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Oh my bad, don’t mind the minifigures, I was just posing them with the set, I should have taken the figures out before taking the pictures, but for sure it would be close to 5-8 figures total, oops my bad, I completely overlooked the figures.

Just the quality of plastic in recent years from any brand, I have had shfiguarts, Bandai, hasbro, Lego, figures in general, I’m a collector I barely touch or adjust my figures but I had two buy two autoart models car to fix only one car, Lego is on the same route, some of my figures have gotten tight around the arms and last I moved it, the arm snapped and broke off easily. i buy Lego because the company is one of the few that still offer replacement parts but I personally have moved away from buying every single figure that comes out, what destroyed my confidence was hot toys and some Star Wars figures, where the clothing disintegrated on me, faux leather sucks! I’m at that point in my collection where even my die cast model cara have gotten paint rash 😭, it is what it is, but my original experience with Lego breaking came from the kingdoms sets, some recent Star Wars sets and recent Harry Potter sets have snapped on me, but it is something to consider.

This my entry for the contest, I thought the 2015 line had potential and seeing how detailed and modular the NINJAGO lineup was I decided to revisit the 2015 pirate skull island and shipwrecked defense for a bigger hideout that would be impregnable for imperials to get through. It’s more of a docking station for the brick bounty but it also adds a sense of being ship wrecked still!!! My goal for this was thinking what “if” lego released a second wave of the modular 2015 pirate wave, I figured they would expand on the shipwreck more than anything!!

This is my entry to the contest, Although the brick built sails that came with this set are good, I wanted regular sails. I took the liberty of changing the masts to fit the sails and also modified some areas to make them minifigure height around the deck and added a wall to separate the front of the ship from the rear. It’s a decently sized small ship but my vision was to add a few details and building techiniques I found from the 2015 Brick Bounty and the 2020 Barracuda!!

Nahh, toys in general are not made to last as of recent, recent minifigures have broken and shattered, even some bricks in some Harry Potter sets have broken and snapped, I’m still processing all of this!

Just bricks in general, All colors including brown pieces are prone to breaking, you can order the replacement pieces from lego from free or purchase it from another site but you can still find the majority of the bricks through lego.

Wait, quick question, looking at the imperial trading post and seeing how they mixed in new red roof updated elements with this one, and considering how the new baseplate styled bricks, would you buy two or three to make it possible? Less than a week for its release!!!

It’s funny because LEGO.com clearly changed their VIP release date from July 1st to July 4th, someone else on this forum caught it as well before the change. I’m only mad because it’s being released on a Tuesday now haha, but when items are out of stock on LEGO.com check your local store inventory for updated stock.

Look at the current state of LEGO pirate sets, last pirate set was released in 2020, there’s no waves just small pirate themed call outs, who knows when the next pirate set would be. PaB is cheap as hell and I can build a dock cheaper than BL to be honest, not to mention I can get extra mini figures that way. Many thought this year’s classic set would had been the medieval village because they were rumors about how it could connect to the Lion Knights castle but el dorado came through, i love this set better than the creator 3 an 1 set we would had gotten if lego kept their word about the classic lines. I’m completely happy modifying current lego sets, what’s done’s done, and I can’t wait for this set. To answer Jack Sassy, the Disney route: we get diamonds rather than pearl gold, when before it was chrome yellow for pirate treasure.

I’m buying this for the figures, any fan would know we can replace brick colors and swap out what we don’t like I.e brick made door on second floor but fact of the matter is that people indeed complained about the POBB masts and to add the cherry on top if the docks were brown, ya’ll would be saying it should had been better in black. Lest we forget Lego has been getting away with charging overinflated prices, I am pretty sure if POBB was released today it would had been close to 230-250. There’s no comparison, remember the 50 dollar increase from what was originally the Lion Knights castle? For the longest time we heard it was 350usd then just so happens that August was the day they increases said prices and we got it for 399.99 😭😭. there’s no going back.

My logic behind this set is that the bricks and figures from such a period will be available "again" like if I wanted to recreate an Imperial trading post per se, the new bricks and style are available from PaB, making it thus easier to expand on these notions and imaginations hehehe

To be honest, this is my logic on this, and I might sound crazy, but even if LEGO managed to release one set per line a year, in my humble and crazy logic all I can think is Pick a Brick. Endless possibilities, in my case, when all the previous sets we discussed were released I have managed to double my set oriented exclusive pieces and minifigures to future proof my collection, If Lego won't give me the sets I want, I might as well bank on the current availability of the "line" and the figures. I bought two sets of barracuda bay minifigures for my pirate lineup and tripled my lion knight army collection for each banner under their shields and managed to acquire bricks and essentials necessary for my projects. I'm not creative by any means but I just expand on current mentioned sets, I'm trying to be hopeful with lego but the days of pushing multiple Pirates and Castle sets for us consumers are over I think, so I am content with what we get and I love new and improved takes or remakes of their older sets, because it evolves on what we grew up on. Believe me, my wallet is ready, but I am also still hopeful that maybe LEGO will go the subscription right and keep their word on the Lego Vault sets exclusives and would be curious to see how far back they would had gone. I'm a little sad because LEGO was changing the LEGO VIP early access window from the 7th, to the 1st, back to the 4th of July and since it's a national Holiday I don't think that many people will be in town in the first place on the US that is. They already leaked the DISNEY 100 GWP for July, with a set number and no majisto as of yet. Knowing LEGO, they will probably release it on some off the wall month to get us to purchase their sets.

