LEGO Speed Champions BMW M3 (E30) official images!

Very nice.....just need an Escort or Sierra Cosworth or a MK2 / 3 RS Focus that would pleasee and my daughter ??

76922 BMW M4 GT3 was beautiful model, but this one is..... meh. I don't know If I should like it or not. But the hair piece though, lovely.

Boring rendition of a boring car.... but can't be the first Speed Champion I skip!

Well, you all know Thumper’s Rule, so…it’s nice that they remembered this hairstyle is intended to hang down on one side instead of being a lopsided, slick-back, shaved-sides look that gives the impression you’re wearing a stack of toupees.

I like it.
I know nothing about the car it's modeled after, but as a LEGO model I like it.

The livery kind of ruins it in my opinion, which is a shame because I thought that the fact BMW and Lego were collaborating on the livery meant that we'd get one that didn't rely heavily on stickers or prints.

While the model itself isn't perfect, I think it would've looked much better in a single colour.

That is, by far, the ugliest Speed Champions set I've ever seen. When I saw the Jangbricks video on this set last night, I swear I thought it was a fake. Not the video, the set! LOL

I swear, as soon as I get into Speed Champions they raise the price to $26.99 and now $29.99. Guess it’s Creator time.

@ACubeInABox said:
"I swear, as soon as I get into Speed Champions they raise the price to $26.99 and now $29.99. Guess it’s Creator time."

Or just buy 1:24 scale licensed cars from other brick companies that fully print them for less than 25$. ;)

Can't decide what's worse, the car or the minifigure.

Cars were boxy back when this M3 was competing. The Audi S1 rally car released a few years ago has similar aesthetics. Blocky

Not particularly interested in the livery. Thankfully it looks like the decorated parts are a mix of stickers and prints on fairly standard elements. Just pick a color, and swap the relevant parts.

As a bonus, the livery patterns of the prints and stickers could definitely find new life decorating something else. The first, simplest idea that comes to mind would be as modern art paintings.

I like it. This era of increasing prices hurts, but I like the set.

In general, I think that BMW has reasonably good looking car. As mentioned by @Duq this looks like a Lada with mags and a non-soviet coat of paint.

If you had not told me this was a BMW (any model) I could not have said for my life what type of car this is - my best guess would probably have been: Lada. Might as well say this a VW beetle...

Just a super weird way to make a car that should be an easy car to build out of legos

@TuxDoesLegoStuff said:
"I'm not going to lie, I would like this as a white or red, clean, non-livery car as shown in the prototype builds. https://www.bmw-m.com/en/topics/magazine-article-pool/lego-speed-champions-bmw-m3-e30-behind-the-scenes.html"

Would totally be interested in a white copy. Red is fine too.

This is what I would have imagined an old 6 studs wide M3 would have looked like.

I mean, the wheels are enormous, but otherwise it's obviously the 1980s icon.

Why everyone so angry about it?

@Briczk said:
"For sure it's not for fans of old cars.
..."

Thank you. I was struggling to define what I think of this, or rather how to express what I think of it. I don't like what I see, but why? You nudged my thoughts in the right direction.

I'm not a BMW fan in particular, but I like many cars of this era and I would definitely take a second look if an old M3 passed me on the street. I would have appreciated a SpeedChampions version of one. But this set fails to capture my interest. It tries to modernize the looks with a mod-style that I don't think captures the people who like the base car.

If you like the M3 this is based on, most likely you don't like what they have done to the poor thing. And If you like what they have done, most likely you'd wonder why they used an old M3 as a base for it?

Weird choices were made here.

(And I still very much dislike that windscreen piece. It never looks good when trying to replicate real vehicles.)

Too square, an easy pass

@mr_skinny said:
"Cars were boxy back when this M3 was competing. The Audi S1 rally car released a few years ago has similar aesthetics. Blocky"

I was thinking of 76897, and that that this would look decent on display next to it.

It's good that TLG made M3 E30, but it has problems:
- headlights should be smaller, better would be with 1x1 round plate or even like Lego did on 77237
- rims should be smaller, it looks like they are on 235/35R19
- colors? Why isn't it like the prototype:
https://www.bmw-m.com/content/dam/bmw/marketBMW_M/www_bmw-m_com/topics/magazine-article-pool/2026/speed-champions-behind-the-scenes/bmw-m3-e30-lego-speedchampions-bts-17-3x4.jpg?imwidth=1440
https://www.bmw-m.com/en/topics/magazine-article-pool/lego-speed-champions-bmw-m3-e30-behind-the-scenes.html

@yellowcastle said:
" @chesney107 said:
"Everyone complaining this doesn't look like a high end model of an M3, well go out & buy a high end model of an M3!! This is built primarily for children!! It's tiny pieces of plastic!! The world is not gonna end coz it's got a pattern on you don't like!!"

