Shackleton's Lifeboat GWP revealed!

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Shackleton's Lifeboat

Shackleton's Lifeboat

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The gift-with-purchase that will accompany the release of 10335 The Endurance has now been unveiled as 40729 Shackleton's Lifeboat.

This set depicts one of Endurance's lifeboats, which were vital to the crew's survival after their ship was trapped in ice and eventually broke up. On board are minifigures depicting Sir Ernest Shackleton and the expedition photographer, Frank Hurley.

Availability will be limited to purchases of 10335 The Endurance between the 29th of November and the 2nd of December, or while stocks last.

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What do you think of this promotional set? Let us know in the comments.

79 comments on this article

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By in United States,

I know this is terrible things to say, but my first reaction is that I like the lifeboat more than the main model.

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By in United Kingdom,

@ShaydDeGrai said:
"I know this is terrible things to say, but my first reaction is that I like the lifeboat more than the main model."

Ain't that often the case these days....

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By in New Zealand,

I'm in shackles with this...

If I were to buy the Endurance i'd get this to go with it. But i'd have to get it on the secondary market because i'm not spending $450 NZ immediately.

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By in United States,

I hope this GWP isn't too expensive on Bricklink and eBay. The ship is a good model at a good price, but I'd rather be able to just buy the lifeboat.

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By in New Zealand,

The Shackleton minifig is quite good. Frank Hurley is quite generic though.

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By in United States,

Harpoon tri-pod. Only Lego would do something so brave.

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By in New Zealand,

@Studnotontop said:
"Harpoon tri-pod. Only Lego would do something so brave."

Lego uses that piece for lots of different uses besides a harpoon.

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By in New Zealand,

@iwybs said:
"I hope this GWP isn't too expensive on Bricklink and eBay. The ship is a good model at a good price, but I'd rather be able to just buy the lifeboat."

It won't be as expensive as say a Star Wars one, but any GWP that goes with a big set is likely to fetch a bit on the secondary market.

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By in Netherlands,

Different from the Christmas GWPs revealed today, this is another one of those I wish was just a regular set. As much as I like the Endurance, don't know if I'll be buying that, as I wouldn't know where to display it. But small vignettes like this, yes please! But somehow Lego seems to think every regularly available typical 18+ set should be big and expensive. Small sets are for kids.

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By in Germany,

@ShaydDeGrai said:
"I know this is terrible things to say, but my first reaction is that I like the lifeboat more than the main model."
You could of course buy the main set, get the GWP, and sell the main set afterwards at retail, thus only keeping the then free GWP.

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By in Netherlands,

Indiana Jones! ;-)

Nice looking GWP. Shame it's not in scale with the model this comes with. But nice boat for Indy.

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By in New Zealand,

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"Indiana Jones! ;-)

Nice looking GWP. Shame it's not in scale with the model this comes with. But nice boat for Indy."


Indiana Jones 6 - The great Antarctic expedition.

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By in New Zealand,

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
"Indiana Jones! ;-)

Nice looking GWP. Shame it's not in scale with the model this comes with. But nice boat for Indy."


Jaws will like it.

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By in New Zealand,

@ShaydDeGrai said:
"I know this is terrible things to say, but my first reaction is that I like the lifeboat more than the main model."

How is it even possible to like it more? Is it the price?

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By in Germany,

I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically.

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By in Sweden,

Unlike the life boats in the main set it seems to be closed on top, can it be opened so the minifigs can sit down inside?

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By in United States,

I wonder if any of these guys ever thought they’d be made into toys someday

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By in United States,

It's so unfair that the minifigures are locked inside a GWP and not the actual set

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By in United Kingdom,

Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste.

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By in Netherlands,

@daniellesa said:
"Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste."


Other options are the car with a stickered handprint, the painting scene or the makeshift raft.

