The LEGO Icons Back to the Future Time Machine Set is the 1,872-piece LEGO version of the DeLorean time machine. This set stands out from other licensed vehicle sets because you get to build any of three versions instead of just one. The first version is the car from the original Back to the Future movie, which includes a lightning rod and plutonium chamber on the back. The second version comes with Mr. Fusion and the hover conversion from Back to the Future Part II. The third version features whitewall tires and the circuit board seen in Back to the Future Part III. Both Doc Brown and Marty McFly come as minifigures, and the finished car measures about 14 inches long.
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A fun LEGO model for fans of the Back to the Future films
Most licensed LEGO vehicles are designed for only a single version of that vehicle. This three-version design is uncommon: you build the base vehicle, then choose which part set to add on top. You can swap those sets at any time without disassembling the entire base. This lets you keep a single model in your collection whether you’re a fan of the first, second, or third film, and it also lets you change your mind six months from now. That means the set works whether you’re partial to the first, second, or third movie, and it gives you something to change your mind about six months down the line.
LEGO spent the piece count on the details. The gull-wing doors open the way they do in the films, the hood lifts up, and the tires fold flat underneath for flight mode. A light brick inside the flux capacitor actually lights up, the dashboard has printed time-circuit dates, and the license plates swap between the standard OUTATIME plate and the bar code plate from 2015.
Doc Brown and Marty McFly are the two minifigures, and both of them are unique to this set rather than appearing anywhere else in LEGO’s catalog. Accessories include Marty’s hoverboard, a banana, and a soda can, which are the things Doc feeds into Mr. Fusion in the second film.
An information plaque builds alongside the car, so the finished model reads as a display piece rather than a toy sitting on a shelf. When it’s done, it measures over 4.5 inches high, 14 inches long, and 7.5 inches wide, and LEGO rates it 18 and up.
Building it takes somewhere around four or five hours depending on how fast you work, which is a full evening or a lazy Saturday afternoon. The LEGO Icons Back to the Future Time Machine Set is $160 right now instead of $200, and it’s been in production since April 2022, so this isn’t a set that’s about to disappear off shelves.
