Lego mocks Tesla’s Cybertruck with its own ‘shatterproof’ truck
By Gary Gestulu, Fox News, November 27, 2019
Lego's Cybertruck, phot by Lego
The Cybertruck, Tesla's first electric pickup truck, via REUTERS
Elon Musk introduces the newly unveiled all-electric battery-powered Tesla Cybertruck. Getty Images
Everyone wants a piece of the Cybertruck.
Lego has created a competitor to Tesla’s boxy electric pickup by putting a box on wheels. Well, one of the toy company’s classic 2×4 bricks, to be precise.
The toy company claimed in a tweet that it is “guaranteed shatterproof” — a dig at Tesla’s spectacular fail at the Cybertruck’s debut when its “Armor glass” windows broke by being struck by a small metal ball.
Lego did not provide any video of its vehicle undergoing a similar test, but commenters were quick to point out that Lego bricks have proven to be indestructible (and painful) when stepped on, one referring to it as a “Danish landmine.”
The Cybertruck’s angular shape had already lent itself to a Lego tribute, with renown Lego car builder Peter Blackert recreating it and posting photos to his Flickr stream.
Likely inspired by Elon Musk’s SpaceX connection and proposal to send a Cybertruck to Mars one day, Blackert, who is reportedly a Ford engineer, took it a step further and crafted a second one with classic Lego Space bricks.
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