“Forgive Me, Lego: I Really Want To Build This Mattel Audi RS2 Brick Set,” was Brian’s headline for his look at the aforementioned Mattel Brick Shop model, and while I’m not as fired up as Brian is for that particular set, I too am intrigued by Mattel’s answer to Lego’s Speed Champions line and have ogled the offerings each time I wander over to the toy sections at Target and Walmart. And by “wander” I mean “make a beeline,” because I always look at the toys.
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I was in Walmart’s toy section last Friday as my phone’s weather app showed storm icons for the weekend, and I thought it might be fun to do use the time trapped indoors to do a little shootout (or comparo, if you prefer) with Mattel and Lego’s 1/32 scale-ish cars. I plunked the Brick Shop Maserati MC20 and Speed Champions Ferrari F40 into my cart amongst my other essentials (Count Chocula, Coke Zero) and checked out with a plan in place. The rains never came, so I spent the weekend working on and riding my bicycles instead of snapping bricks together, but I have started assembling the cars and you’ll (fingers crossed) see my findings this weekend.
Since I bought the cars strictly for the content, I’m happily donating them to the Autopian swag pile for distribution to a Member – maybe you! Be sure to let me know if you’d like the models to arrive assembled, or returned to pile-of-pieces form so you can enjoy building them yourself. Thanks, Members!
… and now I gotta finish this comparo.
Top graphic images: Lego
Unassembled and mixed together so I have to sort out the Lego from the Mattel.
Already have the Ferrari (and most Speed Champions sets), so would love the Maserati to compare as well! Haven’t seen any of the Hot Wheels sets locally, though 1-2 die cast models seem to end up in my cart every grocery store run.
Are those hot wheels bricks any good? Lego competitors never seem to have the fit and tolerances that Lego seems to have dialed in
Assembled, but do it without the instructions. I wanna see your raw creative skills in physical media!
Curious to your thoughts about the Mattel- I’ve read varying reviews that make me think theyre more like the old snap together model car kits from wal mart than legos.
Just this weekend i finished the Lego BMW speed champions kit with the LMP2? car and M4 competition. Last weekend i built the audi rally car, the weekend before the fast and furious supra.
My daughter has been building speed champions kits for ages 9+, and she only just turned 5. im hoping this can be something we can bond over in the future as she gets older- the e30 in the garage that will ultimately be hers when she gets her license so ive got 11 years to turn it into the baddest car in the school parking lot
I have the F&F Supra box gathering dust. Was it a good build?
i thought so, my daughter helped by grabbing the next piece i needed and handing it to me and then ultimately she took on some of the steps joining bigger assemblies. happy to have it in my collection
Awesome you’re getting to build with your daughter! I’ve been teaching my nephews to read Lego instructions since they were 4-5, too. It really is a graphical language.
I have built 5-10x scale replicas of a nutcracker (for my father’s nutcracker collection) and stapler and pencil (for friends at an office supply company). Having given away all my bins of bricks since, I feel the craving again.
Awesome! Either of these would look great alongside my collection of others. Fingers crossed..
if it is free, I will take it in any
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