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By in Belgium,

@AustinPowers said:
" @ShaydDeGrai said:
"I know this is terrible things to say, but my first reaction is that I like the lifeboat more than the main model."
You could of course buy the main set, get the GWP, and sell the main set afterwards at retail, thus only keeping the then free GWP. "


you could also order the sets online, and only return the main set to lego, you will get a refund minus 20€ (most of the time) for the not returned gwp

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By in United States,

Now that's how you do a GWP. Perfectly relevant, nice set.

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By in Germany,

@DenDeze : sure, but with the option I mentioned you can keep it for free.
Or, even better, if you have the room to spare, keep the main set stored MISB until it's retired and sell it later at a reasonable profit. Bingo. Free GWP now and some extra cash later :-)

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By in United States,

@daniellesa said:
"Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste."


Cobi did an Executive Edition of the Titanic with the iceberg!

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By in Poland,

This must be ugliest boat Lego made ever.

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By in United Kingdom,

@MrClassic said:
"Unlike the life boats in the main set it seems to be closed on top, can it be opened so the minifigs can sit down inside? "

Yes, I think the top can be removed, based on the image on the side of the box.

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By in United States,

@lordofdragonss said:
"This must be ugliest boat Lego made ever."

It accurately represents a simple lifeboat, repurposed and remade to carry Shackleton and four others several hundred miles (over 800 I think) through the rough, open ocean from Elephant Island to South Georgia to get help. It's supposed to be ugly - it's a ramshackle, cobbled together amalgamation of different things and parts of three boats to make one seaworthy boat.

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By in Sweden,

@CapnRex101 said:
"Yes, I think the top can be removed, based on the image on the side of the box."
Indeed, that box image wasn't there before, nice!

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By in New Zealand,

Lovely little set! Ideally it would have Shackleton and Frank Worsley, the New Zealand captain of the Endurance who volunteered to go on the James Caird from Elephant Island to South Georgia. He was the navigator, so technically he should be the one holding the sextant. His phenomenal navigation skills, in that tiny boat in the turbulent Southern Ocean, beggars belief.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Worsley

In saying that, historical accuracy doesn't always matter in the grander scheme of things and having the Australian photographer Hurley, who played an important role in the immortalisation of the doomed expedition, is good too (but he didn't go in the Caird...).

Should have looked more closely - clearly it's the Caird when being transported across the ice to Elephant Island, so having Hurley photographing it is entirely apt!

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By in Australia,

Christ I hate GWPs. I really wish this was sold separately.

Shackleton is pretty good, Im also very happy to see Frank Hurley. A fellow Australian without whom he wouldnt have the great photographs of the voyage and Endurance stuck in the ice.

Theyve also captured the James Caird very well, even the noticeable difference between the 'standard' hull and the additions made to raise the gunwales for the Southern Ocean crossing.

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By in United States,

Finally, a new Adventurers set!

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By in Australia,

Super cute and will go well with the stunning main set.

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By in United Kingdom,

There's a full size replica of the real thing sat outside the Scott Polar Research Institute museum in Cambridge; it's perhaps somewhat sleeker but this isn't a bad job at this scale given the limitations of lego

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By in United States,

At the risk of unintentionally offending anyone, some of the comments are confusing. Of course, LEGO makes the GWPs really appealing. If they didn't or when they miss the mark, people would be equally or more upset with that. At the same time that I understand the frustration with GWPs that aren't available as stand-alone sets, I also totally understand why LEGO offers them. They are trying to drive business, which really is their sole purpose. They are a for-profit company, and they seem to do a darn good job on that profit generation, which thankfully keeps them in business to satisfy our respective addictions/compulsions.

It is not as if any of us are prohibited from obtaining the GWP in the after-market if we don't own the larger set. We just have to pay a premium for it. Shouldn't we just be happy that they create such intriguing, creative models? Yes, the Endurance is expensive and large, and thus not quite right for all customers, which is all the more reason they want to incentivize an early purchase. Creating FOMO may annoy some or many, but it also stimulates commerce.

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By in United Kingdom,

@Schmopiesdad said:
"At the risk of unintentionally offending anyone, some of the comments are confusing. Of course, LEGO makes the GWPs really appealing.]

