its redbeard again!

I seem to remember actually being mildly interested in this line of sets. Probably desperation for more Pirates sets. I do like that map tile "Redbeard" is holding, though.

@Murdoch17 said:
"I had this set back then. I tried to improve it at the time, and failed."

There’s a trick you can do with the radiator caps on cars, and it may just work here. Raise the flag at the top of the mast…and roll a new ship underneath.

@Kynareth:
It’s not the famous one. It’s the infamous one. Martin Short would approve.

This is the pirate line that I probably won't ever purchase. I find the skull on sails better than 2009 and 2015 lines. And i also like the colours of 7072 sail better than this one. It could have made me purchase the ship

Aaargh! It's a wee scuttlebutt we be sailin'.

@PurpleDave said:
" @ElephantKnight :
Captain Jack Sparrow sailed into harbor on a ship that most certainly did not float, and he’s ten times the captain this guy is. Well, at least three times. 1.86 times. I mean, he did lose his ship…three times, I think?"

And.... the tip o' his finger, and... his mind, and.... his reputation, and... his wife! :O

It's no Black Seas Barracuda, sure, but it's Pirates, so a win in my book over what we got now in that regard, which is nothing.

I don't remember this set despite extensively drooling over the 2004 catalog so it either eluded me or I deliberately erased it from memory.

Not a fan of 4 Juniors sets, pirate theme I don't hate or love

BUT

Still beats Bionicle any month of the year and twice in January

@Miyakan and a monkey

@Rogue10 said:
"To be fair, it’s the only LEGO pirate ship to float…"
Never played with https://brickset.com/parts/design-2551 in a bathtub?

Well... at least, it's a pirate ship. We like pirate ships, don't we?

@watcher21 said:
" @Miyakan and a monkey

@Rogue10 said:
"To be fair, it’s the only LEGO pirate ship to float…"
Never played with https://brickset.com/parts/design-2551 in a bathtub?"

That's not a ship.

Im sure for a 4+ set it’s not bad. It’s just I’m quite a lot of pluses over 4 so maybe not my thing

@CCC:
Depends on the scale you build in, doesn’t it?

Actually seems quite ambitious for a 4+ set. Those figures though...

@WizardOfOss said:
"Those figures though..."

You only need to look at the number of bite marks in minifigures (especially heads) in used sets aimed at under 10s to understand that one piece figures are a good idea for younger kids. I thought these were a good bridge between duplo figures and regular minifigures.

Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!

@CCC said:
" @WizardOfOss said:
"Those figures though..."

You only need to look at the number of bite marks in minifigures (especially heads) in used sets aimed at under 10s to understand that one piece figures are a good idea for younger kids. I thought these were a good bridge between duplo figures and regular minifigures.
"

Nah, just let natural selection do its thing ;-)

I'd love to see some One Piece minifigs though....I wonder if Lego could make a rubbery minifig?

Perhaps the best 4Plus Pirates set.

After all, according to the un-arr-thorized autobiography of Captain Roger Redbeard, this is technically canon.
Granted, every single mention of the character is in that series, but that won't stop me.

@WizardOfOss, I bring you 76076: Captain America Jet Pursuit

Lego: This Set
Also Lego: Nobody buys Pirates theme sets, let's discontinue them...

@Binnekamp said:
" @WizardOfOss, I bring you 76076: Captain America Jet Pursuit"
That's......an option. Never seen that before and I kinda want to unsee it....

I was thinking more like a Stretch Armstrong kind of minifig though. Luffy doesn't just have long flexible arms, but apparently everything can stretch.

@TheOtherMike said:
"I seem to remember actually being mildly interested in this line of sets. Probably desperation for more Pirates sets. I do like that map tile "Redbeard" is holding, though."

That's half the map. The other half is with Captain Kragg in set 7074

@WizardOfOss:
Cribbed her name from the Doom Patrol, but 10759. Sadly, they dropped the ball on 5004081.

And all three of these characters can stretch their entire body. At least one of them can completely change shape. It’s just hard to represent that without slapping a minifig head on a blob of Silly Putty and telling kids to “deal with it” when they complain that it’s not a real minifig.

I Have The Stupid Boat Hull, But Nothing Else.

It may be juniorized, but it's got an OG monkey in it. Plus a somewhat rare colored parrot. I do like the sails too.

@PurpleDave said:
" @WizardOfOss:
Cribbed her name from the Doom Patrol, but 10759. Sadly, they dropped the ball on 5004081.

And all three of these characters can stretch their entire body. At least one of them can completely change shape. It’s just hard to represent that without slapping a minifig head on a blob of Silly Putty and telling kids to “deal with it” when they complain that it’s not a real minifig."

In fairness, aren't the X-Men themselves just more succesful copies OF the Doom Patrol? And Kamala's an X-Men these days (because it turns out she's Inhuman -and- mutant because of reasons (those reasons being "sales")).

@Ridgeheart:
I may have heard incorrectly, but isn’t she a member of the Recently Deceased?

@PurpleDave said:
" @Ridgeheart :
I may have heard incorrectly, but isn’t she a member of the Recently Deceased?"

You heard correctly, but She Got Better. Mutant, remember? Krakoa has (or had) respawn-points. I think she was revived only a week or so after she was killed.

@Ridgeheart said:
" @PurpleDave said:
" @Ridgeheart :
I may have heard incorrectly, but isn’t she a member of the Recently Deceased?"

You heard correctly, but She Got Better. Mutant, remember? Krakoa has (or had) respawn-points. I think she was revived only a week or so after she was killed."

If even that. I know people 100% knew she was going to come back, because you’re not going to kill someone who’s starring in a movie you’re about to release, but hers was one of the fastest turns around in comic book death history

This whole set should have been made to walk the plank!

Is the bottom piece a whole big piece? Like the other 4+ sets?

@BaconKing said:
"Is the bottom piece a whole big piece? Like the other 4+ sets?"

The sets has a bow piece, middle piece, and stern section that interlock with each other. Each individual section has two parts to it: a top (the gray) and a bottom (the red). This system was also reused without the middle parts in the HP Drumstrang ship 4768 in 2005.

@Brickalili:
Well, I mean, in that regard, nobody, but nobody, holds a candle to Mr. Immortal. Great Lakes, represent!

@Murdoch17:
Does that mean the Durmstrang ship will also float? Because that would be ironic. Or possibly cool, depending on how well it’s balanced.

@PurpleDave said:
" @Brickalili :
Well, I mean, in that regard, nobody, but nobody, holds a candle to Mr. Immortal. Great Lakes, represent!

@Murdoch17 :
Does that mean the Durmstrang ship will also float? Because that would be ironic. Or possibly cool, depending on how well it’s balanced."

In theory, yes - it should float*. But it really, technically, it shouldn't if it were trying to be accurate.

*Of course, your mileage may vary, consult your doctor before attempting, do not try this at home, obey all traffic signs and laws, it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, etc...

@Murdoch17 said:
"it takes more muscles to frown than to smile, etc...)"

This is true. It's also why I have an EXTREMELY MUSCULAR FACE.

OH! I almost forgot to say: This ship, and the Durmstrang ship (I think?) are motorizable using the parts developed for Jack Stone's police boat. (sold separately) The motor clips on at the bottom.

Bought this set for 10$ used in good condition on ebay 2 years ago for MOCs. No way that's $200

@PurpleDave
Further to the discussion on 6399 (yesterday's RSotD), I was wondering that set had inspired some later real trains, not on monorail, but on the 'iron road.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stadler_GTW