Random set of the day: Pirate Survival

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Pirate Survival

Pirate Survival

©2009 LEGO Group

Today's random set is 8397 Pirate Survival, released in 2009. It's one of 11 Pirates sets produced that year. It contains 16 pieces and 1 minifig, and its retail price was US$3.49/£2.49.

It's owned by 4742 Brickset members. If you want to add it to your collection you might find it for sale at BrickLink or eBay.

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32 comments on this article

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By in United States,

I didn't know that fish could shoot sticks out of their mouth!

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By in United States,

He be marooned on an island with no name and armed with a pistol with only a single shot...

Good thing there were some rum runners that left behind some supplies before getting found out by the Imperial Navy.

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By in United States,

The jewels are the least valuable item there.

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By in United Kingdom,

I miss those little impulse boxes these sets came in. Polybags don’t have the same feel.

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By in United States,

The fish is tonight's supper. Looks like tomorrow's breakfast is... snake!

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By in United States,

I really hope he made it.

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By in United States,

I remember this set. I loved it so much.

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By in Australia,

I miss these types of sets from LEGO. I have vivid memories of getting the Pirate Ship for Christmas and getting three of these to expand the crew.

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By in Australia,

He was confused, that day. He set fire to the jewels, buried the fish and tried to eat the pick axe.

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By in Puerto Rico,

He is going fine for now, just needs to trade one jewel for passage.

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By in United States,

I’m just glad he has that nice comfy tile to sit on! Hey I wouldn’t be complaining.

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By in United States,

Sad that the days of seeing 11 Pirate sets in one year are long gone. As goofy as those Pirates of the Caribbean movies were, at least we got a full range of sets when each one came out eh?

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By in United States,

He better watch that snake. Wait, it's a floating snake. Wait, everything is floating! He must be marooned in space!

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By in United States,

That's not survival. That's just going through the motions until you die. Of sadness.

@LegoRobo:
It's a laser swordfish.

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By in United States,

For 3.49 you got the figure and a bunch of random parts. Not bad

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By in Turkey,

Nice scene actually. I think I can recreate it with a palm tree added in.

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By in United States,

Hmm. According to Brickset I picked up two of these along the way.

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By in United States,

@theguru1974 said:
"Sad that the days of seeing 11 Pirate sets in one year are long gone. As goofy as those Pirates of the Caribbean movies were, at least we got a full range of sets when each one came out eh? "

We actually only ever got a full wave of Pirates of the Caribbean sets when the 4th movie came out I believe (unfortunately I was still in my dark ages at the time), and only got the Silent Mary when the 5th movie came out.

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By in Netherlands,

The first rule of survival is shelter, then comes food. He’s not surviving

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By in United States,

So that's how you make fish sticks

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By in Australia,

We need to get these boxes back. It’s hard to find polybags in Australia outside of the LEGO store (unfortunately, my closest one is Sydney, which is a five hour drive from here). These were excellent!

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By in Australia,

Huh I didnt have this set as owned. Makes me wonder how many other sets I might have missed when I added my collection here.

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By in United Kingdom,

That main pic invokes huge pathos for a Lego set, and the name of it tells you why. This guy is not just alone and fighting to survive. He’s also in fear of attack even at meal times. Imagine how that chews you up?

Not often struck by the emotional content of bricks in this way... but this guy ...

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By in United Kingdom,

Not sure why the pick-axe needs its own box, not like its going anywhere? One of four pirate or navy mini-fig sets under $10 that year, which were useful for extra deckhands, so long as they paid in diamonds for the privilege.

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By in Germany,

Cool set, great pieces, I would have killed for as a kid.

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By in Germany,

@PurpleDave said:
"That's not survival. That's just going through the motions until you die. Of sadness."

All survival is by definition only until death.

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By in United States,

Oh! I used to love this set.
Has it really been ten years?

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By in United States,

@MCLegoboy said:
"He be marooned on an island with no name and armed with a pistol with only a single shot...

Good thing there were some rum runners that left behind some supplies before getting found out by the Imperial Navy."


Yes, but in looking at the set I can only ask, "WHY IS THE RUM GONE!? Shame no one is there to offer him an apple! ha

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By in United States,

@Darth_studious said:
"Oh! I used to love this set.
Has it really been ten years?"


No. It's been eleven. ;)

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By in United States,

Man I love little set like this, especially great to get a ton of small ones to surround/populate a large D2C

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By in United States,

I really liked getting these small boxed sets as a kid. No reason anyone could not afford them.

Polybags, which used to be a pretty rare affair in the only big national chain we have left around here (Walmart) until about 3-4 years ago, have largely supplanted them. At first, my Walmart had them just seasonally (Easter, Christmas), now it's year-round. Even Dollar General is now stocking them occasionally. A bunch of bags thrown in a bin doesn't have the same affair as tiny boxes neatly arranged.

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By in United States,

@QwikBrix:
PotC4 had at least one wave of sets, possibly two. However, it really only had nine proper sets, plus four polybags (mini Black Pearl, Jack in a coracle, Voodoo Jack minifig, and a regular jack minifig that was only notable for being the only "set" where Jack had his hat but no jacket), and a blister-pack w/ five minifigs and no mini-build. PotC5 had the Silent Mary, and Brickheadz of Jack Sparrow and Salizar. Somehow I missed that they released a PotC Wiimote.

@SirZed:
Yes, but racing to the end isn't survival by any measure.

@cody6268:
Target has carried polybags for ages, but they usually stock them to the checkout aisles. They also put new ones out as stocking stuffers for Christmas, and I think they briefly tried putting polybags with Halloween stuff. That last part ended after a couple of years. At $4-5 each, they were priced way outside of Halloween giveaway budgets, but people who might have just wanted one for themselves didn't know to look for them there. And because they were placed in the Seasonal department, as soon as November rolled around, they were heavily discounted. But there was a ghost w/ grandfather clock that I think was a Target exclusive in the seasonal section. That one was hard to find because it was a cheap source for the new grumpy ghost, and the quantity per store was fairly limited. One person could clean out several stores in just a few hours.

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