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Blast From The Past
In 1975, was this Lego’s first attempt to create an AFOL market ? Discuss… All the sets in the ‘Hobby Sets’ line from the mid to late Seventies are rare items now, and highly sought after; but they...
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Black Betty
It took us ages to spot the cleverly edited newspaper headline. Or even to realise there was a newspaper in the picture at all. To celebrate LUGNUTS’ 5th Anniversary (LUGNUTS being probably the most...
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Rust-eze Delivery
Rust-eze sponsorship before Lightning McQueen; a bit… slower. After ages without a single Lego Car Blog Elf returning to the office, three arrive back in the same day. We were beginning to think there...
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Ye Olde Mercedes
Henning Birkeland’s Mercedes Simplex Henning Birkeland has built this wonderful 8-wide Mercedes Simplex produced between 1902 and 1909 by Daimler. Look at all those angles and offsets, and the...
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Emerald Truck
Gambort’s Gas Truck Once the temperatures drop the TLCB Elves start getting a little lazy. You can hardly get them out of their hammocks. But they know they’re most likely to relax again when they...
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Stolen Property
This lovely vintage truck was found on, er… The Brothers Brick. But it’s about time we got our own back and nicked something of theirs. Built by the previously unknown-to-us Carl Merriam, you can see...
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Two Trucks
Like magpies, the Elves are attracted to pretty, shiny things. This lovely little truck by South Korean builder bigcrown85 was an instant success with them. It features a neatly detailed body, with...
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Our Fine Four Fendered Friend
Okay, we admit it, the Elf Riot was our fault. It all started when we promised our pointy-eared workers a night off, watching a DVD. The story was based on a book by the man who wrote James Bond and...
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Kickin’ It Old Skool
We often post old-timey vehicles here at TLCB, but it’s a rare treat when we can post old-timey vehicles that have been built in an old-timey way! These charming 6-wide Town vehicles were discovered...
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I’m a Wanderer
Most of the gypsy/traveller vehicles that we see near TLCB Towers are not like these. New Toyota Hilux and Range Rovers with private number plates seem to be the preferred choice at the moment, but...
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Ol’ Blue
It’s not a car, but it is rather pretty. This vintage Triumph-esque motorcycle is the work of Joe Perez aka MortalSwordsman. See more on Flickr here.
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Bullet Magnet
This 1919 Kresowiec ‘armoured car’, based on a tractor plough chassis, is the absolute last place we would want to be in war-time. Horrendously slow, hugely unreliable, and a great big (and...
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Fly Away
I wish that I could fly Into the sky So very high Just like a dragonfly I’d fly above the trees Over the seas in all degrees To anywhere I please The lovely Lego Biplane comes from Flickr’s 6kyubi6....
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Red Russian
This magnificent DT-75 vintage Belarusian bulldozer comes from TLCB favourite Jakeof_, and it’s glorious! But then, we are sometimes a bit odd here at TLCB, as obscure pieces of agricultural machinery...
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Memory Lane
For builders of a certain generation Dennis Bosman has performed a miracle of Lego reconstruction. The 8889 Technic Ideas book was published in 1984, just four years after the original 8888 book. 8889...
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Ferrari Before Ferrari
‘Scuderia Ferrari’ have been around longer than you might think… Founded by Enzo Ferrari in 1929, Scuderia Ferrari were winning races decades before their own cars would wear the famous prancing horse...
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A Great Vintage
This gorgeous vintage racer was found on Flickr today, and not only is it a vintage vehicle itself, it uses some vintage LEGO parts too. The wonderful engine that you can see in these images an inline...
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Ein Mann Ging Mähen…
Thanks to Google for what is no doubt a seamless translation of the well known nursery rhyme… Whatever that title actually says, we do have a mower to share with you today, which will indeed allow one...
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Christmas Coal
We end today’s publications with this, a rather lovey looking vintage ‘convoi exceptionnel’ consisting of a six-axle truck, a low-loader trailer, and a fantastic mining excavator, on its way to supply...
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Huge Steamer
We’re much too mature to link this post with today’s other one, however tempting it is. If your mind has connected the two though, that’s on you… Now we’ve got that out of the way, on to the vehicle....
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