4654 - a new special pirate

[playmofire]

i agree with sylvia - the compass is cool.
i don't know if it is historically correct (i think that sailors could already use maritime compasses in those days, with a rotating dial instead of a rotating hand) 

But such compasses I think were expensive because they were the state of the art for the times, and so not all ships used them.

[Hadoque]

Can't wait to get this one!!

I think the legs are new, cannot remember to have seen that kind of shoes before.

These kind of legs-with-shoes also (will) appear in one other set, as far as one can know from currently available pictures: in the Roman "headquarters"-set with the tent: the soldier in the background by the horse has the same type of legs; yellow trousers, bare legs and brown shoes underneath. Only difference are the imprinted insignia just...ahum...below his belly.
And if you ask me, the pirate-theme will next year be....discontinued or updated! (I'm seeing indications it it will be the latter one)

[cachalote]

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And if you ask me, the pirate-theme will next year be....discontinued or updated! (I'm seeing indications it it will be the latter one)

  please, not discontinued, not discontinued, not disconinued, no, please.
  we can always turn ourselves into dangerous terrorists and destroy geobra.
i don´t care if hey update the pirate theme. they can even present a 3 legged pirate, i really don't care.
i just hope discontinuity is not an option.
i could see what the western fans had to go by when it happened to them.
(by the way, do you think they know some tricks to bring back to life a discontinued theme? it would be better if we started to investigate.)

[Hadoque]

There some reasons why, in my personal opinon, new or updated pirate sets will appear:

1) Next year it will be 7 years the 3940 (US 3286) Flagship, 3938 Lagoon, etc... were released, so an update would be welcome and in the Geobra-style to do.
2) The new mould of trousers is very typical for pirates and is probably not only intended for use in this new Pirate-special 4654 and for one klicky in a Roman set.
3) The Add-on sets for replacement masts 7594 and sails 7614 will no longer be available in the DS-catalogue (in Europe) next year.
4) The new Pirate-Micro-set contains a small version of the Flagship but with white sails and with skulls on them, and a new kind of lagoon with a rock-fortress. These don't exist yet (or in that form), while all the other Micro-sets show miniature copies of existing sets. (Fairytale Castle & coach, Noah's Ark, the King's Castle)
5) What will be available in the US (and Canada?) through Target-stores this year: and update of Blackbeard's ship with... white sails with a skull on one of them.

So...

Btw, here a piccie of the Roman soldier with the pirate-style trousers:

[Richard]

There some reasons why, in my personal opinon, new or updated pirate sets will appear:
4) The new Pirate-Micro-set contains a small version of the Flagship but with white sails and with skulls on them, and a new kind of lagoon with a rock-fortress. These don't exist yet (or in that form), while all the other Micro-sets show miniature copies of existing sets. (Fairytale Castle & coach, Noah's Ark, the King's Castle)

Verrrry interesting prediction, Cap'n Hadoque ... 

[cachalote]

    thanks, hadoque, for the reassuring predictions.
i was already trying to find a way to create an on-line petition against the pirate's announced disappearance.
i am calmer now, but those wer days of a certain un-easyness.
i hope a new boat will appear.
a new royal navy boat would also be nice, to complete the schooner flotilla.
let's hope your clever playmo-prediction is right.
untill then we can always watch the "pirates of the caribbean - 2" movie~.
just to ease our love for piracy.
thanks again, and if you have any problems with rackham le rouge, just say.