Lego’s Back to the Future DeLorean is 1,872 bricks of pure nostalgia

OK, we’ll admit to being a bit thick.

See, when we were kids, we kind of assumed that Lego was for kids. Our parents would buy us a Lego fire truck, police car or campervan, we’d build it once off the plan and then try to combine all the kits like some brick-based Megazord. Parental involvement went as far as procurement and returning all the little bits that got sucked up in the vacuum cleaner.

So imagine our surprise to find a Lego kit that’s intended for kids only slightly more than Pulp Fiction. And don’t give us any ‘you’ll build this with your kids’ guff, either. Speaking as parents, our kid is the absolute light of our lives and the most wondrous little human being we’ve ever met. And there’s no way in hell we’d let him put his grubby little paws anywhere near our Lego DeLorean.

But then he’s really not supposed to. Much like Tarantino’s peerless six-degrees-of-underworld-separation story, Lego’s Back to the Future DeLorean mines the motherlode of nostalgia. And if, like us, your little one was born after the future Doc and Marty travel to in #2 (now there’s a nightmare of tenses if ever we saw one), it’s hardly going to connect in the same way. Even Lego says it’s for ages 18 and up. And anyway, son, we’ve worked too long and hard on this for you to screw it up now. Just stand over there. Over there.

Also, and you’ll already be aware of this if you’ve bought Lego recently, sets like these aren’t exactly priced like kid’s toys, either. Admittedly, for your £150, you do get more than 1,800 pieces – including Doc, Marty, the essential flux capacitor, an ‘OUTATIME’ number plate and a hoverboard. Also, if #1 is your jam more than any other (we can relate), you also get the box of plutonium that Doc nicked from some er... ‘freedom fighters’. And, just putting it out there, Lego also sells a VW T2 Kombi...

If you’re into #2 more, the kit comes with the full hovercar conversion. Should you think #3 is the best of the trilogy, you can even have the Old West version. Although if #3 really is your favourite, you might also have to admit to being a bit thick.