Template:Featured review/2012/07

This month's featured review is on 4184 The Black Pearl, written by Skdhjf.

4184 The Black Pearl is a very well-done, and enthralling LEGO set. It is made up of 802 pieces which are mostly coloured black to stay true to story. This Black Pearl is from one of the most recent Pirates of the Caribbean films, The Dead Man's Chest. Overall, it looks nearly identical to the actual vessel in the movies- there's no doubt about it. This well-done set, will provide you with endless hours of playtime, and bored-ness will never creep into your time with this set. Description

Like I stated above, all major, to minor features are very true to the Dead Man's Chest film. What is really a noteworthy feature is the beautiful crispy black sails which adds a very liberal amount of loveliness to the ship's overall appearance. There are seven black sails included in this set. They are packaged in a very uniform manner, inside a white packet with two pieces of tape to enclose the packet. The sails range in size. There are four large sails, two medium sized sails, and one small sail. These sails latch onto small black TECHNIC joint pieces which are fascinatingly locked onto grey TECHNIC "sticks". The "sticks" attached to the first pole can independently move about 300º, as opposed to standing still like the rest of the others. About less than a dozen of these "sticks" are attached, again, by pegs onto the main pole which holds up the sails. Now, there are three poles on the ships. Two on the main deck (which are the largest of these sails), to a medium sized one (on the rear of the ship). The pole near the front of the ship has a very firm foundation which I really enjoyed.