Random set of the day: Pirate Dock
Posted by Huwbot,Today's random set is 7073 Pirate Dock, released during 2004. It's one of 18 4 Juniors sets produced that year. It contains 61 pieces and 2 minifigs, and its retail price was US$20/£14.99.
It's owned by 295 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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Gotta have one of those around to treat the wounds and attach the peg legs. Wait, wrong doc
Ah yes, the adolescent Duplo people.
I miss that monkey.
And that same year, 4 year olds were encouraged to be Pirates in Lazy Town.
Coincidence? I think not!
Do what you want 'casue a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
Yah – har – fiddle-dee-dee, being a pirate is all right to be!
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
Jack Stone suffered terribly in his old age, setting up a junkyard on a random beach and believing himself to be the reincarnation of an old pirate.
It is not coincidence that 2004 was in the deepest depths of my first Dark Age.
To be honest I'd rather have these back now than no pirates theme at all :(
It is dreadfully juniorised though. I have one of these old pirates. Some of the 4+ pirates ships weren't that bad, it's just the weird mediumfigs (you could hardly call them minifigs).
This set have some really rare pieces!
"4 Juniors, you are without a doubt the worst subtheme I have ever heard of."
"But you have heard of me."
@Brickchap I honestly thought I imagined the 2015 Pirates line
These sets were pretty wacky - but look at that sand green parrot and trans-green jug!!
I had the pirate ship and loved it.
@Brickchap said: "Some of the 4+ pirates ships weren't that bad, it's just the weird mediumfigs (you could hardly call them minifigs)."
No, I think you are right there. The figures aside, these sets were actually pretty good for -- at the time -- nifty and interesting pieces that weren't readily available elsewhere. You had animals and treasures, and I'm a sucker for transparent pieces (like the jug. Loved that thing).
@Zordboy:
And getting drunk as a skunk, judging by the size of that bottle. They don’t call him Stoned Jack for nothin’…
@MrNowack:
Nay, that be medium-green! Tis a shade yer might ha’ seen in mint chocolate ice cream, depending on the brand. Aarh.
I don’t know if these sort of LEGOs should have existed, but I can see why littler kids would like these sets and interesting, not so LEGO minifigures.
I have a few of these sets and they aren’t that bad. The quality of parts is outstanding, they used cloth sails in the ships like in regular sets and as some have said many of the individual pieces are quite rare. I have a chrome scimitar from one and it’s gorgeous.
I also don’t get the hate on for these figs; okay Jack did almost universally stink as a theme but I think that if this comprised Fabuland animal figs with pirate hats — more or less the same as this — people would be gushing over it.
The Jack Stone pirate sets in hindsight aren't completely terrible. Just mostly terrible. This one actually looks like an ok parts pack. And those figures I think would be good for their intended use: that of play figures for very young builders.
That lantern looks like a Blacktron's lantern....
Is it weird that I really want to clip or attach things to that pegleg? Wait, this is how Metalbeard got started isn't it...
Abomination!
Yarr! Happy Ole Kirk Christiansen’s birthday!
"ARRRR!"
- Roger "Shark Biter" Stone
(ancestor of J.S.)
Are those weird arms and legs interchangeable with real minifigs or Fabuland figs?
Wait, they even have fingers! Woah!
I'll bet that if the rowboat first appeared in this set, it would have been pilloried for being a "juniorized" piece that just adds to the bloat and cost of LEGO today. But because it debuted in a classic Pirate set years before, it's a timeless classic full of nostalgia and a positive addition to the play features of the set...
Perspective is an interesting thing!
And I just noticed, the monkey appears much more in scale with the Jack Stone figures than with the traditional minifigures...but I still prefer the classic Pirates over this line, which serves much better as a parts pack than a coherent, usable set for us older "kids".
"I think that if this comprised Fabuland animal figs with pirate hats — (redacted) — people would be gushing over it."
And for good reason, I’d say.
I’m glad Lego now goes with mini figs in 4+ sets
@Brickodillo said:
"Are those weird arms and legs interchangeable with real minifigs or Fabuland figs?
Wait, they even have fingers! Woah!"
No. They are one piece assembled at the factory and not meant to be taken apart.
I've actually gotten a couple of the junior pirates sets just for some of the rare parts. Plus, any set of the classic monkey fig can't be all bad. :)
Mounting the skull of a giant on the mast - that's grim.
@PeterPan:
Or maybe that’s Treebeard’s skeleton?
@Harmonious_Building said:
""4 Juniors, you are without a doubt the worst subtheme I have ever heard of."
"But you have heard of me." "
is that for some movie?
@MCLegoboy said:
"And that same year, 4 year olds were encouraged to be Pirates in Lazy Town.
Coincidence? I think not!
Do what you want 'casue a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
Yah – har – fiddle-dee-dee, being a pirate is all right to be!
Do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!"
can you imagine encouraging kids in the 1600s that being a pirate was "ok" and "cool" at a time when pirates were sailing around murdering and stealing?!?
@magnumsalyer:
Captain Jack Sparrow, PotC1.
And we still tell kids pirates are cool even though piracy is still very much a fact of life in some parts of the world. Captain Richard Phillips even felt it was so inevitable off the coast of Somalia that he figured you should make it easy for them by sailing close to shore, so they didn’t need to waste any fuel getting out to the recommended shipping lanes.
When these sets came out I was the perfect target age (4). And for all the flock that these sets and the Jack Stone sets get, me and my brother absolutely adored them. I cannot count the number of times that I took this set apart and rebuilt it into one of the alternate models. It might not be the prettiest set but these sets are the reason that I love Lego today and I haven't had a dark ages yet (although I'm only 22).
I like how there wasn't a "good guys" faction for these. Just pirates!
Monkey is the best minifigure in this set.
Still, the build might not be much, there are very cool parts, parrot, bottle, black rifle, swords, rowboat , skull brick,brown mast and rope/winch assembly.
Weird that the flag has a minifig skull (instead of the human skull from Classic Pirates) but the set is infested with these ghastly Jack Stone figures.
I guess the 4 Juniors figures kill minifigures. It just makes one hate them all the more!