Set review: 42210 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) Car from LEGO® Technic

It’s time to turn the spotlight to the LEGO® Technic 42210 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) Car. We have already taken a close look at all the new elements in 42210 in our June 2025 Technic wave article, and 42209 Volvo L120 Electric Wheel Loader has been analysed, so let's drift onto the next set and see how those new elements were used in the Nissan Skyline GT-R.

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42210 2 Fast 2 Furious Nissan Skyline GT-R (R34) Car

• Release date: 1 June 2025
• Pieces: 1410

Price: 

• US$ 139.99 on LEGO.com US
• CA$ 179.99 on LEGO.com Canada
• GB£ 129.99 on LEGO.com UK
• AU$ 249.99 on LEGO.com Australia
• NZ$ 269.99 on LEGO.com New Zealand
• DE€ 139,99 on LEGO.com Deutschland
• NL€ 139,99 on LEGO.com Nederland
• FR€ 139,99 on LEGO.com France
• PLN 619.99 on LEGO.com Polska
• NOK 1899,90 on LEGO.com Norge
• DKK 1199.95 on LEGO.com Danmark

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Instructions

The set’s “18+” classification means that the hefty instructions book, clocking in at 344 pages, contains a short intro about the model and its real-life inspiration.

That short intro mentions the real car’s silver and blue colour scheme, and the photo above shows it. 

Sticker sheet

As is typical of LEGO racing cars, the stickers are abundant. Sadly, I don’t think most will be of much use for anything else, as they reproduce a very specific pattern on a very specific car. Even the rectangular stickers that contain more regular stripes, such as for example #21, #26, #27 and #32, can’t be used as ordinary warning stripes due to the variation in the spacing between blue and grey. 

The silver (or in this case grey) lining is the very fact that they’re stickers and not factory-applied prints on parts: while stickers on parts don’t look as good, they offer the option of not being applied and therefore leaving the respective parts clean for MOCs. Curiously, while the car in the film has plenty of sponsor decals, especially on the bonnet, all but “Toyo Tires” are absent from the LEGO version.

The build

The elements are split between 8 numbered bags. As is usual with Technic cars, construction starts at the rear axle, progresses along the chassis towards the front axle, and then the body goes through the same back-to-front process.

The first bag builds not only the rear axle, but also the beginnings of the steering mechanism, here dominated by the azure 20T gear (6396480 | 69779).

After bag 2 is done, the chassis is extended towards the front as expected, but notably the linkage for the drifting function is also completed.

Bag 3 further extends the chassis, including the longitudinal axles for transmission and steering. We also build the driver’s seat and the three Nitrous Oxide (NOS) bottles.

Bag 4 adds significantly advances the build, with the whole front axle and the I6 engine.

The bags are neatly divided: whereas the first four dealt with the chassis, the other four deal with the bodywork. The parts of Bag 5 feature the set’s only printed parts, the rear fenders:

• 1x Technic Panel Car Mudguard Arched 11 x 5 x 2 #32 with Blue Stripes (Left) in Light Bluish Gray (6546190 | 2509)
• 1x Technic Panel Car Mudguard Arched 11 x 5 x 2 #32 with Blue Stripes (Right) in Light Bluish Gray (6546191 | 2509)

The very end of the car is built from Bag 6, as well as the boot.

The construction process continues its progression towards the front, by adding the doors and the A-pillars that are built from wishbone suspension arm 13 x 6 x 3 aka “Escher beams” (5429).

Finally, Bag 8 finishes the front of the car, including the bonnet, and concludes the build by adding the wheels and their covers, which are an exclusive new mould in this set; 4x Wheel Cover 6 Spoke with Axle Hole - 43mm D. in Light Bluish Gray (6508515 | 6687).

The finished model

Without stickers applied, the only decorations are on the rear fenders. This makes the car’s livery look somewhat dull and weird, so, if you want this set for a display piece, you’ll surely want to take the plunge and apply the numerous stickers. Even with the many anti-STAMP gaps that break up the decoration, the car will look much better, and a little closer to how it appeared in the film. 

Using grey is common when depicting silver in LEGO form, and I understand how cost-prohibitive it would be to mould so many parts in the correct colour, but I still have to deduct authenticity points.

