LEGO Icons 10335 The Endurance Ship rumoured for Black Friday 2024

This year’s flagship LEGO Black Friday release is rumoured to be a recreation of Endurance, the ship in which Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on his Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.

The LEGO Group is said to be scaling things back a little in 2024, following up previous wallet-draining Black Friday sets like 10307 Eiffel Tower and 76269 Avengers Tower with 10335 The Endurance Ship, which will apparently retail for $259.99 in the US (so likely £219.99 in the UK and €259.99 in Europe). That’s according to Instagram user itavixbrix (via Brick Clicker), who states the LEGO Icons set will launch on Black Friday (or November 29).

Shackleton purchased the three-masted Endurance in 1914 after one of her original commissioners went bankrupt. He then gathered a crew of 27 men – promising small wages, bitter cold and a doubtful safe return, but also honour and recognition – and embarked on the ship’s maiden voyage toward the Antarctic later the same year. But in January 1915, some 200 miles from her destination, Endurance became stranded in polar pack ice. Ten months of turbulence, drifting and pressure followed, and by November, she had sunk.

All her crew lived to tell the tale, escaping to Elephant Island on the ship’s boats. A rescue effort brought them home safely – along with records and photographs of the expedition in order for Shackleton to pay his expenses. More than a century later, following a handful of aborted attempts to find Endurance’s wreckage, an expedition launched by the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust discovered the remains of the ship in the Weddell Sea.

It’s a compelling but perhaps not so widely-known story, and one that – perhaps thanks to the generally happy ending for its crew – could bear ripe fruit for a LEGO set. There’s no word yet on a piece count for 10335 The Endurance Ship, nor even whether it’s likely to be microscale or minifigure scale, but a ship of this sort could easily find favour among both historians and LEGO Pirates fans alike. It might not take much to reconfigure it into a proto-successor to 10210 Imperial Flagship, for example.

10335 The Endurance Ship will reportedly sail on to LEGO Store shelves this November, accompanied by a 232-piece gift-with-purchase numbered 40729. What that might be is anyone’s guess at this stage – and remember that all this info is still just a rumour for now, so take it with a pinch of salt until we get official confirmation from the LEGO Group.

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