Review: 10155 Maersk Line Container Ship

[Cwetqo]

One of exciting new set news of recent few days was also about return of Maersk Ship. We dont yet know if it will be just re-re-release of previous two ships (10152/10155) or completely new design.Since I didnt find any reviews of either of them, I decided to do it myself. Please forgive me about bad picture quality, I took those some time ago, in non-ideal conditions.

By now we are already familliar with Maersk Company and what it does, so just in short:

A.P. Moller - Maersk Group is worlds largest operator of container ships. Its fleet is composed of over 600 container ships, 150 tankers and several other support ships. Company is based in Denmark and it is known to have good relations with LEGO company (as is very well described in this great article from Lego Historian: http://www.eurobrick...showtopic=84627)

LEGO did several great sets for Maersk, first just for promotianal use (for employers and partners of company), but later also for worldwide sale over its "direct to customer" program (including Shop@Home and brand stores). Those included 10152 Maersk Sealand Container ship, 10219 Maersk Train and 10155 Mearsk Line container ship.

Of those, I just missed first ship (I was still in "dark times"), I got the train as soon as it was out, but I almost again missed the re-relase of the ship, because it was available for just short time. I was very happy to that, after several months, it returned to S@H and even at discounted price. This time and I did not lose any time and I was right, because it was gone next day.

So, lets get to it:

Name: Maersk Line Container Ship

Set Number: 10155

Year: 2010

Pieces: 990

Minifigs: none

Price: 110eur/120usd

This was my first S@H order, so I didnt know what to expect. Box of this set is fairly small, but thick. Outer box is bigger, so I also got a little extra of Billund air. :)

Back side gives us some details and image with overall length of the ship:

Box is fairly full, similar to this year's reduced size boxes. There are no large parts, hull pieces, large plates etc. We get lots of wonderful maerks blue bricks, fair amount of dark red bricks, some white for superstructure and large amount of LBG parts fo containers. Included in box are also one-book instructions, nice booklet about Maersk company and, last but not least, not one, not two not even three, but six (!) large sticker sheets. You get three for LBG containers, two for white containers and one for ship it self.

We start with laying down hull bricks. Bulid is completely old-school and it was great pleasure for me to watch how curves are formed with brick. You also notice that its going to be a big ship-

Ship has no hull, just bottom and sides. Details are micro scale, but nicely done. Technic racks represent stairs etc...

Bridge has also some nice detailing. I like small doors, rescue boats and detals on covered passageway.

Backside reveals more "stairs" and nicely done funnel (with sticker, of course).

Containers are laid on brown racks. Upper parts of classic hinges are used to secure them in place. There are almost 50 containers and building (and putting stickers on them) is not funny at all.

Construction of bottom back part of the ship. Nicely done:

Front is more "classical" with lots of inverted slopes:

Finished ship with containers laid on. I think it looks very realistic.

Its hard to say from those pics, but this ship is really long. I think its evem longer than those large blue city ship.

Again, sorry for pohoto setup, but my usual "studio" was not big enough.

And final shot:

Comparing to real one, it looks similar enough. More containers would be nice, but that would also mean even more assembly and puting on stickers, so its ok.

As mentioned, this ship is a re-release of set 10152 http://www.brickset....il/?set=10152-1

Ships are very similar, but there are some differences. Most obvious is changed company name, from "Maersk Sealand" to "Maersk Line" (becuase real company also changed name). Other differences are because of changed parts (windows with flat glasses, new macaroni pieces, new tubes etc...). Rebrickable shows total of 44 new/different parts.

Scores:

Playability: 5/10 Its not really made to be played with. Hull is fragile and ship si too big

Design: 10/10 I think that this ship is spot on. No complaints here. Could proudly find place on any working table or in any office.

Price: 7/10 at 110 euro, 11cents per piece and the fact that there are no minifigs, price certainly isnt low, but for such exclusive set I think its acceptable.

Overall: 8/10 High price and stickers take the socer down, but overall this is still great set.

I hope you enjoyed this. Now we just have to wait and see if new ship will be just another re-release, or we will get new design (at leaked price of 130 euro that would be more logical).

[PsyKater]

Thanks for this review!

[Ham17]

Awesome review. Thanks Cwetqo

[Wabbajack]

That is fantastic news. Now I can add it to my train

Edit: I couldn´t find it. It must have been some special offer.

Edited July 20, 2013 by Wabbajack