It´s happening right this moment the contest Motores24H in Portugal for people that love motorized vehicles. From various participations, It should be enhanced the MAN TGS 8×4 from Pedro Agnelo. The construction process can be found in the link given:

We can also see the Biczz newest creation. It’s the great Hot Rod II 2008.

Not everything that has a motor is a car, so LBaixinho gives us - Falco II. He was inspired in the Conan - The Future Boy universe from Hayao Miyazaki.

Classic-Spacer Zachmoe builds a great looking double-engine space vehicle, “Geminated Ruby“:

To build engines, Zach used a pentagon technique described by ixlramp.

For me, a color scheme wins here. Dark red alone is a great color, but combined with gold gives the model a noble and royal look.

Finally I was able to track down the Japanese industry machine contest that inspired recently featured Izzo’s Dragon Scissor. Organized between April 3rd and April 19th, contest generated a few very interesting creations. Many builders presented not only machines, but also prepared very cool scenes showing them in action, during some heavy digging, cutting, demolishing, painting and so. Let’s take a look at some of them.

In addition to the traditional three main prizes, this contest had a special one, for the most original model. This title went to towel and his… digging frogmech? No doubt this is a “green” design:

Majority of creations have the classic yellow-black color scheme, for example this tall construction mecha by grenouille:

User nicknamed mechpalace submitted a vehicle that can transform from a 6-wheeler to a walking mecha:

I don’t know what does this mashikuf’s robot with the enormously big arm , but is looks just great:

And now - let’t see the winners.

YASUDA Type-13 bot by maru-chan won the 3rd place:

Second prize went to this line-painting bot created by ctr:

And finally, a first prize went to to industrial mecha by Ryu Kwi, which we already covered few days ago here at Klocki:

Head over to contest gallery to see all submitted creations. They are quite interesting and you will not find them on Brickshelf or Flickr.

Inspired by a local industrial machinery building contest, Japan’s Izzo builds one, called Dragon Scissors:

There are lot of nice details here - treads, scissors arm, there’s even a Belville shovel attached to the back!

If you freak out about some accidental scratches your shiny bricks may get, better stop reading this. Still there? Consider yourself warned.

Jamavamo, 29-year old AFOL from Netherlands makes terryfying videos with LEGO car crashes. Recently, he updated his youtube channel with movie featuring this beauty - Predator:

I’ll give you the second chance to not see this drastic video.

OK, you wanted it:

You can see more if you are not enough… And how do you like it?

Alex Kahler (Xiphos) of St. Luis builds a microscale version of Dreadnought mecha from Warhammer 40k universe. Thanks to Nexus, I am not WH40k ignorant anymore and I can really admire the way Alex kept the similarity to original design.

Torso decal is borrowed from larger creation by Jerac’s, that was an inspiration to Alex.

Nannan Z. of Brothers Bricks continues his series of surrealistic/symbolic sculptures with the newest one, named “Contortion”

As usual, I won’t tell you what’s going one here, have fun and try to figure it out yourself or read the Nannan’s description on MOCpages.

(Via Brothers-Brick)

3 or 4-wheeler? Large or small wheels? Sporty or City? Light of solid? Swiveling front axis or not? Foldable or not? If you have kids, you have probably been there - choosing a pram or stroller is harder than choosing a new car! All these memories came back to me when i saw this great collection of prams and strollers by Michael Jasper:

Head over to Michael’s gallery to see all 15 different designs.

PS. And if you ask me, Emmaljungas top everything else…

Wonder what happens with a vassal knights what the skeleton queen get’s dissappointed of him? Cthulhu shows exactly what happens:

These transparent pieces are dinosaur tails. Officially, they do not exist in that color, but sometimes you can get these on Bricklink. It is believed that LEGO uses transparent ABS as a part of mold testing/cleaning procedure and that from these rare pieces come from.

LEGO website is mainly targeted to kids so I rarely go there, but today I found a little gem. Creator Team released a series of wonderful short movies where designers share their building tips!

Clips are extremely good and I have a great time watching them and listening to witty comments of Jamie Berard and his collegues.

There are 4 movies in the Design Studio section, and I have found two uploaded to YouTube by user cre84fun. What is interesting, one of these two is missing on LEGO site. Here it is: Jamie talks about cornered doors:

Make sure to watch them all at LEGO Design Studio site. My favorite is the one about dinosaurs, it’s ubercool.