Medzomorak

Hey everyone! I'm looking for the vintage Lego Pirates posters in digital forms. Especially these: Now, a couple of copies are available for sale at bricklink but those are physical copies which are creased and banded of course. I'm wondering if there are any digital copies so I could print them myself with my own custom paper settings. Even some properly scanned version would be cool, as I've only found very low-sized pictures online. They would look absolutely cool above any vintage pirates diorama. Many thanks for any assistance!

I'm in a loop. Thanks for the game.

Kwatchi is the third person now with a similar observation. MKJoshA was the first. This mean thing again pops up in a totally unfair way. I was called brain damaged or something like that first and none of you had any problem with it. If you think it does not matter at all, you just defined what double standards are. You got an in-game taste of your own medicine as a response and you deserved it. To repeat again, I had nothing against Hinck personally. I PM'd all game with him in P2 so I had no reason to believe he just changed instantly towards me as well. For the record I did not just go instantly mad after P2. If Paul would have continued his way maybe you'd have seen the Daniel role as well if I'd have been in the mood to play it out like that. Many times when we were deep into arguing and yelling with Hinck, I was actually laughing hard and having a good time. That's what some of you are refering to, isn't it? Having good times. Still, I made some points I held valid nontheless about game quality. I did not even know about the Deadboard. The things I read there are...sad. That was off-game talk with your real personas and not in-game playstyles. I am personally hugely disappointed with Bob too I do think he left his objectivity and impartiality behind with many remarks. I think you guys are practiced EB mafia players, but not being professional about it in many ways. I just made a huge post - patiently taking my time with it, really hoping to clear up my true or just labeled arrogant vibe - as a new gamer here after getting the EB experience. All I got for a response is short, not interested, dismissive posts from jimmynick and trekkie. The same I got from their Jean and Aiden accounts many times which suggests they were just purely themselves. This is frightening. They both implied the same hobby-snob thing, which I found maybe... a bit off. Yes, some people take their hobbies seriously, that's why they're taking their time with it. Maybe you've not realized but you have tons of posts on a single LEGO-based forum. Another hobby, see? And Bob briefly just replied, that I'm only not used to EB meta. To be fair he mentioned the possibility of a pinned post about game descriptions and rulesets, which is a promising response. Not the small things on their own, but the whole context is highly worrying, this is what Kwatchi is talking about I think. A new guy playing a mean role you are not used to is being mentioned with a silly angle, but a horrible mason claim or horrible votes without town-arguments for example are not being voiced or analysed anywhere, while in a way this was the cause of many things said before, this was partly the reason I was pointing out my observations in this way. All the lazy playing attitude clearly showed that something like that will happen later on. I even mentioned the very basic way of playing masons (which is simply an unquestionable truth of mafia, not invented by me, there is ab-so-lu-te-ly zero argument to do the role otherwise) and a couple of days later somebody slips on that. Even as Town watching that made me feel not happy about it. And you are still not realizing: maybe this is what Daniel was refering to. Don't want to be personal with anyone who made them, mistakes are not crimes. Only things which are actually worth to talk about. But still pointing to EB meta after game is done instead, is just pure ignorance. No better words for it, but being lazy about these, while many important rules and information were held back from new players is not helpful for us to enjoy this environment. And you can all see my first conclusion post at page 1, my real me. I am strictly saying these after reading that Deadboard. This is why I feel you are - maybe unknowingly - creating mafia games for your closed clique.

Show me on the vulcan doll where Daniel touched you.

Sure thing. Dude.

