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im trying to solve this expanded idea. The captains quarters is the most challenging. I extended the quarters by 1 stud so the side profile matches to the cannon placements. The first image shows the idea I am working on for the rear windows.The issue I had with the profile of the windows were the lack of sloping it had forward. The narrower top view of the rear at the window section feels like the models I been looking at. They also are narrower than the belly of the ship which is my goal. I may try to widen the ship towards the main mast area, but for now its looking good. The new length of the ship suggests the widest part of the ship should be about 18 studs. I did this with my Barracuda galleon, and may see how this works, but for now I am hping to keep the ship very similar to the set. The rear windows are not finished. Trying to use a few elements, bars that were recently introduced 2 months ago. The other problem I have is the lack of narrow rear the captains quarters have. I used the same proportions as the model specs. So the rear is 2 studs narrower. Which makes the windows skinnier. Im trying to solve that area. The lantern area also needs to push back to the placeholder slope I put at top. The entire sloping of the rear should line up with the top. The windows stick out about 1 stud further back. The Other part I am struggling with is the design they used for the sloping rear. The technic pins and bricks were hidden behind the cannon port holes. If you look closely you will see I moved the port holes half a stud so they line up better with the bottom port holes. I do need to solve this wall issue because it affects the interior. As mentioned above, the attachment bricks and pins take up too much space. The cannons inside the captains quarters will be too close to the door to make those side bedroom quarters large enough for a minifig to lay down. I shifted the doorway back 1 stud to allow the cannon under the stairs more room. You can also see where I placed the rear mizzen mast inside the cabin. I also think the rudder can use string running to both sides of the walls and merge at the ceiling where the wheel is. This should work well. Otherwise keep the mast post a hole and run the string inside it somehow. I m all for suggestions. The cannons will fit nicely under the stairs. If I lower the door 1 stud and make the floor tiles then the roof would line up with the stairs.

Already working on it. Once you take out the rudder and wheel gears section it opens up the entire area. In the studio file i moved the door further back under the ceiling so the stairs have space for a cannon. There is some space when i gut the sides to place rooms on the sides but not long enough for a bed. The issues im facing are the technic pins and bricks that make the sides angle upward. It takes up so much space.

I did get the parts to build the new expansion, probably premature since i plan on gutting the interior to make a larger cabin and have a string-built wheel and rudder system like my other ships. Based on how tge cabin is built i thibk the string will need to run along the walls and meet up under the wheel. I dont know if there will be room for the 2 bedrooms inside the cabin. The most difficult part is making the taper work. I would like to work the windows so they slope forward not backwards. I also would like to fit a cannon under the stairs. But the length is closer to what i was hoping for with the expansion.

The expanded Black Pearl is now up on rebrickable Shineboi Black Pearl Expansion

Slow Crew (reddit) updated his expansion. Instructions are done and he is adding a few photos to the pdf file to make a few sections clearer. Sounds like we are going to have the first expanded Mod available to the masses. Expansion link i been trying to solve the cabin and wheel to rdder issue.

I have been working on a ship 12 studs longer to represent a better profile. I plan on making the upper deck cannons fit ubder the stairs and open the cabin up with my rope design i used on the barracuda. Somebody sent me a simplified technic design. I think the cabin windows needs to be 2 studs back. The stairs need to start 1 stud forward and the doors need to be pushed back 2 to 3 studs ubder the top. Ill try to refit my sunroof design into the top since i originally moddled it off the Black Pearl. Somebody sent me this reddit user who has been doing a similar idea. Reddit expansion

Glad I saved my 21000 points. Paid around $220usd. I will be on the lookout for a uaed second ship when people start selling the minifigs so i can build a 3 ft one.

The review build on Jays site clearly shows that mods will be way easier than I thought. The ebtire gun desk will be easily visable and modified with beams and proper posts. The captains cabin appears to be a more complicated mod to open the space up, but i think it will be done with some thought. The forecastle and area below seem to be simple to change and make more accurate. Overall I think the way this ship was build will make mods and expansions quite easy without destroying the exterior design.

