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Nice colors combination that you have used for this lovely Cafe Corner of yours. I like that sky blue color that brings out the life of this building. Thanks for sharing it with us. This has been featured in Classic-Town.net.

Thanks everyone for all of your kind comments! It means alot to me, to know that you find this review useful and interesting. However, I noticed that the response from our Pirates fans seemed to like this set even though there are some weak areas that can be improved further, partly because there are some uncommon animals to add into your collection. Thanks Wouwie for blogging my review in Classic Pirates. Greatly appericate it. It's a great way to get this set, if you haven't bought any much Pirates set, and wanted to get the most of it. Then, you should defintely buy this set. Guess your reasoning makes sense. In fact, most of the Pirate sets, one way or another seemed to have more than one minifig appearance in any other sets. Well, I know the Imperial Flagship has one exclusive minifig though Nah. None of the reasons above can dictate my love for LEGO Pirates. Just that, this advent calendar still have room for improvement. Why wait? Go and get it from Zorro soon, and you can start building it before the advent tradition starts. Unfortunately, I do not know the exact reason behind it, but I thought I have read it somewhere before in our discussion thread. Perhaps someone with such knowledge could enlighten us on this.

Hello everyone once again, Christmas is drawing near, and with the recent LEGO 7687 City Advent Calendar released, there is another world out there doing the same tradition as the City lovers. Let me unveil and share this very first Christmas Advent tradition for our Pirates collectors. Last year, the 7979 Castle Advent Calendar has the honour of having this special advent tradition as well. Now, we are proud to have it continue over to the Pirates realm. Unfortunately, this Pirates Advent Calendar is not available in the United States market as part of the distribution channel. Exact reasons behind this decision were not clear, but some reports state that this Pirates Advent Calendar was not scheduled for release in United States. Despite this piece of sad news, LEGO Collectors from United States have been seen to scramble across BrickLink and eBay to purchase this one of a kind Advent Calendar before Christmas. Let’s move onto the rest of the review to see if this set is worth getting it. Name: LEGO Pirates Advent Calender 2009 Theme: LEGO / Holiday / Christmas / Advent Calender Year: 2009 Pieces: 148 Minifigs: 8 Price: USD N.A, GBP 15.79, SGD$39.90 Resources: Brickset, Peeron, BrickLink An image of a 6299, Pirates Advent Calendar 2009 Rear box's image 24 pieces of buried treasure loot waiting to be dug out! For the same price that I am paying, I realised that there is a vast difference in piece counts from both advent calendars. While City Advent Calendar has a higher piece count of 257 pieces, the Pirates Advent Calendar has a miserable piece count of 148 pieces and that’s 109 pieces of LEGO parts difference. I don’t have an exact answer for it, and I will leave it to the readers to decide for themselves whether the 24 bags of Christmas surprise is worthwhile buying. The minifigures of both fighting sides! There is a total of 8 minifigures available in the Pirates Advent Calendar. Judging from the variety of the minifigures inside, I can’t comprehend but to ask myself, why there is such poor minifigures’ selection compared to Castle Advent Calendar. TLG could even probably thought of adding an exclusive minifigure in this set to entice buyers. Practically, all of the above minifigures are available somewhere or somehow in the recent LEGO Pirates set and one of the best surprises installed for any LEGO advent collectors, is to look out for either fantastic minifigures or useful parts. In this case, I felt that the minifigures selection is poor but with the inclusion of the mermaid that is available in the 6243 Brickbeard’s Bounty, it raised my expectations slightly. Let’s continue with the rest of the building process and a mini story scene which I have arranged. Seafood and Pets' galore! While the minifigures selection scored badly, but I find that the seafood selection has done well in certain aspects, especially having the swordfish added inside. It has been a long while since we last saw any swordfish. I could remember vividly that the last time we ever had many swordfishes is back in the 1990s where Divers’ theme is introduced. Apart from the swordfish, other uncommon seafood includes crab and clam. Other iconic creatures such as crocodile, parrot, monkey, fish and rat are also available in this advent calendar. One of the possible reasons for the low piece count could be the insertion of animals and seafood as it does not involved much building since it’s revolved around a single mould part. Imperial Solders on standby Both Imperial Solders are standing by, ready to engage the Pirates in the high sea. Take note of their weapons assortment, which