Like the taxi GWP for the Avengers Tower? Or those House and Shops of the World?
"

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By in Netherlands,

@Schmopiesdad , my issue with these GWP is not so much that they make these in the first place. I fo get Lego is a business, and the only thing they care about is the contents of our wallets. Fair. And I already fell for it once this year (Classic Space GWP).

The more annoying thing to me is that they seem to do sets like this ONLY as GWP. "Adults Welcome" my ass, only adults that are into big (and expensive) sets. If not, well, there's the kids section.....

Is it weird that I think some GWP are actually more interesting than the product they try to sell?

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By in United Kingdom,

@WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"It's so unfair that the minifigures are locked inside a GWP and not the actual set"

If it helps, I think the torsos are already both on PaB

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By in United Kingdom,

Excellent appropriate free gift to go with a fairly reasonably priced main set. Perfect.

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By in United States,

@daniellesa said:
"Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste."


The tender SS Nomadic.

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By in United States,

@Studnotontop said:
"Harpoon tri-pod. Only Lego would do something so brave."

I built one with a rollerskate.

@Murdoch17:
The Detroit Zoo has a Shackleton exhibit in their award-winning Penguinarium, which is what really got me on the subject. I think it was then an episode of NOVA where I watched them attempt to recreate the voyage of the HMS Bathtub here, and every last member of that expedition should, by all rights, have been fish food. And it's not just this tiny boat that they had going against them. They didn't have modern polar gear like Goretex linings. They were still wearing wool and furs in those days, since Antarctic (and even Arctic) exploration was still pretty new to the point that they were kinda figuring things out as they went, and passing learned knowledge on to the next expedition. And the food...blech! To calorie-load as much as possible packed as densely as possible, they were primarily living off of a dish called "hoosh". Hoosh is made from pemmican (jerked meat, rendered animal fat, and berries), "sledging biscuits" (probably the closest thing we have to Elvish waybread, but not as tasty), and water. And that's basically it, the entire time you're in Antarctica, four meals a day (because, again, calorie-loading).

Apparently, the Detroit Zoo even named a new King Penguin after Shackleton this summer:

https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/03/08/this-is-ernest-shackleton-he-lives-at-the-detroit-zoo-and-is-a-very-cute-penguin-chick/

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By in United States,

I like this. I'm probably going to buy that damned ship because I like this.

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By in New Zealand,

When I first saw these images, I thought the two minifigures were Shackelton and Frank Worsley. I went on to think that's wrong because Shackelton wore the fedora hat, and Worsley would have taken the sights with the sextant. Then, why was the camera included as that item wasn't taken on the rescue voyage.
It just goes to show that initial impressions can be wrong.

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By in United Kingdom,

@GirlWoman said:
"I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically."

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set.

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By in United Kingdom,

@watcher21 said:
" @daniellesa said:
"Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste."


Other options are the car with a stickered handprint, the painting scene or the makeshift raft."


The Titanic set wasn't based on the movie though.

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By in United Kingdom,

@ZeroGravitas said:
" @WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"It's so unfair that the minifigures are locked inside a GWP and not the actual set"

If it helps, I think the torsos are already both on PaB"


Yes, it explains why Pippin's has been available as presumably it is not LOTR IP locked, although of course it also appeared in HP so it was already apparent.

Plus if they were in the main set, I expect there would be complaints that the scale is wrong and the set should have been bigger to fit the minifigs (but at the same price point).

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By in Netherlands,

@CCC said:
" @GirlWoman said:
"I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically."

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set."


Now ifIf only this lifeboat was the retail set and The Endurance the GWP ;-)

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By in Poland,

@Murdoch17 said:
" @lordofdragonss said:
"This must be ugliest boat Lego made ever."

It accurately represents a simple lifeboat, repurposed and remade to carry Shackleton and four others several hundred miles (over 800 I think) through the rough, open ocean from Elephant Island to South Georgia to get help. It's supposed to be ugly - it's a ramshackle, cobbled together amalgamation of different things and parts of three boats to make one seaworthy boat."