After seeing thw official reveal i am more convinced of buying the set and modifying it with 1 to 2 more center hull pieces. The Mod Your Bricks design figured out the profile proportions nicely and I think qe could all make a great mod combining the two designs. I am looking at widening the ship by 2 studs, but keep a similar profile shape closer to what MYB design did. Adding 2 more hulls will make it too narrow, but using my Barracuda hull design to widen it will make up for it. The key to the stern design is to lower it. Its too tall, but i think its possible and still retain the rudder function, even if its a different design. That way you can retain the long captain cabin interior. I think its best to design it in Studio and plan on that as my new winter project. The forecastle needs a longer Bowspirit, about 3 to 4 inches. With these changes the new ship should be about 34 inches long. The goals for the project: 1. Retain the rudder/wheel function. Maybe using string like my barracuda 2. Retain cannon open function, maybe relocate play function from rear to quarter deck. I think you could turn the rotating function 90 degrees and make them barrels or even bilge pumps which exist near the main mast. 3. Open up the cabin. Clearly they use that space to keep angled walls up, but there has to be a better deaign like MYB did. 4. Make the gun deck accessable. 5. Open up the forecastle and make an interior.

The 35 inch long barracuda I designed a few years ago uses a custom sail design that i moddled off the Black Pear hoping someday i could build a similar sized ship. Since the files to the sails are based on my mast design, this should be an easy mod to this new ship. The new Black Pear uses 5 hulls. If you add 1 hull and widen it by 2 studs towards the front then it should be able to taper like the Barracuda in the rear based on the great cabin design the new set has. I think ill tale final photos and post the Barracuda Bay remastered sometime soon. The final ship i build will be a great starting reference for tackling The Black Pearl. I think the ship could be about 35 inches long and 33 to 34 inches tall. Its not far off from the new set. The ship needs a proper interior and maybe easy to fix or gut it entirely and make it 6000-7000 pieces like the ship sitting on my shelf. The design is great and plenty of room to use as a guide. I was saving points for Rivendell and now i think ill use them to get the ship half off. The design team did great making it bigger, just needs some love to make it an UCS model.

New leaked photos of the ship, displayed on a desk, high res figures, the front and back box design. The cannon level opens and there is an area for the treasure hold which also was their jail cell area in the movie. The profile photo showing off the display stand being removed really shows off a very similar design as the real ship. The shaping is awesome. The rudder is controlled by the wheel. Im loving the design. The captain quarters are small and brightly colored. I see how i could modify to make the masts more accurate. Man this set has a great design and plenty of space for mods.

I think they are plabning on doing ahips in the scale and give us minifigures for each set. This woyld be the best solution for getting the main cast fir each series. I look forward to them doing TOS Enterprise and somehow modify it into the SNW version. There are only two nice large scale versions of it. I know that is too early to discuss. I think what Trekyards did was great. As for TNG enterprise. The saucer is difficult to reproduce and frankly i was hoping they would have ibtroduces a new series of curved wedges. They need to introduce the wedges with a 6 stud slope. This would ve an easier trabsition for doing the saucer and offer new landscape pieces. I loved seeing them as sand in The Barracuda set and would like to see a longer slope because it would actually help do ships with the saucer designs. I would also like to see them offer more wedge designs in tile form. The recent curved slopes and wedges they introduced in speed champions are going to help craft hulls easier.

How likely do you think LEGO will show off the set next 2 weeks? It seems like its always 2 weeks before release and i cannot imagine they would wait too long. It surprises me nothibg else has been revealed. Seems like LEGO loves to leak just enough blury stuff.

Are those new Black 2x2 thick mast bottoms? I do not know if the part already exists, but this would greatly improve the structure of pirate ship masts since they only have 32 stud long axles. My custom ship would be better if it had 40-44 inch axles. But, I wonder if these new parts would benefit all ship builders.

They definately are less complex than their original ones. I was actually expecting more detail being movie deaigns not cartoony ones. They do fit with other pirate outfits so the torso designs will be nice to mix and match.

