Remember there was a rumor that we may be getting some LEGO sets based on the upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales which turned out to be false? If may seem that the rumor may indeed be true. According to one of my sources, they sent me a message regarding sets based on the movie and word has it that there will only be one fairly large set, with the price range around $200-$250. It was stated that it may be one of the new pirate ships in the franchise, possibly the Dying Gull or the Silent Mary. If you’ve read up on the movie, the Dying Gull and the Silent Mary are the two new pirate ghost ships that will be featured in the film.
LEGO did a couple of ships back in 2011 for PotC: On Stranger Tides with The Black Pearl (4148) and Queen Anne’s Revenge (4195) but it’ll be cool to have another ship to add to the fleet if this rumor is true about the LEGO PotC: Dead Men Tell No Tales set. We’re still a long ways away from the premiere of the movie in May 26, 2017 but hopefully we’ll be able to get more concrete information by the end of this year or early next year.
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That’s good news but I hope there are more sets than just one.
As do I, there is still so many configures and scenes that I would like to see.
Me too. I hope they revisit some of the classic movies. Some of the sets they released were really cool, but they didn’t cover enough ground. I hope the new movie and set has Pintel and Rigetti in it!
yeah
Pirates of the Caribbean bores me to tears and the license will amp up the price of the ordinary pirate sets that have always done just FINE for Lego in the past.
I, personally, am just sick of Disney sticking it’s rapacious claws into every part of childhood and the society.
How does it bore you?
There is nothing in Pirates of the Caribbean that instantly makes me think “Disney”…
Well, it is a Disney franchise with Disney characters and narrative. But it’s completely unnecessary to a long established Lego tradition of pirate sets that come without the expensive Disney license fees.
The Disney license, for example, adds $10 or 30% to the cost of the Star Wars Advent calendar. And it will do something similar to the cost of a pirate set with the Pirates of the Caribbean logo on it.
I haven’t really done an in-depth comparison between the advent calendars, but the whole licensing tax myth has been soundly disproven multiple times. I personally ran the averages of every theme at one point in the early 00’s (excluding anything electronic, and restricted to minifig-based themes), and Star Wars was one of the best deals at around $0.095/pc, while World City was one of the worst at around $0.11/pc.
There are other reasons why sets can cost more, like when the dollar tanked vs the kroner a few years back, or when they finally started listening to us and fed us a steady stream of expensive sculpted alien heads that don’t see a ton of repeat use.
SW is one of their most popular themes of all time, and it pays for itself through volume of sales, not jacked up prices.
Maybe go run the numbers on the new Cinderella’s Castle, if you don’t believe me.
Not sure how you can say that when the SW calendar has fewer pieces than the City calendar and costs $10 more.
He was averaging the WHOLE theme. One isolated set compared to another in an entirely different theme doesn’t count.
And either way, the Star Wars Calendar costing more doesn’t disprove his statement and facts.
I’m not sure how YOU can say that unless you didn’t take the time to read his post thoroughly and try to understand it instead of complaining about “disney ruins evrythng omg” on instinct.
Why doesn’t the Advent calendar “count”? There isn’t anything in it that’s new and generating production costs for things like molds. There isn’t anything in it that is more subject to currency conversion than any other bricks.
The Disney Castle set retailed at $350. If they had applied the same price escalation to it the retail price would been more than $100 higher and priced itself out of the market.
Meanwhile, the $10 premium on the Advent calendar is not a new thing. The SW calendar has consistently been $10 higher for no particular reason than 1) they had to pay a license fee or 2) they could get away with it. ::shrug::
While a ghost ship could be cool, I’d still really like to see them make Sao Feng’s Empress.