The blueprint for racing fun

I had the Race Car set – a Shell-sponsored formula car; the Stock Car set – a Shell-sponsored touring car; and Victory Lap Raceway – a massive set featuring a camera crew, pit crew and four formula cars. And that’s just what I can remember off the top of my head…

Lego toy building brick 1961 framed art

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Of course, when puberty hit, my love for Lego waned. I spent close to 30 years without touching anything Lego, but once my nephew started his own Lego obsession, I started to dive back in.

As Lego fans like me grew up, so did the company. There are a lot of sets designed for grown-ups, with many geared towards the hard-core motorsports fan. The company offers everything from a smoothed-out, model-perfect sets; crazy mechanically complex sets; and even F1- and LeMans-licensed minifig-scale sets.

Ready to eat my cash is something like the Technic 24 Hours Race Car – an amalgam of all the latest LeMans racecars, featuring things like a working gearbox, suspension and V8 engine with moving pistons. There’s also the Technic Porsche 911 GT3 RS kit – which is already sold out and selling for hundreds of dollars over its original $300 MSRP.

Lego toy building brick 1961 framed art

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As for those minifig-scale kits, there’s everything from a McLaren P1 to a Scuderia Ferrari truck, formula car and pit crew. Want something American? How does a Lego Mustang or Corvette tickle your fancy? Like your cars German? There’s sets like the Audi R8 LMS ultra and a Porsche race pit set with the 919 Hybrid and 917K. If you have kids, buy some of these to get in some quality bonding time and ignite a love of motorsport. If, like me, kids aren’t a part of the equation, buy ‘em anyway and make “vroom-vroom” noises as you race them across your desk.

And since we all live in a time that doesn’t frown upon grown ups liking childish things, any of these Lego can be proudly shown at the office. They’re better than those clacking silver balls, anyway. But some offices may require an added air of sophistication. That’s where something like this Oliver Gal Lego Toy Building Brick 1961 framed art piece comes in. At $160, it’s priced like a proper grown-up piece of décor, and its blueprint-style line art looks much fancier than those artisanal beard oil posters favored by the hipsters in your office. Just be careful: said hipsters may hunt down one of the vintage wooden Lego sets so that he could say that he was into the brand first. You’ve been warned.

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By Justin Kaehler