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Well I must admit that at the flood of all the entries some details must have slipped from my head. I didn't remember all the conversation from the other entry you offered the idea for the rudder. As a registered critic I had a look at all the entries as real competitors and expressed my opinion as such. Now looking at it, I must say I think your nephew might have some problems - unless he's extraordinarily skilled with the small pieces. I think that LEGO has it figured out and that those numbers on sets are there with a reason. A 1x2 tile is as little as it gets in the 4+ line and there's no 1x1 plates especially not the round ones. A kid who turned five was still struggling a bit with the sideways lights on city cars (6+ sets) but he's more of an occasional builder. All the technic stuff might be a bit problematic too. Anyway I imagine your nephew will like the set and hopefully you didn't take my previous comment too harsh.

I used some black magic and found out that these entries are still missing from the lineup in the voting thread (I did not check the index, just the thumbnails in the VOTING thread!): @Mister Phes

Quite a funky design. The roofed (more like a cabin) boat approach is interesting but far from what one would expect to meet in the age of sail. The idea to use the cannon base for the clips is also a nice touch although the piece takes a lot of space and is sticking out a bit. The whole boat gives me a unsafe instability for it's height and I guess id would be quickly turn over by the waves.

An interesting approach in a completely classic style with some great details. I like the hidden stash in the middle of the water! Though the cover part is a bit too new for the style. Also I think that the yellow spikes on top of fence should be white, can't remember such a design in the old sets. The yellow sand also doesn't mix too well the the yellow buildings that's probably why the imperial builds were either on a gray or green baseplate or the complete build was on a black pier. I do like the raft design with the log bricks. Works pretty well, but for a real LEGO set misses some studs connections.

@Mister Phes I guess that this entry should be in the mini category, not the main one ...

Not even two brown ones? Would work out even better (:

I must admit I prefer your mini build. This one is not bad, the recreation of the play feature is cool yet the island sand looks a bit rushed. Too vertical in places and some grey rocks just thrown in there not being connecting to anything. The brick built sail does not do justice to the otherwise nicely designed raft!

Well I'll do it! I don't know as from all my previous comments everyone might notice that I'm all in for swapping any blacks representing wood for the brown. In this case, there's already a lot of black around and the brown just somehow doesn't work for me. Would like to see it with black masts and also swapping the ladders for dark tan. Else it's a really nice design and aesthetically fits the Barracuda remake. It's just a bit short as is the original and thus the cabin looks too tall and the intruded staircase or the bulky entrance don't really look that well.

Wow, love the brick built final version! And the custom sails turned out great! Still missing the green flags for the cannon covers but it's a personal aesthetics matter. Very well done!

What an awesome looking ship! A bit short and tall for my taste, but the color combination and the details are really awesome. Maybe just a bit too much black around the side windows. I really love the cannon post / bed / hidden compartment combination. I feel those sailor living in a small apartment with family and all the LEGO bricks! Many such solutions would come in handy. (:

I understand your point for the heads, but you have to take in consideration that it's an official set you're trying to create and as such all the pieces would be used in other creations by kids, where the heads would not necessarily be so hidden. As for the mustache guy it's even more irrelevant if you used any other head just to include the newer style pupils. And in the end besides the Lego Movie sets, which was a kind of a parody of themselves, LEGO never mixes the different eyes styles, skin tones with yellows and minidolls with minifigs ...

That is one big menacing ship! I like the color scheme feels a lot like the Queen Anne's Revenge. Also like the custom sails and the roping looks nice though I have no idea how accurate it is. I'm a bit bothered by the colorful floorings of the cabin parts - they look like a commercial for LEGO Dots. Also I'd skip half of the same looking pirates and the minifigure lineup although constructed well, needs a facelift and consistency in the age of the head / torso usage.

Yeah I see the similarity for the crane, though SW gets away easily with the mechanics and hydraulics being built into the liftarms yet it's still a bit of a funky design. But it is much harder to make such an excuse in the era of pirates. As for the render, I have no idea how to do that, nor how it was done. Though what you're saying with the hanging out parts makes sense. Never worked with studio. Did a gif from LDD once but it was not rendered and manually positioned and turned for a specific angle. I just pointed out the aesthetic flaw. I signed up as a critic at this contest not a studio specialist! ;)

Great remake! I really love the smart idea of how to connect it to the Eldorado, although I must admit that on it's own the arch going nowhere looks a bit out of place. Also with that arch the small balcony underneath makes little to no sense neither does have a goo access point. Maybe that could be handled differently - like a roof or something. And also the square fence would maybe look a bit better. The small rounded bricks don't combine well with the tiles and square tops and the big rounded bricks don't integrate well into the roof with the flat corners sticking out. Other than that a really solid build!

