LEGO Technic 42141 McLaren Formula 1™ Race Car | Set Preview
LEGO Technic 42141 McLaren Formula 1 Car Here it is! After dropping a few hints when we revealed the rest of the 2022 Technic line-up earlier, this is the brand new 42141 Technic McLaren Formula 1...
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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...
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Technic Supercars have long been the pinnacle of the Technic line-up. Containing working steering, suspension, engine and gearbox, they’re as close as it’s possible to get to the engineering of...
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Formula 1 was different in 1991. Cigarettes, a variety of engine configurations, and only one Unites States Grand Prix. Oh, and a titanic battle between McLaren’s Ayrton Senna and Williams’ Nigel...
View ArticleSpeed Champions 2023 | Set Previews
It’s the final part of our 2023 Set Previews, and today it’s perhaps LEGO’s most successful and well-regarded range of recent times; the fantastic officially licensed Speed Champions theme. LEGO’s...
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Mid-’90s endurance racing was – in this writer’s opinion – the peak of Le Mans cool. Purpose-built racers competed on equal terms wildly fast supercars, based on those that could actually be bought by...
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The McLaren F1, once the fastest production car in the world, a Le Mans 24 Hours winner, and – if you are very rich indeed – a default choice for the car collection. 3D supercarBricks, whose Le Mans...
View ArticleMonaco ’88
‘2001: A Space Odyssey’, the Toyota Corolla, and the Monaco Grand Prix. All simultaneously the greatest examples of their respective genres, and also the most boring. But Formula 1 in Monaco wasn’t...
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Once the world’s fastest production car, and winner of the 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours, this is the McLaren F1 GTR. Following its victory at Le Mans (the first time either a manufacturer or team had won the...
View ArticleLEGO Technic H1 2024 | Set Previews
It’s time! After a period lost in space, and with the Elves that managed not to become German-Shepherd-snacks safely back at TLCB Towers, we can reveal the brand new for 2024 LEGO Technic line-up. And...
View ArticleOrange Squash
This incredibly low – and incredible orange – car is a 1972 McLaren M20, one of the stars of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup (or Can-Am) racing series that ran from 1966 to 1974. With no limit on...
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McLaren have released more near-identical looking cars than even Porsche, despite only being around a sixth as many years. Cue another modern McLaren we’ve never heard of nor will ever see, the Sabre....
View ArticleSpeed Champions 76919 2023 McLaren Formula 1 Race Car | Set Preview
During our reveal of the 2024 LEGO Speed Champions sets, fans may have noticed that one number, 76919, was missing. Well it’s missing no more; this is the brand new 76919 2023 McLaren Formula 1 Race...
View ArticleLEGO Icons 10330 McLaren MP4/4 & Ayrton Senna | Set Preview
LEGO and McLaren have been hard at work, because the Speed Champions 76919 2023 McLaren Formula 1 Race Car is not the only new McLaren Formula 1 set to arrive in 2024. This is the new LEGO Icons 10330...
View ArticleLEGO Technic 42172 McLaren P1 | Set Preview
LEGO’s long-standing relationship with McLaren has borne all manner of models over the years, from classic Formula 1 cars to Extreme-E racers, and life-size replicas to Speed Champions miniatures....
View ArticleLando Drives a Life-Size LEGO McLaren P1
LEGO’s near 4,000 piece (and near £400) 42172 Technic McLaren P1 set is pretty big. This one however, is rather bigger. Constructed from a steel frame and over 342,000 LEGO pieces, this astonishing...
View ArticleLEGO Formula 1 2025 | Set Previews
LEGO have long dabbled in officially-licensed Formula 1 sets. Tie ups with Scuderia Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes-AMG and others in recent years have strengthened the collaboration, but today we have an...
View ArticleFish Face
This TLCB Writer never particularly liked the McLaren Mercedes SLR. It looked like some kind of sad deep-sea fish. But no matter, because if you do like Mercedes-Benz’s mid-’00s collaboration with...
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