Speed Champions
After unveiling it alongside the Forza Horizon 4 Speed Champions expansion, the full-scale McLaren Senna LEGO car has kept a relatively low profile, short of showing up at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and returning to the McLaren Technology Center (MTC) for employees and visitors to check out. It's going on tour in the UK now briefly, read on to find out where and when.
LEGO's Monthly Model Build for this month is a Formula 1 style race car in red, set 40328, giving us real Ferrari vibes. We took this opportunity to MOC the set into a few other 2019 F1 liveries and with just 20 steps and being made of around $7 of bricks, it's a super approachable way to get into building your own creations.
Still in the Summer quiet period, some decent discounts have started happening on LEGO Technic and Creator Expert sets that you may be interested in. Take a look, as some of these deals won't hang around for long - this is a great way to stock up before LEGO's fall releases start.
Everything's quiet with it being August and Europe being mostly on vacation, but we picked up this small bit of forum speculation over a potentially leaked list of 2020 Speed Champions sets. While we're not sure about it's accuracy, it's always fun to speculate about what we might see in the line next year.
Despite being dead last in the 2019 Formula 1 series, the UK-based Williams F1 team have a legendary history in the sport and their cars formed the basis for some interesting sets from LEGO.
After getting hold of the new white '74 Porsche with it's unique transparent-backed stickers facilitating customisation and creations of MOCs, we started getting interested in making some changes. Not having a full scale LEGO store nearby, and with Bricks and Pieces off-line in Canada for the time being, we looked at what options are available to prototype sets virtually. Enter BrickLink Studio, a full 3D building package tied to BrickLink's catalog of available LEGO parts...
Our walk-through guide on how to complete every Drift Zone challenge in the Speed Champions expansion for Forza Horizon 4. While it might seem semi-obvious, there are a few tricks that can really make it straightforward to get these completed and we've included a video walk through to help you out.
Based on forum speculation and similarly to some 2020 Speed Champions set numbers that became available, we're starting to see leaks of the set numbers for first and second half 2020 LEGO Technic series releases. Seeing as these should include another Ultimate car set, similar to the 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS (set 42056) and 2018 Bugatti Chiron (set 42083) Technic sets we're super interested in these developments.
With August's release window for sets come and gone, and the Ideas Liebherr Crane set now delayed until October, we speculate using a number of forum posts about the latest on what's happening with the leaked LEGO Technic Land Rover Defender set, based on the still unannounced New Defender from Land Rover and whether we're likely to see it before the holidays this year.
Another in our series of completing brick challenges and getting to critical hard-to-find in game locations. This time we're looking at the UFO Crash Site, located in the Area 7052 desert (a clever LEGO reference for those old timers with the 2011 UFO Abduction set).