When this baby hits 88mph, you're going to see some serious brick…

Friday, 18 March 2022

When this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're going to see some serious brick...

Lego has been on a bit of a roll these last few years for fans of classic movie cars, what with numerous Batmobiles, James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5, Ghostbuster’s ECTO-1 and Dom’s Charger from the Fast and Furious franchise being just a few of the icons to get large-scale Lego model versions recently.

Now it is the turn of another wheeled movie star to get the large-scale Lego treatment, with the DeLorean time machine from the Back to the Future trilogy getting the plastic brick treatment – and you can even build it three different ways, depending on which movie’s version is your favourite. Or, you know, buy three sets to build all of them…

The Lego Back to the Future DeLorean has 1,872 pieces, and the completed model measures 35 centimetres long, 19 centimetres wide, and 12 centimetres tall, which puts it roughly on scale with the last Lego movie car – the Batmobile from Matt Reeve’s The Batman film starring Robert Pattinson as the Caped Crusader.

You can build the Lego DeLorean three different ways. The only correct response to this is to purchase three kits, so you can have them all built at the same time.

That model had 1,360 pieces, was 45 centimetres long (with the rear flame in place), 17 centimetres wide, and 11 centimetres tall.

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This is the first time Lego has offered a large-scale version of the DeLorean, and is aiming it squarely at the adult market, unsurprisingly.

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Like the last Batmobile, the DeLorean comes with Legos new illuminated bricks, with the flux capacitor in the time machine’s cockpit lighting up. On top of this it also features a dashboard with the appropriate dates and swappable ‘OUTATIME’ and futuristic barcode number plates, while the bonnet and gullwing doors open, too. If you build the version from Back to the Future Part II, the wheels even fold up for flight mode.

Accessories include Marty's hoverboard from the second movie, a box of stolen plutonium, and a banana and tin can to power Mr. Fusion with. Like some other large-scale models, the DeLorean also includes Lego minifigs of Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly, even though the vehicles themselves are much larger than minifig scale.

Of course, this isn’t actually the first Lego Back to the Future DeLorean – the very first fan-designed ‘Lego Cuusoo’ (now renamed ‘Lego Ideas’) that went on sale was a smaller-scale version that attracted criticism for being too blocky and not detailed enough. But there won’t be any such complaints with this new version.

The new Lego Back to the Future Time Machine is released on the 1st of April will set you back NZ$279. Or three times that if you just have to have all three versions made up at the same time…