Which is the REAL McLaren Senna? McLaren build a full size Senna in LEGO

A full-size McLaren Senna built out of Lego has been revealed, complete with real Senna seat, steering wheel, wheels and tyres.

It’s quite amazing what you can build out of Lego, but if this Lego McLaren Senna is anything to go by it’ll take you longer than building the real thing – and weigh more.

Created shifts of Lego designers, this Lego McLaren uses 467,854 bits of Lego – of which some 20,000 are bespoke to the project – it took 2,725 hours to build and weighs in at a porky – certainly for a McLaren – 1,700kg. By comparison, a real McLaren Senna  takes 300 hours to build and weighs 500kg less.

The Lego bricks alone weigh in at a tonne, and are glued together to ensure that they won’t fall apart if mistreated, but it’s not just Lego bricks in the finished model.

Inside the cabin is a lightweight carbon fibre driving seat, steering wheel and pedals from the real Senna – and a ‘Start’ button which delivers the noise of a real Senna –  there’s real McLaren badges and the wheels and tyres are from the real Senna too.

The full-size Lego Senna is finished in Victory Grey with contrasting orange highlights to match the McLaren Senna LEGO Speed Champions edition which went on sale earlier this year (it costs £12.99 – a chunk less, we’d venture, than this full-size version cost to make).

McLaren are taking the Lego Senna off to a number of events this year so you can get up close (and inside), most notably the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July.