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Lego Back To The Future Time Machine

If the sci-fi classic Back To The Future is to be believed, building your own time machine is easy. All you need is a failed sports car, a flux capacitor and some plutonium stolen from a bunch of Libyan terrorists. For some people, that’s still too much to ask (have you seen the price of a second-hand Delorean these days?); but if you’re not too fussed about the actual time-travel bit, Lego has made it easier than ever before.

This 1872-piece set comes with the bits you need to build all three incarnations of Doc Brown’s dimension-jumping DMC (although only one at a time), including the lightning rod from the first film, the fold-down wheels for the flying version in the second, and the bonnet-mounted time circuits seen in the third. There’s also a light-up flux capacitor (that fortunately doesn’t need 1.21GW of power to operate), printed dashboard dates, opening gullwing doors, a hoverboard and swappable number plates, plus out-of-scale Doc and Marty minifigs.

By the time you’ve finished building it you’ll have travelled about five hours into the future, so perhaps it does work after all. As hot as… those 88mph tyre tracks

£150 / lego.com