You’ve probably heard of the Flying Dutchman, the legendary ghost ship which was said to never be able to make port. Well, this legend has inspired  Stortebricker to build his version, “The Rolling Dutchman”. Why rolling?   Because it’s a MOC of the Flying Dutchman but with gears which makes it move along the floor!

Stortebricker writes:

Welcome on board of The Rolling Dutchman!

Since I have been a child I always wanted to control my LEGO Red Beard Runner without pushing it around and now my dream has come true. I have build a motorized Version of the famous Flying Dutchman which is my favorite pirate ship, too. I have seen the original swedish Vasa which has given the idea for the Dutchman with its marvelous bow and stern. So I managed to combine them with my own creative ideas into this “rolling” Dutchman!

Please have a look at the features in the video and the pictures!

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Motorized Features:

• Rolling movement caused by waves (1. M-Motor)
• Two motorized triple-barrelled chasers in the bow (1. M-Motor)
• Motorized steering with simoultaneously rotating ship´s wheel, rudder and steering mechanism (S-Motor)
• Motorized movement for- and backward (L-Motor)
• Motorized sail trim with turning capstan and changing sail position of all square sails (M-Motor)
• All features can be controlled by rc-control via 4 channels and two receivers
• All features use the Power-Function System but could easily be adapted to the new Control+ System which can lead to advanced handling of the functions
• The battery box can slide out easily to switch on/off and change batteries

General Features:

• Minifigures: Davy Jones, Jack Sparrow, Elizabeth, Bill Turner, Barbossa and more. (I am not familiar with the movies in english so I would like to ask you to tell me the names in the comments section!)
• Two decks with cannons (one side the lower deck is closed to store the motors)
• The two tripple-barreld chasers can manually slide backwards and then the gun ports can be closed
• Removable deck at the stern to take out the steering wheel
• Removable lower balcony´s on both sides
• Handmade sails
• Two functional anchors
• Upper cabin minifigure size with Jack stealing the heart (illuminated)
• Lower cabin with Davy Jones organ (illuminated)
• Two torches at the stern (illuminated)
• The capstan can be removed
• The ship is based on the sturdy hull parts, the complete 2 lower rows of bricks can be removed with the steering and driving wheels to use it as “normal” push forward ship or display model
• The main mast and the mizzen are both slightly tilted backwards
• Correct rigging and sails due to the movies
• The ropes between the masts can be removed easily to take them apart for transport

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Splendid photo editing! The ship is meant to be floating above the water.

And here is a shot without any post processing…

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About the Builder…

Stortebricker is a regular contributor on both Eurobricks and LEGO Ideas. You could have even supported for The Rolling Dutchman on LEGO Ideas, but you didn’t, did you? Well too late, because it’s expired.

Oh well, you can still view more of his builds on his LEGO Ideas profile. You never know, he might have another Pirate submission you’d like to support.

Nothing goes unnoticed (or undocumented) at this highly efficient Customs Post by Ayrlego. Inspired by the creations of both Evancelt and Bregir, he constructed an enhanced Imperial Guard tower with dark bley for the rockwork and dark tan for the landscaping.

To catch up on the latest news at Corrington, set a course for Brethren of the Brick Seas forum but make sure you have the necessary paperwork filed!

Ayrleo writes:

I was very impressed by @evancelt‘s semaphore station on Hussar’s Isle recently and have been meaning to build here myself for quite some time… (I have now almost built in every Corrie settlement… only Brickford Landing to go I think). I tried to incorporate some nods to his and @Bregir‘s previous builds at this location, using dark bley rockwork and dark tan landscaping. Someone posted a build with some white profile bricks earlier in the year which made me very excited, as I have been waiting for a long time for TLG to release them in white. Alas it was not to be! But it did get me wondering and I recently was able to acquire a hundred or so off-brand white profile bricks. So I’ve given them a go here and it re-enforces my desire for The LEGO Group to release them in white ASAP!

