Duplo ChristmasChristmas Lego IdeasHoliday LegosLego HolidaysLego XmasLego AdventElf And Reindeer IdeasReindeer ElfReindeer StockingForwardFind out how you and your little builder can make your own LEGO DUPLO reindeer! Finally, a Lego set to keep your 1962 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van company Lego bricks are, well, blocky. Which is why making a box-shaped Lego set like a 1962 Volkswagen T1 Camper Van makes sense. This is also why the new Lego set of a 1960s Beetle is all the more impressive. Not only does it feature opening doors, a hood and rear engine cover, but it also does a fairly impressive job of recreating the Bug’s signature curves in miniature form. The kit, officially part of Lego’s Creator series, measures 11 inches tall by 10 inches long and four inches wide. It’s composed of 1,167 pieces – which is likely similar to the ultra-simplistic Beetle on which this Lego kit is based. The set will retail for US$99 when it launches on August 1. LEGO lets you build a Ferrari F40 of your own
Little Lego bricks forever inspire the kid in all of us Insane life-size Lego hot rod is drivable and runs on airHere’s how to make the most out of negotiating SUV Review: 2017 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sahara 2017 Volvo V60 Polestar runs circles around its ancestors Car Review: 2017 Dodge Charger SXT Rallye AWD World’s fastest Volkswagen Beetle can do 205 MPH The 2017 Volkswagen #PinkBeetle visits Canada’s classic car capital Car Review: 2016 Volkswagen Beetle Dune 1974 VW Beetle with 89 kilometres sells for US$43KFREE Standard Delivery On orders over £40 FREE Next Day Click & Collect On orders over £20 International Delivery Find out moreCaterham Seven 620R immortalised in new LEGO set Who doesn’t love Lego? OK, maybe parents who step on stray bricks in bare feet on a regular basis? But apart from them, who doesn’t love Lego? I don’t know why I got to thinking about it, but I decided to look around the net for cars made from Lego…..
and there are tons of them. Here are some of my favourites. Here’s a giant Ford Explorer made out of 380,000 Lego pieces. This was a joint effort between Ford and Legoland Florida. It was said to be the first effort in a long term partnership between the two but I can’t find any examples to suggest the partnership is ongoing. Meanwhile, on the other side of the US, Legoland California put together this Volvo XC90 for display back in 2004. I can’t find a photo, but I’m pretty sure I saw this car in person at Swedish Car Day in Boston, back in 2010. Anyway……. it’s big, it’s blue and – fitting for a Volvo – it’s made out of bricks 🙂 Another full-size Lego-mobile, but this one comes with a couple of life-size Lego men that you can sit inside it 🙂 Let’s move down in size a little from those monolithic Lego creations to something a little more of the size you might build at home. The Tyrrell P34 might be a blip in Formula 1 history, but like most automotive blips, it’s a popular, interesting and notable blip. Ty
rrell shocked the F1 world when it unveiled the P34 in the mid 1970’s and the icing on the cake came with a 1-2 finish in the Swedish Grand Prix of 1976 – the car’s only Grand Prix win and the only win ever for a six-wheeled car. This Lego model of the Tyrrell is a wonderful example of a fan’s dedication, with the most important bits all in place right down to the small front quartet of wheels balancing out the two large rear wheels. You can see more here. OK, so it’s not a car, but it sort of crosses the bridge between what you’ve just seen and what you’ll see in a moment. There are a few Lego engines out there but I especially liked this one thanks to the distributor and the glowing leads meant to show the spark. This video starts slow but he cranks it up a little around the 55 second mark. OK, let’s up-size again. But this one’s notable because it’s full-size, it works – and it was built in Australia 🙂 The basic figures: 4 orbital engines, 256 pistons and around 500,000 pieces of Lego! The
re are only two non-Lego parts, which are the struts carrying all the weight and the tyres. The rest is all Lego. The car runs on compressed air. It doesn’t run far, but it does run. Wat Most of what you see here is the work of a bunch of dedicated Lego-geeks, guys who love to lock themselves in a room full of plastic tubs sorted into different sizes and colours. Occasionally, though, the geekiest of the Lego geeks – the Lego company itself – releases a car model for people to collect. Such is the case with this VW Camper, complete with opening doors and windows, pop-top, real textile curtains and a little boxer engine in the boot. What’s a Sheepo, I hear you say? It’s not what, but who. Sheepo is a guy from Spain and he makes the geeks working at Lego look like Beaker from the Muppets. This guy is into building some seriously technical stuff, including components like torsion beam and multi-link rear axles as well as little trolley jacks so your lego men can raise the cars themselves 🙂
And he even gives out the instructions so you can do it yourself! The video below shows his Caterham 7 (especially for Gavin 🙂 ). Sheepo’s also built a Shelby Mustang, a Land Rover Defender and even a Peterbuilt truck! Like Sheepo, Sariel is another Lego Technic enthusiast who builds amazing vehicles using only Lego parts. This Enzo is one such vehicle. That’s some nice photography, too. Sariel’s Enzo video provides a wonderful insight into just how technical these vehicles get. Just like a real vehicle, there’s all sorts of packaging issues to consider in order to get all the motors and pneumatics inside an Enzo-shaped shell. O out Sariel’s website for more. Here’s one final custom creation – one that was too cute to leave out. This is made by another custom-builder, named Nico. I love the look and the crazy Citroen suspension on this one 🙂£96.99Buy it now watching | View detailsCondition:NewTime left:11d 12h 28mLamborghini Centenario – Picture Special
This incredible-looking car is a Lamborghini Centenario, built to celebrate the 100th Birthday of Ferruccio Lamborghini, and based on a 760bhp version of the V12-engined Aventador supercar. Just forty Centenarios were produced, each costing well over $2million, and all were pre-sold, so it’s unlikely that we’ll ever see one. Fortunately Ryan Link has built the next-best thing; a near perfect Model Team replica of the limited-run supercar. With a detailed interior and engine, opening doors and engine cover, and the Centennario’s carbon-fibre monocoque recreated beautifully in brick form it’s a model that’s well worth a closer look. The full gallery of images is available to view on both MOCpages and Flickr – click the link to make the jump. We thought that Febrovery had every possible base covered by now, but Flickr’s Galaktek has managed to find a roving niche as yet unfilled. And now we think about it, it’s an obvious one too. Any planet worth inhabiting must have water, but until now the liquid surface of space has been completely ignored by the rover designers of the internet.