You don't know that. If the world does end because of this set, you're going to feel really silly."

There's more chance of the world ending due to a rambling social media post than the livery of a plastic car!!

First impression, bad. Nothing without the stickers.

@R0Sch said:
" @person_that_uses_brickset said:
"They forgot to remove the confidential watermark on Lego.com. Oops"

It's unbelievable how this billion dollar company manages to screw up the simplest things at a regular basis. The US price increase is well justified for keeping this level of quality."

Don't forget about the empty table shot from the recent Dodge Charger Technic set that was revealed this month-

@Briczk said:
"Driver isn't helping either..."

@Jumperstud said:

"Can't decide what's worse, the car or the minifigure."

What's your problem with the minifigure?

I don’t care about M3s and my partner dislikes BMW cars as a breed, so we aren’t in the market, but I do like the minifigure very much.

A new pack of stickers from Lego, with some bricks as well. Yay!

@person_that_uses_brickset said:
"They forgot to remove the confidential watermark on Lego.com. Oops"

I noticed that as well.

Hot!: It's a BMW E30! Shaping is pretty good, NPUs, Interesting build despite simple box shape.
Gripes: That Livery - why? oh why? Glasshouse proportion should be a plate taller. Wheels too large, tyres too low profile.

[SIGH] I'm on the fence on this one!

With that livery, at first, I thought it was a perfect Cairo Taxi.

I like the vehicle and the figure hair.

The stickers are giving me a headache. Lol! I wish they give us the option of a clean, sticker-less look. Here, I think some pieces need replacement for a civilian look.

$29.99 for that... AND all of those stickers?
I guess LEGO has now hit the 'Will the suckers buy this?" for Speed Champions.

This would have looked better as a Volvo 240

"but I am not sure about the shape of the side windows"

But it's got the most perfect little Hoffmeister kink moulded into the C pillar... Come on!

Nice haircut. Looks kinda hot!

Headlights are oversized

> Headlights are oversized

It is LEGO.

I think the car shape is quite good. It is boxy, sure, but the source car is also quite boxy.

It seems to have some fairly decent building techniques. But after having built 77237, I don't think this one will impress me. The colour scheme and stickers are just way off for me. Couldn't it have been plain orange, for example?

I've been waiting a while for this. Stoked!

This is my era.
I don’t want to be negative, but I have to admit the more I look at it the worse it gets.
I’ll still get it though, because I’m a sad collector and have to have them all. Sobs :-)

@fredrigl said:
"> Headlights are oversized

It is LEGO.

I think the car shape is quite good. It is boxy, sure, but the source car is also quite boxy.

It seems to have some fairly decent building techniques. But after having built 77237, I don't think this one will impress me. The colour scheme and stickers are just way off for me. Couldn't it have been plain orange, for example?"

The comparison with that Dodge is an interesting oner though.....also double round headlights, but those are four studs apart instead of two (and not round tiles). Which would also have been perfect for the BMW. I mean, unlike modern BMWs, on the E30 there is quite a bit of grille between the headlights and kidneys. Which is completely absent on the Lego set. Though obviously ihad they opted for a similar solution here , they would have had to upscale the entire car.

5 out of 6 upcoming releases look pretty good. I'll forgive them this one for contrast!

There is no better drive than a BMW M3, especially the E46

@Hiratha said:
" @Briczk said:
" @BionicleGuard said:
" @Briczk said:
"Driver isn't helping either..."

What's your problem with the minifigure?"

Well it feels like Lego is trying too hard with diversity. And female with pink hair isn't average driver of such car. Doesn't mean I have anything against women OR female minifigs. Main atention should focus on car.
Exaggerated example: If Lego will make Vatican set and pope will female (to be so progressive and modern) will be similar annoying for me :)"

Since the year-so-far for Speed Champions kits currently has a 2-1 male to female minifig ratio, I think they’re actually not trying anywhere near hard enough."

You might just need to give it some time. What's the gender ratio look like for the life of the theme? CMF started out with _two_ females per 16 minifig wave back in 2010, but over the next ten years they reached gender parity in S20. Speed Champions is a theme that was originally geared towards fathers and sons building together, so 2:1 might be quite the advancement considering the long history of belief that putting female minifigs in sets targeted at boys would lead to lower sales (a stereotype that was probably artificially reinforced by the tendency to limit the lone female minifig of a subtheme to the largest, most expensive set that was priced higher than most parents could reasonably afford).

