Useful Pirate Pieces from other Themes?

[Yperio_Bricks]

No filthy swashbucklers or old pirate warhorses but certainly some figures i will use in BotBS:

So first is the Rokoko Dame from the CMF using Hermione's torso from the 2020 advent calendar (and clock tower) and a random light nougat face.

I also got King Namor from set 76213 and disguised him as an indigenious archer using the hair and accessories from the Harry Potter centaur (set 75967).

[Yperio_Bricks]

There is a new BAM  Pirate available in Lego Stores. Picture by Promobricks:

[Aanchir]

The upcoming LEGO Friends set 41737 has some great parts and techniques Pirates builders might appreciate, at least if they become more plentiful in other sets/themes!

In particular, the shoreline makes great use of existing curved Brick Yellow slopes, Dark and Medium Azur plates, and 1x2x2/3 curved slopes in Tr. Light Blue (which I believe are a new recolor for that piece). The set also introduces ferns in Bright Yellowish Green (Lime) and wavy blade pieces in Tr. Bright Green Opal (Satin Trans-Bright Green) as seaweed!

Also, while it doesn't necessarily have a lot of utility for Pirates sets/MOCs, I do love that pirate squid sign on top of the shooting gallery game, and the microscale squids and sailing ships used as targets! All the brick-built creatures in the set are really cute and charming.

[Yperio_Bricks]

17 minutes ago, Aanchir said:

The upcoming LEGO Friends set 41737 has some great parts and techniques Pirates builders might appreciate, at least if they become more plentiful in other sets/themes!

In particular, the shoreline makes great use of existing curved Brick Yellow slopes, Dark and Medium Azur plates, and 1x2x2/3 curved slopes in Tr. Light Blue (which I believe are a new recolor for that piece). The set also introduces ferns in Bright Yellowish Green (Lime) and wavy blade pieces in Tr. Bright Green Opal (Satin Trans-Bright Green) as seaweed!

Also, while it doesn't necessarily have a lot of utility for Pirates sets/MOCs, I do love that pirate squid sign on top of the shooting gallery game, and the microscale squids and sailing ships used as targets! All the brick-built creatures in the set are really cute and charming.

Looks like a fun set! I love how they build the two slushies (Or whatever drink it is...)

It is also interesting to see the fern piece used for a small palm tree. I still have to get one of those ferns into my hands. Surely it is a great piece!

[brickbride]

Harry Potter redid the old Lake Task set this year (76420). I'm not crazy about it - both Harry and Krum really should wear swimming trunks -, but it does contain a mermaid minifigure. The hair piece for it is from Vidiyo, I've heard ...

Krum's head, hair, and torso might also work for a pirate?

EDIT: Picture by Promobricks included

 

Also, there's already leaked pictures of a USD 170 Arielle display based on the upcoming movie. It has several merperson minifigures. It's probably too pricy to buy it just for those, but they might be worth looking for individually. Plus I like the construction of the upside-down ship hull. I think that could easily work for a treasure island or something similar.

Edited April 16, 2023 by brickbride

[TalonCard]

6 hours ago, Aanchir said:

The upcoming LEGO Friends set 41737 has some great parts and techniques Pirates builders might appreciate, at least if they become more plentiful in other sets/themes!

In particular, the shoreline makes great use of existing curved Brick Yellow slopes, Dark and Medium Azur plates, and 1x2x2/3 curved slopes in Tr. Light Blue (which I believe are a new recolor for that piece). The set also introduces ferns in Bright Yellowish Green (Lime) and wavy blade pieces in Tr. Bright Green Opal (Satin Trans-Bright Green) as seaweed!

Also, while it doesn't necessarily have a lot of utility for Pirates sets/MOCs, I do love that pirate squid sign on top of the shooting gallery game, and the microscale squids and sailing ships used as targets! All the brick-built creatures in the set are really cute and charming.

Ooooh, I like that one! Not crazy about the price, but it'd go so well with the Amusement Pier set I already have. Nice to see the first Friends jolly roger symbol; I wish they'd just do Friends pirates already.

The fern pieces make for a nice looking palm tree, though the top section is pretty rough. (Another in the long history of LEGO palm tree tradeoffs, lol.)

[brickbride]

The sequel to the movie Avatar, The Way of Water, currently has five sets out: 75575 through 75579. I hope it's okay to link to a StoneWars article? (Simpler than linking to all the individual pics.) https://www.stonewars.de/news/lego-avatar-2023-januar/

I guess the blue minifigs aren't that useful unless for a really fantastic setting, but there's plenty of fantastic sea creatures and unusually coloured plant life to be had.