The new ladder coming out this month in nouget would be a great addition in black for the original lego ideas ecto-1 set. The ladder is 1.5 studs wide and fit perfectly inaide a 2x1 round plate with holes. This item would be perfect for that and train sets. Image is from new elementary june parts list.

The minifigure factory now has new alternative colors for the new castle and pirates in the prize machine. I wish they had alternative torso colors because they have a jacket with green stripes would be amazing.

What we are likely going to get if it is minifig scale would be the gun deck and quarterdeck. No galley. If its a model like the Endurance and not play scale then they may include something, but most likely they would just do the bow and stern without it containing anything. I really hope its not a model and actually play scale.

Island Total Piece Count So Far: 2380 The third Island section is now finished in Studio. The Top view. I think you can really see how the island comes together here. The bedroom is built next to the ships rudder. The rudder forms the right wall and the captains cabin hangs over the bed. You can see the rest of the "L" shape pier below. Row boats fit nicely here. A bit dark, but you can see the "L" shape pier come together. Where does that balcony stairway lead on the far right? I had to make a few cave changes to fit them together properly. I realized i never fixed my file after I made a few rock changes to the structure on under the pier. I really love the rocks forming a tunnel. The nice part is the tunnel at the front leads to the shipwreck forecastle. I never showed how the top parts lift off for access to the prison and the entrance to the cave. The last section is my 32x32 baseplate version of Skull Island recreation. I love how it will flesh out the entire thing. Last few things to do: - Skull Island section - Ship Middle Section Roof, front entrance door wall - Ship Stern section entrance door wall - Ship Bow section entrance door wall

If they use the prefab hulls then no. Even when I raised my gun deck for the ships im building using those, i have roughly 2 brick height. All of the lego sets using pre fab hulls always made them rest at gun deck height because the pre fab hulls are built to be water level. If they didnt make the center using the hull parts then they could hint at the idea of a lower deck. The only way to really get a 3rd deck is if the enture bottom hull is built and that would likely be a few hundred more pieces. The prefab hulls should have been redesigned years ago so they split down the center. This would allow varied ship widths. There is a 3rd party company that did it on 1 pirate ship and i bought 3 when it came out hoping it had matching brown hulls. It did not. They are also scratched to hell because of poor quality control. The hulls were built with split parts and based on the smaller lego ship hull widths so it would make the wider ship hulls have enough space at the center to have a staircase down another level. This would be cheaper foe LEGO if they redesigned them this way years ago because they could have built smaller ships and larger ships with the same parts. Or at least offer the center hull parts that split and have 2 width front sections. I would love to see them have new hull parts that split at the center and probably loved by ship builders.

I am 42, but who cares. I look forward to your designs. I love the Elizabethan era and the golden age is my favorite time. I took that era for my inspiration, but dig your ideas as a theme. I don't see a lot of cogs so it wil be wonderful to see more in that age. Some of my orders are not arriving for a few weeks so I spent a few days tearing apart my island to start reconstructing it in Studio. So far the front 2 sections are complete. This will take a bit of time to do the back sections. They are mostly caves, buildings, and lots of slopes. So far the island is around 1640 pieces for the front two sections. I reduced the piece count about 200 or so by swaping out stacked 1x1 plates and used the new 1x1 brick that is 2 plates tall for the file. I expect this island to be around 4000-5000 based on the skull island section. That section uses a bunch of plates for the building texture. These two sections are expanded versions of the original set. Without the ship in place you can see how the right is wider than the set and the left takes the shack and make it an entrance to the cave. In the photo below you can see the black removable beams. I needed a place my adult hands could reach. To the left is a removable top hatch for access to the jail cell below. I made the front sections usable like the set. So it could use the original ship placed as the set did. But this is built for larger ships im constructing with the same separation secrions so i coukd swap out parts and such. Since you guys have not seen the caves yet. The fact is you cannot access each section without swimming or using a boat. The rear sections each have their own piers that do not connect and do fit the row boats inside. the ship has a bunch of attachments, roofs, walls that i built to replace the open sections or a place for stairs to lead up to other sections of the island. I may try to make them a bit more modular so they can reconfigured on the island without a ship. But what i may build is an expanded Jose Inn based on the 3in1 ships i have never built. I originally thought of making them into a larger ship with a prefab hull. It would be nice to make this island more of a shipwreck cove with multiple designs that can all be reconfigured back to ships. CAMILLA: I really like the brown after building most of the Black ship. The dark blue and black hardly contrast. I decided to build the original color pallet with brown. I went into the file and modified it, fixed areas i wanted to match the colors, and make more of the black areas brown. The white bottom really doesnt fit well with the white area inside the yellow where the cannons are. I cleaned up the lines and such on the yellow to fit to the rear better. I love how I extended the balcony to the cabin more centered around the window and it now lines up to the yellow asthe railing curves to the ship. The interior is all white like the black ship and I began building the galley section the other day. I am waiting on the 4 orders, mostly the brown slopes and white arches since I used most of them up in the black ship galley and interior. I really dig the bright white inside and darker tones outside, but I feel like Camilla needs to be left brown on the exterior. I also built most the black ship and tore apart the upper levels and decided it would be better as a frigate so I am trying to solve that in Studio first. I will likely work on the cabin design to reflect the other designs. I think it could convert easily, im mostly approaching this project as a series of ships that would have been designed at the same time in the same family. Why the same designs? MODULAR The idea is I may swap out parts of each ship for the island, but not modify the island. Just add on it. The cabin needs a lot of work.

