News 2011

[bonniebeth]

  Totally speechless! They're so beautiful! 

[WarriorOfToys]

Hey WOT!
No, the avatar I use on other forums but not on those you cited. It's something to represent one of my passions  .

Penguins? Or Romans?

[PrimusPilus]

Romans!
I thought my screen name was a dead give away.

PS: And if you look closely, that's no ordinary penguin.

[WarriorOfToys]

Romans!
I thought my screen name was a dead give away.

Well, a little bit...

PS: And if you look closely, that's no ordinary penguin.

Other than he is wearing Roman garb?

[Hadoque]

The pirate ship is in NICE WOODISH YELLOW.

Yes, I think so too!  
(though not to exclude my usual pessimistic remark: it could also be GOLDish, like the cabin's windows at the stern are on the 3940  )

And the hull looks like a very appropriate brown colour.
So, probably a woodish yellow/lightbrown deck with a darkbrown hull... finally decent, realistic colours (a bit like British ships of the line around 1800 !!). Not taking in regard the red steering-wheel, but that's a detail. Edit: wheel might be brownish afterall

Still wondering about the cannons below deck though... On not one picture the 1990-like gunmouths are sticking outside their gunports...
If fakes, I hope they're exchangeable with the real cannons.

The upperdeck of the ship looks exactly like the 3940 - even the double access doors to below-deck seem the same.
Only difference I can see momentarily, is that the stairs to the aft-deck are now part of the deckmould and not longer a seperate part.

[Hadoque]

and the british 'fortress' is a joke, but you cant have everything

Fits very well with the severe defence-cuts of the British government. 

A government... long time we had one overhere

[Ds dad]

Now that I've had a chance to sleep on the new sets, I'm still very happy with the new pirates.  My only complaint is I would have liked to see a Redcoat set which included 3 redcoats and maybe an officer.  Hopefully that will be fixed via DS.  I would have preferred plastic crossbelts but with the price of oil (and therefore plastic) these days I can't say I'm surprised by PM new tact.

I have a  questions.  For us newbies, since the pirates come out in Sept 2011 does that mean Sept 2012 in North America or just sometime in 2012 (hopefully Jan)?

[bonniebeth]

No, I'm afraid it means Sept, 2012. However, if you're willing to pay WAY too much, they'll hit ebay as soon as they're out in Germany.

I'm hoping we'll get some good DS items out of this, too, like maybe a cave family so we have more women and children. And a blue-footed booby add-on. 

[Ds dad]

Thanks Bonniebeth.  That is too bad. Luckily I have a good friend in Hamburg, I hope he accepts Paypal . . .

[bonniebeth]

I need to make a friend in Germany!