PIRATES: Blue Box Pirate Ship Playset #34100 - Pt 3 FINAL Accessories and Features

This playset has a ton of accessories and clever features one wouldn't expect to see on a toy ship of this size. Let's Take a look. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

Accessories

The obligatory treasure chest. This one is more appropriately sized to the figures than those found in some of the other sets featured here on the blog.

Th captain's table complete with map.

A handy way to hold the cannon balls. I believe there should have been eight but my set only had five.

Features

A hatch leading below decks

Operating anchor and winch

Two cannons on deck

Removable cannon deck. The rubber-band powered cannons slide back and forth, rotate, and elevate

Removing the cannon deck reveals the ships hold

The grated door is the ships brig (jail)

Four barrels of rum (?)

The rudder control is actually a booby trap. Pull it back and release and the spring-loaded mechanism flies back to knock the figure off the boat

This prisoner is in the gibbet - kind of like the penalty box, only harsher. A lever on the port side of the hull, raises and lowers the platform

The gibbet cage in-place over the prisoner

Walking the plank. Essentially, this ordeal was a death sentence for the prisoner (whose hands would be tied) and then forced to go overboard.

Dinghy storage

Remove the holding rack for the dinghy and you can access the captain's quarters

Better row quick, that shark looks hungry

PIRATES: Blue Box Pirate Ship Playset #34100 - Pt 2 The Ship

This ship has a multitude of special features which we'll cover in a separate post, but for now let's just check out the photo essay. It measures 12" (30.48cm) L x 3/34" (9.52cm) W x 8 1/2" (21.59cm) H. Enjoy! Opa Fritz

The flag staff on the forward mast came really bent. I tired the age old trick of dipping the thing in boiling water, then straightening it out. It worked...

...for about 20 minutes, at which time it bent back to its original position. Oh well, the ship must have a heavy tail wind I s'pose!

PIRATES: Blue Box Pirate Ship Playset #34100 - Pt 1 Overview

Here's a really nifty playset from Blue Box: the Pirate Ship Playset #34100. Blue Box has only been featured one other time here on the blog - a carded space shuttle - and this is my first large-ish item I have of theirs. I don't know what year this was released as no year is shown either on the box or the instruction sheet. If I had to guess, I'd say 'mid-'90's to early 2000's. Just a guess folks (in this case, the Internet was of no help). While the playset features a lot of details and imagination, my toy was bought used and suffers from a few minor cosmetic issues. However, the set is nearly complete - minus just a couple of small parts - and it adds another layer of interest to the pirate collection.

Here's everything you get in the set:

-ship w/two cannons

-dinghy

-frame to hold dinghy to the ship

-boarding plank

-treasure chest

-table and two chairs

-rack of ammo (cannonballs): I believe several are missing from the set, there's only five vs. the eight pictured on the box

-four barrels

-five 25mm poseable Pirate figures

-six small weapons to fit in the Pirate's hands. I may be missing some as the box clearly shows hatchets/axes in the hands of the figures and there are none in my set

-shark