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The new ladder coming out this month in nouget would be a great addition in black for the original lego ideas ecto-1 set. The ladder is 1.5 studs wide and fit perfectly inaide a 2x1 round plate with holes. This item would be perfect for that and train sets. Image is from new elementary june parts list.

The minifigure factory now has new alternative colors for the new castle and pirates in the prize machine. I wish they had alternative torso colors because they have a jacket with green stripes would be amazing.

What we are likely going to get if it is minifig scale would be the gun deck and quarterdeck. No galley. If its a model like the Endurance and not play scale then they may include something, but most likely they would just do the bow and stern without it containing anything. I really hope its not a model and actually play scale.

Island Total Piece Count So Far: 2380 The third Island section is now finished in Studio. The Top view. I think you can really see how the island comes together here. The bedroom is built next to the ships rudder. The rudder forms the right wall and the captains cabin hangs over the bed. You can see the rest of the "L" shape pier below. Row boats fit nicely here. A bit dark, but you can see the "L" shape pier come together. Where does that balcony stairway lead on the far right? I had to make a few cave changes to fit them together properly. I realized i never fixed my file after I made a few rock changes to the structure on under the pier. I really love the rocks forming a tunnel. The nice part is the tunnel at the front leads to the shipwreck forecastle. I never showed how the top parts lift off for access to the prison and the entrance to the cave. The last section is my 32x32 baseplate version of Skull Island recreation. I love how it will flesh out the entire thing. Last few things to do: - Skull Island section - Ship Middle Section Roof, front entrance door wall - Ship Stern section entrance door wall - Ship Bow section entrance door wall

If they use the prefab hulls then no. Even when I raised my gun deck for the ships im building using those, i have roughly 2 brick height. All of the lego sets using pre fab hulls always made them rest at gun deck height because the pre fab hulls are built to be water level. If they didnt make the center using the hull parts then they could hint at the idea of a lower deck. The only way to really get a 3rd deck is if the enture bottom hull is built and that would likely be a few hundred more pieces. The prefab hulls should have been redesigned years ago so they split down the center. This would allow varied ship widths. There is a 3rd party company that did it on 1 pirate ship and i bought 3 when it came out hoping it had matching brown hulls. It did not. They are also scratched to hell because of poor quality control. The hulls were built with split parts and based on the smaller lego ship hull widths so it would make the wider ship hulls have enough space at the center to have a staircase down another level. This would be cheaper foe LEGO if they redesigned them this way years ago because they could have built smaller ships and larger ships with the same parts. Or at least offer the center hull parts that split and have 2 width front sections. I would love to see them have new hull parts that split at the center and probably loved by ship builders.

I am 42, but who cares. I look forward to your designs. I love the Elizabethan era and the golden age is my favorite time. I took that era for my inspiration, but dig your ideas as a theme. I don't see a lot of cogs so it wil be wonderful to see more in that age. Some of my orders are not arriving for a few weeks so I spent a few days tearing apart my island to start reconstructing it in Studio. So far the front 2 sections are complete. This will take a bit of time to do the back sections. They are mostly caves, buildings, and lots of slopes. So far the island is around 1640 pieces for the front two sections. I reduced the piece count about 200 or so by swaping out stacked 1x1 plates and used the new 1x1 brick that is 2 plates tall for the file. I expect this island to be around 4000-5000 based on the skull island section. That section uses a bunch of plates for the building texture. These two sections are expanded versions of the original set. Without the ship in place you can see how the right is wider than the set and the left takes the shack and make it an entrance to the cave. In the photo below you can see the black removable beams. I needed a place my adult hands could reach. To the left is a removable top hatch for access to the jail cell below. I made the front sections usable like the set. So it could use the original ship placed as the set did. But this is built for larger ships im constructing with the same separation secrions so i coukd swap out parts and such. Since you guys have not seen the caves yet. The fact is you cannot access each section without swimming or using a boat. The rear sections each have their own piers that do not connect and do fit the row boats inside. the ship has a bunch of attachments, roofs, walls that i built to replace the open sections or a place for stairs to lead up to other sections of the island. I may try to make them a bit more modular so they can reconfigured on the island without a ship. But what i may build is an expanded Jose Inn based on the 3in1 ships i have never built. I originally thought of making them into a larger ship with a prefab hull. It would be nice to make this island more of a shipwreck cove with multiple designs that can all be reconfigured back to ships. CAMILLA: I really like the brown after building most of the Black ship. The dark blue and black hardly contrast. I decided to build the original color pallet with brown. I went into the file and modified it, fixed areas i wanted to match the colors, and make more of the black areas brown. The white bottom really doesnt fit well with the white area inside the yellow where the cannons are. I cleaned up the lines and such on the yellow to fit to the rear better. I love how I extended the balcony to the cabin more centered around the window and it now lines up to the yellow asthe railing curves to the ship. The interior is all white like the black ship and I began building the galley section the other day. I am waiting on the 4 orders, mostly the brown slopes and white arches since I used most of them up in the black ship galley and interior. I really dig the bright white inside and darker tones outside, but I feel like Camilla needs to be left brown on the exterior. I also built most the black ship and tore apart the upper levels and decided it would be better as a frigate so I am trying to solve that in Studio first. I will likely work on the cabin design to reflect the other designs. I think it could convert easily, im mostly approaching this project as a series of ships that would have been designed at the same time in the same family. Why the same designs? MODULAR The idea is I may swap out parts of each ship for the island, but not modify the island. Just add on it. The cabin needs a lot of work.

