Born Slippy*
According to cartoon lore, the banana skin is the slippiest object in the universe. Not the obvious choice for tyres therefore, which tend to require the opposite characteristics of skiddy fruit, but...
View ArticleStar Sailor*
We’re having a whimsical return after our Christmas break, and it continues with this splendid hovership by Flickr’s Konajra. A quad of hull-mounted anti-gravity engines provide the ‘Zephyr Voyager’...
View ArticleBond Bug(gy)
It’s the first of February, which means the annual build-a-thon ‘Febrovery’ is back for another year! Before enthusiasts of old British cars get excited, Febrovery is not a homage to long-dead Brit...
View ArticleAnthropomorphic Breadbins
Febrovery has barely begun and we’re already deep into weird purple trees and anthropomorphicised breadbins. Amongst the peculiar biology is Frost (aka TFDesigns!)‘s fantastical rover, a unique...
View ArticleKosmic Kettenkrad
The Lego Car Blog can be accused of many things. Incompetence. Wilful ignorance. Childish humour. But Only-Blogging-Thousand-Brick creations isn’t one of them. Proving that point today is Nikolaus...
View ArticleSpeeding Over Sand
This is an X-28 Landspeeder, and… um, that’s all we know. We’re not Star Trek Wars people. But we do like racing stripes and rooster-tail dust-clouds, and this has both! Ordo (Fabian B.) is the...
View ArticleSpindly Spider
Febrovery’s weirdness continues, and this is right up there in the weird stakes. Entitled the ‘Hexapod Rover’, Pascal‘s spindly spider design is probably eliciting some primal emotions in some of our...
View ArticleFoot Fetish
This TLCB Writer doesn’t understand feet. Sure they’re there to hold you up and everthing, but to him they are functional only. Like a trachea. Or a spleen. But not today, because today’s he’s so into...
View ArticleRoving Magnificent
This year’s Febrovery is just over half-way through, with interplanetary oddities of all shapes and sizes appearing by the dozen. This one comes from martin.with.bricks, rocking a Neo-Classic Space...
View ArticleFebrovery Special
The Lego Car Blog Elves are well-fed during Febrovery. A huge array of blogworthy spacey vehicular creations are created, earning the Elves many meal tokens, and TLCB Staff much angst, as it’s a...
View ArticleCosmic Containers
The good thing about trucking across a newly-populated planetary expanse, is there are no low bridges. Which means no pesky height restrictions for your space shipping, something Flickr’s Walter...
View ArticleFebrovery Round-Up
It’s the final day of Febrovery, much to the relief of TLCB Staff who are several lightyears outside of their comfort zone. But no matter, because the creations – as with each year’s event – have been...
View ArticleIn Space, No-One Can Hear You, Um…
Well whatever this Classic Spaceman is doing, no-one can hear him. Flickr’s manuele vidi is the creator of this whimsical Classic Space vignette, in which many hands make a great logo. Join the...
View ArticleSpace to Move
Need to move your out-of-atmosphere ship across the planetary surface? Then Thomas of Tortuga has the vehicle for you! Capable of carrying ships like this Border Integrity Corvette, the Morvin...
View ArticleFlight of the Pterosaur
Uh oh. Sci-Fi. The genre about which we know nothing. Fortunately the creator of this spellbinding ‘Pterosaur Ship’, which to us looks like the beautiful combination of a bat and a dying butterfly,...
View ArticleReady Player 2?
‘Player 1, Player 2, Choose your fighter!’ is the title of this space-based build by bradk918. Although it hasn’t escaped our notice that the starfighters are actually numbered one and three… No...
View ArticleBoring in Space
Amazon just sent Katy Perry to the edge of space to promote her new album or something. Which shows we’re pretty close to space travel becoming as banal as flying to Bakersfield for a business...
View ArticleGood Prospects
This enormous floating monolith is – according to its maker Vince_Toulouse – a ‘T8-Prospector’, and it’s magnificent. Whilst we know not what it does, we do know that Bionicle, Galidor, and Duplo...
View ArticleStreet Fight
Pew! Pew! Bhoooouum! Screeeeeaaanch! An in-depth and comprehensive summary there, of this absolutely phenomenal scene from Flickr’s Carter. A spectacular homage to LEGO’s Exo-Force theme, this is the...
View ArticleLAPD 2049
Blade Runner’s ‘Spinner’ has appeared on these pages nearly a dozen times, but we always enjoy seeing new takes on the format. This one applies the iconic design to the LAPD c2049 and comes from...
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