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In lugnet.adventurers, Joseph Gonzalez writes:
> The day has been a great success. After months of toiling at the digging • site,
> the scholars have finally found the object of their efforts with the • excavation
> of the tomb of Khul Tef. Outside, workers and fellow professors are jubilant
> with the discovery, but something still nags at Dr. Andreasen as she continues
> her studies inside the tomb. The odd markings on the skeletal remains are not
> similar to those found on male rulers of the period and there are those odd
> hieroglyphs that keep pointing to the possibility of two individuals interred
> at the site. At last the truth comes to light with final translation of the
> glyph that the professor has been working on. The body they found is not that
> of Khul Tef, but of the heir princess, his daughter. A sudden vision of the
> wrath of the jealous father comes to the doctor's mind but that revelation • does
> little good as she suddenly feels powerful leathery hands wrap about her neck
> and her cry for help is silenced to a garbling choke!
>
> Picking up this set was a situation where I just didn't have the money for the
> larger 5988 set (that I really wanted) so I had to settle for the next size
> down. I was saddened only slightly because I didn't get what I wanted but • once
> I got the set home and started marveling at all the new stuff, I find it isn't
> a disappointment at all (although I'll still be saving up for that larger
> set!).
> The Sphinx Secret Surprise comes with a band of five explorers (three • explorers
> in pith helmets and safari garb, one bad guy all dressed in black and the
> guide/hero guy), their jeep and camp setup, and the sphinx site with two • undead
> denizens. Starting off with the camp and jeep, the adventurers are provided
> with LOTS of supplies: they have a cloth tent (no interior standing poles like
> the wild west tepees, the tent stays up with starch power), a jeep (much like
> that found in 5918), and oodles of supplies including another dark brown 2x3
> crate with lids, a backpack to hold smaller items, cooking pans, a shovel and
> pick, two magnifying glasses, a bell jar, a sextant, a movie camera and three
> pistols.
> The sphinx site is established on the same ramp-and-pit plate used in the 6416
> Poolside Paradise and, like that set, the model utilizes only the forward pit
> (a deeper pit located toward the back of the plate measures 8x10 and is almost
> three bricks deep). The unused pit could be used to store the mummy's coffin
> but you can't place covering plates over the pit (thus concealing it) unless
> you remove the sarcophagus lid first. The sphinx itself takes up an area of
> about 10x20x11. Inside the sphinx is a throne for the mummy to sit on. At • the
> front of the sphinx is a removable door with a teasingly large jewel mounted • at
> the base of the door. Moving a switch located at the side of the sphinx
> structure allows one to slide the throne forward, knocking the front door down
> (and probably on top of whoever was trying to steal the jewel). The site is
> further accented with two obelisks (one hides a secret compartment), a palm
> tree, a large black jackal statue and a concealed pit just in front of the
> sphinx that the instructions suggest using for a hiding place for the • poisonous
> snake and scorpion. The last item that rounds out the site (but doesn't • really
> have a place to be stored) is the all black sarcophagus and lid.
> Other new/unique items not already mentioned are two Egyptian headdresses (one
> for the mummy and one for the skeleton) in yellow and in white, one red snake,
> a black scorpion, and the new big red ruby element with a handle at the bottom
> to allow figs to grab it (but which also makes it look like a big ice cream
> cone). The set also includes a lot of building bricks and beams in dark grey.
> Preprinted items include the yellow headdress, three 2x4 standing beams • (three
> others are not preprinted), the 1x4 windshield (has wiper blades and a crack
> preprinted), four treasure map tiles, a 1x4 hieroglyph tile, plus a 1x2 tile
> that's preprinted to look like a photograph (this sticks into the back of the
> movie camera).
> One interesting aspect of the set is the way the designers constructed the
> sphinx's face so that the nose would come out centered. Also, when I • finished,
> there were quite a few 1x1 round plates and I'm thinking I either screwed up a
> couple of steps or the extras are left over to decorate the tomb (you could
> stick a couple of these in the sphinx's normally empty eye sockets).
> I give the set as a whole a five-stud rating (though the model by itself isn't
> particularly satisfying), and definitely encourage fans to pick one up if they
> see it at a discount.
>
> !!!4x2ReVu Stats!!!
> Rating: Five out of eight studs.
> Thumbs up for: A great entry in the Adventurer's lineup. Lots of minifig
> accessories.
> Wallet-Wise: Approximately $50.00 U.S. retail for 342 pieces (try to get this
> at a discount and you'll probably like it a little better).
> Original review date: 1/8/98
Joseph you have just got to keep posting these reviews. They are like butta
my friend. I think if you stopped buying legos people would send them to you
just to make you write these reviews. Awesome stuff!
Mark L
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