[ENTRY] Caribbean River Soldiers (Mini Set)

[Rogue Redcoat]

5 hours ago, MstrOfPppts said:

Also forgot to mention that finally someone uses the green bar thingy to attach the leaves rather than the ugly tan one!

I say the exact same thing, what does the tan even represent that the green does not 

[JeffBuilds]

Okay;

 NOT Battle packs, but back in the day, there were lil $5 army builder sets for all the LEGO system themes, to serve as an introduction to the theme, they had them for Castle, Space, Pirates... Town, Maybe? an assortment of five different minifigures from the theme, with character accessories, like weapons or equipment.

 Throw a couple Blue-Coats or Pirates in there, to give the kids' someone to interact with, with their new Blue-Coat Soldiers, and it would make an ideal update to a classic set, as well as a twist on the 'Battle Pack' configuration of figs and parts!

[Rogue Redcoat]

12 hours ago, JeffBuilds said:

 NOT Battle packs, but back in the day, there were lil $5 army builder sets for all the LEGO system themes, to serve as an introduction to the theme, they had them for Castle, Space, Pirates... Town, Maybe? an assortment of five different minifigures from the theme, with character accessories, like weapons or equipment.

 Throw a couple Blue-Coats or Pirates in there, to give the kids' someone to interact with, with their new Blue-Coat Soldiers, and it would make an ideal update to a classic set, as well as a twist on the 'Battle Pack' configuration of figs and parts!

I never had any of these little sets, perhaps you could give a part number one of them, as for updating one of them along as they are under 50 parts, this is a great idea :)

 

Oh and @Mister Phes could you update the building index, get rid of the battle pack pictures, and post the new pictures under the small set building category, thx in advance :)

Edited August 26, 2023 by Rogue Redcoat

[JeffBuilds]

52 minutes ago, Rogue Redcoat said:

I never had any of these little sets, perhaps you could give a part number one of them, as for updating one of them along as they are under 50 parts, this is a great idea :)

 

Oh and @Mister Phes could you update the building index, get rid of the battle pack pictures, and post the new pictures under the small set building category, thx in advance :)

6204 buccaneers, or 6251, Pirate Minifigures/ "Sea Hearties"

[Rogue Redcoat]

47 minutes ago, JeffBuilds said:

6204 buccaneers, or 6251, Pirate Minifigures/ "Sea Hearties"

I would have loved to remake one of these but alas I wanted to use the new bluecoats as redcoats and the sets don't have much but minifigures and a treasure chest so... not much to update anyway thanks for the ideas :)

[JeffBuilds]

No problem! They served more as an introduction to the theme for children back in the day, as an assortment of minifigures at a reasonable price-point, very similar to battle packs! I saw like and like and wanted to put that in the ether!

[Mazin]

HERE ARE MY FINAL THOUGHTS AND REASONS WHY I'VE DECIDED TO RANK THIS SET AS THE 5TH PLACE IN THE MINI SET BUILDING CATEGORY

Now why am i even voting for this set. I should probably boycot it as Rogue Redcoat still didn't admit that that i was the one to convince him to turn his original idea to something river-oriented and to provide these fellows with a canoe ;) Still, it's an undeniable fact that for a miniset it's damn cool, as it gives whole lot of great storytelling items within very limited amount of parts. We get 3 soldiers, a canoe, a jetty, and even a palmtree. And a spider included too. Normaly one would probably have to buy 3 sets or a bigger and more expensive type, to get all those things in hands. The only problem is that even with so many folks at one's disposal it would be little hard to play with them, as they represent the same faction, and it's highly unlikey that they could fight each other. Spider doesn't seem like a real threat either... even tho i'm affraid of spiders. Ano no one can canoe nor camp forever. Thus, perhaps it could benefit from changing one of those soldiers into a pirate, so thay they could have someone to battle with.

Still, i voted for it as it's the only army building pack withing the mini entries and that's what realy counts. And i guess people could by them in large countities for parts, as they come with stuff that could be well welcomed into everyone's collection.    

Edited August 31, 2023 by Mazin

[Rogue Redcoat]

5 hours ago, Mazin said:

should probably boycot it as Rogue Redcoat still didn't admit that that i was the one to convince him to turn his original idea to something river-oriented and to provide these fellows with a canoe ;)

Aye, I figured if people were reading the comments they would know why I chose to do this but, here I am, thanks for the idea @Mazin  anyway thanks for the vote :)