Febrovery brings all the builders to the yard, and by yard I mean crater-pocked retro space surfaces that can only be tamed by big wheels and a whimsical design. With dozens of rovers being shared each day, and some builders creating a new rover every day of February, we can’t possibly cover them all, but as the event is such a supernova of creativity, we have to give it our best effort. With Febrovery half over, we present some of our favorite builds so far. Tell us in the comments which rover you’d rather ride!
Retro radar rover by Ids de Jong
Every day during Febrovery the mad inventor Ids de Jong has robots B1 and B3 encounter a new rover, drawing inspiration from classic Space themes or inventing new ones. Like this radar rover that looks like it rolled out of the atomic age (or the toybox of Shannon Sproule). The Alpha Team windscreen is a part we don’t often see in MOCs, but it looks great here, especially paired with that lovely sand blue!
Chunky Choko Rover by Andreas Lenander
Every February Andreas Lenander continues on his neverending quest to reinvent the wheel. This time the ingenious builder makes donut-like wheels from 2×2 macaroni tubes. Nice space tree, too!
The Landolorian and Grogu’s Rover by Jonah
LEGO and Disney teamed up for the fun “Rebuild the Galaxy” miniseries and Frost is single-handedly keeping the theme going this month with “Rebuild the Febrovery” with a new mash-up build each day. I’m partial to this one because it evokes a greebly Batman Tumbler, but mostly becaue The Landolorian reveal was one of the best gags in the show and I’ll take any new adventures with this pair.
Technic Three-Wheeler by Nikolaus Löwe
Nikolaus has been leaving us breathless with working pneumatic engines of late, so it’s only fitting that we give a shoutout to this three-wheeled rover that fuses classic space colors with Technic construction and the much-missed Technic figure.
Hexapod Rover by Pascal
Pascal’s spindly rover looks ready to skim over cratery surfaces like a water skeeter on a pond. Creepy crawly indeed.
Scarab AT-6 by Isaac Snyder
Isaac’s Blacktron rover has a big presence, but take a closer look (like at those metal detectors used for the swingarm suspension) and you’ll find it’s not so big as it seems. Yellow gears make for excellent hubcaps.
Blacktron City Rover by Walter Whiteside Jr.
Walter’s take on Blacktron is anything but subtle. What inspired the builder to pack a city full of skyscrapers on top of a rover? I don’t know, but I’m here for it. Jutting at all angles, this rover could have rolled out of a German Expressionist film.
Mammoth-class Heavy Duty Rover by EXT511
Builder EXT511 also goes big with this golliath cargo rover that brings big rig energy to outer space. I like that the driver wears a cowboy hat under that space shuttle canopy. But what sort of cargo is he hauling? I’m guessing it’s space raptors.
Duck, Duck, Red Rover by prrbrix
If tiny rovers are more your thing, Patty has you covered with this preschool parade orchestrated by the CMF nanny-bot. The duck rovers, variations on the iconic LEGO wooden toy, make for delightful space rides.
Classic Stripes by David Roberts
David Roberts finds inspiration for this rover in toy illustrations from the 70s and 80s when the imagined future was a lot more colorful. The toy-like truck is paired with a technicolor reimagining of 885 Space Scooter. (Which has always struck me as a weird name. Does one “scoot” through the sky?)
Born to Run by OA KD
Ah! Now here’s a rover that scoots! Every child’s dreams of rocket skates are realized in this bipedal rover that makes excellent use of mech legs from 4+ sets to zoom across the neo-classic space frontier.
A Wolf in Sheep’s Rover by Richard Young
Febrovery brings out the silliness in even the most serious of builders, but so far this year Richard Young (aka IamKritch) takes the cake for whimsy with A Wolf in Sheep’s Rover. Is the wolf hiding in a sheep-shaped rover to get close to the unsuspecting flock? Or maybe it’s just trying to hide from all the AFOLs looking for the Wolf Pack pet in the latest CMF series.
Tread Rover by Yodamann
I’ll let the builder sum this one up: “What the TR-23 Rover lacked in manoeuvrability, it made up for with a clear forward view. (Of the tread)”
GREY:Tron Robot Excursion by Tommy Frost
Frost kicked off our Febrovery coverage with this City-Space themed rover, so we’ll end this roundup with a return to the rover champion. My favorite so far is this GREY:Tron rover that manifests a whole new retro faction in a single build with the robot-focused explorers. The three robot designs are so expressive and timeless. The rover mixes old school space parts with some new gems, like the CMF M-Tron claws. The wheels are deceptively simple, but look close and you’ll see frost built out elaborate hubs inside those rubber tires.
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