Offical Pirate Shores Towel

[Mister Phes]

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Does anybody else own one of these? What do you think of the towel?

[Shadows]

While that most certainly is a towel, which earns it a degree of respect by it's sheer existance, it seems lacking in LEGO style, outside of the required logo.

Why, exactly, does a towel earn such respect? Allow me to quote from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy entry on towels:

A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a bush, but very, very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitch hiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Beyond that... shame on you, TLG! You don't pay for an available pirate license in the form of PotC, then mimic them to make a towel, while taunting us with the prospect of a new line. Bad form, bad form indeed.

Am I being a bit too critical here?

[Nikola Bathory]

Cool!

As for Pirates of the Caribean - I hate it, it's stupid!

Anyway, our hope of LEGO Pirates revival lives on!

[Mister Phes]

Beyond that... shame on you, TLG! You don't pay for an available pirate license in the form of PotC, then mimic them to make a towel, while taunting us with the prospect of a new line. Bad form, bad form indeed.Am I being a bit too critical here?

You certainly raise a good point, as this IS official merchandise from the Pirate section of a LEGO theme park, and one would think the design would be more identifiable with LEGO. But let's think about it from a marketing perspective...

The folks at Disney have already established a design which proliferated into recent popular culture and therefore easily identifiable. In the case of SYSTEM Pirate LEGO, kids under 10 weren't even born when the last Pirate LEGO sets were seen on shelves. For this reason these kiddies are more likely to identify with a Pirates of the Caribbean design rather than some design based on a LEGO theme discontinued over 10 years ago.

Of course someone can come along and inform me the theme park is very 4+ Pirate orientated and ask why wasn't the design based on those?

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