If I am lucky I am planning for my second set of this to be an Imperial trading post, considering the ship we got for this and the similarities it makes perfect sense I think! LEGO legit said that castle/Pirates would only move forward as creator 3 in 1 sets. they sold enough castles and ships to finally throw in the towel and give us PoBB/Lion knights castle. I'm excited.

It’s there. You just haven’t been paying attention haha, check the official pictures of the room with the barrel above a treasure chest 😉, it’s hidden, look at the 30 second video around the 18 second mark. They changed the date from July 1st to July 4th for VIP early access now 😒

I was more worried about the set being canceled as many were, because it was so under wraps that not even a peep out of anyone or pictures, I’m glad I was wrong but you are right, although I was bit obsessed that I legit started having nightmares about this set being canceled, and checking the internet daily for pictures, nothing prepared me for finally seeing the full set at least. It all ended in tears because I wanted to see this set pull through finally. Now I’m juts looking at this set and starting to nitpick this in a good way. Like for example the admirals wooden door in the tower is made out of bricks, LOL i need to start preparing for this set! I’m also curious on why LEGO did reuse a lot of the faces, they could had made a new one for the admiral at least I think, but I’m not complaining I’ll face swap them anyways or buy more figures when it hits PAB in a couple of months. I grew up in Central America, I never heard of it either but I remember having spring loaded cannons, at least we had that! Haha I mean not even the lego website has names for them anyways, we can seriously make it up as we go, I mean brick beard is wearing a disguise because of his wanted status by the imperial army that Lady Anchor needed him to steal the gold to fund and repair the shipwrecked black seas barracuda. I know people get hung up on not having brickbeard physically wearing his normal outfit, but since the LEGO group reused his face anyways, it’s easy to say he’s just wearing a different outfit? Either way it’s not the same gray haired brick beard from the barracuda bay so it can be a younger version Or it can be a prequel story to how he became brick beard in the first place by stealing the gold and started to conquer the seven seas. I am curious though ,if Neils mentioned that LEGO lost money using the base plates, why did LEGO continue to make them until the 2010’s? I mean it’s gone now but I’m just thinking out loud here.

Huge weight off my back with this set being released in less than two weeks!!! Some reviewers were saying July 4th? struck me as odd then Saw the site change it to July 1st, on a saturday as well, that lego line at the mall is going to be pure hype!!!!

Soooo I just saw that the Lego website updated the early release window for July 1st(7th for regular consumers) on the US. OMG

I feel like i'm the only who stocked up on the 2015 wave haha, to be honest the prints are nearly identical you could barely tell BUT it's a welcome touch, the more the merrier.

I am actually impressed he managed to keep this under wraps for so long considering the massive leak of 2023/2024 from a focused group of lego recently. I wish I could get lego to send me sets for reviews hahaha Year and half, barracuda bay came out in August 2020 but it retired november 2021 I think, 19 months it lasted. Reason I remember is because that's when I bought my second set, it went down to 180 bucks I think. I'm surprised the 3in1 pirate ship is still being sold since 2019.

Have you seen the Lego promotional video of this set? It was all the singing monkey’s fault hahaha, it’s actually pretty catchy and well done 😍😍

I’m going to go crazy on PaB with the mini figures, especially on red epaulettes 😍 The Lego discord server members were saying that the July GWP will be Disney related considering the Disney castle remake? Just rumors, don’t take my word for it 🫣

So we can buy two sets? The second one would pass off as an imperial trading post with that ship 🥹 I heard the Majisto GWP was pushed back to September

It’s what makes the wait short for me, I just finished the indiana jones sets and have the Harry Potter sets from this year and the Batman returns batcave, my pirate sets are all taken apart at the moment and I feel that it would be the perfect chance to finally rebuild them. I always buy retro lego sets day one, the castle last year was a massive hyped up set for me at the lego store!

Lololol wouldn’t surprise me, but I’m over the moon now more than ever about the modular capabilities of this set!! Wooooo my PAB orders are going to be insane hahahaha My only knitpick is the fact they brought back the blue parrot and not the red one

This is exactly why lego doubled down on the modern updates, even lego.com has an ad about “nostalgia” and are looking to keep the same almost retro look and they nailed it on this set. With that said I’ve been obsessing about the lego pictures and realized that this set doesn’t open up, but it’s modular, you can rearrange them like the 2015 sets and that speaks volumes to me, i did MOC’s of the 2015 imperial sets and the Eldorado will make a great expansion to those!!!