Beginner
≈ 2 h 45 minSuggested range1 h 45 min – 4 h
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Speed Champions · SET 77256
Time Machine from Back to the Future
The Back to the Future time machine becomes a desk-sized Speed Champions model. A DeLorean silhouette combines with details of its cinematic transformation.
- Pieces
- 357
- Release year
- 2026
- Theme
- Speed Champions
- Set number
- 77256
- LEGO recommended age
- 9+
- LEGO retail price · Italy
- 27.99 €
Available at LEGO Italy when checked on 28 October 2026. Availability can change. Check the store for the latest information.
Retail price reported by the LEGO source for the stated market. Check the store for current price and availability; this does not establish the launch price. LEGO ↗ · Reference checked on 28 October 2026
Official English name verified at: LEGO English catalogue ↗ · Checked on 24 October 2026.
TIME TO BUILD
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Intermediate
≈ 1 h 45 minSuggested range1 h – 2 h 45 minExperienced
≈ 1 h 15 minSuggested range45 min – 2 hBased on one person building the set for the first time, following the original instructions and using numbered bags where supplied. Includes normal piece-finding and minor adjustments; excludes long breaks, filming, dismantling and modifications. Sources may use different methods. This range is neither a statistical interval nor a limit: your build may take less or more time.
How we estimate times · sources and method
Exterior details and small assemblies require precise surface orientation. The three central durations are model-specific editorial assessments. Planning ranges extend approximately from 65% to 145%, rounded to quarter-hours; they are not measured experience-level averages or guaranteed limits.
Sources do not always specify the builder’s experience. The three experience bands are our editorial assessment, based on the complexity of the set and individual accounts where available.
- LEGO Italy · Time Machine from Back to the Future ↗
This source documents the model’s features and components, not a timed build. No sufficiently verifiable individual building-time report has been identified for this set.
- LEGO building instructions · Time Machine from Back to the Future ↗
Set-specific instructions checked against the set number, piece count and year. The duration is an editorial assessment based on piece count, construction type, mechanisms and detail.
Checked: 23 ottobre 2026 · Method v1.0 · Limited reports; not a statistical average.
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BEYOND THE BRICKS
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Inside the set
A special DeLorean
Time-machine equipment is added to the car’s familiar silhouette.
LEGO sourceA different scale
Speed Champions offers a compact alternative to large display models of the film car.
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A refrigerator first
An early script idea made the time machine an old refrigerator. Bob Gale later preferred the DeLorean’s appearance.
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The Petersen recalls an early script using a refrigerator as the time machine. Bob Gale instead liked the steel DeLorean and its spaceship-like gullwing doors. Choosing this form gave time travel a mobile, immediately recognisable presence alongside its narrative function.
Two designers for the future
The museum credits Ron Cobb and Andrew Probert with the time-machine design, built by Universal Studios.
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Petersen credits Ron Cobb and Andrew Probert with designing the cinematic time machine, built by Universal Studios, rather than the original road car. Its exhibited vehicle appeared in all three films, although the trilogy also used visually distinct DeLorean versions.
Expanded stories updated on 29 October 2026
Written by HowLongToBuild · Sources are linked with each story · Checked on 23 October 2026. Historical facts and story details refer to the context described.
BEYOND THE BRICKS
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Back to the Future
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