Lego has revealed its newest life-sized creation: a 400,000-piece Lamborghini Sián FKP 37. Using items from Lego Technic, the end result took 8,660 hours to develop and assemble.

The duplicate is 4,980 mm (196 in) lengthy, 2,101mm (82.7 in) broad, and 1,133mm (44.6 in) excessive, making its dimensions equivalent to that of the real-life automobile. A millimeter-perfect homage, Lego says it’s the primary time a hexagonal form has been used to kind the outer shell of a construct.

The real-life Sián is Lamborghini’s first manufacturing hybrid and comes with a naturally aspirated 6.5-liter V12 — one thing the size mannequin, clearly, doesn’t function. It does, nevertheless, include a brick-built steering wheel embellished with the Lamborghini emblem and Italian flag, LEGO-built dashboard controls, and racing seats.

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Lamborghini made headlines with the real-life Sián by incorporating a supercapacitor, which weighs lower than a standard battery. However we suspect weight wasn’t a consideration for the Lego group, with the life-size Sián duplicate topping the scales at 2200 kg (4850 lbs).

The Lego Sián makes use of 154 completely different Technic parts. Nonetheless, solely 20 of those needed to have been particularly created for the mission. The life-size duplicate follows from the 1:8 scale Lego Technic Lamborghini Sian FKP 37 that launched in June 2020.

In a primary for Lego, this large-scale Sián options what is named a “paintbrush-effect” UV coloration coating. To make sure the end matched that of the particular automobile, the paint was utilized by Lamborghini’s personal paint store. The colour itself was fastidiously in comparison with that discovered on the 1:8 scale Lego Technic model, with a number of assessments carried out to make sure it tallied with the right Pantone.

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In one other distinctive adaptation, Lego pays homage to the Sián’s identify by using modern use of lighting for the 1:1 scale mannequin. Within the Bolognese dialect, the phrase Sián means flash, or lightning, which is why you’ll discover illuminated lightning bolts down the facet of the recreation’s physique. The distinctive lightning bolt lights have been designed to imitate the power-up and power-down sequence discovered on the real-car’s headlights and taillights, with Lego’s electrical engineers making certain they flash in a similar way.

“Our designers love a problem, so you’ll be able to think about their delight after we tasked them to suppose barely bigger than regular with this mannequin,” stated Senior Vice President of Product and Advertising on the LEGO Group, Lena Dixen. “They jumped on the likelihood of teaming up with our superb designers and engineers from our mannequin manufacturing workshop on the Kladno manufacturing facility within the Czech Republic who construct these spectacular life-size fashions, and actually pushing the boundaries of what might be finished with LEGO Technic.”