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more details here: https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/media https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/med... (including a 7
by tda 8y ago
more details here: https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/media https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/med... (including a 714mb zip with images which I am still downloading)
Some facts:
Over 1,000,000 LEGO Technic elements in total
339 types of LEGO Technic elements used
No glue used in the assembly
Total weight: 1,500 kg
Engine contains:
2,304 LEGO Power Functions motors
4,032 LEGO Technic gear wheels
2,016 LEGO Technic cross axles
Theoretical performance of 5.3 HP
Estimated torque of 92 Nm
Functional rear spoiler (using both LEGO Power Functions and pneumatics)
Functional speedometer built entirely from LEGO Technic elements
13,438 man hours used on development and construction
Edit:
images are meh, just press shots. Was hoping for more on how it was built
- tda 8y ago"...using 58 types of Technic custom-made elements", anyone have a information on what those pieces are? They really spent an incedible amount of hours and effort on this. 13k+ man hours...
- 5874-4b22-a4e0 8y agoTheoretically this could cost as much as 1.3k @ 10 cents per hour in a third world country to build, but there is a risk of theft when a piece of lego is worth more on the black market than what people make per hour. If we move to America, it would only cost ~100k at minimum wage.
- 91bananas 8y agoCrazy budget, just at $20 dollars an hour that is $~260k. Hope it paid off!
- standerman 8y agoHow many Bugatti's does this piece of marketing have to sell to justify the cost? I'm guessing not many.
- jandrese 8y agoI'm pretty sure every Veyron/Chiron built is already sold before construction begins. They only make a tiny number of them and collectors snap them right up.
- tomatotomato37 8y agoProbably both one and infinite. Hypercars usually run on +100% margins in an attempt to cover their absurd R&D, and this is the halo model of the hypercar, which usually run at even higher margins, so a +$300k gross off each model sold will not be unusual. Even then these types of cars never make back their investment costs, as they serve more as advertisements of their parent company more so than actual products.
- gsnedders 8y agoWith regards to Bugatti: “On [the Chiron] project, we get back in the black,” Bugatti’s Head of Production Christophe Piochon told me. The development of the Veyron’s complex systems over its lifetime, which laid the solid engineering foundation for the Chiron, resulted in $1.62 billion in investment costs. “By the end of the Chiron’s run, we’ll be profitable,” Piochon promised. The Veyron somewhat infamously was a net loss for Volkswagen, despite its massive price. But ultimately its role was to be a halo car for the entire Volkswagen Group, and as such profit on the car itself wasn't such a concern.
- barkingcat 8y agoLike the other poster says - this doesn't really sell any cars because they are spoken for as soon as the plans to build one are revealed (ie Bugatti often sells through their entire planned-to-build cars years or even decades before the car is actually built) Often luxury car companies will refuse to build any more because each additional car built reduces the value of all existing cars. So the answer is 0. This marketing doesn't need to sell any cars to justify the cost.
- Shivetya 8y agoso the question is, how close to the cost of the real car is it? it certainly is not cheap but I have no means to estimate the costs of LEGOs or custom pieces
- barkingcat 8y agoin US $, a Bugatti Chiron without extras starts at about $3 million.
- philipov 8y ago3 million is the retail price, not the cost of parts and labor to construct it, which is all these lego-version cost numbers are considering. We can't compare retail prices because the lego version isn't being sold, and if it were auctioned as art, I bet it would go for more than 3 million. If we wanted a real comparison, we'd need to add the cost of R&D to the production costs. We could divide the R&D for the Chiron by the number of units produced. I'm sure the schematics for the lego version were much less expensive to develop, but that would be offset by there being only a single unit. Furthermore, how do we price in the marginal utility of having already developed the original?
- hanniabu 8y ago13438 comes out to about 11 people working on this for 6 months. That's a huge commitment.
- justaguyhere 8y agoThe press they'd get from this is worth the investment I guess.
- andai 8y ago"So what do you do?" --"I work for Lego, we're building a life size Bugatti you can actually drive!" "...are you free later?"
- LukeShu 8y ago> "...using 58 types of Technic custom-made elements", anyone have a information on what those pieces are? "56 custom made Technic element types (existing shapes in new colors)" from https://www.lego.com/r/www/r/portals/-/media/themes/technic/2hy2018/apollo/downloads/fact-sheet.pdf https://www.lego.com/r/www/r/portals/-/media/themes/technic/...
