Chevrolet makes a Silverado Trail Boss entirely of Lego
Chevrolet is celebrating the upcoming Warner Brothers sure-to-be blockbuster, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, with a full-scale model of the all-new 2019 Silverado 1500 LT Trail Boss, complete with working lights and graphic details.
It took 18 Lego-trained Master Builders more than 2,000 hours, using more than 300,000 pieces (mostly red 2x8s, the 2x4 of the Lego world), to build the model, which was presented at the Detroit Auto Show this week as a collaboration between students at Oxford Community School’s First Lego League and Detroit’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Elementary’s A World in Motion Program.
The “Lego-rado” is not the first to-scale vehicle made entirely out of Lego bricks, but it is the first full-size Lego Chevrolet. At 6.1 metres long and 1.8 m tall, with a curb weight of 1,500 kilograms, it’s just a little too big for the sandbox. It teases a smaller, custom Lego build of the Silverado High Country that will make its big-screen debut in the upcoming animated movie.
Chevrolet posted a YouTube video that chronicles the build of the Silverado with some fun time-lapse footage that shows parts of the giant toy truck come together brick by brick.
The new Lego movie hits theatres this month.