LEGO City Police Station The Search for Stinky Now it's all up to you Objective: Find a way to Albatross Prison Island Albatross Prison is built on an island, and getting there won’t be easy. Chase wishes to keep his investigation private from Chief Dunby, so he must find a covert means of reaching the island. Commandeer a vehicle and drive to the police station. Don’t enter the building; instead, sneak around the back and smash a blue and white Dumpster to discover some LEGO bricks. Use these to add a blue and white bar to the nearby fence so that you may vault it and reach the pier behind the station. Chase chats with a ship captain on the pier and learns that the ferry to Albatross Island has sunk. Guess you’ll just have to build a new one! Building a ferry will cost 15,000 bricks! Fortunately, Ellie updates your communicator with an all-new data scan function. Now you can use the communicator to search for nearby collectibles—including superbricks!
Tap the data scan icon on your GamePad to fire up Data Scan mode. Hold your Wii U GamePad up to the TV screen afterward, then look around for items of interest. There are four attainable superbricks in your vicinity. Focus on one to lock it in, and an icon will appear on the GamePad map, revealing its location. A handy marker will also appear on your TV screen to help you track it down. This superbrick is an easy grab—just climb up the nearby police booth and collect it. Run toward the police station and jump between the blue and white walls to reach the upper ledge. Use a wall runway to dash over to a handhold, then climb the blue and white LEGO patch on the side of the police station to reach the superbrick floating atop the “Police” sign. Smash the small blue drum near the elevated train track’s steel supports. Build the remaining bricks into a handhold, then climb up. Jump and grab the overhead LEGO patch above the handholds, then shimmy over to the roof of the nearby garage.
Run to the left, across the garage’s roof, and slide under the blue steel tower to reach the superbrick. After collecting the third superbrick, slide back out from the tower and climb up the ladder to reach the tower’s top. A large superbrick floats just above the tower. You should now have enough superbricks to build the ferry. Run to the superbuild near the pier and press A to spend 15,000 bricks and build the ferry. This one simple act scores you two gold bricks—one for completing the superbuild and another for activating one of LEGO City’s three ferry routes! After building the ferry, use the nearby ticket machine to travel to Albatross Prison Island. Use your GamePad to confirm your destination and set sail. Objective: Talk to Blue in the prison yard You’ve reached Albatross Prison. Now you just need to track down Blue. Begin your infiltration of the prison by smashing the brown crate near the guard tower to discover a box of LEGO bricks. Carry the box to the nearby green pad, then set it down.
Build the LEGO bricks to add a bar to the top of the fence, then vault over. Smash another brown crate on the fence’s other side to discover a scan spot. Use Detective Scan to follow a trail of footprints over to a pile of debris. Search the debris to discover a key. Collect the key, then backtrack a bit and use it to open the nearby door. Use the control panel inside the building to open the gate. Exit the building and pass through the gate. Turn left and smash a Dumpster to discover some LEGO bricks. Build them into a blue and white wall. Jump between the blue and white walls to climb to a steep slope. Tap B to sprint up the slope without slipping backward. Jump onto the thin ledge above the slope, then inch your way around. Look for a bar running along the top of the fence, and vault it. Use the grapple gun to zip up to a grapple point beyond the fence. Slide beneath the blue and white LEGOs to reach a superbrick, then slide back under and head to the right, around the rampart.
Use the grapple gun again to zip to the top of the guard tower at the rampart’s end. Leap to the nearby pole, then slide down to at last reach the prison yard. Use the yard’s exercise equipment if you like, then approach the pair of inmates near the basketball court. They agree to let Chase into the court, but only if he first retrieves a basketball that some bullies stole. Run toward the background wall and climb up to a thin ledge. Drop from the ledge to land on the other side of the fence. Use the grapple gun to pull down an air conditioner, which shatters into LEGO bricks. Build these into a catapult pad, then use the pad to soar over to the right. Drop into a lower area and confront the bullies who stole the basketball. The bullies aren’t interested in sharing their ball, so you’ll have to “persuade” them. Throw them around and slap handcuffs on them while they’re down. Subdue all of the bullies and then claim the basketball. Hurry back to the two inmates by the basketball court.
Hand them the ball, and they’ll open the court’s gate. Run over to the inmate in the blue hat— that’s got to be Blue! Blue isn’t sure how Rex Fury managed to escape the prison, but he agrees to help Chase find out. Blue tells Chase to get some gear from his cell; then he’ll call him on his communicator with more information. Objective: Enter the prison cell block Speaking with Blue turned out to be very beneficial. Now you just need to raid Blue’s cell and find the gear he mentioned. Leave the basketball court and move to the nearby objective beacon to enter the prison and begin your search for clues.Fisher Price Imaginext Yellow Semi Circle Crows Nest Railing, G8738 Pirate Raider Ship Fisher Price Imaginext Yellow Sextant, B1472 Pirate Raider Ship, Figure Accessory Fisher Price Imaginext Yellow Straight Railing, G8738 Deluxe Pirate Raider Ship Fisher Price Imaginext Yellow Wavy Flag With Skull & Crossbones Stickers, L1284 Pirate ShipA while ago W. Navarre revealed this ship as a part of a nautical diorama that was a modern re-interpretation of an original LEGO Pirates set.