Anyway my third and last build for Task 11 ‘Strategic Outposts’ for GoC. Ownership will be turned over to the faction and it will be licensed as a large commerce in Hussar’s Isle. I quite enjoyed this one, hope you guys do too!

The Story

Hussar’s Isle; a tiny Corlander settlement in the Rider Island’s to the North East of Cocovia, exists purely to watch over the Northern approaches to the important Corlander settlements of King’s Harbour and Quinnsville on Cocovia. At this time the settlement is still purely a military outpost and construction has recently been finished on a fortified customs office and coastal surveillance station. Manned by a Royal Customs and Excise Officer and a half company of Royal Marines, the outpost is tasked with recording maritime traffic in the Northern approaches to Cocovia. Equipped with a powerful telescope, the ships can be spotted a long way out to sea. An attached hussar can gallop quickly to the semaphore station or fort with news of approaching vessels. The marines man the battlements and the outpost is kept stocked with a good supply of power and shot to see of any potential raiders. 

About the Builder…

Ayrlego is like a brick factory in overdrive! He regularly churns out high quality contributions to Brethren of the Brick Seas like there is no tomorrow! You can see more of his wonderful builds on his Eurobricks profile and Flickr.

Have you ever contemplated what would happen if ships from the LEGO Pirates theme were able to produce offspring? No probably not, because it’s a rather obscure thing to contemplate.

Legostein, however, has contemplated something along lines and built a small supply ship to accompany the Caribbean Clipper (set 6274). It features comparable design elements such as blue striped sail and yellow trimmings, but in place of the parrot figurehead, sits a small yellow frog. Yellow animals are somewhat rare and fetch a high price on the black market, so this wee beastie is what’s inspired the craft’s name. Therefore, we assume Legostein asked the frog what he should name the ship and the frog replied “ribbit!”

Legostein writes:

Hello everybody!

This is my first topic started in the pirates section, and I hope everything will be fine. My main interest are playsets from the “classic” pirate era started in the year 1989 (and goes until 1997 in my pirate world). This is why I like to create additional playsets that resemble the style of this era. I am happy to introduce the “Caribbean Ribbit” to you. It’s a small supply ship that goes along the larger “Caribbean Clipper” (set 6274). It features comparable design elements to suit well as a playset for the other sets of the series. It features also a full rotating cannon. As figurehead a small yellow frog was used (yellow animals are somewhat rare to find) which also gave the vessel its name.

Thank you for your time, and have a great day! I am glad to be here!

~ Chris

A swivel cannon be very useful when there’s not much space.

Wouldn’t this make a fantastic official LEGO set? Back in the days of yore (in other words the 80’s and 90’s) the LEGO Group would sometimes release two sets based around a similar concept, but at two different price points. There would be a medium size set with a particular design which this would be repeated at a larger scale in one of the larger sets.  For example: in 1994 the Spyrius sub theme saw the release of the smaller  6889 Recon Robot along side the 6949 Robot Guardian which towered over it like a hulking metal behemoth.

That cannon was actually borrowed from the Harbour Sentry

There’s even torches and a rudder – no expense was spared!

About the Builder…

Legostein, who signs his posts with “~ Chris”, sails out of Germany and is a considered both a MOC Expert and Customization Expert in the LEGO Pirates Forum on Eurobricks.  He’s a million (a million what?) and “Bricks, Building & Beyond” he the core essence of his being.

Forbidden Island… what a place! We returned there not so long ago to discover the Indigo Islanders had laid claim to the island… but that was merely one continuity in the LEGO Pirates multiverse.  In this continuity we ponder; what if the classic 1989 LEGO set, 6270 Forbidden Island was reimagined in the style of the more modern 21322 Pirates of Barracuda Bay?

