I've always liked the idea that it's a leap of faith sort of thing, kind of like Skypiea but way more grand and a lot less likely to survive.

@JonesDking:

3.Noah can only be repaired with the power of "That family" but times have changed.(Im guessing the family in question might be the Family of D and times changing must be a reference to

I think it could also be referring to Tom's family tree. I mean didn't he say it was passed down for centuries?
It's just a hunch, but i think it's plausible.

@Speed:

Usopp is as good an artist as he was a shipwright.

Brooke does not have to be a guard WHILE Croc was a princess.
keep poking holes guys, you keep mentioning all this evidence and critical thinking skills but have no proof that this prediction in impossible or even improbable

You seem to be a glutton for punishment.

Some questions should go unasked.

Then my attempt at sarcasm seems to have failed.

@Freak:

hmm, idk if this is even worth discussing over but…
Is it possible that Big Mam is Koala =p? Maybe there is some kind of connection between the smile Koala has and the foreshadow of Big Mam (http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Charlotte_Linlin). (That Koala never stops smiling)
What leads me to think that is also that Arlong says "When that kid grows up shes gonna be just like the rest of them", somehow i feel that Arlongs statment is going to fail…
Even though I highly doubt this, because Pappug says her name is Charlotte Linlin. But yea, you never know...

Now wait a minute guys, there maybe something to this theory he's got here. Ling Ling was a panda that was in a japanese zoo, and as we all know panda's and koala's are both animals, so if you were to remove the g's from the name it would make perfect sense (On a side note there is a tree on big mam's flag and koala's seem to have a strong liking to tree's).

@Speed:

I do not take credit for creating the following prediction:

! Luffy said he wanted 10, but that was alllll the way at the beginning like 10 yrs ago maybe lol. Can u imagine just ONE more nakama when One piece is only half way? What i heard, is that at the very end there will be 14 NAKAMAS TOTAL.
! 10th- Crocodile. Yeah u can yell at me now for fake whatever, but remember Oda at some point(forgot) said that the 10th member will be a major boss that Luffy's fought b4. Enel, Lucci, Crocodile…..etc...
So 10th is crocodile. Let me explain something about crocodile.
Crocodile....is actually a woman.(yeah ya'll prob go crazy now)
but.....lets think about it.
Ivankov said to Crocodile when he first saw him, and said something like: Ill tell your secret! crocodile gets really mad, and agreees to help.
Thats because, Ivankov changed the sex of Crocodile. Crocodile was actually a woman in a kingdom(kinda like vivi's) and she was the PRINCESS of that kingdom. and Brook SERVED in that country too. If you recall, Brook said that he was liek teh commander of an army before, and that was in Crocodile's kingdom. Ugh trying to remember what i know...
and hmm....yeah Crocodile DOES have both hands, the only reason why he faked one of his hands as a hook is because he doesn't want to get blood on himself.(or from what i recall) and hten Crocodile met Ivankov, and changed his sex to A MAN. After this, Crocodile wanted authority and power, so he tried plans like taking over alabasta, etc.
Well thats all i can remember for Crocodile. He's the 10th nakama maybe in like the 600 chapters or so. And at when he joins, he'll be a man UNTIL the 13th(or 12th) nakama shows up, and she has the power to PURIFY devil fruits,and then she purifies Crocodile so she turns back into a woman. She still has the scar tho.
! 11th- A little boy named MATTHEW. He is an INVENTOR, looking everywher to deal with DF users, has a great interest in DF users. and he meets Strawhats on one of the islands(I dunno which one)
After he finds out from the Mugiwaraas that Skypiea exists, he joins to search for unknown inventions. He is a DF user himself(dunno his power) but he makes a glove for Usopp that makes him Shoot out Haki(Like the way Mihawk can shoot out shots, his black sword can actually shoot out Haki)
! 12th- A girl called ALEX. She is a....idk wat to call them. Nuns? virgins? anyways shes basically like that and she is a DF user, her power is to purify other DF poewrs, and she can swim. She is the one that finds out about Crocodiles real story and changes Crocodile back to a girl. And she is a very kind and nice girl, but because i guess too nice for the church/synagogue, she wasn't able to become one of those nuns/evangelists. After she meets the Strawhats, she joins because of their kindness and their spirits.
! 13th- i actually dont know his name, but all i know is that he is an Old man whose occupation is a painter. He joins the Strawhats, and goes up to Skypiea once again(the strawhats goes up to skypiea again in the future) and they were chased by the Marines, led by Smoker. At the very end, this old artist paints Chopper's Cherry Blossom dream picture, and it is really beautiful and completes chopper's dreams. When they were pursued by the Marines, however the old man died in the fighting(i know its so sad......) and Smoker sees this, and wonderes if the WG is really "justice"
! 14th- SMOKER! After he sees all that, he starts to doubt the WG and see that their justice isn't really what he wanted.
He has a flashback, and he as a kid acutally wanted to become a pirate himself. After the death of the 13th, he ditches the WG and joins the SH as the last member.

This is so utterly and insanely moronic that i'm actually in physical pain.

@Kaze:

So I have this theory that I like to post every now and then and since this is a new thread I guess I'll re post it because I feel it's worth it. :3

Not much light has been shed of the past back before the WG was initially founded and the Blank Century.
You see I think there's a connection to all Devil Fruits and Haki users.

A long time ago, I believe they weren't used for fighting, and instead I believe they were used for life applications.

i.e
Lava - for creating more land for further growth in the country.
Light - Pretty self explanatory.
Fire- to heat and mend and melt and cook etc.

Anywho, the people of that nation worked together with their special abilities to live and prosper.

This is where I think haki comes into play.

The other nation, who didn't have the perk of having Devil fruits grow or appear in
there land, had to find another way to survive the harsh weather and cruel land conditions that they lived with. In comes the use of Haki.

Now some where the "D" falls in line but I can't really figure that part out hahaha but this is what I have so far. :'D

What possible use could there have been for zoans then? And before you say for better manual labor then i have to ask why a phoenix or a dinosaur when engineering would be far more effective, and for that matter wouldn't it be pretty perverse that the soap fruit user would have to be some sort of unisex bathroom attendant for everyone?

@sanji499:

Oda should have drawn Nami and Robin nude together as well.

I think the men would have "powered up" easily.

Yeah because seeing that would totally make people forget about the death's of friends and family.

@thousand_sunny:

I think i know the reason of jinbei's statement of not to fight hodi, looking at how Nami talked about it to Caimie…I think the answer is to prevent continuing chain of hate of humans by fishman. Mere human, like Luffy, should never fight fishman. They should just ignore it and if human wants to interfere, it is not by force. If force is needed, then let it handle by fishman also like Jinbei.

Yeah and then Luffy will use the new rasengan he perfected during his training with Rayleigh.