MightyThorngren

So I checked all my "extras". I had enough spare parts to fix the walkway to nowhere near the Governor's office, but not enough to make a wall and finish the tower behind the office. I took cue from this thread and made it into a lookout. https://imgur.com/a/B8nBlBt

I just reread it again and spotted where I made my mistake. It's a great build. I really like it. I would love to build and attach it to my Eldorado Fortress. I'm just a little chalky on how and where it connects in what modes. I think I misunderstood, which is why I wanted to see pictures. The Sabre Island MOC is pretty much spot on perfect a remake as Eldorado Fortress is, being super faithful. This is excellent. I especially love that you turned that walkway to nowhere into a working space. Do you happen to have instructions, or even just a parts list to work with? I'd love to try replicating this setup you've designed

These are brilliant

This is hella sick bro! This is awesome looking. But did I miss a ladder on the tower, or was that omitted? I saw there was a gap built in it all the way up. I downloaded the instructions and read through, but maybe I missed it. Seems that was tge intent, or did I misunderstand? If you've built it, I would love to see it attached to the Fortress build. I don't have the parts to build it myself or an ability to use the studio program to preview.

Share some pictures my friend!

I'm too late to vote, but my favorite as a kid was the Pirate known as Iron Hook

That cartography label is absolutely brilliant. I wish I had all the parts in my extras to make it to put in my Pirate ship

Ohh this is so cool. I'm gonna jump on this. Do we just post it to this thread?

So, this is more or less a second thread to spotlight attention to the contest, yes? It's not a separate contest?

I really love this set and have had lots of fun, but I have a few gripes. I don't mind a tiny office, but the cannon being inside the open half kills me, as does tge open gap next to the office. That gap should have been closed off abd the back office should have been walled off with a large window opening to reach in. I wouldn't mind minus 1 canon for a better build. I could spend 10 bucks online for all the parts to that that and other issues, but I really shouldn't have to. That said, they could have easily modified the back tower to fit that third cannon. I guess THAT'S my second beef. So, my third beef would be the Crane is way too big. I appreciate it doesn't take two towers, but it could have been much smaller. The simple crane for the B model in the Creator 3in1 Pirate Ship manages to do it and take up WAY less space. https://imgur.com/a/voiKFdZ I would have crafted a similar crane in black and it would have made both the tower and crane usable by minifigures. Obviously it would need some modification, but it beats the behemoth we got. That said, the new crane does look real good. I'm in the camp that has WAY too many female heads. I don't have my old collection to draw from, abd it seems most sets I buy only have 1 minifigure and so now I pretty much have 2 women for every 1 man in my minifugure collection. I don't mind the lady Pirate, but I wish only 1 of the soldier was a girl. I also wish we got at least 1 more soldier. I pretend the pirates in my set are privateers for the Imperials and work with them and tge ship belongs to them.

Wow okay so my first post on the forum here. I recently got back into Lego about 2 years ago having not bought a set for myself since around 2000. I've had fun building my own creations, as well as putting together sets. I sadly just missed out on Barracuda Bay. But as a kid, pirate was by and far my favorite of any of the themes to actually play with. I just got this set and am in absolute love. I actually found this thread when researching the set (because its so pricey) and am excited to see so many who grew up and loved lego Pirates. I never had the original, but a number of smaller pirate themed sets. I believe it was Broadside's Brig that was my favorite set. Having read 41 pages of posts, I just want to speak to the named characters and lore in this set and Lego in general. As a kid, I only knew tge basic lore that was printed on the flyers in the boxes. I knew a few characters had proper names, but imagination always took the reigns. For example, I always swapped the heads off a purate captain and now I had a Blackbeard pirate captain competing with Redbeard. So often my Lego figures would be used like actors abd they would change character scene by scene. I had no idea about any comic, or any established story beyond basic premise. But I knew the pirates were bad guys that stole and killed good guys and had wild adventures. And that it was up to the good guy Imperials to stop them. I liked Bluecoats more because I like blue better than red, but I always thought they were just different branches of the same military. Like one was the Navy and the other the Marines. It never crossed my childhood mind they were different and possibly competing peoples. Also as someone that never owned the original Eldorado Fortress, I never had the Governor Broadside. I didn't know about him. But I had Broadside's Brig, abd always thought the Minifigure in that aet with the gold was Broadside, whim I always called Admiral Broadside, who commanded all my Blues. https://imgur.com/a/91UVjVl I have mixed feelings about this new set, but overall I love it. My complaint is the modularity and the compromises for its folded forms. I think it wpuld have been way nicer if it was hinged and folded open, like Castle sets. My biggest beef is agreeing with most, that the Governor's office area is messed up. Open area leads nowhere but to a wet drop and the cannon. These things can be fixed with extra parts, but we shouldn't need to do that with a $200 + set. But God dang is this set still beautiful and fun to play with. I love the new boat. The underground details were very fun to put together and look at, but I had to put a special golden frog statue in that box with the letter. This set has really set my soul free flying in the wind, and I haven't felt this much like a kid in a decade or two. I'm actually playing with this set after building it,instead of just setting on a shelf to collect dust, or breaking it apart and putting it in a bin. I've given characters names and put on stories. So much fun. I need more soldiers. I don't have my childhood sets, so my fort feels rather empty with just the 6. I need at least 5 more fort soldiers with shakos and at least 2 more with tricorns. So, like double what they gave us haha. I really miss the old smiling faces, but the new ones are cute. I feel they have too much personality though and makes it harder to have them be blank templates. That's why I loved tge simple smile, even when printed on a face with other details. I am quite overjoyed with this set and feel it's well worth the money, even with a number of issues that have been spoken on in this thread.