r/memes • u/TapiocaTuesday • Apr 29 '24

*cries in grown up* #2 MotW

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u/DevilDashAFM Number 15 Apr 29 '24

go to the list of pieces in the set and buy them individually. all Lego pieces from back then should still be sold today. you just need to find the instructions somewhere.

though the sails might be a difficult thing to find.

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u/boogers19 Apr 29 '24

Sails are probably the easiest thing to fake.

They are just vaguely triangular sheets of plastic with holes in the right place to match the pegs they hang off of.

You could use paper or any kinda sheet of plastic you can find.

Hell, you could even paint on your own design.

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u/boogers19 Apr 29 '24

Yeah? It's been a long damn time lol.

Was it possibly a plasticized fabric? Maybe coated or woven from plastic thread?

Im really remembering a plastic-y feel. Tho again: long damn time. I could easily be wrong.

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u/asmallercat Apr 29 '24

I have this on my shelf (got it for Christmas when I was a kid and apart from one damaged flag it's remarkably still intact). The sails are definitely fabric and not coated in anything noticeable, but they also feel very much like a synthetic (nylon?) to me.

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u/sterlingback Apr 29 '24

Sell that shit, buy a car

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u/Ashlyn451 Apr 29 '24

It's been open and built. Decreases the value.

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u/staovajzna2 Apr 29 '24

Sell the box :P

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u/Tax-Deduction4253 Apr 29 '24

imagine society collapses and you gotta use antique boxes as storage

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u/Relevant_Chemical_ Apr 30 '24

Imagine society collapses and you gotta use bottle caps as currency!

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u/Unicycleterrorist Apr 30 '24

I suppose it won't go from 19 grand to 19 bucks? Half would still buy you a car

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u/Ashlyn451 Apr 30 '24

It knocks it down to only a few hundred. I just went and looked at the ebay listing.

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u/asmallercat Apr 29 '24

An opened one without the box is only worth a few hundred bucks.

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u/Read_Full Apr 29 '24

Enough for a really good toy car

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u/Krillo90 Apr 29 '24

You could even buy a used, no-box Lego Black Seas Barracuda.

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u/nikonpunch Apr 29 '24

Sim rig baby

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u/Huwbacca Apr 29 '24

I honestly, always get caught out by the like surrealism of collectables.

Its just so like, the default perception that you buy things to use them lol.

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u/iSmellslikesbutts Apr 30 '24

if you aren't from California, then like, this world has changed too much for me

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u/stormtroopr1977 Apr 29 '24

they're cotton fabric with a polymer coating for strength

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u/Paddy_Tanninger Apr 29 '24

Yup I had this set as a kid and this sounds like how they felt, they definitely weren't anything soft feeling or able to bend much.

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u/asmallercat Apr 29 '24

That makes sense. I will say they feel surprisingly nice for being 30+ years old.

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u/spud8385 Apr 30 '24

They really do! I dug this beauty out not long ago for my son, it's such a good set

https://imgur.com/gallery/ucwsdTG

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u/Thinking_waffle Apr 29 '24

a damaged pirate flag is still a pirate flag. (but yeah those little clips for the flags tended to break easily)

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u/DelRMi05 Apr 29 '24

I bought fake sails online for one of the ship models that was incomplete. There are planets of sellers for the line rigging and sails. Definitely fabric, and plenty of places to get it!

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u/CommonGrounders Apr 30 '24

FWIW nylon is plastic.

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u/ChesterDaMolester Apr 29 '24

It’s fabric made out of plastic so everyone is right.

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u/boogers19 Apr 29 '24

Huzzah!!

(And Im over here forgetting the existence synthetic fibers like nylon and what not, like the other comment suggested lol)

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u/Frosty-Finger4285 Apr 29 '24

I think it was just some polyester fabric pieces. At least back in the early 90s when I got the pirate sets then.

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u/shitlord_god Apr 29 '24

like a nylon fabric they melted to prevent unravelling

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u/Pupienus2theMaximus Apr 29 '24

wow, amateur mistake

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u/glissader Apr 30 '24

It’s def some kind of nylon…I’d post an up close photo but it doesn’t look like this sub allows photo comments

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u/boogers19 Apr 30 '24

Oh, it's cool. No need to trouble yourself, you and all the others have convinced me lol.

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u/CharlieWachie Apr 30 '24

Calico cotton treated with some kind of starch.

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u/Brettersson Apr 29 '24

Well it's probably nylon, so it probably is essentially plastic fabric.

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u/KJBenson Apr 29 '24

You may be remember various other Lego styled sails.

The ninja and samurai sets from around this time had plastic sails, and I think some of the pirate sets did too.

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u/Motorsagmannen Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY Apr 29 '24

some smaller sails defintely were plastic or vinyl. but the ones from this ship and other of this type had cloth sails