With product themes, you have to be able to tell the difference between a theme that the public just loses interest in, and changes to that theme that cause buyers to skip some sets in favor of others. Making dramatic changes probably makes it difficult to tell when the change impacts sales vs buyers just moving on to different interests. Doing it gradually can make it easier to tell when you've pushed too far without completely tanking the theme outright. After all, achieving gender parity is pretty meaningless if it directly results in the theme becoming unprofitable. All that's going to accomplish is getting the theme cancelled, and perpetuating the belief that female minifigs kill sales.

They don't, and in fact I've had times when I was going through CMF packets and a mother came up with her daughter, who desperately wanted _a_ female minifig (and I would always volunteer to help them out). But the CMF line has had several major shakeups, the biggest of which were a 50% price hike, a 33% price hike, and a 25% price hike as they shifted from $1.99 to $4.99 per minifig. They also introduced waves based on licensed IP, they did entire waves based on a single theme, and they even did an entire wave that didn't include a single minifig. They shifted production from being exclusively Chinese to sourcing parts from multiple continents. They removed scannable barcodes, introduced dot codes, messed with the dot codes, changed packet size, then switched to boxes, and quickly realized that they had to once again provide scannable codes that would allow people to identify the contents without ripping them open in the store. They played around with different cases sizes and formats, they shifted from a 3/4/5 rarity scheme to 2/4/6 to flat rarity. They pulled the Mr. Gold stunt, did a less impactful version with the vintage Policeman, and pretended to do it a third time with the Highwayman. All of these changes could have individually killed the CMF theme, and if you had three major changes that all hit at the same time, blame could be assigned to any or all of those changes. Gradually shifting towards gender parity is the only way to make it clear that female characters aren't responsible for any major shifts in purchasing, and that's the only way they're ever going to reach a point where there's no question that future themes can be launched with flat rarity and still be successful.

This is a ferociously ugly set. Then again, the original car also appears to be ferociously ugly, so... great job, I guess?

Looks like a terrific build. Looking forward to seeing the review. Not my cup of tea as a model but can really appreciate the geometry and engineering. Those new dual moulded windscreens look interesting too - and negate the need for stickers over curved surfaces, which we all hate.

I'm not really into cars that much but I love that hairpiece. Cool to get it in another color!

@Duq said:
"Cool Lada!"
Comment from a guy who has no interest in cars ??

This is pure retro, so so cool. Cant wait

@Hiratha said:
"Since the year-so-far for Speed Champions kits currently has a 2-1 male to female minifig ratio, I think they’re actually not trying anywhere near hard enough."
I think they do. Tomorrow is F1 race. Please check it out how many females drivers will be in TV. Then compare to F1 Speed champions, where half of them are female :)

@Andrusi
Thank you, I used exaggerated example to make it easy to understand for everyone.
Do you have any arguments what is such nonsense?

@everyone who wanna make a gender fight over lego set:
I only mentioned that it doesn't suit me and I have right to have such opinion. Comments "crying over toy car" are just dumb. This is website about Lego and civilize adults can talk about it without personal attacks.

If you don't like my example with pope I will just say, that OF COURSE everyone can do EVERYTHING. Just in head most of the people if there will be fairy in set: it will be better as female and if there will be road builder with a hammer: it will be better as male. Simple. Don't try to change a world and make a problem which doesn't exist.

@Briczk said:
"Comments "crying over toy car" are just dumb."

Girlfriend, you’re crying over a toy car.

@fourstud said:
"New dual molded windshield! "

Is that confirmed? Because I would guess they are "just" printed.

@RTS013 said:
" @fourstud said:
"New dual molded windshield! "

Is that confirmed? Because I would guess they are "just" printed."

If you look at the A and C pillars, and the front and back rooflines, the color crosses three corners and goes right to the edge on the roof and bottom of the pillars. None of that is standard with prints. Also, in the image from the box front, you can see a sort of dual-layering effect on the C pillars, which looks very much like clear plastic over black.

I was excited when reading ’E30 M3’, but then looked at the images. I’m not sure a *restomod* E30 M3 was on any bingo cards…

For whatever reason, LEGO/BMW appear to have opted to make this 40th celebration a modern day restomod/drift car. vibe The vastly over-wide track, huge modern wheels and non-period livery all give that impression.

The MUDGUARD 2X4X2 bricks (part of that over-width issue) also mask the classic swollen wings/arches lines of the original car… they’re brick built here but then their look lost..

TL;DR it’s not just the front that’s awkward.

