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Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones
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Date: 
Wed, 5 Jul 2000 05:49:42 GMT
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In lugnet.adventurers, Bradley Dale writes:
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?

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
prof. kilroy = indie's father
gail weathers = tour guide that we think is good but in the middle uses jhonny
to get info and is evil (Last Crusade)

the baddies are seterotypical people from the Jones films


- Chris Walker

(james' brother)



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  Re: WWII mini-figs and indiana jones
 
(...) 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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