It weighs 2654 pounds, is built on a flat aluminum undertray supporting an internal matrix of yellow bricks, blue bricks, and black bricks, and features the ever-popular gray-brick trim option on its red-brick (not brick-red, mind you) body. It’s a life-size Lego Ford Explorer. After its debut at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant, the eight-bit SUV will board a clear-sided transporter (the better to distract other motorists) destined for the new Legoland park in Florida, where it will serve as the centerpiece of the new Ford Driving School attraction.
Based on the press release, we infer that acts of hoonage will be strongly discouraged at the “school,” where the kids will pilot electric carts limited to 3 mph. A 3-mph crash is, after all, less painful than stepping on an errant Lego in the middle of the night. We wonder if any of the Explorer’s assembly team has nightmares about that very experience? After all, one can’t put together more than 380,000 tiny plastic bricks and not wind up with some manner of lingering psychological trauma.
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