LEGO Ideas Sailing Ship Adventure Is Our Future GWP Winner!

Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 by Brickfinder

LEGO Ideas ran a contest recently to source for a vacation theme set to be made into a future gift with purchase later on in the year.

It is my great pleasure to announced that the  Sailing Ship Adventure by yc_solo will be made into an actual LEGO gift with purchase set!

It features a brick built yacht with an island and a couple of dolphins which makes for a very quaint vignette.

It edged out the runner up by just 8 votes which is a testament to the quality of the builds submitted this round. The previous crowdsourced gift with purchase was the LEGO Rocket Ride (40335) that came out last year.

Here is the full description from the fan designer:

Have you ever wanted to travel around the world, sailing away on your own ship on the turquoise waters amongst the dolphins? With this little sailing boat model you could do all that and enjoy a beautiful sunset at sea.

The whole model contains exactly 250 parts. There are 216 parts for the boat (sails and mast: 69; cabin: 24; frame: 123) Then I used up the remaining parts for added features: Dolphins: 9; Palm tree: 16; Minifigures: 8; seagull: 1.

The body itself is buildable, composed of slope elements and lateral curved plates joined at their extremeties; this allowed to maximize inner space, add a wooden floor and a sturdy support for the mast. Sails are also brick-built. The cabin can be removed to show the inner rest space. Sails can rotate, just make sure you untie the ropes first! An anchor and a few gold elements completes the ship.

For minifigures I imagined a romantic pair. That sailor was an immediate participant; as soon as he heard a ship was made, he jumped on board!