14 October 2025

Reveal: 77256 Time Machine from Back to the Future, from LEGO® Speed Champions

Posted by Tim Johnson


If you’re gonna build a time machine into a car, then why not do it with some style? LEGO® Speed Champions are certainly doing so, as they go back to the future in 2026 with a new DeLorean time machine – and the New Elementary team have spotted two really thrilling new moulds!


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77256 Time Machine from Back to the Future

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2-in-1 model

Two versions of the vehicle can be built, but not simultaneously. 


First you build it with a lightning rod and California number plate as seen in Back to the Future, and then adjust it, just like 2015 Doc Brown, into the futuristic flying version from Back to the Future II. This version features the Mr. Fusion Home Energy Reactor, a futuristic barcode orange number plate, and sideways wheels. 

Both versions have the rear air vents, the flux capacitor and the cockpit with time circuit.



New moulds

Apparently in the future (2026, that is) they have wide cheese slopes! Great Scott.


Above I have highlighted the Slope 30° 1 x 3 x 2/3 in Black which has a DMC logo on it, and one of the two Slope 30° 1 x 4 x 2/3 in Light Bluish Gray. Have a good look and you will spot that the 1x3 comes in light bluish gray too. In the picture below I've highlighted the 1x4 cheese slopes that come in dark bluish gray. 

This is quite the collection especially for a small set – and what a thrill to see the cheese slope family extended again after so many years! The 1x1 was released in 2004 and revolutionised the look of models, and the 1x2 came in 2009. It will have taken 17 years for the 1x3 and 1x4 to arrive.

It's not just elements from the future in this set though – an element from the past appears to be renewed.

An eagle-eyed team member noticed something odd about the 2x2 macaroni tile in the picture above. The underside seems to have an anti-stud in the middle, which will provide useful new ways you can place this piece. 


Image: Tim Johnson

The existing version from 2017 (27925, above centre) has an unusual half-octagon recess that prevents attachment to a stud.


I love the trans-orange 1x1 cheese slopes printed in light bluish grey on one side. These will be awesome to use in other vehicles, by which I mean spaceships!

The "DeLorean" decal on the bumper is another sticker, but hopefully it is just this and the DMC logo that are stickers (possibly for IP reasons?). There certainly are many beautiful printed pieces here, such as the trans-blue tiles and the wheel hubs.


360° spin

The shaping is awesome considering the scale, and we'll even forgive the lack of the iconic gull-wing doors!


A brick-built solution for the headlights would have been great, had it been achievable, but this is still quite interesting – it seems that 1x2x2 window frames are used, with the headlights printed onto grey panes? 


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  1. Anonymous14 Oct 2025, 15:00:00

    So I guess this will be my first speed champion set. As a huge car and racing, enthusiast and obviously LEGO fan I've never been interested in the speed champions, but this one really knocks it out of the park with cool new parts. At €28 that's fairly ok.

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  2. murdoch1714 Oct 2025, 16:03:00

    Still no train wheel / track - compatible version of the DeLorean! Justice for BTTF part 3 fans!

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    1. Anonymous14 Oct 2025, 16:56:00

      The car might be customable enough to add train wheels, even if you need to rebuild the entire chassis.

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  3. Anonymous14 Oct 2025, 16:55:00

    I was curious about the headlights, as I wasn't able to figure out what part it was... And I'm disappointed.
    But when I saw those cheese slopes with extra cheese, 👍🏻

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  4. Anonymous14 Oct 2025, 17:51:00

    So we have 1x 2x 3x and 4x cheese slopes. The road to corner cheese beckons.

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    1. Nuclearxpotato15 Oct 2025, 00:40:00

      I believe patents for both types of corner cheeses have been filed and found online, along with the new wider cheese slopes and 2x2 Bracket with the central plate used in the exhausts here.

      Some other wacky elements also appeared in that batch like a Minecraft Chest.

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    2. Anonymous15 Oct 2025, 03:16:00

      Wait, they dared to file a patent for the wide cheese slopes? That's gonna end well like when they tried with the 1x5 plate lol.

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  5. Anonymous14 Oct 2025, 18:07:00

    Finally a good Delorean! Because the first one was a disgrace.
    I wonder if the wheels are turning, or if it requires some reassembly.

    Nice to finally have 1x4 cheese slopes but... it's a bit lame that LEGO keeps banning the competition around their protected apollo stud, while they don't mind taking from the competition (yeah I already have boxes filled with Wange 1x4 cheese slopes)

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  6. Anonymous14 Oct 2025, 20:23:00

    Have you seen the extremely weird bracket on the back? It looks like nothing that actually exists

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    1. Anonymous15 Oct 2025, 01:45:00

      So there it is! That bracket has been added to the LDD (by the customlddupdates guy) months ago, has an ID (7674) that appears nowhere online, and I was wondering where it was used. Some people know things we mere mortals don't.

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  7. Mr Classic14 Oct 2025, 21:01:00

    Inverted cheese slopes would be way more useful.

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  8. OlympicBrickHurler14 Oct 2025, 22:33:00

    The black exhausts(?) on the back of the BTTF2 build have 2x2 brackets with the plate placed in the middle!!! Long overdue piece.

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  9. Nuclearxpotato15 Oct 2025, 00:46:00

    I think the black cables are new as well, they're similar to the one rubber cable with bars but they're only the inner cable without the bars.

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    1. Andrew Barnick15 Oct 2025, 03:00:00

      You're right about what the part is like but it's not new—it's 27965, which has been around since 2017: https://brickset.com/parts/design-27965

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    2. Nuclearxpotato15 Oct 2025, 03:30:00

      I had the thought in the back of my head that the part existed, but couldn't track it down anywhere... so I assumed I was mistaken lol. Turns out I have some from the City excavator set.

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  10. Anonymous15 Oct 2025, 00:49:00

    This is one set where I see a lot of praise online for its shaping, and I can't believe we're looking at the same model. This just looks awful to me. Normally I think Speed Champions knocks it out of the park with shaping, but this Delorean is the tragic exception, with the transition from the nose to the front fenders being particularly horrid (why is it so much wider?? It's like a hammerhead shark, it doesn't look remotely good, such a clunky design).I can forgive the disappointing roof and the lack of opening doors. I can forgive the other imperfect details in the rear and middle. I just can't get over how bad the hood area looks, which makes me sad, because I was really excited for this set but the bad design is a dealbreaker.

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    1. Anonymous15 Oct 2025, 01:58:00

      It's certainly chubby looking, I think partly due to the stock canopy and the fake cable on the sides. But you have to admit that it's soooooo much better than 21103 (which even for its time was extremely bad).

      I've once tried to MOC one and gave up, it's kinda hard, and it wouldn't have been pure Lego nor would have been very solid:
      https://www.fiastarta.com/Lego/Delo.jpg

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