[BLOG] 20-year-old builds life size, drivable car from LEGO!

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What would you do if you had access to more than half a million LEGO bricks? Build your own mini Legoland? Maybe an Indiana Jones-style LEGO boulder? Whatever you were thinking, I bet it's nowhere near as insane as what a 20-year-old Romanian has just accomplished.



After 20 months of work and "tens of thousands" of dollars fund-raised by his brother from Australian backers, Raul Oaida has successfully turned over 500,000 LEGO bricks into a life-size car you can actually drive, thanks to four radial engines with 256 pistons that run on compressed air. It has a top speed of anywhere between 12-17mph, dependent on weight - though given the seats are also LEGO (mercifully designed to have smooth, flat surfaces to remain comfortable, but also making them slippery) and how fragile the bricks can get at high speeds, you probably wouldn't want to go faster anyway.



That fragility, combined with a lack of safety devices means the car will never be road legal - not to mention a nightmare for any company who dared to offer to insure it - but hey, let's give the guy some credit, huh? And the custom rims depicting faces and symbols in each wheel - made from mixes of black and yellow bricks - add a nice classy touch. But enough talk. Hit up the video below to see the car in action - and let us know in the comments what you think.