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]
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.
yeah all my old lego pirates stuff from the late 80s early 90s have spring loaded cannons.
Yeah, they were original spring-loaded, then flick-fired, now back to the good schtuff.
Ohh. This will sit well next to my “Black Seas Barracuda”! Now if my wife will not kill me for buying more LEGO’s
Between Lego Pirates and the earlier Lego Space sets, I think you can pretty much account for 75% of my childhood free time.
I just soiled myself with joy at this news!
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?
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.