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Because in each magazine the pirate captain, no matter if he's in red torn clothes or his black garb, is referred to his one name for that country: Captain Roger (UK) or Captain Red Beard (US). P.S. The mags are at my site.

Looks good. There were never any Anubis mini-figures in the 1990s Adventurers sets (statues, not figs) and it looks like the ones from Pharoah's Quest. So I'm guessing the seller has no clue what he is talking about, it's too advanced and detailed in its design to come from Adventurers.

Except... that is a private Instagram so you have to follow them. Any chance of attaching the photo here?

Or people can just visit my site now and get them... http://www.wskel.com/sb/pirates/ then click Events and the list of programs and additional content with each program is there.

Yes the image is in the lws8.zip file.

They're actually called " mini-doll figures " here in the United States lol... what are they called in your country? Oh and I guess I should have used Flashfork as an example to stay on topic lol...

Yea... only evidence I gather myself honestly seems to be either German audio dramas or the Japanese video depicting them fighting each other. BUT - in both the US and UK in the club magazines they are the same person, which leads me to believe it was a major transliteration of several translations of languages among many countries

I was referring to the minifigure and not the doll but both exemplify the skin tone on the torso representing their skin and not the color of their clothes.

Oh... and why do people think Captain Ironhook and Captain Roger/Red Beard are two different captains? If you look at Bricks N pieces, Spring 1994, the pirate captain is called Captain Roger again, so when they named him Ironhook I thought maybe it was a nickname he had acquired by, perhaps, ruling his pirates crew "with an iron fist," or in this case, "with an iron hook." (I'm in the US not the UK where BNP was distributed BTW). In case anyone is confused by what I mean by my "rule with an iron fist" expression, it means Captain Roger was very strict and mean and to the point. The US magazine with Islanders on the cover also refers to him as Captain Red Beard (naming his ship Renegade Runner) but he is dressed in black this time and not the red torn shirt when they called him Captain Roger in BNP.

If you go to my site: http://www.wskel.com/sb/pirates/ then click Events click the show book for World 8, 1987-1988 (2 years before the Pirates line debuted) and you will find an earlier model of Captain Red Beard wearing blue!

In the 1993 Holiday Shop at Home Catalog the sets are listed side by side: http://www.wskel.com/sb/pirates/media/catalogs/1993-us-h.pdf You can even, hilariously find them in the same model display in the 1993 115585 ?medium booklet (also called catalog). Not only does this appear in the one-sheet 114517-US BUT both blues and reds are listed as Imperial Guards lol. Again in medium booklet/catalog 109183-EU But in terms of the marketing displays, I imagine it was just something cool LEGO wanted to do, even though historically speaking the French and English were actually enemies for the longest time.

Yes it is.

I think you're referring to the Anne figurine in the 1989-1991 sets since Camille (the governor's daughter) never made it in minifigure form, pretty much because yellow torsos would have meant nudity is my assumption since the skin tone was yellow back then.

Not to veer off-topic but if you look at the new Disney Minifigures 2 "Jasmine" figurine, notice the use of her skin tone there, for anyone who is confused as to what we are talking about. Also, recall "Where's My Pants" Guy from TLM, notice the color of his legs when he is pantless?

I wonder if washing them in liquid dish soap like you would cicis would actually make them shine as if they were new and real gold?

Where is it? Are you talking the storage container that was released as a mummy coffin?

Yes except a couple years ago they included scans of the books. These are listed on my web site at http://www.wskel.com/sb/pirates click Events. The files are zipped so you need a desktop or laptop to view.

I meant the mask. I'll look for it but King Kahuka's mask is honestly a generic tribal mask: https://www.google.com/search?q=african+tribal+mask&oq=african+tribal+mask&aqs=chrome..69i57.6407j0j7&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 https://www.foreverbamboo.com/blog/tiki-mask-meanings/

Nice. They were definitely a more colorful departure from the Pirates browns and blacks and Imperials blues and yellows. Having been to Hawaii I bought a lot of figures and small masks that kind of looked like Khuka(sic). Other than the lush, oriental-style landscape, and quasi-bluish Pacific ocean, it wasn't really that colorful. I was on the island of Oahu though, where Honolulu is and even though we drove the whole island, it didn't impress me. I was even let down by the Orient Express just because China is always displayed as so colorful and that theme not so much.

