Lego Ideas 21322; Pirates of Barracuda Bay: Dammit, they ate the monkey!

Pirates wasn't something that interested me as a kid. It did when I was younger, alongside Medieval with a toyline I honestly don't remember the name of. But around the time I got into Lego themes like Bionicle, my interest in things like Pirates drifted away for an interest in machines. The only time I got back into Pirates was the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, but with the state of those movies, that didn't last very long. In all seriousness, how many variations on Undead Pirates can they come up with? When I saw this though, I was interested as due to being bound to crutches twice in two years due to my own stupidity, the attempts to kill time have given me an interest in older Lego themes, and seeing how people reimagine them, which this set basically is. Welcome, to Barracuda Bay.

Lego Ideas 21318 Tree House (With Light my Bricks addon): This is just takes Glamping to a whole new level

One thing that is nice to see about the models presented on Lego Ideas is the abundance of original designs that aren't tied to any theme or licence. Things like the Dinosaur fossils, Ship in a Bottle, and Old Fishing Store being a few examples of the original concepts that make it through, highlighting an interesting level of creativity as there aren't any limits to what they could be. One of the more recent examples of this is one of last year's sets, which as the name states, is just a treehouse, though one of the most impressive looking treehouses I've seen ever. How well does it hold up on closer inspection though?

I will say this now, this review is going to be focused on the Autumn colours for the set. A nice bit of detail is that the set comes with enough leaves that you can have a Spring/ Summer look with a set of green and dark green leaves, or an Autumn look with a set of dark yellow and two tones of brown. To those in the northern hemisphere, March, April and May are Australia's Autumn, or where I live it can be called "I don't know if I want to be Summer or Winter yet" due to how rapid the temperature changes can be, especially in March. So for now, the copy of the set that I have is using the Autumn leaves. It doesn't change much about the set in terms of functions, it's just aesthetical preferences.