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I would say that nothing really needs to be done unless MyFirstMOC - Hun wins or comes close to winning the contest. While a lot of their stuff is nice, it's nowhere near the best in the contest, and it's not all even originally theirs. If they do win, that's a bit fishy, and if some of the votes cast were from the same IP as the user in question...well...that seems like reason enough to disqualify them. I don't know if Eurobricks has access to browser user agents, but if they are the same and from the same IP, that would be a real smoking gun. In future contests, shouldn't voting be restricted to accounts created before the contest is announced? Or accounts with 10+ meaningful posts? Or something along those lines?

This was an excellent contest with many great builds. Creative critic final words in the spoiler tags. Main category Lagoon Lock-Up/Soldiers’ Tavern Remake by Aanchir Enchanted Island Remake by Danny_Boy4 Imperial Flagship Redux by Elephant Knight Rock Island Refuge by CaptainDarkNStormy SIN ISLAND: Keg & Cutlass Inn by Marooned Marin Mini set category Sloop Windy by Marooned Marin King Kahuka's Outrigger Boat by kritch Fortune Idol by Oky Treasure Island by Oky

It's a shame this was entered late, as it's wonderful! I love the angle on the chest, and all the techniques seem very modern and well though-out. Some of the "flowers" and other little decorations have been used as corals (for example in Barracuda Bay) and it would better fit the style of that set if those were in the water and not on land. The back view could use some clean up; there is a solid wall of gray and the sand could be smoother. But apart from that, this looks great!

Blasphemy. Wow, the physical build looks great. Even though the photos aren't the best, but it still looks so much better than the renders did. I actually can't believe the difference, this went from being a good build to one of my favorite entries in the contest. It looks like you hand drew the sails; if you printed them, they'd look a lot cleaner. But still, this is downright excellent. I hope it makes it to Rebrickable.

A great little island, I'd love to see more of the traps and how they work. There are some bits that would benefit from better color usage, but that's fine considering the age of the builder.

Nicely done! Just needs a minifigure. That jumper is a surprisingly clever mechanism for a 5 year old, you've definitely got a talented builder on your hands!

This is nice, although I'm not sure the roof is really needed. A true pirate would just get wet in the rain! Great selection of accessories and a clever use of the cannon base as a hinge.

Very nice job capturing the design language of the new Eldorado! This is a worthy remake of the original, and I love how well it integrates. By itself this is a good design, but when connected, it definitely goes from good to great. As with Eldorado, I wish this was more than just a straight remake of the original set, adding on some additional details and easter eggs would be most welcome. But still, this is a wonderful little design. I can't wait to see more stuff from you. I hope you use your talent to build a completely new expansion for Eldorado.

Awesome! What an imposing ship! This is definitely built more in the style of a MOC than an official set, but that's OK, it's big and intimidating and just all around cool! I do have some minor suggestions: To me, they don't work, pirates wouldn't wear uniforms like that, but if they make it fun for you, by all means keep them. I'm afraid I agree with this, simple wooden planks for decking would be fine. Also, the eyes over the cannons are quite comical but don't fit with the rest of the ship at all. The double jib design on the front makes no sense. If you want a flying jib, that's fine and would actually look pretty good on a ship of this size, but one needs to be in front of the other. And your flags are facing the wrong way :) There are some really fantastic details in here, the technique for the piano keys is amazing, the windows are well done, the railings where they slope down next to the stairs look good. And again, the sheer size of this thing is spectacular. Very nicely done!

This is perhaps the most original-accurate modernization of the Caribbean Clipper in this contest. Very nicely done! The interior details are so detailed and well thought out, it's just perfect. I especially like the inclusion of shakos and backpacks, always good to be prepared for land. It looks like it would be tricky to reach inside the captains quarters, but that is a small issue for such exquisite detail. I'm very curious to see how you did the helm/rudder design, a pic or two of the mechanism would be great. The fleur de lis is a great design, but would be more recognizable if it was black. But that's minor. And some elements are copy/pasted from Barracuda Bay. But there's enough original stuff here that all I can say is that this is simply masterfully done, and the only real issues are ones that were present in the original ship (the cannon covers that open downward, the useless mizzenmast, the ratlines in the center of the ship, and the overall short length). But it would hardly be fair to complain about those issues, since your goal was clearly a modernization of the original, and in that, you've succeeded marvelously.