Despite gaps being an inevitability when building complex shapes with LEGO Technic panels, I appreciate that care was taken to fill them where possible, using LEGO® System elements. One example is the neat way 1x8 tiles slot in at each side of the back of the car.

The third brake light is brick-built using LEGO® Speed Champions-level sorcery to achieve perfect thicknesses and spacings.

As for functions, let’s get the basic ones out of the way first: the doors, bonnet and boot all open. This makes it easier to see the engine, the driver’s seat and controls, the NOS bottles, and, less interestingly, the luggage compartment.

The spoiler can be manually tilted to absurd angles, but I don’t think this is an intentional feature for this specific car. It can be pass off as a form of DRS, I guess.

Now for the yummy stuff. All wheels are driven and independently suspended, and the ones at the front add steering to the mix. This is marvellous at this scale and would be much harder to implement without the new small suspension components. 

The real Skyline R34 features steering also in the real axle, but that functionality was disabled for the film, so I guess that omission in the LEGO version is realistic. After all these years, 8880 remains unchallenged as the only LEGO Technic road car with four-wheel steering.

 

Speaking of steering, it can be operated from the steering wheel inside the cabin or from the 20T black gear on the roof. You can easily remove this gear and associated axle for better display, just hide them away from view in the boot.

Also hidden from view is the I6 engine under the bonnet, built using the small crankshaft and piston elements instead of the older, larger ones. These cylinders make the engine feel puny inside such a cavernous compartment, and I wonder how the larger version would look and fit. Naturally, the wheels drive this engine, but the way they do it is unusual; more on that below.

Here's the underside of the car. The two differentials are clearly visible between the wheels, and so is the colourful driveshaft that unites them. But there’s a catch: notice the black pin joiner right in the middle, between the red and yellow axle joiners and marked with the green ellipse? It connects the two halves of the shaft with frictionless axle pins, which means that no power can actually be transferred from front to rear. This “transmission” is therefore just for show and to simulate what the four-wheel drive of the real car could look like, and effectively turns this set into the first and so far only official front-wheel-drive LEGO Technic car.

This is the set’s most innovative feature, and what the seemingly superfluous rear differential is for. Pushing the small ball joint inside the car’s rear window moves some linkages that lower a pair of  3 x 5 castor joint (39370) with 19mm ball (52629), which in turn lift the rear wheels off the ground. The mechanism also engages a clutch that links the rear wheels to the front ones through gears, making the rear wheels spin faster.

Once the balls are lowered, they drag along the ground. All this has the effect of allowing the back of the car to slide easily in any direction while the rear wheels spin furiously, recreating the drifting behaviour these cars are known for. If you roll the car along the floor holding it by the hand-of-god control at the top, you can pull off some sick manoeuvres.

 

Comparing to its predecessor at the same scale, 42111 Dom's Dodge Charger, the shaping is hugely improved, even discounting the inherent differences between the two car models, and the play function (drift mode on the Skyline, wheelie bar on the Charger) works better and is infinitely more fun to play with in the newer set.

You weren’t expecting to display this car with LEGO Technic figures, were you?

Closing thoughts

I’m indifferent to the Fast and Furious franchise so I can’t comment on this car’s relevance or the choice of representing it in LEGO Technic form over other models from the films. If you’re a fan of the series, you’ll likely have already made up your mind in that regard anyway. As for adherence to the original, I believe the basic shapes are well implemented (considering the natural limitations of the LEGO Technic system), except for the headlights, which are too rectangular on the LEGO version, and for the usage of grey as a stand-in for silver.

Speaking of fun, I’m absolutely not surprised that by now people have already modified this set for remote control and, judging by this video from RacingBrick, driving it in drift mode is a blast.

The inventory is a gold mine for custom builders, especially of cars. While the designers’ team’s choice of grey over silver is a weakness for display purposes, for MOCing it’s a strength: you almost certainly have in your drawers more grey parts to go with the set’s inventory than silver ones. Continuing the mineral metaphor, the diamond in this gold mine is the introduction of the more compact suspension elements.

In conclusion, if you’re looking at this set from a playability or MOC material angle, you’ll definitely love it. If you’re looking at it from a display angle, especially if you’re a fan of the film series, you may want to more seriously evaluate whether at US$139.99/ £129.99/ 139.99€/ AU$249.99, its size, details and colours work for you. 

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