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Lego has warned it may run out of bricks before Christmas due to soaring demand.
Some children may not get their Christmas wishes fulfilled this year as Lego's factories may not be able to make enough plastic bricks to keep up with requests from toy stores across Europe.
The Danish company has become the world's largest toymaker by sales, overtaking US Barbie-maker Mattel, thanks partly to toys linked to movies.
Called the Super Awesome Micro Project, the Lego car was conceived by Steve Sammartino of Melbourne and constructed in Romania by Raul Oaida.
The build, which took 20 months to complete, was crowdfunded by 40 patrons to the tune of $22,000. While the car consists of more than 400,000 Lego pieces, the diminutive plastic brick was replaced by other materials for some of the key, load-bearing components, such as the tires and wheels -- and for things like gauges, which are rather hard to build out of Lego.
The most amazing part of the Lego car is the engine. It is made entirely of Lego and runs on compressed air.
The power comes from four separate orbital engines, each equipped with 64 cylinders and pistons.
The car is said to attain a speed of 20 miles per hour.
This full size Volvo XC90 SUV was made of Lego bricks. This awesome project was built by Lego Master Model Builders.
Lego Master Model Builders is an elite team of talented artists who design, create and maintain the thousands of LEGO brick models at LEGOLAND California.
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This Volvo X90 replica looks like a real car from a short distance away.