Designer pirate garden
Making a Pirate Garden
Arrgh! Me favorite garden is me parrybo island!
Early in the game you'll notice a pirate hat in the accessories along with a pirate eye patch. Any pirate pinata is going to need a hideout, and it's going to need to be isolated from the rest of pinata island to scheme up some sneaky plans, so here are some instructions, examples, and tips for putting together your own Pirate Island!
First you'll want to choose which pinatas will make the cut into the pirate crew. Some of the species that might make good pirates (or pirate opponents) are chippopotamous, cocoadile, lackatoad, custacean, cinnamonkey, and parrybo.
Video example
Characters
Here are a few characters from my pirate garden you can scan to get started: [I've created teh cards and will post them once they make it onto vivapinata.com]
- Captain Jack Parrybo
- Ms. Luckles, the gypsy
- Admiral Cinnenforcer
- Arrghorilla, the pirate first mate
- Smeeby, a pirate thug
- Jerry, a sailor in the Queen's navy
Ideas
- There are many items in Costalot's store that will go well with a pirate garden. The pirate statue is a pretty obvious one, but I left it out of mine to keep it from raining all the time. That statue is cursed!
- One of the parrybo wildcards has a peg leg. This type of pinata seems like a must-have for a pirate garden
- To put some ships or the treasure chest island, you'll need so start with placing the toys on dry land; then go ahead and use the shovel with the Y button to clear away all the land beneath them.
- One important design element that some people skip is the use of clever paving and ground cover. For the garden in the movie, the dirt/grass mix present in the garden from the start was kept so that a sand "pathway" could be laid around the island. This allows the island to look like a treasure map from the top view.
- Another option is to have mainly sand, with an occasional patch of dirt or grass for plants that won't grow in sand.
- You can make a great pier for your ships by laying down pavers (eg. shiver me timbers) and then digging a pond around it afterward. This wasn't used in the example garden.
- Try sprinkling some gems around that can be obtained from the mine. Pirates like nothing better than emeralds, saphires, rubies, diamonds, and gold lying about their island!