Old topic but how would you assemble this bell? My guess is a black, one round stud attached to the yellow cone so it sticks into the arch but flexible enough to ring. Would that work?

Does anyone remember your first impressions from that long ago? Or about when you came to know about this awesome theme? What were your thoughts? Aside from being awesome and a welcome addition to a color-bland theme (although I LOVED the use of color and details in Captain Redbeard - he was soo much brighter when he was brand new) they reminded me of the tribespeople at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark film. They also reminded me of other tribes like those seen in some Chip N Dale's Rescue Rangers or The Chipmunks Adventure as well as Time magazine and Discovery shows on TBS about tribal persons. Now as an adult and after watching cannibal horror movies like The Green Inferno and Cannibal Holocaust I almost wonder, in a sense, if they weren't meant to have a cannibal feel to theme? It's not unreasonable since they do resemble the tribes from these movies and also because LEGO sets were made from the Pirates of the Caribbean line that featured islander-looking cannibals. Looking back, I am shocked that LEGO allowed the Islanders to exist given the amount of skin they showed or at least cover them up more. Back then, minifigures were yellow, so yellow on their torsos and legs implied skin. But then again these things were overlooked here in the United States and weren't as big as a deal, in some cases, as they are today. So let's hear your first impressions, even if it's about any other Wave from the Pirates line.

I went ahead and listed her as Anne with a reference to this footnote: One historical and likely reason for the confusion is because back in 1989 all LEGO minifigures were yellow, therefore, like the Barricuda's figurehead, yellow clothing (or even gold as was used throughout both Castle and Pirate themes; aka gold nuggets in Castle and the gold chalice in the Barricuda) signifies nudity and obviously LEGO wasn't going to do that. This is why you almost never have seen yellow clothes on a minifigure and 1994's Islanders helped to show that yellow "clothing" is actually their skin.

Since it's also at my site I just gave you the direct link to it in the first post. Enjoy.

Any plans to finish them?

Hmm, you're right. I didn't include name. LEGO.COM actually recognizes that name but says it's from another country and didn't specify: https://www.lego.com/en-us/themes/lego-history/articles/lego-pirates-a81ba1cc2d424808b7c937dd4563f5a7 UPDATE: I realized I had seen that exact same layout in a booklet and after a quick look, this comic is promoted by this name in the medium or so book with Captain Roger / Red Beard overlooking a buried Flashfork. The number for this catalog is 921165-UK. In this catalog the pages appear black and white so I am inferring maybe this was the original name and for whatever reason they changed it. The cover also had a parrot who appears to be talking in a bubble dialogue. It was available in July 1989 at 2.50 (I believe euros). It also appeared in Bricks N Kicks Magazine (UK) Summer 1989. The book on Lego's history site isn't finished as you can tell by the lack of colors. In fact, in the 1989 catalog, it appeared to have a white cover and you can see this weird, unfinished white cover on the box art of the set itself, on the bottom flap where there is a photo of a boy reading the comic book. By the way, is the female pirate that came in the 1989-1991 Pirates line supposed to be Anne? She looks like the Anne in the LadyBird activity books and story books and Bessie doesn't seem to appear in any sets. But I think people get confused because 1) I swear I seen a catalog somewhere that lists her as Bessie ; 2) Bessie, in the comics, has the same amount of clevage as the minifigure, whereas Anne (presumably very young) was covered; 3) There were two different colored bandanas on the female pirate (she had red in the 1991 Rock Island Refuge) and 4) She was either meant to be just "Lady Pirate" or "a female pirate" in the sets but LadyBird took liberties and gave her the name of Anne and made Bessie her mother (that's an inference).