At 2,725 hours it took nine times longer to make than the actual Senna production car.
27 March 2019 - 09:00It took 42 people a total of 4,935 hours to create this unique life-size Lego McLaren Senna.A unique, full-scale Lego McLaren Senna has been created in secret by shifts of specialist assemblers working around the clock. Taking nearly 5,000 hours to assemble, it comprises of almost half a million separate components.
Built to click with fans the world over, this surprise new Senna is the most realistic and ambitious McLaren ever made by Lego. Pieced together from one metric ton’s worth of Lego elements you may not be able to drive off in it, but enthusiasts young and old can climb aboard, sit behind the wheel, push the start button , and even hear a simulation of the 335km/h top speed car roaring to life. Fans can also operate the lights and infotainment system on the model.
Now the brick-built Senna moves the model-car game on in ways befitting an Ultimate Series McLaren. The statistics behind it are mind-boggling: 467,854 individual Lego elements were used in its construction, which is almost 200,000 more bricks than were used to construct the 720S model two years ago.
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