Ehmhhmeem. Hmm, very well. Since you revealed my true profile I think we should clear some things up here. I am stunned by this feedback and I really thought this would've been laughed upon by all of us after the game. I think you are missing the mark. First of all, thanks for the effort you take to host these games. The narrations and builds make it so much more cozy compared to other platforms. I planned to piggyback off my identity of my previous characters to make myself truly anonymus after a couple of games - as I think it really should be. But since every other forumites' previous play patterns are also revealed - and quite obvious - by many different games at this point, it is more fair this way. Not that most of you would have not tracked things back to my profile and not that it would make any difference considering I'm relatively new on the whole forum. As a matter of fact I am not a new player in terms of general mafia gaming at all. With EB games naturally I am, but many things I asked you about in PM were more like a survey to get a picture about the whole meta going on here. I do felt at the time that something is not okay with the game setups and available information. Also I saw you being a player as well in games hosted by else and also considering that the others already have the knowledge about each other I found it more fair for you to think of me as a newbie. With these two long games in the bag I actually do have some criticism which I can address now and being truly serious about it. I hope you believe it is with constructive intentions. To clear up the heated arguments some of us have made against each other and my response you refered to as me going after you. In short, this was just how the play turned out. I am surprised you'd think this was some kind of honest hatred or frustration from me/us (I can only speak for myself of course) getting out of hand. In my opinion that's how the game went and nothing more. I admit I was stunned that you asked us to be more calm, because if you wanted to show your displease with the game as the host, it was way too late for that. This is why I implied that Paul situation which you ignored at the time and this is why I said that if you honestly meant it, you should've stopped the game right after the first personal remark and cleared up your own rules. I do claim that I was just adapting and reacting to different players in the same manner I believed they were playing. I got no response but now reading your feedback I think you may see me as the cause of this or imply that I've started it and this is just plainly wrong. I did not start to play like that, again, I merely adapt. Yes, I am indeed coming from a chat-based platform, which you probably have guessed most of the time hosts very heated debates. But even there we do not play like that until some teens do not find the platform and troll in to start trash talking. Most of the time we just instantly outvote these or even start talking back like that to show our perfect ability of doing the same or even find out if there is some actual reason behind all of it. And naturally the rules are explicit about behaviours, you can't insult other players in their religion, sexual orientation, nationality, etc... you know the drill. Everything else is just game on. Can't recall how many times I had to read back days of texts within a couple of minutes to find the evidence hidden between tons of F*CK YOUs. Personally I don't like it but if that's the way it goes, you need to adapt. The fact that you even had the time to have a chat with Kristel about this on the Deadbord, mentioning civility, tells me you are out of touch in this matter. I am SHOCKED to read now that you had the time to have problems with me beaing a meanie in a mafia game with your long known friends, but with the other direction you were just using double standards and seemingly ignored complete posts. Again if you preach about civility, you were days, even a week late by the time I started to give something back properly my own way. EB has its own standards of course but this game is different so you should make all things very clear right at the beginning of the game, otherwise - in my opinion- even the host has no place whatsoever to roam in and tell players how to make their play. And for my main observation about hosted games here. I think it is simply criminal that there is not a single index page already with proper instruction about every possible EB-native mafia roles and possible variations. Maybe you had played so many games before you guys just started to feel bored of strict rules and that's why these overly "dynamic" game setups are being played instead. I have some comments on this, but that is not even the whole matter. The first thing was Bob sending my rolecop descriptions by switching up the alignment and role definitions. Not in a personal way of course, but I was very annoyed with you Bob already at that moment, because as a matter of fact, I knew what a rolecop was. I had to ask back, explicitly clearing up the difference between the two terms to see if you are actually using the proper nomenclature. Again I mean no offense, your narrative work and time input is amazing, but these are the less important things compared the actual core role mechanisms and you were lazy about that. Maybe you did not have the time to pay attention, maybe you just made a mistake or something. Or maybe you just did not care. This is why I say there should be an index for every game hosted and every variations should be changed on that, not just randomly throwing things out in the open. Even referencing the mafia wiki all over the place is is totally redundant if you even take the liberty to swap explicitly named roles with each other. You hosted with the knowledge that some players are potential newbies. There is no way you could justify these changes to them(us). When Liam claimed to us in PM as a commuter while practically having a jailer role I was mad. My instant thought was that this is just bad. What would've happened if I read Liam as a rolecop? Would you have sent me a message telling me he is commuter, while he was not? Would you have explicitly explained the situation or just let it play out and call it a quality game? Why not random generating strings and sending those back? I can create endless theories what kind of roles could produce that and my play won't be any smarter. I'd very much like to argue that it is a horrible delusion that putting such degrees of freedom into a party game with originally strict rules makes the game quality doubtlessly better. It is misconception seen in many board, card and social games before. Creating too many open variables are not correlating with the actual complexity-thinking needed to play the game. I remember my favorite collectibe card game dying out because the designers kept adding more and more cards, attributes and random event possibilities to milk the game in spite of the community's best players' protestation, who knew exactly that more options in an uncontrolled way will only bring in overly random coefficients. The most brilliant games in history have the most simple rulesets. Many board games are plain bad and boring because the designers' idea of overcomplicating things actually made it either too one-sided with overpowered boring metas or too random because of uncontrollable RNG elements. Without actual indices of potential roles the game will end up more like an RNGfest. I don't know if this is the exact reason you omitted conversions here as well, but the way it was done in Pirates I for an example, was just wrong. Played out nicely by Patrick for sure, but converting a claimed and almost confirmed jailer while not even the roles are known are plainly broken. There is a reason why in most games you can't just go around and converty anybody you want. Analogies are always off, but it is almost like