>>7561111Moving on to the lesser issues. The one that bothers me most out of these is that the cannons were not provided with springs, despite being of the firing design (and the box art showing them in action). I'm not sure how to go about finding springs for them either, perhaps from an oversized ballpoint pen but I've not found any suitable so far. The cannons weren't wheeled either, but I have the parts to correct this at least.
While the ship came with a significant pile of extra pieces (including wheel parts for the ship itself, something I opted not to install), there were some notable absences, confirmed by the official parts inventory in the instructions booklet. As a result, the ship is without one small lantern and one of the skeletons on the big ship's lantern is missing an arm. Speaking of skeletons, this is more of an observed oddity than a nitpick but the skulls used in the decoration of the ship's stern are all round, while the minifig skeleton included has a square one. The box art also shows the decorative skulls as square, so no idea what happened there. Somewhat related, they definitely goofed with the pirate rag hats. While all the other headgear in the setwere properly upsized and adapted for squares, the rag hats were not (again the box art shows to the contrary), thus two of my crew must go bareheaded.
There's also other things to mention, such as marks on the hull pieces due to cheap molding processes, scratches on one of the glass windows for the stern, the captain's left arm beg breaking while being inserted and requiring that it be glued in place... But yeah, for 30 bucks I'm reasonably content with what I got; admittedly, I might've been less charitable if I'd had to pay full price. I'm tempted now to order up a ship or two on Ali and get a fleet going, but space and financial considerations are keeping that in check for the time being, heh.
Fun blockheads aside, Wange definitely needs to step up their clutch and QC game.
