Roma

Make
Ferrari
Segment
Coupe

The Ferrari F40 started an entire era for the brand. It's famously the last car Enzo Ferrari personally signed off on and has remained an icon ever since. Obviously, these aren't cheap cars. One recently sold in the UK for a whopping $1.4 million. Which honestly makes this Lego Ferrari something of a bargain. Supposing you could buy it.

You'll at least be able to see it. It's the centerpiece of a new Ferrari-centric attraction at Legoland California, and this Lego Ferrari F40 is nearly a perfect 1:1 replica of the real thing. It's even got a Lego V8 engine in the back. Of course, it doesn't do much, unlike the V8 that powers cars like the Ferrari Roma. But still. A V8 is a V8.

That's by no means to discount the work that went into building this giant Lego set. The model started life as a 3D rendering, which is used to plot out all of the "hardpoints" of the structure, as well as to figure out what kind of Lego bricks ought to go where. From there, an exoskeleton is built, and the car is effectively built from bottom to top. In total, the team of builders took 3,700 hours of work to make the car. 1,800 of those hours were spent developing the car, with another 1,900 hours going into the building of the car.

Speaking of big numbers, around 358,000 bricks were used to reproduce the car. You'll notice that number is just a little smaller than it could be, largely down to the addition of a red leather bucket seat in the driver's side of the F40. Presumably, that's so visitors can have a seat in the car, which also has a fully modeled interior. All said and done, the car measures 14 feet long, six feet wide, and four feet tall, with a wheelbase of 8 feet.

Guests at the new Lego Ferrari Build and Race attraction, which opened on May 12th, will be able to build their own Lego Ferraris and race them. The experience is said to be fully customizable, with guests being able to choose their own "engines," tires, and aerodynamics.

Once the customization is done, the cars are raced virtually, which includes a lap of Ferrari's test track a Fiorano. If you're a Ferrari fan, it doesn't sound like an awful place to spend an afternoon. Just make sure not to get too competitive with the children that are sure to be there.