Rolls-Royce builds 150,000-piece LEGO engine

From Tested: "Rolls-Royce and professional LEGO house Bright Bricks have constructed a 675-pound model that's probably a bit too large for your display shelf."

More: "Rolls-Royce built a half-scale model of its Trent 1000 engine, used in the Boeing 787, out of 152,455 LEGO pieces. The engine weighs 675 pounds and measures five feet in diameter. Heavy — but the real thing weighs almost 13,000 pounds, so you have to give hollow LEGO bricks points for efficiency."

And: "Why drag a real engine to the Farnborough International Airshow when you can wow people with a smaller, lighter LEGO model that took eight weeks to construct? Rolls-Royce grads and apprentices worked with Bright Bricks to assemble more than 160 components into one awesome plastic engine. Check out the process in high-speed time-lapse [top]."

[via Wired and Paul Biba]