[OFFICIAL] Pirate Quartermaster - Collectible Minifigure Series 27

[bingowaldorf]

I like her a lot! The gold bling really says this person is in a position of authority.(at a glance she could even be the captain!) I might get multiples to get a few extra cockatoo, but with such an extravagant outfit I’m not sure if multiple figures would fit into one crew.

[Mister Phes]

12 hours ago, vaoinas said:

Mid-legs and shorter appearance would have really added some character to her

And none of the other creative choices the designers made added character to her?

Particularly in comparison to other recent minifigures:

 

[NOD]

Don Diego de LEGO convinced me, the 4 side by side look great. I really like 3 of the 4 minifigures (the ones with the printed legs) that's why I ordered these. I will probably modify them to make them fit with my existing pirate minifigures.

[Mister Phes]

9 hours ago, NOD said:

Don Diego de LEGO convinced me

We need an updated minifig of him too!

[Aanchir]

On 12/2/2024 at 5:28 PM, chris6507 said:

I find the proportions are the things that feels off to me! With short legs and huge hair, it feels like there's 30% minifigure below the waist and 70% above. Just makes if look really oddly proportioned. Don't think it would look as bad if it didn't have such a "tall" hairpiece. 

The legs are the normal length, though, so it's really only the hair that's out of the ordinary.

On 12/2/2024 at 7:28 PM, thewatchman said:

What’s with the lime dot speckling on the sleeve line? And the gold tooth seems a bit off. 
 That and I dunno why they used the cockatoo rather than a new McCaw or parrot part.

I don't see any speckling on the sleeve, might just be JPEG compression artifacts? She does have a sort of lacy pattern to her sleeves in the review video but it's just white lace over yellow skin, no lime in sight.

My guess is they went with a cockatoo for a greater sense of novelty (since it's a new animal and not just an updated one).

I appreciate the gold tooth as another nice pirate-y feature that hadn't been apparent in previous pics. The compass-like motif on her breeches is also a nifty detail!

On 12/4/2024 at 4:16 AM, YellowFrog said:

The main thing that saves this fig is the sword.

Just kidding, it's the cockatoo. As an Australian, I'm stoked to have a sulfur-crested cockatoo for Aussie outback MOCs etc..

I definitely don't mind getting another Aussie animal mold! Would love to get a platypus mold someday as well, though obviously that's tangential to this particular discussion.

On 12/6/2024 at 7:45 PM, Mister Phes said:

And none of the other creative choices the designers made added character to her?

Particularly in comparison to other recent minifigures:

Oh for sure! The lacy sleeves, bracelet, tattered skirt, and pronounced cheekbones all stand out quite a bit from these other one-off figs as well as from the female pirates in Barracuda Bay and Eldorado Fortress.

One trait I would like to see on future female pirate figs is visible scars. I feel like in the past, LEGO (much like Hollywood) has sometimes been a bit too reluctant to portray female characters with "un-pretty" features like scars or injuries — for example, compare the facial features of the Agents theme's male and female baddies. But nowadays LEGO has been getting better (at least in their modern-day themes) at portraying features like vitiligo or limb differences that challenge conventional beauty norms, so they might be more open to giving pirate women visible scars in future sets as well.

[williejm]

On 12/4/2024 at 9:16 AM, YellowFrog said:

Just kidding, it's the cockatoo. As an Australian, I'm stoked to have a sulfur-crested cockatoo for Aussie outback MOCs etc..

Fun fact - it’s not a sulphur-crested cockatoo! The crest is in light bright orange and it has a corresponding cheek patch, that means it’s pretty damn accurate as a citron-crested cockatoo, which are endemic only to the island of Sumba, in Indonesia. Apologies to all Aussies, but you’ve been short-changed here … and rather than a relatively common cockatoo, we actually get a very specific, tropical one. I’m guessing the stylistic choice to use a light orange was because yellow is the ‘flesh colour’ of the minifigures, and of course we could always see a recolour down the line … 

[Breakspear]

The Quartermaster minifigure has risen a lot my estimation since its official reveal. I'd now consider it one the most innovative pirate figures of recent years. The designer has clearly tried to think outside the most common pirate tropes (tricornes, bicornes, eyepatches etc.) and give us a completely new take on a female pirate.

