July 7, 20231 yr Looks like sea loads of Port Royal in the movie Cutthroat island! Margan and Shaw rides wagan under the bombardments of british frigate
July 9, 20231 yr Fantastic diorama, I like the hanged skeleton and the various colors used for the roofs!
July 18, 20231 yr The best and biggest entry so far, and while I do love it it's a bit too big. Here are my other suggestions, First make the buildings detachable from the rest of the set so people can choose where the buildings go (I also want to see the interiors). Second and last the dock needs to jut out from the building more so people can dock the ship/raft. Anyway, Happy building :)
August 11, 20231 yr Hello! My name is Tom, and I am new to the forum. I noticed this *outstanding* build and wanted to say I love it as a MOC. That said, it is very robust and far too detailed to match up with the classic pirate sets I grew up with. And the hanging skeleton seems a bit much in terms of something LEGO would actually release to kids. I offer this criticism as someone who might have the exact same problem with my own contest entry (which I hope to post today or tomorrow!). It's grown too large, and while I love it, I am drifting away from the spirit of the contest, and now I am trying to find ways to pair it down. Awesome build!
August 21, 20231 yr The roof technique is a nice look. My concern is that is appears very brittle since those 1x1 cylinders are not connected to each other on the middle building and would very easily come apart. I like how on the building on the right you have them connected to each other one brick from the end. I'd recommend doing that to the middle building to add some stability to the build. (During transport or during play not having more stability could have a problem though generally not during display) I like the look of your tower. It adds nice height to the build to provide an opposite to the low height building on the left. Might I suggest moving the telescope lookout to into the tower instead of being next to the cannon? Or adding something else inside of the tower to give it some military function? (maybe even an alarm bell?)
August 23, 20231 yr Lovely moc and an impressibe display set, all those roofs, and walkways, towers, battlements, decorations are just superb. Brilliant. Well done. Not sure if it's a proper Lego set tho. Definitely a collector;s special rather than something for toy shops. Then again, obviously it brings a lot of idea that could be used to create a proper Lego approved seaside town, and there's a whole lot of things to get inspired by, little details that could and should be used. Seaside town is a set people have always asked for, at least fans on this forum did, so that's already a good start. And i guess all of these houses offer different playvalues as they are supposed to represent different divisions of this town's life? I think that it would be useful to give them more room, space between all those buildings tho, as they are quite tight. Probably they could offer some shade from the carribean sun because of that, but accesibility should be an important factor, especialy that You said this set is not modular, so it would be impossible to move those buildings away from each other a bit. Or did i get something wrong and it's actually possible expand them and perhaps connect with selfbuiolt bridges? Then again, with all those roofs and floors i wonder if these are openable to reach their exteriors, can't see much on those pictures and You didn't provide a lot of trivia about Your work, so i guess it might be there it might not. But what's above is one thing, i'm even more curious about what's below and this town seems to be sitting entirely on piles driven into the sea floor. Or is just the jetty and all buildings are actually on land? Anyway, as with all sets of this kind, i believe such location give excelent excuse to indlude some secret entrences in our out of those buldings, trap doors, smugglers' routes, hidden stashes etc. And once again, i can't tell if there's anything like it there. Still, i believe that such design would be every Pirate fan's dream anyway, as it's great for either display, or parts, or it could be rearanged with little work into whole lots of things. I only wonder if it's not too peacefull in there. Or maybe that's just an illusion and there's something wicked in this town ;) Folks might complain that there's much action there, no pirates in sight, no intruders planning to turn this location into hell or steal local's day's earnings. Then again, do we have to include conflict into every set? I don't know. And surely, i anyone could afford Your offering, he/she could order an additional sets with pirate hordes to spice or blow things up ;)
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