In one of the most complicated machines ever built with tiny plastic blocks, a moving half-scale model has been created of a Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 series turbofan engine.
The engine is the work of Bright Blocks, a professional Lego team, which had help from Rolls-Royce workers to perfet ther engine.
The builders said they were inspired by the work of a 5-year-old boy who made his own, smaller, jet engine.
Sarahtic Martin, Rolls-Royce brand manager, said: “He’d sat down and built a little engine out of Lego with his father, sent it in to me and that was the sort of seed of the idea.”
The real Trent 1000 is used to power the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
The model took 152,455 pieces of Lego. It weighs 677 lb and is 6.5 feet long.
When asked why they built such a complicated device, the builders said they hope to inspire young people to become engineers and scientists.
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