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Check out this giant working Rolls Royce jet engine model made from Lego

Rolls Royce created a monstrosity with an all Lego working replica of one of their jet engines. The Lego jet engine is 4’9” long and 6’5” feet wide weighing in at a hefty 676 lbs. The engine is a perfect replica of the Rolls Royce Trent 1000, which is used in the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. According to Rolls Royce, it’s the world’s first all Lego working jet engine. The Lego engine took four people eight weeks to build and complete with over 152,000 Lego pieces.

Buy your own Star Wars TIE fighter on Craigslist

Ok, so maybe you can’t buy a real Star Wars TIE fighter on Craiglist, but you can get the next best thing. Someone in Olympia, Washington is selling a 1/3 scale replica of a TIE fighter. It’s 8x8x8 feet and built out of wood. If you have $150 and are near Olympia, it’s all yours.

Tomorrow you’ll be able to buy the Back to the Future hoverboard

In Back to the Future II, Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) goes into the future to help his future children, on another adventure as the sequel to the first Back to the Future. The sequel takes place in the year 2015, and in the movie it features what is now the iconic hoverboard that McFly rides around on like a skateboard but hovers over ground. Well, it looks like the hoverboard is going to be made available three years early, starting tomorrow.