OMG, OMG, OMG! McLaren worked with LEGO to come up with this totally cool McLaren Senna GTR kit. Just in time for the new year, the LEGO Technic McLaren Senna GTR is for kids 10 and over (that includes me!) and looks almost as fun as the real thing. Probably safer too!

?The team responsible for the design of the McLaren Senna GTR worked incredibly closely with their design counterparts at the LEGO Group to capture the extreme looks, excitement, and essence of such an incredible supercar for LEGO Technic builders,” said Robert Melville, Design Director, McLaren Automotive.

Labors of Love

I was one of those kids that loved LEGOs and any other building toy. If I could make a spaceship one day, then a race car the next with the same materials, I was in. I’m a little less convinced about actual LEGO kits you’re supposed to make into one particular thing. But hey, you can always ignore the instructions and turn those spaceship parts into a cool castle or submarine or submarine/castle or something.
McLaren isn’t the first car company to work with LEGO. I used to have a Ferrari F1 pit stop kit somewhere, and I recall that Ford made a Mustang LEGO kit that was gigantic a while back. So this isn’t exactly new ground, but it is totally cool.

Yes, I do have issues with the McLaren Senna. I know it’s fast, and yeah, it’s named after the best driver of his generation, but the thing looks like a box of axe heads even from the...