We Build LEGO The Endurance, A 3-Masted Tribute to Antarctic Discovery

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The featured LEGO build for Black Friday 2024 is a model of The Endurance: a massive, three-masted sailing vessel known as a barquentine. In addition to its historical import, the Endurance was a beautiful mixture of old and new, which used both sails and steam power to propel itself through the water.

LEGO Icons The Endurance

This model of The Endurance is LEGO at its most serious and austere. There are no minifigures, no self-referential bits of whimsy. It’s all masts, sails, riggings, and ship’s boats, depicted without a hint of irony. But that actually works in its favor – the end result looks realistic and classy. This is a centerpiece that would look at home on a coffee table, or on a side table in the corner of a dining room. This is a set that would mix well with polite company.

We Build LEGO The Endurance

It’s the latest in LEGO’s promotion of itself as a lifestyle and a just a brand for kids , but also for adults . These sets incorporate themselves into a room’s aesthetic, as artwork on the walls, flowers and plants on window sills, or as scaled replicas of famous landmarks or artifacts on a shelf or small table. The Endurance is a beautiful set that would dominate and add sophistication to any living space. Just make sure you have the 2.5 feet to display it, and the room aesthetics to give it its proper stage and presentation.

The LEGO Endurance comes in 28 numbered bags – the number of bags matches the number of crewmen who worked on the real-life ship. You start by building the boat itself, from bow to stern. You build it in three bulk sections, which fasten together via drop-down pins. Building the boat is a methodical process by which you first build the center ‘spine’ of the boat and then attach pieces horizontally to create the boat’s curves and swells. The pieces interlock and slide past one another in a satisfying manner – a credit to the designers’ consistent precision and forethought.

The boat comes together quickly – both because the process is engaging and because the bricks in this particular stage are large, chunky, and cover a lot … Read More