What a great little design, quite an upgrade over the original set! When viewed from the back, the overhang on the left side is a bit awkward, an arch would improve the look, I think. Also, there is a bit more gray than the original set had. I would swap out some of that for white or green bricks to keep the original's look. A bit of gray is OK, kind of like a bit of dark red is OK in Eldorado style builds, IMHO there's just a bit much here. The tree is an interesting design, but it feels more 'bayou' and less 'Caribbean island'. Either the sand should be changed, or, more simply, the tree should be swapped for a simple palm tree. Very nice minifigures, the accessories nicely modernize the classic torsos. The faces don't bother me at all. The sails do not really work for me; this ship is too small to have the full emblem on it. Print up some sails with just a blue stripe and it would be better. That said, the rest of the boat is a great little design, I love the figurehead and how it extends and expands the standard rowboat. Especially the curves on the sides are nicely shaped. Overall this is a great entry, and considering that I really dislike the original set, you've done a great job making something that actually looks good!

Looks good with some very modern techniques, and it well matches the design language used in Barracuda Bay. I am not the one to judge whether or not this qualifies for the contest, but I certainly enjoy looking at it! The ladder between the two cannons could benefit from the same technique used on the Barracuda Bay ship, so that it slopes back following the tumblehome. This set's greatest strength is also its greatest weakness: by closely following the original 6274, you've got some issues: Ratlines running in the center of the boat An unused mizzenmast (admittedly you've got a crow's nest there, but a mast like this would be great for a spanker or a lateen sail like Skull's Eye Schooner has on its aftcastle. A boat that's a bit too short and wide to go toe-to-toe with the Barracuda But despite these, it looks great. I will wait for someone to come by and say that the brown masts don't look good, but I like them! Really nice work modernizing this set!

This looks like a fun little build! I would like to see some better pictures; is there any chance you could upload some to Imgur or Flickr and link them here? Eurobricks is not really great a picture hosting. That sail reefing mechanism looks great, and you've done a good job of combining some of the iconic features of both the 90s and 2010s pirates. I like the Eldorado slope-and-arch windows and I think they work really well contrasting against the brown dock.

Nice minifigures, looks like you really went all out with the wigs! The admiral could use some dual molded legs with black boots, otherwise they are great. Still not as great as the pirate crew in your other entry, though -- those ones are next level! For the builds, mast/flagpole is adequate but looks like it might be a bit unstable. The cannon, however, is excellent. I would love to see some more pictures to see how it was done. Really nice small build overall!

I have owned more than one boat that had a triangular main sail like this and as long as it's on a boom as shown here, it's fine. However, behind a square rigged sail, you are correct that it would do little. While a fore-and-aft rigged system was not common in the age of sail, it's no more inaccurate than many other things found in official sets. Actually, given the Caribbean not-a-Clipper, the Skull's Eye not-a-Schooner, the Imperial I-sure-hope-that-isn't-their-Flagship and many others, perhaps you are alluding to these by referring to this ship - with a square rigged main sail, as a sloop :) I like the cannonades, the use of blue torso pirate figures as rowers, and many of the fine details of this ship. The colors don't really work for me, I think mostly the red sails are a bit much and don't fit with the white and blue rest of the ship. And it bothers me that every single one of your bluecoat flags is upside down. But still, this is a great build, very innovative and full of amazing details. Very nice!

The cannon is a great build and the pirates look good -- some of the best purist customs in the contest for sure! Although that fellow with the face tattoo may have difficulty landing an office job if he ever decides to retire from piracy As this is not a mini build, I would expand it with a few more elements; why not a tree, a bit wall, a dock, a crane or similar? By itself this is fantastic, I just want more!!

