For bringing back and reintroducing the Pirate theme, this shows a lot of thought and effort on the part of Lego to make it fresh and exciting. The island base plate is very unique to this set and brings a lot of value to this set with it's freshness.

There are 3 minifigures, 2 pirates and a solider. The two pirates are very different and unique to any Pirate Minifigures I've gotten before. With one of them looking very old like he might have spent a long time on the island. The soldiers is fairly standard to what's been done before, his hat sports a printed emblem on it and he's got blue paldrons where yellow and red have often been done before.

In addition there's a blue rowboat with a cannon turrent on it, very similiar to an older Harbor Sentry set.

The island must be frequented enough by Pirates as there's a short dock with a catapult on it. There's a small cooking fire with a fish being roasted over it. The rock formation is shaped to look like a skull and then bars that seal away, protect or lock up a gold treasure chest filled with pirate gold coins and gems. Though it can't be very secure if the back of the cave can be broken open by removing the leaf part.

Finishing out this set is an alligator, a refreshing touch then yet another shark. Still there's plenty of smaller elements and accessories that when combined, make this set well worth picking it up.

Set #6241 Loot Island: The Soldier is out to Loot, Loot Island and capture a few Pirates on the side, looks like our favorite Pirates should consider a little French word that might just save their lives.

Loot Island is the largest set I have currently from the new Pirates theme, but that may change in the near future if I'm lucky, still as far as LEGO sets go this one isn't all bad, in fact it's pretty downright cool.

I once owned a few land-based LEGO Pirates sets from back in the day, they were nice and all, but sometimes you wanted to display your sets on an actual island, and this new set offers up that in spades. The new base piece is a welcome change to the usual flat base plates used in constructing things and it stands out on any shelf full of Pirates sets.

What do you build to make Loot Island... Well first of all you get to build the Treasure Cave, a hiding spot designed to protect the Treasure from prying eyes. It features a pull away cage and foliage designed to keep the chest safe and unseen from any intruders. You also get to build up Loot Island with a pier and working catapult to defend against the soldier intruder. The small boat also has a bit of building to it to hold the cannon, cannonballs and the seat for the soldier.

The three Mini-Figures are nice looking too, plus there is a suitably menacing Jolly Roger located on the island making it obvious that this here Loot belongs to the Pirates. I especially like the new Castaway torso and beard, it really makes it look like this guy has been obsessed with the treasure for so long that he's willing to live like a hermit on this Godforsaken speck of land and eck out a meager existence.

The crocodile. Ah yes the Crocodile, I had a few back in the day thanks to the Islanders sets I once owned, but this new darker toned Croc makes for a neat new way to bring back a piece that some older fans might have held onto. We round up the review by saying that the accessories are the same as most other Pirates sets, but they are still neat.

Overall, this set is well worth the price, and perhaps LEGO will offer up a future Pirates themed set from the new Disney stuff that includes this base plate with a lot more to build up onto it. (Or even two of them that can be interconnected... Oh now that would be very nice indeed.)

• I remember when I got this set. I got it from a freind without the box but I did get all the bags (full of peices of course) and the manual though. I would really recommend this set I think you can still get this set in stores bla bla now onto the pros and cons

PROS

3 minifigs: 1 pirate 1 local 1 imperial man

contains big island and boat

cannon that actually fires a 1x1 round brick

take out the wooden cage door to claim the treasure

catopolt that also fires a 1x1 round brick

catopolt spins 360

cannon spins 360

CONS

not much places to stand minfigs

better off 15$

well thats it. Info about the sets up at the top (as usual) well read my other reviews!

This was a very exeptional set! It had a good set of 3 minifigures at a great price. The minifigs were in great detail, and came with cool props. This set came with a giant island peice in which you toppled the top with the parts you needed. A very cool secret I saw that instead of hiding it in the cave you could hide it inside the island's hole! It had great playability and a fun little set.

Pros:

New head for old washed up pirate (Old Obi-wan ;))
A great island base
great detail
Con:
None in absolute!

a 10/5 one of my favorite LEGO sets!

-LEGOFanatic2414 OUT!!

It is actually a pretty good set to get.

pros
1. lots of jewels and coins
2. alligator is cool
3. the pirates look ok

cons
1. "catapault" doesn't work well ( I thought that they had cannons? )