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I'm aware of the limitations. On the other hand, the body proportions are much closer to an actual human. Well, I guess a trade-off of sorts is always inevitable. Actually, I have one knockoff minidoll bought a few years ago near a beach out of curiosity, and it's very similar to LEGO but the legs are posable. So this can be done. Who knows, maybe one day LEGO will fix this, like they made short posable minifig legs. And the smaller rowboats with oars, and castle doors. That was it. I remember how frustrating it was not being able to add any brown bricks to my brown hull of the Caribbean Clipper. I remember the time when literally my ONLY green thing in LEGO was the vest on Captain Redbeard's torso. I did not even have any trees or flowers back then.

Whose shade usually doesn't match the head of the same minifigure (applies equally to yellow and fleshtones).

My thoughts exactly. I agree. Friends is like City but better. Here's an unpopular opinion then: If LEGO abandoned their minifigures altogether and just stuck to the minidolls, I think I could live with that. Provided there would be greater diversity of prints and gear: Pirate minidolls, Castle minidolls, etc. Not gonna happen though.

Sometimes I wonder what would happen if LEGO had reversed the order: introduced the fleshies first all those decades ago, and then added the yellow heads all of a sudden at some point. Just imagine the outrage. Well this is kind of similar to the fleshie situation. I remember how hated those new colours were back when it was still a fresh thing. Nowadays people actually prefer the new ones (we discussed this in our LUG some time ago and almost everyone confirmed this). This is because they are easy to get, people have gathered sufficient collections of those to stop caring about the old ones, and everyone simply got used to the new colours. Reminds me of this big LEGO event in Olomouc in Czechia which I attended a few times. There were literally hundreds of MOCs there and I think I only saw two people with the old colours. One was a Classic Space diorama with the monorail etc. The other one was me (pirate ships with old brown hulls and some old light grey too). Besides, a lot of current MOCers and AFOLs got into LEGO when the old colours had been long gone.

That's some interesting information! Good to know that this is still continued. They were never that popular in Poland, although a few books were actually written by Polish authors, if Polish Wikipedia is to be trusted. If I remember correctly, the one book I read all those years ago was supposedly written by Alfred Hitchcock (according to the cover), which was not really the case.

I agree on Ninjago and Dreamzzz. Those figures are so specifically designed to be used just in their own themes and nowhere else. Especially the torsos, but some heads and legs too. Unless you are building a MOC in one of those themes, and they are not really popular choices for MOCing, they are completely useless. As for superheroes, well, those are based on comic book characters. If it's not your thing then most are useless too. By analogy I would add Star Wars for me, as i don't care about the franchise so I can't really use those minifigs anywhere. I have some SW minifigs, mostly from various brick mixes I got, and I just keep them in a box and never use. But, objectively, I must admit that both superheroes and Star Wars are much more popular MOCing themes than Ninjago and Dreamzzz, so in that regard those figures are 'less useless'.

Hey, I read one of those books like 35 years ago or so. Pretty strange to me, I thought this stuff was rather obscure and not that well-known to deserve its own sets. Anyway, wasn't there a tunnel under all this junk that they used to enter the trailer? Or am I just remembering this wrong?

I wish to show you my creation built for a recent space-themed LEGO event in which I participated. The event has come and gone, but only recently was I able to take some proper pictures of the thing. It uses a Duplo plane chassis, and the wheels fold up when in flight. Also available on Instagram. Enjoy!

Thanks! The bridge is quite stable when attached properly. Too bad LEGO no longer makes those thin baseplates in such small sizes as far as I know. Bending them is such a nice way to use them, a technique I saw for the first time used by someone many years ago.

Have a good time!

A perfect vintage car. Great colours!

Thanks, that's another large piece that can be quite useful! Well, being a PhD in geology, I finally had the chance to do some experimenting with weathered rock face. Not really applicable when building ships! Thanks for the comment!

Thanks mate, too few people use old LEGO moulds these days, I try to use old/discontinued pieces whenever I can. Which also means I could never be on LEGO Ideas and stuff like that. This was very much my intention. This was the first time when I used new and shiny bricks only as a last resort. Thanks mate, I really like this baseplate and I'd been waiting DECADES to use it in a proper MOC.

Hello there, I would like to show you my latest MOC, and also my first true land-based LEGO Pirates MOC... This is port Quinnton, a name some of you might remember from the old times here. You can also find it on Instagram and on Flickr! Anyway, my intention was to make it modular, so the port will eventually be extended, but for now there are two baseplates, one of which comes of course from the good old Eldorado Fortress! Also please note that I deliberately used as many yellowed white bricks as I could find for an effect of old walls! It serves as a base for a small fort for the bluecoats, connected by a bridge to the rest of the land. However, as the port will expand in the future, some civilian characters (maybe even some pirates!) will surely be added. For now, the soldiers rule this town! Can you see the buried treasure? And finally, the inside of the solders' fort: Hope you enjoyed it, thanks!

Saw them. Interesting pirate stuff. It's always good to have some new types of headwear available. Curious about what the final sets will look like.

It's the Mercedes Benz stud!

I haven't seen any MOCs with this sail yet. However, it does seem a bit too small to be fitted into a proper ship, even if several of them are used.

Also, I don't buy them very often. Only when some interesting minifigs come out, usually pirate-related. I'm sure that an army-builder redcoat or bluecoat soldier in a CMF series would be highly sought-after (just like the Wolfpack Beastmaster in the current series which is very hard to find in shops near me (but I found one and got it too, just in case ).

Truth be told, I hardly ever keep those collectible minifigs in their original configuration. These two will be split into several minifigs combined with other body parts and populate future MOCs.

Well, now I officially have two quartermasters in my collection.

Well it seems then that LEGO is following exactly the same path as with 2024's Endurance. The main set is not minifig scale, while the accompanying GWP set is... And I'm sure it's no coincidence that LEGO chose one of the few types of shuttlecraft that Blue Brixx did NOT release.

I vaguely remember that when redcoats were introduced for the first time, they had hollow studs, at least the ones I got. Obviously, the bluecoats which continued to be released simultaneously for some time could also have hollow studs, unlike the early bluecoats with solid studs. Another issue is the shape of the minifig heads. At one point they changed to a more streamlined shape with a narrower chin. For example, I have the head of the first female pirate in both shapes.

Neither did the Bell Riots

I have other plans right now. But in the future, anything is possible

I'm sure we'll see some soon enough.