LEGO McLaren Senna is unbelievable

Most people follow the detailed instructions when making LEGO cars, but when it comes to a 1700kg life-size replica of a road cars that took almost half a million block to create, there are no instructions.

If there were, the book would read like a 10,000 page tome!

Like the Ausse-built LEGO Toyota Camry we inspected in 2018 – another powerhouse of the automotive world – this incredible LEGO creation is a 1:1 scale replica of the McLaren Senna, and we're talking about some serious detail here.

As well as functional headlights, LEGO disc brakes, a massive rear spoiler and diffuser, the doors are fully functional. Yep, the dihedral doors open and close.

Only a handful of elements of this amazing McLaren Senna replica are not made of LEGO, such as the tyres (borrowed from the road car) and part of the cabin. Just take a look at the pics and you'll note the interior features the driver's seat, steering wheel and pedals are from the actual car.

It has an operational starter button that plays a recording of the Senna's incredibly potent 4.0-litre twin-turbo V8, worth 588kW/800Nm in the road car.

Weighing about 500kg more than the road car, the 1700kg LEGO car creation took a total of 4935 hours to develop and build – spread across several artists working in teams around the clock. By comparison, it takes around 300 hours to hand built the real car.

Whichever way you slice and dice it, that's an incredible amount of time but then again the grey and orange result is a feast for the eyes.

McLaren's previous LEGO creation, a 720S, used 267,300 LEGO bricks to build, but this one takes the cake with 467,854 blocks.

Like the life-sized Chevrolet LEGO Batmobile, creations like this deserve a large audience and as such the LEGO McLaren Senna will be shipped across the globe for several appearances in 2019. Thus far McLaren has confirmed the LEGO Senna will be on display at the 2019 Goodwood Festival of Speed in the UK during July.