My Custom Gudi Ice Cream Monster Truck!

Hi and thanks for visiting Bricks and Figs, my blog about my custom not Lego creations and minifigure reviews.   In this post, I will show you my latest custom build, the Ice Cream Monster Truck!

Just a bit of background, Lego recently released their Burger Monster Truck set31104 and it looked really cool.  Then, when I was checking out the latest not Lego brick sets on Aliexpress, I happened to see more Monster food trucks.

Lego Burger Monster Truck 31104

Sembo 5000 - 5003 Food Trucks

There are four different food trucks in the Sembo series: A burger or sub truck, an ice cream truck, a fried chicken truck and a coffee truck.  They all look great and I wanted to buy them all.  

I had narrowed my choice to the ice cream truck and was ready to buy it.  But at the last minute, I held off because I already have two ice cream trucks in my brick collection, the Enlighten 1112 Ice Cream truck and the Gudi 9603 Ice Cream truck.  

Then it dawned on me, that instead of spending another $30 on the Sembo monster food truck, I could simply make my own.  I already have a set of giant balloon tires and rims, and I could use and convert one of my existing ice cream trucks for it.

Gudi 9603 Ice Cream truck

For this monster truck project, I decided to use the Gudi Ice Cream truck.  As you can see it's a pretty bland truck, but has lots of windows and is easily modifiable.  The original wheels are begging to be replaced.

I pulled off the existing wheels and spindles and replaced the original 2 piece chassis with this long thicker 4x16 Megabloks part.

Next, I used 2 16 stud long technic beams and attached a couple of right angle brackets to them.  I also mounted 2 exhaust pipes to the frame. Those are real Lego balloon tires and rims.  

Here's the wheel assembly.

Here we have attached the frame to the body of the ice cream truck.

I typically don't use stickers in my builds but made an exception in this case.  Did I over do it?

One thing that I'm still missing is a ladder to get to the window.  Right now, you would have to throw your money at the ice cream lady and then catch the ice cream cone when she throws it to you, lol.
 

Rear view of the truck.

In addition to the stickers, I made some minor roof enhancements, nothing too noticeable.  I added an awning on the street-side of the truck.

More pics for your viewing pleasure.

Had those funny eye pieces, so figured I'd use them here.