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In lugnet.mediawatch, John Gerlach wrote:
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LEGO
press release
First three paragraphs (only because I don’t want to cut&paste the entire
article):
NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LEGO Group, the world’s leading
construction toy manufacturer, today announces a partnership with Lucasfilm
Ltd. to produce building sets based on the Indiana Jones franchise -- one of
the most globally successful movie series ever made.
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I suppose this means the death knell (or at least on-hold status) for the
Adventurers theme, the way Star Wars killed Classic Space?
Still I doubt most people will be quite as emotionally attached to Adventurers..
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In lugnet.mediawatch, William R. Ward wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, John Gerlach wrote:
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NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LEGO Group, the world’s leading
construction toy manufacturer, today announces a partnership with Lucasfilm
Ltd. to produce building sets based on the Indiana Jones franchise -- one of
the most globally successful movie series ever made.
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I suppose this means the death knell (or at least on-hold status) for the
Adventurers theme, the way Star Wars killed Classic Space?
Still I doubt most people will be quite as emotionally attached to
Adventurers..
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Classic Space and Star Wars have two distinct looks. I think the only real
difference between the Adventurer’s line and anything they do with Indiana Jones
would be in the characters. Vehicles, temples, tombs, etc. are pretty generic.
Unlike Space and Star Wars, the Adventurers and Indy could easily mix. Pippin
Reed could play a leading lady, and Professor Kilroy already looks like Indy’s
father.
I’m actually looking forward to the line as a way to increase my Adventurer’s
collection, as opposed to replacing it.
-Elroy
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Classic Space and Star Wars have two distinct looks. I think the only real
difference between the Adventurer’s line and anything they do with Indiana
Jones would be in the characters. Vehicles, temples, tombs, etc. are pretty
generic. Unlike Space and Star Wars, the Adventurers and Indy could easily
mix. Pippin Reed could play a leading lady, and Professor Kilroy already
looks like Indy’s father.
I’m actually looking forward to the line as a way to increase my Adventurer’s
collection, as opposed to replacing it.
-Elroy
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Not to mention the joy of not getting any more Johnny Thunder’s... if I see that
minifig head again I think I’ll scream ;)
Tim
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Elroy Davis wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, William R. Ward wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, John Gerlach wrote:
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NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LEGO Group, the world’s leading
construction toy manufacturer, today announces a partnership with Lucasfilm
Ltd. to produce building sets based on the Indiana Jones franchise -- one
of the most globally successful movie series ever made.
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I suppose this means the death knell (or at least on-hold status) for the
Adventurers theme, the way Star Wars killed Classic Space?
Still I doubt most people will be quite as emotionally attached to
Adventurers..
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Classic Space and Star Wars have two distinct looks. I think the only real
difference between the Adventurer’s line and anything they do with Indiana
Jones would be in the characters. Vehicles, temples, tombs, etc. are pretty
generic. Unlike Space and Star Wars, the Adventurers and Indy could easily
mix. Pippin Reed could play a leading lady, and Professor Kilroy already
looks like Indy’s father.
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But wait - since the old Adventurers and upcoming Indy line share so many
similarities, wouldn’t it make more sense to only have one and not both?
Besides, despite the two distinct looks of Classic Space and Star Wars, it was
generally assumed that part of the SW licensing deal was to NOT have Classic
Space at the same time.
-Bryan
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Timothy Gould wrote:
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Not to mention the joy of not getting any more Johnny Thunder’s... if I see
that minifig head again I think I’ll scream ;)
Tim
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:-)
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Bryan Wong wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Elroy Davis wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, William R. Ward wrote:
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In lugnet.mediawatch, John Gerlach wrote:
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NEW YORK, June 18 /PRNewswire/ -- LEGO Group, the world’s leading
construction toy manufacturer, today announces a partnership with
Lucasfilm Ltd. to produce building sets based on the Indiana Jones
franchise -- one of the most globally successful movie series ever made.
