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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.

Yeah the Danish language has a lot of the same words as English - when the Vikings came to plunder and kill in Britain they took along with them a lot of words which the English people now have embrased as their own like "Æg" - egg and "Kirke" - Church

I voted bluecoats - I don't even have any redcoats I think, and the Armada guys are really not my type - I'm so psyched that LEGO has returned to the best kind of Pirate/Soldier/Imperial-style instead of all that Islander and Armada stuff

Oh how I wanted this when I was a child - the yellow wall made the difference - for me, that piece is almost mythical Thanks for doing the review - great pictures

Wow - just wow! I've browsed your other MOCs in your Brickshelf folder - holy crap you're talented! The haunted ball room

Ahh - I've always wanted to be a mighty pirate - just like Threepwood

Any word on when these will be available in Europe/Denmark? I can't believe that of all countries, Denmark has to wait for this?!?

Ahh - ok, then I completely misunderstood the academy's purpose. It's for those who want help. That's a great idea :)

Yes - I'd like to know what that reviewing academy is? I'm currently photoshoping some pictures that I've taken of a small Creator 3-in-1 box and the 3 cars/trucks - but if I'm not even "allowed" to post a pictorial review in the Creator section then I'd stop photoshopping

You're right. Those hulls are the biggest problem - but I can always look for those on ebay too. As for sails, I can easily make my own, but it would be nice to have the original ones, but that will come in time. I'm not in a rush

I can't use the search function for some reason - I don't know why But I've browsed the review thread, and there's no Pictorial Review of the Skull's Eye Schooner - Is that correct? I'd like to make the review if you guys can wait a few weeks? I just bought the ship on ebay, so now I'm waiting for the postman to arrive sometime before christmas - the seller stated that it was in beautiful condition, so let's wait and see My own christmas gift to myself this year - maybe my daughter can play a little bit with it when I'm done EDIT: I've built the Skull and here's a comparison shot between my beloved Carribbean Clipper and the mighty Skull's Eye Schooner

I just bought a pristine 100 % complete Skull's Eye Schooner from UK ebay for 56 pounds - I think that's a pretty fair price

^^ Nice comparison - I love how Lego still reinvent themselves all the time - I was 9 years old in 1989 so I must say I love the original pirate Lego the most, but this new Pirate Lego has impressed me very much. I was pretty disappointed when they made some of the Pirate stuff from around 1996 or so, but this new Pirate theme has gotten me all psyched up

ahh - twas my first set too then later I got most of the 1989 collection and a few 1991 sets during my childhood years, before my dark age came. I still need the Barracuda and the Eldorado Fortress to "complete" the 1989 sets

How can you get this kind of job? What's the education that I'll need to get this job?

The Black Seas Barracuda has always been my biggest want ever since Lego started their Pirates Theme... even though I'm 28 years old, I still want this ship very badly. Everything about this ship is perfect - the colour scheme and details. But I'm really impressed with the new Pirate ship from the 2009 collection - it really looks beautiful and well designed

Thanks for all your replys. I had been thinking that it would be too expensive because of the shipping fees from the many different sellers. But if I really wanted to spend a lot of time browsing Bricklink, I could probably buy most of the stuff from a few sellers in Europe which would make the final shipping fee a bit lower - I really hate that it's so expensive to buy Lego on eBay because most of the interesting stuff is located in the US or UK - and if the price isn't listed it's mostly because the seller wont ship outside US/UK :( thanks again - I'll keep an eye out for the thread with the many auctions on ships

Hi guys - I was wondering if it would be worth the time and money to put together the complete Black Seas Barracuda with orders solely from Bricklink? If I took a look at the Inventory List from peeron.com and then ordered the cheapest bricks, bits and pieces from all the different sellers on Bricklink, do you think that the total would be smaller than if I bought the Black Seas Barracuda on ebay at a reasonable price? And what's the average price for the Barracuda on ebay.co.uk or ebay.com? Thanks

Thanks - I looked around on bricklink but I'm not too sure about buying from the seller there, because I don't know the actual quality of the bricks - what should I look out for when buying via bricklink?

Hi there, I'm Kristian from Denmark - I just recently discovered this magnificent place. The reason I have not found this earlier is simply because I've been far away from the Lego world for more than 14 years - but now I'm back I am now 28 years old, and my very young daughter (2½ years old) has already gone from playing with Duplo to playing with regular Lego bricks - this made me happy as a little boy on christmas morning, because that meant I had a valid reason to pull down all my Lego from the addic I've of course always played a lot with my daughter whenever she played with Duplo, and now Lego because I love it so much, especially more than if she plays with her dolls... she has perhaps been encouraged to play more with bricks because I've shown more interest in this My favourite Lego themes are Pirates (That's what I have most of) and City - but I have lost so many bricks and bits and pieces over the years, so there's not much to build from instructions. But I've managed to take better care of my Pirates stuff for some reason. I don't have all of the stuff from 1989 and 1991, but I do have a lot of it though. Sadly, I never got the Black Seas Barracuda or the Soldier's Fort, so I'm searching for those on ebay at bargain prices. This is pratically impossible because it's christmas soon, and also because I live in Denmark, so shipping fees are way too high for my taste, and if they're not too high, the seller simply won't send the Lego to Denmark :( - and that really bums me out because Denmark is where Lego was invented. Oh, by the way, I love to look at all the fantastic MOCs that people have made, but I'm not a bigger MOC'er myself, because I lack both the time and the bricks to make anything worth showing to other people. Well, that was a little bit about me - take care Kristian

This is really a tough one - I love how my 2½ year old daughter just recently began to play with Lego instead of Duplo, but because she's still very young, I've sorted all the regular bricks from everything else, which means she can build walls, houses and basic cars, but all of my sets are hidden away because I know that there will be lots of important pieces that will disappear in time if she starts to play with that now. Your son is a lot older than my daughter, so you have to face the fact that he loves to play with more complex Lego sets and bricks, and when he does, he maybe forgets to think about keeping track of all the smaller pieces. I think you should just encourage him to keep building the sets, but at the same time, show him that the blue bricks belong in this box, the flat plates belong in this other box, and the minifigs should be put into this box after playing with them. Maybe you should be the one "helping" him clean up every night before he goes to bed,becuase then you can help him make sure all the bricks are in their correct boxes. You should use small ice cream buckets with lids, as one has suggested, or maybe buy a few of those IKEA boxes than can roll under the beds - they have wheels underneath them, and they have enough space inside to put all the ice cream buckets Kristian