playing chess and some of the pieces could randomly change their moves when the host says so. After some critical point it won't make the game more complex, but more random. On the final days when they were theorizing about the necessary parities to end the game in case of a 3rd party player, about the host potentially giving out new strongshots while the game is still on, arguing about different mafia wiki interpretations.... was simply painful. That was a meme-game level, if this is what is going on D7-D8, the game is already done being anything good. And finally about my remarks on some player's move being good or not. Well again, some of my talk was just part of the play, some of it was an honest opinion. I don't see any reason to take it personally or bringing too much emotions into that. I was in home office because of the virus and I had too much spare time even besides my job. I've also played around a hundred different half-hour mafia games while I was doing this one as well, so believe me, I know my shit when I'm talking about this game and I know my win ratios there as well. Also I was getting much bigger flamewars on the other side to be angry with anyone else here. I wanted to join the mafiascum.net championship too, but a bigger job came in and 500 daily posts would have overwhelmed even me, so I backed out. Maybe next year, we'll see. Yes, I know what you're thinking. I know you think of me as the arrogant dude coming here with all this, you Bob and Kristel took your time to voice this on the Deadboard. Maybe you are right. Maybe from another perspective, this looks quite different. Personally I now read you posting the pretty arrogant things off-game behind my back while I am aware of my time input in this game. I even tend to play with friends in real life where you have to lie into the face of your best friend who knows you for 13 years. I'm even planning a python-written program to play the automated chat-based version to finally get some exact analytics of game setups and optimal strategy theories. From my perspective maybe you are denying that there are general aspects to this game regardless of your local meta and setups. There is no other way to put it so I will. Some of the plays here were plainly amateur. You even call each other's play - like claiming mason without any basic mason evidence (while I was just 'schooled' on claiming being overated and this was not even an open setup) - a good effort. I know you guys are friends, but this is simply bad for the game and you should just take a bad move as it is and not being always so gentle and reassuring with each others, like fancy rich producers on an Oscar gala. I had my questionable moves for sure, but you ignoring all the obvious things won't let me go without a word after your feedback. Well, I do think some of these setup aspects let's us to do totally bad moves and justify ourselves later on, quickly labeling them as EB meta and with "this is how it goes here" stuff. I told Justin this too, many plays here were like under-betting an obviously redundant river while check-raising at the turn before. To vote and say something only for the sake of posting out characters. There are 600 pages long books about different chess defense systems and you can still play and experience chess for 10 years without taking a single look at them. They'll still be true and valid nonetheless. And I'm reading now, that you also talked quite a bit in the Deadboard about me being totally off about theories of the game, while again, even your initial instructions sent to me (to a supposed newbie) suggested that Mafia is not being taken too seriously here. Maybe I was all over the place and you guys played it out perfectly. Maybe I used the unvote option as intended when it was quite clear that we're going to lynch villies or maybe you had the point and we had to check them out anyway. Maybe I was too pushy with Fabien or maybe he discarded my theory and killed the claimed jailer instead while not even having the detective intel his actions implied. Maybe you were right in the Deadboard that scum did not play together or maybe there was a scum on the wagon with Joshua indeed. Maybe Emmett should have taken me a bit more seriously I could've let go my sus on him and we could've nailed the only non-claimed voter or maybe I was just too annoying at that point and we had to go chasing ghosts for 2 days instead. Maybe we should just accept that this is one forum with lego heads talking to each others while there are platforms where things move on a totally different level. Again by the time you guys finally ended this one I've bagged a dozen of other plays and wins and I have been played and made a fool just as many times to see this one just another piece in the puzzle. Maybe I just humble myself to adapt to this meta as well, maybe I'll just actually learn the secret and nail these games too, or maybe I'll just endlessly theorize around on D7 about 3:3:1 or 4:3 parities. A lot of maybes and your off-game Deadboard remark on me with all the exact information by the host is completely unfair. We can go on about each other's abilities and actual ambitions in getting better in this game, as far as I see how reactions and emotions work here I say it won't make any real difference. For the record, to ease this arrogant picture of me inside your heads, I'd have to say I had too many bad moves I am more annoyed about. Exactly those troglodyte ones I like to preach against all the time. My PM to Vincent was a total backfire, because it just confirmed me more that this guy is absolutely no Town (and not even the one I was thinking of, namely a stinking scum), but I was kinda aware of that already and I just fed his position needlessly. Also I'm not a fan of townies being able to talk with each other during the night but for the first time was excited about the idea of this angle and jumped on it with too much haste. I think even getting the information I needed caused more problems, being too vague with a hundred possibilities of non-disclosed random roles all the time. It just made me miss Jean's softing so hard and our timing against each other was just unfortunate. When I've finally got his soft message I literally banged my head on the desk. Also no, you won't jail your cop, I don't even understand how the actual protector missed him. Also I missed your hidden acrostic message Hinck, while I was indeed checking many posts before. By that time I gave up on the idea that this is used here and since we were already best friends 4ever by D2, I did not check your first post as well. This was my part of the huge arrogance kicking in. But you revealing it later was a heartwarming sight, I totally loved it. If what you said Bob in the Deadboard, that some players were thinking of leaving the game because of me, I have to say, maybe they really should. If these are their true emotion, it just tells me they don't have what it takes and I just made a good job for the sake of quality Mafia. If I was too much, you guys don't know anything about real savages. This was one of the most lazy and slowest game I've ever seen and you guys complained about too many posts.... I do think if you don't have the time to play a game you joined to, you should not play at all. 96 hours per day. I do think this meta needs more rock 'n' roll and I have my own style and ambitions with the game to contribute the way I can. And today town eventually won, thanks to Shadows making the home run with Hinck's assistance. So where is the problem? I had my good times, headbangs and laughs in spite of all the things I observed to be not cool and I learned some of the valuable lessons I was actually looking for. If I'm going to be conveniently taken as some big-mouthed smart-aleck, I guess that is the way it is and if the host of a game won't need me I won't get an account to play and the story ends there. Thanks again for the game.

