Finding LEGO Pirate Collectors Sets

 

Vintage LEGO Pirate sets are becoming increasingly difficult to find.  I have always been a fan of the Pirate LEGO series, especially the early 90's, late 80's sets.  I use a custom search for LEGO Pirates using eBay to find some of the more valuable, hard to find sets out there.  This search is in a RSS Feed format so that I can get regular updates in the latest auctions for LEGO Pirates, but I have filtered out all the inconsequential listings that aren't very valuable or are just plain overpriced.

LEGO Pirate Minifigures are unique in that they are the first LEGO minifigures released with variations to the minifigures' heads.  Rather than a plain face and smile, the Pirate LEGO minifigures had facial hair, eyepatches and hair.  Many of these minifigures also had a variety of facial expressions that really brought out the characters of these LEGO Pirates.

LEGO is releasing a new version of the Pirates series for 2009.  This will coincide with the 20th anniversary of the original LEGO Pirates themed sets.