Saturday 19th March 2016

Lego Caterham approved!

Months of support and votes have paid off; the Lego Caterham will be a production reality soon!

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Hopefully by now you will be aware of Carl Greartrix and his skills with Lego bricks; if not then you can catch up on his project here. Once you're up to date there's good news: the Lego Caterham has been approved!

Coming to a shop near you soon

It passed the 10,000 votes stage a few months ago, where it was then presented to the Lego board for review. Back then Lego said the model "perfectly captures the long legacy of Lotus and Caterham sports cars in Lego bricks." That review was successful, and the kit has now been approved as the next Lego Ideas set - congratulations Carl!

Now the final design has to be set; you'll remember the original build required Carl using "the play and tolerances within Lego" and that by his own admission "this stresses connections and parts more than would ever be allowed in an official set". It will be intriguing to see just how the kit ends up, hopefully not losing the fantastic detail that made Carl's original build so popular. Expect a release date and price soon as well. Is it too early to be thinking about Christmas?

The approval has been for the regular Super Seven but of course Carl built more versions off that, the racing-spec R300 and roadgoing R500 to name two. Could the project go yet further still? More news as soon as it's available!

Watch the video here.

[Sources: Lego blog, Carl Greartrix via Twitter]

 

[Dale487]

Well that's something to look forward to later in the year - but we have the Technic Lego 911 GT3 first (June time I believe).

The Landcruiser looked good too.

[X5TUU]

this is great news ... cannot wait to get my mitts on it and itll look great next to the Mini, VW Camper, F40, ECTO-1 and DeLorean

[RenesisEvo]

[dirtbiker]

Great news, definitely going to get me one of these!

[Celtic Dragon]

RenesisEvo said:

This exactly!!! Ones been added to my wish list.

[roland82]

I'll get one to show my support if the price is right.

[tvrforever]

Brilliant - now where's Russ?

[robm3]

Good stuff, I went through the hassle of creating a lego id in order to vote.

I'll be buying one for sure!

[RacerMike]

Really great news and quite an achievement given how few of the kits that make it to 10,000 supporters actually get approved. I showed my support and will definitely add this and the 911 to my collection.

[patmahe]

Thats Christmas 2016 sorted for me

[EnglishTony]

Buy both kits and put a 911 engine in a Caterham.

[unsprung]

Maybe they could make a LEGO kit of the Yugo. Comes standard with wobbly tolerances. And some bricks are entirely missing.

[Cotty]

Looks greak ill be getting one.

[KTF]

Available to buy from October: http://www.topgear.com/car-news/first-look/caterha...