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Re: Yo ho ho, a pirate's life for me!
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lugnet.pirates
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Tue, 17 Oct 2006 22:32:25 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Johannes Koehler wrote:
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Aye!
I’ve always been a fan of pirates. Prior to Lego’s official Pirates line I
was forced to create my pirate figures with non-Lego material. I leave out
the link to those customized figs here.
Anyway, in 1989 Lego came up with real pirates and I was instantly hooked.
However, in the long run these official Pirates minifigs are getting somewhat
boring.... always the same naked men with printed striped shirts... So now I
tried to build new pirate figs that are a bit more elaborated. I’m sure
others came up with these Ideas before, but here are mine:
My first attempt had been this figure that was inspired by Captain Jack
Sparrow:
And here’s the whole posse:
I found it wasn’t to easy to find fitting minifig torsos that looked suiting
to caribbean pirates from the 17th to 18th century.
Yo ho ho, and a bottle of cocoa!
Jojo
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Hi Jojo,
I think I’m in love with the rubber band and cape sash. I can see many uses
outside pirates for that. You have definitely got me inspired to start building
some pirate forces (once I get ahold of some capes) so I can arm a boat.
Tim
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| Aye! I've always been a fan of pirates. Prior to Lego's official Pirates line I was forced to create my pirate figures with non-Lego material. I leave out the link to those customized figs here. Anyway, in 1989 Lego came up with real pirates and I (...) (18 years ago, 17-Oct-06, to lugnet.pirates, FTX) !!
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