Well, Elusys Ra Arwal has the answer. He’s created a glorious digital rendition of the set utilising the modern aesthetic,  packed with details in beautifully rendered images. There are also a few innovations to keep things fresh, like a hidden temple, treasure cave and Islander moai.

Elusys Ra Arwal writes:

Following the new pirates of Barracuda Bay style, with my own twist on the amount of details and techniques employed, I tried to update that set, restyle and expand it. I added some natives structures like in the bay, a bridge, lookout mast and a small cave where some chests are stashed. There’s a prison with a bluecoat skeleton, some cannons and a shack, were pirates can plot their new plunder.

The Overview

From here there’s a clear view of the dock and the crew unloading their loot. On the right side, underneath the bridge, there’s the wreck of a small dinghy.

From this perspective, underneath the bridge, there’s a small cave where a couple of chests are hidden away.

This is the interior of the cave area.

Here, front and center, you can see the wreck of a dinghy with its oars in the carcass of its hull.

The Back

View of the back of the main island. On the left side, now overrun by plants one can still see the entrance and floor of the old temple, of which the scattered stones were collected and reused to build the prison and on top the wooden structure. 3 cannons protect the building.

One can even still see the remnants of the old pier that gave access to this section of the island.

View of the main structure with a prison underneath and a shack made out of reclaimed pieces of a shipwreck. Its main mast used as a lookout place, and 3 cannons guard the island and its inhabitants.

Here you can better see the remains of the temple and its statue. For this purpose I chose the other style just because it looks more ancient, almost like Easter Island statues.

Here there’s some better view of the details of the temple’s floor.

The Top

View of the interior of the shack with weapons, table with map and lamps.

The other side with a view over the fireplace.

Interior of the prison, with bluecoat skeleton, wooden bed and chains.

About the Builder…

Elusys Ra Arwal (or Guglielmo di Napoli as the high ranking officers know him) has been spotted in the LEGO Pirates Forum on numerous occasions. He has a penchant for remastering classic pirate sets in digital form, so if you like the combination of the two, explore his Flickr stream for Pirate MOCs.

Dawn was just breaking as Major Brickford arrived at the top of the hill and extended his spyglass. There it was in the distance – the freshly constructed wooden fort at Tarlor. Corlander intelligence suggested the fort was manned, but that there were no additional Oleon expeditionary forces in the town.

Brickford figured that by arriving from the east, the sun would likely be in the eyes of any defenders atop the fort walls peering at him.

He sent a rider back to notify Colonel Sir Dirk Allcock that they had arrived. Allcock, the expedition commander, was traveling with the main body of their 500 man force marching overland from Westface. The force, composed of various regiments from across the Brick Seas, stretched back a lengthy distance to the southeast.

After Oleon’s assault on Terraversa left Kings Port, Sillitholina, Tarlor, and Pilnton in their control, Corrington came to the aid of the Terraversans to support their liberty as free citizens of the Brick Seas. The Corlander forces had been amassed in Westface, training and preparing for eventual actionon the island of Terraversa. In particular, the cavalry had been running drills and leading reconnaissance missions to scout enemy locations and thoroughly know the terrain. The recon as well as additional effort spent improving roads had made their journey from Westface to Tarlor go off without a hitch, quite a feat considering the large number of 12-pounder field guns and mortars they brought with them.

Brickford had strategized earlier with Allcock and the other company commanders as to the best way to take the wooden fort, and they had decided they would set up incendiary mortars behind the crest of the hill to fire westward over the fort walls. Perhaps the new wood of the palisade walls would burn.

Continuing to survey the scene before him, Brickford saw some wagons full of hay halfway to the fort. As a large column of 26th Foot came over the hill, Brickford ordered a squad of 18th Hussars toward the wagons to set them ablaze. He would have them douse the fires with water to create a smokescreen.

Seeing the first two of the haycarts set ablaze, Brickford tasked Captain Redding of the Royal Artillery with setting up the mortars out of sight of the fort on the far side of the hill. He knew once Allcock made his way to the front of the column the fight would commence.

