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| | | Mimicking Indiana Jones and making WWII mini-figs out of adventurers is an awesome idea! I bet that TLG based the theme on Indiana Jones and won't admit it. I made some of my own Indiana Jones models if you want to see. I have the WWI tank from the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Bradley Dale
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| | | | (...) I disagree, I think that they were mooching off the potential sucess of the movie The Mummy that I believe was released in 1998. Have you seen it? Very Adventurerish throughout. Great movie. I've seen Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom too, (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Toki Barron
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| | | | | (...) Did you see Raiders of the Lost Ark? Or Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade? Those are more of the inspiration for the Adventurers line than Temple of Doom, which was not nearly as good as the other two. Also, the beginning of Raiders has Indy in (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —James Walker
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| | | | | (...) back (...) looks (...) I do not think that they were trying to use the mummy as a guideline to the adventurers theme i think it is inspired from indiana jones because of the mini-fig resebalance take for example jhonny thunder = indiana jones (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Christian Lindblad Rasmussen
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| | | | | (...) I know that the Egyptian Desert subtheme almost coincided with The Mummy. But it is almost certainly a coincidence. The development of a new theme takes much longer than making an movie. In the May issue of the Adventures! magazine there is an (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Bradley Dale
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| | | | | | | I didn't know that. Where did you find the Adventuers! magazine? Is it an online magazine? Free? Is there pictures of unused Arctic ideas (okay, now I'm just dreaming)? I find it very unusual that the new Adventurers is possibly older thn Jurassic (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Alan Gerber
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| | | | | | | | | (...) It's a British magazine, and is not online or free. According to loc.uk, you're not dreaming about the unused set pictures. If I remember the post right, they tried the idea, scrapped it, tried it again, scrapped it, and finally made a series (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Christian Lindblad Rasmussen
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| | | | | | | | The Adventures! magazine is published in UK, Denmark and probably other European countries too. But everyone can subscribe. See: (URL) there are two small pictures of unused Arctic ideas! (...) and (...) Very (...) Temple (...) in (...) takes (...) (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Adrick Tolliver
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| | | | | | | | (...) Could you put up a scan of the article? I'd like to see it. Adrick (24 years ago, 8-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Christian Lindblad Rasmussen
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| | | | | | | | (...) Yes, in about two weeks when I get back from vacation. Christian (24 years ago, 9-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Greg Majewski
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| | | | | | (...) I think you probably read about the Technic line introduced in the mid/late 80s called "Arctic Action." Check the set database.. Greg "You! Bench!" Majewski (URL) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Christian Lindblad Rasmussen
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| | | | | | (...) article translated from Danish: "Behind the scenes Have you ever wondered how Lego design the new subthemes? In this issue you get the unique opportunity to read about the development of the fantastic new subtheme Arctic Explorers! The work on (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Steve Bliss
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| | | | | | In lugnet.adventurers, Christian Lindblad Rasmussen wrote: [snip, snip, snip ...] (...) Sounds like "The Thing from Another World", AKA "The Thing". See (URL) Steve (24 years ago, 10-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.town)
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| | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Jon Furman
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| | | | I can't see how the Adventurers could be a rip off of the mummy since the first adventurers sets were release in July of 1998, and the Mummy was released In May of 1999. That would be some good trick eh el guapo! Jon (...) back (...) looks (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones —Bradley Dale
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| | | | (...) I wasn't sure if it was May 1998 or May 1999. If its 1999, then I'll just give up on that theory. (...) admit (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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