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A hot-rodding blast from the past builds a heavy duty blast from the past

When a well-known builder becomes a LEGO designer, we can usually expect a decrease in their personal output. This can be because designing LEGO sets for a living can scratch that creative urge, or they may be contractually obligated to keep a low profile. Whatever the reason, it’s a real thrill to see designer Adam Grabowski bring back his hot-rodding retro persona, Misterzumbi, even if just briefly. This time, he tackles the hard-working and reliable Ford C-Series of trucks. I presume the red stake truck is the C-900, while its stubbier white counterpart is the C-600, which, in my opinion, is like a bulldog; so ugly it’s cute. He tells us that the newish round corner brick was the inspiration to give the C-series a go. Having the C-600 on my own to-do list for a while, it was the round corner shape, or lack thereof, that factored into my not building the vehicle just yet. Now that it’s here, thanks, Adam, for showing us the way!

“Misterzumbi” was one of the very first builders to be featured on The Brothers Brick. Here’s our first post from Adam from over 20 years ago!

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Mad Misterzumbi

LEGO designer Adam Grabowski (Misterzumbi) is obsessed with cars. Adam has taken a break from posting photos of beat-up Fords to post some rather excellent custom LEGO cars from the Mad Max series of movies.

Adam isn’t afraid to sticker the heck out of his builds, nor to paint a brick here and there if it isn’t available in the correct color. The end result is gorgeous — Max’s Interceptor.

The Ford Landau from The Road Warrior is covered in paint, about which Adam says, “The paint will never come off. Those bricks are ruined.”

Bluesmobile by Mr. Zumbi

I suspect the cigarette lighter needs fixing, but it’ll do:

Always a pleasure, Mr. Zumbi. (Via pootling.)

Shut up, fool!

Perennial Blocklog favorite MisterZumbi presents the A-Team:

(Is that hair on Hannibal’s head painted white? Hmmm… We’ll let this one slide, because Mr. T is telling me to shut up now.)

More Characters from MisterZumbi

MisterZumbi brings us a couple more interesting characters.

The Predator:

And the invisible man (visible on the left, invisible on the right):

MisterZumbi’s LEGO Unimog

One of my favorite vehicles is the Mercedes Unimog. I’ve seen two of them in real-life. One was in Nagano Prefecture, in Japan. That one was all tricked out for Arctic explorations or something (it was white and it had lots of compartments; I was ten; I made assumptions). The other one was on the Microsoft campus when I interviewed there back in 2001. It was dark green and orange (hand-painted, for some reason — very distinctive). I saw it again at the apartment complex we lived in a few months later.

Aaaaanyway, Brickshelf user MisterZumbi has made a really cool LEGO Unimog:

It looks a lot like the one I saw at Microsoft. Given how many configurations this vehicle is available in, how coincidental is that?

Note how he used the steering wheel as the Mercedes symbol. Very nice.

“Fat Minifig” by Mister Zumbi

If Pugsly were a real boy:

Monster Rides

I haven’t taken pictures of anything this last week or so, but I ran across these wonderful cars a while ago on Brickshelf:

The perfect rides for my new favorite minifigs.

Check out the rest of mrzumbi’s gallery. Not a lot in terms of quantity, but he’s made some amazing stuff — I’m honestly shocked that the hit counts on his creations are so low. Doesn’t make sense, given how good they are…