Capt. Thomas Foolery

Definitely agree. The prior color scheme was better. This one looks like someone was playing with the contrast on my monitor and kicked it up to "crazy bright." Fantastic review though! Thanks for sharing. A big MEH on the stickers. Looks like way too many. This makes me curl up into a ball and cry copious tears of high salinity. The minifigs will easily be the reason this set sells out quickly and often. I just want that cool Han Solo in Carbonite piece!

As a man with a perfectly unhealthy obsession with pirates, I'd love to see a Pirates of the Caribbean line based off the new film coming out, with minifigs in flesh colors so that I can spend twice as much on my MOCs, fretting over whether I want to stick to good ol' yeller or make it more realistic. LEGO, my how you tease me.... Another great line with a well-developed mythology and plenty of fans would be LOST. Especially with all the glimpses into the island's past, I could see it being a virtual motherload for MOC opportunities and custom minifigs. I assume the smoke monster would be just a giant conglomeration of black ice cream pieces. Actually, it would be really nice if LEGO could make short sleeves for minifigs. Like an arm that is half one color and half yellow/flesh. It's hard to make believable hot weather MOCs when all the minifigs are either in long-sleeves or wifebeaters. As maybe one of those individually packaged minifig series that are debuting in June, I'd LOVE to see a best of the best historical figures line from politics, science, and entertainment. Abe Lincoln, Einstein, Charlie Chaplin, etc. Of course, this technically wouldn't be a license so unread everything I just wrote.

I'd have to agree with you here. The new Kingdoms line looks...well, boring. Nothing particularly exciting in it or about it. At least with the past Castle sets, an element of fantasy was introduced (whether you approved or not, at least it was a fresh new approach). This new line just seems tired and kind of lazy. I'd much rather see a whole new line be launched, though I understand why TLG would be timid to do so. If it fails, then it fails big so it's best to go with what you know will get at least stable sales. But just imagine a Mythology line! You could draw from Greek, Roman, AND Egyptian. Gods and goddesses. The architectural possibilities are nearly endless. And when you're tired of playing Mythology, simply tear off a few bricks and it's a temple for Indiana Jones to explore.

Thanks for the tip! Sounds like a pretty accurate Raiders Indy Soldier. How foolish of me to have forgotten that as a custom figure! Now if only there were a way to make a believable Nazi monkey (namely, the red vest on the monkey)!

Really appreciate the new pics - thanks! Although I've never considered Castle my favorite theme (it is still among the top, though), I'm just not excited at all about the new Kingdoms line. At best, all I can muster up is...Meh. Besides some new helmets, there really doesn't look like a whole lot new to the Castle line that I would be remiss if I didn't collect. I'd grade TLG at a D for this new line. Particularly, when they're giving us so many new colors, bricks, minifigs, and elements elsewhere. Step up, LEGO! Give Castle fans something really new to be excited about.

Wow! What an incredible MOC! I absolutely love all the attention to detail and the myriad hilarious little vignettes you've composed throughout. Moreover, I think it's great how you've managed to incorporate elements from just about every LEGO theme there is. I'm curious, but not curious enough to officially ask how the Fertility Idol in the bedroom above the Night Club is incorporated into the "activities" of that room. Great job! I can't imagine how much it cost to simply amass so many different elements!

Thanks to having walked many a crowded, covered bazaar from my time living in Turkey, I've honed my hookah identifying skills. It's a rather clever way you've devised to construct it. True, no pipe. But what kind of message would we be sending to these poor, impressionable minifigs if we encouraged smoking? Even if the tobacco does taste like delicious apples?

Thanks to the white keffiyeh (turban like head wrap) from POP's Fight for the Dagger, we can make a relatively screen accurate Indy from the Map Room. I used the torso and legs from the thug included in the Ambush in Cairo set and it looked great. Just don't forget to include Indy's satchel!

Svelte, your MOC brilliance continues to impress and incite rampant jealousy. And thanks to you, LEGO lost a sale a couple days ago for as I was at my local Toys R Us, pondering whether I should buy just one Fight for the Dagger set or two and try to create some kind of Middle Eastern themed marketplace (for a real Indiana Jones Cairo Ambush), I remembered this MOC you created, spiraled into a fit of shame of worthlessness, and realized I would never create something as remarkable as you have. So, thanks for that. It was nice of you. Call me a fawning sycophant. Call me a brown-noser. Or simply call me by my screen name. But I am always in awe of the creativity and skill you demonstrate in your MOCs. Thanks for sharing them with us! If my genitalia were constructed of LEGO, your MOCs would likely give me Brickrections. (Did you see what I did there? No, not there, but there - the pun! Yeah, I thought it was pretty lame too. Sorry.) Please keep churning out magnificence. And your absurdly hilarious reviews too! Kudos! PS - Is that a hookah/nargile among the kitsch and curios the vendor is selling?

If anything, I'd say that the recent partnership between LEGO and Disney coupled with the news that filming for POTC 4 will start this summer gives us the greatest possibility yet of a POTC LEGO line. And hopefully, just as Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull allowed a new film with new LEGO sets to also incorporate the original trilogy, maybe this line will encompass all three prior POTC films. Given the 2009 selection of pirate LEGO sets (which I don't think was as bad as the originator of this topic thinks it was, but admittedly some of the sets did feel stale compared to the sweeping sets of LEGO days of yore), there really doesn't appear to be a wide spectrum of places to take new sets in. We finally got that giant Imperial Flagship we've always wanted. We got an Imperial Fort (even if it wasn't on as grand a scale as we wished). We got a new pirate ship. Even though crazy pirate lovers like us would wish for bigger and better versions of some of the things we've seen or maybe the return of the Spanish Armada or general nautical population with harbor buildings, I don't know that LEGO would deem the specific desires of our mostly adult niche profitable when it comes to marketing to children who now have a huge assortment of great LEGO themes vying for their attention and money. POTC, however, would seem to fill that void. It's already proven that it's wildly successful as a film franchise. Most of the pirate elements are already present in LEGO molds. And a new film will drum up publicity and interest in pirates once again. Of course, I could be wrong and none of this may come to fruition. But I'm keeping my cutlasses crossed.

There were many excellent entries, but the one that most caught my eye... Exotrator-19. Cannon Foundry I love the Spanish tile roof and the general feel of a pirate port town this captures. It looks as if it would be right at home on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. I will no doubt be "borrowing" the roof technique whenever I get around to finally creating something worthy of posting on here. Kudos to all who contributed!

A hearrrrrty pirate congratulations on yet another outstanding MOC! I love the attention to detail, the incorporation of mythology and legends of nautical lore, and particularly the exceptional layout of the seafaring town. Color scheme is great, all the clever little additions are great...heck, everything on this is great! Kudos! I very much look forward to your next Pirate MOC.