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Great finds! Thank you for looking for the these.

I really liked the last Creator Pirate ship; I'm very curious to see what this new one will be like. Between the two BDP sets (so far) this year and this ship, I'm feeling pretty good about this year as a Pirate fan. (My wallet wants to make me walk the plank though.)

I'm liking this set more and more every time I see it--they did a really nice job with the minifigures considering the limitations. And the multiple flags (especially the historically inspired Jolly Roger design) are an excellent touch. It's expensive, but hopefully this will be a good option for folks who are in the market for an Imperial ship and missed out on the Imperial Flagship back in the day.

Maybe for the Coconut Cape set? EDIT: I see the GWP car for the Modular set has the purple tricorn from the Spiderman set too--nice!

Nice! I hadn't seen that one yet!

I love the new hat colors and designs! I wonder if they'll offer the unprinted red and blue bicorns on PAB...

Sad, there were some good Pirate designs this round. But there are still two Pirate BDP sets in the pipeline, so there's still that to look forward to. They did state that final designs and pricing for Series 7 will be revealed on January 5th; looking forward to seeing what the final price is on the Fortuna so my wallet can brace for impact, lol.

Oh neat, I didn't realize that was a catalog! I thought it was just a once page ad!

It arrived today!!! I'm so excited; it looks so good on the box. I didn't take a close look at the animal and accesory selection until now. More seagulls, a cockatoo and a bunch of bananas! (I have a lot of bananas, but not a bunch, lol.)

Mine is now In Warehouse as well--thanks for the heads up!

I recently found out that the online LEGO Minifigure Factory has still has a Halloween design that's very useable for civilian pirate minifigures. Here's the one I made: As you can see, with a few additions, he makes a good merchant or settler: The print quality isn't great (you can definitely see the print lines) but it looks better in person than it does here. (For reference, you can barely see that red dot on his cravat when you're holding the figure.) And as part of a crowd of minifigs it's not really going to be noticable. It's a little pricey, but I'll definitely be making more of these--I was happy enough with the base design here that I didn't even get to customize it this time! There are a few other exclusive Pirate prints based on the Will and Camilla minifigures from the vending machine set (these were unavailable for a brief time, but they're back now) and some other Pirates and Goonies decorations that would make for fun custom figures.

Woo! That looks great Chris! You've clearly been collecting for awhile.

That's awesome! Did anyone else get theirs or have their order status change? Mine is still saying "in process."

Sorry, no, they're not the torso designs from the set, but a range of Goonies t-shirts and such. I'm not a super fan of the movie, but a lot of them have some fun uses of classic swords, skulls, flames, etc. Very cool for fans of the movie, but not so useful for Pirate builders. They do have some neat decorations like the compass element, etc, that you can put on torsos to customize them too. I was surprised to find this cool looking design that I don't recognize from other sets, I think it's a Halloween exclusive, but it will very useful as a civilian Pirate minifigure. That's the one I ended up going with; I'll post a picture when it arrives!

So on a whim I decided to try the Minifigure Factory "design a minifigure" feature today... I tried to do it awhile back but all the Pirate torso options were mysteriously gone. But today not only do they have Pirate options available once again, there's a whole range of nice Goonies torsos and decorations! Might check it out if you like the film; I don't know how long these last for.