Thanks for explaining. Still it's ugly build xD

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By in United Kingdom,

Wish the GWP was available to purchase separately.

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By in United States,

@CCC said:
" @watcher21 said:
" @daniellesa said:
"Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste."


Other options are the car with a stickered handprint, the painting scene or the makeshift raft."


The Titanic set wasn't based on the movie though."


Thank you for remembering that the movie was based on something that actually happened. As some who was interested in the Titanic long before James Cameron came along, I feel like not enough people remember that.

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By in United States,

@CCC said:
" @GirlWoman said:
"I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically."

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set."


There's also another GWP currently running that portrays a time far lost when people used to get information and, dare I say, knowledge from collections of thinly-pressed, dried, and stamped wood pulp instead of obsessively slaverying over their electronic, glowing screens.

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By in Germany,

@CCC said:
" @GirlWoman said:
"I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically."

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set."


Yeah so sad that the Endurance set is so bad! Terrible that lego is forced to sell the lifeboat as a GWP there truly was no other option for them!

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By in United States,

@TheOtherMike:
I remember a few instances of tongue-in-cheek spoiler alerts being thrown around regarding the ultimate fate of the ship.

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By in United States,

@CCC said:
".Plus if they were in the main set, I expect there would be complaints that the scale is wrong and the set should have been bigger to fit the minifigs (but at the same price point)."

Except for every other LEGO set with a plaque stand and minifigures. ;o)

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By in United States,

@StyleCounselor said:
" @CCC said:
" @GirlWoman said:
"I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically."

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set."


There's also another GWP currently running that portrays a time far lost when people used to get information and, dare I say, knowledge from collections of thinly-pressed, dried, and stamped wood pulp instead of obsessively slaverying over their electronic, glowing screens. "


This would have been more damning had it not been read on my electronic, glowing screen. :o)

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By in United States,

@PurpleDave said:
[[ @TheOtherMike:
I remember a few instances of tongue-in-cheek spoiler alerts being thrown around regarding the ultimate fate of the ship.]]

Defferent based-on-a-true-story movie, but I've heard of people saying that the ending of Apollo 13 was "too Hollywood."

@yellowcastle said:[[ @StyleCounselor said:[[ @CCC said: @GirlWoman said:I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically.]]

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set.]]

There's also another GWP currently running that portrays a time far lost when people used to get information and, dare I say, knowledge from collections of thinly-pressed, dried, and stamped wood pulp instead of obsessively slaverying over their electronic, glowing screens. ]]

This would have been more damning had it not been read on my electronic, glowing screen. :o)]]

When I build my copy, it will be with a YouTube video playing in the background.

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By in United States,

This is a solid GWP. I wasn't planning on getting the big ship, but I could see how this freebie would entice people to pull the trigger. They did a bang up job with everything.

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By in United Kingdom,

@GirlWoman said:
" @CCC said:
" @GirlWoman said:
"I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically."

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set."


Yeah so sad that the Endurance set is so bad! Terrible that lego is forced to sell the lifeboat as a GWP there truly was no other option for them!"


What is so bad about The Endurance set? Releasing a linked GWP to tempt people to buy a new set early, direct from LEGO and at full retail price is hardly anything new. People that like The Endurance are likely to like the small lifeboat. Those that don't want to buy the larger set can assemble the GWP from parts.

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By in United States,

@TheOtherMike:
To be fair, the “Houston, we have a problem” line actually was Hollywooded up:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_we_have_a_problem

Most people seem to know that “inspired by”, or “based on”, are not the same as a documentary, but you don’t get a cheat sheet listing all the liberties they took with a film. And sometimes it’s the Hollywood-style ending that’s real, while the film version shows a less conventional outcome (like Disney’s Pocahontas).

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By in Netherlands,

Instead of Hollywood fiction like Titanic, I much prefer true stories like Fargo.

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By in Hungary,

I,know that it has a cultural reference I am unfamiliar with.

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By in Ukraine,

This could be a standalone set.

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By in United States,

@PurpleDave said:
". And sometimes it’s the Hollywood-style ending that’s real, while the film version shows a less conventional outcome (like Disney’s Pocahontas)."

Croatoan

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By in United States,

@yellowcastle said:
" @StyleCounselor said:
" @CCC said:
" @GirlWoman said:
"I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically."

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set."


There's also another GWP currently running that portrays a time far lost when people used to get information and, dare I say, knowledge from collections of thinly-pressed, dried, and stamped wood pulp instead of obsessively slaverying over their electronic, glowing screens. "


This would have been more damning had it not been read on my electronic, glowing screen. :o)"


Depends on your damnation acceptation orientation. ;)

For myself, the bright burning box of badness is burning a blowhole through my brain. The printed pulp reminds me that humans aren't ALL horrible.

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By in United States,

@TheOtherMike said:
[[ @PurpleDave said:
[[ @TheOtherMike:
I remember a few instances of tongue-in-cheek spoiler alerts being thrown around regarding the ultimate fate of the ship.]]

Defferent based-on-a-true-story movie, but I've heard of people saying that the ending of Apollo 13 was "too Hollywood."

@yellowcastle said:[[ @StyleCounselor said:[[ @CCC said: @GirlWoman said:I love historical sets but so often they end up as GWPs - Lego does that to spite me, specifically.]]

If you like historical sets, then LEGO are releasing a set of The Endurance. And you get this set as a GWP with it. A historical GWP with a historical retail set.]]

There's also another GWP currently running that portrays a time far lost when people used to get information and, dare I say, knowledge from collections of thinly-pressed, dried, and stamped wood pulp instead of obsessively slaverying over their electronic, glowing screens. ]]

This would have been more damning had it not been read on my electronic, glowing screen. :o)]]

When I build my copy, it will be with a YouTube video playing in the background.]]

Probably my favorite way to build is with a good Serie A match in the background.

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By in United States,

@PurpleDave said:
" @TheOtherMike:
To be fair, the “Houston, we have a problem” line actually was Hollywooded up:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston,_we_have_a_problem

Most people seem to know that “inspired by”, or “based on”, are not the same as a documentary, but you don’t get a cheat sheet listing all the liberties they took with a film. And sometimes it’s the Hollywood-style ending that’s real, while the film version shows a less conventional outcome (like Disney’s Pocahontas)."


I'm aware that the movie changed some things (the fit was one guy, not a team, that figured out the filter problem, while it was a team, not one guy, who figured out how to get the Command Module to boot on less energy than it was designed for), but they didn't make up a completely new story using a historical event as a backdrop.

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By in United States,

@WizardOfOss said:
"Instead of Hollywood fiction like Titanic, I much prefer true stories like Fargo."

Movie or TV show? Because the latter has a UFO, the tornado from Wizard of Oz, and an immortal clansman from Scotland, while the movie just has a woodchipper.

@StyleCounselor:
Well that certainly explains a lot about you…

@TheOtherMike:
True, it wasn’t like they took a simple non-functional “Initiate Lunar Landing Cycle” switch and blew it all out of proportion into a life-or-death situation. But there are always going to be people who think it really was exaggerated that badly. And others who still insist the entire Apollo program was shot from a script in the middle of the Nevada desert.

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By in United States,

@daniellesa said:
"Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste."

Oh, you missed it. The Titanic GWP was a model of the other 48 lifeboats the ship needed to evacuate a full complement of passengers and crew, depicted in painstaking detail exactly as they appeared on the real vessel. You still get it with every Titanic set purchase. It costs you a pretty penny, but the production cost to Lego is the cheapest ever!

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By in United States,

@AllenSmith said:
" @daniellesa said:
"Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste."