As mentioned before, not a ship expert here. But I do love the color scheme and the overall looks of this build! The dark blue works really nice with white and going for the blues made the transfer of the molded blue part look smoother. Even if it's a bluecoats ship, the dark red sails work rather well. My only visual complaint would be the inconsistency in the flags. It would be nice if in the back and the top flags matched each other!

A really great canon design. Would make a very cool display set for any pirates fans. But for making it look more like an official set, you could easily skip two figures.

Well there is enough of the build to pass as an entry. The cannon has a great custom wagon attached and the flag pole is a really nice idea. Especially if you want to throw in a few more minifigures. It feels more like the 501st SW battle pack around the 30 price point instead of the ones around the 15 (now 20). Anyway, I guess what was really discouraged for this contest is the recreation of sets like 6251 or 6252 or creating a similar one with minifigs only ... Anyway the minifigure selection is nice, though the white and black boots legs would improve the minifigures a bit. I'm also not too fond of the use of the older torso, which looks outdated and not consistent - white torso with red print instead of having prints on the red torso ...

The LBG masonry bricks and other details work really well in the combination of white for the fort. I don't understand the offset of the floors in the fort, makes the whole build look a bit unstable. Everyone is trying to replicate the official LEGO waters and shores, though many go for too much water. The blue plates are meant to only indicate where the water starts and of course it continues along the floor to the next island. All these wave connections to make the water bigger don't work. Either the waves are not consistent or the connections don't hold the mass of the plates together. The old torsos on the minifigs aged quite well and go together with the newer heads. But I miss the consistency - either go for the old or the new style of eyes. I also really like the color scheme of the boat though it's a lot on the chiby side and the sails look too big for it.

A nice redesign, finally an entry, where the boat can and is intended to fit through the open cave! I really like the detailed build for the pier and it's height. My main complaint would be the crane - it's too simple with a direct connection to the wheel. No one would be able to lift even a single full barrel that way without any levers or pulleys. The skull design is not one of the strongest though it works. But I see some anomalies in the teeth build ... And finally a different more centered rotation point could be picked for the gif ...

A nice remake but a bit too much on the MOC side to be an official set, even if just for the tiled water plate. The build has many nice details I particularly like the small pole build with the chain. The yellow arches look a bit out of place, since I'm more used to seeing the imperial buildings going from yellow at the bottom to white at the top. Yellow should be at the bottom even if it then continues a bit higher like around the wooden doors. Also mixing tan with yellow for the sand does not work well in my eyes. And using bricks for shore makes the sand go up too vertically.

Really nice twist with swapping the gold for a tasty liquid! The build is simple and nice and does the job. I also like the minifigure. I'm not too fond of the hinges holding the cover being different color. The lighting is quite sharp in the images so it's quite hard to see if the stump under the top leaves is brown or gray? A bit more color could be added fo the handle of the cover to be a different color. Also there seems to be quite an unnecessary gap above the rounded rock piece behind the build.

Not much of a remake apart from the base which took too much of a design thought as well as parts. The shape of it is really nice though and would make an excellent stand for a little bigger display set. The build on top uses most of the pieces from the original in a too similar way to be a proper remake and also the minifigures do not resemble the original in any way. In one case there's a strapped bandana pirate vs an ordinary tricorne guy and in the other a what used to be an armada guy vs remains of an imperial soldier.

I agree with Mazin here, looks more like a just for fun entry. No point in mixing purple and orange and especially a shirtless guy with serious soldiers. Although I must admit that the white and purple color scheme is quite appealing and makes an excellent concept for a new fraction among the good guys fighting the pirates!

Nice layout for a new set. No doubt your nephew will like it though for an AFOL I think that the square and straight hut build has more like a 4+ feel to it. Also the double thickness of the pier does not help in that regard. I guess that the pillars do need some more detail. Besides the very same hidden stash build was already introduced in another entry as well as a few similar rudder solutions. I'm not trying to say that you did not come up with the idea yourself since great minds think alike they say. It's just that this entry does not include much originality to stand out. Else I like how you filled the gaps between the leaves which was a problem in past sets using this technique for a roof. I also like the red and green combination for the boat. But I don't understand the change of monkeys hands color since the TLG uses the race neutral yellow.

Well this turned out a lot better than the direction the initial image was going for. At least for my taste that is. I do agree that there is some space for more greenery. In some places it feels a bit rushed and unfinished - for example the back side could use a fence where the sleeping net is. Also the big plated are on top does not match the completely tiled ramp and feels a bit empty. And the sails of the bluecoats are of an inappropriate color. And to give it a more real set vibe you could easily skip a figure or just go with an updated version of the lineup from the original. I really like the heightened crow nest, it's a nice addition.