Technic

Porsche 911 GT3 R REXY AO Racing Car

The one Technic Porsche with actual personality, and working air jacks to boot.

Brick Rated Score

4.2/5

Set 42224 · 2026

Pieces1,313

Minifigsn/a

Year2026

Set number42224

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The verdict

You know how most Technic supercars end up looking like handsome grey furniture on your shelf?

This one refuses to. It's the real IMSA Rexy car, dinosaur teeth and all, and that goofy fearless livery is exactly why I'd pick it over another dignified silver Porsche. The air jacks are the party trick, but the whole thing punches above its 1,313 pieces.

Best for: Technic fans who want a display car with a sense of humor

The full review

What it is

Let's be honest about Technic Porsches for a second. They're beautifully engineered and they mostly look like each other, a parade of tasteful grey and silver that photographs well and blends into the shelf. This LEGO® set does something I did not expect from the line. It commits, fully, to being ridiculous in the best way. The Porsche 911 GT3 R REXY is a scale model of the actual AO Racing car that runs in IMSA, the one the whole paddock knows as Rexy because it's painted like a grinning T. rex with teeth across the nose and eyes over the wheel arches. It's 1,313 pieces, it retails around 149 dollars, and it landed in January 2026 as one of the more charming Technic cars in ages.

The catch

Underneath the cartoon dinosaur is a proper Technic model, which is the part that won me over. You get working suspension on all four wheels, rear wheel drive running through a differential, a flat-six boxer engine that pistons up and down in the correct firing order, plus opening doors and a rear hatch. The showpiece is the air jack system. In real endurance racing the pit crew shoves compressed air into the car and it pops up on hidden jacks so all four tires can change at once, and here you push a control and all four corners lift together. It's the kind of function that makes you grin the first time it works, and it's rare enough in the Technic line that it feels special rather than routine.

Who it's for

Now the caveats, because I'd want a friend to tell me. This is a mid-size Technic set, not one of those enormous 2,000-plus-piece flagship supercars, so if you're picturing a coffee-table centerpiece you'll want to adjust. The famous Rexy face and all the sponsor detailing arrive as stickers rather than printed parts, and there are a lot of them, so budget some patience and a steady hand because crooked eyes on a dinosaur car are hard to un-see. And the whole appeal is tied to the theme. If the goofy race livery makes you smile, this is easily worth it. If you secretly wanted a serious, understated Porsche for the mantel, one of the greyer models will suit you better. For everyone else, especially anyone who's followed the AO Racing story or just wants a Technic build with a pulse, this one's a genuine delight. I'd grab it happily.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

The build runs in the classic Technic order and takes most people three to four hours. You start with the chassis and drivetrain, threading the differential and the flat-six boxer engine together so the pistons actually cycle when the rear wheels roll, then you layer on the suspension geometry for all four corners. That middle section is where the air jack mechanism goes in, and it's the most satisfying bit of engineering in the box, a little linkage that translates one input into four synchronized lifts. After the mechanical guts come the bodywork panels and finally the livery stage, where Rexy actually appears. Reviewers call it straightforward with a couple of fresh techniques, challenging enough to stay interesting without ever tying you in knots, which feels about right for an 11-plus set.

Piece-wise, the story here is color and printing rather than exotic new molds. The teal-blue, white, and red AO Racing scheme means a good haul of panels and connectors in shades you don't get in a hundred grey Technic sets, which is genuinely useful if you build your own creations. The catch, and it's the recurring complaint, is that the dinosaur face and sponsor logos are stickers, not printed tiles, so the character you're paying for is only as sharp as your application. For 1,313 pieces at around 149 dollars you're paying a small premium over the raw part count, but the working air jacks, the differential, and that unmistakable livery are what you're really buying, and on that math it holds up well.

Fun facts

01The real Rexy is AO Racing's IMSA Porsche 911 GT3 R, and the dinosaur theme started when team owner PJ Hyett had a helmet made with a prehistoric scene on one side for his dino-obsessed son and a fantasy unicorn on the other for his daughter.
02That unicorn side inspired a real sister car too, the hot-pink Roxy, and the team later added Spike, a purple dragon LMP2 prototype, giving AO Racing an entire cast of monster-liveried race cars.
03Rexy the 911 GT3 R is a bona fide IMSA championship winner and one of the most beloved cars in the paddock, famous for a last-to-first comeback drive at Indianapolis in 2024.
04The set recreates endurance racing's air jack pit trick, where compressed air pops the car up on four hidden jacks so a crew can swap all four tires at once, and here it works off a single control.