I have learned a ton working on this project. UPDATE 02/08/2025 UCS Barracuda: I had to disassemble some of the sections to update the Studio file. I have been building the new Imperial sister ship, but modified it since parts have come readily available and keep updating the ship with 2024/2025 parts available in the program. I decided to only fix a few parts on the Barracuda, swapping out pieces I new LEGO would eventually produce. UCS Barracuda Bay: I decided to wait until Spring to take nice photos and try to do it with a white backdrop. With me working on the Imperial ship my space is covered in parts. STUDIO FILE: I have successfully updated the Studio file on the bow, and middle section. Since I had to order parts for the new ship so many new items came available since I began this project. The studio file will be way easier to construct once I finish the Stern build. The masts are already updated based on the final Barracuda moc currently built. The main focus has been figuring out what I did to the Barracuda after building the original moc in the Studio File. So many parts were developed over the last 6 years since I began this project in 2018. The overall shape came when the Barracuda Bay official set released. I originally designed it as a n update to the original set, but once I built the new set I used the design as a base for the new model. The new file will reflect the Broadside's Revenge model. These new 1x1 round brick with 1 stud on a side has reinforced so many areas I could not achieve in the original build. I will admit building the new ship and figuring out how to fix issues I had with the Barracuda has made this a better building experience. After The Imperial ship is finished I will save the file and create a 2025 UCS Barracuda file so I can begin the instructions process. Instructions: This will be my first premium instruction offer. I will include the stand as a free bonus. UCS Broadside's Revenge: The new 3x3 corner plates are quite helpful wrapping around the slopes where the rigging will attach to the ship. On this ship, you can see them in yellow. The Bow: I am waiting for a new order that has the last of my yellow slopes for the stern, but also the front where the golden statue will rest. Unlike the forepeak I designed or the UCS Barracuda, I felt it would be more appropriate for the Imperial ship to have a straight 45 degree. The great part about this design, the statue, hoses, and flex hoses all line up exactly where there do on the Barracuda I did. I intentionally designed this idea back on the other ship and kept an extra forepeak off to the side if I ever were to change it. This lines up perfectly with the yellow trim as well. Forecastle: The Capstan: Functional like the first design I developed. The main improvement is how the structure surrounding it has greatly improved. I have decided to use two string wheels 2x2x1drums stacked on top of each other. I should have used this idea the first time. I also used 1x1 technic bricks nect to each other, but one at ground level and the other raised to line up with the second reel. This made the two anchor lines work way better without bunching up. I bought enough to swap out the old design on the Barracuda. Its why the front section is taken apart. There are no technic axles controlling the cable lines. The entire capstan you see is using friction and winds up with the twist just like a real capstan. The string that follows the line on the deck doesn't actually do anything. In real life you use it as a pully system. It does move along the spoke, around the cable reel masts surrounding the Main mast just like a real pully line, but it serves only as a guide. Storage: I wish I solved this back on the Barracuda. Too many parts to remove to make this super easy. All the floors remove, just like the Barracuda, except the containers and lego built boxes and knick knacks provide structural support to the floors and make the floors removable way faster, but also stay in one place. As you can see, the 2x2 containers are great to hold up the 4x4 floor components and here is an example how the center isactually a 4x4 hatch crate. The floors on the left and right sit on top of the containers and the hatch is held in place with the 1x2 with rails. Another section with the hatch removed. You can see how the various items looks like boxes, merchandise, etc. The hatch was removed because i wanted to show you have it looks without a floor on the left, but held up on the right. The Stern: You can see the 1x2 technic bricks with 1 centered hole where the string will run. The Barracuda has a working rudder connected to the wheel. It was a major pain to solve, but easy to get working. You can also see the main capstan that goes through 2 floors. These usually were for cargo. I designed the same idea from the front capstan design. Brig Like the Barracuda, I included this here. I used this section for the for the treasure hold. Like 18th century merchant ships the Brig was used for the more valuable treasure, but often doubled as a brig. I am hoping to have the ship finished in another week. The Cabin: The rest of the stern section will come together quite fast. I am likely going to redesign some of the rear of the ship in the yellow section to reflect a bit closer to the Iron Ram ship artwork in the old 1990s LEGO pirate stories. The nice part is, the rear angled sides and back windows all are modular on my ship. They disconnect as one large section for accessibility to the cabin and to swap out for my island connections. The Goals: 1. Finish the ship build in the next week or two 2. Finalize Studio File at the same time as finishing the ship build 3. Convert Studio File colors to match Barracuda within the same day as finalizing the file 4. Photograph the island, Barracuda, Broadsides Revenge 5. Build Instructions for both ships. 6. Build Instructions for the Stand. The island Instructions are not likely. I may consider doing it, but most likely I would build the studio file and let people have that. The island is between 10,000-15,000 pieces. The only way to know for sure is actually build it in file as close as I could. I think most people would rather display the ship on the display stand since that was my original purpose. The island sat int e corner and looked so bare from the set once I completed the ship. It really began as an expansion, but turned into a moc by itself. I love how it looks without the ship. It hold up pretty well as an island. Looking forward to sharing this project with professionally shot photographs.