Built On Duplo

In order to create a more sizable foundation for his build, Evan sneakily incorporated DULO into the foundations.

Phase one is to layer the DUPLO elements

Now the SYSTEM elements can be built up on top

It’s official!

Ray the Castaway has been released as Gift With Purchase set, be sure the read our announcement blog post for dull details.

The LEGO Ideas Team writes:

And the next Gift with Purchase Fan designer is.. *Drumroll*.. Revealed in this blog post! Yup, it’s time to announce the results of the recent fan vote. Thank you to everyone who took part in this contest in any way. As always Gift with Purchase contests are always super exciting!

Let’s stop messing around and go through the results and the winners!:

Grand Prize Winner – RAY THE CASTAWAY by DadiTwins – 969 Votes

Read the official announcement on the LEGO Ideas blog for more information.

The DadiTwins are back with a LEGO Pirate-themed MOC YOU could own!

Meet Ray the Castaway, another long haired lout who’s fallen overboard and washed up on a desert island. As usual, he’s had no choice but to cobble a shack together with whatever flotsam and palm leaves he could muster. He’s built a raft which cleverly uses his britches as a sail – too bad he can’t remember where he left his pants! But don’t worry, the talking sea gull will remind him.

The twins, Dave and Deigo have submitted their latest creation to the LEGO Group’s official “Do You Want To Go to the Seaside?” contest – the submission with the most vote gets made into a set.

Here is your chance to birth another pirate(ish) set into existence so…

The Dadi Twins writes:

Have you ever thought on spending your vacations in a deserted island? We’ve read about this new trend lately and it gave us the perfect idea for this contest!

So… what would you do if you were alone in a deserted island? What would you bring with you? A book? Maybe your favorite LEGO set?

We have imagined this scenario in LEGO with the minifig “Ray” and the result was very funny! This year Ray decided to spend his vacations in a tiny deserted island. After building his own house with the materials he could find, he realized that a couple of days were more than enough for him and decided to look for a way to return home… Now Ray is known as “Ray the Castaway”. Will you help him in his adventure?

The set has around 240 bricks and allows you to put Ray in a lot of different funny situtations. Although the build is digital, all the bricks exist in the selected colors.

We hope you like it!

Hey remember that screen saver from the early 90s…

How the Contest Works

According to the official contest webpage on the LEGO Ideas website…

In this contest, we’re asking for coastal builds that remind us of sandy toes and summer adventures to be transformed into a gift with purchase set! You could build sandcastles, beach huts, fish and chips; the possibilities are endless.

As the Grand Prize winner of this contest, you will get the exclusive opportunity to have your model transformed into a new LEGO Gift with Purchase set. This model should be between 150 and 250 bricks/elements. This model should be between 150 and 250 bricks/elements. Your entry should also not be related to any current or future LEGO Ideas gift with purchase, these being: Sailing Ship Adventure (Fan submission title), Rocket Ride or the Vintage Car.

The contest will consist of 3 phases:

1. Submission Phase – Build and submit your entry before May 11th, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. EST. We recommend submitting your entry 2-3 days before the deadline in the event we have to return it to you for changes.
2. Judging Phase – Our judges review the entries and choose 15 entries, which will then go forward to a Fan Vote, on May 18th, 2021.
3. Voting Phase –  LEGO Ideas members will then have the opportunity to vote once, for their favorite entry from May 18th, 2021 until May 25th, 2021.
4. Winners Announcement – We’ll share the Grand Prize winner and five Runner Up winners here on LEGO Ideas no later than May 31st, 2021!

About the Builder…

DadiTwins (David & Diego Escalon) have contributed many great submissions to LEGO Ideas and their Naruto: Ichiraku Ramen Shop project even reached 10k supporters! And if you want to dig further, you can check out more of his creations on Instagram, Twitter and Flickr!