Great Scott! You can create your own Lego Time Machine

You can build the Back to the Future Time Machines, thanks to Lego. Photo: Lego

There’s great news for fans of the 1980s Back to the Future trilogy, you too can own a Time Machine, thanks to Lego, though we can’t guarantee any time travel.

The Lego Group and Universal Brand Development have revealed a brand new three-in-one reproduction of one of the most iconic movie vehicles of all time – the Lego® Back to the Future Time Machine. 

Inspired by the DeLorean car seen in the time-travelling adventure film franchise from Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the Lego Back to the Future Time Machine set allows builders to create the car from either the first, second or third movie. What’s more, it comes complete with a light-up flux capacitor, a box of plutonium, Marty’s hoverboard, and Lego minifigure versions of Doc Brown and Marty McFly. 

To celebrate the launch, the Lego Group is taking Doc and Marty back on one more mission in the new Brick to the Future animated short. 

In addition, the Lego Group went back to where it all started – the famous Backlot at Universal Studios in Hollywood, where Back to the Future was filmed, to capture the three Lego models alongside the original DeLorean Time Machine as seen in the films. 

Priced from $279.99 the Lego Back to the Future will be available from April 1 … great Scott, I hope this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. 

But to make things tricky, will have to choose which Back to the Future Time Machine they want to create first – as each build requires elements from the full set. 

Faithfully recreated details from the film trilogy include wheels that fold down for flight mode, the iconic light-up flux capacitor, printed dashboard dates, opening gull-wing doors and hood and many more Easter eggs including Marty’s hoverboard and swappable license plates. The set even comes with a banana and tin can, to power the Mr. Fusion device as seen on the vehicle at the end of the first movie.