PxChris

Yes, and yes.

My BAM tower had both of these dual moulded legs in stock, and while the red & black ones may have been the "intended" legs for this figure, I actually quite prefer the dark tan & brown ones.

I did not. I've found that I'm mostly better informed than the LEGO store staff when it comes to stuff like that...

I was able to pick up a few of the Pirate skeleton figure at my closest LEGO store yesterday! It's a really fun torso.

Apparently per the leakers the set will be released July 4 and retail for $215 USD.

That's a great looking ship! One would hardly even know what the basis of the hulls are if you weren't already aware or looking very, very closely.

I love the idea of taking just a couple of fairly easily obtainable sets and making a pretty unique MOC just from those parts. Well done!

I saw an early review for the set that indicated that the sail was indeed cloth, not vinyl as I had assumed it would be.

Fun concept! Nice to have a different rock build than a skull.

I would vote for patched sails.

Bravo bravo @Marooned Marin!! I'm on a bit of a Pirates of the Caribbean kick right now, so this is a real pleasure to see! You've seemed to capture the magnificence of the ship quite spectacularly. I do indeed look forward to more progress as you move this model into the brick!

Stuart showed a sketch model of a chest during the Instagram live event for the release (also can be seen in the second and third photos of his Instagram post here). He mentioned that at one point they were thinking about it as an accessory to go along with the figure but ultimately decided it would be too large a model for just an accessory. It was mostly reddish brown (with some black sections) and very likely based very, very closely off of that model of Mark's.

Some very nice tutorials - thank you for sharing them and the work that you put into them @Ayrlego.

For search terms on PAB you'll want to use "ship" and "stem". But there are currently none of the hull pieces available on there.

I still have an unopened second copy of PoBB along with my built set (currently in ship form, with the island portion stored away). The last thing I want from a D2C Pirates set is another Barracuda! That set was damn-near perfection. It's a shame that it didn't get a longer shelf-life, but it's been done perfectly this decade, we need some Imperial counterpart.

His name in the German comic is "Speedy".

I would honestly be pretty shocked if it's a re-release of PoBB or even a new standalone BSB.

Bo'sun Will was such an important character in the comic, story books, and radio plays, that he will always be tied to the young plain faced minifigure for me. The fact that the set 6235 in the UK was called Bo'sun Will in the catalogs I always just write off as an anomaly in my own head canon. I agree with @TalonCard's conjecture that this minifig factory figure could certainly represent Will though!

Since the subject has come up, and since I just posted this to my Instagram again, I thought that placard I made that for my convention display about some of the main named characters in the Pirates line might be enjoyed by the members here! Spinoza was also featured in both the comic and the story books.

The instructions for the set are available now and are well worth a look at if even just for the introductory reading!

To me... the only Bo'sun Will will always be the "young" version with the plain face since that's the one included in 6255 and as depicted in the comic and books.

Yeah... I could definitely go for that too!

Yeah, I saw a photo of that fig on Instagram as well (which I can't seem to find again) - the front print seems to be very close to the red & white striped version we've had for a while, albeit with white arms instead of bare yellow arms, which honestly just looks a little weird to me (maybe just because I'm so used to seeing pirate torsos as tank tops with yellow arms). So it's really just the text on the back that is the more exclusive part it seems.

The source isn't 100% reliable, but it does have some possible merit. I'm waiting for some of the more accurate/reliable leakers (like Promobricks) to leak something before I'll start believing it more fully. However, even the rumor is very exciting! I'm hoping for a Eldorado Fortress remake personally which would seem to fit in with the "vault" concept.