Mister Phes

We are due for a new wave of Pirate sets round about now.

I was wondering the same thing myself... whatever transpired took place during my absence a few years ago so I cannot provide further information. But getting back on topic, we have another pirate-themed LEGO Ideas submission achieve review - not Armada mind you, but dare I say, Imperial?

10K LEGO Ideas submission, “Imperial Island Fort” by BrickHammer has qualified for the Second 2021 LEGO Ideas Review. Set a course to the LEGO Pirates Forum and celebrate reaching one step closer to another LEGO Pirates Set... or maybe the first Imperial set released through LEGO Ideas.

UPDATE 6 September 2021 "Imperial Island Fort" has qualified for the Second 2021 LEGO Ideas Review. We're one step closer to another LEGO Pirates set! Be sure to visit the official blog post leave a comment to let the LEGO Group know how brilliant it would be for this submission to pass review. The official announcements reads:

Someone put an idea into your head about Armada sets being offensive and I was walking you through how to identify such thoughts and free yourself from them.

Even so, how much time do you have? Many hours could be spent pointing out examples from the past 15 months. Shall we start with those who assumed there was a need to hoard toilet paper? But the even scarier part is, the less scrupulous in positions of power understand people turn assumptions into beliefs, and use this to control their actions.

The scary thing is most people do this... and not just for future LEGO Pirate releases, but for every aspect of life.

Or "Soldiers" if you're from the UK and it's former colonies...

There is no need to be sorry! Having a civil conversation is a good thing as it allows us to explore possibilities. And there is also that possibility you are 100% correct.

This is a nice update to the Ironhook minifig!

Yes, that is correct. Until the LEGO Group makes an announcement or someone extracts information from one of their representatives, we won't know for certain. However, we also shouldn't make assumptions and then act like they're the reason, because the reason could be entirely different.

So is it possibility this guess is inaccurate and there may be completely different reasons?

There haven't been any new Islander sets released as part of the Pirate theme since 1995... any depictions of natives released since, have been released under other themes. As for the Imperial Armada... Only two Imperial Armada sets were released at the tail end of the Pirate themes so they didn't get the opportunity to become as popular as the Soldiers and Imperial Guards. LEGO in general was somewhat in decline at that time. There have only been 2 waves of new Pirate sets released since the Pirate theme ended in 1997. And it would be a safer choice to use the more popular Soldiers and Imperial Guards as antagonists, rather than the more obscure Imperial Armada.. What kind of rules are you referring to?

But isn't that just your assumption? The LEGO Group has not announced they'll only produce Armada and native minifigs but not sets.

This is not off-topic because you're raising valid points to help us understand your concerns. And these are points we may need consider for our future speculation. Ok, so that's in reference to Native Americans which is more applicable to the Western Theme. So why is it appropriate to make minifigures and not sets? The minifigures are more representative of actual people than buildings or vehicles which are rarely historically accurate. Yes, in this instance the name has been officially changed by Lucas Film and has been made public. So that can be confirmed as a substantiated as fact. There is no such thing as a rumoured fact. I understand English may not be your first language but you've just contradicted yourself. A rumour is unsubstantiated information due to a lack of verifiable evidence to support it. Quite often rumours are highly inaccurate and sometimes deliberately based on misinformation. A fact is information which can be substantiated by an official source or multiple verifiable sources. Nothing is official until the LEGO Group makes an announcement and at this point they have not indicated they will not produce sets based on the Imperial Armada or natives. Nonetheless, third-party vendors are capitalising on the LEGO Group's failure to cater to the market and are stealing the best MOC designs to sell for themself. Example #1 & Example #2 And there's no big uproar about this aside from the builder's whose designs have been stolen. Aye, notice how the ship in the Imperial Trading Post had it's own unique insignia on the sail? That begs the questions: where did it originate from? Are there more ships which sail under this same insignia? Is there an entire LEGO Pirates sub-theme we don't know about? Questions which we need to answer in due time...

Perhaps I'm a bit behind on these matters. Could you please specify the sources which state what the LEGO Group will no longer be produced because the LEGO Group deems them too offensive?

I'm not meaning to pick on you or start a heated discussion, but this does illustrate a common problem. Because it's common for people to say "This company should not do << insert action >> because << alleged incident >> happened in the past" But their << alleged incident >> isn't remotely accurate. We can have a calm, rational discussion about invasions and tribes, which is based upon what actually happened, and not from an ideological perspective which deliberately obscures historic events to conform to a particular narrative.

Columbus was an explorer. He was the first European to arrive in the West Indies... But yes, the Spanish Inquisition did invade Central and South America. But what of it? The indigenous tribes were already invading each other. Especially the Aztecs. And when the Spanish arrived, numerous smaller indigenous tribes allied with them to eliminate the Aztecs, because the Aztecs were already a threat to them.

Armada ship!

An island in the southern seas... This book will tell you the answer.

Well, you never specified the geographical location of the pub... you just said "pirate pub" which therefore could be located anywhere! But you may a good point... however, if we ask Wikipedia (assuming it's vaguely reliable) the Tudor period was between 1485 and 1603 while the British colonization of the Americas began in the 1530's, thereby leaving a 70 year overlap. So, would it not be possible Tudor style architecture to be utilised? The island I am situation upon was colonised in the early 1800s and there was Tudor style buildings here... so that's a good 200 years after the Tudor period ended.

So where are the other renders which depict the inspiration?

As Pantelis demonstrates, there isn't a great deal of difference between Pirates and Castle. In some cases it's just swapping out the accessories.

They're WAAAAAAAAAAAAY ahead of you....

It's true! The LEGO Pirates Forum is all my fault. I should be ashamed of myself... by I'm not!