include a mini brick built cannon and weapons holder for the pistol and cutlass. You might even spot a shackle lying at the side, waiting to lock down the prisoners. If you haven’t noticed, could you tell me what is the annoying difference that you can spot inside this picture? If you refer to the tricorner, then you are wrong. I was referring to the shako. Do note that this piece of shako doesn’t have the printed red insignia bearing the Imperial Royal Navy logo at the top of the shako unlike the rest of the Imperial Solders existed in all LEGO Pirates 2009 sets. I find that rather disturbing and annoying, having to own a solder that is not compatible with the rest of the platoon mates. Captain's Quarters With Captain Brickbeard studying the treasure map carefully inside his quarters, the beautiful yet dangerous looking wench is at the other side of the room feeding the Captain’s beloved pets. I truly wonder if there is any affair behind them. Inside this setup, there is a quite a number of useful parts including the chicken drumstick, banana, red cups, and that nice simple looking table lantern. There are not many significant parts, but some parts are merely useful to be added into your respective bins. I truly wonder how many Captains do each of us own. Mermaid's Cove Further down the ocean, there is a beautiful siren waving across you. Do be careful and watch out for those hidden rocks. If you are not careful enough, you could have probably hit onto one of those, ending up getting yourself drowned or a tasty delicious meal for the lurking swordfish. The beautiful looking mermaid and the swordfish is probably one of the nicest things that this advent calendar can offered. There is not much building involved, but merely arranging different elements together to illustrate the Mermaid’s cove. Treasure Trove What good use can it be, when you find the buried treasure but you aren’t able to get out of it? Apparently, the sad looking bearded old man is likely together with its mate for a treasure hunting expedition, but ending up one of them killed and left by the ruins while the surviving member is figuring a way to get out of there. I am sure deep within his heart, he is pondering around his thoughts looking at these precious gems. Supposed he could use this to provide him a lavish life, but it doesn’t seem that it will come true after all. I am quite fond of this little scene, especially having those treasure gems and ores lying down there with the digging equipment. Even the old haggard looking man is a nice addition with that long grey hair unlike the other similar looking one inside the 6241 Loot Island. Castaway Pirate Castaway pirate is now abandoned alone in a lonesome island, cooking some fish to warm its stomach. Unknowingly, there is a menacing threat crawling upon him slowly. In this scene, there are a handful of useful parts such as the brown bucket and the raft. It appears this is one of the few scenes that involved a small bit of building on the raft and campfire. Spare parts For every epaulette, shackle and cutlass given, there is always a spare followed behind them. There is nothing else worth noting among the spare parts except sorting them out into your bins for future modifications. The completed scenes! To conclude, I am not very pleased with this year’s Pirates Advent Calendar especially after having seen the Castle version. There is no exclusive minifigs and involved very little brick built elements for various scenarios. However, the animals and seafood made up of the brick elements but the minifigures inside are just too common, and doesn’t served a strong motivation to buy this in multiples unlike the Castle Advent Calendar. Overall, this set is not very special or appealing. There is only a few reasons that are worth noted for getting this set which, is either you are an Advent Calendar collector or you are simply a LEGO Pirates enthusiast that need to get one set for the sake of completion. Other than these reasons, I will suggest you to look up in BrickLink to search for the parts you needed. Summary review Playability: 6/10 (Limited scenarios but there are some decent ones which is up to your own imagination.) Design: 4/10 (Poor minifigures selection but average animals variety plus little building efforts.) Price: 4/10 (It costs much expensive than previous advent calendars compared to the earlier ones.) Overall: 4.7/10 (Not sure if I am too harsh on this, but I am not very pleased with the overall variety selections.) I gave it a "2" based on my Review Score Card. What about yours? Hope everyone of you enjoyed reading this simple review of mine. Comments and Critics are strongly welcomed. Pictures can be found in My Brickshelf (When moderated)

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Amazing piece of work. I love how you create this entire scene, filled with London Bus and taxi in this SNOT street scene. Thanks for sharing this with us. This has been featured in Classic-Town.net.

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Glad to have you here as part of our community. Welcome to Eurobricks.

