LEGO Endurance is part of ‘one of the last big adventures on our planet’
The very same lure that appealed to Shackleton’s crew over 100 years ago is what LEGO Icons 10335 The Endurance’s designer finds most fascinating today.
10335 The Endurance’s designer Hans Burkhard Schlömer took to a live stream yesterday to walk audiences through his favourite details of the brick-built ship, as well as touching on what drew him to the story personally. Despite over a hundred years separating Hans from the crew of the Endurance, interestingly enough the very same appeal struck them both.
“My favourite detail [of Shackleton’s story] is Mr Shackleton’s brutal honesty when he was looking for a crew,” Hans explained. “He wasn’t sugarcoating it, he wrote a newspaper ad where he really detailed the grim fate that would befall the men who would sign up for this – eternal darkness, cold, all kinds of danger, safe return not guaranteed, and low wages.”
Still, there must have been some sort of appeal that got men to sign up – and Hans believes it’s the same thing that drew him to recreating the ship as a LEGO set all these years later.
“At one point, I realised this was not really about some foolhardy expedition to the end of the world. This was about one of the last big adventures on our planet, to go where there literally was a white spot on the map.”
Ultimately, LEGO sets like 10335 The Endurance might depict structures but it’s stories that draw people in, whether that’s ship crew, LEGO designers, or builders who might want to pick this set up on November 29, when it launches for £229.99 / $269.99 / ?€269.99, alongside its exclusive GWP, 40729 Shackleton’s Lifeboat, while stocks last.
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