LEGO Technic 42236 Custom Garage Ford Mustang GT | Set Preview

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A crack team of TLCB Elves were recently fired – by way of the office catapult – over The LEGO Company’s perimeter wall. Their mission; to uncover the brand new LEGO Technic sets for 2026. And not get eaten by the guard dogs.

Two have already returned (and their ‘Fast & Furious’ finds can be seen in our set reveal here), and today we have another. And it’s even more modified than the ‘Fast & Furious’ pair. This is the LEGO Technic 42236 Custom Garage Ford Mustang GT.

Aimed at ages 10+ and constructed from just under 1,000 pieces, 42236 is an interesting idea (and possibly sub-brand*) that allows builders to modify their model with a range of styling components, including wider arches, a scooped hood, wings and splitters. Which explains the higher piece count and raised price (£80 / $100 / €90) than we’re used to with other sets of this scale.

It’s also the set for you if you like stickers, because 42236 is covered in them. Wheels, grille, body panels, rear lights… they’re all decals. And whilst that does create an interesting colour scheme, we’re kinda at the point where the base car could be anything and LEGO simply change the manufacturer it represents by altering the stickers that come with it.

Working steering and a V8 under the swappable hood do feature though, and you can get your hands on the new 42236 Custom Garage Ford Mustang GT when it arrives this summer.


*We’re eagerly anticipating further Custom Garage sets that represent the modifying scene here in TLCB’s home nation.

Green Gran

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We’re still in classic car territory here at The Lego Car Blog, which is fine by us; anything from years past is preferable to whatever Chinese electric crossover has been revealed in the last ten minutes.

This is definitely not a Chinese electric crossover. It’s a 1972 Ford Gran Torino Sport, a car that was available with five different V8 engines and a maximum of four gears. Because gas was cheap and nothing was going to happen to jeopardise that.

Anyway, this marvellous Model Team recreation of the ‘72 Ford Gran Torino Sport comes from previous bloggee Jakub Marcisz, and features working steering, opening everything, and a superbly detailed interior and V8 engine.

Building instructions are available and there’s more of the model to see at Jakub’s ‘Gran Torino 1972’ album on Flickr.

Hill & Biens

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We’re sticking with classic cars today, and this lovely Speed Champions 1958 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa, that won Le Mans in the hands of Phil Hill and Oliver Gendebien.

Created by SFH_Bricks, this beautifully presented model captures the iconic Ferrari racer superbly, and you can join Hill and Gendebien in France in ‘58 via the link.

In the Cloud

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That utter cringefest of toxic positivity, humble bragging, and ridiculous self-promotion, LinkedIn, is overflowing with meaningless posts about AI and ‘The Cloud’.

Nothing we write can adequately convey just how much we don’t care about your humble receipt of the Cloud Networking Award at the 2026 Delaware CAICP2 Conference, nor how the leaders of tomorrow are forging the future via cloud-based software to realise efficiencies and business automation.

If we’re going to be ‘In the Cloud’ we’d like it to be one of these, the stupendous Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud II.

Powered by a 6.2 litre V8, weighing over two tons, and fitted with power steering and electric windows, the Silver Cloud was nothing short of the finest automobile in the world in the early-‘60s.

Cue this wonderful recreation of the 1960 Silver Cloud II by previous bloggee SP_LINEUP, who has replicated it in brick form beautifully. A range of clever techniques capture the Cloud’s coach-built bodywork and detailing (including the famous Spirit of Ecstacy), with a closer look available at SP’s photostream. Get In the Cloud via the link above. And LinkedIn sucks.

Star Quality

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We love an unpretentious workhorse here at The Lego Car Blog, and things don’t come more unpretentious and workhorsey than an FSC Star 200. In white.

This wonderful Model Team recreation of the humble ‘80s lorry comes from previous bloggee damjan97PL / damianPLE, whose model captures the truck from his native Poland beautifully.

Damian’s model includes a mechanical tipper with a locking tailgate, a working inline-6 engine under a tilting cab, opening doors, and steering by both the wheel and ‘HOG’.

Building instructions are available and you can follow the Star on both Eurobricks and Bricksafe, where there’s lots more to see.

B is for BuWizz

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TLCB Elves are running for their lives today, because this tremendous Technic remote control Group B rally car is roaring up and down the office corridor. TLCB staff may or may not be at the controls…

Constructed by TLCB Master MOCer Nico71, entered into last year’s BuWizz Gathering, and inspired by a number of ‘80s rally machines, it shows the best of what can be achieved with LEGO Technic and compatible third-party electronics.


