LEGO Ford Explorer Made from Over 382,000 Bricks I am a big fan of cars and stuff made from LEGO. Though if I was going to make a gigantic life size replica of a Ford vehicle, it wouldn’t be the new Explorer. I would opt for the Mustang, a Raptor truck, or maybe the Ford GT. The explanation of why a new Explorer for a project like this would be a sponsorship from Ford. Ford wants people to buy the new Explorer and since the Explorer makes for a nice family car a LEGO version at Legoland is a nice way to reach the parental units. This full-size LEGO reproduction used 382,858 bricks and will be on exhibition at Legoland Florida theme park. It took 22 Legoland workers 2,500 hours to build the Explorer. As you can see in the photos the LEGO version is a dead ringer for the real thing. The completed LEGO SUV weighs in at 2,654 pounds, almost half the weight of the 4,503-pound real deal. Check out the real thing being built in this time-lapse video. I love LEGO projects of this scale.
More from Awesomer Media... Zoom ARQ Aero RhythmTrak Ford Performance Uses Voodoo Magic in the 2017 Raptor 2018 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE Is the Track Day Camaro of Our Dreams Rogue One Blu-ray Release Date SurfacesLEGOLAND Is Towing a Lego '64-And-A-Half Mustang Across the Country Somewhere in the Northeast or the Upper Midwest, a Ford F-150 is towing a '64-and-a-half Mustang in an enclosed trailer. This is not especially unusual. What's unusual is that this Mustang is made entirely out of Legos, and the enclosed trailer is transparent.This is the work of LEGOLAND Florida, an organization that's currently hauling a full-size '64-and-a-half Mustang from Connecticut to Indiana, where the Lego Mustang will debut later this week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway during the Mustang Club of America's 40th-anniversary celebration.The Mustang is perched inside a transparent, enclosed trailer covered with Lego-block graphics and hashtags reading "#BrickPony," as that's what LEGOLAND is calling the Mustang.
When it arrives, LEGOLAND says, "#BrickPony will lead a huge parade of Mustangs representing more than 50 years of Ford Mustang in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record on Friday, September 2." No word yet on how a car made entirely of Legos will pull off this feat. More impressive than the fact that LEGOLAND has created a 15-foot-long Mustang made out of Legos, or that they're trailering it across the country like a real Mustang, is how they made the #BrickPony: with 165 layers and thousands of Lego and Duplo bricks that make up a giant internal structure under the skin. Interestingly, they have experience with this sort of thing, as they built a Lego Ford Explorer a couple of years ago.Once the Lego Mustang completes its duties in Indianapolis, it'll permanently reside at LEGOLAND Florida.MORE FROM OVERSTEER:I Bought a 1997 Dodge Viper GTS and Drove It 500 Miles HomeHere Are All the Cars That Have the Vanity Plate FUN Across the CountryThese Are the 7 Highest-Mileage Cars Listed on Autotrader
Using LEGO bricks, Ford was able to create a bright-red version of its Explorer. The vehicle will be placed at the entry to the Ford Driving School at Legoland Florida in which children aged between 6 and 12 will have the possibility to drive electric cars on small roads at a speed of 3 miles per hour. It would be interesting to note that the LEGO vehicle was built at the Torrance Avenue assembly factory, located in Chicago, by the same people who made the actual Ford Explorer. To make the LEGO model, 22 engineers required over 2,500 hours and 380,000 bricks. The car runs on a 768-pound aluminum base and its weight is 2,624 pounds. Who doesn’t love Lego? OK, maybe parents who step on stray bricks in bare feet on a regular basis? But apart from them, who doesn’t love Lego? I don’t know why I got to thinking about it, but I decided to look around the net for cars made from Lego….. and there are tons of them. Here are some of my favourites. Here’s a giant Ford Explorer made out of 380,000 Lego pieces.
This was a joint effort between Ford and Legoland Florida. It was said to be the first effort in a long term partnership between the two but I can’t find any examples to suggest the partnership is ongoing. Meanwhile, on the other side of the US, Legoland California put together this Volvo XC90 for display back in 2004. I can’t find a photo, but I’m pretty sure I saw this car in person at Swedish Car Day in Boston, back in 2010. Anyway……. it’s big, it’s blue and – fitting for a Volvo – it’s made out of bricks 🙂 Another full-size Lego-mobile, but this one comes with a couple of life-size Lego men that you can sit inside it 🙂 Let’s move down in size a little from those monolithic Lego creations to something a little more of the size you might build at home. The Tyrrell P34 might be a blip in Formula 1 history, but like most automotive blips, it’s a popular, interesting and notable blip. Tyrrell shocked the F1 world when it unveiled the P34 in the mid 1970’s and the icing on the cake came with a 1-2 finish in the Swedish Grand Prix of 1976 – the car’s only Grand Prix win and the only win ever for a six-wheeled car.
This Lego model of the Tyrrell is a wonderful example of a fan’s dedication, with the most important bits all in place right down to the small front quartet of wheels balancing out the two large rear wheels. You can see more here. OK, so it’s not a car, but it sort of crosses the bridge between what you’ve just seen and what you’ll see in a moment. There are a few Lego engines out there but I especially liked this one thanks to the distributor and the glowing leads meant to show the spark. This video starts slow but he cranks it up a little around the 55 second mark. OK, let’s up-size again. But this one’s notable because it’s full-size, it works – and it was built in Australia 🙂 The basic figures: 4 orbital engines, 256 pistons and around 500,000 pieces of Lego! There are only two non-Lego parts, which are the struts carrying all the weight and the tyres. The rest is all Lego. The car runs on compressed air. It doesn’t run far, but it does run. Wat
Most of what you see here is the work of a bunch of dedicated Lego-geeks, guys who love to lock themselves in a room full of plastic tubs sorted into different sizes and colours. Occasionally, though, the geekiest of the Lego geeks – the Lego company itself – releases a car model for people to collect. Such is the case with this VW Camper, complete with opening doors and windows, pop-top, real textile curtains and a little boxer engine in the boot. What’s a Sheepo, I hear you say? It’s not what, but who. Sheepo is a guy from Spain and he makes the geeks working at Lego look like Beaker from the Muppets. This guy is into building some seriously technical stuff, including components like torsion beam and multi-link rear axles as well as little trolley jacks so your lego men can raise the cars themselves 🙂 And he even gives out the instructions so you can do it yourself! The video below shows his Caterham 7 (especially for Gavin 🙂 ). Sheepo’s also built a Shelby Mustang, a Land Rover Defender and even a Peterbuilt truck! L