Ford Explorer build out of almost 400k Legos

[Rodger Tellefson]

via Auto Accessories Garage ~

We read recently that the folks at Lego built a full-size Ford Explorer out of almost 400,000 individual legos. It sounded a bit ridiculous, and even seeing a picture of the finished product left us skeptical that they built it the same way your kids build miniature castles in the living room. And then we saw this video, which shows the entire construction process in time lapse video. The ideas that people come up with...

 

[Richard L]

Hmmmmm? One of the things I noticed was that they had a bunch of flat panel monitors scattered around the contstruction site as they built the Explorer??



Not to take away from the skills that people have for doing these kinds of things, but....That does make me wonder if the whole thing was not designed and laid out by computer, and the guys who assembled the final product were just following instructions from a computer....Kind of like a paint-by-numbers thing??



....Rich

 

[Shaun Tucker]

I wonder how heavy that thing is?

 

[Kevin Lang]

They glued the LEGOs?! Isn't that cheating? :grin:



I thought it was pretty cool how they treated the project like a pre-Henry Ford assembly line and had each person build a few parts and then combine all of their parts to make the car, as opposed to building the whole car as one big unit.

the guys who assembled the final product were just following instructions from a computer

I'd also bet this is how it was done, but I don't see anything wrong with the system. IMO it's like how the architect doesn't lay the bricks and weld the beams on the buildings he designs.



IMO Shoulda used K'Nex, they're made in America :bwahaha: