My goodness, those STAMPs...
Although I imagine that if you did get this back in the day, you wouldn't take it apart because it's more a souvenir than a toy to be played with.

I'm going to assume "Bore Star" doesn't in fact have anything to do with being boring--but that is kind of a fun set of letters in English.

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@MCLegoboy said:
"My goodness, those STAMPs...
Although I imagine that if you did get this back in the day, you wouldn't take it apart because it's more a souvenir than a toy to be played with."

Indeed. That’s some serious STAMPiness there.

When I first came out of my dark ages, I wouldn’t apply STAMPs on principle. Now that ~20 years of LEGO acquisitions have given me many thousands upon thousands upon thousands of pieces, though, I’m more willing to do it (at least with common elements like the ones most of the stickered elements here appear to be), though I haven’t really started doing it yet. As you note, for a promotional souvenir set like this one that’s more likely to be kept together anyway, I might be particularly willing to apply the stickers and complete the look. But I’d definitely prefer it if all the decorated elements were printed bricks, of course.

@cody6268 Thanks for the link, I like nostalgia.

On steps 5, 7 and also maybe 9 of the instructions, you have to be extremely careful to figure out which parts are white and which ones are trans-clear.

I wonder if people marvelled at the size and scope of Bore Star back then as they do with the Titanic set today

Those STAMPs, not so great indeed, but otherwise a very effective build from such basic pieces.

Interesting originally built to serve the Helsinki to Stockholm ferry traffic, but as the last of 3 ships to be completed there were not enough passengers, so spent its time on charter around the canary islands and West Coast of Africa.
Possibly set sold onboard to pass the time by trying to place over 100 trans clear pieces in-between 100 white pieces which would have seem quite extreme back in the day of building brick houses out of 40 bricks.

I look at this and all I can think of is that classic Letterman bit, “Will It Float?”

@Formendacil:
Elon Musk seems to think so.

@VintageDude:
So basically this is named after Polaris, the North Star?

Like boat and trains! Thank you Brickset!

Just order the sticker sheet on https://www.brickstickershop.com/ and make a list with the parts on Bricklink.

:-).

What's funny about "Star Bore" is: if you 'flip it', it almost describes the current of 'that'...almost:)

Beyond that, can't help thinking about how things...'improved' with more unibody parts. No, I get "Lego's suppose to be 'buildable'..."; but let's get serious (or "dangerous", if you're "Darkwing Duck"...:)): something are waaaaaaay hard to replicate through 'a build'. I find this especially with airplane 'noses' and boat bows...stern on both too come to think of it. Trains and other motor vehicles of the 4+ wheel variety seem a lot easier by consideration...:)

Bit of self-promotion: I wrote about those ferry sets and other ship models on Bricknerd recently:
https://bricknerd.com/home/everything-you-want-to-know-about-lego-model-ships-7-11-22

@VintageDude said:
" @Duq said:
"Bit of self-promotion: I wrote about those ferry sets and other ship models on Bricknerd recently:
https://bricknerd.com/home/everything-you-want-to-know-about-lego-model-ships-7-11-22"

Great compilation!
Call me a "nitpicker", but I missed:
312-4, 616-1, 4015-1 and 8839-1."

Glad you liked the article.
312-4 and 616-1 are ships, but too crude to be considered 'model' ships (in my opinion anyway).
4015 is a minifig set. There are more in that (sub) theme but I specifically left out minifig sets.
8839 focuses on functions, not looks, that's why I left it out.