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Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones
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Wed, 5 Jul 2000 01:35:13 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Michael Nelson writes:
> 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 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, and it is not as Adventurerish. I'm not entirely sure about the
1999 line, though I see a lot of things from The Lost World: Jurassic Park in
the new sets. Is it any coincidence that we get competing hunter and
researcher teams, the concept of loading a T.rex onto a boat for transport back
to the city, the concept of taking the Baby T. rex, a research shack that looks
kinda like the building where the raptors attacked, etc?
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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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| (...) 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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| (...) 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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| 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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| | WWII mini-figs and indiana jones
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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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