Well carried, gg. Also thanks Bob! Also: I guess I worked hard for that, haha

I just saw another Lego clone (MEGA Construx) dragon set and got surprised how far Lego dropped behind with some of its designs. I think this is how Smaug should have looked like. Or how an ultimate version of him should have been released instead. In the meanwhile the new Lego Hungarian Horntail looks nothing like the original dragon in the movie. They've just reused the bird head part, even the old molded one was more authentical: The old horntail is the most static one ever, still my favorite because of the nice shape design. However I'd prefer dragons to be mostly brick built. Sadly, for some reason I get the feeling molded ones are still better, because Lego just can't do it right with bricks. Smaug is pretty cool for a molded one, but as I've said, the Drogoth version would be the ultimate way to create a legendary beast with wings like a hurricane. Newer castle ones gave almost too +4 feeling to me. The viking ones had better size and dynamism for it, but too much use of bionicle elements: At this point I'm just going back again realising how simple, silly and adoring classic Lego was.

This capuchin abbey belongs to Eurobrick member Jellyeater who had given it the name Convento Capuchinos. Check out the details right here for more angles on the custom palm trees, the breathtaking roof tilings and all the other interesting build techniques.

@knister hey mate! Shipwreck Island? O.o Did not know there is any poster about that. I've PM-ed you.

Wow, this is insanely good

That's cool, do you have any pictures of them? I definitely plan to get the Eldorado Fortress with the Clipper this year.

Also LEGO might have just wanted to work on minifig gender equality here as well. Classic pirates had a poor range of pirate wenches with the singular face and torso deisgn. That would be super interesting. I always thought the Cross Bone Clipper to be a cute little set taking its size and coloring. I understand the criticism it's getting by the Classic community, still I'd have loved it as a kid as I had no ships whatsoever. Even the tiniest sloop or barque would have caused much joy and for a lot of parents this was the cheapest solution to get a ship for their kids.

I understand, I was only a bit surprised of your initial disappointment, considering that you were the one to predict most of the potential changes correctly. Anyway the community is quite fast to work out the original one in LDD and stud.io which is totally awesome to see. If they've finished we will have a clearer picture about the actual piece count that the original version would have needed. I think with that perspective the final one will be more approved by the disappointed people as well. And who knows, maybe someone will make a middle-way version, scaled down like the final one but more similar to the original, without any alternative build ship hijacking the vibe into a Classic direction. If we'd see a version like that maybe I'd be able as well to accept the disappointment more. We'll see.