However, with niftily retractable wheels and a suite of propellors, Galaktek‘s Beatles-esque ‘Submarover’ can explore the oceans and land in equal measure, all whilst singing an irritating tune. Set sail via the link above. Flickr’s vehicle-building society LUNuts are very on-topic right now, with their current monthly building contest taking in all things dystopian. Previous bloggee Lino Martins’ entry pays homage the bleak dystopian masterpiece ‘1984’, which contains absolutely no similarities with the current state of U.S politics. Coincidentally, we’ll hand over to Lino to explain some of the features of his ‘Murica-mobile’; “The roof mounted loud speakers are so that the driver may broadcast alternate facts, and many people are saying that the gun rack and truck nuts are a classy touch. And no one knows classy better than I do. Let’s make America great again. See more courtesy of Lino’s photostream.Flickr’s Brian Grissom is sure to take home the ‘Nice Parts Usage’ Award (which we’ve just made up) with his effort, which has taken Duplo-building to another planet.
There’s more to see of his ingenious Duplo Classic Space Police thingumy on Flickr – click here to see more. The Porsche 911 was not a complicated car when it launched in the 1960s, and some would argue it still isn’t today. It is however, fiendishly difficult to built accurately from LEGO, as every single panel seems to have three different curves on it. Flickr’s Michael Jasper has nailed it though, with some ingenious building techniques that have bricks facing in all six possible directions. See how Michael has done it, thanks to a handy cut-away image, at his photostream here. This Eastern European oddity is an air-cooled Jawa 350 motorcycle, a bike that was launched back in the ’50s, yet is still in production today. This neat Technic recreation of the Czechoslovakian motorbike comes from František Hajdekr and there’s more to see at his photostream via the link. Back To The Future’s on TV Again! We’ll watch the Back to the Future trilogy literally every time it’s on television, which means it plays quite regularly here at TLCB Towers.
Flickr’s Primoz Mlakar has gone one step further though, as cinema’s most iconic movie car is permanently showing on his TV. This absolutely wonderful period-correct 1980s Sony television, complete with the famous flying DeLorean from Back to the Future Part II, has caused our collective jaw to drop here in the office, and we cannot recommend taking a closer look highly enough. This is the build of the year so far. Before the Mini Traveller, now called the ‘Clubman’, became a larger rebadged BMW 1 Series, it looked like this. This is the van variant, of which over half a million were produced until the early 1980s, but with a payload of just 1/4 of a ton it wasn’t going to trouble Ford’s Transit. However, the Traveller van was perfect for light-duty work nipping down city streets, which is what Flickr’s Peter Schmid has deployed his to do, delivering pizza for Al Capone’s pizzeria. Based on the official LEGO 10242 Mini Cooper Creator set, Peter has faithfully replicated the van version of the iconic original Mini, complete with the famous twin barn doors at the back.
Place your pizza order at Peter’s photostream via the link above. A seemingly inevitable fixture in old-timey race movies, a car or plane will crash through a barn and emerge out the other side covered in hay and miraculously unharmed chickens, and followed by a wildly gesticulating farmer. Exactly as per this glorious action-shot by Flickr’s PigletCiamek, who has absolutely nailed it! Click the link above to follow the aeronautical shenanigans! Of course LEGO Batman drives a hot rod. He has impeccable taste. This one is the work of TLCB regular Andrea Lattanzio and there’s more to see here. Your Mom likes a good plow, so today we’ve got one. This is a replica of a PKP 411S-121, and it’s been recreated beautifully by Maciej Drwięga of Flickr. Exquisite detail abounds, and you can see all of the superb photos of Maciej’s build at his photostream via the link above. This neat Town-scale Volkswagen Crafter flatbed recovery truck comes courtesy of Сергей Антохин of Flickr, and it’s only missing a broken Peugeot for maximum realism.