When I got the set home, I couldn’t help but build it before integrating the pieces into my greater collection. This is something I rarely do, as at this point, I buy lego for the parts or minifigs usually. It has to be a pretty interesting set for me to sit down and build it. I found the build pretty fun. The masts of the ship sit on clicking turn tables, so you adjust them during game play. When your done, the ship also has one of Lego’s newer style flick canons. It uses the springy piece that you put little Lego soccer players on to be able to kick the ball. I do wonder about the over use of this flick canon though. Back when the pirate sets were around, I acrued a rather good amount of canons, that looked like canons. Now I know, you historians will say that knights didn’t have canons until near the very end. Well, the jury is out still about them riding armored dragons too… But what I’m getting at though, is that the ship could have had a more realistic balista or something. Maybe this is what they were going for, and too many years of writing code has destroyed my imagination? Anyway, I still had a lot of fun building it, and it went together quickly.

If your looking for a long build, this might upset you. But where I was looking at the set as a quick pick up for all my armies and an extra ship, I was ok with it. Of course, I also had a little help building, so that might have had something to do with it…

(more after the photos)

As I’ve mentioned, it was a quick build. Almost anyone used to putt ing together sets would find it an easy build… I did however, notice that the colors were off in the manual from the colors of the bricks. Normally not a big deal, but at times they were way off. This is one of the reasons I dislike mega blocks. If your buying it for the set, the colors have been so off it’s hard to tell which one you are supposed to use, especially if your building something predominantly black and grays. The only other draw back, which is much of one, is that the ship hull is a new brown. Not the same as the Viking ship hull, which was not the same as the old Pirate ship hulls. So mixing and matching may look a little weird. Where I plan to make a much larger version of a trol l warrior transport, it may work. Since we wouldn’t expect the trolls to have shiny fancy looking ships. In fact, I would have expected this ship to look a little more hodge podge, a little like, Reavers maybe?

None of this though would deter me from buying this set. Its a great addition to the collection. Its a quick pick up in so many ways of army building you can’t skip it. The play looks like it would be great as well. With firing missiles, spinning  masts, so many minifigs, and details to the ship, its a well rounded set.