The Ferrari Daytona Is A Beautiful Beast!

Review of the Ferrari Daytona SP3 #42143 LEGO Technic set

Every two or so years, LEGO starts a new plan shrouded in veils of studded mystery. The speculations as to which will be the next LEGO supercar that deep-pocketed fans will get their hands on, go at least as wild as Apple rumours every year before a new iPhone release. And can you blame them? Can you blame any of us AFOLs for biting our nails every two years in anticipation? These are, for all intents and purposes 1:8 scale replicas of current iconic supercars from the likes of Porsche, Bugatti, Lamborghini, and this time, Ferrari.

LEGO’s Ferrari Daytona SP3 has a somewhat unique story, and perhaps that’s also why I felt a tad of extra excitement in the air as it was set to launch a couple of months ago. Of course, just like the previous three, the Ferrari is also a licensed set, except this one was tougher on the LEGO designers. Normally, they’d get an actual car to look at and design the set around it. Except this time, as the real car was being designed and built in parallel with the LEGO set. This meant that nobody on the Danish toymaker’s end really had a full picture of what the car was meant to end up looking like. Bits of designs and specs kept trickling in from the Italian carmaker, which then were used to gradually build the set up.