Oh, you missed it. The Titanic GWP was a model of the other 48 lifeboats the ship needed to evacuate a full complement of passengers and crew, depicted in painstaking detail exactly as they appeared on the real vessel. You still get it with every Titanic set purchase. It costs you a pretty penny, but the production cost to Lego is the cheapest ever!

"


I was really hoping they'd make the iceberg-fending pole that would have allowed them to gently nudge the thing out of the way, if they'd remembered to bring it.

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By in Netherlands,

@PurpleDave said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
"Instead of Hollywood fiction like Titanic, I much prefer true stories like Fargo."

Movie or TV show? Because the latter has a UFO, the tornado from Wizard of Oz, and an immortal clansman from Scotland, while the movie just has a woodchipper."

The movie, somehow never got to watch the series. But I mean:

@Fargo said:
"This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred."
How could this not be 100% acuurate?

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By in United States,

@AllenSmith said:
" @daniellesa said:
"Instant purchase with the ship. Unlike the Titanic, this seems good value and has gwp tie in, although the mind ponders what gwp they could have done with the Titanic.

Iceberg maybe, or would that have been too poor taste."

Oh, you missed it. The Titanic GWP was a model of the other 48 lifeboats the ship needed to evacuate a full complement of passengers and crew, depicted in painstaking detail exactly as they appeared on the real vessel. You still get it with every Titanic set purchase. It costs you a pretty penny, but the production cost to Lego is the cheapest ever!

"


Just to clarify, they never would have been able to launch all of needed boats for every passenger. The ship had about two and a half hours to live after striking the berg at 11:40. They did not start to launch lifeboats until about an hour later, and most were practically empty because not many of the passengers believed the ship was sinking. Even with the reduced amount of boats available, not all were launched before the ship sank anyway! (the collapsibles floated away as she went down)

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By in United States,

@Murdoch17 said:
"Just to clarify, they never would have been able to launch all of needed boats for every passenger. The ship had about two and a half hours to live after striking the berg at 11:40. They did not start to launch lifeboats until about an hour later, and most were practically empty because not many of the passengers believed the ship was sinking. Even with the reduced amount of boats available, not all were launched before the ship sank anyway! (the collapsibles floated away as she went down)"

Time was tight, but too much of it was wasted. The Titanic's evacuation was riddled with errors. The crew was virtually untrained. Knowing there wasn't enough space in boats to evacuate everyone, the imminent sinking and time remaining was not publicized to avert a panic. Orders were misconstrued, resulting in men being turned away from unfilled boats on one side of the ship. The crew wasn't even aware of the boats' full capacity, resulting in the boats being launched underfilled. The collapsibles' storage location was so poorly designed that two of them were nearly useless.

We'll never know for sure, but the post-disaster consensus, enacted in legislation, was that better training would have resulted in a faster evacuation, allowing more full boats to be launched.

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By in United States,

@ZeroGravitas said:
" @WolfpackBricksStudios said:
"It's so unfair that the minifigures are locked inside a GWP and not the actual set"

If it helps, I think the torsos are already both on PaB"


It does, means you can PAB this set, have debated as I do love the look of the set, but $$$

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By in United States,

I’d not actually heard the story of this vessel until now, having found this article:

https://www.history.com/news/shackleton-endurance-survival

It’s incredible and MIRACULOUS what these men went through, and the GWP plays a huge part of the story in the crew’s rescue & survival. Knowing the history of something like this makes owning the set a lot more meaningful I think.

And…it looks stunning, especially with those fabric sails.

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By in Puerto Rico,

I am geeking out.

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By in United States,

@ShaydDeGrai said:
"I know this is terrible things to say, but my first reaction is that I like the lifeboat more than the main model."

I know, right?! LOL. The lifeboat is more within my price range once it comes out. I'm a Titanic person, so I, of course, ordered that on pre-release. However, I think Shackleton's Lifeboat would be a fun build and could be displayed near the Titanic.

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By in United States,

But where is his kitty cat?

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By in Finland,

This is pretty much must-buy if you buy Endurance!

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