During the changes earlier this summer to Pirates of the Caribbean I ended up diving all in on its history and craftsmanship. In doing so I decided I wanted to recreate the Wicked Wench out of LEGO. I started with just a basic concept on LDD, a computer program for building with LEGO, and planned to leave it at that as I was under the impression the hull I needed didn't come in red. Once I found out there were two separate pairs, one red and gray the other brown and red, that could be separated and put back together to be a completely red bow and stern, I decided to just go all in and build it.
I've been wanting a LEGO pirate ship ever since I was around eight years old so it's pretty great to finally have one. It's taken me all summer to build this and I finished just in time before my trip to Disneyland tomorrow. The ship itself is about 2' tall, 2'7" long, and 5" wide and it's over 800 pieces. There are a few inaccuracies with the ship in converting it to LEGO due to the odd proportions of LEGO and the forced perspective proportions of the real ship.
One of the biggest inaccuracies are the Jolly Roger flags. In the actual model on Pirates of the Caribbean, there's only one flag at the stern and rather than skull and crossbones it has swords. Although such a Jolly Roger flag does exist in LEGO I couldn't find any being sold in the US.
The sails are all custom made just with some printing fabric from Hobby Lobby. The two pirates firing the cannons aren't very accurate representation of their animatronic counterparts, but the captain is a pretty good looking minifigure of the character voiced by Paul Frees.
If you notice the barrel right in front of the captain there, that's essentially the difference between Disneyland USA's and Tokyo Disneyland's Wicked Wenches so this is actually a Tokyo Disneyland model. Speaking of the captain, though, the captain's quarter does have a detailed interior with a removable roof.
The captain's quarters from the outside and the gold detailing around it is my favorite part of this build. Really just a ton of fun to put together.
Like I said, going to Disneyland tomorrow so I'm going to Disneyland (and DCA) tomorrow so expect some opinions on the new changes to Pirates of the Caribbean, Pixar Pier, and maybe Mission Breakout. We'll see.
EDIT: Updated with better photos. Here's the Disneyland Trip Report.
I've been wanting a LEGO pirate ship ever since I was around eight years old so it's pretty great to finally have one. It's taken me all summer to build this and I finished just in time before my trip to Disneyland tomorrow. The ship itself is about 2' tall, 2'7" long, and 5" wide and it's over 800 pieces. There are a few inaccuracies with the ship in converting it to LEGO due to the odd proportions of LEGO and the forced perspective proportions of the real ship.
One of the biggest inaccuracies are the Jolly Roger flags. In the actual model on Pirates of the Caribbean, there's only one flag at the stern and rather than skull and crossbones it has swords. Although such a Jolly Roger flag does exist in LEGO I couldn't find any being sold in the US.
The sails are all custom made just with some printing fabric from Hobby Lobby. The two pirates firing the cannons aren't very accurate representation of their animatronic counterparts, but the captain is a pretty good looking minifigure of the character voiced by Paul Frees.
If you notice the barrel right in front of the captain there, that's essentially the difference between Disneyland USA's and Tokyo Disneyland's Wicked Wenches so this is actually a Tokyo Disneyland model. Speaking of the captain, though, the captain's quarter does have a detailed interior with a removable roof.
The captain's quarters from the outside and the gold detailing around it is my favorite part of this build. Really just a ton of fun to put together.
Like I said, going to Disneyland tomorrow so I'm going to Disneyland (and DCA) tomorrow so expect some opinions on the new changes to Pirates of the Caribbean, Pixar Pier, and maybe Mission Breakout. We'll see.
EDIT: Updated with better photos. Here's the Disneyland Trip Report.
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