If you were a LEGO pirate, what would you name your tiny but heavily armed pirate dinghy? Chuck Citrin has named his Cantankerous Toad. But of course.
I guess Friendly Frog just doesn’t quite work, does it?
Tag Archives: Pirates
The recently late Commodore Bainbridge was a man of tradition
Aaron “DARKspawn” Andrews sends forth the Imperial Navy’s Commodore Bainbridge to certain doom:
Notice how placing bricks on their sides has allowed Aaron to “float” various items in the water. Achieving a similar effect, he demonstrates that carrying a cannon in a rowboat isn’t such a bright idea:
Classic-Pirates.com Pillage the Village Contest [News]
The LEGO privateers o’er at Classic-Pirates.com have scoured the seven seas to bring all ye ungrateful, lice-infested, lilly-livered sprogs the biggest pile o’ swag in LEGO contest history with the newly announced Pillage the Village Contest.
There be plenty o’ loot fer all, with LEGO Pirate sets of yore to be had in four dastardly categories:
- Division 1 – Large:
- 1st Prize: 6285 Black Seas Barracuda
- 2nd Prize: 6273 Rock Island Refuge
- 3rd Prize: 6279 Skull Island
- Division 2 – Medium:
- 1st Prize: 6270 Forbidden Island
- 2nd Prize: 6264 Forbidden Cove
- 3rd Prize: 6265 Saber Island
- Division 3 – Small:
- 1st Prize: 6270 Forbidden Island
- 2nd Prize: 6258 Palm Hideout
- 3rd Prize: 6256 Islander Catamaran
- Division 4 – Creative Critic:
- 1st Prize: 6270 Forbidden Island
- 2nd Prize: 6260 Shipwreck Island
- 3rd Prize: 1713 Shipwrecked Pirate
(Actually, our GO MINIMAN GO Photo Contest boasts some serious prizes, with a Green Grocer, 4 Market Streets, 13 Vintage Minifigure Collections, and 4 Golden Anniversary Sets, but we’ll let the Pirates have their day…)
RichardAM discovers a rather different kind of booty
Governor by me onesies
Scurvy seadog Jordan Schwartz strands an Imperial landlubber on a desert isle. Down below, there be nothin’ but a shark and a poop deck.
Says Jordan, “After crashing against a shark infested reef, our lone Imperial Governor is stranded on a small, unstable spit of land. And I think the heat is getting to him…”
(Just for the record, I’m not going to try to talk like a pirate in every post today.)
Escaping the Imperial dock with Adrian Florea
Adrian Florea applies various interesting techniques to his first-ever LEGO pirate creation.
The roof consists of slopes on their sides, a rounded walkway curves around the tower, and the dark green doors from the minecarts in 7036 Dwarves’ Mine make lovely awnings over the windows:
For a first-time creation in this theme, there’s a lot to like. Be sure to look through the rest of the pictures on Brickshelf.
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for!
Pirates and Ninja have been fighting it out for quite awhile. But now its time for the Final Round! Its all come down this: a competitive-eating competition, hosted by Anthony Sava. Get Ready, Get Set, Chow Down!
Castaway t’ Neverland by SlyOwl
The new LEGO Pirates fan community at ForbiddenCove.com is certainly inspiring some wonderful pirate-themed LEGO creations lately!
One of my favorites so far is “Castaway t’ Neverland” by SlyOwl:
Brick-built creatures populating the desert island include a gull, hummingbird, crabs, and monkey. Note the horns for breakers and the microscale ship in the background, as if off in the distance. Brilliant!
Celebrating GO MINIMAN GO – “30 Years: The Story of the Minifigure”
David Pagano, Nate Burr and myself were all recently asked by the LEGO Company to make a brickfilm to celebrate the LEGO minifigure’s 30th birthday. This is my contribution, 30 Years: The Story of the Minifigure. How many historical figures/events can you name?
Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for more videos and a contest (details coming soon to a blog near you!)
“GO MINIMAN GO” by David Pagano
David Pagano, along with Nate Burr and myself, were recently asked by the LEGO Company to make a brickfilm celebrating the LEGO minifigure’s 30th birthday. David’s brickfilm is a romp through time and space, celebrating the best of the LEGO sets and minifigures over the past 30 years:
Don’t forget to check out GOMINIMANGO.com for more videos and a contest (details coming soon to a blog near you!)
Shipwrecked with RichardAM
Richard A. McCarthy (RichardAM on Flickr) gets into the pirate spirit with this shipwreck scene:
Richard says he prefers standard blue baseplates to represent water, but I love the wave effect he’s achieved by building the water with sideways bricks (also known as the unfortunately named “SNOT water”).
Aaron rocks their world
Aaron Andrews has been working on a fun series of pirate creations, populated by a hapless band of buccaneers. In his latest, he sends them down a lava tube. I don’t know if they’re going to make it out of this one alive!
