
Where do you start when you’re given the task of reproducing one of the world’s most striking automobiles using only LEGO Technic elements? And then told it has to drive as well! In this episode, you’ll meet the LEGO design team in the Czech Republic charged with making the impossible happen
Sep 21, 2018
24 min

In this final episode, we follow the team as they arrive at the race-track outside Wolfsburg in Germany. It’s here they’ll find out whether months of building and testing will end in success or failure. Will a car, built from LEGO Technic elements and powered by thousands of small LEGO Power Function motors actually drive?
Sep 21, 2018
30 min

What were the LEGO Technic Design Team thinking of when they came up with the crazy idea to build a 1:1 model of the Bugatti Chiron and make it drive using only LEGO Power Function motors? And how did it actually become a reality? Listen as Technic Design Manager Jeppe Juul Jensen tells how his team came up with the ultimate test for the Technic building system.
Sep 21, 2018
19 min

Bugatti and LEGO may be two very different companies, but both share an ambition to only create the very best. This is evident in their respective mottos: for Bugatti, “If comparable… it is no longer Bugatti” and for LEGO, “Only the Best is Good Enough”. In this episode, Julius Kruta, Head of Tradition at Bugatti and Signe Wiese, Culture Mediator at LEGO reveal the history behind these two famous brands.
Jun 1, 2018
34 min

Molsheim is the spiritual home of Bugatti and the place where the company’s vehicles are assembled. It’s also where potential owners visit to test-drive and configure their Chiron. In this episode, Hendrik Malinowski, Director of Sales & Operations at Bugatti takes you on a tour of the Alsace estate. In Billund, Denmark, LEGO Technic designer Aurelien Julien Rouffiange reveals where the magic happens and the LEGO models are created.
Jun 1, 2018
39 min

Listen as Etienne Salome, Head of Interior Design at Bugatti explains the special challenge of marrying luxurious comfort with state-of-the-art performance in a car like the Bugatti Chiron. For LEGO Technic designer Aurelien Julien Rouffiange, trying to recreate the soft lines and materials of the Chiron’s interior in hard LEGO Technic elements was one of the most challenging tasks he faced while working on the model.
Jun 1, 2018
35 min
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