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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Retro Lego: 1995's Skull Island Pirate haven. Skull rotates, crane works. Nice pirate base. Got this from ebay as a present for my 49th birthday this weekend. Scrounged the figures from my parts bins, will dig out the other missing parts eventually. Sheer nostalgia.

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Also not-as-retro: Soldier's Arsenal (2009). Little polybag sets like these were a great way to fill out your collection and add play features to bigger sets. Kind of wish I'd snagged more of them back in the day...

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Not-as-retro: 6253 Shipwreck Hideout (2009) Tower-like base built into a wrecked ship? Yes, please! I wasn't as big a fan of the late 2000s release line, but I did get them. This set slipped by me, had to snag it from ebay. It is missing a few minifigs and parts, but I can fill them in from parts.

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Retro Lego: Rocky Reef (1995) Two pirates, a rowboat, and buried treasure. Classic scenario. Looks basic, but had a lot of play value and looks like a proper island. Swing out the plate to reveal the hidden treasure, and a hidden skeleton pops out too. I can post a reveal pic if someone asks.

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I find that trying to actually... build... anything these days is a lesson in futility. Ironic, given the amount of time I have spent sorting my Lego so I can find parts, that I now don't know what I want to DO with them. Anyone else with this issue?

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Retro Lego: 1492 Battle Cove Not quite the counterpart to the Imperial Cannon, but similar idea from the Pirates side of the theme. One cannon on a small sandy beach, a single pirate minifigure, and a bit of wall. Oh, and a shark, because shark. Minimal build, still fun. No cannonballs though?

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Retro Lego: 1795 Imperial Cannon This is what it says. One Armada soldier, a cannon, and a tiny fort-in-shallow-water. No roof, minimal support, no land, and for once in an Imperial "base," no jail cell! Still a fun little build, but kind of minimal overall.

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Retro Lookback: Bounty Boat... ...well, it doesn't have a prison cell. This is basically a boat with minifigures trying to hide or having just reclaimed treasure. Potential is here - build an island for them to bury the treasure on, or have them searching the island to dig UP the treasure?

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Holiday update: I have expanded the beach! Added some sand, made the water in the front here bigger so I can dock a ship, added a small rock to anchor the docks, and made a stand-in Harbormaster's Office kitbashed from the Lagoon Lock-Up and Broadside's Brig sets from the 90s.

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Oh - will post new pics of the beach build soon. My parts order for more sand/ocean arrived the other day, so I'm going to try to use the holiday as an excuse to go to the beach! 😁

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Retro Lego: 6266 Cannon Cove Another Imperial set... with a cannon... and the apparently required jail cell. I really do think the old Pirate sets had a theme going. I checked some other sets and a lot of the pirate-side sets have prisons as well! 😅

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Retro Lego: Broadside's Brig 1991 Small Imperial Soldiers set. Maybe meant as an add-on to the original Eldorado Fortress, it has a jail and a guard post and not much else. Still, nice little set.

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Time for Retro Lego Lookback! In 1991, the second run of Pirate theme sets came out, and I missed out on most of them because I was distracted by other things. I should not have access to ebay. Below is set 6267, the Lagoon Lock-Up. Picked up from ebay recently. Bigger than I expected. Nice set.

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TatterScrap Builds Stuff @tatterscrap.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Life... is not a beach. It is an ocean, and sometimes you have to build your own beach. So I did. Well, I started to, anyway... kind of ran out of tan plates for the time being, so until I can order more this won't change much.

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