What's the skeleton's name? LURP?

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"What's the skeleton's name? LURP?"

Nah, it’s this guy:
https://brickset.com/minifigs/pi063
He got robbed of his hat and epaulettes, but it’s still him, hanging around. Washed up in the same boat from 6265

argh

Got this as a xmas gift, lots of fun and useful pieces.

Looked it up and apparently tan/sand color bricks only became a thing in 1998. Though bright yellow sand is still kind of jarring.

I bought this set used many years ago. There were some parts missing and the palm leaves were broken, but I still had much fun with it.
It was during the 00s where if you were a kid growing up there were no pirate themes whatsoever, so getting one from the 90s was a treasure in itself.

So wholesome set! Boat, map, two pirates, treasure island, treasure with skeleton and parrot!
Only thing that I would add is boat mast and sail similar as having set 6267

@HOBBES said:
"Well, this is an incredibly crude set but its redeeming feature is a proper palm tree - I miss those palm trees."

Hey, don't ignore the printed parrot!

One of the last sets from the original Pirates theme! I've got 2 out of the 4 sets released in 1995 when I was a kid but didn't get this one. It's on my wanted list for sure.

@MCLegoboy said:
"The skeleton guards the treasure, and these two are too blinded by greed to see him. They'll soon join him on his post, and the treasure will become more secure. This cycle will repeat until the skeleton horde takes over the world. It's a slow process, but a steady one."
If it could actually lift a sword with those arms. I suppose it could headbutt them to death.

Rocky Reef
Checked into heef

I dislike the use of baseplates that aren't 2^x on some side. Makes it hard to integrate into a larger scene.
Set itself I'll probably try to build someday, seeing as I haven't before. Not sure it'll keep a place in my pirates build after though, feels like it's better as parts to expand something else.

Oh, one of my two first ever Lego sets (the other one being 6232). <3 <3 <3

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @Eightcoins8 said:
"Looked it up and apparently tan/sand color bricks only became a thing in 1998. Though bright yellow sand is still kind of jarring."

But their skin tone being bright yellow isn't...? ;-)

Prior to the 90s, there were only 8 different colours of bricks available (white, black, and grey included), all of which you can see in this set. So, for those who grew up in that era, bright yellow sand doesn't stand out in vintage LEGO sets. Just like how any other trees besides palm trees, cypress trees, and pine trees were made with black bricks.

This is actually a very decent set for the era. The pirates seen here were getting on in age, already being introduced in 1989, but it has that undeniable early 90s charm many people love. I always loved those small Pirates sets, because they really sparked the imagination. "

For anything stone or 'natural' coloured you had to use yellow, for anything brick coloured it had to be bright red - very jarring in my town without the subtler tones of today but I had more imagination then...

I love rocky reef
So, let's go find another treasure, baby
I love rocky reef
So, why is there a skeleton here with me, ow

@WizardOfOss: "Weird Al" would be proud...:)

In about the same vain:
Micky: "Yer a bum!"
'Reef': "I ain't no bum!"
Micky: "YER A BUM!"
'Reef': "I AIN'T NO BUM!"
...I can see the finish now: Rocky Reef Vs. Apollo Creek...:D

@transamman6585 said:
"One of the last sets from the original Pirates theme! I've got 2 out of the 4 sets released in 1995 when I was a kid but didn't get this one. It's on my wanted list for sure."

I have all three that were released in Belgium that year. At 12 that year, I was on the brink of my Dark Age, but still felt that I wanted to keep collecting Pirates sets. The Castle sets from 1993 on sucked, so I felt no need to spend my money on those.

@danieltheo said:
" @ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @Eightcoins8 said:
"Looked it up and apparently tan/sand color bricks only became a thing in 1998. Though bright yellow sand is still kind of jarring."

But their skin tone being bright yellow isn't...? ;-)

Prior to the 90s, there were only 8 different colours of bricks available (white, black, and grey included), all of which you can see in this set. So, for those who grew up in that era, bright yellow sand doesn't stand out in vintage LEGO sets. Just like how any other trees besides palm trees, cypress trees, and pine trees were made with black bricks.