Nice work! The overall silhouette is very nice and follows the role of thirds. The colors are good, very classic, although there's a lot of monotone walls with very little texture. One exception is the tower (and a few other spots) where round yellow bricks break up the corner very nicely. I'd like to see more stuff like that throughout the build. The concept is quite solid, a good mash-up of Eldorado and the Imperial Trading Post. Nice minifigure selection, although it could use a pirate or two. A parrot would also bring it to life a bit more. There are a lot of good interior details, but in the end this feels to me more like a MOC than an official set; but overall this is fun to look at and really feels like it belongs in the classic pirates theme. Looks good to me!

This is another wonderful little design; the story here needs some fleshing out: is this a wrecked ship? If not, where are the sails? What treasure is it laden with? Surely not just gold chains and corbel/scroll bricks? But still, this is a good start and a decent build, and while it's the weakest of little Stormy's three entries in my opinion, that's OK -- ships are hard to build!

Yet another great little build; it needs some trees, animals, and a minifigure or a skeleton to bring it to life. You have a very talented builder!

This is insanely good for age 7. I don't know that I have any pics of the stuff I built when I was that age, it was back when cameras used film and it each picture cost money to be developed so my parents didn't take many, but let me tell you, nothing I built was anywhere near this nice. The color scheme is befitting any AFOL design, nice use of dark green and sand green grass. The bracken, lonely tree, and hostile animals portray a desolate landscape where our grizzled hero is forced to choose between starvation or death by spider bite, or jumping to swim and risk his chances with the shark. The masonry bricks don't really make sense on a natural cliff, but that's minor, so who cares... Great work.

I get that this is a modernization of two classic sets, but I agree that it would be stronger with two factions. This is a very ambitious design, but you've done a great job with a lot of elements, especially the recreation of the sliding cliffs. One issue I see is the rocks and sand; usually you'd have a pile of rocks sticking up out of sand. Sand doesn't form straight vertical cliffs like you've got in the center of the build (1 full brick high), and rocks don't usually form shallow slopes down to the water. Details like this might not seem important, but they subconsciously take me out of the build. Get rid of the 1x3 slopes in gray and make all the rocks the same color and general (vertical) shape. Looks great apart from this, though!

Nice!! The blue and white striping on the tumblehome and cannon covers is the best part of the build. So good! There are quite a lot of good techniques used here, the ratline extension, the 1x1 round plates in the technic bricks, the use of 3x3 curved windows as a railing, the wheel well window shades, the list goes on. I really like the way the whole thing disassembles to access the below decks. The clock really bothers me, as clocks with a second hand would have absolutely changed the world in the 1600s. The use of both yellow and gold is a bit much in places, especially on the back of the ship, but it's OK for the most part. I just love how well detailed the whole build is, the cooking area below decks, the barrel of swords, all the accessories, the beds, the captain's quarters. One of the main complaints that I have is that this mixes a lot of older and newer techniques: the front/upper deck of the ship is built with blocky 3x3 modified facet bricks, but then right next to those is a very modern lantern design. There's a few other places like this; anywhere that's a flat wall of some color could be broken up with a more modern design. Again, the side of the ship where the cannons come through the tumblehome is perfect, it's what the rest of this build should aspire to. I am not a big fan of tiles everywhere; they make it hard to pose figures. But, this is minor. All in all, very nice work. An excellent ship!

This looks really nice now, a huge improvement!

Best advice here! This is a great use of the pit and ramp baseplate to make an incredible fort. As with your Caribbean Brig, there are too many minifigures and cannons. The overall design is very nice, and the concept itself is outstanding. I especially like the way the pier breaks the grid, it's just perfect. Ultimately, this feels much more like a MOC than an official set. While it's excellent in its own right, it's just a bit too complex and large for an official set. Still, very nice work. If you make instructions available, I'm sure lots of people would buy them.

Marvelous color usage! I like the most recent revision with the spider and the beard. What a great little set! The only issue I see is with the clutch strength on the 1x2 grille tiles: when you go to lift up on the treasure cave, the 1x2 plate and the 2x grille tiles will detach from the 1x2 plate with 2 clips. You can fix this by adding a boat stud (part 2654) underneath them. Apart from this, I wouldn't change a thing, it's simply wonderful!