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Re: Imperial Armada
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lugnet.pirates
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Mon, 10 Jan 2000 03:41:08 GMT
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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.
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> 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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| (...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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| (...) I think that the reason pirates left is because it could not be junorised -- Jonathan Wilson wilsonj@xoommail.com (URL) (25 years ago, 9-Jan-00, to lugnet.pirates)
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