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I suppose this means the death knell (or at least on-hold status) for the
Adventurers theme, the way Star Wars killed Classic Space?
Still I doubt most people will be quite as emotionally attached to
Adventurers..
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Classic Space and Star Wars have two distinct looks. I think the only real
difference between the Adventurer’s line and anything they do with Indiana
Jones would be in the characters. Vehicles, temples, tombs, etc. are pretty
generic. Unlike Space and Star Wars, the Adventurers and Indy could easily
mix. Pippin Reed could play a leading lady, and Professor Kilroy already
looks like Indy’s father.
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But wait - since the old Adventurers and upcoming Indy line share so many
similarities, wouldn’t it make more sense to only have one and not both?
Besides, despite the two distinct looks of Classic Space and Star Wars, it
was generally assumed that part of the SW licensing deal was to NOT have
Classic Space at the same time.
-Bryan
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I guess that was what I was trying to say. Instead of looking at it as one
theme dying and another being created, I’m looking at it as a continuation, just
with different characters. Especially since the last Adventurers set was
released four years ago. And similar to Tim, I’ve got enough Johnny Thunder
figs to replace a roomful of Indianas if I need to.
From a marketing standpoint, it makes sense to me. Instead of trying to market
characters that aren’t that well known to the general public, the company can
cash in on characters that are well established, and tie in to a new movie, all
with existing parts.
Except the fedora. Hopefully they’ll create a decent fedora.
-Elroy
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Elroy Davis wrote:
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Hopefully they’ll create a decent fedora.
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There is an image on
http://eurobricks.hosting.ipsyn.com/euroforum/index.php?act=home showing
Indy. I don’t know if it is final, but it looks cool.
I am not into themes or lego product other than the elements for me to create
what I want, but I am looking forward to seeing what these sets look like.
Jonathan
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Elroy Davis wrote:
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Classic Space and Star Wars have two distinct looks. I think the only real
difference between the Adventurer’s line and anything they do with Indiana
Jones would be in the characters. Vehicles, temples, tombs, etc. are pretty
generic. Unlike Space and Star Wars, the Adventurers and Indy could easily
mix. Pippin Reed could play a leading lady, and Professor Kilroy already
looks like Indy’s father.
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Unlike Space and Star Wars, it was always pretty obvious that Johnny Thunder and
the Adventurers theme was flirting with sparking off a copyright lawsuit from
Lucasfilm.
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On 2007-06-19, Jonathan Lopes juanito11217@yahoo.com wrote:
Strangely enough, I started planning the project below not long before the
announcement for the official sets came and soon got frustrated over not
having the right hat :/ However, the new one seems just perfect!
So, here is my small contribution to the Indiana Jones universe, the Ark
of the Covenant:
Since it was hard to get a clear view on how the whole Ark should look like,
even from a DVD, I used as the reference the wonderful golden model shown
at indyprops.com.
I started with the big version, since it gave me the possibility for
more details (adding 1x1x2/3-slopes to the sides would have given an even
nicer shape, but I didn’t have them at the moment).
I soon realized it was way out of scale and tried to make a smaller one.
Although less detailed and still a bit too big, I am much more happy with
it. The wings on the kneeling angels should be closer though (all four
of them should ideally meet in the middle), but I still haven’t find a
nice way to do it.
As always, any suggestions for improvements are more than welcome :)
Cheers,
Matija
P.S. Sorry to come so late with a followup, I was waiting for some crucial
parts to complete the Ark. In the meantime, a new picture became available
on the abovementioned Eurobricks forum, for those of us who don’t follow it
regularily.
FuT lugnet.adventurers
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In lugnet.adventurers, Matija Puzar wrote:
Awesome angel solution! Who cares if the wings don’t touch?
Bruce
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Hi,
Very well done! In minfig scale and still detailed.
Regards,
Barbara
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On 2007-07-05, McBricker barbara.werth@gmx.de wrote:
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Very well done! In minfig scale and still detailed.
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Thanks to both you and Bruce for the comments :)
Matija
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