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This is a very interesting article, and I wanted to comment this very much early, but hold back for awhile until I have sorted out some stuff. Fearing that I might not be able to make it in time, I thought it will be nice to comment it down. You have covered it well, and I agreed that we are able to see a decent hospital in the near future. Sadly, I don't own any of these mentioned sets even though I will love to own the 6387 Classic Town hospital. Hopefully, LEGO will take healthcare into much consideration. Below is the upcoming sneak preview, happening over in Classic-Town.net in the next few hours, and I hope you will like it.

I love that City display of yours. It has a very neat setup and I prefer your updated version. Are you really intending to smack the stadium in the middle of the City Center? I fear it might appeared to be large, ending up covering the rest of your iconic buildings.

Thanks to Eurobricks member, ILikePi and Flickr member, Unknown User 2956 for sharing this highly anticipated news with our Eurobricks Community on these upcoming 2010 LEGO sets from themes such as Star Wars, Atlantis and Toy Story which will be released at the beginning of 2010. Star Wars Click here to join the Star Wars 2010 discussion. Atlantis Click here to join the Atlantis 2010 discussion. Toy Story Click here to join the Toy Story 2010 discussion.

This is a very nice realistic looking truck that you have built down there. I really like the front of the truck. Thanks for sharing it with us. This has been featured in Classic-Town.net.

I was searching for this topic in EB, when I browsed your folder over at Brickshelf. I must admit that I enjoyed viewing samurai related MOCs, and this scenery is very nicely designed, especially the way you laid out your tiles for the pavement, and arranging those bamboo shoots at the side of the pillars. A simple and beautiful piece of work.

As what ISC has mentioned, you are indeed on fire and I am glad to see you building actively over the Wild West creations. I always fancy MOC hideouts. Regardless whether its medieval, adventures or wild west, these kind of MOCs are for fun playing ambush related scenarios or for escaping purposes. I like the way how this cottage destoryed over the times of war, and having the solders making a hideout in there, defending against the enemies. Keep on building, my friend!

Thanks for doing up this fine review. This is the very first review ever done in Eurobricks for the upcoming 2010 sets. I am not very excited with this set, especially when there is many other fire stations appearing at a regular basis, well I don't find this pretty exciting but for new CITY collectors whom are aftering a new fire station in their town, I think this ought to be a good choice. Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece of review with us, and this has been featured in Classic-Town.net as well.

Welcome to Eurobricks. Glad to see you de-lurk yourself, and sign up as a member. Looking forward to see you in our discussions.

It's great to see another AFOL joining up our Eurobricks Community scene. Glad to know that you still keep your priced possesions such as the Black Sea Barracuda. Well, with today's technology, it's not a surprise that the Internet has doubled our addiction in a certain perspective.

Welcome to Eurobricks. Have fun and enjoy your stay with us.

First of all, welcome to Eurobricks and I strongly encouraged you to read through the Site Guidelines very carefully in a detailed manner. Posting in a right and legible manner is important, and I will like to see this coming out of you in the upcoming posts. In addition, English is your native languague since I believed you are from Canada, so please type and write well in Eurobricks. Anything less or equivalent to a bad post is not acceptable in Eurobricks. Thanks.

Most of the time, I won't be wishing any other SW set and I just wait and see for any good SW sets to come along. If given a chance, I think seeing another re-make of the Millennium Falcon in minifigs' scale will be excellent. Regretably, I never own any Millennium Falcon, and passed out on the 2004. Other than the UCS and the MID-Scale, these aren't exactly my type of taste. Looking forward if there is ever a chance of it coming out again over the next 2 years.

I find its quite a pity to know that he is putting up his collection for sales... Sigh...

Nice Disney characters. They are very cute and those pictures look fine to me. I also moved this topic to the Licensed forum which is much approriate.

LEGO City 2010 sets have begin to surface in some parts of the world and thanks to our Eurobricks member, meat1980 whom has kindly done the 7208 Fire Station review. This new Fire Station set has several new components including a rescue net. Come on LEGO City collectors. Check this first-hand LEGO City Fire Station review in our Eurobricks LEGO Trains & Town forum. Click here to view this review.

Another great piece of work. Both the post office and service station looks real nice by placing it side by side. Even the interiors of both buildings are done nicely. Well done. Thanks for sharing it with us. This MOC has been featured in Classic-Town.net.