Congrats, totally! I indulge myself to post your flickr photo of your celebration layout:

Your logic is totally valid here sadly. Altough I'm hoping this would break precedents like that. Personally I think this one is much better for an actual playset than the blacksmith one. But we have to see the final version of that of course. I'd be quite devastated if they'd give a no for this forestmen homage.

That would be super interesting to see. I myself had a discussion with legotownlinz before the final version was shared. He deduced correctly that the baseplate would be removed and also we've agreed that a more wrecked up look would be even better. But after the final release he seemed to be a bit disappointed, even as the changed parts were mentioned by him as well before that. So it was already pointed out that replacing the baseplate with brick construction is not a way LEGO would have choosen. If you'll share the result of your endevour to do this it'll become more clear how many pieces would have been really needed to do the original layout.

Point noted. I myself think that you lack the ability in this particular matter to be objective considering this is a personal matter for you. I say this, because I've made a correct, elaborated statement about your idea and about the follow-up accusation taken against you. You did not reply anything to that, but you pointed out danth's oneliner as an appreciative contribution. He had no contribution to the topic, only - again - just with the potential provocative ones, showing himself as sticking up to some idea, which is just a joker card play. I honestly think this has made you biased. At this point without the mean of any offense, I think it has nothing to do with your actual proposal of the minifigure's background. Even if he had honest intentions this is just making the topic more toxic at this point. I've spoken. The moderators will decide.

This is clearly a game for you. This could be any non-pirates even non-Lego discussion you'd keep going endlessly with the same manner. You had zero remarks about anything concerning the Barracuda Bay set. I myself had heated debates but only about the actual topic until you've came along. It is clear that I myself am ***** tired of your provocative contribution to this topic which only generates toxicity. Also I've found myself feeding you in this, since you clearly just need more fuel to play this. As for this reasons for the sake of this topic: I hereby ask the moderators (@Peppermint_M or any current pirate moderator) to ban both of us from this topic. You clearly won't stop until you've **** up the whole discussion and I'm pretty fine with just reading along (since people are actually talking interesting stuff about modding and character backgrounds) considering I am constantly getting hooked by you.

I've reported danth with the following report message:

The Clipper is not just a ship or a set. It is a lifestyle. The box, the sailors, the gov, the bulky hull and those lovely sails. Of course this one is more refined, but a very acceptable and needed one, especially with a new Barracuda.

Actually on a very practical and historical approach: pointing out a trans pirate character as the most simple possibility is an agenda pushing, yeah. But also it is an interesting question. I'm not familiar with the social history of transgenderism (is that the proper word for it?). It is quite a modern term and it was not the safest thing to do back in the days I guess. But also pirates were kind of an outcast, deserter part of society. Many things might have been more acceptable. As Aanchir has pointed out there were female pirates and they were hiding their sex quite often for obvious reasons. But for a male pirate to transition to a woman is quite unlikely to happen in my honest opinion. Only with romanticized pirate tales can I think of something like that. Stardust's film adaptaion had a pirate captain who is a cross-dresser and the crew knew that 'he is a whoopsie'. But that is again not the same as being a trans woman. Anyway, Lego is surely very much romanticing pirates, so it is not unthinkable here. So yes, I think this was just a personal projection from Aanchir. But she did not hurt anyone with that. Maybe just herself as I think she should not need to search for these things even in Lego sets to make herself feel any better. At least I say she shouldn't. Well, I mean I don't know, I'm not sure. I'm not a fan of theorizing about this when it is clearly coming from her personal reasons, but no one would have brought this up anytime sooner so this is it. You may ask about it at LEGO itself and lets see what is their opinion on this matter. If it would have been TLG's intention, the creator's should have surely told us about that. Maybe for marketing reasons they are not ready for it. Or maybe it does not fit into their agenda. Tough question. Lego figures are yellow to be racially neutral but clearly it is not so easy to do with genders. I'm not sure I'd be happy if trans women and men would push Lego to make their figures also gender neutral. I have a very firm opinion on this, but this is not the platform to go into that I guess. Already talked too much. All that matters now that if she is going to take that character like that, that is her own business.

Yeah, I meant only the car itself. Obviously we had no tuned and Polizei versions :D

Ah, real Eastern Bloc feeling. Nice job!

Creating a theme of it? Hard to say, probably not. Creating similar onetimer sets for that niche? Totally.