Spider (the human from the 75577 set) would make a good shipwrecked pirate who's been living on an island for some time. (Though you might have to replace the head because of the breathing mask, which unfortunately is printed on both sides of the head.)

I also like the fabric sail thingie from 75578. I could see something like a colony of shipwrecked pirates who've cannibalized parts of their ship to make a shelter.  

Edited April 16, 2023 by brickbride

[Yperio_Bricks]

3 hours ago, TalonCard said:

The fern pieces make for a nice looking palm tree, though the top section is pretty rough. (Another in the long history of LEGO palm tree tradeoffs, lol.)

Haha yeah, the top of the palm tree is rough, but if you cover it up with the other palm tree leafs the combination of fern and leafs might look much better

[brickbride]

To add: The Arielle/Ariel set I've mentioned above is 43225, about 1.800 pieces according to Brickset. There are no official images as of this moment, thus I cannot link to anything, but it should be easy enough to google the set number and "leak". (It's the picture with the huge clam shell.)

[Yperio_Bricks]

50 minutes ago, brickbride said:

To add: The Arielle/Ariel set I've mentioned above is 43225, about 1.800 pieces according to Brickset. There are no official images as of this moment, thus I cannot link to anything, but it should be easy enough to google the set number and "leak". (It's the picture with the huge clam shell.)

Oh wow, that looks nice!

[brickbride]

It does, doesn't it? :-) I'm not particularly into Disney so I won't get it, but I wonder if TLG will consider making adult displays for other themes in a similar style.

On 3/27/2023 at 11:04 AM, Yperio_Bricks said:

No filthy swashbucklers or old pirate warhorses but certainly some figures i will use in BotBS:

So first is the Rokoko Dame from the CMF using Hermione's torso from the 2020 advent calendar (and clock tower) and a random light nougat face.

I also got King Namor from set 76213 and disguised him as an indigenious archer using the hair and accessories from the Harry Potter centaur (set 75967).

That's a great idea using the centaurs (from a set that doesn't seem all that popular otherwise), and good call on Hermione's torso, too! I'm amazed that the pink matches so well, you'd never guess the skirt and torso were from different themes.

To add to a previous post of mine, here's Spider from the Avatar set (source: Bricklink):

Is it just me or does he have a recoloured version of Thor's hair?

Edited April 16, 2023 by brickbride

[Aanchir]

11 hours ago, TalonCard said:

Ooooh, I like that one! Not crazy about the price, but it'd go so well with the Amusement Pier set I already have. Nice to see the first Friends jolly roger symbol; I wish they'd just do Friends pirates already.

That would be AMAZING, honestly. I still greatly miss the LEGO Elves theme and would love to see another adventure-heavy mini-doll theme in that same vein. And just as Elves excelled at many sorts of features and details we've rarely seen in more boy-targeted Castle sets over the years, a Pirates-inspired mini-doll theme could probably do the same for many nautical and tropical features.

Imagine a island hut or pirate ship with actual hammocks to give their inhabitants a place to sleep, or a port market with merchants selling valuable goods like sea charts, tropical fruit, and exotic animals! Imagine the potential for accessories that acknowledge the cultural pastimes of pirates and seafarers — playing cards, checkerboards, musical instruments like fiddles and concertinas, journals for chronicling long sea voyages, and crafts such as woodcarving, scrimshaw, and macramé. There'd be even more possibilities if such a theme opted to include fantasy elements, such as magical treasures, sea monsters, and mermaid grottos.

It's not as though any of this sort of stuff would be verboten in more traditional minifig-based Pirates sets, of course. AFOL-oriented exclusives in particular often tend to strike a pretty good balance between the sorts of features that are traditionally in boy-oriented and girl-oriented "play themes". Consider how Pirates of Barracuda Bay and Lion Knights' Castle both included features like kitchens, toilets/garderobes, and sleeping quarters — stuff that was traditionally much more common in Belville castles and dollhouses sets than in Castle/Pirates playsets. But speaking for myself as a passionate LEGO Elves fan, I'd be just as happy to get that stuff a theme with mini-dolls as I would in one with minifigs!

12 hours ago, TalonCard said:

Ooooh, I like that one! Not crazy about the price, but it'd go so well with the Amusement Pier set I already have. Nice to see the first Friends jolly roger symbol; I wish they'd just do Friends pirates already.

The fern pieces make for a nice looking palm tree, though the top section is pretty rough. (Another in the long history of LEGO palm tree tradeoffs, lol.)

Considering the size of the fern pieces, I feel like you could probably make a much more substantial-looking palm tree by using more than four fronds — and potentially even have some of the fronds angled upwards instead of just downwards. But I can see why they kept things simple in this set, since the palm tree is largely "set dressing" for the boardwalk amusement park scene. I am eager to experiment with such possibilities once I either have a bunch of fern pieces in hand or have access to them on stud.io.

