An Interesting Idea: Skull Cove: Redbeard's Return
Posted by glenbricker,
I usually avoid sharing projects I have had a hand in on Brickset to avoid the appearance of impropriety. With Redbeard's Return however, I am just so pleased with how well it turned out that I could not resist.
Darthky and I tried to create a non-ship pirate set that would appeal to hard-core LEGO fans looking for more than the standard sets provide and I think we have delivered on that mission statement.
Darthky implemented a map table that just blew me away the first time I saw it. Really great parts usage.
It was also a lot of fun taking the classic figures of our youth and re-imagining them with modern levels of detail.
Of course, with a whole new Pirate line coming out in just a few months, and Pirates of the Caribbean on the horizon, we realize that these are pretty rough seas in which to launch our venture, but we will have fun with it anyway.
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Looks great! I will be voting for this! :D
This looks really cool. The map rolled out on the table is great. Do you know the overall piece count and do you have a cost estimate?
One little thing I noticed.
"This project is a calibration between myself (DarthKy) and GlenBricker."
I think the word calibration should be collaboration.
This is simply SUPERB. Well done!
Looks great! Supported!
Supported. Looks incredible.
you've got my support! I had the old skull island set 6279 growing up and this reminds me of that set, not in look or design so much but more its what I wish that little old set had been!
Looks really cool!
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A "modular-level" set for pirate lovers--or anyone who likes big natural(ish) landscapes! Supported with enthusiasm!
Looks great, but isn't it a bit large for a Cuusoo Pirate set?
I think with licensed themes large sets are a bit more realistic to sell over Cuusoo because it's a greate way of releasing only one key set and not a whole line for a particular theme. Thus all the fans will be focused on the one set and the sales won't spread over several sets.
That is why for example with my Monkey Island set I tried to stay at around 300 pieces. Because even thou it would be a licensed set I think the price should be 50$ max.
So if you come up with a smaller version of the Skull Cove I would be happy to support it. I loved pirate sets as a kid and am really looking forward for its revival next year.
If you like to check out my Monkey Island set in the meantime feel free to do so (https://ideas.lego.com/projects/71610). There See several other MI Sets in Cuusoo, but for they feature the same problem as the Skull Cove, I think they are just to huge to fit the Cuusoo line.
@fredfunkie, I'd just like to point out that Lego does have a "High price group" on their selection for support. which leads me to believe that they are open to making a large scale set like this one for example. It isn't huge, by my standards its merely large (semantics I know) my point though is that if we always expect ideas sets to be smaller than I think we are stunting the possibilities that is Ideas. Lego will do as they have and shoot down the monstrous 10K+ sets but this one is less than 2k that's less than many of their sets currently available and I think if its a reasonable number (sub 2k for example) we should support them no matter its chances.
but that's just my stance on these things, and I'm well aware that my views are not everyone's.
Yeah, as I tried to say, I'm not against big sets per se but just doubt they would make it with a ordinary theme like pirates.
Than again making this set smaller would probably make it nothing special.
On my way to hit the support button :)
Love it!
I love the details of the various sections, but overall I am not a huge fan of the facade... the amount of pieces used for the rock face would wildly inflate the MSRP for the set, and for practical display purposes you'd either need two or just live with displaying one side or another. I do think the detail work on it by the creators is excellent. However the size and piece count pretty much make it an unrealistic LEGO ideas project in my opinion.
Still an excellent MOC.
Supported! We need huge sets for pirates!
It's a nice, superb even, MOC, but I'm not understanding what the "idea" is. I think that's one of the biggest problems with LEGO Ideas; it's being used to show off wonderful MOCs, but are these really ideas that should enter the pantheon of LEGO history? Are they really ideas that should be reproduced as a set run, or are they sculptural MOCs that should stand alone as a piece of art? I am going to say this build is more of an art form but not really an idea.
glenbricker- is there a Flickr link to some better pics? The Idea site is horrid for viewing images, especially on mobile browsers.
@Dedgecko,
I intended to have them up yesterday but the day got out of hand. I will try to have them up in the next 24 hours.
@glenbricker, what programm did you use. Can't imagine it was the Lego Digital Designer...
Great looking set. Classic pirates always touches my soft spot.
Cool! The best part is the original Redbeard had a printed-on-his-face beard and the updated one is much fuller with the grey stripes makes it look like he HAS been hiding all this time. Maybe could have updated his wood leg to a gold one, too?
You should not feel guilty about using this site to advertise your projects, you should take advantage of it as much as you can! I wish I had a website with this many viewers, or knew where else to advertise my Lego Ideas projects. (Since my projects are completely different I'll hold off on the "I'm-so-jealous-shameless-link-plug" haha)
@ericjohn. I don't really understand your way of thinking.
Is not he whole entire point of the LEGO ideas site is to propose sets and builds that lego might not usually produce in their normal run of products?
Furthermore isn't anything that is submitted on the site essentially a "moc" of some form or another.
Some might be more elaborate and larger than others but they all fall under the same "moc" label so what your saying is no one should submit anything?
Should we only submit something that lego will already be likely to produce?
Seems pretty counter productive to having people submit "ideas".
A project like this is something I would have loved to play with when I was growing up with the pirates theme and would love to build now as an AFOL but would not likely be produced by lego otherwise, and at the end of the day isn't that exactly what the whole concept behind LEGO Ideas is?
Somehow missed this post, but great set. I would buy it in a heartbeat of course. Looks like everything 6273 and 6279 wishes they were in terms of a pirate base. A nice counterpoint to the small and flimsy-looking land sets of the 2015 line.