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Forget about the beach-ball-sized Lego Deathstar your kid wanted for Christmas, if they see this Lego creation, you’re in serious trouble.

The company behind the bricks built a full-size, drivable model of the Bugatti Chiron supercar. Like, seriously.

Built partly as a passion project by Lego’s creative team, and partly as a promo to show off at the Italian Grand Prix, the model was built with over one million Technic pieces. Brainstorming this mad idea started back in 2017, with actual construction only beginning in 2018. Obviously building a working supercar out of bricks takes some planning.

To be clear, it’s not entirely Lego – there are some components that just can’t be replicated in plastic when dealing with something that all together weighs over 1.5 tons. There’s a real steel frame, a pair of batteries, a few 3d printed gears, and the whole thing sits on top of actual Bugatti wheels – although Lego is technically the world’s biggest manufacturer of ‘tyres’, they’re just a wee bit too small.

Amazingly, once the engineering marvel was constructed, the team actually took it for a spin, clocking an impressive 20 km/h. Lego does however claim that it can technically reach a breakneck speed of 30 km/h.

To reach these tyre-melting speeds, the car has two thousand Lego Power Function motors in a massive array underneath the hood, giving it a total ‘theoretical’ horsepower of 5.3.

Now before you get any ideas, the cost of this machine is probably outside your Secret Santa budget. The retail price of the motors alone will set you back about R1.3 million at Toys R Us.

For the lucky few who have the key to the Lego factory, this must have been the build of a lifetime. Screw the Deathstar.

[source:techcrunch