Treasure Planet’s Legacy celebrated in LEGO

Treasure Planet features some of the best action and artistry to ever come from the House of the Mouse, and in a just world would have been proudly featured in one of the many LEGO collabs of last year. Alas, it’s mostly remembered as the studio’s biggest box office misfire with nary a collectible Minifig to remember it by. For Daniel Church, the film’s mix of nautical adventure and cosmic spectacle remains a wellspring of inspiration. After many years of building sci-fi sails and futuristic ports, he took on his dream project: recreating Treasure Planet’s signature ship, the RLS Legacy, in LEGO. Standing 40″ tall and 39″ long and assembled from over 3000 pieces, the results are a stunning display of LEGO craftsmanship and a fitting tribute to an amazing design.

Treasure Planet‘s co-director Ron Clements had a 70/30 rule for the film’s look where 70% of the visuals should be traditional seafaring and just 30% sci-fi, which you can definitely see in Daniel’s build. The masts, shrouds, and custom-cut solar sails look practically seaworthy. Seen in profile you can appreciate how deftly Daniel captures the Legacy’s distinctive angles and sleek lines with SNOT panels seamlessly interlocked to shape the hull, edged with gold. Daniel brings in flat silver and dark grey for the ship’s thrusters and rudders.

The stern is spectacular with a captain’s cabin ornately detailed in gold. One of my favorite details is how the shrowds use bars with clips attached to the lattice to better match the on-screen rigging.

If this majestic LEGO recreation of the RLS Legacy has you craving more Treasure Planet builds, Daniel’s take on Jim and his Solar Surfer at miniland scale hits the spot and Jayfa’s John Silver still has us shivering in our timbers.

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