Mysterious Liking
There are some things that this TLCB Writer probably shouldn’t admit to liking. Made in Chelsea. His own farts. Nickelback. Star Wars Episode I. And, most embarrassingly of all, the Opel Frontera....
View ArticleZillie Smalls
The Lego Car Blog Elves have a well-publicised penchant for extreme violence. They’ve squashed, flattened, and smushed one-another via a variety of brick-built creations, and whilst they may be...
View ArticleInsanity Incoming
Is there any car more likely to be driven by someone with a looser grip on reality than the Hummer H1. You’ll notice there’s no question mark at the end of that sentence because no, no there isn’t....
View ArticleLEGO Formula 1 2025 | Set Previews
LEGO have long dabbled in officially-licensed Formula 1 sets. Tie ups with Scuderia Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes-AMG and others in recent years have strengthened the collaboration, but today we have an...
View ArticleCarry on Camping
It’s nearly Black Friday, that magical time of year when consumers banish any thoughts of Thanksgiving to fight in the streets over discounted electronics, and when we want to escape to the wilderness...
View ArticleTechnic Trials
Technic building can be difficult. In fact the comment we receive most into The Lego Car Blog Inbox (besides spam for crypto currencies obviously) is ‘Can I have building instructions?’. Well yes,...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42205 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray | Set Preview
It’s that time of year again, when a crack team of TLCB Elves is sent to sneak around The LEGO Company’s headquarters to find (and steal) the top secret imagery of next year’s Technic line-up. Of...
View ArticleVolvo²
No this time we’re not making classic Volvo jokes. Because today’s post is a Volvo atop another Volvo, for some kind of Volvo². This phenomenal Volvo Aero truck is the work of MCD, and it might be –...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car | Set Preview
Following our huge preview of the all new LEGO Formula 1 range, encompassing all ten teams and spanning themes from Duplo to Technic, there’s one more Formula 1 set that escaped the reveal. This is...
View ArticleMarble Run
This skeletal-looking creation is a Mack Marble trial truck, and it comes from regular bloggee and TLCB Master MOCer Thirdwigg, who has eschewed his usual all-mechanical approach for a suite of Power...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42204 Fast & Furious Toyota Supra MK4 | Set Preview
Aaaand here it is! Probably the most over-hyped car in history, the source of a million internet arguments, and a vehicle countless LEGO fans have been waiting for ever since the company secured both...
View ArticleLEGO Technic H1 2025 | Set Previews
It’s a few weeks before Christmas And all through LEGO’s HQ TLCB Elves have been sneaking Finding sets to preview. Yes it’s that time of year once again, when a crack team of ‘volunteer’ Elves are...
View ArticleNot a Bad Way to Spend $10,000
The infamous words of Dominic Toretto, after lifting the hood of Brian O’Conner’s modified Mitsubishi Eclipse, and listing several things you wouldn’t be able to see by lifting the hood. A ludicrous...
View ArticleDuke 690
LEGO’s expanding range of 1:5 scale Technic motorcycle sets is not only allowing fans to build some of the world’s best bikes in brick form, it’s also furnishing the Lego Community with a plethora of...
View ArticleOff-Road Alternative
The excellent LEGO Technic 42177 Mercedes-Benz G 500 set has successfully brought one of the market’s best known 4x4s to bedroom floors (or more likely Dads’ shelves) everywhere. But what if you like...
View ArticleThe Hook
It’s New Year’s Day, and there’s already a hooker in the office. Nope, we haven’t gone ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ for 2025 (we’re still very much a ropey Lego blog rather than a stock market scam); this...
View ArticleMy Other Car’s a Ford GT
The most common basis for hot rods are Fords. Due to their abundance in America in the 1920s-’40s, all manner of blue ovals have been hot rodded; Model-Ts, Model-As, ‘Tudors‘, ‘5-Windows‘ and...
View ArticleThe Alternative
Here at The Lego Car Blog we’re big fans of up-cycling. Repurposing one thing into another thing is both advantageous to the wallet, and means that one fewer new thing has had to be made, usually by...
View ArticleHoney, I Shrunk the Arocs!
The Technic 42043 Mercedes-Benz Arocs is one of the highest rated LEGO sets of all time. Now a decade old (where did that time go?), the 2015 flagship united Power Functions and pneumatics into one of...
View ArticleGreen Space
Remote control all-wheel-drive, gearbox operation, steering, and all-wheel suspension, are features normally associated with large Technic Supercars with thousands of parts. Today however, they’re all...
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