Mister Phes

Yo ho ho toe!

Awwwwww come on now Captain Roger, the men in tights look great amongst all those blue coats X-D

I'm not generous but I'll do it anyway X-D Now I need to write an artistic statement and then I can write my own review for Broadside's Brig!

You've done a good job of this review Mr ImperialScouts! But two things. 1) Background far too bright and the set is far too dark, easily rectified with Brightness & Contrast adjustment. 2) No poll to rate the set out of 5. Nonetheless this should be frontpaged on Classic-Pirates.com!

I'm not the least bit interested in seeing any aspect of Australian history depicted in LEGO form. Even though there some escaped this penal colony you refer to and became pirates I'm more interested in what was happening in the Caribbean.

Indeed you did and since I strongly agree I reaffirmed it.

I think Mr Cleese was aiming that comment towards me in aid of teasing. We've had past conflicts about him introducing futuristic themes into pirates.

Mr Oo7 this is brilliant! You have captured the Mexicana is ways that overjoys my frazzled brain! I wish I could comment more at this time but I'm just too burnt out. Damn...

Since he was Portuguese why would he made a good addition to the Spanish? Saying such things may offend the Portuguese!

Good work on the descriptions Col. Whipstick! It's helped me to visualise how your ideas would work in LEGO form and I can see how they'd work with the existing SYSTEM Pirates theme. I understand what you mean now. Much of the same could be said for your ideas - just replace those Arabs with buccaneers and we're back in familiar territory! X-D

There probably is but someone has coordinate and mainstain such a venture. Unfortunately we're over stretched for peronnsel with this forum and Classic-Pirates.com. I think Pirates need to increase their prescence at these conventions so this forum could be used as a gathering place to unite the Pirate fans! Bless you lad and may you be rewarded in heaven! :-) Or at least with a return link when time permits.

I agree completely your idea warrants an entire thread to itself! I must admit aside from the historic time context and time period I'm bambazooled any of those ideas would make sub-themes with the SYSTEM Pirates! X-D I skimmed across it but I can't really spend the time to read it thoroughly. Reading your post I was able to ascertain a name and a reference to it's historic standing - but I was looking for more of a break down how it would translate into LEGO Which you've kind of done here... Or like Athos has done... At the moment I have to be spoon fed information because I'm physically and mentally exhausted from all this work I've been doing lately and I think I'm coming down with some illness..

The Imperial Armada mini-figures seem popular and it's a pity their sub-theme never went anywhere.

The lighting does indeed work well - what kind of camera were you using?

Errr... I'm not sure why you've used the normal standard LEGO face - you tell me why? X-D Or did you mean why did I ask? In which case I suppose I was curious and that's about it. What sets would you recommend for a Southern Africa Pirate theme, Colonel?

Admittedly when I wrote "16th and 17th" centuries in my earlier post I screwed up. I meant between 1600-1750, or the 17th and 18th centuries. The 16th century is a bit early for pirates but great for conquistadors!

I'd say the mainstream "romanticised" perception of pirates rather than traditional... The Spanish integrates perfectly with Pirates of the Caribbean because they had a large presence in the region. The LEGO Group acknowledged this by making their Pirate mini-figures more "Hispanic" in 1996 and 1997, not to mention the Imperial Armada sub-theme which sadly went nowhere. As for Chinese pirates. Given the nature of the existing SYSTEM Pirate theme (upon which the idea of this thread is to invent new sub-themes) I'd say Chinese pirates would be too foreign because they'd seem closer to the Ninja theme - or once again maybe they'd be better suited to a theme of their own. If the LEGO Group were to announce "There will be a new Pirate theme in 2009 and the pirates will be Chinese" to me that would be more like an entirely new theme with little correlation to the existing Pirate theme other than the fact the sets are supposed to be pirate related. Anyway, I presume future Pirate themes will have little or nothing to do with our beloved SYSTEM Pirate theme, so blah!

But why would you want to?

To elaborate upon what I meant... Just because they're wearing similiar uniforms to those depicted in the original Pirate theme doesn't mean they'd made a suitable sub-theme. Perhaps The American Revolution would be better off as a theme to itself. When I think of LEGO Pirates I think of the Buccaneer, I.e. a Pirate opearting in the Caribbean and Bahamas circa 16th and 17th centuries. If I was designing a pirate sub-theme I'd keep that time period and locale, but since it's a fictional universe I wouldn't enforce 100% historically accuracy - just so long as the thematic was related to pirates without stretching the boundries too far.

Yes, indeed we are dreaming but I'm starting to fear we might be steering away from "Pirates" and into history in general. In my opinion The American Revolution would work better as a Western sub-theme rather than Pirates. I thought it was a Malfoy or something...

Green Coats! X-O What face is this mini-figure using?

Yes, its marvellous that I started posting again thus preventing this forum from becoming a ghost town... Or ship... Or whatever analogy fits.

Yes, all merged into one BIIIIIIIG mess! They insisted it would attract more users to the forum but really there hasn't been much change in traffic - aside from the fact I'm posting more again. X-D

You'll be wanting MLCAD (Mike's LEGO CAD) Col. Whipstick! Here's a link to the official MLCAD website.

Admittedly I forgot about that thread - regardless neither Mister Huffman nor Mister Oo7 provided us with additional information so we couldn't have done much more than discuss it. Had we been liaison we could have explored other possibilities and made sure the whole darn world knew about the Pirate Theme at NWBrickcon! Ah well, something to bear in mind for future conventions.