Well after some of the comments above I think its time for a song ;-)

Ridin' along in my automobile
My baby beside me at the wheel
I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile
My curiosity runnin' wild
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go

Ridin' along in my automobile
I's anxious to tell her the way I feel
So I told her softly and sincere
And she leaned and whispered in my ear
Cuddlin' more and drivin' slow
With no particular place to go

No particular place to go
So we parked way out on the kokomo
The night was young and the moon was bold
So we both decided to take a stroll
Can you imagine the way I felt?
I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt

Ridin’ along in my calaboose
Still tryin’ to get her belt aloose
All the way home I held a grudge
For the safety belt wouldn’t budge
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go

@LegoMike said:
"Well after some of the comments above I think its time for a song ;-)

Ridin' along in my automobile
My baby beside me at the wheel
I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile
My curiosity runnin' wild
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go

Ridin' along in my automobile
I's anxious to tell her the way I feel
So I told her softly and sincere
And she leaned and whispered in my ear
Cuddlin' more and drivin' slow
With no particular place to go

No particular place to go
So we parked way out on the kokomo
The night was young and the moon was bold
So we both decided to take a stroll
Can you imagine the way I felt?
I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt

Ridin’ along in my calaboose
Still tryin’ to get her belt aloose
All the way home I held a grudge
For the safety belt wouldn’t budge
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go
"

How about this?

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started doing the things you used to do
As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupé de Ville
A Cadillac a-rollin on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V-8 Ford
The Cadillac doin' 'bout 95
She bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
The Cadillac pulled up at 104
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more
It done got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for the passin' lane
The rain water blowin' all under my hood
I knew that wasn't doin' my motor good
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
Cadillac sittin' like toad on a lake
A 110, a half mile ahead
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do

(Yes, I know that this is niether a Coupé de Ville nor a V8 Ford, but I'm not going to pass up the chance to post the lyrics to a Chuck Berry song!)

@WizardOfOss said:
"I mean, unlike modern BMWs, on the E30 there is quite a bit of grille between the headlights and kidneys."

It would probably have been better if they used a single fork in the centre of the grille, rather than two forks. That would look more like the actual grille of the car.

I have driven a BMW 3 Series for over two decades, E46 though. But the E30, especially the M3, was one of my favourite cars during my childhood. And I have scale models of several kinds (Scalextric DTM version, several H0 model railroad versions from Herpa including street legal M3 and DTM version, as well as an 1 in 18 version by Ottomobile).
This one imho looks really bad. Particularly the new fantasy livery. I know it was done in conjunction with BMW, but why not use one of the classic DTM liveries? Or the classic version in red, white or black?

@PurpleDave said:
" @Hiratha said:
" @PurpleDave

I appreciate the effort — truly, no sarcasm, for if nothing else it’s useful information to have in the thread, and also if I didn’t know it you explained it well — but I can’t help but remember that the nine year old girls of today won’t be nine for long. Patience means they’ll miss out, and — more to my original purpose in posting — I prefer to ensure that Lego won’t get an impression of some sort of anti-diversity community consensus lest that patience be stretched ever further to the disappointment of future nine year old girls."

I've been building, without a Dark Ages, since before the articulated minifig was introduced. In that time, I've seen whole subthemes with only a single instance of a female minifig, and others with none at all. I've seen girl-targeted themes outright fail, and I've sat through a keynote speech from one of the set designers who worked on all of those themes. Before TRU went belly up, I witnessed a mother ask her daughter if she wanted to look at the LEGO section, only to be told in response that, "Those are for boys." I realized at one point that every female member of my LUG was older than I am, and that somehow two entire generations (including my own) had passed in the US with the customer base being almost exclusively male.

But I've also seen success. I may despise the minidolls, but Friends has seen tremendous success, which is a first for a girl-targeted theme in the entire history of this company. We have a member in my LUG who just finished her first year in college, and absolutely adores the Elves theme. Disney Princess is also a huge success. For several years now, I've been paying attention to the gender ratio in the CMF theme as it approached, and eventually achieved parity. Mostly. Some licensed waves just didn't work out in that regard (there are very few named females in Looney Tunes or the Muppets), but they at least made the effort.

I've probably done more public displays than anyone who comments on this site (I don't have an exact number, but it has to be over 200 by now). I see young girls get as excited about our displays as the boys do. We are long past the point where a lack of female characters will cause girls to turn their back on LEGO sets entirely. They may gravitate to specific themes, but all the minidoll themes are just as guilty of gender disparity as Speed Champions (even if Friends has started shifting towards the center). Ultimately, it doesn't matter which themes they prefer, as long as they can find something they like.

