Call me impressed. Designer Iyan ha has landed a 3,968-piece tribute to Herman Melville's Moby-Dick on LEGO® Ideas, and it captures the great white whale, the weathered Pequod, and a lone whaleboat in one sprawling scene. The pure white whale looms over the aged brown ship, and the whole thing practically dares you to pick a side in the oldest grudge match in literature.

Here is the part that builders will love. The model splits into three sections, the whale Moby Dick, the ship, and the boat, and you can arrange them however you please. Want the whale charging the bow? Do it. Want the Pequod fleeing in terror? Swap it around. Each section sits on a detachable ocean-wave base, so you can display any piece on its own, and the whale's lower jaw, pectoral fins, and tail all articulate for that lunging-out-of-the-deep look.

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The Pequod earns its sea legs with aged wood tones, masts, a captain's cabin, and a try-works oven on deck. Below deck you will find navigation charts, a compass, gold coins, barrels, and Queequeg's coffin (the very object that keeps Ishmael afloat at the end, if you remember your high school reading). Minifigures include First Mate Starbuck, the harpooner Queequeg, Fedallah, plus Ishmael and Captain Ahab out on the whaleboat.

Iyan ha originally planned a smaller whale build under 2,000 pieces, then reread all 800-plus pages and decided the story deserved something grander. That kind of devotion shows in every mossy plank and every curve of white plastic blubber, and the project has already reeled in 4,784 supporters on its way toward the 10,000 mark.

So which way will your whale face? Cast your vote for Moby Dick on LEGO® Ideas and help this literary leviathan surface as a real set. There she blows!