Twin LEGO Buggy Motors, Servo steering, all-wheel double-wishbone suspension, a mid-mounted V6 engine, opening doors, hood and tailgate, and BuWizz 2.0 Bluetooth control all feature, as do building instructions so you can create Nico’s model for yourself to terrorise the animals in your own house.

There’s loads more to see at the Eurobricks forum and you can make a beeline there via the link above, plus you can watch Nico’s creation in action via the video below.

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LEGO Technic 42229 & 42231 Fast & Furious | Set Previews

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It’s a set reveal day here at The Lego Car Blog, and we have not one but two brand new Technic ‘Fast & Furious’ sets!

Yes, LEGO are continuing to mine the thick vehicular seam of ‘Fast & Furious’ movies, with two more cars from the franchise joining the LEGO line-up. Or perhaps it’s just one…

On to the that ‘one’, and it’s Brian O’Conner’s character genesis. This is the brand new LEGO Technic 42229 Fast & Furious Mitsubishi Eclipse.

Constructed from just over 800 pieces, 42229 captures the lurid modified Eclipse from the very first movie rather well (and brings Mitsubishi into LEGO’s list of officially-licensed manufacturers for the first time).

Aimed at ages 14+ the new set features a working piston engine, ‘HOG’ steering, opening doors, hood and trunk, and stickers that recreate the car’s famous early-‘00s graphics. Expected to cost around $65 / £55 / €65, you’ll be able to take delivery of the LEGO Technic 42229 Fast & Furious Mitsubishi Eclipse in June of 2026. Unless Johnny Tran blows it up first.

The second addition to the ‘Fast & Furious’ line-up is rather larger than 42229, but we get the feeling we’ve seen it before. This is the LEGO Technic 42231 Dodge Charger R/T.

Aimed at ages 18+ and with over 1,500 pieces, 42231 brings Dom’s modified Dodge Charger from the first ‘Fast & Furious’ film to shelves from June, only it’s not called ‘Dom’s Dodge Charger’ because it was last time round.

Six years on from that first ‘Fast & Furious’ Dodge Charger Technic set and 42231 ups the piece-count (and price) considerably, although not the features, which remain as a working V8, steering, suspension, and opening doors/hood, whilst the wheelie-stand from the previous 42111 set has been omitted. Hmm.

Still, recycling content is a staple of the ‘Fast & Furious’ identity, thus LEGO repeating a past formula for another ‘Fast & Furious’ set is rather appropriate.

We also think that the LEGO Technic 42231 Fast & Furious Dodge Charger looks pretty good, helped by the debut of a few new parts (including staggered width tyres – hurrah!), and you’ll be able to get your hands on it for $150 / £140 / €150 when it jumps over a railway track in June 2026.

So there you have it. Two new-for-2026 Technic ‘Fast & Furious’ sets, one of which is a larger more expensive reheat of something that’s gone before. And it doesn’t get any more ‘Fast & Furious’ than that!

Attacks on LEGO Sites

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Regular readers of this shady corner of the internet will know that one of the sites our Elves frequent for models is Eurobricks, an expansive fan forum containing thousands of Lego topics.

However over the past week it’d been very quiet from our Eurobricks based Elves, so we headed there ourselves to check it out and… couldn’t.

It turns out Eurobricks experienced a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDOS) attack, where their servers were flooded with traffic, taking the site offline. Eurobricks is now back up and running after the team there implemented a fix which you can read about here, but coincidentally(?) we’re undergoing some seriously unusual traffic too.

In fact, every day for the last few days we’ve received as many visits in 24 hours as we usually do in a month. That’s tens of thousands of visits a day. But note ‘visits’, not ‘visitors’, as almost all are from the same U.S desktop.

Which means unless a very enthusiastic reader has just discovered us and is working their way through our entire archive one post at a time, strange things are afoot.

So far TLCB hasn’t fallen over (we’re as surprised as you!), but if you do have trouble accessing us please let us know. Although if that is the case you probably won’t be able to read this nor comment, so perhaps this whole post is moot…

Anyway, welcome back online Eurobricks and you can show them your support via the link above!

Winning Horse

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Modern Formula 1 cars last just one season. But back in the 1970s Scuderia Ferrari created a car that lasted for six. And it won four of them, making it the most successful design in Formula 1 history.

