The other day I was thinking I’d build another hovercar, like my 2059 Cadillac or my remake of Justin’s red aircar.
But as I was sifting through a bin of curved parts, the idea came to me to build a school bus when I saw some yellow Brick 2 x 4 x 1 & 1/3 with Curved Top (6081) parts.
I built it 7-wide (not counting the rocket engines), thanks to an idea I got from Flickr users Lego Monster and Mad physicist since it leaves room for an aisle; see their bus for the inspiration.
I also detailed the interior, with several students in varying degrees of good behavior and a driver inspired by the one from South Park. There are two thugs in the rear who are either conspiring or fighting, maybe both. There’s a boy facing backwards, harassing the girl in the seat behind him. And then in the front there are two reasonably well behaved kids whose hands are raised to report all this bad behavior to the driver. (Well really, their hands are raised because otherwise they wouldn’t fit in their seats)
The bus is a hovercar, using the same kind of smooth underside that I used on the Cadillac and red aircar with the ‘Wedge 4 x 4 x 2/3 Curved’ (45677) and/or ‘Wedge 4 x 6 x 2/3 Curved’ (52031) parts on the underside to represent antigravity units. I also added some 1950’s sci-fi style rocket engines for those longer hops between lunar settlements.
I like how you made the undercarriage for the bus. How did you get the brick arranged like that?
Since the undercarriage is built studs-down I had to use something that had studs going both up and down. There are several ways to do this, but my favorite, and the one I used here, is Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 3 Fingers and Hinge Plate 1 x 2 with 2 Fingers. I just put them together “backwards” so that one of them has studs facing up and the other has studs facing down. There are three of these pairs in the Lunar School Bus.
That is the cooest school bus i have ever seen-Truley amazing. Hey couuld yo please send me soom instruction to making that awsome bus i would really really really like to build it PLEASE! Just send it to my email PLEASE!
I’ll think about it…
Thanks, Your AWSOME DUDE!