At last year’s Bricks Cascade expo, Martin Hulth shared a post-apoc behemoth on treads cheekily named D.O.R.A. the Explorer (DORA as in Deep Outpost Research and Armament.) This year, with encouragement and collaboration from Mark Cruickshank, Martin returned to Cascade with two new vehicles that expand on this emerging world that rests somewhere between Mad Max and the Mortal Engines. Leading the new pack is BIG BERTHA here. It’s a kid’s dream of a mobile base fused with a monster truck, backed with sophisticated techniques. You might call it a spiritual successor to the Rock Raiders theme. And the use of color, with bold yellow and red paired with muted sand green and blue, is striking.

As a late addition to the lineup, Martin also created the Beatrice here, a flying salvage ship inspired by the concept art of Ian McQue. There are some fun parts mixed into the design, like a grey brick separator and a pair of cloth Castle flags for a touch of softness in this gritty world.

The new vehicles above joined D.O.R.A. here, the vehicle that kicked off the theme. For this model, Martin accented the all LEGO vehicle with some third party barbed wire and printed rust tiles from Citizen Brick.

At this year’s Bricks Cascade Expo, Martin displayed the vehicles in collaboration with Mark Cruickshank, who built the towers and terrain. While bigger pieces of the display was ready before the show, the final layout and landscaping was built on-the-spot in the two setup days before the show opened to the public. Even Mark’s LEGO Masters season 1 partner turned LEGO designer Boone Langston helped out with the final collaborative build.

Congratulations on this epic collab and on winning best vehicle in the post-apoc category. We can’t wait to see how this collaboration expands next year!