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Re: Set 7075 JacStone Pirate Ship
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lugnet.pirates
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Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:15:17 GMT
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In lugnet.reviews, Arne Lykke Nielsen wrote:
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Well, I’ve waited some months, but finally this ship was on deep discount.
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Thanks for posting the review. I’ve been wanting to find out more about this
vessel, but unwilling to part with hard earned cash (so far) for it.
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First: it IS a JacStone set, so as expected, there are ugly figs and lots of
big pieces. It’s intended for 4-year old kids, and indeed there is hardly
anything in it that is interesting for anyone older than 4 years.
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I’m interesting in taking the dremel equivalent to the figs and salvaging the
headgear for minifigs...
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But I would rather focus on the positive things:
The hull pieces are 20 studs wide, making this the biggest ship to date. The
bottom of the hull pieces is soft plastic, as this ship is expected to float
on water (read: tipping over on water - lacks bottom-weights).
There is only one middle-section hull piece, so you’ll have to buy 2 or 3 sets
to make a decent looking longer ship.
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It would be good to get some pics of the hull pieces in various configurations
(or even just the standard one). How are they joined - JS style technic pegs or
4x2 bricks (or something else)?
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The railings are unfortunately larger pieces, only useable for this one
purpose.
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Do you mean by one purpose as railings for this ship only, or as railings only?
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The masts are better than I expected. There are 3 elements: bottom mast, top
mast, boom. The connection of the boom on the mast is by a seperate
click-piece, making the booms moveable horisontally, but not vertically.
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That sounds good.
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And the final good thing: no stickers!!!
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Absolutely!
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And all the bad things about this ship: no details in the model whatsoever,
one-piece bow-deck, one-piece stern-deck, one-piece cabin, one bad (and 2
decent) sail, ugly “cannon”.
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Is there more than one cannon? I think not...
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If you are willing to put a lot of work and a lot of elements into
customizing, this COULD be changed into a fine looking big-bottomed merchant
vessel.
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I’d love to have a go. They’ve got down to A$80... but that’s 60c/pc... I’d be
very tempted at $A40, though.
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Conclusion:I would not recommend buying this, unless you get it on VERY deep
discount, and really want to build something with those hull pieces.
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I note there’s no inventory on peeron for this set yet... I hope that someone
inventories it soon (hey, there’s only 132 pieces after all, it’s not going to
be a huge job!).
Cheers
Richie Dulin
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Set 7075 JacStone Pirate Ship
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| (...) Unfortunately I don't have my camera right now, so I can't post pictures. The hull pieces are attached to each other by a SPECIAL connection; each hull has a male connector-plate in one side, and a similar female hole in the other side - so (...) (20 years ago, 13-Oct-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
| | | Re: Set 7075 JacStone Pirate Ship
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| (...) I personally can't wait for it to be in stores here. If it's $40 I'll probably buy a few. I can't wait to see what I can do to it. (...) I was planning to do the same thing. I like the hats, but not the figures. I like how the figures have a (...) (20 years ago, 14-Oct-04, to lugnet.pirates, FTX)
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