That's the big set of the series of four Tintin set from nanoblocks. The box says over 3000 pieces. That's a lot and the price is higher accordingly. I've seen it range from $175 to $220 on various sites. The Unicorn is the ship from the Tintin books The Secret Of The Unicorn and Red Rackham's Treasure. Those stories are used for the basis of recent Tintin movie. In the story Tintin finds a nice ship model of The Unicorn. It turns out that a relative of Captain Haddock sailed the ship that model was based on. That model leads to an adventure and treasure. It's how Captain Haddock ends up with Marlinspike Hall. I bet it would be an adventure building that ship, what with it having 3000 tiny little pieces, and sadly I have no Nestor to build it for me. It looks pretty good on the box. Here's a better picture of the ship.
Not much to say about it, not something I feet I need. For the price of the set I could get a lot of LEGO, or a bunch of dvds, or some practical shit. I prefer having the picture version of it. The real version of it would take up some bit of space and that's less appealing.
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