- jwin742 8y agoAccording the the pdf factsheet linked in this thread they were just existing pieces in new colors. So the transparent parts for the lights and I imagine LEGO doesn't sell technic in Bugatti Blue.
- pxndx 8y agoThey sell the smaller version of this car, in the same colors [1]. But many pieces are not available in those colors, e.g. I see a lot of the 3x1 cross-blocks [2] in light azure, which is not in any other set. [1] https://shop.lego.com/en-ES/Bugatti-Chiron-42083 https://shop.lego.com/en-ES/Bugatti-Chiron-42083 [2] https://ali1994.brickowl.com/store/lego-technic-cross-block-1-x-3-with-two-axle-holes-32184 https://ali1994.brickowl.com/store/lego-technic-cross-block-...
- seanalltogether 8y agoI can't understand how this was done without glue. Sure they must have used something to secure the initial blocks to the steel frame, but nothing afterwards?
- agumonkey 8y agovarious orthogonal locking schemes ?
- dsr_ 8y agoThe Unofficial LEGO Technic Builder's Guide, by Pwel Kmiec, from NoStarch Press, is an excellent reference on mechanical stress and parts techniques, as well as guides for suspensions, gearboxes, transmissions, steering, and so on and so forth. I highly recommend it.
- agumonkey 8y agoI used to know a pdf about the arithmetic beauty of lego ratios. I cannot find it anymore ..
- masklinn 8y agohttps://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/media https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/technic/bugatti-chiron/med... has more, including an archive of 35 images some of which are detail shots of the wheels & steering wheels. Though no build detail shots.
- mwexler 8y agoVideos on this page do include some build shots. The 8 minute video is especially well done.
- cloudwizard 8y agostock LEGO in sets is around 10 cents per piece. technics are more expensive. Looking at Ebay, it looks like 30-50 cents on average. You are looking at $200K to $400K for the 1M Technics pieces. They said the motors cost $70K. Say up to $500K for LEGO including custom elements.
- Fricken 8y agoRelative to the retail price, the manufacturing cost of Lego elements are pennies on the dollar. For a $50 starwars set there might be 50 cents worth of plastic. The metal injection moulding dies cost tens of thousands, but one die can mould 120 million basic 2x4 bricks over it's lifetime. Of course there's a whole other wing to their factories for sorting pieces into sets, they release hundreds of different sets a year which design teams spend months prototyping, they spend huge on marketing, community outreach, and licensing fees, and a non-trivial portion of their manufacturing capacity goes to Legoland resorts and projects like this Bugatti Chiron build. Nonetheless, the Lego group commands Apple-like profit margins. Still, for the consumer the value proposition on a Lego purchase is very good, because it's value doesn't depreciate over time. In fact, vintage Lego sets have appreciated on average 10% per year over the last decade. Buying Lego is money in the bank, presuming you keep your Lego inventoried and save the boxes, stickers and instructions.
- tetrep 8y ago> images are meh, just press shots. Was hoping for more on how it was built If you scroll to the bottom of the page there's a few links to "raw video clips" and "how we did it". I'm downloading them now but the names of the files sound like they're exactly what you want.
- foobarian 8y agoWhere does one get these Technic pieces? There seem to be a bunch of pre-made sets but I don't see a generic kit with some motors and most often used bits.
- m1573rp34130dy 8y agowow its a big url...not trying to advert sell or endorse, but you asked where do i get, so heres one place... https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Power-Functions-Motor/dp/B01E78WLCU/ref=pd_sim_21_1?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B01E78WLCU&pd_rd_r=0da24d82-aca2-11e8-9f1d-0fdf2b561195&pd_rd_w=MTGzE&pd_rd_wg=urIE0&pf_rd_i=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_p=a180fdfb-b54e-4904-85ba-d852197d6c09&pf_rd_r=SX97JWBJD65BSP8NGCBM&pf_rd_s=desktop-dp-sims&pf_rd_t=40701&psc=1&refRID=SX97JWBJD65BSP8NGCBM https://www.amazon.com/LEGO-Technic-Power-Functions-Motor/dp...
- bigiain 8y agoBuy them from @jacquesm: https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/ https://jacquesmattheij.com/sorting-two-metric-tons-of-lego/ :-)