Ancient Civilization Theory(Spoilers)

[Yoyoi_kumadori]

Ok, i admit i was too harsh, i apologize. But it seems that most of you guys have everything figured out, Raftel IS the capital or the ancient kingdom, ill admit, i think it´s raftel, but that kinda stuff, atleast i think is far away and not something you can theorise about at this moment since It will be atleast 500chapters more of the series, and a lot of stuff can happen, i mean some stuff are predictable but i don´t think stuff like this is, Oda is good at that kind of stuff. I´m sure you guys agree with me on that?

[Ronin]

Well. Oda did plan to make this manga short. But since OP gained its publicity, he extended the story until now and probably for a long long time to come. But, as I said, since he planned to make this manga short at the beginning, he had already planted all the clues and hints for the story at the very first volumes. Such as how the grandline works, the world map of OP, Gold Roger story, hell even Garp has appeared very early with Coby and Helmeppo as training marines (see side-story one first pages).
So I can say, hints and clues of Raftel and the Ancient Kingdom are all over the place in One Piece. He might be able to twist it (it's ODA man) but not much I may say. Because otherwise, if he goes too far on twisting it, the clues won't match any more.

But I agree with you that ODA has more to plan. And if we 're able to figure ODA's story all out, then there's no fun any more. I hope ODA will keep up his work and constantly surprise us as he did.
Now for our part, following Oda's bread crumbs and theorise his story is the most funning part, is it not? We do not expect it to be true since we all expect Oda to surprise us but that doesn't stop us from doing it.

So enough about my theory. How about your theory.
Anyone?

["Fire Fist" Ace]

That's fairly true. Certain things were predictable. Others were still predictable, but we overlooked them. And then some things were just plain off-the-wall.

Garp being Luffy's grandfather was not so outrageous. Neither was Dragon being his father. Garp as the grandfather may not have been the foremost thing in our mind, but it was perfectly reasonable.

Stuff that was off the wall was like Kokoro being a mermaid (wtf), Kaku's devil fruit turning him into a giraffe (another wtf), Funkfreed being a sword (so-so wtf), Crocus building a tunnel inside a giant whale, Franky being a cyborg (Not so wtf, but still), and Pell surviving getting blown to bejesus and back. I seriously hope they explain that last one.

[Yoyoi_kumadori]

yea i wanna know how pell survived too (sry for going off-topic) maybe he´ll put him somewhere in the future, Pell is one of my favourite characters in OP.