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I like it! I might try something similar.

I'll probably make the nobleman the king's steward or something. That would explain why he's color coordinated. :) I think that it's pretty weird that they made the black falcon stuff green instead of blue, but still totally awesome that they added a new black falcon guy. I'm glad to know that the black falcons did use green before, haha.

Awesome, thanks so much for the clarification, no_skill and Pellaeon! I think I'm just going to leave it with four cannons. If they see the enemy coming, they can roll the cannons over to the side the enemy will be on... sort of...

no_skill: Awesome, thanks for the advice. I'll try that mod if/when it next falls apart! What's the difference between a #4 axle and #5 axle? Is there a guide somewhere as to what the pieces are called? When we were assembling this we mostly came up with our own names like "give me the brown pointy" or "pass me a 2x1 gray grabby" or "I need 10 eyeballs" ... being somewhat new to Lego (just got into Lego late last summer, we put together my old Lego sets from when I was a kid, actually still in really good shape). Grimmy: Thanks for the suggestion on glue! I will remember that. I enjoyed your pictures, especially the partly-assembled one where you set up a scene. I took some pictures too... I took a LOT of pictures. I wasn't going to post them here because I was worried that it was too silly! But... here it is: http://www.videogamespaces.com/?p=604 I learned what the prow was called thanks to this thread, haha I would also like to see other people's pictures.

Okay, thanks for the advice, I think I will not superglue it. It might get messy, too. Next time it falls apart, I'll look carefully to see what other kinds of pieces I can add to make it stronger. And if it doesn't fall apart again, no need to strengthen it! Haha yes whenever he plays with something I just want to grab it from him haha

I've had some trouble with the prow. It has fallen apart twice, once while I was rebuilding it, and now my husband is afraid to help me play with the ship, even though he thinks it is awesome. When we put it back together we looked carefully to see what the weak parts were and decided to just try not to touch it. Do you have any other suggestions? What about superglue? We thought a little about gluing just a few select bricks, so it doesn't fall apart... what are the dangers in that? And what if 5 years later I did decide to take it apart, would it be stuck? I don't even know how long superglue lasts. Or would you just be careful when handling it? I thought this was great fun to build. I've only built older Lego sets, and the new Pirates sets. It took a long time to build, and it has so much detail! Also, I didn't introduce myself. I read this forum, but I haven't posted until now. I'm smellsgood, nice to meet you. Oh and I enjoyed the review, it was very thorough!