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Ever fancied building your own supercar? Well now you can, sort of kind of not really, as McLaren will be bringing its life-size Lego 720S to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend, and you can help finish it off.
The 1:1 scale model uses around 280,000 Lego bricks and blocks (many of them orange) and actually weighs a couple of hundred kilos more than a real 720S, at around 1,600kg (the real thing clocks in at 1,283kg).
Built to celebrate the launch of the Lego McLaren Speed Champions set (available in all good and evil toy shops now), the Lego 720S isn't quite complete, so McLaren is inviting visitors to its Goodwood stand to come along and help put the last bricks in place. The plan is to have the car completed in time for the Festival's conclusion on Sunday evening.
In order to produce such an accurate representation of the 720S, McLaren Automotive worked closely with the Speed Champions Lego team based in Billund, Denmark, providing in-depth vehicle CAD data so that the model could be fully realised.
The model was built up around a steel frame, with a team of six working for over 2,000 hours to build the car by hand. For comparison, a real-world production 720S takes around 12 working days in the McLaren Production Centre to assemble. Also featured on the Lego 720S build is the all-new Pirelli P Zero Corsa tyres used on its road-going equivalent, complete with silver 'Pirelli Colour Edition' graphics.
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