I purchased this because I was excited to display the finished piece in my living room. It looks fantastic. I like the idea of a ship in a bottle, but find them a bit over the top, decor wise. The Lego version is cool, creative, and an awesome conversation piece! This was my first time building a Lego set. I found that everything was reasonably straightforward and doable, although the transparent bottle construction challenged me a bit. I found it impossible to connect the flat base of the bottle with the round corner pieces, and this made the overall construction of the bottle feel precarious. Not sure if I did something wrong, but in the end I got a fully constructed bottle that seems to be in okay shape. It might not be perfect, but it should hold up as long as no one goes and knocks it about aggressively.

Overall, I had fun building this, and would love to see more similar items from Lego! The other kit I'm coveting is the Piano, but that's a bit pricey for me for now. Maybe someday! I'd love to see more pieces that function as nice decor elements in the home.

Right from the moment I saw this on Lego Ideas, I started saving. I adore tall ships, and Lego, and this was so exciting to wait for.

Then to my first disappointment ...the ship did not look as elegant as the original. In streamlining the piece count, the ship has ultimately lost out. Which is a shame as the piece count is artificially inflated due to the heaps of water pieces.

My second disappointment was finding that the RRP I had expected of €70 as marketed, was actually €85 for me in Ireland. Absolutely no idea why this is the case, I'm still dumbfounded.

However, it was still something that I wanted, so having saved some more I purchased it, and a couple of items to reach the free gift limit for the 60 years, as I spotted the mini ship in it might well fit the bottle.

The build was really interesting, but as with previous posters, there was a poor quality with the various transparent pieces, many were very yellowed. I found the base quite complicated with tiny pieces, I'm not convinced that this is the most efficient way to achieve it, but have yet to work out a different solution. The ship was nice to build, but really feels like an ugly sister barge. The stand and cork are the best looking parts.

Having grumbled much about this set, it still does look great on display, and I was quite particular about wearing gloves in assembling the bottle so that they would not be smudged and fingerprinted. Not sure I'd let the kids near it though, it's a bit delicate.

There's plenty of potential in the set, I have plans to change out the ship for things like the mini Millenium Falcon, and the mini ship from the 60th anniversary promotion set. Lots of happy procrastination ahead from actual real life things....!!

And one very small niggle, was that the monogram on the seal of the bottle was not of the original designer of the set, but the Lego 'redesigner', I felt that was a bit disrespectful.

I've had my eye on this particular set since seeing it on the LEGO Ideas Blog nearly a year ago, and when it finally hit shelves I just had to buy two at my local LEGO Store. Overall, it's a fun set to build and, in my opinion, the best LEGO Ideas set to be released so far.

As a longtime LEGO fan, I thought I had seen every possible way to build models, but the ship portion proved me wrong; clearly, LEGO has evolved a bit since I last completed a model. Even so, I found the instructions to be concise and finishing the Leviathan was a breeze. There were more extra ship pieces than I wanted, but I found space to add a bow cannon (reminiscent of Davy Jones's Flying Dutchman in Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean series) as well as a few pieces to the hull in order to reinforce its generally cylindrical shape. The coolest pieces of the ship by far are the sails, which have a sea serpent crest printed on them (in fact, there are no stickers in this set, a definite boon to all).

After completing the Leviathan, it's time to construct the bottle. Being almost entirely comprised of clear pieces, this part can be confusing to some degree; however, the instructions include a handy 1:1 scale "What You Should Have in Front of You" page to help clear things up. When the bottle is half complete the instructions have you pour the water components in, though I would wait until you're ready to assemble the whole thing a few steps later; there are over 250 water pieces and it would be easy to lose a few.

The base is just as straight forward as the rest of the model and includes a nice nameplate, printed compass piece, two globes and two very rare purple minifigure head pieces which I have never seen before. If you're looking to add new pieces to your personal LEGO collection, these are must haves.

With a pricetag of $69.99 and a piece count of 962, your price-per-piece comes out to a mere 7 cents per piece, which is very good. As such, it's more of a collector's set than anything else, as the lack of minifigures reduce the play value. I'm not complaining, though. When fully assembled the Flagship Leviathan is a wonderfully nostalgic nod to a far simpler and more mysterious era! It is definitely worth the money, and a (Cannon)blast to build!

First of all, I love this set. It is, in my opinion, one of the the best sets Lego Ideas has released. I'm a big fan of "display only" sets because, well, I'm a 40 year old man and I don't play with muh Lego sets, so it's nice to see something so beautiful to display that isn't an architecture set or something my kids are begging me to play with.

The instructions are clear and easy to follow and only took about 2 hours to assemble. There was a minor amount of what I call non-traditional building going on (for example, laying bricks in place without them being secure), of which I am not the biggest fan, but because the ship and bottle are not going to be picked up and jostled around I'm not worried about them falling out.

I know folks have complained about the bottle design being flimsy, but mine wasn't. Maybe I'm just a better builder, but it held together quite well. I also read complaints about using smaller clear panels which supposedly obscured sight of the ship within. Well, the smaller panels were necessary to accommodate the ship sails which are built as such to fit into the tight dimensions of the bottle. There's a reason for why everything was designed the way it was and nobody, ever, anywhere is going to fail to recognize that the set is clearly a ship in a bottle.

Overall, this is a beautiful set and a wonderful conversation piece. You will not be disappointed.

**Play Experience rating should be construed within the confines of this review as a Displayability rating**