I love the fine printed details: the patterned leg print, the notched boot tops, the lace sleeves, the gold tooth, the different bracelets on each wrist, and the shiny necklace and compass on the torso. My overall favorite design detail is the fabric waist cape, which gives some fun three-dimensionality to the thick red sash printed across the lower torso and hips.

Like others, my least favorite design detail is the hair piece. However, I also think the overall concept of a hair/headscarf combo is good, and the re-colour of the specific piece in black is welcome. I'm curious to try this figure with a headscarf with hair down (e.g.11254pb02), or long wavy hair with no hat or scarf (e.g. 90396). 

While I would have preferred an updated macaw, the new cockatoo piece is really fun and further demonstrates the designer's commitment to giving us something completely new.

2 hours ago, Aanchir said:

One trait I would like to see on future female pirate figs is visible scars. I feel like in the past, LEGO (much like Hollywood) has sometimes been a bit too reluctant to portray female characters with "un-pretty" features like scars or injuries — for example, compare the facial features of the Agents theme's male and female baddies. But nowadays LEGO has been getting better (at least in their modern-day themes) at portraying features like vitiligo or limb differences that challenge conventional beauty norms, so they might be more open to giving pirate women visible scars in future sets as well.

I agree! More diversity in appearance and facial expressions for Lego female heads would be very welcome. I've certainly noticed the bias you describe of Lego favoring female prettiness over 'un-pretty' features - even when 'un-prettiness' might have made sense in the context of the set itself (a good non-pirate example is the recent Viking blacksmith). Scanning my own collection of female heads I find that  "gleeful/exuberant", "neutral smile/pretty smile", and "smirking" expressions, as well as faces with freckles/moles/beauty spots are over-represented, while heads with scars, wrinkles, frowns, anger or sternness are much less common. I'm delighted to see the new Quartermaster has cheekbones - a detail which I think has been relatively more common in Lego's male rather then female faces in the past(?).

Edited December 8, 2024 by Breakspear
Fixing Bricklink links/references

[Robert8]

Another pic

[Mister Phes]

7 hours ago, Aanchir said:

One trait I would like to see on future female pirate figs is visible scars. I feel like in the past, LEGO (much like Hollywood) has sometimes been a bit too reluctant to portray female characters with "un-pretty" features like scars or injuries

Indeed! Pirates, were after all, the first minifigures to offer prosthetics such as hooks, wooden legs and eye patches*. 

Cliches of the genre, but we are yet to observe hooks and wooden legs incorporated into female pirate minifgures.

* providing the eye patch wasn't an aide to improve night vision

 

[zinnn]

14 hours ago, Breakspear said:

while heads with scars, wrinkles, frowns, anger or sternness are much less common

That's the reason why I like the innkeeper from the Medieval Town Square set:

https://www.bricklink.com/v2/catalog/catalogitem.page?M=cas586

 

But I 100% agree with the need for more facial diversity for female minifigs :) 

 

One of the reasons why I love the gold tooth version of this head so much!

[zinnn]

I've just found this article about habitat building for minifigs, and the author created a cute lil scene for our Quartermaster:

https://bricknerd.com/home/minifigure-habitats-for-cmf-series-27-1-7-25

[Dreamweb]

Well, now I officially have two quartermasters in my collection.

Edited January 10 by Dreamweb

[Mister Phes]

59 minutes ago, Dreamweb said:

Well, now I officially have two quartermasters in my collection.

So you can build two habitats, right?

[Dreamweb]

4 hours ago, Mister Phes said:

So you can build two habitats, right? 

Truth be told, I hardly ever keep those collectible minifigs in their original configuration. These two will be split into several minifigs combined with other body parts and populate future MOCs.

[Yperio_Bricks]

1 minute ago, Dreamweb said:

Truth be told, I hardly ever keep those collectible minifigs in their original configuration. These two will be split into several minifigs combined with other body parts and populate future MOCs.

This is the way

[Dreamweb]

Also, I don't buy them very often. Only when some interesting minifigs come out, usually pirate-related. I'm sure that an army-builder redcoat or bluecoat soldier in a CMF series would be highly sought-after (just like the Wolfpack Beastmaster in the current series which is very hard to find in shops near me (but I found one and got it too, just in case ).

Edited January 10 by Dreamweb