Theory The One Piece may not be at Laugh Tale

#1
There are two arcs in one piece that are specifically about treasure hunting. The Island of Rare Animals and Skypeia. Both are the only real treasure hunts in OP, and likely the arcs with the most potential parallelism to the act of finding one piece and the nature of the treasure in itself.

Upon further examination, both of these arcs have a lot in common, in terms of the identity of the treasure itself.
In Gaimon's treasure, the straw hats help gaimon look for his fabled treasure
In Skypeia, the straw hats and previously Noland search for the fabled city of gold

And in both cases, the intended treasure is always missing. Gaimon's treasure is a treasure that has already been taken by somebody else. The treasure chests are empty. When Noland returns to shadora, he finds absolutely nothing there. The knock up stream displaced it entirely. When the Straw Hats arrive, the gold city of shandora has already been picked clean of most of its gold by enel. When robin discovers it, most of what is left is stone and jungle.

These arcs may intend to establish the idea that the One Piece may not be at laugh tale when either
1) the crew arrives there (The one piece being in someone else's hands is an easy way to justify the final war that is being foreshadowed)
2) Roger arrived there (why he laughed, why he didnt act on the information he learned, why he mentioned he wished he lived in joyboy's era, and why he kick-started the great age of piracy to pass the torch to someone else)
3) Both arrived there (it was always somewhere else than raftel in the first place)

I don't mean to say that there wont be anything meaningful for the straw hats at raftel. In both of the arcs previously discussed, the real treasure still present is really something else much more understated. Specifically, something that the rightful owners of the treasure swear to protect. Gaimon's true treasure is the rare animals at his island. Shandora's true treasure is the poneglyph that the warriors swore they would protect. There will almost certainly be some form of consolation prize or greater treasure.
 
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Herrera95

#2
I always said One Piece is not at Laugh Tale for 2 reasons.

First, woud be too obvious.

Second, Roger just became Pirate King and had that idea of a treasure after reading the news about him. And we have no knowledge of him or anyone else coming back to that island.
 
#6
Think the name they use in japanese, "the hidden treasure that connect it all", is the key behind exactly what the One Piece, i wouldnt doubt if is some kind of mechanism to literally change the geography of the world, as much of the OP world seems to have been build in the way it is today in the Void Century to make easy for the World Governament to control it, and a major part of the finding of the One Piece, as stated by WB, is that is will shake the world to its "core".


So the OP would be a "thing" that make possible to connect all the seas of the world, by ending the features that divide it, the Calm Belts and the Red Line, also there's a some hints on some kind of geographycal change in the world in stuff related to the WG/Void Century/Ancient Kingdom.
-Oars tribe being the continent pullers;
-Wano fortress having hints on being a made up formation build to protect Wano from the WG(pehaps by the ancient giant tha become Onigashima Skull);
-PANGEA castle in Marijoa;
-The fear the WG had from WB fruit, as it is one of the few powers that could really threat the Red Line;
-The Wales trying to get to other side of the Red Line;
-The Noah being build to the eventual resettling of the Fishman when the Red Line is destroyed;
-The Ancient Weapons, one being able to destroy the Calm Belt by controling the Sea Kings(Poseidon) and other the Reverse Moutain (Pluton);
-All blue being a place with fishs from all seas;
 

Finalbeta

Ging Freecss stan
#7
Unless it was found first which Oda is most likely not allowing, I don't see any reason why it has not to be standing in Laugh Tale ;/
 
#10
Hey I just wanna pop in again to say that this theory is very likely to be partially true. Part of the one piece is in wano, so by definition the whole thing isn't at laugh tale. Unless wano is laugh tale.
 
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Ballel

#13
Hey I just wanna pop in again to say that this theory is very likely to be partially true. Part of the one piece is in wano, so by definition the whole thing isn't at laugh tale. Unless wano is laugh tale.
Maybe only when reaching Laugh Take you are able to understand the hints
 
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