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(...) A brig is a kind of ship, but also is slang for a prison cell... there's your "Broadside's Brig" meaning. Kevin ---...--- Personal Lego Web page: (URL) Air Market: Limited edition kit (URL) Kits & Custom Lego models: (URL) (24 years ago, 18-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I rather imagine they just thought the red-coats would be a nice variation to the blue-coats. Both have their own big base/fort and mid-sized ship. Run 'em as two different factions or be british about the whole thing and have the blue-coats (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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I have a question. If the red pirate theme mini-figs are Imperial Guards, and have the flagships and trading ports and all that, why do the blue Soldiers also have a ship? And why do the soldiers have a "brig"? Isn't that a nautical term? Wouldn't (...) (24 years ago, 17-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Ah, someone beat me to it. I just got mine today (Pirate folks, look at the parts below to see why this is crossposted...). Interesting parts: Fabuland fishing pole Fabuland butterfly net 2 white trellis arches 1 red trellis arch 2 green Fabuland (...) (24 years ago, 14-Aug-00, to lugnet.fabuland, lugnet.pirates)
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I got an idea of a sunken ghost ship theme. Mabey like an addition to divers. I mean, a ghost ship could be a ship made of totally transparent and glow in the dark pieces & figures. Could you imagine a pirate ship totally transparent? Hope the lego (...) (24 years ago, 13-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Traditionally the actual pirates got the large ship and a small ship in the Lego scheme of things. The "Imperials" (Spanish or English inspired) got the mid-size ship. Unfortunately the Armada blundered by at the height of parts- skimping (the (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Can't say much on the pirate issue, but I feel you...look at the Wolfpack. A tower and wagon...oh boy! The WP was one of my favorite subthemes as a kid...still is. I just wish there woulda been more of em... -Chris FUT .castle (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates, lugnet.castle)
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Does anyone know why the LEGO company only made two of the imperial armada sets. The sets would be great if they had more than a floating shack called a dock and one ship with four men and ONE cannon. Is that ANY match for about a hundred pirats? (...) (24 years ago, 12-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Arrr, welcome aboard, matey. Though it may seem like this is the best place to ask about sets, figs, and parts for pirates it actually isn't. Why? Because virtually everyone here on the pirates board want more of the same (except maybe Frank (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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The vault's got some pirate sets, including shooting cannons. Goto (URL) #:^D (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi everyone, I just got in to collecting, and playing with the pirate legos just about two months ago, and just joined lugnet today. I have been lucky to get the Black seas Barracuda, and the Imperial Trading Post, But I need more soldiers, and the (...) (24 years ago, 8-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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Hi All, The 4th FunBrix Pic of the Week is here! Reinhard "Ben" Beneke - Pirate Ship. This is one cool Pirate ship, but it needs a cool name. Also I see it lived a short life, but at least he took pictures of this great model before it went down. (...) (24 years ago, 7-Aug-00, to lugnet.announce, lugnet.general, lugnet.pirates, lugnet.loc.de)
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(...) I won't be stocked, but they will. ;) Off to .nl with me! I kin be a Dutch pyrate. best LFB (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Marooned. In ordinairy. Dry-docked. In mothballs. A castaway. Becalmed. In the doldrums. I hope ye be well stocked wi' grog where'er ye be goin' ta drown yer sorrows. Bruce Where the heck *are* you going? :-) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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D'oh. Well, today was THE BIG DAY for my collection, which I duly trundled off to storage (wah!) here in New Jersey. I shan't see it for at least ten months, perhaps as much as two years! Aigh, this sucks. Anyways, _Gloire_ made it safely into (...) (24 years ago, 6-Aug-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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"Mr L F Braun" <braunli1@pilot.msu.edu> wrote in message news:39892EAA.BF50F2...msu.edu... (...) As far as I'm aware, that wasn't a problem, as steam ships were pretty damn thin on the ground back then. Coal was used for heating and furnaces, (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) I'd always been under the impression that the grade of coal in the exposed seams wasn't quite up to RN standards (they only want the best anthracite, have to keep that smoke down to a minimum!)--but I may be wrong, because I'm going off the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) The Sea Wolf, by Jack London. The central character being a ship captain named Wolf Larson. If Vulf has a son named Lar, he'd be Lars Vulfson. I TOLD you the joke was hiding (and perhaps should have stayed hidden). :-) Bruce (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Oh, I don't know, I think it is quite possible that I will run out of bricks on this creation. I'm already almost out of red 2x4 bricks, and I have a lot more support superstructure to go (which will likely eat up all the blue and yellow (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.pirates)
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(...) Reeeeeeeally? <grin> Please clarify, I haven't been following .pirates *that* carefully; Frank-ly, (1) I haven't been following much of lugnet carefully at all... I barely even noticed I won CLSOTW... (2) ... just barely keeping up on .castle. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.castle, lugnet.build.minifigs, lugnet.pirates)
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