Mister Phes

Yes, I am personally, however I cannot speak @Aanchir or anyone else. LEGO has continued releasing products since her birth to the present day so it's plausible for her to become interested in LEGO through a modern theme, then discover past themes, which then become her favourite theme. Actually, we've had a lot of younger members in the past who were born too late to enjoy LEGO Pirates as children, but thanks to the Internet, providing exposure to sets through forums, social media and the secondary market, those people have developed a deep passion for pirates. That's making the assumption she had LEGO when she was a child. I didn't discover LEGO Pirates until I was 11 and then went into my "Dark Age" two years later, so that was a small window of interest. If she was born in 1991 then she would have been 6 when the last pirate sets were released. Given the age range on the smaller sets were 5-12 it is possible she had some. As a side note, she would have been 10-11 when the sets were released during 2001-2002. But I don't like to assume what people have emotional connections to, I prefer when they tell me themselves.

Please, no! Not more red coats... or blue coats! They've already been done twice! Explore new possibilities! I'm sure army builders of red and blue coats would strongly disagree with me. This is a good point. Looking at he Playmobil website Ghostbusters is the only major licence. There seems to be regional sporting team teams depending on the country, like NHL for the USA site and FC Bayern for the German site. It is possible to develop an interest in something long after it was released even if the person was not yet born at the time.

You're welcome!

When I saw the first version I was thinking... "WHAT! This is not Snapdragon's colours! " But you've resolved that in the second version so well good work! Does his head transform into a robot? or Nebulon... or whatever you wanna call it...

I've had similar issues with Firefox Android myself, only it doesn't scroll to the very top of the page, it jumps up a few screens requiring manually scrolling down, often several times before completing a post.

That's pretty much what happened with the 2009 and 2015 releases only modern colours and building techniques were incorporated.

No, I don't personally have that data so you'll have to contact the author, David Eaton for further clarification. Hey, I apologise if I upset you because I challenged what the information shared. It was never my intent to provoke you, I was just attempting to illustrate my point but I was in a rush to get somewhere so I perhaps didn't communicate it in the best way.

Yes, that's how their sales were assessed as a failure but not the reasons behind it. @Aanchir, has provided this useful article by a former LEGO Ambassador which states the reasons they failed were because: Children preferred the newer-looking, more complex sets with strong storylines and characters. Hobbyists often skipped them because they already owned a copy or because the re-release wasn't quite a perfect copy.

A reason why they were a failure - you did ask that right? This is perhaps true, but predicting the release dates of Pirates of the Caribbean movies isn't entirely possible (with the exception of At World's End). So if they were intending to have ongoing Pirates releases, there would perhaps have been more than one wave of sets. Ok, so you can get technical and say the Imperial Flagship was released during 2010 after the initial wave of 2009 pirate sets, but that's not quite the same as releasing two waves of sets.

I was hoping you had additional information hence why I was asking questions. But obviously you don't. Thanks for clearing that up! Thank you, Aanchir! This is the type of response I was hoping for. I.e. one that sites sources, rather than personal speculation. From my understanding Pirates of the Caribbean is a completely separate entity to the LEGO Pirate releases as PotC sets are dependent on the film franchise. So it's merely coincidental that LEGO Pirate sets were released 2 years prior to the latter Pirates of the Caribbean films, given it takes 18-24 months for a LEGO theme to go from concept to shelves. Therefore, planning for the 2009 pirate sets would have occurred during 2007 while the 2015 sets during 2013, long before the films were even announced.

I never said it was impossible, I said I thought it was dubious it was fresh in his mind at any given moment. That is quite different. I also said, I'm in no position to assume what information a LEGO employee may remember and my assumption could be inaccurate. However, I specifically meant sales for each individual set which is not the same as remembering all re-released sets have been unsuccessful. Really, I was just curious if there was a specific reason why he had that information beyond him being an employee. For example: perhaps the LEGO Group were considering re-releasing sets for the 30th Anniversary of Pirates and have recently reviewed the sales data from the last time they re-released pirate sets. So, that's why he knew. But, in actual fact it's because all re-released sets failed and obviously it's not hard to remember that.

Because you're not seeking to understand my perspective. It seems you believe your perspective is the only possibility - but correct me if I'm mistaken. That aside, I never said I didn't understand, I was just curious hence why I was asking questions.

Who said the pirate sets rereleased in 2001 had high expectations? From what I understand there weren't the most popular sets. But do you remember the result for every team for every game over the past 2 decades? Or maybe I'm missing the point of what you're saying... perhaps you meant by chance KimT happened to know well these sets sold? And that's the problem here, we're all guessing, including myself. The only people who can say for certain are LEGO employees.

I'm not saying you shouldn't trust an employee of the LEGO Group - they would have better knowledge than anyone. Nor am I saying trust me, because I do not have the sales data for those sets nor am I making any claims as to how well they sold globally. What I am saying is; it's not realistic for LEGO employees to memorize the sales performance of every set and have that knowledge fresh in their mind at a moment's notice. But I'm not saying it's impossible either, it just doesn't seem likely unless there is a particular reason to have that information at the forefront of their mind.

Welcome to Eurobricks Luiggi! We are looking forward to seeing your LEGO outdoors photographs.

Yeah, but we're not talking an entire themes, we're talking about specific sets. Now bare in mind, during this period sets were rereleased from a variety of other themes including Castle, Western, etc. But yes, you're right, an employ of the LEGO Group would in theory be able to say yay or nay on whether an entire theme sold well or not.

You completely misunderstand me, this has nothing to do with my personal beliefs. It's to do with the fact that nobody can state how well a LEGO set or theme performs globally without sales data. Now, maybe people in the employment of the LEGO Group have sales data memorized. I just find it dubious they can memorize sales data for sets released almost 20 years ago... maybe they can, I'm in no position to say what they can and can't remember. But the point I'm making is, the average LEGO consumer cannot walk into their local store and assume what they see on the shelf is consistent with global sales.

Excellent, so how well did Knights Kingdom II sell in Canada and Vikings in Spain?

Apparently Germany is the sales benchmark for LEGO so maybe that's where we chould be looking. All three sets released in 2001 weren't the most popular and it's been speculated they were actually repackaged leftover stock from previous years. No, it's not the same. You're just following one sports team and it's easy to keep track of your personal team. There are hundreds of LEGO products across dozens of themes, so it's more like remembering the performance of each game from each team over the past 20 years.

Definitely! Plus, Playmobil has managed to maintain ongoing Space, Knights and Pirate themes whereas the LEGO Group doesn't seem to have this ability.

Interesting how sales data for sets re-released 15 to 16 years prior happened to be fresh in their minds... you know, since how many hundreds of sets have been released in the time since? Ah yes, and therein lies the problem with personal observation. Sales performance in one store or one particular region, isn't necessarily an indication of global sales.

Thank you for all this insightful information! Where were you speaking to KimT and the designer? Was this at the same event/location or different occasions?

Does that include the 2002 release of 10040 Black Seas Barracuda? The reason that particular set went back into productions is because fans voted for it. What makes you say that?

Well, the point of this topic is an alleged casting agent (themicasting on Instagram) has reached out to Eurobricks or maybe just @paokus... How legitimate that account is still needs to be confirmed so what I'll do is follow it with the ClassicPirates Instagram account and determine whether they're reaching out to all major LEGO Instagram accounts or just Eurobricks specifically.

My sister had a couple of Paradisa sets which I eventually inherited after she lost interest in toys. I thought Paradisa was great because it was like this fusion between Town and Pirates, so it was very useful for supplying useful parts.