Load…
Loading. Reloading. Unloading. All the loadings are excellent. At least according to mahjqa and his co-conspirators. This is mahjqa’s lovely Model Team / Technic truck, and it is – as you’d expect...
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My Other Jeep’s a Truck
LEGO’s 42129 Technic Mercedes-Benz Zetros set offers the chance to get a fully remote controlled ‘truck trial’-capable model off-the-shelf. And we like that. What we like even more is taking the...
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Lego Technic 2022 | Set Previews! (Pt.1)
It’s that time of year again! Yup, this year’s select group of Eleven ‘volunteers’ – fired over The LEGO Company’s perimeter wall by way of the office catapult – have started to return, and today we...
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Smushed
It’s been a while since the last Elven smushing event. This is partly because TLCB Elves are marginally wiser these days, after years of running one another over, but mostly it’s because they hadn’t...
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Want a Lift?
Lifted trucks, a favoured vehicle for a subset of the American populous that we mock regularly on these pages, are resolutely awful. Even though the suspension is raised, the lowest point of the...
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Technic 42130 BMW M 1000 RR | Set Preview
After being less than impressed with the first group of 2022 Technic sets, we were hoping something special was yet to be uncovered. And it has been! This is the brand new 42130 Technic BMW M 1000 RR,...
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The Car of Choice
Car choice seems to be shrinking of late. Despite manufacturers creating ever more models, they mostly seem to be crossovers of marginally different sizing but uniform monotony. Engine choices are...
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Moggy Christmas
It’s only two more sleeps ’til Christmas! Which means as the Elves have returned to TLCB Towers they’ve been placed back into their cages for their enforced Christmas ‘break’. They don’t mind working...
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The Grinch
Green, ugly, and ruining beloved institutions, the Grinch and the Lamborghini Urus are, in this writer’s eyes, effectively the same thing. Of course Lamborghini will sell more hateful Uruses than the...
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