152,455-Piece LEGO Rolls-Royce Engine

[tuppaware]

his is insane: 152,455 Lego bricks, weighing 307kg and measuring 2m long. That’s how amazing this Lego cut-out of a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engine is. It has over 160 separate engine components arranged just like the engine that powers the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

Rolls-Royce presented its Lego engine yesterday at the Farnborough International Airshow and says that it took four people eight weeks to complete, which is quite a feat. The beautiful cut-out shows every detail of the inner workings of the engine, “including everything from the large fan blades which suck air into the engine down to the combustion chambers where fuel is burned.” It required the builders to go through the actual CAD plans of the engine to reproduce every component accurately with Lego pieces.

152,455-Piece Rolls-Royce Engine Is The Most Complex Lego Machine Ever Built | Gizmodo Australia

 

[markis10]

Has anyone checked for oil leaks?

 

[juddles]

Is there no end to what they will build with lego??

 

[alieninperth]

pretty sure there isn't which is why it is the most awesome toy ever.

 

[Hvr]

Does Meccano still exist as a current toy? It seems it does but not in the same form as when I was a child.

Now if the engine was made with Meccano the plane would probably take off.

 

[serfty]

...

Now if the engine was made with Meccano the plane would probably take off.

Or ... at least run along the ground a bit before hitting something ...

 

[Simo]

Awesome photo's

 

[vitagen]

Is it maintained offshore?


Very likely to be posted via iPhone or iPad

 

[SeatBackForward]

Not as powerful an engine, but this can be bought from Lego right now: