LEGO Ship Sets Guinness Record for World's Largest A Danish shipping company has built the world's biggest ship made of LEGO bricks. As reported by Brothers Brick, DFDS built the giant plastic vessel, dubbed Jubilee Seaways, with over 1,000,000 individual LEGO bricks. According to the DFDS blog, the ship was constructed to celebrate the company's 150th anniversary. Modeled after one of DFDS' real-life ferries, over 7,000 employees worked on the construction by assembling thousands of bricks made of 45 individual LEGO pieces. DFDS plans to exhibit the Guinness World Record Jubilee Seaways at events around Europe. And speaking of LEGO, be sure to check out the latest on new LEGO Dimensions expansion packs. Matt Clark is a freelance writer covering the world of videogames, tech, and popular culture. Follow him on Twitter @ClarkMatt and MyIGN at Matt_Clark.Some of the most beautiful LEGO sets are the LEGO sailing ships. LEGO ships have been around for some time, but this last couple of years LEGO really outdid themselves with not just one, but three gorgeous sailing ships;
the #10210 LEGO Imperial Flagship (released in 2010 under the LEGO Pirates line), the #4195 LEGO Queen Anne’s Revenge and the #4184 LEGO Black Pearl (released in 2011 under the Pirates of the Caribbean license). So which one of the three ships is best? Of course if you are into LEGO ships you would probably want to get them all, but what if you are strapped for cash or you don’t have enough room to display all three of them? So let’s look at each ship to see what it has to offer… #10210 LEGO IMPERIAL FLAGSHIP – This is the largest of the three LEGO ships – measures 29.5” (75 cm) long and 23.6” (60 cm) tall – and the most realistic of all. If you are not into pirates per se, but just want a beautiful LEGO sailing ship model, this is your absolute best bet. The ship is full of accurate details and is a very solid built; totally ready for both play and display. At $180 with 1664 pieces the price is decent, and this ship is not going to go out of style any time soon.
BUY IMPERIAL FLAGSHIP HERE “All hands on deck! This amazingly detailed and realistic historical ship has three removable sections. The main hull contains 4 firing cannons, ammunition crates, muskets, torches, cannonballs, a prison with a rat, a fully-equipped ship’s kitchen, working anchor, moving rudder and a saw-shark minifigure head. The front deck has an opening door to the inside of the ship and sails with masts and rigging. The back house deck has opening doors to the captain’s chambers containing a map, poison bottle, organ and a treasure chest full of jewels and gold. The Imperial Flagship has 6 opening windows, a telescope and sextant and 3 deck lanterns. Includes 9 minifigures: the ship’s captain, his daughter, a pirate captain prisoner with shackles, the ship’s cook, a lieutenant, and 4 soldiers.” #4195 LEGO QUEEN ANNE’S REVENGE – This is the second largest of the three LEGO ships; measures over 20″ (50cm) tall and 25″ (66cm) wide. Here LEGO was going for the Pirates of the Caribbean look, rather than historical accuracy.
Due to this, and the fact the set is made with children in mind and not so much adult collectors, the ship is not as accurately detailed as the Imperial Flagship. But if you are into the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, or pirates in general, this is a must-have ship! The color-scheme is really nice, the sails are beautiful, and the LEGO minifigs in this set are very unique. There are lots of bones attached all around the ship to make it more piratey, but also fall off easily. But other than this the ship is solid. At $120 with 1097 pieces, the price is a tad more than the Imperial Flagship, but this is not uncommon for a licensed set. BUY QUEEN ANNE’S REVENGE HERE #4184 LEGO BLACK PEARL – The smallest, but meanest-looking of the three ships! It measures over 21” (53cm) long, 20” (50cm) tall. The ship is as black as it can get! I would say it is actually a more accurate-looking pirate ship that Queen Anne’s, although some LEGO-fans complain it is a bit too stripped down and simple.
Although I don’t think this is a down-side for a pirate ship; after all they were not luxury cruisers! And the minifigs are amazing! As far as price it appears to be the cheapest of the three sets at only $100, however the price-per-part ratio is the worse for some reason. It only has 804 parts, so that comes to over 12 cents a piece. it is a really nice LEGO pirate ship. BUY BLACK PEARL HERE I hope this review helps you make a decision on which ship is best for you! And if you like LEGO ships you may also like to check out our other posts:The 23-foot-long Lego USS Intrepid aircraft carrier should be renamed the USS Insane. It's the largest Lego ship ever built. Ed Diment made it to minifig scale, complete with Wildcat and Corsair airplanes built by Ralph Savelsberg. This thing is absolutely insane, larger than Jumpei Mitsui's 22-foot battleship Yamato and Malle Hawking's 350-pound aircraft carrier. Diment's ship is a 1/40 reproduction of the USS Intrepid, one of the 24 Essex-class US Navy aircraft carriers built during World War II, exactly as she were in 1945.