I carry that same philosophy into doing public displays. We had a display at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra several years ago, and during Intermission, there was a young woman (late teens/early 20's) who was intently looking over our display without really reacting to anything. Then when she spotted the T.A.R.D.I.S., she excitedly exclaimed, "Doctor Who!" That's the moment I realized it doesn't matter if someone likes everything on our display, as long as everyone can find something they like.

So, Speed Champions is moving towards parity, but it's not there yet. For those who care, the theme is at least not devoid of female minifigs. And for those who care, it's not happening so suddenly that they'll abandon the theme and cause it to fail."

Yes, that is exactly what fandoms are supposed to be for.

This virtual community is a bunch of adults from different countries discussing plastic toy cars. Being a LEGO fan is not an exclusive club with a high entry barrier. Every fan should be able to find Lego figures that look like them.

I desperately want this minifigure's wig piece to be on Pick-a-Brick.

@BrickAnomie said:
"I desperately want this minifigure's wig piece to be on Pick-a-Brick."

It hasn't been IP-locked in the past, so I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be, short of the set being cancelled before the delay period has concluded. Should be available by Fall. Probably. They haven't been that great about adding new elements of late.

This is my favorite car but I absolutely hate the livery

@TheOtherMike said:
" @LegoMike said:
"Well after some of the comments above I think its time for a song ;-)

Ridin' along in my automobile
My baby beside me at the wheel
I stole a kiss at the turn of a mile
My curiosity runnin' wild
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go

Ridin' along in my automobile
I's anxious to tell her the way I feel
So I told her softly and sincere
And she leaned and whispered in my ear
Cuddlin' more and drivin' slow
With no particular place to go

No particular place to go
So we parked way out on the kokomo
The night was young and the moon was bold
So we both decided to take a stroll
Can you imagine the way I felt?
I couldn’t unfasten her safety belt

Ridin’ along in my calaboose
Still tryin’ to get her belt aloose
All the way home I held a grudge
For the safety belt wouldn’t budge
Cruisin' and playin' the radio
With no particular place to go
"

How about this?

Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started doing the things you used to do
As I was motivatin' over the hill
I saw Maybellene in a Coupé de Ville
A Cadillac a-rollin on the open road
Nothin' will outrun my V-8 Ford
The Cadillac doin' 'bout 95
She bumper to bumper, rollin' side by side
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
The Cadillac pulled up at 104
The Ford got hot and wouldn't do no more
It done got cloudy and started to rain
I tooted my horn for the passin' lane
The rain water blowin' all under my hood
I knew that wasn't doin' my motor good
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do
The motor cooled down, the heat went down
And that's when I heard that highway sound
Cadillac sittin' like toad on a lake
A 110, a half mile ahead
The Cadillac lookin' like it's sittin' still
And I caught Maybellene at the top of the hill
Maybellene, why can't you be true?
Oh, Maybellene, why can't you be true?
You done started back doin' the things you used to do

(Yes, I know that this is niether a Coupé de Ville nor a V8 Ford, but I'm not going to pass up the chance to post the lyrics to a Chuck Berry song!)"

It's always a good day when I see classic rock lyrics posted on Brickset. Said lyrics being timeless Chuck Berry ones just makes it even better!
Thank you for making my day!

@Murdoch17 said:"It's always a good day when I see classic rock lyrics posted on Brickset. Said lyrics being timeless Chuck Berry ones just makes it even better!
Thank you for making my day!"

Happy to give you some of that rock 'n' roll music.

I'm only interested in the hair piece. It could make a good female V from Cyberpunk 2077.

Doesnt look good at all

Ough, this is badly translated into a Lego E30 M3 and the livery definitely doesn’t help either. Calling the E30 M3 “blocky” doesn’t mean the car is fully angular. It actually has a lot of subtle curves, especially around the front fenders, hood, and nose. Even the widened arches are more sculpted than sharp. That mix of straight lines and smooth curves is what makes the E30 M3 so iconic. Honestly, this probably would’ve worked much better in a larger 1:16 Icons scale. A bit of a missed opportunity if you ask me.

Actually looking forward to getting this as a great example of how not to make a Speed Champion!

This is the worst possible livery choice for this car. Beyond looking bad, it doesn't call back to BMW's history at all. They easily could've done the classic white with three stripes livery, but considering how every other BMW set has a similar color scheme, I can only imagine BMW Corporate is mandating these terrible liveries. I hope TLG/BMW realizes that, and doesn't simply assume people don't want BMWs at all.

@Duq said:
"Cool Lada!"

zeg dan niks?