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[Scyzoryk]

So I was thoroughly going through the forums yesterday to see ANYTHING on the new 3817 The Flying Dutchman, and all I found was pictures of the box in the 2012 set topics. I was at Target yesterday and I happened to come across only one box left of it while getting Twisted Metal and Skyrim for PC (Have it beaten on Xbox but I wanna mod with Steam Workshop), and I bought it aswell.

The thing that caught my attention was the Dutchman's hat, for it was a tri-corner hat unlike anything I've seen before. I wondered: hmm this would look great with any other pirate minifigs. Sadly, if you want a review of the whole set itself, the bad news is I dumped everything but the Dutchman into my colorcoded bins after assembling, but the ship was a great piece, although the sail was cartoony. Now I'm SURE many of you pirate fans would love to know what the new hat would look like on a regular pirate so I took pictures for you, but mind you I don't have the fancy white background setup like most reviewers and members have, and I was using my Galaxy Nexus' camera:


(Yeah I know the minifigs printed beard doesn't match the black beard accessory, it's killing me too. But it's the only eye-oatched head I had in my grasp, since I was too lazy to get up.)


(From the side.)


(From the back.)


There you have it. The Flying Dutchman's hat makes a great addition to your pirate army, perhaps as a captain or a very fashionable buccaneer. I suggest you get the set, not only for the hat, but for the green ghost legs and the ship itself. The ship is great as a small boat if the sail is replaced with something less cartoonish. The island itself isn't so great; it's pretty boring.

Hope you guys enjoyed. :D

[Weil]

It's just the same mould as blackbeard's hat isn't it? http://www.bricklink...ML/poc007.jpg?1

Which is much more useful in black.

[Scyzoryk]

Weil, on 01 March 2012 - 08:51 PM, said:

It's just the same mould as blackbeard's hat isn't it? http://www.bricklink...ML/poc007.jpg?1

Which is much more useful in black.

Oooh didn't know they had one of those. :O Thanks for letting me know! :$ But just in chase anyone wanted to see the green version I'll leave this up. There are no pictures of it aside from the box pics.

[Zeya]

Looks pretty good. That's one of the pieces that caught my eye in that set as well. I was also wondering how acceptable spongebob's hat would look on a regular minifig. Care to snap a photo of that for us?

I also thought that you could perhaps use Patrick's torso to make a fleshy pirate, maybe with some of the PotC fig parts, if the flesh color matches.

[Scyzoryk]

Zeya, on 01 March 2012 - 11:14 PM, said:

Looks pretty good. That's one of the pieces that caught my eye in that set as well. I was also wondering how acceptable spongebob's hat would look on a regular minifig. Care to snap a photo of that for us?

I also thought that you could perhaps use Patrick's torso to make a fleshy pirate, maybe with some of the PotC fig parts, if the flesh color matches.

[halfpenguinhalflego]

Scyzoryk, on 02 March 2012 - 12:40 PM, said:

Spongebob's hat looks rather nice with that red lining and all. I'll wait to later this year for this set to be on sale before I buy it.

[Scyzoryk]

halfpenguinhalflego, on 02 March 2012 - 07:17 PM, said:

Spongebob's hat looks rather nice with that red lining and all. I'll wait to later this year for this set to be on sale before I buy it.

Yeah the red lining is neat :D the blockly little skull doesn't bother me much.

[yys4u]

That looks pretty cool! Sponge bobs hat I mean, the color for the rest looks a little off though. That is a flesh head on patricks body right?

**EDIT**

Looking at it again, I'm not so sure its the color that's off, I think it's that there is an old mans face on what should be a young man, or even a child's body haha

Edited by yys4u, 04 March 2012 - 09:54 AM.

[Smitty]

LOL.....I did the same thing a while back.....here are my versions. Enjoy!

[Captain Blackmoor]

Please resize your pictures to 800x600 pixels max. as stated in the site guidelines.
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Already thanks!

[BrickBrackBlock]

I dont like anything spongebob related, however, I love this hat on regular minifigures.

And a little off-topic: I love steam, what are you going to make on Steam Workshop for Skyrim?

[halfpenguinhalflego]

Damn, that printed beard is VERY off-putting. Why can't it just be a green coat, without the silly printed beard.

[Big Cam]

Big Cam, on 16 October 2011 - 03:29 PM, said:

I just looked at it closer and I think the dutchmens hat is going to be a huge success.

^^^^^^^^^ I totally called this.