I was never able to disassemble the bars from the white "claw" pieces...

@MeisterDad:
Well, the last one probably would…

That bone cage was sure fun as a kid. The parrot was nice to have as well.

@Mr__Thrawn:
I’m still bitter that we never got Sao Feng’s Empress.

Anyways, in 2019, I did a pop-in at the boatbuilder I worked for in high school, and it turns out he made three small boats for PotC2 and PotC3. They needed one for each film, but apparently they wrecked one, so he had to build the third as a replacement. Someday I need to find out _which_ boats he built (and also what movie Meryl Streep had a death scene on another one of his boats).

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick:
What’s worse, it wasn’t even the Black Pearl! Actually, you could argue that 30130 is from the first movie. Then again, you could argue that it’s from
The fourth movie…

I see the tribe has learned from its mistakes in the film and have replaced the easily torn ropes they used to use to suspend their cages with a nice sturdy metal chain!

The light nougat guys are the cannibals right?

lego has had some deeply embarassing depictions of pacific islanders over the years (including way-too-recently with ninjago) but this takes the cake. thanks disney

Random cannibals. Today's world is nuts, so it's okay.

I get 71717 vibes from this.

Eat me, eat you, incredibly delicious too
Gourmet, flambe, serve you up an entree
Intake, home bake, you're the icing on the cake
Full up, can't stop, dicing on a chop chop

@MeisterDad said:
"Why would anyone want to capture cannibals? They would never need feeding, I guess."

See that's the problem! It's much easier to toss the prisoner some stale bread than it is to keep getting new prisoners to feed the old ones. If I wanted them dead I wouldn't have locked them up in the first place!

Mega Bloks had the license during the first film and their own pirate line running along side over populating the building toy aisle for a long time. I think Lego had to shift to the second film to avoid buyer confusion. Like it or not, MB was a common clone in the US at the time.

I remember Jack escaping from cannibals, but cannot place a cannibal escaping? Wonder why there are so many skeleton heads and no bodies, maybe there is another set with headless skeletons? Strange timing with Jack getting a roasting in real life!

I just watched this film almost exactly a week ago. Tonight it's At World's End's turn.

I must say the value of this one wasn't great when it came out. But it's nice that we got it at all! 2011 was a different time. Then again, there's 71747 from last year. But at least that is a clearly fantasy culture, what with their purple skins and storm powers. Also, in the show they're depicted as protective but noble guardians that are tricked by an outside force but quickly become allies after the ruse is revealed.

At the time I always thought this was expensive for what you got, it's one of the few smaller POTC sets I never got, despite loving the Jack Sparrow variant here.

Is Lego sure they're cannibals and not just so mad over their house only fitting 2 people they try to kill anything they see?

@Harmonious_Building said:
"I was never able to disassemble the bars from the white "claw" pieces..."

The same technique is used in Parisian Restaurant, and the pieces are essentially inseparable unless using e.g. pliers.

@TomKazutara said:
" @SolidState said:
"It's strange to see a $30 set from a decade ago that looks like a worse value than some $30 sets today."

Huh ?
Did even you saw 75299 75324 76181 76946 76201 76205 75319 41166 60343 76940 41949
Seems to me it fits right in there ."

Yeah that's kind of my point. It shouldn't fit in with any of those price wise, it's from 2011.

I happened to open a sealed one of these yesterday… what a coincidence

@RaiderOfTheLostBrick said:
"Um... you mean Caribbean?"

my geography is just that bad. i thought they were the same place because hawaii is (appallingly still) considered an american state, but its actually 2,000 miles from the rest of america. incredible that i made it 25 years without finding all this out sooner, but still not quite as embarassing as the legos we're looking at here

I loved this set as a kid. This one and the watermill/church building were SUCH a good combo.

@umptybagger:
Unlike EU membership, once admitted to the Union, statehood is permanent. Only Texas worked in an exit clause, but by invoking it to join the Confederacy, they created uncertainty whether Congress would honor it if invoked a second time, or if the terms of their surrender invalidated it. Like the other 48 states and DC, Hawaii has no such exit clause, and walking away would require both a Constitutional Amendment and an act of Congress. Where EU member-nations retain sovereignty upon joining, US states have only as much as was outlined in the US Constitution, none of which includes any means of negotiating their way to independence.

Territories are not bound by the same rules. Puerto Rico may have less rights than a state, but in one regard they have more. As a territory, they can petition Congress for statehood, to be granted independence, to become a free protectorate like Micronesia, or they can just let things remain as they are. While permanent, statehood also can’t be forced on an unwilling territory. Over several votes held in Puerto Rico, a clear choice of action has thus far failed to become apparent, so Congress has left the matter on the back burner until the citizens of Puerto Rico can collectively make a decision.

@umptybagger said:
"lego has had some deeply embarassing depictions of pacific islanders over the years (including way-too-recently with ninjago) but this takes the cake. thanks disney"

It's great that you're attributing it to Disney in this case but I don't see what makes the islander wave of Ninjago that terrible. Fantasy versions of Asian mythology like oni and djinn didn't get this kind of reaction, I'm not sure what makes Seaword or whatever that wave was called different. As for this set specifically, the "black cannibal native" trope probably wouldn't fly with LEGO today but (as cliched as this statement is, it applies to the decade between the release of this and now), times change. Unless they're gonna do a remake of Red Indians from the 1970s or something I don't see a reason to cancel LEGO.