Water on Mars
Mars. Our closest neighbour that isn’t orbiting us, and bleak desolate planet where water turns directly from a solid to a vapour, and back again. Cue BobDeQuatre‘s ‘Dionysus’ armoured water tanker, a...
View ArticleBuilding Big
Really, really big. The human in the above picture is Beat Felber, a Lego builder of gigantic proportions. His models we mean. Surrounding Beat are ten spectacular fully remote controlled pieces of...
View ArticleSurprise Squashing
‘Huh…’ thought this TLCB Writer as he entered the office today. The cause of the casual surprise was a weird yellow vehicle, trundling up and down the corridor with a gaggle of happy Elves in the...
View ArticleRacing Point(less)
Racing trucks are a bit like starting a removal company with a Mazda Miata. There are vehicles considerably more suited to the task. But, much like moving house in a Miata, a racing truck is a...
View ArticleMind Bending
This is an MAN Lion articulated bus, created in Technic by Fosapifi of Eurobricks, and in place of the usual nonsense we write on these pages, this post is mostly an almost unfathomably long list....
View ArticleMAN on a Mission
If this TLCB Writer received paid holiday (no chance! Ed.), he’d like to go adventuring in something like this. Built by collaborative building channel MTC, this MAN 8×8 off-road expedition truck...
View ArticleBig Reach
Reach. It’s a word we hear a lot in the running of a world-famous top-quality Lego site. OK, a mildly-known bottom-of-the-barrel Lego site. But nevertheless, we still hear it a lot. Countless messages...
View ArticleWeekend in Drag
This a dragline crawler crane, used in open-cast mining for digging really big holes. Built by previous bloggee Beat Felber, this incredible creation is a fully-working replica of one the world’s...
View ArticleTank Hunter
Does anyone else remember that fiendishly addictive early computer game in which the player was tasked with manoeuvring around a seeming infinite plain populated by the outlines of various 3D shapes,...
View ArticleBig Tow
Mining trucks are slow. But even slower are the tracked vehicles that fill them, designed as they are to move very heavy things very short distances. Which means if you need to relocate an enormous...
View ArticleLitronic Liebherr
From one 300-ton machine to another, only this one is real. The Liebherr R 944 B Litronic is the smaller brother of the 800-ton Liebherr R9800 that LEGO used to create the largest Technic set ever...
View ArticleWheelie Big
Nothing makes our smelly little workers happier than flattening one another with a remote control find. Cue much excitement from the Elf that found this enormous fully remote controlled Komatsu...
View ArticleFlying Across New York
Many Marvely-type superheros have flown across New York. Or run. Or swung on spiderwebs. Or been propelled by their supersuit/hammer/insertmagicspaceitemhere. The real heroes of New York however, take...
View ArticleNooteworthy
The Online Lego Community can be a wonderful place of collaboration. Take this spectacular three-in-one build by TLCB Master MOCer Dennis Bosman. Despite his own prodigious talent, Dennis can still...
View ArticleBackwithanotheroneofthose…
…block rockin’ beats!* OK, we don’t often feature a title referring to the builder rather than model, but seeing as Flickr’s Beat Felber appeared here only two days ago with another spectacular model,...
View ArticleEnormous Dump
Nope, not Detroit, but this; an utterly gargantuan Terex Unit Rig MT 6300AC. Designed to work alongside the world’s largest rope shovels, this 400-ton truck operates in an Australian open-cast ore...
View ArticleTop Grades
After extolling the virtues of creations that don’t need a suite of electronics earlier today, here’s one with a suite of electronics. Because shut up, that why. It is astonishing though, coming again...
View ArticleWheelie Big
This amazing machine is a Komatsu WE2350 wheel loader, a 270-ton, 2,300bhp leviathan designed to load the world’s ‘ultra class’ 400-ton mining dump trucks. Originally a LeTourneau design launched in...
View ArticleStar Tipper
We love Big Red Trucks here at The Lego Car Blog, and – judging by the joyous noise emitting from the Elves riding around in the back of this one – so do our smelly little workers. The truck in...
View ArticleDigging Dirt
The Elves here at TLCB Towers eat all sorts of things. These include actual meals, awarded to them for finding a blog-worthy creation such as this one, but also glue sticks, dog treats, erasers, and...
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