This is actually a very decent set for the era. The pirates seen here were getting on in age, already being introduced in 1989, but it has that undeniable early 90s charm many people love. I always loved those small Pirates sets, because they really sparked the imagination. "

For anything stone or 'natural' coloured you had to use yellow, for anything brick coloured it had to be bright red - very jarring in my town without the subtler tones of today but I had more imagination then..."

For all the dozens of colours LEGO has nowadays, you just can't replace that for imagination.

It may not look great, but you can actually bury the treasure! This played a vital role in my webcomic, I acquired it for that exact purpose.

I got mine still seald in mint condition in my closet…adorable set :)

$15 and you only get 3 minifigs? LEGO pricing these days is…wait, what? The set is 30 years old?

@dimc said:
"I dislike the use of baseplates that aren't 2^x on some side. Makes it hard to integrate into a larger scene."

Nowadays, sure, but back then I didn’t have enough baseplates to be worth linking together, unless they had a single structure built across them. My brother had the two landing plates from the Galaxy Commander, and I guess I could have attached my lone crater plate to one edge, but I don’t think we ever did that. I think that would have required a bit more cooperative spirit than either of us were capable of at the time.

These days, though, oddball sizes do have their uses. I designed a boat that I was hoping to build on an 8x32 or maybe 8x24 blue (alas, switching to dark-blue water makes that pretty much guaranteed to never happen). The boat design would have been too fragile without a base to build it on, and I figured it wouldn’t look terrible if I just set one small baseplate down on top of a field of large baseplates.

And at least one member of my LUG has built scale models of real skyscrapers where they don’t exactly fill to a 2^x increment, so he does build on odd sized baseplates in those instances, and just fills in the gap with more odd sized baseplates or just regular plates, so the footprint of the building does stick to the 32x grid format we use. Doing it this way means a 400lb building has a solid footing holding everything together, but that there’s nothing hanging off the edges that can catch on stuff and break.

@Jackthenipper said:
" @MCLegoboy said:
"The skeleton guards the treasure, and these two are too blinded by greed to see him. They'll soon join him on his post, and the treasure will become more secure. This cycle will repeat until the skeleton horde takes over the world. It's a slow process, but a steady one."
If it could actually lift a sword with those arms. I suppose it could headbutt them to death."

Kicking is also an option.

@ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @danieltheo said:
" @ToysFromTheAttic said:
" @Eightcoins8 said:
"Looked it up and apparently tan/sand color bricks only became a thing in 1998. Though bright yellow sand is still kind of jarring."

But their skin tone being bright yellow isn't...? ;-)

Prior to the 90s, there were only 8 different colours of bricks available (white, black, and grey included), all of which you can see in this set. So, for those who grew up in that era, bright yellow sand doesn't stand out in vintage LEGO sets. Just like how any other trees besides palm trees, cypress trees, and pine trees were made with black bricks.

This is actually a very decent set for the era. The pirates seen here were getting on in age, already being introduced in 1989, but it has that undeniable early 90s charm many people love. I always loved those small Pirates sets, because they really sparked the imagination. "

For anything stone or 'natural' coloured you had to use yellow, for anything brick coloured it had to be bright red - very jarring in my town without the subtler tones of today but I had more imagination then..."

For all the dozens of colours LEGO has nowadays, you just can't replace that for imagination."

The imagination is the single most important ability humankind has.

I mean, the only real change that would occur in terms of color is converting all of the yellow to tan. It does (or would) look better, sure--but only marginally. It has no real effect on my ability to recognize it's meant to be an island.

I know this because I've modded it this way and have it on a shelf nearby.

@Vesperas said:
"I mean, the only real change that would occur in terms of color is converting all of the yellow to tan. It does (or would) look better, sure--but only marginally. It has no real effect on my ability to recognize it's meant to be an island.

I know this because I've modded it this way and have it on a shelf nearby."

I might go with either dark-blue or something in the azure range for the water. And for sure those seats need to be wood colored. Blue paint on rowboat seats is just going to rub off on whatever you're wearing.