This Life-Size Lego Ferrari 296 GTS Weighs More Than The Real Car

This Life-Size Lego Ferrari 296 GTS Weighs More Than The Real Car

This Life-Size Lego Ferrari 296 GTS Weighs More Than The Real Car

Lego automobile fashions have gotten fairly subtle lately, with scale (and lifelike!) autos in all sizes and makes. Lego Fiats, Lego Defenders, even a bit of Lego minifigure of Ayrton Senna have all been supplied on the market lately.

Those creations, nonetheless, have been tiny scale fashions. To commemorate the opening of a brand new Ferrari-themed attraction at Legoland Florida, the corporate kicked it up a notch and had a workforce of builders create a life-size duplicate of the Ferrari 296 GTS totally out of bricks.

LEGO Florida Ferrari 296 GTS model
LEGO Florida Ferrari 296 GTS model
LEGO Florida Ferrari 296 GTS model

The mannequin — which Lego says took a workforce of 10 individuals 1,850 hours to construct — options working headlights, taillights, and license-plate illumination. The driver’s door opens and the inside, additionally constructed totally out of Lego bricks save for an actual 296 GTS steering wheel, contains a two-tone beige-and-black sprint and a pair of what are prone to be the least-comfortable bucket seats on the planet.

A Lego twin-turbo V6 pokes by way of the uncovered rear window of the automobile. Despite being made virtually totally of plastic, it weighs extra than a operating, driving, 819-horsepower 296 GTS, with the Lego mannequin clocking in at practically two tons versus the true deal’s 3,395 kilos.

LEGO Florida Ferrari 296 GTS model

No official rely was given for the variety of bricks used to make the automobile. Instead, Legoland Florida will host a contest on its Instagram web page to guess what number of have been used. Previous full-size car fashions the corporate has constructed such because the Ferrari F40, Volvo V70, and Ford F-150 Lightning used round 350,000 items every, so it is doubtless that the Ferrari 296 GTS is someplace in that neighborhood.

Given a mean price in most Lego units of about 10 cents per brick, that might put this 296 GTS at a cost-to-build of about $35,000. Not a foul low cost, contemplating the true deal prices greater than ten instances that.

If you wish to see the Lego Ferrari for your self, it will likely be on show at Legoland Florida beginning March eighth.