@wintergt:
My guess is, well apart from Hancock and the Dorry/Broggy giant which we have encountered before, that the samurai looking fella might be intended for the "ryuuma island" that we are probably going to see in the NW, the one with the gun, I have no idea..
Yeah but I don't even want to think about the Wano country since we probably won't see that place until 2015. That guy probably would fight Zoro tho. With those boxing gloves he may be skilled in Kenpo too.
I'm hoping the guy with the gun is either a badass bounty hunter in the NW or BB's first mate (Black Ceasar).
@wintergt:
It was opened from the control room, since they said that they lost contact with it, so it must have been done by someone who infiltrated.
Here is the page, I looked it up to make sure I remembered it right:
http://www.onemanga.com/One_Piece/551/09/
My guess is still that blackbeard had someone do it. Neither WB or the NW pirates should have anything to do with it since they all had to come with coated ships through fishman island and never needed to pass the gates.
Yeah it really has to be BB. He almost seemed pleased to see Luffy and the escapees heading to the war. In his mind it probably helped him