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The black pauldron piece is now available at PAB. It is called MINI ARMOUR, NO. 35. 6 capes from the DS are now available in a MULTIPACK.

Beautiful figbarf - love the minifigs and the stories behind them! My favorite has to be Fieryn!

Some figures from CMF series 29 leaked and one of them would make a fabulous pirate! Not sure about the hat though. But the hair/hat piece looks great.

This strategy only works if customers let it work and act against what is best for them (purchase a good for the lowest possible price) and for the benefit of a multi-billion dollar company and the billionaires behind it. But it is already too late... The production cost of a small and simple* GWP must be, well, small. So throwing it after day-one buyers who pay the full RRP is like printing Danish krones But I understand I am in the minority. I love the LOTR minifigs but will never get one of them because I'd never buy a $500+ set and I am not interested in displaying sets anyways. Maybe I am lucky and one day in the future another torso shows up at PAB, like Pippin's from Rivendell I plan to binge The Rings of Power in preparation * For example, Fell Beast looked super simple to me. Like, they just took one old random table-scrap a designer built in minutes and made it a set.

If you are interested in sets, set 21365 is on shelves right now and features a very nice tree. Actually one of the best trees I have seen in an official Lego set so far. I plan to get this set for the parts.

I admired the build already on flickr. It's such a nice little scene. Love the minifigs! And the tea cart!

When can we expect the official reveal/images of the Creator pirate ship when it is releasing in June?

Captain Jack Sparrow is the worst best pirate I have ever seen!

What about Skeleton Crew?

From my observation there are indeed much more castle fans than pirates fans. Since Camilla's and Will's torsos are up at PAB, they will stay on the cheap end I guess. There's always much more buzz about castle minifigs. EDIT: I don't want to sound too negative of course. I love pirates and I wish the theme would be treated better by Lego!

First I want to say, that I love the variety of bricks, pieces and colors we have today, but it is much harder, more time consuming and more expensive to build a good basic collection of pieces to build your own creations. When I was a kid I used the same bricks to build a castle and an aircraft carrier (that experience stuck with me ). If you buy just a few sets today you end up with many different pieces in many different colors and it can be challenging to build even some basic stuff like a house. Then we have a lot of 1x1 pieces nowadays. I mean A LOT. It is not a set for kids but I always think of Rivendell as an good example for 1x1 pieces. It has like 530 1x1 tiles alone! Then there are all the other 1x1 pieces in that set like plates, round plates and modified plates, flowers, etc. Lego knows people use the ppp as a metric to gauge a set's worth and inflating the piece count with 1x1 pieces is easy. And 1000 1x1 pieces cost basically nothing in production. I guess the weight of all pieces of a set would be a good additional metric but it is rarely every used. Maybe some youtubers mention the weight every now and then but that's about it. But the question is, does LEGO want people to take sets apart and build something new? I don't think so. For LEGO it is more profitable when people buy an expensive collectors item, build it once and then display it aka bury it on a shelf. Then buy a new set and repeat the process. Playing and moccing just disturbs the money-printing machine. Same for children -> see my first point.

Camilla's and Will's torsos from the vending machine set are up at PAB now, as well as tan epaulettes.

The sand green torso, skirt and wings of the figurehead are up at PAB now. There are also Elizabeth's, Will's and Gibbs's hair pieces and Cotton's bandana up for grabs. And there are three large hull pieces also at PAB. The 1x1 printed round tile/coin too. And a compass.

The Hunt for Gollum is scheduled for release in December 2027. Prepare for playsets and battlepacks everyone! I mean, there is hope, right?

I agree

Great job once again Love the red hussar. The minfigs you show in your previous post look great too! Especially the barbary pirates

I hope so! Like with PotC, a new movie is my only hope for LotR playsets and battlepacks. It's depressing to see how Lego treats these themes (Lego Star Trek suffers the same fate.)

All the years I really was under the impression that LotR is one of the world's best know IP, famous all around the world, up there with PotC, GoT, HP, Star Trek and others. But whenever small Lego sets are brought up people always talk it down. Maybe I was wrong and LotR is just a small niche thing after all I guess people are right, surely kids would have no idea what to do with a battlepack of orcs /s

Oh wow, never thought we would get a ship this year! From BrickTab on reddit: 31387 Legendary Pirate Ship 1,074 pieces June release

I agree and want to add, that there are much more people into Lego now than there were in the past. Think of how many people joined the hobby during the pandemic. And there's no (such a big) stigma of 'nerdy adults playing with kids plastic toys' anymore.

Welcome @Eplay Great to have you aboard

Yeah, it looks pretty bad! A proper playscale cantina was no 1 on my wishlist! All the years since I left my dark ages I was waiting for such a set. And now that Lego is releasing a cantina, it has to be some smart play garbage No, thanks! I'll boycott this smart play slop. I am here for dumb Lego.

Sorry, then I was wrong. All the years I thought there were two different options of highlighting a build. My mocs got both treatments too and so I really thought 'frontpaged' and 'featured' (with and without picture) were different options. My bad!

There are not many kids that can afford to buy sets that cost 270-500 $/€. And most kids won't get too excited about book nooks or helmets either. If there would be smaller sets and battlepacks, kids would buy them imo. And many adults too.

Now I have watched of the SW demo videos too and I am shocked how bad this is. The sounds are hard to hear and the rattling of the Lego pieces is much louder. And not even the Cantina Song is playing, just some royalty-free slop? This whole smart play thingy will be interesting to kids for one minute and then they continue playing the "classic way". Gosh, I hope this flops so hard