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I have made one of these and it is not one piece. The floor is just very sturdy because it has a lot of long flat bars and is very will connected with a lot of
by Negitivefrags 8y ago
I have made one of these and it is not one piece. The floor is just very sturdy because it has a lot of long flat bars and is very will connected with a lot of fixings.
The “skin” of the car on the other hand is very flimsy because they had to use a lot of tricks to get all the panels to have the correct angles with only standard LEGO parts. Many of them will flex when you touch them because they only have 2 attachment points.
I can highly recommend making this model. It has a 4 speed transmission with paddle shifters on the steering column. It’s one of the most mechanically interesting models I’ve put together, and yet all of the complexity is practically impossible to see once the model is made.
One question I have, was the speed of the crash test scaled down to factor in the scale of the model or was it done at the full speed of the full size car. If it wasn’t, it wasn’t a very fair test!
- jonsen 8y agoFragility grows with size. The test speed of the downscaled version should be higher if anything.
- tjoff 8y agoThe description says 46 km/h, not sure how fair you could make this ;P
- scrumper 8y agoLater in the video there’s a brief glimpse of the crash at real-time camera speed. The car is moving very fast. Whatever the speed, this doesn’t look survivable, for either occupants or frankly any imaginary plastic people in the range of all that wickedly sharp LEGO shrapnel and flying wheels. I think a real 911 would do substantially better in a crash test; this is more like the result of those supercar crashes you see where some poor sod has lost control into Armco at 180mph.
- village-idiot 8y agoAnytime the drivers compartment is completely open on one side before the paramedics cut it apart is a very bad crash indeed.