Totoro

This is absolutely stunning. I know you've done a lot of work to restore the bricks, but I'm stunned at how new the sails look! They look brand new. I'm actually in the process of trying to restore my childhood Caribbean Clipper, but it needs a LOT of work, and also has 84 missing pieces (including the sails). I was under 10 years old when I had it and it was well and truly played with, so it's in pretty rough shape.

I have to say, it was a licenced Ideas set (Ecto-1) that got me back into LEGO after 20 years. I hadn't bought a set since I was a teenager (actually, it was probably my parents that bought them), and that Ecto-1 set rekindled my love of LEGO and made LEGO a LOT of money in sets I have bought since 2015. I've loved a lot of the licenced themes they have done over recent years like Ghostbusters, TMNT, Scooby Doo, Wall-E, Doctor Who, Disney, Power Puff Girls, Beetlejuice, Back to the Future, Gremlins, the list goes on and on. That said, I'd definitely like LEGO to produce more sets from their own themes like Pirates, Castles, etc. I'm hoping and praying that the Barracuda Bay sells really well and shows LEGO that there's a demand for sets based on the classic Pirates theme.

Thanks for the welcome and the tips! I shall look into one of those accounts. As for deleting the post above with the images, I can't seem to find a delete function anywhere? :S

Okay, I've not uploaded photos here before, so hopefully this works. I just took photos of the Captain's cabin section at the moment, as I'm actually in the process of changing the design of the front hold section (though I do have the LDD schematic of that which I can post). Sorry, couldn't figure out how to post them smaller so had to delete the images :( I know the design is pretty simple/basic, I just wanted it to fit in and not look too out of place in the 1989 design of the BSB.

Oh gosh, I shall try my best. It's hard to get photos inside the cabin. Also, got to give it a little dust off first :3

I actually modded my 89 BSB some years ago. The BSB was THE Lego set I wanted the most as a child, but my parents could never afford it. Thankfully, my mum and dad managed to get me the 89 Caribbean Clipper for Christmas, but I still always pined for the BSB and I specifically remember running to the LEGO isle of my local toy stores, and lifting up that card flap on the front of the box to look inside at the parts of the BSB. Anyway, fast-forward to about 2015, I rekindled my love of LEGO (thanks to the LEGO Ideas Ecto-1) and I picked up a 89 BSB from eBay in the best condition I could find. After I build it my thoughts about it were; that it's visually the best LEGO ship ever made... but, there are two areas where it was severely lacking to the point it feels unfinished. The captain's cabin literally has nothing inside it, other than the treasure chest you're supposed to just plonk on the floor in the middle of it. And then the front deck section, is just an open hole with nothing inside it - it just looks like they forgot to put a plate over it. So, I decided to re-design both of those. It was important for me to keep it so that most people would never know the ship was modified. The original design is stunning as it is. The Captain's cabin I completely decorated with things on the walls and the shelves. Then I did the classic desk in the middle, that is used as a handle to lift up the floor and expose a hidden treasure chest under it. The front I made a proper cargo hold with boxes and barrels of stuff inside it, and made some simple doors to the cargo hold using prison bar window pieces. The changes are pretty subtle I think. From a glance you'd never think it's been modified. As for the '20 BSB, I want to add more variation of the foliage on the shipwreck. They use the same palm tree leaf and vine throughout the whole design. I'd like to use some of the foliage pieces from the Tree House set. Also want to remove/change the prison cell on the deck - it just looks so awkward up there. When I transform it into the full ship, I definitely want to take out the windows, bar, sleeping area and such below deck and add cannons for every port hole. I'm actually planning on buying a second Barracuda Bay, so I can have it on display as both the bay and the BSB, along with my original 89 BSB.

I have never posted on here before, but after finding this thread on Google, I decided I would reply to this. I was really upset that the Brickheadz that were released late 2018 were already listed as "retired" on the LEGO Store (UK) website in late December, especially as they even still had the "New" tag on their listings. So I decided to contact LEGO about this, mainly to vent. They responded with this email, which seems to confirm that they are expecting new Brickheadz in 2019 (as this email was dated 9th Jan 2019) - Thanks for getting in touch with us. I’m sorry, but we aren’t making the LEGO® 61626 Brickheadz Groot & Rocket anymore. Our Product Developers in Denmark invent new LEGO® toys all the time. They spend hours trying to create toys that are better and more fun every time. This means we sometimes have to stop making a few of the sets to launch new ones, our selection does change regularly. You may be able to still find some older sets through different retailers or online shops as you know. Keep in mind that these aren’t our websites so the LEGO Group isn’t responsible for their content, and the items they’re selling could be new or used, as you noticed already. We appreciate your comments, so I'll be passing your interest in the Brickheadz Groot & Rocket on to the design team. You never know, some of the old treasures might make a comeback! However, I can confirm you new BrickHeadz will be launched very soon so keep an eye on the BrickHeadz theme. Thank you so much for your understanding, best wishes for 2019 !