Building LEGO Bugatti Chiron is Deeply Satisfying to My Inner Child
LEGO Bugatti Chiron mixes childhood nostalgia with reminder that life can be great sometimes.
Life moves fast. At least, that’s how I see it. The tides of time are unrelenting, and, if you don’t keep your head above the waves, it will pull you under. It’s depressing if you stop and think about it, so most people don’t.
Is this too heavy for an introduction to a post about LEGO? Okay, let me back up a minute and explain how we all got here. Last year, 2017, was filled with ups and downs, for me, and, seemingly, everyone else. One of those high moments came when, by pure luck, Bugatti reached out to the 6SpeedOnline team and asked if any of us was interested in driving the Chiron, a 1,500 horsepower engineering marvel. Fortunately, not only am I the quickest and the strongest in the office (A fistfight almost broke out to claim the spot), but I’m also quite lucky, having won the subsequent ‘rock-paper-scissors’ battle to drive the car.
To be frank, it was everything you could hope for, and more. As an automotive enthusiast, driving the Bugatti Chiron is a bucket list item that I count myself as immensely fortunate to have experienced. I highly recommend you check out the review here of the Chiron.
So it was, that, a few months later, while roaming the mall with my girlfriend, that I found a Bugatti Chiron kit inside the LEGO store.
It was an easy impulse buy, and one I don’t regret for a second.
I haven’t played with LEGO since I was kid, and I suspect that the majority of you are in the same situation. But, this seems like as good a way as possible to take that moment of zen. Let’s reclaim that slice of life when things were a little bit easier, and time moved a bit more slowly.
Playing with LEGO requires instructions
I’m not sure about you, but as a kid LEGO kits weren’t as prevalent as much as ‘here’s a big box of LEGO, go for it,’ so following instructions to play with LEGO is a bit odd. That said, it’s all about chasing the zen moment. Reading the instructions, or, more accurately, looking at them is simple. There are no lengthy paragraphs explaining how it’s done. Block ‘A’ goes with block ‘B,’ and so on and so forth. This is the level of simplicity I like to shoot for after work. Sure, the age range is 7-14, but they may as well make that 7-700. LEGO has an all-ages appeal, at least I think so.
Slowly but surely, my miniature reminder of an excellent Summer drive in 2017 is coming together. Those tacit instructions do a good job of soothing the coarse, sore edges of my tired brain, and even more tired eyes. After all, staring at a screen for too long is bad for you.
After a very therapeutic 45 minutes, my 1/36th scale creation is done. Yes, at a whopping 5-inches long this baby Bugatti is some 14-and-a-half feet shorter than the real deal. That’s okay, I don’t think the real thing would fit on my office desk. Until I can park a real one outside the office, this will do quite nicely.
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