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I like it a lot. I think it's great that LEGO makes these kinds of baseplates Even though we've seen numerous MOCs with homemade mountains, hills etc. I still think that these baseplates can be of very good use in addition to what MOC'ers can do with regular bricks

Do you mean a picture of the ship? or a picture of the ship, and a picture of the front of the box? I don't have the box, so I can't add a picture of the box - but I agree that it would have been nice to start off the review with a picture of the ship or the box - especially because that huge box has many cool photos and stuff. I'll add a picture of the ship in the beginning of this thread, later today or tomorrow

That has got to be one of the coolest MOC ships I've seen. Especially because of the playability of it Oh - and the design is very pleaing, and "too much" as seen in many other small ship MOCs. Well done

There are really a lot of exciting theme ideas here. Although I voted for Incas/Mayas/Aztecs and conquerors - I'd like to see most of it

You never know because many Lego Castle fans have accepted the whole fantasy thing that's been added to the Castle theme - so maybe adding Ghost pirates would be accepted widely too. Think of Pirates of the Carribbean - those three movies are massive hits, and they certainly deal with ghost pirates

Wow - the Danish prices are way higher. I really don't get it. Why is there such a big difference? In Denmark, the Brickbeard's Bounty costs: 699 danish kroner In the UK, Brickbeard's Bounty costs: (calculated) 416 danish kroner!!!!! which means that you could save 282,92 danish kroner!

I came out of my dark ages in mid november, when my daughter showed some interest in LEGO, instead of her DUPLO - so now ALL of my LEGO has been taken down from the attic. Since december, I've bought some small sets and extra parts, just because I couldn't resist: 2x 4837 - "Mini Trains" (The small Creator Train set in the green box) - lots of useful bricks 2x 4838 - "Mini vehicles" (The small Creator Truck set in the orange box) - lots of useful bricks 2x 5574 "Basic Bricks" 280 pieces in a box 5610 - Builder (Construction Impulse set) 5611 - Public Works (Impulse set) 5612 - Police Officer (Impulse set) 5620 - Street Cleaner (Impulse set) 5621 - Coast Guard Kayak (Impulse set) 7009 - The Final Joust (Castle) 7090 - Crossbow Attack (Castle) and then I bought the Skull's Eye Schooner from ebay.co.uk for 56 pounds plus my daughter got the 5522 Golden Anniversary set with the golden brick, for christmas. It has more 700 pieces. All nice and shiny ;) - but waaay too expensive, considering what kind of bricks you get

I'm curious... what kind of paper would be best to print custom torsos on? And also, what's the exact measures? I can't find any guidelines, not even in this forum - and I can't use the search function becuase my postcount is too low :/ thanks

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Wow - as always, a great MOC - you are really talented

I really think this Pirates page looks promising. I wish they'd put more movies on there, but maybe they will in time. I can't wait till I get my hands on one of those Pirate sets. I don't have any money for this stuff right now, and my daughter is still way too young to play with this kind of LEGO - she's more into regular bricks - but it will happen soon enough

Well - I actually made a mistake when I said, that the design was lacking... I meant the colour scheme. It's "off" here and there thoughout the ship - most notably the cabin, with too much white, red and black mixed together. I agree with you that the actual design of the ship is amazing, and I'm in the process of modding my SES so the colours will fit my taste a little better, but I won't change the bricks with other bricks, because the DESIGN ( ) is almost flawless. The arches and sails on the ship are beautiful, and I think that it's incredible how the design team made such a huge cabin. I also LOVE the deck design So, once again - I wrongfully wrote that the design was lacking, when I really meant to say the colour scheme

I felt that I understood your question very well - You are asking if we think that LEGO will be producing enough Pirate LEGO for the next run of years, to build a collection that's worth keeping and expanding on... right? I guess you could begin your collection now, because LEGO know how popular the old Pirates line is, still, and they also know that a lot of adult fans still collect it. You should also check out ebay occasionally for old pirate sets, to expand your upcoming Pirates collection.

of course you can use this way that's why I made this thread. But still, be carefull not to use too much soap, and you should only leave the sails in the water for a minute or so. An remember that they should dry on their own, on a totally flat surface Oh, btw I used regular hand soap without perfume

