2019 Honda Civic Type R Recreated Entirely Out of Lego Blocks

Life-sized Lego Civic Type R weighs 2,870 pounds and it took the team 1,300 hours to assemble the 320,000 tiny bricks.

The current Civic Type R is the first to be marketed in the United States, but the hottest of the Honda hatchbacks, but the Type R name has long been the pinnacle performance moniker in many other global markets. One of those markets is Australia, where a group of Lego enthusiasts recently got together to recreate the current high performance Civic out of tiny plastic bricks in order to promote the launch of the Lego Masters television show in the local market.

The video above, from the Honda Australia YouTube channel, provides a close-up look at the gigantic toy Honda from every angle, giving us a better look at the insane attention paid to detail than any still images.

Lego Masters

Lego Masters is a television show that has been running in the United Kingdom for a few years now, but later this year, it will make its small-screen debut in Australia. The series details the greatest Lego builders in the region, so the Aussie version will showcase Lego lovers from Down Under.

The show was air on the Nine Network and to draw attention to the upcoming debut of the show, nine local Lego experts got together to build a Honda Civic Type R entirely from the plastic blocks.

Lego Type R

The nine Lego masters who got together to build a 2019 Honda Civic Type R from children’s blocks spent more than 1,300 hours snapping together all of the tiny pieces. We are guessing that number represents 1,300 man-hours, which means that each of the nine team members spend around 145 hours working on this project. If the progress was made in eight hour shifts, five days a week, this Civic build took the team of nine people more than three weeks, but even if they worked every day for eight hours, this car still took more than two weeks to assemble.

In total, the team used 320,000 Lego bricks to build this life-sized Type R and every one of those blocks is a standard piece, just like you would find in an off-the-shelf brick set. There is a steel framework that supports the 2,870-pound curb weight, but from the wheels and Brembo brake assemblies to the working lights and contoured grille, this entire Honda Civic is built at 1-to-1 scale from Lego blocks.

You read that right, the lights all work, including the headlights, fog lights and taillights, all of which are on display in the video above.

In the video, we can see that even the rounded bodysides have been replicated out of the tiny blocks, so the Lego Masters team has truly recreated the Civic Type R in every way, shy of the high performance engine. This giant Lego car doesn’t run or move, but when it comes to toy-based displays of the legendary hot hatch, it doesn’t get much cooler than this car.

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Patrick Rall

"Before I was old enough to walk, my dad was taking me to various types of racing events, from local drag racing to the Daytona 500," says Patrick Rall, a lifetime automotive expert, diehard Dodge fan, and respected auto journalist for over 10 years. "He owned a repair shop and had a variety of performance cars when I was young, but by the time I was 16, he was ready to build me my first drag car – a 1983 Dodge Mirada that ran low 12s. I spent 10 years traveling around the country, racing with my dad by my side. While we live in different areas of the country, my dad still drag races at 80 years old in the car that he built when I was 16 while I race other vehicles, including my 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and my 1972 Dodge Demon 340.

"Although I went to college for accounting, my time in my dad’s shop growing up allowed me the knowledge to spend time working as a mechanic before getting my accounting degree, at which point I worked in the office of a dealership group. While I was working in the accounting world, I continued racing and taking pictures of cars at the track. Over time, I began showing off those pictures online and that led to my writing.

"Ten years ago, I left the accounting world to become a full-time automotive writer and I am living proof that if you love what you do, you will never “work” a day in your life," adds Rall, who has clocked in time as an auto mechanic, longtime drag racer and now automotive journalist who contributes to nearly a dozen popular auto websites dedicated to fellow enthusiasts.

"I love covering the automotive industry and everything involved with the job. I was fortunate to turn my love of the automotive world into a hobby that led to an exciting career, with my past of working as a mechanic and as an accountant in the automotive world provides me with a unique perspective of the industry.

"My experience drag racing for more than 20 years coupled with a newfound interest in road racing over the past decade allows me to push performance cars to their limit, while my role as a horse stable manager gives me vast experience towing and hauling with all of the newest trucks on the market today.

"Being based on Detroit," says Rall, "I never miss the North American International Auto Show, the Woodward Dream Cruise and Roadkill Nights, along with spending plenty of time raising hell on Detroit's Woodward Avenue with the best muscle car crowd in the world.

Rall can be contacted at QuickMirada@Yahoo.com