Make-a-Mecha
Italian concept artist Marco Marozzi has appeared here (and better sites) numerous times with his incredible mecha creations. Complex mechanical characters “that belong to plausible industrial,...
View ArticleSpace Saturday
It’s been ages since we’ve featured something sci-fi related, and there’s a very good reason for that; we’re crap at it. But no matter, because today we have no fewer than four spacey builds, and each...
View ArticleCosmic Corvettes
Corvettes, like Mustangs, are often driven by people who think their car can spin on the spot. Or fly. Or both. They are mistaken. But not today! Because we have two Corvettes that can do just that....
View ArticleThe Robot Apocalypse
We’re all living in a world of AI now. Mostly of course, AI is used to make terrible short videos and to write cover letters, but there’s a somewhat scarier application which means we’re pretty much...
View ArticleBiking Through the Stars
It is just over a year since racing car building legend and TLCB Master MOCer Luca Rusconi (aka RoscoPC) tragically died in a motorcycle accident. His works remain amongst the finest that this site...
View ArticleFlight of the Bumblebee
According to early aerodynamic science, the bumblebee cannot – in fact – fly. But it can, because we’ve seen them do it. Like, all the time. We’re not sure about Shannon Sproule‘s ‘Bumblebee Short...
View ArticleSmiles in Space
We’re in a sub-genre of a sub-genre today. In space. Which means that TLCB Team are light years away from their happy place next to an internal combustion engine. And yet we’re still happy, because how...
View ArticleSeparation Space
Sometimes a little separation is a good thing. And we have two good things today in the form of these splendid brick-separator-based speeder bikes. Flickr’s Wynd owns the hands behind them and you can...
View ArticleI Used to Bullseye Womp Rats…
It’s Star Wars Day, that one day of the year when nerds feel socially acceptable, and when websites that normally couldn’t care less about the George Lucas saga jump on the bandwagon for clicks. Um,...
View ArticleBeef Pew
Along with cyberpunk and melon as a starter, we really don’t understand sci-fi. And that’s why, in our minds, pretty much all spaceships go ‘pew-pew!’. Except today, because this one goes ‘PEW-PEW’....
View ArticleAtomic Wedgie
Tightly-whiteys, budgie smugglers, keggs, chuddies… You’ll have to ask David Roberts why he’s designed a spaceship to look like a giant pair of undercrackers, but if you do, please also ask him why he...
View ArticleAstronomy Alphabet
Star Wars’ Rebel Alliance, much like Mercedes-Benz, name their products based on ‘Sesame Street’s Letter of the Day. Thus today we have an H-Wing, so called because it looks almost nothing like an H....
View ArticleAgricultural Abduction
“I’m tellin’ you man! I saw it with my own eyes – hovering in the sky like an… uh, I don’t even know what. But it was right over there! And I ain’t even started drinkin’ yet!” Grab your ‘Welcome to...
View ArticleMore is More
When it comes to cars, we’re ‘less is more’ people. Subtlety and understatement are the order of the day. For TLCB Elves however, more is definitely more. Which means they’re very excited by this...
View ArticleYavin’ a Rebellion
TLCB Staff are leaving the comfort of their garages today and heading to the jungle moon Yavin 4, where the Rebel Alliance are planning an audacious attack on the Galactic Empire. Hidden inside an...
View ArticleNeeeaaaw Whudhudhuhdua…
Pew pew, neeeaaaw, whudhudhudhudua, ploouuuumph, glaaaark! As has been documented on this pages, TLCB are not Star Wars fans. Which is probably why we like ‘Episode 1; The Phantom Menace’, because...
View ArticleRoving Mad
There’s under a week to go of this year’s Febrovery, with dozens of lunar rovers of all shapes and sizes created so far. Which means dozens of creations about which TLCB Writers – whose comfort zone...
View ArticleBlack to the Future
This TLCB Writer is over new cars. Unending app updates, simulated ‘manual’ transmissions, three sub-menus to turn on the heater, and constant bonging to tell you to sit up straight, that you’re 1mph...
View ArticleThe Human Centipede
It’s Febrovery! That time of year when members of the Lego Community get into line, following closely behind one-another to build rovers all shapes and sizes. None seem to be the wares of the defunct...
View ArticleCosmic Craning
Are cranes required in space? There’s no gravity… We’re a car blog so we won’t think about that too deeply and instead revel in the deep coolness of Ivan Martynov‘s ‘RS11200 Space Craft Type’. Lift...
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