Rolling post-apocalyptic Lego city

Flickr user DeGobbi's "Crawler Town" is an insanely detailed and most magnificent rolling cyberpunk city executed in Lego: "Crawler town roams the barren wastes of a post steam-punk world after cataclysmic climate change do to excessive coal use. Several such cities exist but Crawler town is the most popular due to the Aero 500 hydrogen fuel cell Air races that are held. Many people travel the wastes to Crawler town for vacation and to enjoy rare luxuries like Pizza, fresh vegetables and Beer. Travelling the wastes in search of minerals and aquifers ( vital for survival) the mobility of the city keeps it away from the vicious sand storms of the wastes."

Crawler Town (via Dvice)

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Urban Darwinism! It’s a town-eat-town world!
Blinde Schildpad

Reminds me of Nick Harkaway’s book The Gone-Away World. Slightly awkward title but a majorly fun read.
Trent Hawkins

Didn’t I blow that thing up at the end of Fallout 3?
benher

When I was a kid, we had ‘town’ ‘castle’ and ‘space.’ and no Internet. Oh, to be a kid again!… but like now instead of then.
dmoisan

At first glance, there’s more than a little bit of Howl’s Moving Castle in that. Perhaps I’ll find pictures of the wheeled fortresses/land aircraft carriers I used to build when I was little…
timeweaver360

I never thought a child’s plaything could turn out anything this dramatic, 2 thumbs way up for the guy who made this :D
rancor01

Blaster Master runs Bartertown!
BookGuy

Wait, the climate apocalypse has come and gone, and the prediction is that we’ll build even bigger SUVs? We’re so screwed.

This thing is stunning, though.
Marshall

I prefer my post-apocalypse in more dystopian terms, but that’s one hell of a model. A really great “walking city” novel is Greg Bear’s Strength of Stones.
trieste

Builder – Behold. We have built Crawler Town. It will save you. People will flock to you

Client – Slight problem. It’s made of Lego and only a metre tall.
- dculberson
  
  I would have gone with:
  
  “What is this, a Crawler Town for ANTS?!?! The town needs to be at least .. THREE TIMES BIGGER than this.”
  - Ratdog
    
    +1 internets for the Zoolander reference.
Anonymous

Haha, some kid was under contract with Lego? That commercial he did wasn’t half as cool as this.
holtt

I’m thinking if you added a fireman’s poll and a bowling alley in the basement, you’d about have it.
Philbert

It reminds me of a Lignite miner:
http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/rhineland/rhineland4.html

If I look at that thing, the scale is probably not far off. (these miners are huge)
Anonymous

After seeing this monster…I wanna start buying legos again, my god the creations I could have resurrected by now.
adamnvillani

“post steam-punk world”

It’s good that we can finally move beyond steampunk.
efergus3

For some reason it reminds me of Inverted World by Priest, though that city moved on tracks.
sf

There’s bound to be a cage fight going on deep in it bowels.
Anonymous

This “Crawler Town” is sure to become a reality in future. I am really looking forward to it.
Ratdog

I have seen a lot of superb Lego creations in my years. But this, by far, is the most jaw-dropping and amazing creation I have ever seen. Well done, good sir. Well done.
Kid Geezer

It’s the central premises of Philip Reeves’ superb YA quartet, “The Hungry Cities Chronicles.” Municipal Darwanism.
freetard

Kid Geezer beat me to it- those books are a lot of fun, even when you’re a grown-up! It’s what I thought of as soon as the image loaded in my rss reader.

In the books, though, the cities survive by eating each other- long chases across frozen wastelands, culminating in the destruction of the weaker City, and the enslavement of its inhabitants.
peregrine

There’s already been quite enough ‘reminds me of’ to go around, but what the hell. Reminds me quite a bit of é‹¼æ®»ã®ãƒ¬ã‚®ã‚ªã‚¹ / chrome shelled regios, an anime series set on just such a contraption.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_Shelled_Regios
turn_self_off

thats the kind of project i dreamed about building as a kid, but never had the parts for! i tip my hat to the creator.
13strong

Awesome stuff.

It reminds me of 1960s UK psychedelic architecture firm Archigram’s plans for a “walking city”:

http://www.archigram.net/projects_pages/walking_city.html
Anonymous

I must build this in lego universe!
bcsizemo

I can’t believe no has posted BB’s pseudo mantra:

Look at it, just look at it!
Dave Parker

Made me think of Philip Reeves’ “Mortal Engines”
Urbeno

WHO RUNS CRAWLER-TOWN?! MasterBlaster runs Crawler-Town!

@SF #1′s “cage fighting in the bowels”: Two men enter, one man leaves! Two men enter, one man leaves!
Day Vexx

Built by a true Lego Maniac!
devcross

This deserves a movie deal.