Please enjoy these Blasts from the Past, as we survey some of the Print Advertising (including catalogs) Archive from 1989-1996. I realised the Anniversary was coming…and so I waited. While I presented the Castle, Town and Space advertisements last year, I ran out of energy to present the last big chapter. Last year, as part of the LEGO Minifigure 40th Birthday celebration, I was sent many advertisements from the print media over the years. So…if I can’t share my memories of it… Into the Advertising Archive Of course, at the time, I missed the first round of Pirates: I was 20 years old, and well entrenched in my Dark Ages at the time. In between, they appeared to have been occasionally supplanted by sets designed to tie-in with Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. In 2009, the theme was relaunched with a range of 10 sets, as well as an Advent Calendar. Pirates originally ran from 1989 to 1997, followed up by a Re-release of some of the original sets in 2001. Not only did we get our motley crew, but also the Imperial Faction – including the Governor and his guards – from the local colonial government palm trees, parrot and a money. In fact, most of the figures released in this line featured facial hair, or stubble, except for the female pirate, the first figure’s face to feature lipstick and the first torso to feature a printed waist. He is also the first minifigure to have an official name. He has certainly been up against a few things over the years, and yet still has a small on his face. With that first range of pirates minifigures, several things changed: Captain Redbeard has a… red beard and eye patch a hook for a hand and a wooden leg. At this time we saw minifigures move into the Caribbean Sea, with the new Pirates theme. Until then, LEGO Minifigures had been living in Castle, Space and Town with their permanent, identical smiles always on show. In 1989, a new series appeared in the LEGO Catalogs. The Hunt for the Pirate Treasure: “To win great Prizes”
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