[brickbride]

11 minutes ago, Aanchir said:

 And just as Elves excelled at many sorts of features and details we've rarely seen in more boy-targeted Castle sets over the years, a Pirates-inspired mini-doll theme could probably do the same for many nautical and tropical features.

I guess a lot of this depends on just how popular the newly reinvented Friends theme proves with boys.

Pirates is typically thought of as a boys' theme. The only movie I can recall with a female lead, Cutthroat Island, did not do well, I think.

The old Friends theme occasionally ventured into the adventurous (there was a jungle subtheme and a marine rescue subtheme), but those were still centered on the girls' theme of helping/saving animals. The closest we've come to a typical boys' theme was the kart racing subtheme, and while that wasn't bad (the Drifting Diner is an excellent little set, definitely my favourite among Heartlake City's many eating establishments), I would be surprised if it did all that well.

Basically, I think TLG will shy away from combining (girls') minidolls and (boys') pirates unless the new Friends theme becomes a hit with boys more than it does with girls. But I'd be glad to be wrong on this, and your ideas sound excellent!

[F1stzz]

3 hours ago, brickbride said:

The only movie I can recall with a female lead, Cutthroat Island, did not do well, I think...

That'd be a hella understatement  It bombed so freakishly hard not a single soul in Hollywood considered coming back to pirates again for almost a decade — & then PotC happened 

[Classic_Spaceman]

First look at the Dreamzzz sharkship: 

1 hour ago, Classic_Spaceman said:

 

 

It seems that the ship may have a sail. 
 

[brickbride]

Ninjago is set to have another ship, 71797, Destiny`s Bounty Race Against Time. No pic so far, but according to Promobricks the ship is red and black with azure details (including a dragonhead prow) and the sails are dark red. About 1.700 pieces, EUR 140.

Edited April 20, 2023 by brickbride

[F1stzz]

2 hours ago, brickbride said:

Ninjago is set to have another ship, 71797, Destiny`s Bounty Race Against Time. No pic so far, but according to Promobricks the ship is red and black with azure details (including a dragonhead prow) and the sails are dark red. About 1.700 pieces, EUR 140.

Hey, that'd be an interesting one to have a look at 

[brickbride]

On 4/20/2023 at 2:08 PM, F1stzz said:

Hey, that'd be an interesting one to have a look at 

First picture courtesy of StoneWars:

Though the dragonhead prow, which according to Promobricks should be there, is missing.

Also, presumably there's a way to make the ship look more like one piece.

Edited April 22, 2023 by brickbride

[Yperio_Bricks]

If only everything that is red would be reddish brown....

[Lyichir]

A couple of potentially useful pieces in the new Donkey Kong sets! A new banana leaf piece and banana bunch piece for starters, plus the half-column piece my sister mentioned previously having potential for ship masts appearing in reddish brown for the first time!

[TalonCard]

Ooh, I missed the banana bunch piece!

[Classic_Spaceman]

4 hours ago, Lyichir said:

A couple of potentially useful pieces in the new Donkey Kong sets! A new banana leaf piece and banana bunch piece for starters, plus the half-column piece my sister mentioned previously having potential for ship masts appearing in reddish brown for the first time!

That banana bunch piece is absolutely showing up in City and Friends sets either in 2HY 2023 or sometime in 2024. 
 

[Jack Sassy]

7 hours ago, Lyichir said:

A new banana leaf piece and banana bunch piece for starters

Aye, the banana bunch looks lovely, however, those leaves look too unrealistic to me. 

[TeriXeri]

22 minutes ago, Jack Sassy said:

Aye, the banana bunch looks lovely, however, those leaves look too unrealistic to me. 

They don't look that amazing but honestly still better then some 3-in-1 style palm trees made out of arch bricks, and usually when a 3-in-1 set uses palm trees it rarely uses those arches for some actual alternate build, so I hope those pieces can also show up in 3-in-1 type of sets.

But yeah, overall it's certainly more like banana leaf and not palm leaf, the new Fern pieces suit that role a lot better for smaller palm trees as seen in that new Friends Beach Adventure Park.

 

Edited April 28, 2023 by TeriXeri

[Jiesdeo]

9 hours ago, Jack Sassy said:

Aye, the banana bunch looks lovely, however, those leaves look too unrealistic to me. 

I agree. If they'd added some cuts to them or something they'd look more realistic. In nature, the leafs usually have lots of cuts.

Wikipedia:

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Leaves are spirally arranged and may grow 2.7 metres (8.9 ft) long and 60 cm (2.0 ft) wide.^[1] They are easily torn by the wind, resulting in the familiar frond look.^[17]