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This is a great improvement over the original! The mini builds are nice, and look great. The only issue I have here is that I associate a canoe (without an outrigger) with freshwater streams in northern climates, whereas I think of a palm tree as Caribbean. I'd swap the canoe for a rowboat. But, I suspect I may be alone in my opinion; it's not a huge deal either way.

This is a nice build, with some very good techniques and great details! This is done with LDraw, not Stud.io, right? Kind of a shame, because Studio's renders are much better than this, and you're kneecapped yourself by hiding a great build behind bad pictures! I love the trapdoors, especially the bed trapdoor. That's not something I've seen before, and it's so well executed. Excellent job! It feels a bit like Fort Legoredo with the card table and the trapdoors to escape or jail. A lot of stuff works great here - the spyglass, the table, the minifigures, the jail cell, the bottle over the fireplace, etc. But, I do have some suggestions: the interior is much too brown and needs more colors to break it up. The 1x2 masonry bricks don't exist in black. The build is unfortunately a mix of classic (yellow sand, molded stairs, etc.) and modern bricks like the lanterns, door, and masonry tiles. Lean one direction or the other, but this is awkwardly split down the middle, IMHO. Of course, it is a very nice build overall, but I wish it wasn't so square when viewed from the outside. All that said, this is a fun build with some great minifigures (the woman with the Ice Planet face!) and I look forward to seeing what you create next!

This looks great so far, good shaping on the baseplate, nice dock (looks very Barracuda Bay!), the bridge is good, and the plant life is planted in such a way that it makes sense. I hope you're able to finish it in time!

Agreed, although... This is fantastic -- go with it!

What a great build! The classic sets feel right at home with the more modern design of the tower on the left and the dock. It's hard to integrate old and new techniques like that, but you've done a fantastic job. I do like the water and black base, but it feels too complex for an official set. Still, it looks nice, so there's no real harm in leaving it. The colors look good, very "classic pirates". The interior details are great, I love the folding beds. One thing that would improve this is better texture on the tower. Right now, you've got good contrast with yellow corner stones and the white walls, but the surface is flat. It would look better, I think, if you used some white "Brick, Modified 1 x 1 with Studs on 2 Sides, Adjacent" bricks, with yellow 1x2 and 1x1 tiles over them. This technique is used in set 21325 (Blacksmith) on the foundation area. This technique applied to your build would really improve the tower's appearance. Although, it already looks quite good, so this is just a suggestion. You have also done a wonderful job of visual storytelling. I don't speak a word of French (this probably makes me a terrible bluecoat), but I understood what was going on in the pictures very well without the need of Google Translate. Excellent work, this is definitely something to be proud of!

This is a nice little build! I think it needs a bit more "fleshing out" to become a proper design. As others noted, it would be great to see the minifigures posed in the set. And the colors, while great on their own, don't really match the established colors of a classic pirates set. Taking risks like that is fine, good, even, but it only works if the rest of the build is also pushing the envelope. I'd like to see some or all of the following: More accessories (there's one sword for 3 minifigures) More detailed masonry work Some interior on the buildings, maybe a kitchen or some beds? A more modern lantern design Some crenelations on the roof around the cannon More animals to bring the set to life, a parrot, gull, monkey are obvious choices A palm tree You're off to a great start with this, though, and I can't wait to see what you'll design next!

I agree completely. The real problem was the color scheme, IMHO. Having flamboyant colors worked on the Skull's Eye because 1) it was a pirate ship and 2) the colors were accents on a mostly black and white ship. The Armada Flagship looked like it sailed through clown vomit. Your first design is a remarkable improvement over the original, but to me, there are still just too many colors. The second revision is much better. Glad someone else noticed this. Reversing the mizen sail direction and adding a line at the bottom is a huge improvement. I agree with this assessment. You've done a good job of updating the set with less red and it looks a lot better for it! Wonderful photographs, although seeing the ship in the sea like that makes me worried about losing bricks :) If I can make a suggestion; even the second revision still looks like a MOC, and not an official set. There are some outstanding bits here -- the rope wrapped around the chest to hold it is brilliant, the compass and bell area is great, the horn and flower pieces are good decorations, etc. But, this would benefit from being scaled down just a bit: if the same effect can be achieved with fewer bricks, it should be. Does the cabin need two trophies? And seven cups? (Surely that is bordering on alcoholism!) Can the whole cabin be shrunk down? The decks are very high, can they be lowered by a brick or two? The change from the first version to the second is incredible, and if you can improve the build like that once or twice more, you have a real shot at a winning design here. As it stands now, this is a mediocre official set turned into a great MOC. Excellent work, but there's already a lot of good ships in this contest!