Maybe they are planning a CMF, GWP, or second set since the minifig list is smaller. I could see them do a cortez gold mound with some of the other pirate minifigures. This could be a GWP with Barbossa. A small row boat with Pintel and Ragetti would also work. These would be perfect secondary items that would fit well with the theme.

Based on other mocs already i can see how a 3000 piece ship may be around 5 to 6 hull plates long and roughly 2.5 to 3 feet. Moc Your Bricks accomplishes this with 3217 pieces. The Barracuda Bay was 2545 pieces and that included an island. So it was roughly 2000 for the ship alone. The ship should invlude 2 decks. Even if they make a full interior on the gun deck level it would allow them to focus on a nice captains cabin and forecastle. My minifig list if they do the Curse.of the Black Pearl 1. Hector Barbossa and monkey 2. Jack Sparrow 3. Will Turner 4. Elisabeth Swan 5. Joshamee Gibbs 6. Ragetti 7. Pintel 8. Marty 9. Cotton 10. Bo'sun If they go with a general cast from the series i think they could easily fit a few of the other films 1. Bootstrap Bill 2. Govoner Weatherby 3. James Norrington 3. Mullroy 4. Murtogg 5. Lt. Gillette 6. Lt. Groves I think they easily could make it a 10 to 15 minifig set especially if they stick to the first film and focus on everybody except bootstrap bill. Am i missing anybody who should be made.as a minifig? I know there werre a ton of secindary characters on the Black Pearl, but i think hitting the ones we saw in almost every film would make the most sense.

Yes. I apologise i missed this last year. Message me and an email address and ill send you the file. Im debating on adding to my rebrickable account. If you want the van let me know that as well. Thanks.

January BAM has a new Viking torso.

Pickabrick now has Wolfpack torso back in stock.

I am making them this winter. The fact I am making the sister ship fir the Blue Coats is forcing me to make a new Studio File that matches the final Barracuda design I reworked. With this said. I will take the ship apart in sections and reverse engineer it on the program. The masts ans stern were mostly affected by the changes to the structure. The ship is roughly 8000+ parts. I don't know the exact amount. Could be more. The masts require you to cut original brown masting. Before I post that, I'll be doing a brick built stern instruction since i got more than a few people asking how I recreated the original stern. I will also work with OKBRICKWORKS to sell sails for the model.

Funny that you say that. I have been working on it for the last couple years. The Ship was taken apart and reworked internally to make it stronger. The masts Is were entirely reworked after Is speaking to several Is model ship builders. I also worked on how the island fits with the new ship. The original island serves as a base similar to how the ship design from the barracude. Much of the last two years has been ordering parts for the blue coats galleon. The sistership will be the same design as The barracuda except I am waiting for several pieces to exist In dark blue. The island started out as an easy expansion, But turned into a is a nightmare of development. Due to the added length in the ship design, I decided to Extend the island about 20 studs wider. I also added About sixteen studs longer in the back. I flipped the cabin around facing the other direction. I also kept The front section level with the rest of the base. This gave me the opportunity to make it become Is entirely closed with sleeping quarters. Send since the stern section became Eight studs longer And weighs 3 times heavier i needed to get rid of the wood Structure that held the original cabin. Instead I had to make it a cave that would hold the structure. After that I didn't like the rear exposed so I Expanded the island About thirty two studs longer. This gave me a perfect Is opportunity to build my Version of skull island. The island is approximately ten thousand pieces. The cave structure moves through three of the four sections and exits out of the skull's mouth. I have some time between1st week of November as well as between thanksgiving and christmas So I plan on taking professional photography Of the barracuda on its stand with brand new custom sails. I'll try and do a series of photos transitioning into sections and placing them on the island. The project is about Redbeard stealing Camilla in Port Royle and renaming her The Seven Seas Barracuda. For me the original Black Seas Barracuda existed before being sunk.

Looks like we are getting a female quartermaster with a new cookatoo. Nice aqua torso with printed brown legs. The black hair with red bonnet is a nice touch. Cannot tell if the torso has hip curves or not. If not, could be a great torso for males as well.