Nowadays, people can walk over the real Intrepid's deck: It's the Sea-Air-Space Museum in New York City. If you were in Swindon, England, you could have actually walked over its Lego twin's deck at the Great Western Lego Show. To give you an idea of scale, look at the aircraft and crew above, created by Lego aircraft genius Ralph Savelsberg. Then look at the image and realize the magnitude of this mahoossive monolith of awesomeness. Its escort at the show was beautiful too: Gary Davis' 8-foot long Balao-class submarine USS Pampanito and Chris Lee's 9.5-foot Fletcher-class destroyer USS Haggard. Yes, these people are crazy. And that's exactly why we love them. [Ed Diment's USS Intrepid, Gary Davis' USS Pampanito, Chris Lee's USS Haggard, Ralph's airplanes via Brothers Brick]A Lego-mad fisherman spent three years building the world's biggest model of a US warship - only to find an American rival had beaten him by inches.Jim McDonough painstakingly built a 24ft scale model of the 890ft USS Missouri with thousands of toy bricks in Redford, near Arbroath in Angus.When he embarked on the model in his garage three years ago, his research told him it was going to be the biggest Lego ship in the world.
Jim McDonough has painstakingly built a 24ft scale model of 890ft US warship USS Missouri out of thousands of toy bricks in his garage in Redford, near Arbroath, Angus, Scotland But he's been pipped at the post by American enthusiast, Dan Siskind, of Minneapolis, whose creation stands at 25.5ft long The Lego-mad fisherman spent three years building the world's biggest model of a US warship - only to discover he had been beaten to the title by an American rival by just inches He has even built accompanying military transport for the ships. The 51-year-old, has a garage crammed with a flotilla of battleships, aircraft carriers, planes, fishing vessels and landing craft - each one painstakingly built from Lego The real USS Missouri. The original warship was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan, which ended the Second World WarBut it seems his effort was in vain - after he was been pipped at the post by Minneapolis-based enthusiast Dan Siskind, whose creation is 25.5ft long.
Mr Siskind used more than one million Lego bricks to recreate the 1:35 scale of the USS Missouri.Mr McDonough prides himself on not gluing them together - which he regards as 'cheating'.The 51-year-old has a garage crammed with a flotilla of Lego battleships, aircraft carriers, planes, fishing vessels and landing craft.His 1:40 scale model of the USS Missouri is moored beside the USS Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbour, and a Japanese carrier with lines of Zero fighters. In Mr McDonough's garage his 1:40 scale model of USS Missouri is moored beside the ill-fated USS Arizona, sunk at Pearl Harbour, and a Japanese carrier replete with lines of Zero fighters Mr McDonough and grandaughter Leigha with the USS Missouri (left). Mr McDonough prides himself on not gluing them together - which he regards as 'cheating' Mr McDonough broke down his first models in order to save space and use bricks on later projects, but he is running out of garage room since the family begged him to keep themHe said: 'I think the biggest in the world is a few inches longer, but when I started building mine three years ago it was probably the biggest.'I don't use glue and everything can be taken apart.
If you go to Legoland it's all glued together, which to me is cheating because anyone can glue stuff together.'When asked whether his next project, the carrier USS Saratoga, would be built larger in order to compete, he said that would not be in keeping with the scale of his other vessels.The original warship was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan, which ended the Second World War.His partner Mandy, 51, said the family have supported his passion, even when sections of the Missouri took over the kitchen in winter. He said: 'I think the biggest in the world is a few inches longer, but when I started building mine three years ago it was probably the biggest' Mr McDonough said his family are now running out of space and need a bigger house and bigger garage to house it all Historic moment: The original warship was the site of the surrender of the Empire of Japan in 1945, which ended the Second World War Unfortunately, his efforts were beaten by Mr Siskind's.
His Lego ship stands at 25.5ft long, and it took him more than 1 million bricks to complete the projectMr McDonough broke down his first models in order to save space and use bricks on later projects.But he is running out of garage room since the family begged him to keep them.'When Lego was invented I was about four or five and have kept buying it since then,' he said.'But we're running out of space and need a bigger house and bigger garage to house it all.'The last thing you want to do is build that, take a picture and break them down again.' Mr McDonough works on an Arbroath-based dredger and spends much of his cabin time drawing the world he sees around him. The ship, a replica of the 45000 ton Iowa class battleship built by the New York Navy Yard, was painstakingly built over months The Lego ship pictured mid-construction, with accompanying plans. The ship is still under construction as there is still some work to be done, but is already 25.5ft long Mr Siskind spent months working on the ship - nicknamed the Mo.
He said he hopes it will be complete by September Under construction: Mr Siskind said that he had been working ‘30-hour marathon’ sessions to build his version of the USS Missouri Looking inside: Mr Siskin said he believes 'it's the longest ship of any kind built out of Lego in the world' - but admits he 'could be wrong'Largely self-taught, the fisherman has spent years drawing subjects on request from friends and neighbours.'I've got too many hobbies and not enough time to do them all,' he said.Impressed by the size and detail of the recreation - each is built from plans sourced online - the USS Missouri memorial museum in Hawaii has highlighted his model.Mr Siskind told American TV show Beyond the Brick that he had been working ‘30-hour marathon’ sessions to build his version of the USS Missouri.He said: 'As far as i know, it's the longest ship of any kind built out of Lego in the world. I could be wrong, someone correct me if I am.‘It's built in ten different sections, 30 inches long each.