For some reason I have two copies of this set in my collection.

Wa-oh bah-oh innit bruv

The only POTC set I’m missing in my collection! A good reminder that I still need to track this one down.

This is a great set. I still have both carriages built, never took them apart. Building maybe could use a couple more walls, but it works fine as a play set.

Unrelated to this particular set, but I wish Lego made clear panes for those rounded window frames. The only two options (small doors or the lattice) are in this one set. Why not actual windows?!

London looks a lot smaller than I remember it…

@MCLegoboy:
Pintel & Ragetti were gold. I don’t know why they were left out of PotC4, but the actors weren’t available to film the fifth. There were plans to keep them in all five. As it stands, only Jack, Barbossa, and Gibbs appear in all five films. Murtogg & Mullroy came back for the fifth, but they missed the second and fourth, and were not nearly as funny as their pirate counterparts.

@MCLegoboy:
Traipsing around the Everglades would have made for a very messy production, especially when factoring gator attacks.

@madforLEGO:
That sounds familiar. I remember wishing I’d known about something like that earlier, as I’d missed my chance to buy doubles. I know they did it with some TLBM sets, but they also bundled those sets in a larger box, and included physical instructions, plus I got two copies of the big box on top of one pair of regular boxes.

It's weird how this line is now almost nostalgic. At the time it killed off Pirates II. But we didn't know we would get Pirates III in 2015. In 2016 we got Skybound from Ninjago. Sky Pirates! Which would then not be followed up by any more pirate themes up to today besides Barracuda Bay and some Creator sets :/

This set always struck me as a bit drab and a bit less 'piratey' than other sets. In the film this is a very vibrant scene, yet the set looks like it takes place at night or something. But a more historic set like this is fun to see and if it's a building plus vehicle at least it's something like this. I remember this costing way too much to ever consider getting it though.

Having watched a 5 films again this year, looking back I appreciate how despite its flaws the film basically continued the 'adventure and supernatural things are shrinking due to modernity' theme and started the film in the heart of London, a heart of modernity and order. And then the film defies that theme by moving away, introducing more and more fantastical elements and revealing some of 'the crown' is not so about law and order...
In hindsight this was a perfect recreation of the opening of the film, including the drab colors for the spirit of it!

Great set, with lots of adventures possible, just wish the inn had large plates for the ground and first floor so mini-figures could stand on. This is the only Pirates of the Caribbean set that has a carriage, plus the only set that has black spoked wheels for the cart compared to 40+ sets for the brown spoked wheels.

Seeing such sets in the RSotD section makes me feel old.
I remember when it was released, _after_ my dark years!

@ambr:
Only set with black small wagon wheels. There are three others with black large wagon wheels.

I really liked this set, the tavern was smaller than I'd like but it had some good carriage builds.

The building on this set is remarkably substantial-looking for a Licensed theme's backdrop--you know that in Star Wars, this would be two speeders and the world's most boring rump of a wall.

@icey:
Please. This is centuries pre-Brenter.

Would you look at all those triangley hats.

The Captain's Daughter (the name of the tavern seen in this set) is actually another name for the cat-o-nine tails, a rough-hewn whip with nine knotted ends to it used for disciplining sailors. (Usually with multitudes of strikes against a bare back while the sailor was tied to something to keep him from resisting.) It was actually seen in PotC being used against Will Turner by Bootstrap Bill Turner on the Flying Dutchman in the second film as punishment for not doing something correctly. (Rope tying, I think?)

@ElephantKnight said:
"This is a great set. I still have both carriages built, never took them apart. Building maybe could use a couple more walls, but it works fine as a play set."

I’m quite frankly disappointed that you did not mention that it could do with either more black or trans neon green

@Murdoch17 said:
"The Captain's Daughter (the name of the tavern seen in this set) is actually another name for the cat-o-nine tails, a rough-hewn whip with nine knotted ends to it used for disciplining sailors. (Usually with multitudes of strikes against a bare back while the sailor was tied to something to keep him from resisting.) It was actually seen in PotC being used against Will Turner by Bootstrap Bill Turner on the Flying Dutchman in the second film as punishment for not doing something correctly. (Rope tying, I think?)"
And possibly the origin of the expression ‘not enough room to swing a cat’, i.e. not enough space to properly wield a cat-o-nine-tails.

@LuvsLEGO_Cool_J said:
"I always wished I had this set ... sigh. "

Me too. I regret missing this one so much.

@Murdoch17:
Distance and angle would also be why they hold the victim down. Whips “crack” when you get the tip(s) to break the speed of sound, so the distance where that happens should be the ideal distance to inflict the greatest amount of damage. If they’re being hit by the length of the whip, the material won’t be moving as fast, and the increased surface area contact will both spread out the impact and create significant drag on the far end of the whip. If you’re only making contact with the very end(s), that will have enough inertia and little enough resistance to cut through flesh without really slowing down.

Back during the days of the Roman Empire, Hebrew law was a bit funny about capital punishments. The official number of lashings required to kill a person was set at 40 (no idea how they picked that number), so 39 was the maximum number allowed as punishment by the Hebrew courts. Maintaining consistent strokes of the whip was an essential part of not misjudging things. This sentence was intended to put you at death’s door, but not through it. If the strokes were weak, it could result in someone feeling like they needed extra to compensate, and then it would be very easy to lose track of when to stop. If they died with 39 strokes or less, the person holding the whip might be in the clear. If they went over 40, that could get them in legal trouble.