Danish toy giant Lego has set the bar high for its complex Technic automotive kits by making a full-scale McLaren P1.
Built as a promotional tool for its new 1:8 scale McLaren set, Lego built its plastic P1 out of 342,817 individual Technic pieces around what appears to be the hypercar’s standard carbon tub.
Weighing about 1220kg, it’s more than 250kg lighter than the real P1, though its eight electric motor packs – totalling 768 individual Lego motors – can’t replicate the circa-670kW outputs of the production model’s twin-turbo 3.8-litre V8 hybrid system.
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In a first for any of Lego’s ‘big builds’, the P1 features fully functional steering, allowing it to complete a lap of the famed Silverstone Grand Prix circuit with two-time Formula One race winner Lando Norris behind the wheel.
Unfortunately a lap time wasn’t provided, however the feat of getting it around the 5.891km circuit was an impressive culmination of 8344 hours of development and construction by 23 McLaren and Lego specialists.
While you can’t buy the life-size Lego McLaren P1, the new 3893-piece, 1:8 scale Technic kit has gone on sale to celebrate the hypercar which went out of production in 2015.
The kit is priced from $699.99 in Australia.
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