This was clear to me from the beginning -- I am not particularly familiar with the pirates lore, but to me this is a wonderful touch. Agreed! Shockingly nice work, it's so clean and well-shaped. Masterfully done! And I say this as someone who does not particularly like brick-built sails. I feel like the final rudder/tiller design used by @Marooned Marin on the Sloop Windy is actually a bit stronger than this. But, yes, this is decent for sure. To be honest, the boat is the weakest part of this design, and that's saying something... I was about to question the use of black ingot tiles on the dock -- they look like a trip hazard -- but then I see that one of them makes a handle for the secret area, so they are fine. The secret area makes me think of 6263 Imperial Outpost, in a good way. Very nice design that captures the classic pirates spirit. The minifigures are wonderful, although I am not sure how I feel about the red scarf, it would be hot and itchy in the Caribbean sun, wouldn't it? The images are well rendered and the figures posed perfectly in each. That takes a lot of effort that many people simply wouldn't go to. Many wonderful techniques are captured here, and I'm afraid people are overlooking them. It took me a long time to figure out how you rigged the gaff halyard through the mast, only to realize that you've used two separate rope bricks. The kitchen with the cups hanging up, the chairs (which I still can't figure out, it's part 41682 with what...?), the bird's nest, the palm tree, which looks to be your own design, or at least not something I've seen before, it's all just great! So much about this build captures the spirit of the original while using modern parts. The change in the awnings from slope bricks to inverted curved bricks is maybe the best example of this. Well done. This entry will have one of my 3 votes, I think. I hope it ends up on Rebrickable so I can build it for myself.

This is a great little parts pack with some neat minifigures! The parrot and the bicorne allow for some nice storytelling, although the pirates have no weapons to fight over the hat. I do wish there was more of a "build" here -- it's more-or-less just a pile of treasure as it is, and while I understand that is the point, it would be nice if there was just a bit more to it. Perhaps a brick-built large treasure chest?

The ama design is downright wonderful. Absolutely perfect shaping. I love it. Yeah, it would be better in red, but it's fine in brown. I'd be interested to see what this might look like with a shield, a sail, a flag, a set of horns, or a drum -- all of these were Islander staples and would make this feel more "classic", although it's hard to say if they would improve the build or not, since it's wonderful as-is. I do really like that this is just some dude out spearfishing, and there isn't a lot of conflict (except perhaps if he decides to have turtle soup for supper). Excellent work!

I think this is a great little build! Nice colors, everything is simple, but feels very much like an official set, and good minifigure selection. The arch seems too low to be able to walk under, and the fort needs a flag, but this is otherwise pretty much perfect.

This is really all the matters! The wake around the shark is well made, it really feels like the shark is emerging. IMHO, there isn't really enough of a "build" here for me to give feedback on; I'd love to see more of a raft or a bit of a shipwreck, or something like that. Flickr or Imgur should work.

One word: Wow! This is simply amazing, an excellent build and a great recreation and modernization of a classic set. I would like to see a couple more pics of how you build the bridges -- it seems like they could be done with tan (and black ropes) which would add a good amount of contrast to a fairly-black set. Still, it's not bad at all as it is! When it's open, what happens to the second rope bridge? I love all the details -- the sleeping area, the jail cell, the weapons storage, etc. The build is just so well executed! I think that it's missing the sail on the Imperial boat and the "torn sail" flag on the pirate raft. Both were great icons of the original set and could stand to come back. The minifigures are perfect, you absolutely nailed it with these!

I think it works well as it is. I get the impression this is just the entrance to a much larger cave system, and the torch is an invitation to explore it. Very nice use of the small crate piece to create the hidden treasure. The handle seems like it might be a bit weak and pop off; I reconstructed this with actual bricks, and the clutch strength between the 2x2 slope brick and the crate is relatively low, but still too high for your build to work: pulling up on the handle removes the handle, not the slope brick. Interestingly, pushing down or sideways removes both the slope brick and the handle. A 2 stud handle of just about any kind would fix this. This be the sad truth. But, I can appreciate a good design, and you've done a great job with this one, much better than the original!

