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Re: A Pyrate's Life
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lugnet.pirates
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Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:46:42 GMT
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In lugnet.pirates, Dan Jezek writes:
> Close to $200 for a mint BSB without a box. IMHO, the BSB is the best ship in
> the pirate line, much more realistic than the SES and has a better color
> scheme. After building a large detailed ship of my own, the BSB did't look as
> great any more :-)
Shhhhhh, I'm currently very pleased with my BSB. With nothing but RBR as my
previous large ships, you'll understand. I think the general but not universal
opinion is that edge goes to the BSB over the SES as best ship.
> My only gripe with the pirate theme is there are too many specialized pieces
> left over after building a large-scaled creation using only pieces from ALL of
> the pirate sets. That is, you can never concentrate all pieces in one
> creation.
> While building a large ship, there are always a lot of BURPs, palms,
> baseplates, CRAPPs, bushes and wooden walls left over and when building a
> fortress on land, there always seem to be a lot of hulls, masts, boats, sails
> and rigging left over :-) This might not be a bad thing but I like castle
> much better in this aspect. That is, allmost all castle sets come with grey
> or black pieces and all of the pieces can be used to build a large castle with
> very few pieces left over.
It's not as conducive to building a single, large contraption as other lines.
Too many specialized pieces - masts, anchors, hull parts, sails, etc - as you
note. I don't regard this as a huge flaw, though I want lots of ships, not
one huge one.
I admit that one of the attractions of Castles (for my purposes at least) is
that I don't need a "fleet" of castles. Lots of minifigs, but I only truly
need one castle. Cuts down on the overall expense (at least for now).
Bruce
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