First competing in 1975, the Ferrari 312T featured a tubular steel spaceframe, a transverse 3 litre flat-12 making around 500bhp, and excellent reliability. The version we have here today is the T4 variant, featuring aerodynamic modifications to take the Constructor’s World Championship back from Lotus, whose ‘ground effect’ design ended the 312T’s winning streak in 1978.

It worked too, returning the Constructor’s title to Ferrari and giving Jody Scheckter the Driver’s Championship. This fabulous recreation of the 312 T4 comes from Andre Pinto of Flickr, and captures Scheckter‘s title-winning car in spectacular detail.

Custom chromed pieces, authentic replica decals, and stunning internals make Andre’s Ferrari 312T one of the finest vintage Formula 1 cars we’ve published yet, and you can find all the images at his ‘Ferrari 312 T4’ album via the link above.

The First of Many

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It’s 1970, and northern France is being pounded by heavy rain. Of the dozens of starters at that year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, only seven remain. The leading three are built by a manufacturer that has never won the race before. Richard Attwood and Hans Herrmann’s Porsche Salzburg 917K crosses the finish line five laps ahead of the rest, beginning a run that to date includes nineteen outright wins, making Porsche the most successful manufacturer in Le Mans history.

This fantastic Speed Champions homage to that first victory comes from SFH_Bricks of Flickr, whose Porsche Salzburg 917K includes a tremendous replica livery courtesy of Brickstickershop. Building instructions are available and you can head to a soaking Circuit de la Sarthe fifty-six years ago via the link above.

Beef Pew

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Along with cyberpunk and melon as a starter, we really don’t understand sci-fi. And that’s why, in our minds, pretty much all spaceships go ‘pew-pew!’. Except today, because this one goes ‘PEW-PEW’. Probably. It’s beefy.

That beef begins with two LEGO City cement mixer drum pieces on either side, whilst a Second World War bomber-like gun turret provides the ‘pew’-ing. Sorry, ‘PEW’-ing.

Flickr’s Thomas Jenkins is the builder behind it and you can join him for some beef pew at his photostream. Click the link above for a taste, or wait for a proper Lego site to blog this without referring to a bovine based broth.

Cyberpunk Skyline

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Things TLCB doesn’t understand; Star Trek. Pugs. Melon as a starter. Trap music. Marvel. Cyberpunk.

Which means we’re rather out of our depth here with these two cyberpunk Nissan Skylines of different vintages, and thus our only commentary is ‘don’t they look cool!’.

Flickr’s Sergio Batista owns the cyberpunk pairing and you can take a closer look at each neon Nissan at his photostream via the link above. And seriously, how is melon as a starter acceptable?

String Theory

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Unifying quantum mechanics and general relativity, String Theory proposes that the universe is composed of vibrating one-dimensional strings instead of points, incorporating all particles and forces into a single framework. Alternatively it’s adding some string to a LEGO set to make a new one. We’re doing the latter today…

This is paave’s Technic mobile crane, and it’s built only from the parts of the 42175 LEGO Technic Volvo FMX Truck & EC230 Electric Excavator set. Plus a piece of string.

Featuring working steering, outriggers, boom elevation and extension, superstructure rotation, and an inline-6 engine, paave’s alternate is an excellent reconstitution of the 42175 donor, and one you can build for yourself as instructions are available. As long as you have some string. Find a link to them and further build details on Eurobricks via the link above.

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Marlboro Men

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We’re heading back to the turn of the decade today. No the one before that. And the one before that. Yes it’s the late ‘80s, when greed was good and cigarettes were cool.

Cue this glorious pair of classic Formula 1 cars, each made by TLCB Master MOCer Carl Greatrix and each sponsored by the world’s favourite cancer sticks.

Featuring superb custom decals and 3D-printed wheels, Carl has perfectly replicated the McLaren Honda MP4/4 that dominated the 1988 season (winning fifteen of the sixteen races), and the V12-powered Ferrari 641 that came second in the 1990 F1 Championship.

Wonderful detailing abounds and there’s much more to see of both the McLaren and Ferrari on Flickr. Buy a forty-pack of Marlboros via the links above.

Perfect Paint

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TLCB’s home nation likes a neatly painted truck. Most trucks are still plain white of course, but many firms go the extra mile with their visual identity, painting their vehicles in beautiful colours that hark back to the days of horse-drawn carts, canal boats, and traction engines. This is one such truck, a Volvo FH12 operated by Newis heavy haulage and constructed superbly by Flickr’s Ralph Savelsberg. There’s more to see at Ralph’s photostream and you get your brushes out via the link above.