I have learned a ton working on this project. UPDATE 02/08/2025 UCS Barracuda: I had to disassemble some of the sections to update the Studio file. I have been building the new Imperial sister ship, but modified it since parts have come readily available and keep updating the ship with 2024/2025 parts available in the program. I decided to only fix a few parts on the Barracuda, swapping out pieces I new LEGO would eventually produce. UCS Barracuda Bay: I decided to wait until Spring to take nice photos and try to do it with a white backdrop. With me working on the Imperial ship my space is covered in parts. STUDIO FILE: I have successfully updated the Studio file on the bow, and middle section. Since I had to order parts for the new ship so many new items came available since I began this project. The studio file will be way easier to construct once I finish the Stern build. The masts are already updated based on the final Barracuda moc currently built. The main focus has been figuring out what I did to the Barracuda after building the original moc in the Studio File. So many parts were developed over the last 6 years since I began this project in 2018. The overall shape came when the Barracuda Bay official set released. I originally designed it as a n update to the original set, but once I built the new set I used the design as a base for the new model. The new file will reflect the Broadside's Revenge model. These new 1x1 round brick with 1 stud on a side has reinforced so many areas I could not achieve in the original build. I will admit building the new ship and figuring out how to fix issues I had with the Barracuda has made this a better building experience. After The Imperial ship is finished I will save the file and create a 2025 UCS Barracuda file so I can begin the instructions process. Instructions: This will be my first premium instruction offer. I will include the stand as a free bonus. UCS Broadside's Revenge: The new 3x3 corner plates are quite helpful wrapping around the slopes where the rigging will attach to the ship. On this ship, you can see them in yellow. The Bow: I am waiting for a new order that has the last of my yellow slopes for the stern, but also the front where the golden statue will rest. Unlike the forepeak I designed or the UCS Barracuda, I felt it would be more appropriate for the Imperial ship to have a straight 45 degree. The great part about this design, the statue, hoses, and flex hoses all line up exactly where there do on the Barracuda I did. I intentionally designed this idea back on the other ship and kept an extra forepeak off to the side if I ever were to change it. This lines up perfectly with the yellow trim as well. Forecastle: The Capstan: Functional like the first design I developed. The main improvement is how the structure surrounding it has greatly improved. I have decided to use two string wheels 2x2x1drums stacked on top of each other. I should have used this idea the first time. I also used 1x1 technic bricks nect to each other, but one at ground level and the other raised to line up with the second reel. This made the two anchor lines work way better without bunching up. I bought enough to swap out the old design on the Barracuda. Its why the front section is taken apart. There are no technic axles controlling the cable lines. The entire capstan you see is using friction and winds up with the twist just like a real capstan. The string that follows the line on the deck doesn't actually do anything. In real life you use it as a pully system. It does move along the spoke, around the cable reel masts surrounding the Main mast just like a real pully line, but it serves only as a guide. Storage: I wish I solved this back on the Barracuda. Too many parts to remove to make this super easy. All the floors remove, just like the Barracuda, except the containers and lego built boxes and knick knacks provide structural support to the floors and make the floors removable way faster, but also stay in one place. As you can see, the 2x2 containers are great to hold up the 4x4 floor components and here is an example how the center isactually a 4x4 hatch crate. The floors on the left and right sit on top of the containers and the hatch is held in place with the 1x2 with rails. Another section with the hatch removed. You can see how the various items looks like boxes, merchandise, etc. The hatch was removed because i wanted to show you have it looks without a floor on the left, but held up on the right. The Stern: You can see the 1x2 technic bricks with 1 centered hole where the string will run. The Barracuda has a working rudder connected to the wheel. It was a major pain to solve, but easy to get working. You can also see the main capstan that goes through 2 floors. These usually were for cargo. I designed the same idea from the front capstan design. Brig Like the Barracuda, I included this here. I used this section for the for the treasure hold. Like 18th century merchant ships the Brig was used for the more valuable treasure, but often doubled as a brig. I am hoping to have the ship finished in another week. The Cabin: The rest of the stern section will come together quite fast. I am likely going to redesign some of the rear of the ship in the yellow section to reflect a bit closer to the Iron Ram ship artwork in the old 1990s LEGO pirate stories. The nice part is, the rear angled sides and back windows all are modular on my ship. They disconnect as one large section for accessibility to the cabin and to swap out for my island connections. The Goals: 1. Finish the ship build in the next week or two 2. Finalize Studio File at the same time as finishing the ship build 3. Convert Studio File colors to match Barracuda within the same day as finalizing the file 4. Photograph the island, Barracuda, Broadsides Revenge 5. Build Instructions for both ships. 6. Build Instructions for the Stand. The island Instructions are not likely. I may consider doing it, but most likely I would build the studio file and let people have that. The island is between 10,000-15,000 pieces. The only way to know for sure is actually build it in file as close as I could. I think most people would rather display the ship on the display stand since that was my original purpose. The island sat int e corner and looked so bare from the set once I completed the ship. It really began as an expansion, but turned into a moc by itself. I love how it looks without the ship. It hold up pretty well as an island. Looking forward to sharing this project with professionally shot photographs.

