This resulted in Lego having three factions in 1994 and 1995, with the Pirates battling the Imperial Guard on the high seas and disturbing the Islanders while seeking treasure. The stories revolved around the misadventures of the crew of Dark Shark and their run-ins with Broadside's Imperial Soldiers. Like many others I really liked the Pirates of Barracuda Bay, it was fun to build, nice to look at, could be a shipwreck hideout or a normal ship, and had an impressive amount of minifigures. Kahuka is the leader of the Islanders, a Polynesian-based sub-theme of the Pirates theme and he cannot be mistaken for anyone else that Lego has ever conjured up. In honesty both the sets are of a very high-class, and it is nice to have the luxury of choice over a favourite rather than there being only one good set, more of this say’s I arrrg.

Imperial Flagship 6271 or Sea Lion as it was in the UK Catalogue, this was my 7th birthday present in 1994, my only ship and a nice one as well. This set has a new pirate (the one with the hook known as Ironhook) and we see one of the regular pirates sporting a fashionable peg leg. This set was released as both a polly bag and a boxed set, the idea behind this set is a lone pirate looking out for any Imperials so that his crew mates can get an early warning (hence the title lookout). For the most part I've used my original Redcoats which number SIX to represent a small force while my three Bludocoast came to represent the officers, perhaps not correct, but because my backdrop was mostly naval it fitted in well.was also the last year for the Islanders who had not seen any new releases since 1994 nor had their minifigures featured as guests in other factions' sets. Like in the comic, Governor Broadside appeared with his sister Prudence and niece Camilla once again. For 1996 Lego changed the entire "feel" of the Pirates line, giving the Pirates minifigs new faces, and made it Spanish-influenced.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Two 1996 Pirate sets, "Red Beard Runner" and "Armada Flagship", and one 1994 Islanders set, "Enchanted Island", were re-released for 2001. It is part of a multipack but that just means you get good value for money, If only I could have bought some.Do I make them Lieutenants, or if LEGO permits, with more Redcoats to come out (I hope, given the measly two redcoast thus far) perhaps they should be my privates and the older redcoats my officers. The stories developed a stronger characterisation for key characters and expanded the Pirate Lego universe. Red Beard Runner (1996), which replaced 6286, drew criticism for "battle damage" features like the tumbling forward mast and collapsing quarterdeck as these made the assembled set unstable. I like your opinion I have never thought about that before, after all, all pirates are a little impoverished.

Fact is that most British members here prefer redcoats, and Bluecoats are much more often referred to France instead of another country. Our flintlocks, shakos, knapscaks, and coats are all designed to fit seamlessly with your LEGO® minifigures. Hello, please forgive my grave ignorance on the matter of redcoats vs bluecoats, but I need to clarify this to avoid blunders in the future. Redcoats and Bluecoats are about the same but another nation would add a new range of possibilities such as alliances or new wars to be fought. LEGO®, the LEGO logo, DUPLO®, BIONICLE®, MINDSTORMS®, the BELVILLE, KNIGHTS’ KINGDOM and EXO-FORCE logos, the Brick and Knob configurations and the Minifigure are trademarks of the LEGO Group of companies, which does not sponsor, authorize or endorse this site.

During the years of fighting, he suffered three major injuries, which caused him to wear an eye patch over his left eye, an iron hook where his left hand used to be and a wooden right leg.

The top-left corner of odd pages contained information and an illustrated portrait of infamous pirates from history including Blackbeard and Bartholomew Roberts, while the top-right hand corners of the even pages included a picture of that pirate's flag. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The army had suffered from lack of peacetime spending and ineffective recruitment in the decade since the Seven Years' War, circumstances which had left it in a dilapidated state at the outbreak of war in North America.

The large black corner wall is very rare now and to also include a cannon and shark, pure brilliance.