Ben Ellerman will be the Pirates coordinator again this year at Brickworld.

Please check out the 2014 Brickworld Chicago information:

• Website: http://www.brickworld.us/
• Date: Wednesday, June 11 - Sunday, June 15
• Location: Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center
• Registration cost: $50 (all access) $70 (full registration – ability to display creations, free goody bag, eligible for prizes, raffles, and awards)
• Hotel room costs: $129 per night (Please be aware that you have to sign up through Brickworld to get the special discounted rate. These rooms will sell out well in advance of the convention dates)

The Pirate layout will again include underwater scenes in addition to islands and a volcano. Please feel free to bring any type of pirate MOCs including ships, islands, forts, sea creatures, boats.

Do not forget to register your mocs on the Brickworld website. Click the “Pirate Collaboration” checkbox when registering. Thanks!

Questions, concerns, comments, or suggestions about the display can be posted in the thread in the LEGO Pirates Forum or sent to Ben Ellermannm, via pm or email (see thread for details).

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Pirate Collaboration!

Time to get building!

The Pirates Teamwork Contest's deadline is less than a month away! Time will be going by faster than ye' think! The magnificent winner's prize is most certainly fit for any Pirate Lord! So what are you waiting for? Get ye' teammate and start building!

Discuss and see full details about the Pirates Teamwork Contest in the forum!

It takes two to plunder!

A new year brings a new kind of contest. Flex your building muscles along with your teamworking muscles to show us how cooperative building can lead to astounding results. The prize is huge, for each team member, so no sharing required!

 Discuss and enter the Pirates Teamwork Contest on the forum.

Ahoy matey! Photograph by cjdc's

Ahoy there! T'day be International Talk Like a Pirate Day! Celebrate all things piratey by talking like a salty sea dog. You best be doing it, or we might make ya walk the plank! Arghh!

Earn yer sea legs, then discuss International Talk Like a Pirate Day in the forum.

Pirates Can Collaborate to Victory!

The Eurobricks collaborative team went with a pirates theme for Brickworld Chicago this year. They blew all other pirate displays out of the water with the creations including 13 ships, 8 islands, a volcano, sea monsters, port town, imperial fort, and working waterfall. Not only did the group display itself win this year at Brickworld 2012 in Chicago, but EuroBricks staff members Pandora and Rufus won Best Small Building for the Pub at the End of the World (part of the collaborative) and Si-MOCs our Eurobrick's Sci Fi Regulator won Build Master.  Big Cam took pictures of the layout.

Comment on Eurobrick's Brickworld Chicago 2012 in the forum.

Due to the sad passing of our friend Admiral Zorro we have decided not to proceed with the Seven Seas Contest at this time.

This is a very painful decision given the hundreds of hours that went into the Talking Skull Promotion, but Zorro was instrumental to the operations of the main contest and we must make revisions to proceed without him.

The prizes for the Talking Skull Promotion will be shipped to the winners as planned.

Discuss this further in the LEGO Pirates Forum.

FREE Blue coat mini figure with Toys R Us purchase!

You read that right, you can obtain one of these special blue coat mini figures for free when shopping at your Local Toys R Us toy store.

Here is what we know: 

 With a LEGO purchase of $20(U.S.) or $35(Canada) or more, you will receive 1 free mini figure, the week of October 3-9 happens to be a Blue Coat mini figure.

Rumor has it you can purchase them in store seperatly for $1.99 but this is not confirmed, as well as the online order process which appears to already be sold out, and we don't have a valid link for it at the moment, so please post one in the forum if you find one.

Discuss this blue coat deal in the Pirate Forum.

The second edition of the famous Tournament of Retribution has come to an end, the votes have been counted and the winners have been announced! We have seen epic battles, cruelty but above all we have seen a lot of fun! The Tournament of Retribution II has written history with such spectacular prizes! A big thanks goes out to Commodore Hornbricker for organising and donating to the Tournament of Retribution II!

Congratulate the lucky TORII winners in the pirate forum!

The Brickworld event is coming up! And of course it includes pirate displays!  The event starts on Thursday, June 17. And it ends on Sunday, June 20. The event is held in the Westin Hotel in Wheeling, Illinois. Just like the previous years. And of course you can display your own Pirate MOC! You have to signup, and register your MOC. All that can be done here.

Discuss the event in Pirates at Brickworld 2010 in the forum!

Voting for the 2010 Community has ended.

A big thank you goes out to all the participants for there awesome entries. You guys had some pretty amazing MOC's!

I would also like to thank  the following members for helping me out in some very important ways! Commodore Hornbricker, Captain Blackmoor, Captain Zuloo, Erdbeeries, SlyOwl and Zorro.

Thanks once again,

Ratshot

PS  The winner will be announced shortly.