{"id":37705,"date":"2022-12-07T00:03:58","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=37705"},"modified":"2022-12-07T00:03:58","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T05:03:58","slug":"lego-nissan-skyline-gtr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=37705","title":{"rendered":"Lego gets Fast and Furious with Nissan Skyline GT-R – Autoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lego has announced its next automotive release, the Nissan Skyline GT-R<\/a> from “2 Fast 2 Furious<\/em>.” The 319-piece kit is part of the Speed Champions series, Lego’s line of officially licensed car kits.<\/p>\n

Like the car used in the movie, the kit is based on an R34-generation Nissan Skyline<\/a>, built between 1999 and 2002. Lego’s version does a fairly good job of depicting the actual JDM supercar<\/a>. It’s instantly recognizable as an R34, especially with its squared-off headlights and iconic stagger-sized afterburner taillights. Overall, it’s one of Lego’s more accurate adaptations to the low-resolution medium of plastic bricks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to the base car, both the film and the plastic car have six-spoke aftermarket<\/a> wheels, a body kit<\/a>, and gigantic wing on the trunk. There’s even a nitrous oxide bottle where the passenger seat should be. The kit also comes with a figure of Paul Walker’s<\/a> Brian O’Conner, the series’ cop turned street racer turned secret agent protagonist.<\/p>\n

Lego has offered other picture car kits, such as James Bond’s Aston Martin DB5<\/a>, the “Ghostbusters”<\/em> Ecto-1<\/a>, and “Back to the Future”<\/em> DeLorean<\/a>. They’ve also made the 1969 Dodge Charger<\/a> from the original “The Fast & the Furious”<\/em> installment. Many of these have been sold in both smaller kits in the Speed Champions series<\/a>, and as larger standalone kits.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2019 an R35 Nissan GT-R Nismo<\/a> became the first Japanese car licensed by Lego. They haven’t done much with the Nissan<\/a> relationship since (Datsun<\/a> 240Z, anyone?). Though the movie tie-in makes for good marketing, we’d prefer to see a regular Skyline GT-R kit without the Y2K-era graphics. Nevertheless, it makes a good addition to the many Corvettes<\/a>, McLarens<\/a> and Lamborghinis<\/a> they’ve already made. The Skyline GT-R goes on sale in January 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Autoblog may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Pricing and availability are subject to change. Lego has announced its next automotive release, the Nissan Skyline GT-R from “2 Fast 2 Furious.” The 319-piece kit is part of the Speed Champions series, Lego’s line of officially licensed car kits. Like the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design-concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}