MAZing Through the Snow
We may not be the most professional, well connected, articulate, or competent Lego blog, but we sure do have the most tenuous Christmas titles! Continuing the Christmassy nonsense is this, Danifill’s...
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 ArticleAcceptable in the ’80s
And the 2020s it seems, as the once fairly unfashionable Ferrari Testarossa is now a bonafide millionaires’ toy, worth much much more than the entire contents TLCB office car park. This one comes from...
View ArticleFork This
This a motorised forklift truck, it comes from previous bloggee Vladimir Drozd, and it is quite good at squashing Elves. With a number of our smelly little workers distracted by something shiny, the...
View ArticleThe Garbage Man Can!
Is this post mostly an excuse to link to one of The Simpsons’ greatest ever songs? Yes. Yes it is. But the model’s good too. Eurobricks mihao has created this superbly engineered remote control...
View ArticleMack and Cheese
This beautiful creation is a Mack R Series, one of America’s most ubiquitous heavy duty trucks, introduced in the 1960s and built for almost forty years, they were even made under license in Iran. R...
View ArticleGet Bent
Ah the bendy bus. Commonly used at airports when those raised tubey tunnel things are too far away, and – until recently – found clogging up the streets of TLCB’s home capital. However whilst the...
View ArticleThe (Very) Cold War
It’s freezing cold here at TLCB Towers, but it’s not as cold as Siberia. Not even close. Which is where this amazing ZIL-E167 was designed to operate, in one of the harshest environments on the...
View ArticleVintage Pump Rules
It’s one minute past midnight here at TLCB Towers, and this writer – for complicated home/partner-based reasons – is sleeping in the office. Or trying too. An eerie whiring noise awoke said domestic...
View ArticleQuick Cig
LEGO’s new 42141 McLaren Formula 1 Race Car comes from a time when advertising dangerous things is no longer acceptable. Unless you’re Ferrari of course. Back in the ’80s and ’90s though, anything was...
View ArticleKomatsu Krusher
This TLCB Writer was having a peaceful day scrolling through the delightfully tedious entries our Festival of Mundanity competition in collaboration with BrickNerd. There’s a bar of soap, a rental car...
View ArticleAlright M8
This rather excellent Technic Supercar is a BMW M8 Competition, BMW’s 600bhp, twin-turbo V8, all-wheel-drive flagship. Constructed by IA creations, this recreation of BMW’s super coupe includes a...
View ArticleBig Red Truck
Sometimes, and particularly if you’re a TLCB Elf, you just want to drive around in a big red truck. That’s what one of our smelly little workers is doing today, having found this beefy looking remote...
View ArticleExcellent Erection
Unlike Vladimir Putin, Dawid Boczek has a most excellent erection. This is his spectacular Liebherr LTM 1070 4.2 mobile crane, a 7,000 piece, nine motor masterpiece with a frankly huge boom. Unlike...
View ArticleFleetwood Brick
Not entered into TLCB and BrickNerd’s Festival of Mundanity contest, but gosh would it do well it if it were, is Michael217’s magnificent Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. The height of ’90s crappy...
View ArticleFlattening Alternative
TLCB staff know to wear shoes in the office. No, the Elves don’t make that sort of mess, but their shenanigans do make barefoot walking of the halls hazardous. Today, this TLCB Writer forgot that...
View ArticleBoring. Except When it’s Not.
Boring. Dull. White Goods. All things levelled at the Toyota Corolla (including by us), and all true. Except when they’re not. Whilst there have been millions of tedious white boxes produced with the...
View ArticleMAZter Builder
Russia, and its puppet regime next door in Belarus, really know how to make a heavy duty off-road truck. It’s just a shame they’re currently using them for such evil. Nevertheless, the Belarusian-made...
View ArticleA Super Car
Technic Supercars are one of our very favourite things in the Lego Community, and despite LEGO’s foray into officially-licensed replicas of real-world vehicles, we do still like seeing interpretations...
View ArticleSanctioning Bricks
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has brought a surprisingly unified response for the world. Freezing of assets, exclusion from banking systems, and sanctions on everything from luxury cars to hamburgers...
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