I don't care what others say, this is a proper remake in my book! I would swap out the yellow crab for a red one - better contrast against the sand. But there's little else that needs changing here: it's a simple, well-executed, modern build. As mentioned, good additions include a gull or a parrot or a ram rod. You've got an extra cheese slope which presumably fell off the wall a few decades ago, it isn't really adding much, so it could go and you'd get an extra part. I would swap out the flag for a bluecoat flag. Not much else to say, this is a great little set. Well done!

Yes, exactly -- it's an animal skin of some kind, I think, and it looks odd to see it as a wall decoration. It would make more sense if it was somewhere the Islanders could use it as a drum, or, if you want to be creative with it, have it as a skin being "dried" vertically on a Plate, Modified 2 x 2 with Bar Frame Octagonal or a Plate, Modified 2 x 2 with Bar Frame Square.

Very nice build! It really feels like a modernized Islanders set. Great play features and many wonderful techniques used. I am not sure about the fleshie Islanders in a classic set, but everything else is so nice that I can look the other way. The cave in the back looks too small to be able to position the blue pirate minifig in, an extra stud of height, or the ability to remove the roof would make that easier. The 2x2 islander drum tile should be on a drum, not mounted on the wall. Apart from that, this is wonderful! The skulls on spears are my favorite part, very clever and simple design.

Wonderful build! I love the lobster trap, the octopus underneath, the red frog, and all the other great details crammed in here. I think it needs a bit more color, some more red would be great. The canoe with the ama needs a sail. And I'd love to see some kind of statue to fit the original islanders theme. Really great work overall, though, this is a terrific design.

The latest revision of this is perfection. Well done.

Keep both for sure, they are great figures and add a lot of life to the set. The cannibalism thing is my main complaint here, POTC notwithstanding, classic pirates would not have had a set like this. But, it's wonderfully designed and quite a lot of macabre fun, so I'll play along with it. One problem is that you're mixing eras, the faces are modern (which is fine) but the sand is yellow like the 90s sand was. That would be fine on its own, but they clash with each other. Grab an 8x8 tan plate, and you've just saved yourself a brick and fixed that. I would swap out the 2x4 black plate for a 4x4 round plate in black to create a fire pit. Or, just leave out the 2x4 plate altogether. Use some technic bricks and make the rotisserie rotate, and you'd have a real treat of a set on your hands. I really like the creativity here, the storytelling totally sells the set. Really fantastic.

I like the small cannon. I never use them in my builds, but it works here. I am not really a fan of the brick-built sails, and I might make the figurehead smaller (it's a challenge to build one on this size boat!). But, all in all, this is really nice. I'd love to see what it looks like built with physical bricks, and perhaps paper sails. Great job, and I hope to see more stuff from you in the future!

Wonderful little build! I like the stories it lends itself to with the crab, the sawfish, the bottle and the backpack. The sail construction is good, but I don't understand what the white flag is for. Perhaps a pirate flag would be better? And I would love to see this without Barracuda Bay in the background, just so I can judge it for itself. I hope to see more stuff from you!

Given this constraint, you've done as well as you possibly could. But, your creation, like that set, is missing some color and charm that is present in the original Imperial Outpost. I would incorporate some other bricks if you can, as the 2009 and 2015 pirates are not remembered as fondly as the original 90s sets. A red and blue awning (like Lagoon Lockup had) would work, or a red one (like the original set). Add a more modern brick-built palm tree, and this would be greatly improved. Any of the minifigures you've got there would work great; wonderful selections.

Absolutely! This is a great build! The ladder does not bother me at all; it was common to have jail areas closed off with a single ladder like that back in the 90s. The lantern should be black like the original, not gray -- the gray makes me think of rocks. I like the awning, but perhaps the roof should match? Either that, or the roof should be black/green like other armada colors. Red is more of a redcoat color. Finally, that little room is just too small. Remove the back wall and it'll add some play value to the set. All in all, I do like this, it captures the classic style of building very well. Nice job!

Looks good, nice design overall, and definitely feels like a classic set. Except, human sacrifice wouldn't be a topic in an official set The closest to that theme I can recall is 6246 Crocodile Cage, which does come pretty close. I agree that a short chain wrapped around the pirate would improve the set. Nice little build overall!