However, he decided that the diorama did not do the ship justice, and has chosen to photograph it now on its own. There is a lot to love about The Black Death, most notably the sails made out of all sorts of multi-angled pieces in an eye-popping dark red, as well as some very interesting shaping along the hull. Years ago, brick-built hulls were very common for small and medium scaled ships, but lately it seems to be becoming the norm.Tell all your friends! We are pleased to bring you on-site coverage of New York Toy Fair 2017, where LEGO has officially revealed a brand new set for the upcoming film, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. The fifth installment of the highly popular Disney Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise his theaters May 26, 2017. [Update] 71042 Silent Mary will retail for $199.99 and will be available beginning March 16, 2017, for LEGO VIP members, and available to everyone April 1. The set will be exclusive to LEGO Stores and the LEGO Shop Online.
LEGO’s new line of BrickHeadz characters are available now for LEGO VIP Program members on the LEGO Shop online. These sets will be available to the general public beginning Wednesday, March 1. LEGO’s VIP Program is free to join, and you can sign up online, so you can still order your BrickHeadz today even if you’re not already a VIP member. You can check out our reviews of The LEGO Batman Movie sets and Marvel Avengers sets if you’re not sure which one you want to buy first. Also revealed today are two new characters from Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Included in the instruction books and on the boxes for 41595 Belle and 41596 Beast are images for none other than Captain Jack Sparrow (41593) and a new character: Captain Armando Salazar (41594). Click here to see the BrickHeadz for sale now! It appears that there’s a rather tense hostage negotiation in progress on W. Navarre‘s lovely little sandbar island. I imagine some not-so-nice words are being thrown about, but the worst sin of all is the fact that this group of ragtag, cutthroat pirates are likely completely oblivious to the beauty just below their feet.
W. Navarre’s tiny scene has a nice contrast between the dark (and possibly murderous) pirates and the soft, pastel coral reef below the water. The ethereal flora and fauna beneath the water look like they’d be more at place in a Friends build than a pirate one. But that just adds to the awesomeness of W. Navarre’s building in my opinion. If you’re interested in finding out what’s really going on in this build, check out the accompanying story that W. Navarre wrote over on MOCpages. We recently had the opportunity to talk with Pacurar Andrei, also known as Vitreolum (Letranger Absurde). Pacurar lives in Romania and builds in a wide range of styles and genres. His work is highly regarded and his build, Room with a View, made our short-list of the year’s best creations. Please walk with us as we explore the mind of a builder! TBB: How did you get into the LEGO hobby and what inspires you to build? Pacurar Andrei: I got into the hobby when I decided to sell my childhood collection.
They were all mixed together in two large bags, so I had to sort and build everything… by the time I was done with this I ended up buying sets instead of selling. Everything inspires me, from someone else’s build to things that surround me. Sometimes just looking at a certain part will be enough. Or just an idea that suddenly pops in my head. Although my biggest source of inspiration has always been movies, games and literature. The challenge is whether I can translate it into bricks. Sometimes simple is highly effective, like this lovely little build by David Zambito. This little scene by the ocean has a lot going for it, technique-wise (The curves of the half-built/half-destroyed ship are quite lovely!). I like the rock work and the sand dune; the uni-kitty horns and 1×1 round tiles as shells gives it a nice touch. I rarely see beaches completely clear of debris! It’s a lovely setting for whatever nefarious conversation is happening in the bones of an empty ship! This amazing pirate-themed collaboration between Grant Davis and Eli Willsea was built in just three weeks.
The gorgeous diorama features excellent rockwork, moving features in the waterfall and the ancient stone calendar, as well as lighting inside the temple. One more very important aspect of the build, in my opinion, is the ratio between the land and sea, which adds a lot to the overall impression of the creation. I highly recommend you check out the many closeup photos showing all of the incredible details in this build, as well as the following time-lapse video which highlights some of the moving features: Classic Castle’s 14th Colossal Castle Contest comes to an end December 31st, and we’re seeing a ton of great builds as the competition winds down. Builders are vying for prizes and titles in a number of castle-related categories. Some of the best entries I’ve seen are in the Medieval Warship category. When I was a kid I dreamed of being a Viking, so longships are a particular favorite of mine. Mark of Falworth brings us a great ship with his Moravian Warknar: Paul Trach built another good looking longship, complete with an icy base:
I’ve also entered my own, though my Viking sailors didn’t make it on board for photographs before a mishap resulted in the ship’s destruction. What stands out about all three ships is the lack of the prefabricated hull pieces common in many designs. Brick-built hulls are time-consuming and can be challenging, but the flexibility in hull shape and design really pays off. If you haven’t seen the rest of the entries, make sure to take a look over on Classic Castle! In June, French artist Mat Green amazed us with a pair of life-size LEGO minifigures made of steel. Those figures, named Hugo and Pablo, were a classic minifigure and a punk rock LEGO skeleton. Mat has now finished his next project — more classics you’ll surely recognize, the pirate Sparrow and his parrot Jacquot. We spoke with Mat about his work translating these iconic LEGO figures to life-size metal sculptures. Master of the colorful LEGO scenes Letranger Absurde (whose atomic blast we featured this summer) is at it again with this diorama featuring a merry band of buccaneers.
Showing only part of the pirate ship, the real stars are the clouds hanging in the bright sky above the skull island. The door hinges are also noteworthy on the ship itself, as is the brick-built rope ladder. Things are not looking good for the crew of this doomed vessel. Gale winds and churning seas are posing a serious risk to this tiny ship built by LEGO 7. But worst of all, the ship is being attacked by a massive sea monster! This microscale pirate ship actually looks like it is sailing in the middle of a storm and the builder’s choice of colors and composition are great. It just goes to show you, a LEGO creation doesn’t need to span hundreds of studs to be magnificent. As a person who has spent more than enough time on a ship, I’ve seen seas in every color of the rainbow. That is, every color except white. White is something new. I guess that’s just one more reason why W. Navarre’s LEGO version of The Flying Dutchman from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series is so captivating.