Lego and Toyota build a life-size GR Supra

Tuesday, 17 August 2021

It might look like a low-res photo of a Supra, but it’s actually a full-size Lego replica.

While the last round of Speed Champion car models from Danish plastic brick-maker Lego featured a 299-piece version of the Toyota GR Supra, both Lego and Toyota decided that still wasn’t quite good enough, so have teamed up to create a full-size, working replica of the sports car made from almost half a million Lego bricks.

Lego Group's Japan unit made the replica of a GR Supra in co-operation with Toyota to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Supra's launch in Japan in 1986 and has put it on display at the Legoland Japan Resort in Nagoya.

Using 477,303 Lego pieces, the Supra took 3,000 hours to develop and another 2400 hours to assemble, and is 4350mm meters long and weighs 1885kg – the real thing weighs in at around 1500kg, depending on specification.

The Lego Supra features the wheels and tyres, driver's seat, steering wheel and badges from the actual Supra and is fully drivable, being equipped with an electric motor that can propel it at speeds of up to 28kmh.

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There is a video on YouTube of the Supra, but it is inexplicably location locked (it’s here in case they decide to change that), but you can see the car in Lego’s tweet above or in a break-down of the original video here.

'You can do anything with Lego bricks. I want people to feel the infinite possibilities,' Eiko Konishi, the trade marketing manager at Lego Group's Japan unit, said online at the car's unveiling.

The exhibit is scheduled to run through until October 11 at the resort and, following that, will reportedly be exhibited at rounds of the Japanese Super GT racing series.