Mine was also bought in 1989, but I've always been "neat" even as a boy, so I've always been cleaning the bricks on all my LEGO sets, because I couldn't stand to look at my stuff all dirty and dusty. You should definitely be able do the same to yours even now, although you've have the ship on display for so long

Hi guys - I've just succesfully cleaned my sails and in that process, they also got straightened out. My sails for the Carribbean Clipper and the Skull's Eye Schooner were a bit dirty, and also quite creased from not being used for many years. I put them in some soaped water (I held back with the soap, because I didn't know how much the sails could actually take without being damaged) and when I pulled the sails out of the water, they had become totally straight and much cleaner. I then placed them all on a totally flat and even table, where they dried off. If you take a look in my Skull's Eye Schooner review (can be found in the index) you can se how beautiful all the sails look after this process. I just wanted to let you guys know that it's actually pretty easy to clean and straighten out your original LEGO sails without damaging them at all. Sorry if this was already known, but alas, I can't use the search function because of my post count which isn't big enough yet. (I think it should be changed back, becuase all new members are going to post a lot of threads on topics that already exist, just because they can't search for older threads)

I couldn't vote in the Pillage The Village Contest because I'm a new member But I can honestly say that the three winners of the large division were my favourite entries. Very good job on those three - I wish I had MOC skills - I could use the BSB

Sweet - although I don't have many of those bricks, I still like to browse the different instructions. Thanks for the heads up

This should be interesting - I'd love all the extra information I can get. It's like going into childhood again

Haha, I really like this one. Nice job

Nice review - and congrats on all your new LEGO Sorry about the blurry images - you should try to take pictures of those things again, but with the "macro" effect turned on, on your camera - that way you can get sharp pictures of things that a re really close. The "macro" function is a little logo that looks like a tulip - you should be able to turn the function on in your camera's "auto" mode easily

I was just going into my dark ages when LEGO began the Islander themes, so I've never really cared for them. BUT this review actually made me want this set real bad. I guess this is what reviews are for then - good job on the review

Thanks for putting this review in the index - I didn't expect that can somebody add a poll so we can rate this set? from 1-5 like the other reviews

Don't get me wrong... I really do think that this ship is a beauty, but not nearly as well designed as the BSB and the new BB - it's design is however miles ahead of the almost god-awful Red Beard Runner. I didn't count the smaller ships like Renegade Runner. 7/10 is IMO a good score. 10/10 is almost impossible to get, but I think that LEGO sets such as the huge 10179 Millenium Falcon, 10030 Imperial Star Destroyer, and the new Town sets Cafe Corner etc they deserve a 10/10

