Lego taxi

The famous Checker Cabs were like a landmark of New York City. My model is 8 studs wide and includes a little street scene as display stand. I made building instructions for it, download them (for free) on my website www.thilo-schoen.de/lego.html. Hope you like it!

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This is my MOC Lego Taxi. Loosely based on American style taxicabs from the 1950's / 60's. The model is 6 studs wide and features an opening trunk and space inside the car for 3 minifigures. This is my entry in a LEGO Ideas contest to design a vintage style vehicle to fit in with the style of the LEGO Creator Modular buildings. If it wins the contest then this model will be released as a future LEGO GWP set. You can find out more and see the entry on LEGO Ideas here…

I built something! LEGO just announced 76178 Daily Bugle, designed by Stafford with some help from Carter Baldwin, and with graphics by Mark Tranter, and I was allowed to be part of it too! I built the taxi cab (of course) that, if you squint a little, obviously is a Checker Marathon. What I actually started with was a taxicab version of that Plymouth Fury I built for Anton a while ago, these as yellow cabs are driving around in Breakfast at Tiffany’s for example, and it was a case of “do…

Today I will show you how to build a Lego Taxi Stand, using as many parts as possible from the new road plates system Lego 60304.You could use it as a taxi s...

I built something! Few years ago I was handed some printouts of very rough LEGO cars built digitally for the LEGO BATMAN MOVIE with the words ‘do something about it’. I was given a short brief, and at least two of these cars (the cop car and a taxi), should be treated like a regular product, meaning they had to be designed in such fashion that if so desired, they would withstand all the tests LEGO has for new products (in case people would pause the movie and reverse engeneer these things…

For decades, the standard New York City taxi was the Checker Marathon. During much of the nineties and at the start of this century the most popular NYC taxi was the Ford Crown Victoria. The last Crown Victorias were delivered in 2012 and in October 2012 the New York taxi commission announced that the Nissan NV200 was going to be New York's "taxi of tomorrow". I was in New York in 2013 and, at that time, Crown Victorias were still quite common, although I also saw Ford Escapes, Toyota Camrys…

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