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Lego and McLaren, continuing the collaboration that saw a stunning full-size 720S made in brick form, have created the most complex model Macca yet - a Lego Senna.
Based on McLaren's 800hp just-about-road-legal rocket, the Lego version has taken some 5,000 hours to assemble (nine times the amount of time it would take McLaren to build a real Senna), and has used almost 500,000 individual Lego components.
It's also hefty - at 1,700kg it weighs 500kg more than the real McLaren Senna.
There's more, though. This is also the most complex Lego McLaren model yet built, because unlike the 720S model (which was just the outside of the car rendered in Lego) this one can actually be sat in. You can pop open the massive dihedral door, sit inside the cockpit, push the starter button and hear the simulated noise of a real McLaren V8 engine starting up.
The 467,854 individual pieces mean that there are 200,000 more than were used in the 720S model. A team of 42 in total, including ten expert Lego builders, basically worked around the clock to get this brick monster built.
It's not quite entirely Lego, though. In the cockpit, the seat, steering wheel and pedals are taken from the real car, while the badges on the outside and the Pirelli tyres are also the real things.
Anything else?
Thankfully for those without the odd 5,000 hours to spare, and basically all the Lego in the world to use, you can buy a much simpler, much more affordable Lego McLaren Senna, in the 15cm long Lego Speed Champions version that went on sale earlier this year. It's available from all good toy shops and, priced at around €15, it should be much less taxing on the pocket than the full-size version.