UPDATE: I've added new amazing pictures of a MINT set, that has been for sale on ebay 6286 - Skull's Eye Schooner Pieces: 892 Minifigs: 9 Year: 1993 Price: Lugnet and Peeron: 126.50 US Dollars The box: The box, and what's inside: (these are the new pictures that I saw on eBay, and asked for permission to use) The opened box: A closer look: The bags: The manual: The contents in the box: The sails: The parts tray: The minifigs: A whopping total of 9 pirates! One of them is the very rare guy with the white shirt and brown vest - He only came with this set, and the Imperial Trading Post. I read an article on LEGO Pirates, where he was given the name, Steve, which is pretty neat. And you get a monkey and a parrot too - this is very impressive The interesting parts: (all pictures are from peeron) A skull plate (comes with this set only) A compass: A white "whats'er name" A brown ladder 2 white modern/classic town doors 2 blue palm tree tops: (they were only available in this set, the 6271 - Imperial Flagship and 1788 - Treasure Chest This one is used for pulling the anchor up from the water ...it sits on top of this one A rowing boat Treasure chest and rowing boat The various features: This ship has a compass next to the steering wheel Ahh - and you can lift this section off, to reveal the Captain's sparsely furnitured cabin with his blue!?! table - a few pictures down, I will show you how to open the sides of this cabin to get better access. This section which I just removed has an odd postbox where you can find a glass and a gun This is how you open the two sides of the cabin: And voila! Inside the cabin, you can see a part of how the ship wheel turns the rudder at every spin - this grey thing moves from side to side, pushing two black planks under the cabin's floor - they are attached to the rudder, as you will see in the next picture. This feature sounds great, but it takes up way too much space inside the cabin. In my opinion, it should have been left out to add a more interesting cabin. Rudder with the black planks attached: (I like how LEGO made the rudder part red, to stay true to the colour scheme of the hull pieces) This is the cabin from behind - where the boat hangs freely (attached to some space-themed tubes) These are the two doors to the cabin - they are a bit un-piratey I think - but I'll get to the design later It's time to take little look at the front of the ship: here's the scary looking figure head - arrr Now on to a nice feature that really saves the ship from looking too empty - the front deck Here, closed: Here, opened: The anchor is attached to a string which can be rolled around a propel - personally I like the sollution with a winch - but there was no room for such a winch because the designers had the front deck be partially removable as shown in the pictures above Let's take a look at the deck with all the cannons and grey!?! cannonballs: This is such a great feature - the cannons move from one side of the ship to the other without any problems: And there it is, ready to gun down the Carribbean Clipper: Many Pirate fans like the cannons with small wheels instead of these turntables. But in terms of playability, it's a great feature. Notice the green flags, hiding the cannons. Looks very cool, and the ship's colour scheme from here is beautiful, I think The design: There are a few things about this ship that I disagree with. The cabin looks great, and it's big, but I don't think that it is necessary to have the rudder being able to move. If they had changed that, there would have been better use of the space available in such a huge ship as this one. Also, I don't think that the way the anchor gets pulled up from the water is a good sollution. But as I said earlier, they had to do something else, because they made the feature of being able to open the front of the deck to reveal a sort of basement for goods and stuff - which is very nice. Why is there a blue table in the cabin? Why not black or grey? Or yellow to indicate gold. I know brown wasn't common in 1993, but blue is just way off. And what's with the grey cannon balls? They should be black. Good thing they are easily replaced. The two white town-themed doors should definitely have been brown like on the BSB - but BSB is perfection, and you can't change that fact. The colour scheme, I agree with. For the most part! I like the red and brown mixture, and I like the use of black and white in the cabin, but they should have kept the colours more seperated, instead of using red, white, black and a little grey for the cabin. When I get some time, I want to mod the cabin and make it less colourfull - remove the red. I know that the red is used to create consistancy from the red colour on the ship hulls, but the red line looks a little odd, I think. It's broken up in a weird way on the cabin's sides. Cabin colourscheme: I love the sails. Three masts - come on - how cool is that??! This ship looks so mean and fearsome - take a look at some pictures of the sails, and the flags - and then some comparison shots of Skull's Eye and the beautiful and much smaller Carribbean Clipper Sails: Size comparison shots: Here she be in all of her glory, arrr: This concludes my pictorial review. Here are some end comments about this classic set: Design: 9/10 - SES is IMO the third best of the pirate ships, no doubt. BSB wins any day though, and Brickbeard is only ahead of this ship because of the new colours being used today. (UPDATE: The new Imperial Flagship is of course a totally different story, and is really a piece of art... it has definitely pushed the SES down to a fourth place on my ranking list of LEGO ships.) Colour scheme: 7/10 When compared to Carribbean Clipper, Black Seas Barracuda and the new Brickbeard's Bounty, this ship lacks a bit - especially the cabin. It looks unfinished and even rushed, with that weird red line. Features: 9/10 - There are many cool features in this set, and they all add to a great experience, both in the building process and when you are finished, and you sit around messing with all the details. Playability: 10/10 - If you don't know how to have fun with such a huge LEGO ship, you are not a LEGO fan Build: 10/10 - 892 pieces!! this was just a perfect building experience, and it can litterally take hours to finish. Perfect. Price: 8/10 - I guess if the listed price of 126.50 dollars is true, then it was perhaps a little too expensive for most parents back then. Pieces: 10/10 Lots of rare parts with this set including the minifig "Steve" and the white Skull plate. 9 minifigs, a parrot and a monkey. Perfect. Thanks for looking - and let me know if I missed anything - I know that I don't have any building pictures, but there are so many pictures of all the details that this would have been too much maybe.