Lego Pirates

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Pirates is a Lego theme launched in 1989 featuring pirates, soldiers, islanders and sailing ships .

The original Pirate sets included the first Lego minifigures without the traditional head with simply two eyes and a smile; they had a variety of different features including hair, eyepatches and facial hair. Alongside the Pirates released in 1989 were the bluecoated Imperial Soldiers (based either on the French, or the British navy) who were to fight the Pirates. A comic book entitled "The Gold Medallion" was also released in that year, as well as a book series. In 1992, the Imperial Soldiers were replaced by the redcoat Imperial Guards. In 1996 Lego changed the entire "feel" of the Pirate line and made it much more Spanish influenced. This meant the Imperial Guards were replaced to the Imperial Armada, heavily based on the Spanish Armada. The Islanders, sold originally in 1994, were a sub-theme loosely based on a Polynesian concept.

In 1997, the last few Lego System Pirate sets were released. The theme's end came as a shock to some AFOL's, because the Pirates line had always been a big seller. A few Pirates sets were rerealeased in the Legends series. Pirate Lego themes, have been seen in Duplo and the 4+ theme.

Contents 1 Set List 1.1 Pirates 1.2 Imperial Armada 1.3 Imperial Guards 1.4 Imperial Soldiers 1.5 Islanders 1.6 Miscellaneous 2 Non-System 2.1 Duplo Pirates 2.2 4+ Pirates 3 Pirates Fans 4 Trivia 5 External links

[edit] Set List

[edit] Pirates

• 1464-Pirate Lookout
• 1481-Pirates Desert Island
• 1492-Battle Cove
• 1696-Pirate Lookout
• 1713-Shipwrecked Pirate
• 1733-Shipwrecked Pirate
• 1747-Treasure Surprise
• 1788-Treasure Chest
• 1802-Tidy Treasure
• 1871-Pirates Cannon
• 1873-Pirates Treasure
• 1889-Pirates Treasure Hold
• 1970-Pirates Gun Cart
• 6232-Skeleton Crew
• 6234-Renegade's Raft
• 6235-Buried Treasure
• 6237-Pirates Plunder
• 6248-Volcano Island
• 6249-Pirates Ambush
• 6250-Cross Bone Clipper
• 6254-Rocky Reef
• 6255-Pirate Comic
• 6257-Castaway's Raft
• 6258-Smuggler's Shanty
• 6260-Shipwreck Island
• 6261-Raft Raiders
• 6268-Renagade Runner
• 6270-Forbidden Island
• 6273-Rock Island Refuge
• 6279-Skull Island
• 6281-Pirates Perilous Pitfall
• 6285-Black Seas Barracuda
• 6286-Skull's Eye Schooner
• 6289-Red Beard Runner
• 6290-Red Beard Runner
• 6296-Shipwreck Island
• 10040-Black Seas Barracuda

[edit] Imperial Armada

• 6244-Armada Sentry
• 6280-Armada Flagship
• 6291-Armada Flagship

[edit] Imperial Guards

• 1795-Imperial Cannon
• 1872-Soldiers Forge
• 6247-Bounty Boat
• 6263-Imperial Outpost
• 6266-Cannon Cove
• 6271-Imperial Flagship
• 6277-Imperial Trading Post

[edit] Imperial Soldiers

• 6245-Harbor Sentry
• 6259-Broadside's Brig
• 6265-Sabre Island
• 6267-Lagoon Lock-Up
• 6274-Caribbean Clipper
• 6276-Eldorado Fortress

[edit] Islanders

• 6236-King Kahuka
• 6246-Crocodile Cage
• 6256-Islander Catamaran
• 6262-King Kahuka's Throne
• 6264-Forbidden Cove
• 6278-Enchanted Island
• 6292-Enchanted Island

[edit] Miscellaneous

• 3983-Captan Roger Key Chain
• 4224454-Captain Roger Key Chain
• 6204-Buccaneers
• 6251-Pirate Mini Figures
• 6252-Sea Mates

[edit] Non-System

[edit] Duplo Pirates

• 7880-Big Pirate Ship
• 7881-Ghost Ship
• 7882-Shark Attack
• 7883-Treasure Hunt

[edit] 4+ Pirates

• 7070-Catapult Raft
• 7071-Treasure Island
• 7072-Captain Kragg's Ship
• 7073-Pirate Dock
• 7074-Skull Island
• 7075-Captain Redbeard's Pirate Ship
• 7080-Scurvy Dog and Crocodile
• 7081-Harry Hardtack and Monkey
• 7082-Cannonball Jimmy and Shark
• 7290-Promotional Set

[edit] Pirates Fans

It is a running gag in the AFOL community that there are only two pirate fans in existence.[1] One of them is Steve Jackson, who invented a game, Evil Stevie's Pirate Game or ESPG, now often played at conventions like GenCon and Origins International Game Expo by other Pirates fans, such as Frank Filz and his hangers on from GameLUG. However, since the emergence of Eurobricks Pirate LEGO Forum in July 2006 it has been observed there are significantly more pirate fans than previously realised.

[edit] Trivia

• There is a ride at Legoland California called Pirate Shores, based on the theme.

[edit] External links

• Eurobricks Pirate Lego Forum - The biggest online Lego Pirate discussion
• Fibblesnork's Lego Guide: Pirates
• Brickset: List of all Lego Pirate sets