Vintage LEGO Pirates set 6276, Eldorado Fortress Build and Review

In this Brick Therapy session, I review one of my all time favorite LEGO sets, 6276 Eldorado Fortress. Notice I said all-time favorite, not just vintage Pirates or vintage LEGO. 

This set brings back a lot of fond memories for me. It may be the first major LEGO set I purchased as an adult. It is also the set that would launch me into years of enjoyment and appreciation for the Pirates theme.

To be honest, I don't much care for the pirates. I was always jealous that they received the Black Seas Barracuda. In my LEGO universe, the BSB belonged to the Imperials.

In the early part of collecting the Imperial Soldiers and Guards, I would combine the forces because I didn't have enough of them. The Imperials would battle with not only the pirates, but with the Forestmen and the classic castle knights.

Before the pirates theme came out, LEGO did not have guns to my knowledge. I would use the torches or lances as guns. There were also some space pieces that worked as firearms also. Heck, even the metal detector ending us as a shooting weapon.

I could go on forever. Check out my video review here.

Weekly LEGO Haul

In this week's Brick Therapy session, i open packages from Bricklink, LEGO Bricks & Pieces, and eBay. Check out the video here.

Vintage LEGO Pirates set 6274, the Caribbean Clipper

In this Brick Therapy session, I build and review LEGO Pirates set 6274, the Caribbean Clipper. This was the only official Imperial Soldiers ship.

The Caribbean Clipper was decent for her time, but I would have much preferred something closer in size to the Black Seas Barracuda. Although she has a small crew of four, three sailors and the Governor. I liked that all the sailors were exactly the same. I would rather have an officer or captain instead of the Governor commanding the ship, but if the Governor only came in one set, he would be super expensive now.

I play to build a couple mocs of increasing sizes to fortify the Imperial Soldiers fleet. But until then, watch my build and review here.

Weekly LEGO Haul

In this weeks LEGO Haul, I add a lot of new recruits to both the  Vintage Imperial Solders and Vintage Imperial Guards. Jack Sparrow also shows up with some musketeers.

This week sees the addition of two ships. Both duplicates of ships already in my fleet.

Check out the video here.

Vintage LEGO Pirates 6273 Rock Island Refuge

In this Brick Therapy session, I build and review Vintage LEGO set 6273, Rock Island Refuge. 

This set is not technically an Imperial Soldiers sub-theme set, but it did come with and Imperial Soldier and Officer.

I'm glad I have it for my collection, but it's not that interesting to me.

Check out the video here.

Weekly LEGO haul

In this week's LEGO haul video, I received a lot of minifigs from the vintage Pirates and Western sub-themes.

Check them out here.

Vintage LEGO Pirates set 6270 Forbidden Island

Check out my Brick Therapy session with my build and review of the Vintage LEGO Pirates set 6270 Forbidden Island. In the video, I also add the minifigures from this set to my growing army of Imperial Soldiers and Guards.

Watch the video here.

Updating vintage LEGO set 6267 Lagoon Lock-up

Vintage LEGO Pirates set 6267 Lagoon Lock Up is one of my favorite Imperial Soldiers sets. I watched a review from TrixBrix on youtube and was inspired by his add on, so I decided to try my hand at MOCing This set.

I already have ideas of how to make it even better. For now, check out my video here.

Weekly LEGO Haul

Today I posted my weekly LEGO haul from last week. There were a lot of minifigures from last week. My ranks as growing very quickly. I also scored a special vintage lot you have to see.

Check out the video here.

One of my biggest LEGO hauls yet

This past week, I received an order from a Facebook group purchase that included LEGO sets 6276, 6277, and 6273. I already had these sets, but I did not have the boxes. Im super excited to have gotten them for such a great deal.

I also received two LEGO 6769 sets. The first one was a win from an auction and the second was an offer that was accepted by the seller. Actually a counter offer that I accepted.

Since I now have two Fort Legoredos, I needed soldiers to man them, so I went on Bricklink to purchase 51 cavalry soldiers. While I was there, I figured I would also purchase some Imperial Soldiers from the 2015 LEGO Pirates line.

Check out my video on YouTube to see the complete haul, here.

LEGO Haul disaster

In my most recent mail haul, I experienced something luckily I have never experienced before. Every single package had something wrong with it.

First and most obvious with The Brick Bounty. When I picked up the box, it didn't feel right. It felt as if it was empty at the top. I opened it right away to make sure I received the correct item, to see that the box had been crushed.

The listing said it was new in a sealed and perfect box. That was not the box I was looking at. I reached out to the seller, but found out he did not purchase insurance to cover damages. I asked about possibly returning it even though the listing stated no refunds.

The seller reached out to me and asked what amount I would take to keep the item. I told him I would check the condition of the pieces in the box and get back to him. After recording the video below, I recorded myself opening the Brick Bounty. From initial inspection, everything seemed to be intact. I won't know until I actually build the ship, which I was not planning to do since I already have one.

Second was by a seller that I have purchased from multiple times. He sent me four minifigs that looked like the ones I ordered, but not. They seem to be Imperial Redcoats that were MOCs. The torso was just some random red shirt pattern with an odd head. I reached out to the seller and he will be sending out the correct one...possibly.

Lastly, there was an vintage Imperial Soldier that came with purple (at least that's what it looked like to me, I have a color vision deficiency) arms. When I went to replace the arms, they were so brittle that they exploded.

Don't believe me, watch my video here.

Vintage LEGO set 6259 Broadside's Brig

Vintage LEGO set 6259 Broadside's Brig may not be my favorite set because of the low soldier count, but it's a worthy buy if you can find it cheap. The set comes with an Imperial Blue Coat Officer, Soldier, and a pirate.

Even though this set only has 53 pieces according to Bricklink, all the pieces can be added to the other sets in this line.

Check out my YouTube review here.

Vintage LEGO Sea Mates 6251

One of my first LEGO Pirates sets was the minifigs set 6251 also known as Sea Mates.

This was relatively cheap, but I did not like receiving too many of the Captain Redbeard and female pirate. I would rather purchase the Saber Island or the Brig because I would receive more soldiers along with added pieces I could use to build up Eldorado's Fort.

Watch my video review here.

LEGO Harbor Sentry 6245

My build and review of LEGO Pirates set 6245 is not live on my YouTube channel.

I came out of my most recent dark age of LEGO around Christmas of 2019 when my oldest child received a Star Wars Y-Wing LEGO set as a gift.

I can out of my previous dark age in 2008. At that time I was building up my Imperial army of blue and red coats.

In 2009, right before I entered my most recent dark age my wife and I purchased a new home and shortly after had two children.  Well, anyone that has young children will tell you they take up a lot of time and resources.

Now that you are all caught up, here we are in 2020. My intent was not to start building up my Imperial armies again, but I just like the LEGO Pirates theme too much. That and the mandatory Shelter-in-Place has lead me to collecting again. But this time, my goal was to collect all the LEGO Pirate sets that contained Imperials.

I think I have almost completed my collection, and then some. Stay tuned to my YouTube channel to see what I plan to do with these sets after I review them.

Check out my video review of the Harbor Sentry here.