User blog comment:Mythical zoan fruit enthusiast/The thing about Buggy's crew..../@comment-92.232.45.225-20130421194404

The Impel Down prisoners add a little more weight to Buggy's crew as the series heads into the New World. However, the idea that Buggy's crew is a vehicle for Oda to reintroduce old characters like Alvida and Mr.3 could perhaps have been taken further in an East Blue recruiting spree during the time skip, perhaps bringing back faces like Kuro and Kreig/Gin, or even ex-Captian Morgan. At the very least, being on a shichibukai's crew would definitely appeal to the 'peace'-seeking Kuro, afford an opportunity for Gin to keep his promise to meet the Straw-hats on the Grand line and give Morgan an excuse to confront his son in the New World. Perhaps not Arlong though -_- Implausible though it all seems for these guys to be similarly fooled by Buggy, Oda needs to at least resolve the Morgan and Helmeppo strand in some way or another, so why not? It'll be good to give a comparison of the strengths of the Straw Hat crew against these old enemies, each of whom Luffy defeated by himself.

Any arc with this much nostalgia will no doubt occur near to the end of the New world saga, featuring the Red Hair Pirates (along the lines of the opposing factors of Shanks and Buggy, though Mihawk's presence in conjunction with an arc involving the Red hair pirates seems more plausible), Coby and Helmeppo and Buggy's pirate dispatch society.

Seem legit?