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Jonathan Wilson wrote:
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> > It's a mystery that Lego only truly knows. I think they weakened the Pirates
> > line with the Islander series and then came back with an uninspired round of
> > pirate ships and either decided that was it or (hopefully) they would let it
> > sit fallow for a while and come back to it. There have been vague rumors of
> > Pirates returning, but nothing that I would consider encouraging.
>
> I think that the reason pirates left is because it could not be junorised
Sure it could. Heck, they already used wall elements, one-piece rowboats,
big hull pieces...
Pirates Jr. would probably have one-piece hulls for all the ships, would lose
the detailed decorations that made the large ships so nice, probably one-piece
masts and one-piece crossbars to hang the sails from. The sterncastle would
be
made from wall sections instead of bricks - but the captain's cabin would have
a trap door to drop victims into the bilges.
J, feeling cynical yet?
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Jeff Johnston wrote:
> Jonathan Wilson wrote:
> >
> > > It's a mystery that Lego only truly knows. I think they weakened the Pirates
> > > line with the Islander series and then came back with an uninspired round of
> > > pirate ships and either decided that was it or (hopefully) they would let it
> > > sit fallow for a while and come back to it. There have been vague rumors of
> > > Pirates returning, but nothing that I would consider encouraging.
> >
> > I think that the reason pirates left is because it could not be junorised
>
> Sure it could. Heck, they already used wall elements, one-piece rowboats,
> big hull pieces...
>
> Pirates Jr. would probably have one-piece hulls for all the ships, would lose
> the detailed decorations that made the large ships so nice, probably one-piece
> masts and one-piece crossbars to hang the sails from. The sterncastle would
> be
> made from wall sections instead of bricks - but the captain's cabin would have
> a trap door to drop victims into the bilges.
>
> J, feeling cynical yet?
>
> --
> sakura@mediaone.net is Jeff Johnston http://www.io.com/~jeffj
> My LEGO Web page has moved! Go to: http://people.ne.mediaone.net/sakura
> Check out my Trade List and Want List - * - Last Updated 12/19/1999
> LEGO Geek Code: SP+ CA +++ (375/6075) PI +++ #++ S--/++ LS++ Hal M+ A++ YB73m
O.K. then, So you could junorise pirates. My next guess is that they just ran out of
ideas that the guys at the top would accept (we want to make a new pirate ship that
has 3 of the larger sized pirate hull middle pieces in it. no. o.k. then we are all
out of ideas because we cant make a decent pirate ship on these rediculously low
piece sount figures unless we make some new pieces. you cant make any new pieces, we
are over the quota already. o.k. then we cant make any more pirates)
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