Life-size Lego Porsche 911 Turbo is made from massive Lego bricks.
A few different companies have used Lego blocks to recreate a vehicle, but Porsche has taken this approach to a new level. Rather than making a life-size 911 out of the same Lego bricks that you can buy at Walmart, the German automaker has used unique, gigantic Lego bricks to effectively make a large-scale version of the Lego Speed Champions 911 Turbo.
Lego Supercars
Lego has offered a handful of miniature vehicles as part of their Speed Champions collection and one of the newer additions to that official vehicle lineup is the Porsche RSR and 911 Turbo 3.0 two-car set. As the name suggests, this kit comes with the bricks needed to build two German supercars – the modern 911-based race car and the original 911 Turbo.
In addition to the vehicles, this Porsche Lego kit includes three minifigures, a pit wall with a timing board, a checkered flag and some tiny tools. In total, the kit includes 391, most of which are split up between the two Porsche performance cars.
This Lego kit includes miniature scale versions of the full-size cars and in turn, the Porsche museum has created a full-size version of the 911 Turbo 3.0 from the Speed Champions collection.
The Giant Lego 911
While some people might call this unique creation a full-scale model of the original 911 Turbo built from Lego bricks, it is actually a car-sized version of the toy. Rather than using hundreds of thousands of actual Lego bricks, this big, plastic Porsche is made from huge Lego bricks, with the basic design mimicking that of the Speed Champions car.
It is unclear whether or not this car has some sort of reinforcing structure under those giant Lego bricks, but if this car actually snaps together like the tiny toys, it would be interesting to see it taken apart brick-by-brick when the display has run its course. Then again, there is no guarantee that the functional design of the Lego snap-together system would work in large scale, so this car might not actually come apart piece by piece – but it certainly looks like it would.
In summary, Porsche has made a large-scale version of the small-scale version of the original 911 Turbo from Lego, making this piece-together Porsche cooler than your average life-size Lego vehicle.
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