Maybe they are planning a CMF, GWP, or second set since the minifig list is smaller. I could see them do a cortez gold mound with some of the other pirate minifigures. This could be a GWP with Barbossa. A small row boat with Pintel and Ragetti would also work. These would be perfect secondary items that would fit well with the theme.

Based on other mocs already i can see how a 3000 piece ship may be around 5 to 6 hull plates long and roughly 2.5 to 3 feet. Moc Your Bricks accomplishes this with 3217 pieces. The Barracuda Bay was 2545 pieces and that included an island. So it was roughly 2000 for the ship alone. The ship should invlude 2 decks. Even if they make a full interior on the gun deck level it would allow them to focus on a nice captains cabin and forecastle. My minifig list if they do the Curse.of the Black Pearl 1. Hector Barbossa and monkey 2. Jack Sparrow 3. Will Turner 4. Elisabeth Swan 5. Joshamee Gibbs 6. Ragetti 7. Pintel 8. Marty 9. Cotton 10. Bo'sun If they go with a general cast from the series i think they could easily fit a few of the other films 1. Bootstrap Bill 2. Govoner Weatherby 3. James Norrington 3. Mullroy 4. Murtogg 5. Lt. Gillette 6. Lt. Groves I think they easily could make it a 10 to 15 minifig set especially if they stick to the first film and focus on everybody except bootstrap bill. Am i missing anybody who should be made.as a minifig? I know there werre a ton of secindary characters on the Black Pearl, but i think hitting the ones we saw in almost every film would make the most sense.