That entire pirate line (and the lion-shield castle sets from the same years) are when I reeeally got into Lego. Then I got into M-Tron, Black-tron, Ice Planet, Space Police, and whatever else i'm forgetting and that was it, there was no emerging from our basement for hours, days, weeks at a time.
Kind of crazy to think that the the Black Sea Barracuda pirate ship was one of the mega-bucks sets out there at the time at $100-120. now its not uncommon at all to see our generation dropping $200, $300, $500 on a single set without a second thought, and with regularity
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