LEGO Pirates, ahoy!

LEGO has a new Pirates theme for '09, including this largest set, "Brickbeard's Bounty" (6243), reminiscent of the classic "Black Seas Barracuda". New improvements include working, spring-loaded cannons that fire, new sharks that can actually eat minifigs, and a new mermaid minifigure.

Brickbeard's Bounty listing [Brickset.com via Brothers Brick]
Catalog Page [Shop.LEGO.com or Toys 'R' Us]

[#1 posted by Agies , December 3, 2008 9:23 AM]

Some of the old LEGO Pirates cannons were spring-loaded. I can't recall if they replaced or were replaced by the lame finger-flick ones though.

[#2 posted by madzack , December 3, 2008 9:27 AM]

yeah all my old lego pirates stuff from the late 80s early 90s have spring loaded cannons.

[#3 posted by Joel Johnson , December 3, 2008 9:36 AM]

Yeah, they were original spring-loaded, then flick-fired, now back to the good schtuff.

[#4 posted by Happler , December 3, 2008 11:38 AM]

Ohh. This will sit well next to my "Black Seas Barracuda"! Now if my wife will not kill me for buying more LEGO's :D

[#5 posted by michaelportent , December 3, 2008 2:51 PM]

Between Lego Pirates and the earlier Lego Space sets, I think you can pretty much account for 75% of my childhood free time.

[#6 posted by Downpressor , December 3, 2008 5:46 PM]

I just soiled myself with joy at this news!

[#7 posted by Laslo Paniflex , December 3, 2008 6:52 PM]

Wait a minute? Spring loaded cannons existed up until some point (around 1990?) and then they switched to non-firing cans. But you can flick the non-firing cans to fire them?

[#8 posted by Justin France , December 4, 2008 5:31 AM]

I last got a LEGO Pirates set around... 1987? When I was 6.

Sharks that can devour minifigs warrants an upgrade, me thinks. Plus, I can have two ships to wage (fun and humane) war with the cats.